should have been blown out in new jersey and

bottom line is this legislation helps new jersey and it helps america. it is fair, balanced and fixes a badly broken system. it is truly an historic piece of legislation and will be remembered as such, and yet every one of my colleagues on the other side will vote no. they will stand against all of it, all that i've talked about, firmly once again on the wrong side of history. so let me conclude, mr. president, by saying i've said it before and i'll say it again, history calls on us to stand up on rare occasions for what is fair and just and right for the american people, and this is one of those occasions. this is a time to look into your heart, a time to see beyond your own political interests, your own hard ideology and look into the lives of millions of americans. think about the millions of families on main street in every community where a child wakes up in the middle of night to a parent who cannot afford to get them basic care they need. and ask yourself what's the right thing to do. this is the time to do what's right for america. it requires mo

garrett of new jersey. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 964, the gentleman from new jersey, mr. garrett, and a member opposed, each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from new jersey. mr. garrett: and i thank the madam chair. i was just at the microphone a moment ago and speaking about the recognition that i think we have on both sides of the aisle that the c.r.a.'s, the credit rating agencies, were part in par sell to the financial situation that we find ourselves in right now. and during the time i raised two -- probably three significant points on this and what we need to do when it comes to reform. i mentioned the fact that we need to reduce investors' reliance upon rating agencies. i mentioned also that we need to encourage investors due diligence that sort of goes with it. and the third point i is it raise is we need to have increased competition between the credit rating agencies. unfortunately, if you look at the bill before us, title 5 of the bill, includes a numbe

the gentleman from new jersey is recognized. mr. garrett: do you have any other speakers or should we close? mr. peterson: i would like to thank a few people and i will yield back if that's ok. our committee has spent a lot of time on this a i want to thank all the members for the many, many hours that they put in to working on this and the members of the banking committee and i want to thank my ranking member, mr. lucas, his staff, kevin, bill and josh for engaging with us in a cooperative process to bring this together. i thank chairman frank and his staff, peter, loran for working us in the spirit of compromise that allowed us to reach agreement in a relatively short period of time and thank chairman bachus and his staff kevin and jason, despite their concerns, were willing to thoughtfully contribute to our discussions. i want to thank my own staff, andy, rebecca, matt and clark for their hard work and long hours to bring this amendment to fruition. this is a good amendment. i encourage members to adopt it. and i yield back the b

adler: i thank the gentleman from new jersey. much of the legislation we're discussing the last couple of days and tomorrow when we vote is about the failure of this congress to regulate sufficiently. i mean, in one instance we have facts, we have data, we have clear evidence of our overregulation, sarbanes-oxley has done some very good things and unfortunately section 404-b has chased companies out of the united states of america. we know companies are doing i.p.o.'s not in new york but in london. they've said so. when other companies have been unable to aggregate capital to go from small to big to create jobs, the sort of jobs the president talked about at the brookings institution a couple of days ago, small companies sometimes become great companies and employ thousands and thousands of people. so most of this bill we're talking about today, tomorrow, will do some very good things to add enough regulation. there's one instance we have to do what mr. garrett and i tried to do, what the bipartisan group in the committee did, wh

holt of new jersey. mr. holt: madam speaker, today, members received another classified briefing on our policy in afghanistan, a briefing that raised questions that need answers before our country commits further troops. these are not loaded questions or simply rhetorical but real questions and some of the real questions that people in central new jersey are asking. with this proposed troop increase bring us closer to killing those responsible for the 9/11 attacks? if the al qaeda realm napts americans are seeking to capture or kill are on the pakistani side of the border or in yemen or east africa how will more troops help us to get those terrorists who attacked us on september 11 or might attack us in the future? should we send troops to where al qaeda isn't? should we expand our aerial strikes? would an escalation in air attacks do more good than harm? is our intelligence capable of giving our military and political leaders the intelligence they need to wage this war? given our lack of foreign language ca

in new jersey i don't think the leading newspapers have a specific reporter for the new jersey supreme court. so i think the question is, as good of a job all you do, the public think there is is one court that makes all of these issues. when the massachusetts supreme court makes a decision, it is like how do they think they docked that. i would like to hear comments about whether you can cover other courts in the way you so successfully did the supreme court. >> you know great newspapers don't have a reporter for the new jersey supreme court. great newspapers don't have a reporter for new jersey. the business is bad. there are not enough reporters. >> that is barely a joke. i completely agree. the state supreme courts do very significant work. 95% of the litigation is in this country is in the state courts. never was covered well and now it is completely hollowed out. i was talking to a federal judge who said 10 years ago i would have three reporters in my courtroom routinely. two local papers. the a.p. would be there. now every two weeks an intern calls me up asking have you done any

