you'll see ruth's steak house founded by ruth for tile in new orleans. his husband was one of the 12 candidate and more a gorilla suit at every appearance because his only link in this platform is having a gorilla for the ogden park zoo. [applause] so i went to every precinct chairman and every war leader and every bar and every part of the city and i said tell me how your briefing is going to go. give me a your percentages and will figure it out. a letter. after everyone of them and i said just sort of taking a flyer in my column before the race happened. here's how it's going to turn out. here's the order they're going to finish deniers the percentages they're going to get. well, it turned out partly out of luck and partly out of smart while these precinct captain to be just right. so they are counting this just as does this guy's trying to recruit people to go to "time" magazine. i went home and told my mother i was asked to go to "time" magazine or the cia. she had a strong opinion. i ended up going to "time" magazine. pray before i left i went my ve

the last trip we took, we rented a boat in missouri and went down in new orleans. while i was at "time" is where i really got bitten by the motion of -- by the notion of covering people and also the possibility of writing books. otto friedrich was my editor. he was totally and always and constantly amused by himself. he would just walk around sort of smiling. and he wrote books on the side. i said, i get it. this is really cool. a weekly magazine so we can sit here and write books four days a week and write the article on friday. it's like college, you figure out the key to all things. and so i had been put on the reagan campaign in 1980. and i kind of noticed that at rallies we went to, on the fringes of the rallies, there were always these people handing out leaflets and pamphlets that talked about the establishment, and the elite, and the -- it was always the tri-lateral commission and the council or foreign relations and the east coast establishment with the rockefellers and everybody else was totally controlling everything. i was totally baffled by this, but o

he would go through mobile, alabama over to new orleans. on the rear front seat of that bus was one white male, jim, and one black male sitting right behind the driver. no problems here in nashville. no problem in tennessee but as soon as they crossed into alabama that was a different story. the bus was stopped on the north side of birmingham. the two were arrested. then the bus went on. as i said they had regular passengers. they went on to birmingham, got to the station and the police said i want everybody to stay on the bus. we are going to check your tickets. and if you had a ticket that had all those cities the made you stay on. i'm going to skip a little bit. that was on a tuesday i believe. on that late friday night, cotter said i'm going to take you back to fix where he belonged. they got in a limousine and came back as far as the tennessee alabama state line at ardmore about one or 2:00 in the morning. they found a phone, called national and for a station wagon, drove back and picked them up and took them back to birmingham. now yo

çgreater new orleans, 668. physicians, 617. psychiatrists in new orleans, 196. number of doctors participating in medicaid, 400. when you go to the orange, two years after the storm, you think you would be sort of well on your way to recovery two years after the storm. we are going into the fourth year. but in 2007, instead of having 350 psychiatric beds we had 77. instead of 617 physicians in new orleans we had 140. instead of 196 psychiatrists we had 22. and instead of 400 doctors participating in medicaid we had 100. just this one chart shows there is something terribly wrong with the system of support at either the state and federal level for shoring up the core of mental health stability in a community. it is one thing to talk about, you don't have access to medal -- mental health the to lack of funding. if you don't have the professionals to deliver the services you can start with this chart and work backwards. you don't have enough physical beds, you don't have enough professionals. this is two years after the storm when you would think that people would

i said yesterday and this is the last leg i will say, yesterday, we were in new orleans and went to a place called cafe reconcile and that is where you have dropped training, life skills being taught, we are talking about individuals who have some of the toughest stories will ever hear but they see a new way "-- wait for themselves. they are working with faith- based organizations. they are being hired out of the training program they are in to work in the hospitality sector which is coming back and starting to try again in new orleans. those are the kind of programs we see all across the nation that with more help, they can provide some of the solutions to our biggest challenges. >> you talk about the kennedy service act which was a great first bill passed in the obama administration. that provides a great opportunity for new types of service corps. do you see that as something the administration wants to pursue as new corps that people can go in and join? if you want to be a doctor for america or the engineer, you can go in these service corps. >> the service america act provides th

acorn is based out of new orleans. there is an allegation of fraud in several different areas, particularly involving taxpayer money, which is what we are principally interested in. and the public nature of this has been very helpful to us through the committees here. we have seen a lot of information and witnesses have come forth. you have been a great help enlighten us on a lot of different issues to help us narrow bands -- the focus of our investigation. it is important to point out that as to the financial fraud, it was those people who brought this forward. it is not a democrat or republican issue. you put people in jail -- the justice not ask them if they are democratic -- democrat or republican. this is important to everybody and since this occurred in louisiana, a legion -- a louisiana agency would be remiss to sit on their hands and not do anything about it. that is why our office is involved in particular. i did want to point out that it was covered in the media that we executed a search warrant on the acorn

