later on i was in traffic and out of the blue my driver just blurted out, death to traffic. [laughter] >> i almost had whiplash. what? [laughter] >> i thought it was death to america. well, no in iran anytime is really frustrating us it's out of our control, we say death to that. and i go, whoa. not to belittle the terribleness of saying death to america, death to israel but this gives it a little different dimension to the average american who would condemn iran and its people based on that slogan they keep hearing. i thought about it for a while and i just thought, you know, it's kind of like damn those teenagers some of us have said something like that. now, did you really want them to die and burn in hell for an eternity. it's midnight. turn down the music. i was fascinated to that. death to traffic. all right. cute kids. just adorable people on the streets you meet when you travel. everywhere i was impressed by the family values and the love of parents mothers and daughters and sons and fathers. they are struggling and they don't want to get out of bed and hate america.

this is 25 minutes. >> this morning the secretary and unveiled the human traffic report. it would give us the progress that countries are making a run the world. one of the things the report but said this year is the effect of the global economic crisis on the human trafficking issue. it concludes that in the time of economic crisis, victims are more vulnerable, affected communities are more from all -- vulnerable as well. many people get their victims through promises of a better life and better earnings, the ability to earn money if they are willing to travel abroad or work. we often see the notion of large upfront payments and recruiting fees that are made to the recruiters themselves of the loan sharks in the recruiting country so that by the time workers get to their destination, they are held in debt bondage. that is a circumstance that employers can build upon, holding a compliant labor force through the threat of force and corrosion and bankruptcy in an economic ruin. this is something the united states has been leading luncheon the last few years. it is the ninth

the traffic is crazy. [laughter] you've got eight teams coming together with no stop lights. [laughter] i felt this is a developing world city, they've got broken lights and nobody fixed them. no, they just didn't put lights there, they don't want them. why stop? you can shuffle through and carry on. [laughter] on initial reaction is that is insane. but they like it and it seems to work quite well. [laughter] it's so different. i spent a lot of time in traffic you can imagine and it was fascinating to be their connecting with the people and feeling the pulse of the society and when you are in iran you know it is the revolution of values. the revolution of values. i got that they have signs in english not for americans but that's the language for anybody that comes to the country and it's the ayatollah khamenei dollar years. what are the values? they are what we would call family values. that is what it is. and i think it's an interesting irony the americans, you know, the political sort of typical americans would be most angry and want to be hard ball with iran are the ones m

traffic safety has improved dramatically. speed of transit is five times faster than it had been with all of the police and the regulations and the signs and the flashing lights. under some circumstances, it seems, people will take it upon themselves to look out for their own and other people's best interests. i got that from a book called, "the future of the internet." jonathan citrain is the offer. now i would like to refresh your memory about st. paul's letters to the new congregations that one day were to become the christian movement. but at the beginning were just widely scattered groups that didn't know one another. and they were looking for a set of rules to follow, and paul traveled with the convey yansz of the day, between these far scattered little places, and he brought a message to them and the message even after all these years is shocking and i seldom meet religious people who swear by the bible and have read this many times who actually heard what paul was saying. st. paul's new testament letters to the congre

he gets his doctorate in traffic management. i don't know exactly how bad traffic is out here or how it is in tehran but it must be hellish in tehran, to get a doctorate in it for crying out loud. when he ran for mayor of iran or tehran, the capitol city he ran on preparing the way for the coming of the islamic messiah and taking the trash out. i am not kidding. you will see that he called himself the little street sweeper. that was his claim to fame. i will get the garbage taking care of, the traffic in the garbage and will prepare the way for the messiah because we can't have traffic and garbage in the mistreats when the messiah comes, apparently. when he decided in april 2005 to run for the presidency of the country of iran, there bruneau reporters that showed up at his press conference. the first poll put him at 2.8% support. even mike candidates had higher numbers than that. [laughter] see what i am saying? two months later, he was the president of the country. how that happened i described in the book but you have to under