in new jersey i don't think the leading newspapers have a specific reporter for the new jersey supreme court. so i think the question is, as good of a job all you do, the public think there is is one court that makes all of these issues. when the massachusetts supreme court makes a decision, it is like how do they think they docked that. i would like to hear comments about whether you can cover other courts in the way you so successfully did the supreme court. >> you know great newspapers don't have a reporter for the new jersey supreme court. great newspapers don't have a reporter for new jersey. the business is bad. there are not enough reporters. >> that is barely a joke. i completely agree. the state supreme courts do very significant work. 95% of the litigation is in this country is in the state courts. never was covered well and now it is completely hollowed out. i was talking to a federal judge who said 10 years ago i would have three reporters in my courtroom routinely. two local papers. the a.p. would be there. now every two weeks an intern calls me up asking have you done any

we have more foreign-born with and in the state of california today than people in new jersey. there are more foreign-born in new york state and people and south carolina. these are big states. we're not talking about little states. latinos now outnumber many places african americans and fairfax county virginia, we cross -- crossed the threshold where they are a leading minority group and they think by 2015 they will be 29% of the total population in the united states. the old black-white dichotomy, the way we thought about race is over. that is coming to an end. the population trends, emigration is taking care of it but also something else. interracial marriage. i grew up in the 1950's and '60's and i remember one day win "time" magazine came in our mailbox and there was a picture of a daughter of the secretary of state marrying a black man. that was extraordinarily controversial. that happened just a few months after the loving person is virginia case which i described at great lengths in the book. password 2004, the son of a president, a nephew, george p. bush son of the flo

oregon, frank lautenberg from new jersey, patty murray from washington -- the state of washington, arlen specter from pennsylvania, mary can't well and mary landrieu from louisiana. they recognized how important this was. they recognized we were trying to solve major problems for people, especially in rural amplest i think it would be worthwhile to reflect back on the 2003 debate and remember the reasons this issue inspired such strong bipartisan consensus. you don't hear it at all from that side now. after the program has proven its efficacy and has proven that it works. we supported the medicare advantage program six years ago because we knew it was the right thing to do for beneficiaries and the same logic holds true today. we owe it to beneficiaries to provide a strong, adequately funded program that provides them with high-quality health care choices. during the finance committee's consideration of -- and by the way, every medicare beneficiary can go into medicare advantage if they desire under current

i understand there are a few folks from new jersey. any new jersey folks? [cheers and applause] i want to hear from somebody that is a dear friend of mine. he is the state director of americans for prosperity. he's one of the great leaders in this country and certainly new jersey. please welcome your friend and mine, steve. [cheers and applause] >> thank you, everybody. ladies and gentlemen, fellow americans we are endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, amongst them our life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. [cheers and applause] and the health care bill -- to health care bill we are fighting today gives the government control over our lives, underlines how our liberty, and it certainly doesn't make anybody happy. [cheers and applause] barack obama, harry reid, and nancy pelosi are out of touch with the american people. [cheers and applause] but they don't understand or choose not to understand that we are in doubt by our creator with these rights and they are not coming to take them away. [cheers and applause] because we are going to

>> you know, daniel, i think probably the best place to look is in virginia and new jersey about a month ago in these gubernatorial electricses. i know in my home state of virginia, we far surpassed the get out the vote effort of the other side this time, and it

lastly, the faa has taken a major air redesign in the new jersey-new york,. area. this could increase the noise levels over many parts of new jersey. in 2007, the faa official dismissed the noise problem as a societal issue. we cannot say in good conscience that the quality of life and issues affecting 100 sub -- hundred of thousands of new jersey residents should be redesigned. there is also a concern about living in the path of an airport. can we count on you to do that? also, your willingness to hold a town hall meeting in new jersey to discuss any at they plan to address the safety and noise concerns regarding aerospace design projects? >> yes, sir, i have indicated in the best that one of the areas we have not done well is when we talk about airspace redesign, people immediately focus on new data lines that did not used to go over the area in which they live. we have a couple of things, if i could expand, we have a new contract with the air corps traffic controllers association. we are making a lot of efforts to have a much better dialogue and ability to commu

