[applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> coming up next on c-span, stan kasten talks about his role as president of the washington analysis baseball team. a discussion with chief justice john roberts and a discussion on recent supreme court decisions. >> tomorrow on "washington journal," a look at what the unrest in iran means for the future of the government with jack goldstone of george mason university. then a discussion on the economy, unemployment and world financial markets with peter morici of the university of maryland. and later, liz talks about her film, shouting fire, stories from the edge of free speech. that's live at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. >> sunday on c-span 2's book tv. former reagan analyzers on why the president believed destroying nuclear weapons would bring and end to the soviet union. >> nicholas talks about his two years in pakistan. he sits down with ralph peters. and next weekend for the holiday, three days of book tv starting friday morning at 8:00. including a his

the national academy's report rising above the gathering storm, sent up a red flag that our nation's stand something the global leader is at risk if we do not improve stem education in the country. the first and highest priority recommendation was, and i quote, increase america's talent pool by vastly improving k-12 science mathematics education. my colleagues and i on the science and technology committee are passionate about this issue. over the course of the last two years under the leadership of chairman gordon the committee held several hearings with stem educators and agency representatives to see what role the federal government can play. a we recommendation that came up time and again was the need for interagency coordination of federal stem education activities and improve dissemination of these activities to practitioners. it will undoubtedly require strong commitment and leadership of the local and state levels to address the shortcomings of our nation's science and math education system, but the federal government also has a role to play because of the richness of the fede

we handle national-security matters, sensitive matters at the highest level. and, i'd bring that background to this committee and i would emphasize certain principles that i think should be followed as you address this import legislation. first, as has been acknowledged this morning already there is a national security interest in protecting state secrets. this is not a figment of anybody's imagination. there are state secrets. there are things we don't want the public to know answered my our enemy should not know that. there are many programs sources, methods of surveillance and numerous defense programs that need protection and secrecy. that is a given and must be done. however i think it is important to underscore also that any assertion of this state secret privilege by these executive-branch should not be emmy in from our federal system of checks and balances. it is just fundamental to me in my governing structures, in my understanding of what our founding fathers created that we should not have an unfettered executive branch. there coequal branches of go

the nationals coming to bat. know -- no score here at nationals park.  >>> you heard the expressio ominous. these are ominous clouds. starting lineups tonight. let's look at the nationals. guzman leads off. johnson at 1st. zimmermann left field. dukes center field. willingham first career start ever in right field. batting 7th josh bard. on the mound tonight aaron harang for cincinnati in his 12 12th start. 89 hit, 76 and 2 third innings. >> rob: he will go out and give you a ton of innings. >> johnny: out of san diego state, right hander. >> rob: he's big and tall. >> johnny: quickly ahead of guzman. 2-4 night last night. r bi. dukes are a home run, his 6th. ryan misses out side. when you compare umpires and look at hernandez, he's not one to take a lot of lip off batters. >> rob: no he's not. he's been consistent coming into the major league. that's what a lot of umpires try to do. i'm going to be consistent whether i'm lenient, tough, a little more reserved. he's always been tough and consi

>>ro: here'sthe nationals deense. you have willie harris, joh willinghamin leftfield, austinkearnss getting the start inilbe thing tjosh --6@@2 yeavsld, he's got le than 20 starts at the major >>jmp.: had him at 21. e's22.%%-->>bob: he >> jim p.: you look at his numbers. i looked at his numbers today, he must get run support because he's 5-2 with an e.r.a. over five runs a game. he owns righties, they're only hitting .173 coming e game. >> rob: you see his change-up and his running fastball go in on right-handers and away from lefties. but sometimes he leaves that change-up up, almost as if he gets nervous. in three at-bats in a row to ryan howard in two games, he gave up a grand slam arc home run and a grand slam. so it's -- but also and he gave up some to ibanez against the phillies. you have to trust your stuff. you have to be able to say i'm going to throw this change-up, it's going to dive out of the zone. you're either going to hit a ground ball or miss it. >> jim p.: don't you think fo

does it can through the national guard first? who is really in charge there? >> to answer your question, our coordination is with the national guard bureau but the first response will always be with the national guard supporting the state and local officials, we, though, immediately upon indications that there's a disaster pending will continue -- will begin to coordinate with the national guard in case there are gaps in their capability to respond. and i talked with the national guard operations daily and looking across the country, looking at where they have forces deployed so we're prepared to respond if they have gaps. we recently responded to the flood in the red river of the north in north dakota working with the national guard in north dakota and minnesota and we provided some of active duty forces to back them up at the request of the federal emergency agency and we prepositioned -- >> pardon me, so you say your request can come from fema to you. now, does that have to originate at the state level? >> senator, the process by which we would activate nor