human trafficking is a crime with many victims, not only those who are traffic, but also the families they leave behind, some of from never see their loved ones attend. trafficking has a broad global impact as well. it weakens legitimate economies, threatens public health and safety, and shreds the social fabric that is necessary for progress. it is an affront to our basic values and our belief that all people everywhere deserve to live and work in safety and dignity. the obama administration views the fight against trafficking both at home and abroad as a crucial part of our foreign policy agenda. united states funds 140 anti- trafficing programs in 70 countries, as well as 42 domestic dress forces -- 42 domestic task forces to address the problem here. economic pressure in this global economic crisis makes more people susceptible to the faults -- to the false promises of traffickers. the state department releases our annual report today. it underscores the need to address the root causes of poverty -- the root causes of trafficking, including poverty and exploitation of women. this

it is an off -- it is not enough for a country to simply have a traffic report. we spend a year of working -- looking to see if they're using the trafficking law. not only are they looking at victims, but are the prosecuting cases? if they are prosecuting cases, are they prosecuting both sex trafficking and labor trafficking cases? one data trafficking that is reported in the report is that of the 2983 convictions that were reported last year, a notoriously and precise number given that country's do not necessarily do that good of the job of keeping track of him in trafficking prosecution's, but of the 2983 that we were able to confirm as far as the convictions were concerned, only 104 of them were for trafficking in the labour sector. that is hard to square withb the numbers in which there are around 11 million more people being held in bondage in what we would consider ballot forms of labor. -- in ballot forms of labor -- in valivalid forms of labor. those of you that's all the feed when the secretary and i unveiled the report this morning, you heard me talk ab

so is unlikely that text message traffic is congesting the network. therefore, the price increases cannot be cost-justified. i have tried to answer the questions to the best of my abilities. my analysis has a few presumptions. i would like to thank you for giving me a chance to present my conclusions. i welcome input from a technical experts that will correct any of my mistakes. thank you. >> ms. itkin. >> thank you for the invitation to testify. my name is laurie itkin and i am with cricket communications. cricket has been around for 10 years and we have become the seventh largest carrier in the united states. what that means is that we have invested billions of dollars in building our own network. we currently have over 4 million subscribers. cricket serves consumers who have been left behind by the larger carriers. our customers tend to be more ethnically diverse and lower income than the larger customers. cricket pioneered the unlimited flat rate all you can eat service with no long-term contract, no credit check and no early termination fee. our

in concert with the immense awareness in the traffic report, traffic mechanism throughout the o.s.c. region resulted in a steady increase in a number of countries which enacted antitrafficking legislation. that's a success story. we've made progress. tougher laws are being adopted, and probably even more important than that we're developing attitudes in countries that this cannot continue, that it's not something that you can just overlook. i must tell you, this report that was issued, these reports, now almost ten years, have played a critical role. the united states should be proud of what we've been able to do to call world attention to this issue. according to the state department's report, a young woman from azerbaijan had a sister who had been tricked into unregistered marriage to a trafficker who later abandoned her when she got pregnant. when the woman confronted her sister's trafficker, she became a victim. she ended up in turkey where she and other girls were tortured and forced to engage in prostitution. she escaped with the help of police who arrested the nine men who tra

-- other traffic vehicle traffic delays of to 45 minutes several times a day. finally congratulations to you and your committee on moving out with a six year bella. we support your efforts and are ready to help you deliver on that six year bill. we also urge timely action on critical threats to our highway and transit program, madam chairman, an inevitable cash flow shortfall of the highway trust fund this summer, imposition of $8.7 billion decision. we urge you to take action on those critical issues and we urge you to take them in a timely in short-term manner. thank you for the opportunity to allow us from mississippi and from ashto, the american association of state highway transportation officials to appear before you today. i'd be happy to answer questions when the time allows. >> thank you mr. brown. mr. casey. >> in afternoon representative edwards and members, my name is joseph casey, representing the public transportation of philadelphia and surrounding counties area and the american public transit authority with 1500 members including public transit