[laughter] >> in new jersey, some of you are from new jersey. new jersey indictments work for you not against you, right? [laughter] >> truthfully the incumbent had been indicted on ten counts of bribery, perjury and obstruction of justice. it wasn't political. it was only 10 days before the democratic primary. it turned out to be very close. and then they had -- they had -- they did a recount in the democratic primary they found 1100 absentee ballot in the same hang. -- handwriting. they reran the democratic primary from june to september 28th. best we could do was call for best 2 out of 3. and anyway we ended up winning. my guy won the race. came down to washington. i became his chief of staff at 2 years old, something like that. i was horrible. just horrible 'cause you know what? i was really good at campaigns. i was terrible at like administration. so when candy -- when you start talking about all the little details stuff that you go through before you get to the media stuff, that's stuff to pay attention to in a campaign. anyway, so i decid

the presiding officer: the senator from new jersey. mr. menendez: madam president, i rise to speak to the great debate we're having on historic health care reform, and i'm reminded of the words of a great republican, president abraham lincoln. he said -- quote -- "we cannot escape history, the fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor of the latest generation. the occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. that's what abraham lincoln said. madam president, it's time to rise to the occasion. because our friends on the other side of the aisle have chosen to sit on their hands and do nothing. they have no plan. they have chosen to delay and obfuscate. you know, if you look back in history, during the great debates on social security in 1935 and medicare in 1965, our friends across the aisle were on the wrong side of history. but in the end, there was a minority who chose to stand up for historic social legislation and vote their conscience. they were not driven by the far right w

the presiding officer: the senator from new jersey. mr. lautenberg: thank you, madam president. i ask unanimous consent -- how much time is left available? the presiding officer: 4 1/2 minutes. mr. lautenberg: i ask consent to be able to speak for up to ten minutes. it will be less, i promise, but i think we had a little misqueue in our timing. is there any objection to that? mr. franken: is there any objection? mr. enzi: reserving the right to object, would it be possible for the senator from arizona to do a five-minute speak and then have you do five minutes plus the four? mr. lautenberg: all right. we have been patient, i think, if we can be assured that the senator's speech will not take more than five minutes, i would consent. that then includes a unanimous consent for me to have up to ten minutes. i see our colleague from michigan here, and i don't know whether that would disturb her. ms. stabenow: if i might just -- mr. enzi: mr. president, i'd be willing to let her then go as well, and then we'll make up the time on our side after

it doesn't cost 37 cents to really move a letter from new jersey to new york city. it probably costs less. but the average is 37 cents so someone request mail a letter from south dakota. that's great. we september that. that's the way it should be. if you do the same thing off the coastline of new jersey, that's going to undermine the economics from the east coast because it hasn't factored into cost of transmitting that energy 1500 miles all the way into the east coast market. the question becomes how many new jobs will be created alonching the east coast of the united states if there is no incentive any longer. because he's almost bound by his obligation to his share holders to take all of this inexpensive but subsidized energy. >> how do we square this circle so that others on the disincentive to produce renewables. >> broad based fair rates. the people using the power are paying the cost sf i looked at this last year alone the price difference change from 20-30 miles an hour. >> it would be cheaper to use a wind farm operating in the plains 40% of the time. it's

new hampshire, 13,200. new jersey, 156,607. new mexico, 73,567. look at new york, 853,387. north carolina, 251,738. people enrolled in medicare advantage, who love the program. north dakota, 7,633. ohio, 499,819. goo geewhiz, that's a lot of people who are satisfied with medicare advantage. oklahoma, 84,980. oregon, one of the most liberal states in the union, 249,993. pennsylvania, 864,040. puerto rico even, 400,991. rhode island, 65,108. south carolina, 110,949. these are senior citizens. south dakota, 8,973. tennessee, 233,024. texas, 532,242. my own state of utah, 85,588. vermont, only 3,966, but 3,000 people -- 4,000 people in vermont. virginia, 151,942. washington, 225,918. west virginia, 88,027. wisconsin, 243,443, and wyoming, 3,942. these are people who benefit from medicare advantage that would not like to get off of it. well, this choice in coverage has made a difference in the lives of more than almost 11 million people. 11 million individuals nationwide, families that benefit from this. the extra benefits that i had mentioned earlier are being portrayed as gym

the senator from new jersey. mr. lautenberg: to having the time equally divided expressed by the senator from iowa. i -- how much time is -- how much time is available on our side, mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from new jersey controls seven minutes. mr. lautenberg: seven? the presiding officer: seven. mr. lautenberg: seven minutes? the presiding officer: seven minutes. mr. lautenberg: all right, well, mr. president, i, too, have people who want to speak to the issue, but if we can equally divide the quorum call, that's all right with me, i have no objection. mr. dorgan: mr. president, i believe the quorum call will be momentary. we have people coming to speak. if not, i will take additional time as perhaps with the senator from new jersey, but i ask consent that the -- i make a point of order that a quorum is not present and ask consent that it be charged against all sides equally. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, so ordered. quorum call: mr. dorgan: mr. president, le