[applause] for national security, for the national economy, we should keep the money here. we should keep the economy here. american people agree that we need an american energy policy. gree. we launched a petition drive of drill here, drawn-out, payless. it 79 percent of the american people agree that both for economic reasons and national security, we should develop american energy, and that it is a key to our future. the american people reject an american energy tax. this is an energy tax. every american at every level will pay it, and it will export jobs to china. [applause] the american people reject an environmental protection agency which is exaggerating its power. we should replace the current bureaucratic system at epa with an entrepreneurial system that is fundamentally different. americans reject the liberal principle of paying more to get less. i began reading the waxman bill, and i gave up when i got to the page where they were explaining how they would regulate jacuzzi 's. people believe that 31-year olds can redesign the automobile industry and the bureaucrat

the national eye institute estimates that eye disease and vision impairment currently costs the nation $68 billion in health care costs, lost productivity, reduced independence, diminished quality of life and accelerated mortality. the n.e.i. leads our nation's efforts to prevent blindness and to save and restore vision. the n.e.i. has been a leader in both basic and translational research, its researchers have been able to society 1/4 of all genes discovered to date with eye disease and vision impairment. the n.e.i. has conducted more than 60 clinical trials that have resulted in treatments and therapies to save sight and in some cases actually reverse vision loss. the national eye institute estimates that over the decade of 2010 to 2020 the number of individuals over age 40 who experience blindness, low vision or age-related eye disease such as age-related mack lar degeneration, glaucoma, and cataract will grow from today's level of 38 million cases to 50 million cases. as a result, the national eye institute's leadership in directing vital vision research over the next decade will b

[applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> this week online and addresses energy bill, president obama, followed by john boehner. >> for more than three decades, we talked about our dependence on foreign oil. for more than three decades, we have seen that depended grow. we have seen our reliance on fossil fuels and jeopardize our national security. the is in a polluted the air and endanger our planet. we have seen other countries realize the critical truth. the nation that believes the creation of a clean energy economy will be the nation that leaves the global economy. now it is time for us to realize this, too. now is the time for us to leave. the energy bill that passed will finally create a set of incentives that will spark a clean energy transformation in our economy. it will spur the development of low carbon sources of energy, from wind, and gm -- geothermal power and cleaner coal. it will spur a new energy like the efficient windows and other materials that reducing cost and cooling costs in th

ho[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> the national guard let us know where we had a shortfall, fema spoke about the capabilities that they were requesting, and we looked over the exercise. the biggest shortfall is probably in the brigade structure. even though this is a shortfall in certain regions, this is not across the nation. this is a matter of reallocating forces. the national guard is working with us to determine the forces with shortfalls. another area is the number of aircraft that may deployed. there were plenty of assets, identifying those well in advance, and we have looked at the active components, with the coast guard to see where the assets would be available as they are called into the emergency. the last area of concern and we look at this closely last week, the health and human services and the veterans administration is the evacuation. we have improved greatly over the ability to identify people who may be moved and how to receive them on the other hand, and the problem that we will face,

. >> you are looking at a live look into the national's draft room on draft day. moments ato the nationals selected san diego state right- hander steven straysberg with the number 1 overall selection. we're going to have previous us coming up next on nats extra. >>> there is rain coming down as we try to get game number 1 under way between the cincinnati reds and the washington nationals, they are wrapping up a home stand with three against the reds. welcome to nats extra pregame brought to you by byron kerr, ray knight. moment ago the nationals made the selection everybody thought they would, bud selig making the selection announcement from the draft. the nationals going with steven strasberg as the number 1 overall selection from san diego state.  steven strasberg there, there  is the right-hander from san diego state, and he has everything, all the tools you would expect, ray. 103 miles per hour fastball, the best prospect to come down in 30 years. >> yeah, i want to share a story. rod data who is the tremendous coach there at

when i look at the islamic world, i think of egypt, syria, iran, i think in terms of nation states. and i think in terms of the competition between for example, egypt and syria. for egypt and iran. my answer is economics to that question does not exist. i can imagine the american economy without american politics. certainly today when the federal reserve is getting into the game. societies, you can divide academic departments very nicely comic economic departments don't talk to political science departments but in real life if you are a bigger you had better be aware of politics you might want to keep military in mind that might affect you as well so the idea of the privacy of economics is a freestanding yves fined, it is unpersuasive to me because i have never seen economics freestanding. the adl of civilizations is persuasive until you drill down to the next level grimness civilizations is often to competing entities and in a country can manipulate the difference is very effectively. for an example the nine states is closely aligned with egypt some two say to the united states it