you know this traffic? >> jim: of course i do. i thought of you. i was having my blue berries. you know where i'm going in a second. blue berries, strawberries, a little yogurt. >> bob: lined to center field. there is willie harris. he move ins on it and has it for the out. here comes jones to score that is is a sac fly and an rbi and the orioles get on the board first and a 1-0 lead. >> jim: that infield hit does it. if you're huff, and he is .278 life-time hitter to lefties and the minute you get a guy to hitter with two outs, you make it easier for the guy to elevate the ball and that's what they do and the orioles take the lead. >> rob: huff gaffe up the trip the last time we faced you guys and he is one tough come tommer to left-handed pitch ors. a great job by huff against detwilerer. >> these were the biggest, plumpest blue berries i have ever seen where are they? new jersey. top crop. how about that? >> bob: jim is -- jimmyville, that would be in new jersey. it is off exit 11. >> jim: frank grows them and he pack annals them. >> bob: where are mine? come on. the souther

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not too many catchers want to throw in all that traffic. zimmerman vacated if as if he was in a wheel play and then guzman stayed at second. everything went wrong. the ball got away and zimm is up there and pulled the bunt back. >> when made a point in the pregame about willingham played right field. you played 400 games in the right field and made the mistake, do you think he could give him another shot in right field and it's almost like the saturday/sunday game if you had a saturday/sunday afternoon game. >> there's no reason to put him to right field unless you're going to play him out there. if you take an open pass, forget about it. people are supposed to catch him. i want to stop that left field/right field center field stuff. that ball should have been caught. he knows it. you leave him out there and you let him play. if you've got him in there, he'll get better and better out there. the reds win it 4-2. coming up more comments from the nationals including from out fielder adam dunn. nats extra post game continues after this. - it's

it establishes the fact that the people are sick and tired of waiting in traffic standing in line at the airport, inhaling dangerous emissions and just waiting indefinitely for their who traveled mechanism to be there. if we come provide reliable service americans will choose. second, these gains proved time cries out this time for major investment in high-speed rail. we need to fill the rising demand for faster and more efficient service. for years, we have had flights to fight, too big and fall for faster rail against those that want to bankrupt amtrak even as more americans were demanding increased amtrak service. and in this chart we have here in quick fashion describes some of the hurdles we face for you will have problems discerning what each of these covers is, the blue is highway investment since 1949, aviation is the yellow and the intercity passenger rail you can see at the bottom is the green and when we look how much we have invested in the highways and aviation system it's obvious that we have invested too little in rail. now we are not suggesting those other modes are n

it establishes the fact that people are sick and tired of waiting in traffic, standing in line at the airport, and hailing dangerous -- inhaling dages emissions and just waiting indeaf -- dangerous emissions and just waiting indefinitely for their travel mechanism to be there. if we provide convenient and reliable rail service, americans will choose it. secondly, these gains prove that time cries out, this time cries out for a major investment in high speed rail. we need to fill a rising demand for faster and more efficient rail service. for years, we've had flights -- beg and claw for funding against those who wanted to bankrupt amtrak, even as more americans were demanding increased amtrak service. in this chart we have here, in quick fashion, it describes some of the problems we face. for you who have a problem discerning the color the blue is highway investment, since 1949. aviation is the yellow and intercity passenger rail, you can just about see at the bottom is that green band. and we -- when we look at how much we've invested in highways and aviation system, it's obvious that

there are multiple pieces of working on the airfield whether traffic issues coming aircraft movement, a construction vehicles with the routine maintenance. of we know it capital program will address the maintenance issue we can operate more efficiently as well with the operating budget. the long term program will be significant benefit to the industry. >> thank you mr. penrod. mr. keating a national survey done seven years ago found transportation construction contractors hire employs within three weeks of getting a contract and they began receiving paychecks within two weeks umpiring. can you comment on this based on your more recent experience with oldcastle? >> yes. essentially when the work is put out depending on the workload we may bring estimators and professionals on board will before we secure the work. there's no question once we receive a contract were in a word we need to ramp up to supply the work force for those projects. so it is actually much quicker and was there on the payroll they receive paychecks on a weekly basis. >> from one contract to the next your and the env