the presiding officer: the senator from new jersey. mr. lautenberg: yeah, mr. president, i -- i think we have some time available, and i would like to continue with some remarks. i thank the senator from kansas for his remarks and his concern also about the efficacy and the safety of drugs that might reach our citizens. and i listened carefully to the remarks of my colleague from north dakota and where he said the principal focus of our amendment is to protect the profits of the drug companies. no, i want to protect the health and the well-being of the american citizens. and i look at an industry that has a prolonged life expectancy, has made life more productive and pleasant for many whose disabilities may have them imprisoned in their homes. and when we look at what has happened over the years and where conditions like malaria and polio and small pox and antibiotics and chemotherapy have been continued to be developed primarily by american drug companies. those who have the reputation for bringing the best products to market, most carefu

for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey rise? mr. lance: to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. lance: madam speaker, i rise today to congratulate the summit hilltoppers who captured the new jersey group ii, north ii state sectional football title on december 3 at giants stadium. coached by john, the hilltoppers won a 28-19 victory over the orange tornados. on offense, the hilltoppers were led by the quarterback and running back. for the game, the running back ran for 119 yards while completing six pass attempts for 134 yards. reyes finished with 167 yards on the ground and two touchdowns on 16 carrieses. the summit defense was led by michael steinberg, mike watts, ryan o'mali, danny feeney, held the orange to just 19 points. i ask all of my colleagues to join me in congratulating the coach and the entire summit hilltoppers football team for their victory over are orange to win the state sectional title. thank you, madam speaker. the speaker pro

the clerk: the senator new jersey, mr. lautenberg, for him caisson others, proposes an amendment numbered 3556 to amendment 2786. mr. lautenberg: scwi that the further reading be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. lautenberg: mr. president, i rise today because one thing we have to do as the progress with this health care reform bill is to make sure that prescription medicine in our country is safe and affordable, and i thank my colleague from new jersey for his excellent review of the conditions that cause us to add this amendment. to senator dorgan's amendment. that would allow potentially unsafe prescription drugs to be shipped across our borders and directly into the medicine cabinets of homes throughout america. now, i want to be clear, the effect of this plan, as the senator -- that senator dorgan has introduced could be catastrophic. that's why president obama's administration has written to the congress expressing its serious concerns with the dorgan amendment. now, i appreciate the effor

the gentleman from new jersey. mr. garrett: i now yield to another leader in the fight against this bill which perpetrates the idea of continued taxpayer bailouts to the the gentleman from florida, three minutes. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. >> unfortunately, this well-intentioned legislation misses the marks when it comes to attacking future meltdowns. they have failed to acknowledge the reasons behind the current meltdown and point to wall street as the cause of the meltdown and direct most of their efforts in this bill at further regulating the private marketplace. the actions taken by some on wall street were responsible at least in part for the financial meltdown. this should be part of the reform, however, there are many factors that contributed to the meltdown and by assigning a disproportionate share of the blame to any one party, they lead in place the practices that contributed to the meltdown. if we base this that the financial meltdown was caused by the private sector and the regulators lacked th

there is no senate race in new jersey coming up. mr. smith here is an independent just to get people out of their partisan thinking. we have a guy here who is a self-made millionaire who made his money in the tech world in the 90s after selling his business and started a nonprofit but raises the graduation rate from public high-school in new jersey. white, mid 40s, good amount of money, two kids who go to private school. here is a dream candidate. rich candidate, especially willing to spend a lot of money. you come in progress will you are hired, you know this guy is running, you don't need to prove to him or yourself that he should run because he has already decided to do it. you are ten months away from your collection and you are about to go to go to your baseline pole. here are some of the things. you need to know -- we have someone who is not very well known. has not been in the political sphere in the past. you have a different way of working with them. the democrat and republican who are running in 2010. a lot of what you are goi

lewis: i recognize the gentleman from new jersey for two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new jersey is recognized for two minutes. . mr. fraying: since the start of this recession in 2007 6.9 million people have lost their jobs. a third of those without jobs have been unemployed for more than six months. that a post-world war ii high. clearly congress needs to find a way to spur private sector job creation. a bipartisan way not one rammed through without public hearings. mr. chairman, a famous son of new jersey once said, and that's yogi berra, it's deja vu all over again. congress and the president acted in february a trillion dollar stimulus package with the promise of its shovel ready spend would go prevent unemployment from exceeding 8%. while the nation's official unemployment is about 10%, the real unemployment and underemployment now exceeds 17%. yet the majority suggests we double down on spending borrowed dollars in many of the same areas touched by the first stimulus. for example, only 7% of the $2 billion in the stimu