our experience has demonstrated destructive impact that secrecy can have on our nation. for the rule of law to have meaning, liberties and rights must be enforceable in the courts. separations of powers concerns are highest with regard to executive branch contact. -- conduct. claims of secrecy have been used to conceal matters from congress. that has been the case with respect to the use of torture, use of illegal spying of americans, and other matters of national importance. let me add that this issue is perhaps the most important issue this committee will face because this committee is charged with enforcing civil rights and liberties under our constitution. there is a maxim of law that says there's no right without a remedy. if the government violates a right and kid that you were tortures you or burns down the house, wiretaps you, whatever, how you and force your -- how do you enforce your right against the government? congress could exercise oversight. the victim could sue the government for illegal wire tapping, whatever. if the government can eliminate that lawsui

i rise in strong support of 2647, the national defense authorization act. as chairman of the expeditionary subcommittee, i'm pleased to report that this strengthens our navy and marine corps by providing the necessary equipment for the young marines to carry out the tasks that our nation requests of them. in all, this bill authorizes $38 billion for navy and marine corps procurement, $19.6 billion for navy and marine corps reserve -- research and development efforts, $3.2 billion for navy and marine corps overseas contingency operations and $401.9 million for maintaining robust fleet. i believe that the balance between quality, capability and affordability is met head on with the bill before the house tonight. the bill provides authorization for the correct number of ships, planes and ground vehicles with the right capability to meet the threat, but with the recognition that unless equipment can be procured affordably, we will never be able to build our fleet or our air wings. that's why working in a bipartisan manner, the subcommittee recommended in the --

justice with national security considerations. congress has in the past balance these albeit sometimes competing demands. in the criminal context and that the the classified information procedures act. and fisa we set out procedures for the court to examine sensitive materials through the freedom of information act which sought to limit information from the public when the government is supposed to serve. we can and should do the same in civil cases. our system of governments and legal system had never relied on taking assurances that they study. the courts incumber seven did he to look behind what does it administration or any administration says determine whether those are well founded. presidents and government officials have been known not to tell the truth on occasion, especially when it is in their interest to conceal something. the founders of this nation is there need to be checked for the government to prevent such abuses from taking place or in the words of the ninth circuit in the recent jeppesen decision the executive

the nationals take the opener of this three-game series here at nationals park against the toronto blue jays and phil and i will step out and come back and continue with more and the crowd filing out of nationals park. very, very happy. the nats winning streak is now three in a row. we'll be back in just a moment.  >>> "nats xtra" post game on masn brought to you by verizon fios over 100hd channels and the fastest internet. this is phio and this is big. this is johnny holliday along with phil wood. nice to have you with us. "nats xtra" post game and happy fans make their way out of nationals park with this victory over the toronto blue jays. let's go down next to the clubhouse and ask josh bard. he was the head seth loudoun. there he is. you have the first run of the board in the fourth inning weng when it was 1-0 on zimmermann's little fielder's choice. of course u-you didn't realize at that point that was going to be a lng night into the 11th. >> aid pretty good feeling it would be a pitcher's -- pitchers'duel. zim was throwing the ball graism gre

when nations work together, military, diplomatic and economic. primary example i am offering is iran. whose pursuit of a nuclear weapon sets off an arms race in the gulf and his regional meddling has already cost too many lives. we have watched the aftermath of the iranian election with interest and concern. this is an issue that should be decided within iran by the iranian people, we believe that the iranian people deserve to have their voices heard free from violence and intimidation. the new u.s. administration has reached out to tehran appeared as the president said, the question is not what around is against, but rather what future it wants to build? that future must not include a nuclear weapon or destabilizing activities in the region. in gauging diplomatically on this issues will test iranian intention and claims of good faith. even as the u.s. in cages in iran we will move to strengthen nonproliferation norms and work with allies and partners to see that their fundamental security interests are protected. if necessary, we will take actio

[applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> tomorrow, michael ettlinger and john lott discuss the obama administration spending policy on health care, car makers, and the financial system. nathan guttman looks at u.s.- israel relations, and the latest on the iranian elections. "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. this week on "newsmakers," some of the issues on the senate's agenda, including health care and preparing for the confirmation hearings for a sonia sotomayor. >> there was a lot of reading involved, and i was reading troubling things about her views toward international law, saying you can interpret the united states constitution by looking to see what public opinion is in europe. public opinion in europe has nothing whatsoever to do with what our constitution means. if that is really her point of view, that is very troubling. i could not vote for a judge who believed that. she set it on several occasions. i am going to have to ask for, what do you mean by that? when people

