and to this day, i mean, we have guys who come in and they're doing spec work or going to write a spec script and they're like, you know, they want to act like, well, i know how to do the wire because i've watched the show and i've done this and i did three law and order episodes. like i know they're going to mess up. it's like they don't come in terrified and with 20 questions on their sleeve, they're doomed you, know? and i think journalists, you know, it's amazing how many people who got into this profession are just not curious or terrified of being cure cross. >> a question was, what kind of relationship do you now have with the rank and file on the baltimore precipitation and how have they reacted to some of your criticism of the department policy of not releasing names of police officers involved in shootings? >> the detectives and patrolmen who are still there -- you got to remember it's been a lot of years -- but the ones who are still there, up to maybe the rank of lieutenant, are fine with me. and the ones who are in middle management it can either go either way up to the ra

approximately 400 dealers who sold less than 50 cars per year, in terms of not being in our world-class specs are you telling us the task force did not tell you that these dealerships that sell fewer than 50 cars per year had to go? >> what i'm saying is that the task force advised us to develop a strategy to have a world-class dealer body properly sized and address what they considereconsider to be considered concerned in their march 30 findings on our viability plan. >> on page five of your testimony, you said and i quote we have not terminated any dealers. do you believe that? >> yes. can i explain? >> please. >> what we have done, we have offered dealers who will not continue with this on the wind downgrades. that term is to provide a period of time in which to wind down their, allow them to purchase parts, perform warranty service, and over time they would no longer, we would not renew their contract and they would no longer be with us. >> okay. and beginning this fall they can't buy the 2010 model year cars and you. >> they will not be able to purchase new vehicles. >> it sounds more li

so i think god has assumed leadership spec is senator baucus open to your ideas? he's not? >> to a single-payer idea. not in a million years does that about. >> does that bother you? >> it bothers me. it's not just senator baucus. it's every republican. let's be clear. >> i'm an independent, and that's why. >> but you caucus with the republicans. >> we have some wonderful democrats fighting to do the right thing. but you have some conservative democrats who will be working with republicans. from a political point, let me say this, there is some people say we have to move forward in a bipartisan approach which means that we have to have closer on a filibuster which means you have to have 60 votes which means you have to make major major compromises. my guess is, and i maybe wrong with this, but my strong feeling if we end up with a bill as 60 or 70 votes, it would be such a weak bill that it will not accomplish i think what the american people want. i would rather pass a strong vote with 51 votes than a week filled with 65 or 70 votes. the bottom line is the current system i

spec absolutely. first off, we have a congressional mandate to insure that positive train control is implemented by the year 2015 and it's our intent to make sure that that deadline is met. secondly, it's impossible to talk about high-speed rail without at the same time talking about positive train control. again, using the european models, you know, they have their european train control. you can't have trains going 200 miles an hour if you don't have some element of positive train control. >> we've got to fix it for the ones we got going now, so i hope you will move quicker than 2015. that was someplace i have to compromise but i think it has to be swifter than that. thank you so much, mr. chairman. >> senator hutchison? >> thank you, mr. chairman. let me start with judge echols untenanted mr. eckels. let me first say that i hope there will be funding for projects other than those that are maybe further along than the texas t-bone. and if you could apply right now for federal funding in part of the

spec a look back at 30 years of close-up television programming. to hear from current and former associates of the show. we'll also take questions from teachers and students you can see that today on c-span2. and back up next day hearing look at the transportation use of its federal stimulus money. the house transportation committee checks out there using the funds and way to improve transportation and ever structure in the future. this is two 1/2 hours. >> the committee on transportation and infrastructure will come to order for the second in the series continuing oversight hearings that i committed us to undertake at the outset of the recovery act in fact, in december 2007, when i proposed an initiative to get the economy moving again with programs under the jurisdiction of this committee and actually we had bipartisan initiatives in this committee to move things forward and of course, the administration at that time was not keen on doing that purpose seems that not much has changed with the current administration not much interest in moving a si

. >> the gentleman yield spec is tom -- the gentleman yield back his time. gentleman from new york. >> i would like to yield one minute to this person. >> the last 2.5 years i have had the privilege of working on a future select committee on global warming, driving home the reality of climate change. we had the opportunity to rebuild and renew america while protecting the probe -- planet today. i wanted to thank those for working with me to harness billions of dollars over the life of this bill to develop transportation that reduces the carbon footprint. it will make a difference for a country that emit more carbon with its transportation and china, india, and europe combined. we have an opportunity to protect the planet. unless you are prepared to lead, china and india will continue to pollute more and more. this is the first step in this leadership. i urge the courage to vote guests on this legislation today. thank you, and i yelled back. >> gentleman from michigan. >> i yield a couple of minutes to this person. >> i thank the chairman for yielding. mr. sp

get our job spec new post of the old system working againyes, i am 100% for medicare and medicaid. and for that other jurors who called earlier saying that he is keeping his health -- he is lucky. god forbid something happens to you. but there are people out there who cannot work. they need the help of our country. right now i believe 100%, at our congress is selling us out. host: what kind of health care do you have? caller: i am 71 years old and on medicare. host: do you use parts b at all? caller: yes. it runs be over $500 per month for my supplemental care. host: are you satisfied? caller:

you were just part of that person's life and you are part of their specs who and a routine is established. but i did it to say once something like a final judgment of what he meant to me. this is after each step down as editor and henry kissinger offered to give him a big dinner party at kissinger's apartment. bill picked the guest list and said invite all of my younger colleagues and friends. terry was there i was the second oldest person on the guest list so it was a young crowd. after kissinger spoke and after bill said a few words, then there was a time for a toast. i gave a toast. this was something i actually had to modify a little bit in the book because i quoted a lot from aplomb by yates and my editors of the few quote so much in this point* you have to pay for permission so well have to do a lot of paraphrasing. [laughter] buy here is what i say on that that night, it is one of yates last poems and it is called a beautiful lofty things. the things are people who were important to him in his life. one of them is a drunk. supporting himself between the tables speaking to a drunk a