i understand there are a few folks from new jersey. any new jersey folks? [cheers and applause] i want to hear from somebody that is a dear friend of mine. he is the state director of americans for prosperity. he's one of the great leaders in this country and certainly new jersey. please welcome your friend and mine, steve. [cheers and applause] >> thank you, everybody. ladies and gentlemen, fellow americans we are endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, amongst them our life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. [cheers and applause] and the health care bill -- to health care bill we are fighting today gives the government control over our lives, underlines how our liberty, and it certainly doesn't make anybody happy. [cheers and applause] barack obama, harry reid, and nancy pelosi are out of touch with the american people. [cheers and applause] but they don't understand or choose not to understand that we are in doubt by our creator with these rights and they are not coming to take them away. [cheers and applause] because we are going to

former governor of new jersey. the ci arks denies that the agencies tonight share information about the terror suspect but people are asking d the cia drop the ball? we will talk about it when we return. >> larry: joins you us know is a former cia official who was the division chief, the director of operations in europe, author of the book "on the brink, an insiders account how the white house compromised intelligence" and also is larry johnson direct of the counterterrorism a former cia analyst and co-founder of berg associates. our con doll lans. eight americans killed in afghanistan suicide bombings, and all believed to be ci arks employees. do you have a comment? >> i just heard that and i under mines the world we live in and the sacrifices the cia makes and it's heart breaks. my thoughts go that to their family, obviously. >> larry: larry? >> the cia is kicks around for not connecting dots and men and women are on the lines gets killed. it's one of the largest losses of lives of cia employees in 30 years. >> l

this is indeed new jersey's version of valley forge. from the onset i want to thank the chairman of the subcommittee on national parks, forests, and public lands, the gentleman from arizona, mr. grijalva, and the ranking member, the gentleman from utah, mr. rob bishop, for their work on my bill. in addition i want to offer my appreciation to the chairman of the full committee on natural resources, mr. rahall and the ranking member, doc hastings, for bringing this legislation to the floor today. mr. speaker, as been stated here this afternoon, h.r. 118 seeks to authorize the addition of 100 acres to morristown national historic park in my congressional district in new jersey. morristown national historic park, our nation's oldest national historic park, has a rich historical significance beginning with washington's encampment there both in 1777 and 1779 and 1780. new jersey was quite literally the crossroads of the american revolution. as america struggle -- america's struggle for independence was won and, yes, nearly lost there. during

jersey, which was one of the signs of american corruption -- participated in sex parties in new jersey, which was one of the sense of american content -- corruption in the eyes of his investigators. because identify primarily as being greek and because i live in the region and also because one of my interrogators spoke arabic, we kept off on a more serious discussions on the west. quite frankly, i explained to them, for me, america had been insane when i moved there in 2007. i really cannot fill in to much, and certainly had not been anywhere close to new jersey. the fascinating thing that came out again and again after we got to the nitty gritty of intelligence questions -- who did you know you have been here? where did you go? what jennie's did you take a broad? and so on. we got into a more philosophical plan. we started talking about neoliberalism and the great threat that it poses in their eyes. we started talking about the concept of westernization, which was coined in the 1960's, at least in its current form, and which had to do with the idea that the cultural influence of the w

scott garrett is a republican from new jersey. the house began debate last night on the democratic leadership bill that would let's begin with a call from san bernardino, california. stephanie, democratic line. caller: thank you. republicans worked with democrats when republicans were in the majority because of the pharmaceutical billÑi. i believe that the tax-cut issue, top earners are not paying their fair share. host: top earners not paying their fair share. guest: first and foremost, your question before was what is our solution to the problems? one of the solutions was tax cut across the board. we would suggest that everyone would be better offñxi if they right now. about where she wouldñr want to keep and spend her money. we would try to allow her to be in the driver's seat on spending. Ñihost: we began the program ths morning talking about kenneth feinberg, talking about a cap of $500,000 on firms that receive government money. what do you think of that idea? guest: in general i am opposed to the government stepping in

( click, click, click ) >> larry: joining us now is thomas kean, the former governor of new jersey who served as chairman of the 9/11 commission. thomas kean, it's always great to see you with us. what do you make of the president's comments that this is a mix of human and systemic failures? >> i suspect the president's right. and the president has taken the right attitude. this is something that's got be fixed. i know we are going to search for who created the problems and what they are. the main problem is let's fix them and let's move on. >> larry: the "washington times" quotes the homeland security officials have good intentions, but that they lack passion and urgency. he things homeland security has not riz on the the priority level it needs to achieve. agree or disagree? >> as usual, lee hamilton's right. there's a lot of problems on the president's plate. we've been dealing, as you know, with health care and finances and global warming and all very important problems, but the most important problem in the world is keeping the american people safe. and this has always got to be a