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] >> by the way, that is the team that mr. kasten rooted for as a kid. when he spoke at the club three years ago, he talked about how he was building a club through the farm system. you can look at ryan zimmerman, the star third baseman and hjorth zimmerman and start seeing the fruits of those efforts. still they

coordination of the disasters with the national guard does. we also have another issue called flooding over the mississippi river that in south and new orleans, but it comes down through illinois roaring like a mack truck doing 90 down highway 55 and leaves in its way a lot of flooding and i was just wondering how does north comm. coordinate with the national guard in terms of the disaster coordination? does it go through the national guard first or who is in charge? >> senator, to answer your question, our coordination as with national guard bureau but the first response will always be with national guard supporting state and local officials. we've go immediately upon indications that there is a disaster pending we will begin to coordinate with the national guard in case there are gaps in the capability to respond, and i talked with the national guard chief of operations daily and looking across the country, looking where they have forces deployed so we are prepared to respond if they have caps and we've recently responded to the flood in the

today, the nation's unemployment level is fast approaching 10%. that means one out of every 10 americans will soon be without a job and without a paycheck to provide for themselves and their families. yet, this national energy tax will drive up prices while making jobs scarcer. in fact, one utility, which is even supporting this legislation, has already applied to state regulators to raise their electricity rates in anticipation of the cost of complying with this national energy tax. while the speaker wants us to pay more in energy taxes, china and india have repeatedly said they will not follow suit. they'll not impose those hardships on their people. this shouldn't surprise us. as our mothers used to ask, if everyone else jumped off a cliff, would you? of course not. neither will china and india. they reckon acting these caps is like -- they recognize enacting these caps is like jumping off a cliff. more manufacturing jobs will move to china and india. fewer americans have jobs and there is no reduction in global greenhouse gases. and because th

seven knot the national league. team batting average for washington, .259, tied for sixth in the national league. for the orioles, left fielder nolan reimold, his first career home run came off of mariano rivera for the yankees back on may 20th. he is among the american league leader force the triple counsel. the o's lineup tonight, brian roberts leads off at second. jones will be in center field, nick markakis, after four hits yesterday against the marlins, he'll be in right and then huff, reimold in left field, luke scott the d.l., -- d.h., mora and andino will be playing at shortstop. the team batting average for the o's is .270, and that is tied for sixth best in the american league. welcome back back. johnny holliday along with ray knight. it is nats' extra pre-game on masn brought to you by our friends at verizon wireless. we haven't had this in some time. going back for the chin music, and, of course, when you have the chin music, you have to have the director. and tonight, cynthia hit it. absolutely wonderfu

for our nation. the object of our affection, mr. chairman, are the young men and young women in uniform who do professional, outstanding work for our country. this bill helps them in their efforts. all of us are proud of them. and i hope that the vote on this bill, when we vote tomorrow, will reflect that pride in the military of the united states of america. i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from california. mr. mckeon: thank you, mr. chairman. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. mckeon: as legislators we meet once again to address the wide range of important national security issues undertaken by the departments of defense and energy. we all take our legislative responsibilities very seriously. this is especially true during the time of war and it's always true of my good friend and colleague, armed services committee chairman ike skelton. i would be remiss without saying a wo

best officialsncttleit the nationals bullpen. julian tavarez getting loose. >> rob: excellent people. >> johnny: high infield pop into foul territory goes rosales and now back into fair territory. there's one away as kearns pops up to the 1st baseman. >> rob: before sandy wentk to the san diego office, dusty baker may make a pitching chao he was the pitching umpire who was in charge. >> johnny: baker makes a trip out to the mound to talk to micah owings. he is working into the 6th inning here against washington. got a 2-0 lead. >> rob: and he has only worked into the 7th inning four times so far this year. actually 7 innings once this year. but more than 6, only 4 times in 11 starts. >> johnny: that is jared burton trying to get loose. >> rob: he may give him a hitter or two more. he probably said if this guy gets on, you are done. >> johnny: 101 pitches he has thrown so far. >> rob: it is very humid. very muggy today. >> johnny: harris grabs a bat. he is ondeck. willingham is on first. kearns popped out to the 1st baseman.

in national guard facilities. including the fairfield, cedar rapids, and middletown facilities in my district. i am very proud also that the ndaa includes an amendment i offered with ms. bordallo to improve national guard readiness by requiring the secretary of the army to report to congress on the creation of a trainee's transens and students account. at any given time 13.3% of the army national guard is nondeployable. and this account would serve as a temporary unit for these soldiers. in so doing it would end the practice of borrowing sold frers one unit in order to improve the readiness of another. and will improve both morale and overall readiness. i strongly urge support for the rule and for the underlying bill. and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from florida. mr. diaz-balart: it's my privilege to yield three minutes to the distinguished republican whip, mr. cantor. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recogn