rondeno, a native of new orleans, louisiana, lived and worked at the usps uptown station in new orleans. he was known as a dedicated, charismatic, and beloved letter carrier. survivors include his wife, shirley, and sons richard of houston, ryan of los angeles, and roy junior. mr. rondeno's accident and subsequent death came as a complete shock to those whom he loyally and lovingly served for and with during the past 37 years. the emergence and community members whom he served established a donation fund in his honor and organized a block party to raise funds for his family. shortly thereafter the community members and louisiana district postal employees asked that we dedicate this post office in his honor. according to "the times-picayune," those whom mr. rondeno served said they formed a close bont with him and described him as a happy man with a kind word for everyone and a dutiful postman who introduced himself to new residents. never delivered junk mail addressed to previous tenants and would stand outside in pouring rain to deliver even the smallest package. as one constituent, su

. >> in new orleans right now, it is a lot easier to get a gun than an instrument. five, six, seven, eight. the vision i had would actually teach them discipline, unity. >> sir tabb is a good role model to follow after. >> you all did that good. that sound good. i stepped in and started this program because i honestly didn't think that nobody knew what the kids needed. >> ah! >> you almost got it. i felt i was the best man for the job, because i'm a big old kid. >> a lot of people don't have money to put their child in a program like this. and for it to be free is a good thing. ♪ >> a lot of people say that new orleans don't have any hope. i had all this in my head just to help kids. you have some kind of hope. you could do this. you know? and i could help you do this. to me, this program is hope. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome cnn hero derrick tabb. ♪ >> first of all, it is a true honor to be here amongst all these great heroes. i started my program, the roots of music, basically to take kids off the street. it was inspired by mr. donald richardson, my

so the farmers west of the appalachians could float their grain doubt the mississippi to new orleans for shipment overseas markets. instead of buying an island, monroe borrowed 6 million more dollars from an english bank on his own signature and doubled the size of the nation, by an almost 1 million acres, the largest territory ever acquired by any nation in history from another peacefully without war. 1 million acres, and at a bargain price of 2 cents an acre. even in those days the average price for wilderness, land was $2 an acre. the louisiana purchase stretched the nation's boundaries to the rocky mountains and gave ownership of the great mississippi river valley. it was monroe, not jefferson, who engineered the louisiana purchase, and as president, jefferson took credit for the deal of course, but he in fact almost canceled it as you will see in my book. he had to be talked out of canceling the deal. she thought it was unconstitutional, and it was, for the u.s. government to buy foreign territory. now, while james monroe was in paris by louisianan at a bargain, elizabeth monroe

acorn is based out of new orleans. there is an allegation of fraud in several different areas, particularly involving taxpayer money, which is what we are principally interested in. and the public nature of this has been very helpful to us through the committees here. we have seen a lot of information and witnesses have come forth. you have been a great help enlighten us on a lot of different issues to help us narrow bands -- the focus of our investigation. it is important to point out that as to the financial fraud, it was those people who brought this forward. it is not a democrat or republican issue. you put people in jail -- the justice not ask them if they are democratic -- democrat or republican. this is important to everybody and since this occurred in louisiana, a legion -- a louisiana agency would be remiss to sit on their hands and not do anything about it. that is why our office is involved in particular. i did want to point out that it was covered in the media that we executed a search warrant on the acorn

and of course, also having better levees around new orleans that if we wanted to have helped new orleans, should we have increased their levees or should we had done the kyoto protocol? is obvious we should have increased their levees that we should do and we'll get back to that, do something about climate change and the long run. if one could have a sensible conversation we need to ask which of these two should we first change. should we do something very hard with a slight bit of climate change are sure we do some things that are actually very cheap about the huge social impact. again, it's about starting to think not about not just what feels good on what is the general consensus of the discussion right now. it's about making sure that we do the things that would do the most good into the future. that may just take the last one, the malaria issue. and also say yes, with climate change we're likely to see increases in military around the world. because molly is weekly related to temperature increase. but we also have got to remember that mueller is by far the more importantly related t

my mother-in-law came from new orleans. i know a little something about the kind of women that city can produce. and if i can put it in the vernacular, they're not the kind of women to be trifled with, and in her first year on the job, lisa jackson has made that point vivid live clear. -- vividly clear. to those who would sully our soil, spoil our waters or pollute our air, the message has been clear, don't even think about it. lisa is watching. it wasn't all that long ago that things weren't like that in this country. just 40 years ago, there was no epa, the federal government was not organized in a way that it could take on the polluters who threatened our waters and lands. and so the e epa was formed in 1970 to begin to take on that role. that was the same year it happened that a group of environmental lawyers shared office space in new york city and that was the beginning of the natural resources defense council. like the epa, the nrdc is dedicated to policies grounded in sound science, the rule of law and the public in