. >> matt: inside they go and the first pass coat of the basketball to new jersey. >> daymeon: a guy who is taking advantage early in the year and, of course, that. >> the three-pointer to get auburn on the board. auburn 8 of 31. knocks down the threes tonight. speaking of threes, zeglinski can really knock them down. landesberg. that that is his first basket and a foul on the play on all vance. a chance to go to the line for a chance at the old fashioned three-point play. >> daymeon: virginia tried to spot out the mismatches from landesberg. landesberg is a tough guard. when you look at auburn, i'm such coach he saw that auburn's guards are smaller. sullivan, reed and waller. 6'2" and 63. landesberg will have an opportunity to post up just like you saw on the last play. >> matt: landesberg with his first three points of the ballgame. reed splits the defense. gives it to hargrove. jeff lebo says reed and hargrove have to have big games for auburn to have a chance to win. back iran and the rebound is pulled down by landesberg. he will force it up the floor. landesberg working against

medical center in new jersey. cat lin of white house station who shared her personal story of being diagnosed in her 40's with breast cancer. i strongly oppose the task force recommendations against yearly screening in women 40 to 49. my mother died of breast cancer when my twin brother and which is it. her cancer was diagnosed when she was 47. most disappointing about the task force conclusions is the fact that they come on the heels of a fall 2009 report published by the american cancer society indicating a large decline in breast cancer deaths in women under 50. breast cancer continues to be the most common form of cancer in women. we should be promoting a federal health policy of encouraging not discouraging mammography screening and self-examination for women 40 to 49 years of age. thank you. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentlewoman from california. mrs. capps: mr. speaker, i'm now pleased to yield to our colleague from pe

host: phillipsburg, new jersey. rich, go ahead. caller: how come you do not have people like jesse ventura on every day? he speaks the truth. he knows more than these two guys. what are you talking about 9/11? all these people walking around, they should be in jail. something stinks. no one talks about it. these people are human beings. torture is wrong. it violates the geneva convention. host: thank you. guest: i would like to go back to the previous caller. it was an interesting point that you made. it is barack obama's impact going to be felt this decade or next? i think perhaps the next one, but i do not want to get caught up in that oslo feeling. he won the election, made some tough decisions in afghanistan, and began a tough fight of health care. the fruits of this will be next year and beyond. george bush left approval ratings in the low 30's. at this time of year, his numbers were probably around 70. so it is all in front of us for president obama, and we have to remember that. we need to take a deep breath with these polls

garrett: the gentleman from new jersey is recognized. mr. garrett: i thank the chair and the gentleman from texas. just to go back to the comment. one is the solution, the gentleman from texas said, here is our solution and i leave a copy here in case he hasn't had the opportunity to read it. it is by size a lot less than what you have before you. the gentleman from north carolina also asked about our studies and where we say it's this will hurt jobs and millions of jobs lors. before we implement this. my question to the gentleman is, before we pass this legislation today and implement it and impose this burden onto the american business sector and the american public in general, can you tell me which study you're referring to that it will not cost a loss of jobs . mr. watt: if the gentleman would yield. i haven't referred to any study because i didn't say it would cost jobs or increase or decrease jobs. mr. garrett: reclaiming my time and there's the point. we have this 1,300-page bill that i would guess that the vast majority of this body

their troops had overarm long island, new york, westchester and most of new jersey. thousands of american troops had deserted and the british chased the remnants of washington's army across new jersey over the delaware and into pennsylvania. redcoats were in sight of the american capital philadelphia. congress fled to baltimore and began debating terms of capitulation to the british. the war was over. unless washington could come up with a miracle, and he chose a young college student, lieutenant general james monroe, to help make a miracle happened. they all crossed the delaware during a blinding snowstorm on christmas night only six months after we had declared independence. in trenton 3,000 haitian mercenaries had spent the evening celebrating, and because the snow storm they went to sleep without posting centuries. at dawn the next morning monroe and his squad sneak up to the cannon emplacements at king street in trenton, the main street washington would have to come up with his troops to capture the town. a haitian soldier happened to step outside to do you know

lastly, the faa has taken major aerospace redesign in new jersey and new york -- airspace redesign. this has raised safety concerns. it increased -- it could increase the noise levels over many parts of new jersey. in 2007, the faa dismissed the noise problem. we cannot say in good conscience that the quality of life and issues affecting hundreds of thousands of people should be considered a redesign sacrifice. there is also concerned about living in the path of an airport. can we count on you to do that? and also, are you willing to hold a town hall meeting in new jersey to address the safety and noise concerns regarding aerospace design projects? >> yes, sir. i indicated in the past that i think one of the areas that we have not done well is when we talk about airspace redesign, people immediately focus on newly dotted lines that could not go over the area in which they live. we talk about their design, we have a couple of things. we have a new contract with the air traffic controllers association. we are making efforts to having much better dialogue and ability to communicate the