in fact our national security. so i'd ask the gentleman that in accordance with the customs of this house shouldn't the house temporarily designate a replacement for the speaker in these briefings to maintain the integrity of our oversight? i yield. mr. hoyer: absolutely not. nobody's questioned the speaker's integrity. mr. cantor: mr. speaker, i would respond to the gentleman. if the speaker has alleged that there is untruthfulness, if there is a lack of canneder -- candor on the part of those giving the briefings, isn't it somehow compromising in those briefings the national security of our country? i yield. mr. hoyer: absolutely not. there is no belief i think of anybody in this house, i hope, and i certainly do not believe that in any way the speaker has ever nor would she ever compromise in any way the security of our country, the security of our troops, the security of our people. period. mr. cantor: mr. speaker, i'd respond to the gentleman and say what has changed? because the speaker has made very serious

the nationals 0-7 in extra inning games. macdougal will face alex gonzalez to begin the 10th inning. the reds short stop -- belliard quick scoop and made the play. >> rob: that's not an easy play. it's all muddy out there. ronny belliard here. this is going towards the bag, coming in. look at the mud all over the ball. nicely done. >> johnny: the reds' catcher ryan hanigan will step in against macdougal. if you're wondering why it's so quiet, there aren't many fans here. i'm counting them now. 28, 33 -- these are die hard fans, rob, right now. >> rob: yes, they are. >> johnny: fans sticking around for two hours and 10 minutes of rain and coming back. [cheering and applause] standing down there on a cellphone -- those are new glasses aren't they? i read on your blog you were getting a new pair. >> rob: they're not new. i didn't get any. >> johnny: flanagan flew to center field his second time up. 2-2 in the top of the 10th. >> rob: big play of the game was hanigan throwing out dunn at 2 2nd. hanigan has a rocket for a right a

koh believes a nation who goes to war should have, must have united nations security council authority, going as far as writing that the united states was part of an access -- axis of disobedience by invading iraq, or should we say by liberating iraq. in october of 2002, koh wrote -- and i'm quoting now. he said "i believe it would be a mistake for our country to attack iraq without explicit u.n. authorization, because such an attack would violate international law." additionally he supports ratification of the international criminal court which could subject our troops to prosecution in a foreign court. implementation of this interpretation of the international law raises a number of alarming questions. if the united states is required to gain u.n. authority for military action, what punitive actions might the united states be subjected to if unilaterally uses preemptive force? would our navy seals have had to wait for authorization from the international body before rescuing the american being held hostage in the horn of africa? i think 99% of the american people said that they shoul

no nation should be subjected to these continued threats. israel has demonstrated tremendous restraint in the face of these dangers despite being continually questioned by some in the global community regarding its approach to dealing with these threats and terrorism to its citizens. israel has been and remains one of the united states of america's strongest allies. israel seeks only peace with its neighbors and a homeland secure for its people. but if an attack from iran or a terrorist organization becomes imminent, this congress should declare that israel, like the united states should reserve for itself, the inalienable right to defend itself and protect its people. i encourage my colleagues to demonstrate their strong support for israel by supporting this amendment. i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman reserves. for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? mr. berman: yes, mr. chairman. i ask unanimous consent to claim the time in opposition to this amendment although i am not opposed to it. the chair:

never mentioned the national debt. and also, another disappointment for me is that he failed to deliver on tax reform as he promised in -- actually it was in 2004 at the republican convention. promised all of us that he was going to do something about tax reform and he never kept his promise. but under the obama administration, we've really exacerbated the problem with an omnibus appropriations bill that includes $408 billion in nonemergency funding, a $787 billion stimulus bill, and a ten-year proposed budget where the lowest deficit for a single year is larger than any annual deficit from the end of world war ii to president obama's inauguration. madam president, i know we're going through some tough times. over the past year, we've been hit by an economic avalanche that started in housing, spread to the financial and credit markets, and then continued onward to every corner of our economy. i know it well. i'm a senator from ohio. we are spending money to get out of this economic mess but we cannot allow that to be a

looking good. >> mike mcdougalle, national's closer. here's a little bit more on the two guys sort of like imitating the umpires right behind home plate. >> i'm tim williams. >> i'm joe ferrell. we're going to be your umpires for this evening. we're going to do a called first strike here. second is a swinging strike and a called third strike with a chain saw. >> how about everyone in the stadium knows is not close at all? >> season ticket holder in tran toe and had an opportunity to meet a bunch of umpires at a restaurant i like to frequent, and they recognized me from the seats. they liked it so much they ended up sending us a few shirts, and therefore second road game yesterday was the first, and we're going to be taking it to new york city when the blue jays play the yankees on friday, july 3rd, 1:00 matchup. tune in. we'll be in the same type of seat for the yankee stadium. >> lifelong baseball fans, grew up with it. we love umpire and love baseball and like having fun. that's about as simple as it is. that's it. >> they've lost all