to this day, we have guys who come in and day are going to wreck a spec script and they are like, they want to act like i know how to do the show because i watch it. i did these episodes. if they do not come in terrified with the 20 questions on their sleeve, they are doomed. i think journalists -- it is amazing how many people who got into this profession you're not curious or terrified to ask questions. >> what kind of a relationship to you have with the rank-and- file of the baltimore police department and how have they acted -- reacted to some of your criticism? >> the detectives and patrolman that are still there -- the ones who are still there up to rank of lieutenant maybe are fine with me. the ones who are middle management can go either way up to the rank of major. colonels and the but hate my guts. that is the way it should be if you cover a beat. that is the best way to cover a beat. the bosses cannot stand you. middle management will sometimes talk to you if it is in their interests. everybody who is below that is somebody to buy a beer for. that is always the way it has be

>> [inaudible] you're misrepresenting the ice sheet and spec i just talked about the former issue of the millennia. >> i am an actuary and enjoy the statistical part of that but i think one of the ugliest words in the english language unfortunately has become the word green. i think it has been misused so many times the issue that i do not see you commenting on which i think is one of the key issues of this whole debate is what is the fact of humans on all of the things that happened to be our people clamor happening to the universe and what the effect of humans is on whatever warming or an warming we're having. that is the key in the whole debate. >> first of all, and make it very plain i think much of the second warming of the 20th century does have a human component and my colleague i will let him respond and also with regard to the notion that the warming has stopped which we have heard since 1998, i show that the people who said that have not really, i had a computer model i applied seven years ago and i applied it to the recent years and largely the reason in my opinion my comp

spec we have committed that we would redistribute every single vehicle and every part. >> how about specialized equipment? >> and a specialized equip and. i'm happy to say 100% of the vehicles have already been committed to. they have started moving. we are at 80% on the park and about the same on specialized equipment. we will continue to work until that commitment is fulfilled and all of those burdens are really. >> i want you to listen to this question carefully. how much is it going to cost each dealer that is being terminated on each car from the termination? are there any fees associated with that? do they get the full value of the car? is a distressed price? how will that be addressed? >> the price is at the invoice price that they paid less, $350 for inspection, cleaning and transportation to the dealer that will be selling the vehic vehicle. >> can general motors give you the same answer? >> indicates a general motors, to the extent the dealer signed to wind down agreement we would expect that moment of court over the next 70 months to sell down their inventory and they would be afford

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 this was paid to play on steroids with rod blagojevich. so i think he did manage to take it to a new level. >> so i guess the question, when you talk about the answer to his question and the previous question, is whether blagojevich is going to tr

and to this day, we have guys who come in, they are doing it spec work or they're going to read a script and they are -- they want to act like i know how to do this "the wire" because i haveç written threeç law-and-r episodes -- i know they are going to mess up. they don't come in terrified with 20 questions on their sleeve they are doomed. and i think journalists it is amazing how many people got into the profession are not curious or terrified to be curious. >> this question was, what kind of relationship do now have with the rank-and-file and the baltimore police department and how they reacted to your criticism of the department's policy of not releasing names of police officers involved in shootings? >> the detectives and patrolman who are still there, you've got to remember is but a lot of years with the ones who are still there up to maybe the rank of lieutenant are fine with me. and the ones who are in middle management can kind of go either way up to the rank of may be major and kernels are above it my dad's. that is the way it should be if you cover a beat. that is the best

approximately 400 dealers who sold less than 50 cars per year, in terms of not being in our world-class specs are you telling us the task force did not tell you that these dealerships that sell fewer than 50 cars per year had to go? >> what i'm saying is that the task force advised us to develop a strategy to have a world-class dealer body properly sized and address what they considereconsider to be considered concerned in their march 30 findings on our viability plan. >> on page five of your testimony, you said and i quote we have not terminated any dealers. do you believe

us and we have an abundance on the shelf ready to go and out of spec my colleagues in the same position and so we welcome to future opportunities. >> just as we close out with a question for you mr. penrod any point out the airport improvement program is operating under short-term extension 2,009 and i would appreciate if you would comment on how the lack of a long-term authorization for this program affects you're and other airports ability to plan for airport development projects -- i imagine this is pretty critical. >> is critical, iran made to have a three to five-year construction time line so certainly a funding stream that expires at the end of september is significant concern in trying to contemplate in a couple years so certainly a longer-term project and program allows us to better plan whether it is economies are interfering with air traffic and again go back to the improvement of safety, however, you can plan that. there are multiple pieces of working on an airfield whether air traffic issues or movement issues or even to and routine maintenance so it will address made to th

quoting right now -- "the bill contains regulations on everything from light pwub standards to the specs on hot tubs and who will reshape america's economy in ways others don't realize." in other words, this would, if it were to pass, the largest tax increase in the history of america. i know a little bit about this issue because i started working on this issue back in the late 1990's when they were trying to get us in the united states to ratify the kyoto treaty. the kyoto treaty which is very similar to the proposals that we have had since that taoeufplt we know what that would have cost at that time, somewhere between $300 billion and $300 billion year as a permanent tax increase. and the proposal since then, there have been proposals on the floor of the senate in 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008 and now this time. so i would say we in the senate have more experience in dealing with this issue than the house does, because this is the first time they've ever had to set floor consideration. over the past several weeks, speaker pelosi has been facing an insurrection within hur own rights. we've be