and by doing that we can improve east-west traffic all over the eastern seaboard. we shouldn't be flying people 500 miles or less. we should put them on high-speed trains. now reabthern asked a very important question. -- now, ranking member thorn asked a very important question. what should be given priority? i suggest we create a national infrastructure bank staffed by professionals, not necessarily professionals all of them in transportation. it could be some former members of congress. some former secretaries of transportation. and rank projects on a cost benefit analysis, rank projects on priority, what they do for transporting people, how many people, the effect on climate change. an independent ranking system. because the public wants that. the public doesn't want transportation dollars authorized through the same old system. and certainly not for projects on this magnitude. and lastly, how are we going to pay for it? because $13 billion, as ranking member thorn said, it is a lot of money but it's just a drop in the bucket. how will we pay for high-speed rai

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 this issue, we can operate more efficiently as well so certainly long-term program will be a significant benefit to the industry can i thank you mr. penrod. mr. keating, is my understanding a national survey done several years of on the transportation construction contractors hire employees within three weeks of obtaining a project contract and that these employees begin receiving paychecks within two weeks of hiring -- can you comment on this based on your own recent experience with oldcastle materials? >> essentially when the work is put out to advertise depending on the workload we may bring estimators and professionals on board in well before we secure the work then there's no question once we receive a contract or a bit of a word we need to be ramping up to supply the workforce for those projects. so it is actually much quicker and once they're on our payroll they are receiving paychecks on a weekly basis. >> then from on

they traffic drugs, money, weapons, and human beings across our southern border. they leave death, doom, and destruction in their wake. make no mistake about it, there is corruption on both sides of the border that facilitates the lawlessness taking place there. just last month, former sheriff of starr county -- stark county, texas, ray guera pled guilty to federal markets charges he admitted to facilitating intelligence that helped mexican drug traffickers invade the united states and evade countermarkets efforts, include tryinging to find out the ident i have to confidential informants he needs to be locked up forever for his betrayal to this country and law enforcement. he's just one of a growing number of recruits from both sides of the border facilitating this avalanche of corruption and an arty kentucky along the southern frontier. the mexican -- but mexican criminal cartels have added a layer of intelligence that better resemblings foreign recruitment of spies in the cold war than a traditional criminal enterprise. the huge amounts of money paid to these of

synergism and ridership and service to amtrak and the high speed rail that i do think will help ease the traffic congestion in many parts of our country. i was pleased that you mentioned the amtrak reauthorization bill last year. the first amtrak authorization bill, before this last one, was 1997, and i sponsored that as chairman of the service transportation subcommittee. i think we did some great reforms to begin the process of having a federal partnership for capital grant programs for state, be able to invest in rail and that is an important step forward to making it more viable. any successful rail project is going to have multiple partners, private sector, federal, state, it is so expensive. the early investment is expensive but it becomes much more efficient after it is finally built and established. i am pleased to welcome mr. szabo who will appear for the first time as f r a administrator. that will play a major part in this, i am glad you will have 7 regional meetings to determine what the parameters for high-speed rail should be. having around the country is another good sign. and rob

court downtown for attempting to pay traffic ticket while wearing slacks. and we have a picture of her in the book. she is the tiniest best groomed person wearing slacks in the history of the world but the judge was overwhelmed with horror the idea a woman would go into public and to his court wearing pants that he just went nuts. started spewing every possible metaphor pants in the family, pedestal, different thing and it summarize everything about 1960 which was a time and pretty much keeping with the year 1,000 when it came to the way people lived and the way they regarded women. and i do find going back that both women who were there in 1960 and especially women who were not are particularly and locked out the couldn't get credit name and age the times which are a great source of information on this stuff i must say found one woman that had to go to a mental hospital to get her husband to cosign the lease on their apartment because they could just trust the woman to do it and there was a great story about this poor woman who later became governor of ver