they have a base in virginia and the case in new jersey so if someone took an assignment in new york then they would commit on their own airline or in a variety of ways. long-distance commuting is something a little different. but no, it does not count and pilots, we have depended on professionalism. i committed myself for five years. i committed to new york. it was available there and not available there. >> i'm not questioning any bodies professionalism and understand the issue of moving-- living away from home. all of us do that here but i would tell you flying back and forth even halfway across the country every week is hard work. it is tiring, it is exhausting. you starts the week and you feel like you haven't had a break. adjusted our own experience, and i am not flying the airplane. i am sitting in the back catching a cat nap. that can't be a good thing. and i appreciate what i'm suggesting here probably turns the system of sight down but if you show up tired, you can't fix that until you get some rest. >> that is correct in their role as it is stated today and perhaps it is i

the state of new jersey denied me. host: you are opposed because you've had experience with government healthcare? caller: correct. the drug i needed was not approved for this specific treatment. the treatment failed. my wife went to work and got private health insurance. i went back on the treatment through the healthcare company, private healthcare. not only did they pay for the treatment on a preexisting condition, when the same thing happened and i needed a second drug, which is expensive, no problem. no questions asked. supplied the drug to me where the state of new jersey didn't. host: thank you for that personal story. those of you who have followed this healthcare debate over the past year, you can find everything c-span has covered on our website at c-span.org. we have a place called our healthcare hub. you can find all the hearings and all the senator speaking. all the different interest groups spoken out about healthcare. you can find it all on our healthcare hub. vice president biden is leaving the senate.

jersey but go to school in delaware, new york, pennsylvania and washington, d.c.? that may not be worth your energy. it may be the kind of thing, may be worth your energy, more cost efficient than you think if you get a list of them. look at state law, figure out if it trace additional absentee got to be sick or infirmed or living out of state or military something like that you want to though from the secretary of state when is last date they can get that stuff in so you can get a big file. you get biggest possible bang your buck. then maybe you phone calls and direct mail to them in way they get it. now you can do e-mail pens, get someone's actual information and send it out to vendor and get bunch of e-mail addresses to send them an e-mail. think of ways to contact them. maybe something specific. maybe a candidate is veteran, there are bunch of people and bunch of people, military people are voting absent tee. that can be really important voting bloc for you. so you will have to do, all this is resource allocation question. how much money you have. how many vote

princeton new jersey, richard on the democrats' line. you're favorite book to those in line, non-fiction. >> caller: thank you. thank you for c-span. richard dawkins, the greatest show on earth, the evidence for evolution. i'm just amazed people are calling and citing the bible as a nonfiction book. >> host: thanks for your call. he also wrote the god delusion. one of the book that we covered, the invention of error to the quote air early this year and that is stephen johnson's book. here's a look at his comments in the book reading. >> i stumbled across this story about joseph priestley and i had known a little bit about priestly like most people i think i had heard of him as the guy that discovered oxygen for the first time. and for those of you that no story and have had a chance to look at the book while that is his reputation is a little strange because he didn't actually do first and he kind of got it wrong in fundamental ways when he did do it but for some reason that is the line that has kind of stuck with him and that is the fir

lastly, the faa has taken major aerospace redesign and -- in the new jersey, new york, philadelphia region. the major overhaul of flight patterns has raised safety concerns from controllers and could increase the noise levels over many parts of new jersey. in 2007, the faa dismissed the noise problem, at best, as a side issue. we cannot say in good conscience that the quality of life issues affecting hundreds of thousands of new jerseyans should be considered in the redesign process. there is also concerned about living in the path of the glide platpath of an airport or take . can we count on you to do that, and also, will in this to hold a town hall meeting in new jersey to address the safety and noise concern regarding aerospace design projects? >> yes, sir. i have indicated in the past -- i think one of the areas that we have not done well is when we talk about airspace redesign, people immediately focus on some new daughter of lines that did not used to go over the area in -- some new dotted lines that did not use to go over the area in which they live. we have a new contract with the

is it the new jersey race or is it sarah palin? i mean, there's a process that has to be gone through here to where republicans decide and republican voters decide what is the way back. and i don't know that that's been decided yet. >> let me respond to that. i know clearly for myself, i do very much believe it is in the mode of bob mcdonald. and i don't think it's necessarily so clear-cut that we could be one of the other. because if you look at bob mcdonald and what he stood for and his record in our general assembly, he was extraordinarily conservative in all issues. it wasn't that he shied away from any of the conservative principles he briefed in, but he focused those principles of free markets, of limited government, lower taxes, faith in god he focused those on the kitchen table issues that were plaguing voters and began to represent a leader that could actually deliver some results and get people back to work. >> that brought up a problem which, again, i think is a trends not just in this country, that there is now a kind o