games at new orleans and at washington. phil: that will be washington's super bowl this year, so you know that will be tough. especially if the cowboys have found a way to win next week, or if they're still in the playoff hunt. jim: washington with a win in oakland. they'll be 4-9. phil: oh, it's going to be a rough week here in dallas. but also, tony romo, jim. another solid game. played well. when the opportunity was there, he made the throws, made the plays. jim: a real statement too about what the chargers are up to right now. really hitting a stride, it seems. we brought the players in yesterday for the meetings, whether it was vincent jackson or philip rivers, ladainian tomlinson, they all said the same thing. this is the best team we've ever had here. phil: i think it's the way they feel about themselves, the way they're being coached. which we've said a few times. and i think all players -- you always hear defensive players say we want to be aggressive. but offensive players are the same. they want to be aggressive.

acorn is based out of new orleans. there is an allegation of fraud in several different areas, particularly involving taxpayer money, which is what we are principally interested in. and the public nature of this has been very helpful to us through the committees here. we have seen a lot of information and witnesses have come forth. you have been a great help enlighten us on a lot of different issues to help us narrow bands -- the focus of our investigation. it is important to point out that as to the financial fraud, it was those people who brought this forward. it is not a democrat or republican issue. you put people in jail -- the justice not ask them if they are democratic -- democrat or republican. this is important to everybody and since this occurred in louisiana, a legion -- a louisiana agency would be remiss to sit on their hands and not do anything about it. that is why our office is involved in particular. i did want to point out that it was covered in the media that we executed a search warrant on the acorn

orleans. this is just over one hour. >> good evening. i am barbara meter, one of the owners at politics and prose, and i know that we are going to have a good evening to light because this is the i think fourth time walter isaacson has been to politics and prose, and every time it has been an interesting evening. he was here for his biographies of kissinger, benjamin franklin and albert einstein. in the past he has been the chairman and ceo of cnn and managing editor of time and then i just actually read this this afternoon. in november the past month the couple of weeks ago he was nominated by president obama to be the chairman of the broadcasting board of governors, and that is a body that runs voice of america and radio free europe and other international broadcasts run by the government. in what i felt was an engaging introduction to american sketches, walter isaacson shares the drive he has had since his youth in new orleans to become a great writer. he was in a place where he was soaking

i said yesterday and this is the last leg i will say, yesterday, we were in new orleans and went to a place called cafe reconcile and that is where you have dropped training, life skills being taught, we are talking about individuals who have some of the toughest stories will ever hear but they see a new way "-- wait for themselves. they are working with faith- based organizations. they are being hired out of the training program they are in to work in the hospitality sector which is coming back and starting to try again in new orleans. those are the kind of programs we see all across the nation that with more help, they can provide some of the solutions to our biggest challenges. >> you talk about the kennedy service act which was a great first bill passed in the obama administration. that provides a great opportunity for new types of service corps. do you see that as something the administration wants to pursue as new corps that people can go in and join? if you want to be a doctor for america or the engineer, you can go in these service corps. >> the service america act provides th

today's statement is from a constituent of new orleans. michael writes, i believe finally it's been 40 or so years of hope and disappointment, much more disappointment. as i bask in the glow of another victory, i have let my heart believe that this could be the year. they have the spirit, talent and determination. they support one another. the success is not a process of stardom but a positive team. they lift up the whole community. we can all learn from them. long suffering, the story of the saints' past could be the story of our city government. our team has been transformed into bright shining stars. new orleans can share in that transformation. thank you, and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from north carolina arise? fok foxx mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent unanimous consent that today following legislative business and any special orders heretofore entered into, the following members may be permitted to address the house, revise and extend their remarks and include therein extraneous ma

jefferson landed awkwardly on his right near last year in new orleans. he had surgery 10 days later. he was gone for the season. he had 30 double doubles on the year. gilbert for the long 3, not there. a minnesota rebound. they lead by 3. this match is their largest advantage of the game. here is brew, left alone from 16 feet and he buries it. largest lead of the game for the timberwolves, 5 points. timberwolves will be at san antonio. it looks like brendan came in from out-of-bounds. it's minnesota's ball, 15 on the shot clock. >> phil: he realized he is very close to that baseline. he try to say establish both feet in. that was the question. >> steve: they evidently thought not. here is jefferson, good defense. nice shot. you said it that's how you start the third quarter often dictates how the quarter plays out. it's minnesota who starts the quarter in position fashion. they are on an 8-0 run in the last two and a half minutes that included the end of the second quarter >> steve: happy holidays and happy christmas as wizards left yesterday, christmas