and a sort of traffic jam of brains in this administration. he's got half his faculty, half his staff comes from harvard. the other half comes from yale. and i often say if we're attacked by terrorists during the harvard yale game we're screwed because they will be up there in new haven. but he's got -- as a result a very smart staff. filled with people who really argue and will argue in front of them. he had this decision a few weeks ago where he had to decide whether to release these torture memos. he gathered people in the office of his chief of staff, rahm emanuel. and they literally had a debate. he listened to the debate for an hour and made the decision right there on the spot. that's an impressive level of substance. and this chief of staff, rahm emanuel, from chicago. he's sort of a competitive, aggressive guy. he's lost his middle finishing nar deli accident -- middle finger in a deli accident. he is very confrontational and curses a lot. obama said when he lost his middle finger he was rendered mute. [laughter] nothing else -- my ot

facilities and equipment programs to upgrade the faa's power and navigation systems and to modernize the air traffic facilities. as this committee is aware, the recovery act sets forward very specific timeline for project completion and for faa, actually more than half of the $1.1 billion made available for airport grants, that would be 550 million, which would require to be awarded out within 120 days of the act. that was last wednesday, june 17th. on behalf of the president and secretary lahood and the hard-working f.a. airports staff i am pleased report for not only met that milestone, we have exceeded the milestone and actually have awarded over 800 million, almost 70% of the money allocated has already been set out, past ahead of deadline. there's an estimated 240 recovery act projects currently underway or will be started in the next 30 days. this funding is going directly into the economy now in making a difference in both the short term, supporting by our estimates close to 8,000 jobs as well as the long term with high value of infrastructure improvements. dfa's internal objective is to have

the foot traffic is destroying wilderness areas. eight major wildfires were established the bithe foot traffic on the area. the goldwater training range was shut down because of illegal immigrants trespassing on the land. some of those areas are controlled by drug cartels, some are stouget violence. one problem we have we face is the border patrol has to pay money to the interior department to have access to lands. the border patrol was threatened with lawsuits and arrested for attempting to enter a wilderness area and try to pick up a wounded victim. all those issues should be addressed in this particular area. this device which i have right here is one of the listening devices that the border patrol needs to communicate past each other. it is placed in jeopardy simply because the department of interior now wants it to have limitations. a threat of a lawsuit by an environmental group indicated that the memorandum of understanding has to be used to put restrictions on this even the it's important and environmental assessment says th

. >> i support a provision relative to the international traffic and arms regulations. itar is a set of regulations to control the import and export of defense related technology on the u.s. mue nations list. in 1998, all satellite components were added to the list with tougher licensing conditions. our intelligence tnt subcommittee investigating itar's eect on the satellite program and has clearly affected it in a negative way. before the 1998 restrictions went into affect, 73% of the world market for commercial satellites went to u.s. companies. by the year 2000 that figure has dropped to 27%. there are technologies on this itar list that don't need to be. and foreign companies are actually marketing their products as itar-free. our companies get weaker as theirs get stronger. i approached chairman berman who was also working on this issue with his committee. section 826 of this bill grants the president the flexibility to remove simple, old, and widely available technology from the munitions list. our most military sensitive technology will remain. please vote for 24

they shiffed their traffic accordingly. i have -- they shift their traffic accordingly. i picked up 32 pounds of marijuana on one load that helped some pounds go through another load. we simply cannot tolerate in the united states of america at least as much as 70 miles inside the united states, and i'll be going down next week to look at these locations north of tucson on the road to phoenix. this is the united states of america. our sovereign territory. and playing cat and mouse with people there with semi-automatic weapons, supplies, smuggling drugs in the united states should stop. our congress should join together in our voice and with this amendment ask them to do so to stop that activity and defend our soil and put an end to and actually would be a very big help to dramatically reduce the amount of illegal drugs smuggling in the united states. thank you, madam chair. i yield back and urge its adoption. the chair: the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from iowa. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the noes hav