security council resolution 1244 of june 101999 in kosovo that led to the declaration of a national emergency on june 26, twin, and executive order 13219 and to amendment of that order in executive order 13304 of may 28, 2009, has not been resolved. the acts of extremist violence and obstructionist activity outlined in executive order 13219 as amended are hostile to the u.s. interest and pose a continuing unusual and extraordinary let to the national security and foreign policy of the united states. for these reasons i have determined that it is necessary to continue the national emergency declared with respect to the western balkans and maintain in force the sackses to respond to this threat. signed, barack obama, the white house, june 22, 2009. the speaker pro tempore: referred to the committee on foreign affairs and ordered printed. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20 , the chair will postpone further proceedings today on motions to suspend the rules on which a recorded vote or the yeas and nays are ordered or on which the vote incurs objection under clause 6 of rule 20. record votes

of their citizens and the sovereignty of the nation. drawing on the experiences both from the u.s. 9/11 attacks as well as the recent attacks and there have been many in india, the most notably the 2611, the private sector engagement is absolutely key for our respective governments to be successful. in private sector collaboration from my perspective has been focused on critical infrastructure protection, border and transportation security, emergency preparedness response and information-sharing and data fusion in alerts. there are a number of ways the private sector both from the u.s. entities as well as those in india can work together but again, those are the four major areas that i see as being key to increased security cooperation. switching to defense for a moment, a little bit larger issue with respect to collaboration. there are a number of policy and bilateral discussions going on and process issues that we have to address. the success to date we're seeing growing military exercises. we're seeing the sale of c130js by lockheed

carl gishman, who is president of the national endowment of democracy. the foundation that is very important to democracy causes around the world. thank you. if there is a gentleman from political productions, if he or she could come up and see me as soon as possible. >> mr. carl girshman. >> thank you. i want to begin by just saying that i am both honored and deeply humbled to be here today. and also to speak, immediately after these great heroes. many of them my friends have stood here on the podium. later this month here on capitol hill, the national endowment for democracy will honor five brave cuban activists, three of whom are in prison, by presenting them with the goddess of democracy. the statue that was unveiled tiananmen square and stood for five days before destroyed by a tank, 20 years ago today. and that to gather those who were in tiananmen square, and countless other chinese citizens who had risen in protest in over 370 chinese cities across the country. from the northwest to the deep south. and it's since become a universal symbol of demo

thank you everybody [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] . . >> now, a senate hearing on hurricane preparedness with the head of fema and other officials. the latest forecast calls for 14 tropical storms in 2009, seven of which could become hurricanes. as we strive to get our nation's response in the very best possible shape that we can for hurricanes and all dafertteds. and that is the subtted of this hearing today. to see where we are and have the opportunity to have on our first panel the new fema administrator who will be testifying today for the fird time since his confirmation, welcome mr. fugeade and major general crafted from missouri who will be testifying today as well smed led me say that this hearing is focused on hurricane response t because we started hurricane season this week smed but we will be examining regions of the country in this hearing today and we will be focusing on plans and prosesses that have applicability across the board from many threats. the ranking member and i both represent sta

he liked these big national issues that could get national press to put himself in a position to run. we called it sort of -- he was governing by press conference on these national issues that he never built a real constituency for in illinois and certainly he didn't build it in the illinois legislature. >> i can see the strategy of saying, okay, i want to -- to create an image of the can-do governor, the guy who worked the illinois miracle, right? >> right. >> and so you can go -- because this is what always happens in a national campaign. someone who's a governor says, well, look what i did in arkansas, you know? and you show people what you have done. what puzzles me about this is that he tried -- he wanted to get things done but he thought the way he was going to get things done was to pick a fight with everybody. i wrote in my column for tomorrow, his main political strategy seemed to have been throwing down the gauntlet in front of people and he was always picking fights and -- you know, just from the coldly -- let's put ideology aside, let's put illegality aside, why was that a

in spring of 2007, the condition in the 14 national cemeteries under the jurisdiction of the national park service are not maintained at the same high level as the national cemeteries administered by the department of veterans affairs of the of these 14 cemeteries, two of them, one in georgia and one in tennessee are still open and interveterans. while on active duty as a colonel, i visited andersonville with officers. and i discovered the conditions of the cemetery to be unacceptable and not to the standard that these heroes have earned. the grave markers had not been washed in some time, as you can see in this photo. the markers are completely out of line. the weeds have grown up around the markers. shrubbery had not been cared for in the manner that it should. and it appears that the attention had not been given to these graves that i believe it should have been. i had an amendment that should have been ruled in order, but it was not under the rule. it would have required the secretary of interior to contract with the -- with an independent organization to conduct a study of all na