host: trenton, new jersey, independent line. caller: i have two things to say about this health-care thing. i do not think we will ever get a bill of health care program in america. everybody is all about themselves. democrats have 60 people and the senate and they cannot give the health care bill done. it is a tragedy. host: let's hear from a republican. tennis in new orleans -- kenneth in new orleans. caller: in the democrats. i'm disappointed that the joe lieberman was campaigning with mccain. he should have been dismissed move d republicans than. i am the person who wants the public option we did not get that. now we're in a bad situation with joseph lieberman being a stick in the mode. in my opinion, he is not even worthy of watering the plants on capitol hill. host: you may be interested in the front page of "the new york times" this morning. host: merrill lyrhonda of the '' line. caller: i want to remind people of one thing. there are americans who work every day who cannot afford health care. there are small businesses t

host: next up is hamilton, new jersey, line for independen ts. caller: like the gentleman just said about funding water on the moon and the opportunities -- it seems like a lot of the things we're finding out in the last for five years, the opportunities lasted well beyond what the plant expeditions were -- planned expeditions' war. if you had a questionnaire asked how many people would be interested in going back to the moon, he would probably have people lined up around the corner. thank you. guest: thank you for your call. again, water, the discovery, like many they made on the moon -- how it will play out, it is hard to say. water is an important finding, but one the things i learned in the film -- one of the things i learned in the film is throughout the space race of the 1960's, the public was so enthralled with it. the support of the program, they believed in it, they were energized by it, they were believers and were proud of it. we know the water is there, but i think to capitalize on it, to find someone to say, "ok, how do we now use th

the state of new jersey denied me. host: you are opposed because you've had experience with government healthcare? caller: correct. the drug i needed was not approved for this specific treatment. the treatment failed. my wife went to work and got private health insurance. i went back on the treatment through the healthcare company, private healthcare. not only did they pay for the treatment on a preexisting condition, when the same thing happened and i needed a second drug, which is expensive, no problem. no questions asked. supplied the drug to me where the state of new jersey didn't. host: thank you for that personal story. those of you who have followed this healthcare debate over the past year, you can find everything c-span has covered on our website at c-span.org. we have a place called our healthcare hub. you can find all the hearings and all the senator speaking. all the different interest groups spoken out about healthcare. you can find it all on our healthcare hub. vice president biden is leaving the senate.

except new jersey which did it by accident. because the british were overrunning new jersey in 1776, so they wrote the constitution very quick, and they forgot to leave women out. [laughter] and they fixed that when they were able to. and so the cement had hardened by 1782, and the wall was there, and so women had been left out. so this is actually a problem for an author or because people don't want to hear sad stories. but i have, this is a sad story that she actually became less optimistic. she kept advocating women's rights, but, but i think i am persuaded that my pet theory was exactly the opposite of the truth, that she actually became less optimistic. but the story doesn't end there, and i'll ask you to flip over to the back side of that same sheet. and have a look at abigail adams' will. when i was writing this book, i came to the year 1816 which is two years before her death and ten years before her husband's death and came upon her will in the microfilm, and most of the biographers when they get to the will, okay, des

i know that kansas is not new jersey. neither is utah. and new jersey is not kansas or utah, just to pick three states. you can do that with any states. but we know one thing, that if we follow the principles of federalism -- and that's what we did in chip. and chip worked well by anybody's measure. if we follow the principles of federalism, we would be able to look and pick and choose from the various states what works and what doesn't. you'd have the usual, usually big democrat states that probably wouldn't function no matter what you do. even they would benefit. even they would benefit from looking at the other states and saying will that work in our state? frankly, that's what made this country great. there are friends on the other side who just don't agree with me on that, but there are friends over there who do agree with me on that. as you can see, getting 70, 80 votes on the chip bill. and there are other bills put through by unanimous consent that -- because people recognized they were well-intentioned, well-written, had bipartis

also, here is the new jersey paper this morning. they have a graphic here showing 41% of the world's population seeing climate change as a serious threat. good morning, rufus, in north carolina. caller: i think some form of this is a good idea, anything except for those 2000 page or more monstrosities. they have a pretty good federal program and i don't see what they can clean that and the medicare and medicaid programs up. get rid of some waste. just one little example that i'm familiar with, medicare will rent a wheelchair for a patient for up to one year at about $150 per month and set of just buying a wheelchair for about $300 and giving it to the patient. such as that. i know that many of us believe that some of these medical programs are favored-giving programs. you have to know someone to get these programs and you get rich. some of the stuff they do is completely a regis. host: minnesota, edie. good morning? caller: hello. host: i'm sorry -- eddie. caller: i would like to see medicare for everybody. if everybody got on it fo