and new orleans. also, check ouour roundup of all our rent coverage on the health care debate boton air and onli. you ll find reports on what the new legislation may an for you, the politic road ahead and at policy makers can learn from innovative mode in local communities arnd the nation. all that a more is on our website, newshour.pbsrg. >> brown: that's the newour for tonight. i'm jeffrey brn. >>arner: i'm margaret warner. we'll see you here and onlin have a ne christmas weekend. thank you and goodnight. majofunding for the pbs newshour iprovided by: >> what the worlneeds now is energy. the energy to get e economy hummg again. the ener to tackle challenges like climate change. what is that energy ca from an energy company? everyday, chron invests $62 million in people,n ideas-- seeking, tching, building. fueling growthround the world to move all ahead. thiss the power of human energy. chron. >> and by bnsf railway anmonsanto. anby toyota. the tional science foundation. supporting edution and resear

. >> suarez: one example of this is new orleans. hurricane katrina contaminated and shut down the municipal water system long after the storm had passed. but in places like haiti, contaminated water brings typhoid and even death. but as temperatures rise and climate zones shift, wont some places benefit as others suffer? sure, says jonathan patz-- the former soviet union will have a longer growing season, but he says losers will outnumber winners. >> a majority of agricultural areas will suffer, and the adverse effects will outweigh the beneficial effects. >> suarez: in developing nations, the increase in temperatures could affect the ability to be economically productive. as the world's poorest people try to work themselves out of poverty, the climates they live in are making it harder to work hard. dr. tord kjellstrom studies the effects of climate on work. >> and as the only way to protect your body from overheat and heatstroke, which may even kill you, is to actually slow down work. it means you are less efficient in the work yo

when the hospital is 70 miles northwest of new orleans and a two-hour drive from the gulf coast. hospitals are usually a place of refuge rather than the complex evacuation site, so the need to evacuate one or a whole city of hospitals has not been considered. in a catastrophe of katrina, one hospital did that by the back to getting 122 infants in hospitals in four days. working with our heroic colleagues in new orleans other unfathomable conditions, but one transferred mother or baby died. this remarkable achievement was result of dedication and hard work by thousands of people, not because of carefully crafted and effective planning. the chaos was overwhelming. black hawk helicopters brought men, women, and children day and night to our hospital. we transferred many patients to other facilities. but the most critical infants and women, remained at the hospital. we cared for twice the usual number of critically ill and delivered 150 babies from the affected areas been for several days there were 125 infants and our 82 in the last new dale intensive care units. we received and pro

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 that cannot afford to give their employees health care. all of this discussion between the egotistical politics that's going on -- i would like both republicans and democrats to remember that they're there to serve the american people. in the people who are the most vulnerable who do not have the lobbyists, the insurance companies, and the pharmaceutical companies to donate money to inf

in october of 1982, the conference of mayors, led by mayor dutch morrell, mayor of new orleans, led to the question of whether or not the federal government was responding to the demand that we had throughout our country at that time for emergency service, food, hunger and homelessness. and so it was that the mayor called for the united states conference of mayors to create a task force and to be the watchdog as well as the group of people that would work with the federal government to reach these goals. that was many presidents ago. some have been with us and some have not been with us. and so there's been some turbulence and confusion between the mayors and the federal government on this issue. but we are very pleased that today we have the government working with us. we have the obama administration with us today with people to come here and working night and day. we have a stimulus program that is out there. we have unemployment that's like a monster raging in our cities, but we know it would have been a hell of a lot worse if we had not had the stimulus moneys. so we'll talk about

and new orleans capitalizes with garrett hartley's 18-yard game winner to give the saints the improbable victory. now shaun suisham is on shaky ground despite hitting on 18 of 21 field goal attempts this year. but chic hernandez did confirm today that the 'skins will bring in a few kickers to work out tomorrow one of which is former terp and former redskin nick novak. he hit this game winner in 2006 against the cowboys. how could you forget. there could be a change in the running back rotation as well. quinton ganther is likely to get the start sunday against the raiders which clearly is news that may not please current starter rock cartwright. and we think quinton is a pretty good runner, finishes runs off a little bit better, you know. so, you just go with this, it's not what rock isn't doing, we think it's what quinton may be able to do for us that rock is not tony. so we'll just give him a chance. >> monday mornings quarterback is brought to you by could be could be. >> redskins quarterback jason campbell with a stellar performance yesterday, 367 passing yards, three tds, but then th