fugate, would you comment from your perspective on the national guard the role of the national guard and do you find it to be essential? how do you want to position your organization with it? and then if you could do that in one minute or less or two and then also comment on this idea that has been moving around here about a -- sort of a civilian-ready reserve that could supplement both fema and the national guard in terms of trained personnel that could be called out in the event of a catastrophic disaster which obviously we can't maintain, you know, on call everyday. but it would be nice to maybe have something like that. maybe we don't need it. maybe that's what the red cross is going to do or maybe that's the role the national guard plays but if there is a gap, so comment on the national guard and then this ready reserve idea. >> national guard is the ability to respond to natural disasters. again with your leadership upon my confirmation one of my first visits with general mckinley commanding general the national guard bureau having worked very closely knowing that relationship

we are at nationals park. johnny holliday sitting in for bob carpenter this afternoon along with the dibster, rob dibble. several fans anticipating getting one of these runs home to tie it. maybe two to take the lead in the bottom of the 8th inning, bases loaded. they have gone to the bullpen again. nick nas set came in last -- masset came if last night. -- in last night. >> rob: ryan zimmerman has hit into 11 double-plays this season. 4th most in the major league. he has to change his approach. nick masset thinking double-play to get out of this inning right here. you have to know that situationally coming up to the plate, he is going to be trying to get me to ground the ball somewhere. you have to try not to do that. >> johnny: hernandez at third. guzman at second. gonzalez at first. good look at their reliever, nick masset. nowhere to put zimmerman with one away in the 8th. he jumps out in the count 0-1. nationals all-time leader in runs and hits and doubles and homers and rbis in games played. and a chance

the total unemployment nationally has risen above 9%. for african-americans, madam speaker, that statistic is much greater. african-americans suffer unemployment at a rate of almost 15%. over one quarter of the 14.5 million individuals who are job less -- jobless have been unemployed for at least six months. not only are they concerned about finding a job, but they are now fearful their benefits will soon expire. in my home state of ohio, the situation is even worse. we have entered double digit unemployment with a rate of other 10%. not only must we work to help the newly unemployed, but we must assist the chronically unemployed who are many times forgotten. on friday i heard from economist dr. paul harrington at the center for labor market studies at northwestern university. he gave three recommendations to deal with the job crisis. number one, rically expand job training. number two, establish a connection between schools and jobs. and number three, engage in direct job training activities. we need to assist the unemployed by retoolin

army and the national guard are training the police. we have had several years long for one of our nato allies whose responsibility is training and we went nowhere. now the u.s. military has taken over that job. taken over the job. the phoenix program seems to have a lot of potential. the italians were supposed to be in charge of the judiciary. how will that work? >> sir, i don't have the details on it, but i think the current state of the judiciary in afghanistan needs improvement. >> i can tell you it was a miserable failure, and we are having to take that job upon ourselves. admiral, who was in charge of dealing with the drug eradication program? >> i believe the british war. >> and we have had a different view of how to do it. you have the police which are key to us, we have gone nowhere with that for years. the judiciary has probably gone backwards, and when it comes to drug eradication, we have to start all over again so bold as you have got a real challenge here. i want people in america that you are taking over a nato operation

their actions are irreconcilable with the rights of human beings, the progress of nations, and nations islam. the holy koran says whoever has killed the innocent has essentially killed all of mankind. [applause] whoever saves a person, it is as if he has saved all mankind. [applause] a the enduring faith of over 1 billion people is so much bigger than the nearest -- narrow hatred of a few. islam is not part of the problem combating violent extremism, it is an important part of promoting peace. we also know that military power alone is not going to solve the problems in afghanistan and pakistan. that is why we plan to invest $1.5 billion each year over the next five years to partner with pakistanis to build schools and hospitals, roads and businesses, and hundreds of millions to help those who have been displaced. that is why we are providing more than $2.8 billion to help afghans develop their economy and deliver services that people depend on. let me also address the issue of iraq. unlike afghanistan, iraq was a war of choice that provoked strong differences in my country and around t

it's time to reject the new national energy tax. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired.

that's not a lot of cacheability if you're going to invade another nation. so we would argue if you start getting below that kind of capability, that in fact the risk could be too great to launch an amphibious operation and the nation could lose its forcible entry capability. we think that's a worthy discussion that needs to be had in the q.d.r. almost as importantly is on a day-to-day basis, the combatant commanders out there have needs for security cooperation, theater engagement and those types of things. almost union formly they would say that the best means for doing that is an amphibious ship. it brings helicopter platforms to move back and forth, it brings medical capability that can be put ashore if need be. it provides the opportunity for enhancements, if you will work host nation training opportunities if marines are embarked, all those types of things. so what's interesting to us is if you tally up those requirements that the combatant commanders have, work in a navy rotation of ships to be able to do those things and compare the numbers against t