i am going to open the floor for questions and i will try to be a traffic cop, try to steer the questions to the appropriate person on our commission for an answer. trevor? >> representing -- >> yes. hold on. are you a journalist? >> i am from the german newspaper. the most primitive and strongest argument, the opponent of the global bureau would say you can destroy the nuclear weapons but not the knowledge of how to rebuild them. >> there are plenty of examples of knowledge to do things where the international community has taken a strong position and created verifiable arms control regimes covering those. biological weapons, chemical weapons. you will never rid the world of the knowledge, but with a system of adequate verification, and inspection regime which will be very intrusive, and in an international enforcement mechanism, you are not going to be able to remove knowledge, but we believe, we are actually working on this as a high priority between now and our next commission meeting to elaborate, both a verification and an enforcement mechanism, would be capable not only of detectin

i will try to beat a traffic cop. i will try to steer the questions to the appropriate person on our commission for an answer. >> if you could state your name. thank you so much. >> soap. yes. are you a journalist? >> i am from a german newspaper. what do you say to the most primitive and may be strongest argument of the opponent of global zero which says you could destroy all the weapons but rebuild them. but there are plenty of examples where there is knowledge to do things where the international community has taken a strong position and created verifiable arms control regimes covering them. biological weapons, chemical weapons. there are, i think you never read the world of the knowledge. with a system of adequate verification of an inspection regime which would be very interested and in an international enforcement mechanism, you will not be able to remove knowledge. we believe and are working on this as a high priority between now and our next meeting, to be able to elaborate both a verification and an enforceme

value of having young iranians being able to drive up and down at high speeds and getting stuck in traffic jams provides very little utility to the population and very little value to the economy. what we have seen in iraq is that we have raised gasoline from a nickel to a gallon of -- from a nickel a gallon to a dollar. we start a fairly substantial rationalization of the gasoline market. we saw a drop in terms of funds that would go to terrorist groups. what does happen is when you're in a situation where you have a lot of political sensitivities, it is a great issue to latch onto. we have seen groups that are opposed to the government and they grab that issue with the prices are raised in the use that to push for a regime change. i see the regime has been strong and stable. wha lot of people did not benefit from the subsidies. to answer your last question, the best gift we could possibly give the iranian government would be to try and launch an embargo and that would let them do something they really need to do and that is to make better use of the money that they have and blame it on u

restricted the return path of media, they are also jamming electronic transmissions and restricting internet traffic into the country. but it is the third leg of communication from people the people, from one resistance cell with another, from leaders to supporters inside, of which the regime is most fearful. they cannot fight people who stand together. only an information blackout can isolate individuals so that they can be addressed separately. thus, -- so that they can be oppressed separately. thus, the outcome of the struggle will depend on your ability, the free media, to fight their blackout with the light of information. your second contribution is keeping your political leaders informed about the brutal violence of the regime's playclothes thugs against unarmed people. your government have insisted that they would not interfere in iran's internal affairs. i applaud that. any such attempt will give the timon's the excuse they need -- ctyrants the excuse they need to paper over their own differences. but that is not all they do. they are taping -- painting every statement in defense of human r

and you saw in the centerfield camera replay a good drop of traffic control by wil nieves pointing and barking, 1, 1, 1. base hit. that was a breaking ball. adam dunn. they're going to send the runner. and that was not good by the nats. adam dunn missed the cutoff man ant and the tying run is at second base. that does not go down as en error but that's a mental error by adam dunn and that's a 3-2 game. you cannot give the hitter second base. >> rob: great point by you, bob. fundamentals will win you a lot of ball games. if you hit the cutoff man with this throw, you gun down the man at second base. if you throw over zimmerman's head, now, the tying run trots on into second. so, yes, it's always nice to try to throw the runner out at the plate but there is always another part to that story. >> bob: aggressive coaching by nick lava. he has been a good third base coach for a time with cito gaston and before that, with whitey whitey herzog in st. louis. >> rob: good breaking ball. he got a little bit too much of the plate. >> bob: dangerous clean-up hitter on deck. foul tipped. vernon well