orleans. are you at liberty to tell us what documents they did not produce when they were specifically subpoenaed? >> well, we really to be honest with you didn't get that far. because we issued a subpoena. and this is all in the public record. because when they filed their motion for protective order we issued a subpoena for the accounting records. and we directed that to their accountant. the duponche firm. we heard back from them in written and oral correspondence. they said look we want to comply but our client is telling us to assert an accountant-client privilege. that's not under federal law. that's under state law. and so they filed a protective order. and as part of that protective order they put in a correspondence from acorn, the attorneys for acorn saying, well, we're going to comply with the federal subpoena but not with the state subpoena. and that caused concern, simply because with this amount and this type of massive investigation, i mean, if we have to litigate that before a

host: new orleans now. line for democrats. caller: sir, is it still time in the end of the this bill to use the nuclear option. i remember vaguely in the bush administration they never had 60 votes in republicans and i remember, dick cheney taking the seat and casting the vote to let the republicans pass several things. also i'd like to apologize for billy toezan from louisiana that has single-handedly destroyed far farm suitle. guest: nuclear option is come up in a series of debate. most recently on judicial nominees. it's an up simple majority to ram basically a question or bill, what have you, through. this is considered hard ball tactics in bad form and a chamber that values common ty and tradition. in this case they'd discussed this strategy in terms of passing part of the health overhaul through a process called reconciliation. not sure that's what the caller is talking about but they could have used budget rules to try to get part of this through rather than 60 votes. they have for strategy reasons decided to go with th

i know new orleans is very nice this time of year, but perhaps we ought to stay here and get this job done. mr. alexander: a couple nights ago -- i think it is important to reflecten the season we have here. a couple nights ago the senator from arizona gave an impressive speech in front of the capitol for lighting of the christmas tree. i mean, this is the christmas season coming up. two weeks from tomorrow, very important season. and the majority leader said it is important for us to all to stay -- you know, stay through christmas, if necessary, to debate this bill. we said, all right. that's what we'll do. we'll stay until new year's day, we'll stay until valentine's day. this is indeed an historic bill. we don't want to make an historic mistake because it affects our children, grandchildren, 17% of the economy, all 300 million americans. none of us have ever seen our constituents more involved in an issue than in this issue. so we're here ready to go to work. so i'm wondering, as i listen to the senator from arizona, not only do we not know what this bill is that we're supposed to

i'm jessica from new orleans, louisiana. senator, since the health care plan requires virtually every person to buy some type of insurance and a majority of the people in the united states cannot even afford insurance and are turned down by insurers, how exactly would the federal government aid the american people? >> guest: yeah. well, they would, they would increase taxes, take money out of, out of medicare and, number three, increase premiums. for other people in a way that brings in money, and i think it adds up to about $700 and some billion out of the total pot of money that's coming in, and that would be used to subsidize health insurance for people under 400% of poverty. so if you're under 400% of poverty, the lower the more money, the higher the less money. but under 400% of poverty you would get some help from the federal treasury to buy health insurance. >> another question in the back row. >> good morning, senator. my name is katie from san antonio, texas. my question is, in respect to the public option, does the

this is richard from new orleans. host: i'm sorry. go ahead, richard. caller: i'm so happy to see this bill pass. the gross amount of money that's in it for this much money to be thrown out or rejected. that alone tells you why these republicans are fighting so hard for this bill. their contribution also drop so dramatically but now the american people will get a fair shake because it has been ridiculous because of the preem yims. i woke up and saw the vote. i'm thrilled to death. thank you for taking my call. host: what else do you have for us. the senate did pass that extension, here is the reporting. the senate voted to raise the ceiling to $12.4, a massive increase. the political problem promised to address next year. 60-39 follows the health passage last week. the bill permits the treasury department. the senate will have to vote again on january 20th. obama must sign the measure into law to prevent the market-rattling, first-ever default. the government piled up a record $1.4 trillion sdef sit in 2009 to country a melt down it in financial markets

this is richard from new orleans. host: i'm sorry. go ahead, richard. caller: i'm so happy to see this bill pass. the gross amount of money that's in it for this much money to be thrown out or rejected. that alone tells you why these republicans are fighting so hard for this bill. their contribution also drop so dramatically but now the american people will get a fair shake because it has been ridiculous because of the preem yims. i woke up and saw the vote. i'm thrilled to death. thank you for taking my call. host: what else do you have for us. the senate did pass that extension, here is the reporting. the senate voted to raise the ceiling to $12.4, a massive increase. the political problem promised to address next year. 60-39 follows the health passage last week. the bill permits the treasury department. the senate will have to vote again on january 20th. obama must sign the measure into law to prevent the market-rattling, first-ever default. the government piled up a record $1.4 trillion sdef sit in 2009 to country a melt down it in financial markets