nationals defensively, adam dunn cannot d. h. because we're in a national league ballpark. he's in left. willie harris, a wonder play in new york last night. dukes is in right. then, guzman, hernandez,zimmerman, johnson and behind the plate josh bard. adam dunn back in left field. he told debbi taylor he really enjoyed dhing a couple of days ago in new york. here is aaron hill perhaps their purest hitter. he has 90 hits to lead the american league tied with miguel tejada for the american league lead -- major league lead and has 28 multihit games woirt. >> rob: you would think scutaro wouldn't walk as much, but scutaro has 47 walks on the season, bob. it's the guy in front of him you want to get around him to get to this guy. i wouldn't think so. >> bob: aaron hill is a former sec player of the year and all american from lsu in his fifth year with the blue jays. 27 years of age a really good second baseman and a 13th overall draft pick back in the first round. there's a swing and a foul tip and zimmerman strikes -- zimmermann strikes him out. blue jays and the nats have not

hos[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> if you always take your seats, please. thank you for joining us. i would like to introduce all of you, and in the order i do so, you are asked to proceed with your opening remarks. we have the emergency response department of homeland security. the corporate crisis response is a new organization targeted to identify, train, and engage new officers as local contact for the public sector. i want to look to the private sector for better technology, operations, and technologies. we thank you very much, and we're anxious to hear your views and perspectives. next we will hear from arman maselli, vice president of disaster operations at the red cross. he is responsible for coordinating response to domestic disasters, and managing logistics technology and resource systems. the chain has gone through a major reorganization, and we're looking forward to hearing some of the outcomes today. and last but not least, janet burton, president of northeast louisiana united way who said s

he proudly defended our nation in the korean war by serving in the united states army. when his service ended dove began what became a legacy of leadership in our free enterprise system and service to his community. he returned to work and eventually owned his own clothing business. he gave back to his small west texas community by shaping the live of younger men as the order of de malay dad and long time boy scout leader. he then moved to my hometown of dallas, texas, where he began a long career and corporate group insurance management. after that he set his sights heward on the pine trees and lakes of east texas and began a fire and casualty insurance business in henderson county. as a business owner he helpedp countless members of his community achieve their american dream. and he took great pride in his community, his record of service today is still unmatched in east texas. he served as the cedar creek chamber of commerce president. he helped establish the cedar creek library. he was a charter million of the library'ser board of directors, and he and his wife work

the nationals trailing by one. not anymore when that ball bounded off the warehouse to make it 2-1 nationals. >> rob: our masn satellite said it was 501 feet, so i don't know who i should believe. >> jim p.: the masn satellite. i didn't know we have one. >> rob: we have masn blimps and helicopters, we have a spy saddle. well, we're in washington. >> jim h.: andino fouls it back. a lot easier pitching. i don't think you change your style, especially when you've gone through seven innings, only given up four hits. but a four run lead. ball's coming out of the hand nice and easy. don't change anything. the pitch count well under control. >> rob: he's our leader of the staff. >> jim h.: there's a base hit heading towards the gap. andino heads for second. he is in with a lead-off double. so he was able to split the defense and robert andino has his first hit. fans have something to cheer about here in baltimore. the lead-off runner in scoring position. >> rob: he's got about 95 pitches, and he's been averaging between 9

[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> we will have the press conference at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. quite how c-span funded? >> publicly funded. >> donations may be? >> government? >> it gets it through federal funding. >> public funding. >> i do not know. >> 30 years ago, america's cable companies created c-span as a public service, a private business initiative. there is no government mandate or money. >> the democratic emetic the of condors address the united states general assembly to do days after being forcibly removed from office. this speech happened shortly after passage of a resolution. it is about 50 minutes. let's allow like to invite him to address the assembly. -- i would like to invite him to address the assembly. >> president of the general assembly, ambassadors, representatives of countries to the united nations, distinguished special guests chancellor of honduras, ministers who accompanied us here today, ministers from oliver countries reap, distinguished minister of venezuela, of

national elections and the standing in national political parties are determined by three things. the political culture, the conditions at election time, and the quality of the candidates. for much of the 20th century, the political culture of america kept us coming together and looking for common sense solutions because both parties said about a 40% base, and there were 20% who could go either way. they gave a great pressure for people who struggled to find some way to come together. and it also meant that, even if you ran a bank robbery, you get 40% for president. we only departed from that significantly once when president roosevelt won 63% in 1936. in 1968, that was one of the most difficult years in american history, certainly in modern history. it was dramatic in many ways. voters brought all kinds of fears, anger, and frustration to the polls, and not so great economy. by those standards. it looks pretty good today. concerns about the rising women's movement and controversy over the vietnam war and how the military and life, and just about everything was being questioned. a