we get a lot of traffic on the web. >> steve, give us background of this institution and where it is. >> we are located about 80 miles northwest of washington, d.c. here in sheporder-- shepherdstown, west virginia. and this was done at the typical holiday inn, when we designed this place, we looked to make it such a place that people in the fish and wildlife could call home. and that the service could dedicate to the employees. we have dedicated people that work for the fish and wildlife service, and it's important that they build their skills to deal with the complex challenges that we face today and the future. >> mark madison, how much did this cost? >> this place cost about $150,000. >> who in congress was responsible for it? >> senator byrd made sure that we had the funding. but the clinton and bush administrations requested the funds for the project. >> how many buildings? >> we have 17 buildings. >> how many years? >> it took about three years. >> what can a book like doug wrote can do for you? >> it can do a lot, for the employees to realize their own heritage, and like any ot

i am very pleased that the new ambassador and the director of the office to deal with traffic was confirmed to be part of the ceremony. previously, he was leading the fight against slavery and the department of justice. he has also been a member of the team, with john conyers and thanks to him, hundreds of trafficking survivors are living productive lives in our own country. we're also joined by tw of special guests, from the front lines of the fight against trafficking. we have the maker of the first shelter in albanian, this represents nine men and women who we are celebrating for their fight against trafficking. we are so happy that they can join us today. [applause] around the world, millions of people are living in bondage. they live under a brutal and lawyers who threaten them with violence. they work with people who keep them imprisoned, they are fearful of the consequences if they fail to earn their daily quota. this is modern slavery, this provides a ruthless employers with an endless supply of people to abuse for financial gain. human trafficking is a crime with many victims, not

that's what the united states is doing. 85% of the gongses seized in mexico around drug trafficking and traffic of human beings are made in texas. so we're experting this kind of weaponry and terrorism that makes its fob -- possible to kill thousands of people and i think we have to demilitarize our society as a whole and have a modicum of 12%. we're 4.6 of the worlds people. we spend more on the military budget than any other country in the world combined. so we have to reinvest differently and yet of course there's dangers, of course dangers and of course countries have to defend themselves and cities and families. >> host: bernadine dohrn, bill ayers have been our guests. thank you both very much. [applause] ... founding editor of on-line news website frontpage magazine presents an appraisal of higher education based on a multi-year investigation of college curriculum. this event held at the four seasons hotel in los angeles is a little over an hour. >> six years ago i launched a campaign for an academic bill of rights. a campaign for academic freedom. on monday aye shibley headed for chicag

companies and ships must be more vigilant about staying in traffic corridors and should consider about increasing their security personnel. gulf nations

network that he describes that can increase simultaneously the capacity to handle trillions of voice traffic and handle billions if not trillions of text messages and to suggest that network can do that without additional cost would be describing a network that would be magical in its proportions, but it does not exist. that network is a myth. there are enormous costs incurred in building these networks. from the spectrum to the carriers to the networks. what you have heard that all the text messages can be carried in [unintelligible] 208 cell sites -- 280 cell sites. that is not the case. that capacity had to be created. incurred costs as a result to create that capacity. >> i appreciate that. one of the purposes of this hearing today is to come up with more vigorous competition in the industry. you can understand how we want to do that, because we're here to protect consumers. we're not here to be destructive to view. we are trying to protect consumers. when you have a sufficient level of competition that result in better results for consumers. i am sure you understand our premise. the con

own facilities and equipment program to upgrade power and navigation systems and to modernize the air traffic facilities. as this committee is aware, the act sets for some specific time lines for project completion. more than half of the $1.1 billion made available for airport grants was required to be awarded out within 120 days of the act. that was last wednesday, june 17. i am very pleased to report that we not only meant that milestone, we have exceeded the milestone, and have awarded over $800 million, almost 70% of the met -- of the money allocated. it is out and head of deadline. two hundred 40 recovery act projects are underway or will be started within 40 days. -- two hundred 40 -- 240 recovery act projects are underway or will be started within 30 days. the faa's internal objective is to have 90% airport grant funding or $988 million awarded before the end of this fiscal year all told, we anticipate that $1.1 billion of the recovery act funding provided will create or sustain approximately 12,000 jobs over the next two years. that is supplemented by the amount of jobs created. we di

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