host: new orleans, good morning frank, a republican caller. caller: the meltdown happen a lot of people were saying that there was a lot of blame to be given to the individual person who was taking loans they could not afford a. but when you really look at it you also see that congress was to blame for asking for some of this legislation that could have restrained bankers. bankers were to blame because they did things they should not have. going forward, some bankers are saying that the government is asking them to make loans again to people who cannot pay. in the look of the context of business owners, small business -- does the data show there are small business owners who are qualified but still not getting loans? what does the data guest: show that is a good question. what the president says -- and i have not seen the data myself -- the president says there are small businesses better qualified for loans which can i get them because banks are too scared to land right now. that is a defensive posture that might be understandable, but the pr

this one is in new orleans. reggie bush in the house, sitting courtside. second quarter. will bynum. then bynum again to villenueva. pistons, 22 points, eight assists off the bench. skip to the fourth quarter. david west, nice move from the elbow. drives, jams with the left. hornets cut it to one. now they're up two, about a minute to go. chris paul to west. jumper. hornets rally. hornets win it 95-87. >>> another day, another record for martin brodeur. the latest for the soon to be hall of famer is a nod to longevity. he didn't have to do much wednesday. all he had to do was suit up and take the ice. he tied patrick roy, most games played in net. the number is 1,029. most in the regular season. there he is, marty brodeur with the canadiens in town. first period, devils on the power play. jamie langenbrunner going to cough it up. moen beats brodeur. habs take the lead. now tied at one, late third. brian rolston, patrik elias collects the garbage, and the devils win it 2-1. >>> senators playing without jason spezza, out eigsix to eig weeks. picard beats ryan miller. his th

i am from new orleans. we have been studying the criteria of a just war. categories include the benefits outweighing the sacrifice. in sending troops to afghanistan and iraq, do you believe the benefit outlays the sacrifice? guest: prior to nine such love and, i would have thought anything going on over there would not be worth our investment. -- prior to 9/11, i would have not got anything going on over there would be worth our investment. then i saw what happened in new york and washington d.c. and then i looked at the responsibility of the federal government to protect us. that is the number one responsibility of the federal government. if there are things going on in fort hood, or a terrorist arrested in denver, or last week and there were suspects arrested in minneapolis because they were shipping young people for terrorist activities someplace else in the world. it is a rude awakening that what happened on 9/11 could happen again in the united states. you have to stop terrorists organizations if they are killing americans. the federal government's re

orleans and then join me along with another for sec action at 8:00 eastern as the running utes of utah take on the l.s.u. tigers. l.s.u. trent johnson coming off a bad loss against xavier last night in cincinnati. bill: florida will play xavier here in gainesville. i believe it's in january, late january or early february. but that's another nonconference game that florida will have in the middle of the conference schedule. matt: of course, the gators have another nonconference game before kicking off their sec schedule against vanderbilt next saturday. they're going to play at n.c. state. boynton the steal and the push. mcclanahan could not hold on to it. bill: well, there's a look at the gators at 9-3 at n.c. state and then at vanderbilt to start the sec schedule and then their first home sec game, what a doozy that should be. number three kentucky here on january 12th. bill: that's a 9:00 game on espn that night. it will be a dandy. matt: wildcats at 14-0. up at the arena a couple of weeks ago, a snowy saturday. the place was packed to the rafters for austin p. that was all time win

host: the next caller is from new orleans, norman, an independent line. caller: i wish your previous caller would have been more specific. what0 the heck is he proud of? in nobel prize seems to beÑi achieved on e-bay these days. you have al gore and he has shown to be a complete fraud. you have this crowd -- this clown and he is a president who gets the nobel peace prize and immediately princess of an increase is wars. we live in a time -- prances off and increases wars. we live in a time when nobody has been held accountable for the financial mess we have gone in. these awards are just basically fascist type of dog and pony shows to placate the idiots who keep on following this dog and pony show and think is real. i have something to bewrayed c- span for hear of it. -- to be great c-span for hear a bit. thank you for the format for the callers that calling in, but with the two toxic topics that you refuse to be fair about -- one is the global warming. i have yet to see anyone come on here that is a skeptic of global warming. it is always pushing the cor

from new orleans is clipper, is clifford. democrat. caller: good morning. thanks for having me. major: what do you think? caller: iñ;think this is the biggest thing since tobacco was clasminkr cigarettes doesn't cause cancer. remember thbdñ host: what do you mean by that? caller: i mean during the bush administration do you know how much exxon and those companies were paying out to have scientists say that climate change was not real? they spent over $20 million in advertisement campaigns to create the myth that climate change did not exist. and now we're getting to the real heart of it. it's a black swan that we finally found out is not going anywhere. and we have to pay the piper. climate change is real. and we have to work on it now. it's not going anywhere. we know the economy's bad. but if we don't do it now, it will catch-up with us. host: pap, texas, jon, how important is the climate change in your view? caller: it's important. and i'm fearing that something is not going to happen because a lot of rich countries are entrenched but one of the main points was a lot of th

host: from emma -- new orleans, on our support line. caller: i support it, because i think everyone has forgotten the promise is that president obama -- the promises that president obama made everyone would $250,000 should be taxed. çói support it based on the fat that they should tax people who want that high-end insurance. the laborers, union workers, whatever, they should be excluded from that, and at the same time have an equivalent planned to that. why shouldn't they? these are the people that runs the nation -- the policemen, firemen, postmen, the everyday lippe c-sp-- every day labor. no, they should not be taxed but the $250,000 people, they should be taxed. they can afford it. host: are representative from california, republican, announced yesterday that he will not seek reelection, bringing to 13 the number of house republicans who are retiring or seeking other office. he said he was stepping down to spend more time with his family. his wife has been fighting ovarian cancer. right above that, the future of nasa, discussions

host: new orleans is next, independent line. caller: the vote to keep on appropriating money for it illegal mohrs is just more and more blatant example that we do not have a government, we have a criminal organization that represents the military industrial complex, and to hell with the people. this is plain as i can say it, plane as it can be. you bring up the operations of the cia -- the man brought up the operations of the cia. we should not even have a cia. the funding is coming from mostly that goal that was confiscated from the japanese up in the philippines. it was being investigated, and the three places that got hit on 9/11 were the three places that stored the information on this secret blacktops operation. i would ask for a new investigation -- new one -- i would ask for an investigation, a criminal investigation in 9/11, because the whole damn thing is based on a lie. guest: one of the things, on the 9/11 commission, they had a lot of resources and did a lot of hearings. i don't know if you read that report. it has b

host: terry is joining us, independent line from new orleans. caller: how are you? ok. nice to talk to you. i am a writer for examiner and let me tell you, i just wrote this piece today. in this and -- in the senate, special interests and lobbyists hijacked the health care plan that obama originally was looking for. to begin with, first of all, we don't have a health care option but most polls will show you that more than 50% of americans wanted a health care option -- health insurance option. what happened to that? special interest happened. there is a report, and you have probably seen it, the nearby the northwestern university noodled service and the tribune newspaper and center for responsive politics -- >> mcneil news service -- host: mcneil, that is out even now appeared caller: are they friends of yours? host: please go ahead, i understand your point. caller: that is not a word in english dictionary. they found 166 former aides of congressmen that are in congress and the senate right now are part of the lobbyist groups that shaping this health care legislation. w

among the projects placed in jeopardy by this deadline is the housing project in new orleans. it's one of the city's oldest and was once made up of 896 units. this site was slated for redevelopment with the same number of units to allow any resident who wished to return the opportunity to do so. additionally, this site would have had parks, support centers and homes for sale. now, it looks as though it will be in limbo because of party politics. i challenge my democrat colleagues to look low-income families in the eye and say that the decision that they made was best for hardworking families. low-income families along the fwuffle coast trying to survive the ravage of hurricane katrina and rita do not care about party politics. the only thing that they care about is, will i have affordable housing to shelter my children from the cold? we have to get beyond party politics to address the needs of american families. and i hope that we can correct the language in the tax extenders bill in order to address those who are in need along the gulf coast. thank you and i yield back the ba

the new orleans "times-picayune" details, louisiana has seven congressional districts so louisianans visiting recovery.gov, that's the website where all this stuff is posted, so there's great transparency and accountability, remember, this was the website the president and the vice president, joe biden, said, by golly, you're going to see it all, see it all out there. so louisianans visiting recovery.gov found themselves not just skeptical but truly puzzled to find money going to louisiana's eighth congressional district. there are not eight, just seven. and listed the 45th, the 14th, the 32nd and my favorite, oo. i don't know if that's oo 7 or -- i don't know. according to the director of communications for recovery.gov, it rely on self-reporting by stiplants of the money. this is oversight? this is transparency in i mean, this is a government that can't figure out who's going to the white house for dinner is spending your money and this is transparency, pounds that information from federal reporting.gov has been simply transferred to recovery.gov and no one checks to veryify its ac

host: new orleans now. line for democrats. caller: sir, is it still time in the end of the this bill to use the nuclear option. i remember vaguely in the bush administration they never had 60 votes in republicans and i remember, dick cheney taking the seat and casting the vote to let the republicans pass several things. also i'd like to apologize for billy toezan from louisiana that has single-handedly destroyed far farm suitle. guest: nuclear option is come up in a series of debate. most recently on judicial nominees. it's an up simple majority to ram basically a question or bill, what have you, through. this is considered hard ball tactics in bad form and a chamber that values common ty and tradition. in this case they'd discussed this strategy in terms of passing part of the health overhaul through a process called reconciliation. not sure that's what the caller is talking about but they could have used budget rules to try to get part of this through rather than 60 votes. they have for strategy reasons decided to go with th

we want to turn to the congressman from new orleans, louisiana, a member of the energy and commerce committee, congressman scalise. mr. scalise: i want to thank the gentleman from texas for yielding and the gentleman from georgia for opening up this discussion and of course what we're talking about and the reason why this is so important is that the world, many of the different world leaders are getting ready to meet in copenhagen, denmark, to start discussing a kyoto type two treaty, a treaty for many countries, including the united states, to literally change the way our entire manufacturing base operates and of course here in congress we've been debating the proposal by speaker pelosi and others to codify that type of treaty in the form of the cap and trade national energy tax. they're trying to bring a national energy tax to our country to tax businesses, to tax not only businesses but also individuals in their house hold electricity -- household electricity use and it's all in the name of stopping manmade global warming. and so of course what brings us to this debate that you're focusing

orleans. are you at liberty to tell us what documents they did not produce when they were specifically subpoenaed? >> well, we really to be honest with you didn't get that far. because we issued a subpoena. and this is all in the public record. because when they filed their motion for protective order we issued a subpoena for the accounting records. and we directed that to their accountant. the duponche firm. we heard back from them in written and oral correspondence. they said look we want to comply but our client is telling us to assert an accountant-client privilege. that's not under federal law. that's under state law. and so they filed a protective order. and as part of that protective order they put in a correspondence from acorn, the attorneys for acorn saying, well, we're going to comply with the federal subpoena but not with the state subpoena. and that caused concern, simply because with this amount and this type of massive investigation, i mean, if we have to litigate that before a

federal air marshals came to new orleans, louisiana, during hurricane katrina. federal air marshals have been called upon in time of disaster and answered the call. i think it's important to note as we stand on the floor of the house to present this legislation to enhance their training that we appreciate their service. we thank them for the sacrifice of their families as they travel internationally on behalf of the american people. with that, i i would ask my colleagues to support this very important bill and yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back. all time is expired. the question is, will the house suspend the rules and pass h.r. 3963. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 being in the aaffirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee rise? mr. cohen: mr. speaker, i ask that the house suspend the rules and pass house resol

the conference of mayors led by the mayor of new orleans, led a call for to question whether or not the federal government was responding to the demand that we had throughout our country for emergency service, food and hunger and homelessness. and so it was that a call for the united states conference of mayors to create a task force to be the watchdog as well as the group of people that would work with the federal government to reach these goals. that was many presidents ago. some have been with us and some have not been with us. and so there's been some turbulence and confusion between the mayors and the federal government on this issue. we are very pleased that today, we have a government working with us. we had the obama administration with us today, with people that have come here and are working night and day. we have a stimulus program that is out there. we have unemployment that is like a monster, raging in our cities. but we know that it would have been a hell of a lot worse if we had not had the stimulus money. so we will talk about that as we go forward. so we've got good new

orleans, but to president reagan's credit and duringhood administration and whatever tax decreases on however else it was achieved, i can assure you that the exact number are 16 million jobs. under president bush, george h.w., 2.5 million jobs. under bill clinton, 23.1 million jobs. under president bush, and my friend from texas' majority congress that at one point had the house, the senate and the presidency, under his administration, taking into consideration everything that he has talked about, three million jobs. one track record on record. now, what's needed here, heek, is some fair and -- mr. speaker, is some fair and straight forward accounting and not the offbudget stuff that i have heard here during the period of time that i'm here and that i heard from my colleague. what this bill will do and what this rule permits us to discuss is not offbudget kind of accounting, it's sort of like the same kind of offbudget accounting that wall street does, that my friends on the other side seem to think we should do, no, fair and straightforward accounting. my good friend from california

orleans is nice this time of year but perhaps maybe we ought to stay here and get this job done. >> a couple of nights ago, i think it is important to reflect on the season we have here. couple of nights ago the senator from arizona ghaith lenin's--- impressive speech for the lighting of the christmas tree. this is the christmas season coming up, two weeks tomorrow, it's very important season and the majority leader said it is important for us all to stay through christmas it necessary to debate this bill and the of said alright, that is what we will do. we will stay until new year's day, we will stand still valentine's day because this is an historic bill and we don't want to make a historic mistake because it affects our children, our grandchildren and 17% of the economy, all 300 million americans. none of this had ever seen their constituents more involved in an issue then in this issue, so we are here ready to go to work. so i'm wondering, as they listen to the senator from arizona not only do we not know what this bill is that we are supposed to enact by two weeks from today, o