virginia loses, the inside presence. their only inside presence in the season but they get a shooter. >> 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 h

virginia tech in 2004. johnnie lett an interesting story. a young man out of mobile, alabama. and signed with virginia coming out of high school and ended up going to ocaloosaual walburn college. and ended up with the cavaliers. >> matt: hargrove on the move. and the lay-up. hargrove the senior out of south carolina really counting on them to give them big things this year. he and reed will have to have big nights almost every ballgame. zeglinski. a long-range three. he dials it up. they have six points in the half, daymeon, and he has all of them on three-pointers. reed back the other way. the virginia a defense didn't get the payoff at the end of the reverse. jontel evans all the way. he had his shot blocked from behind by waller. nice. oh, and the block by sene. denied on his way to the hole. >> daymeon: you have to know where he is at. very good at blocking shots. also good for the other defenders for virginia. you can throw out more ball be sure when you have sene waiting in the back. >> matt: sene has

byrd of west virginia. on this actually very momentous day -- november 18, 2009 -- my dear friend and colleague becomes the longest-serving member of congress in the history of this nation. and on friday, he will celebrate a joyous birthday. we come together today as an institution to recognize that no senator in history has passed more votes or has been elected by his colleagues to more leadership position than robert c. byrd. no one else has signed enormous warmth, tremendous respect and the unwavering admiration that we all share for senator robert c. byrd. i am lucky every day to call senator byrd my friend, as i've been able to work with him in the senate for the last 25 years and for the preceding eight years when i was a governor. but most importantly and most powerfully, mr. president, senator byrd always makes me so very proud to be a west virginian. at our state capital in charleston, they're honoring senator byrd with a special celebration today, and the same is happening in cities and communitie

in virginia, check out 395 northbound. little volume here at duke but no major problems to the district. as we come up on 95, early risers heading northbound. no problems from dale city to 495. no major issues here. good morning, maryland. the outer loop. good news for you. 95 to georgia is looking good all the way to 270. back to you. >> thank you. >>> president obama says we must must act quickly because lives are at stake. the president stalked about -- talked about a flaw in the security system after the attempted bombing of a northwest airlines flight. >> when our government has information on a known extremist and that information is not shared, and acted upon as it should have been, so that this extremist boards a plane with dangerous explosives that could have cost nearly 300 lives a systemic failure has occurred. >> reporter: president obama said he has ordered reviews, which he hopes will reveal why there weren't any red flags when abdulmutallab boarded a plane. >>> one man who works at dulles airport and used to

nye from virginia. having visit add number of these homes, it is very apparent the health effects from this toxic dry wall. the sulfur there is pungent. just in the time i spent there i experienced some of the same symptoms, runny nose, itchy eyes, irritation of the lungs, a cough. that was just in the very short period of time of about two hours. can i only imagine what those families have to endure under those conditions and living in those homes. our hearts and minds and concerns go out to them. last week the consumer product safety commission released the results of their most recent study of 51 homes. there was a lot of effort to try to get the consumer product safety commission to do a study on this toxic dry wall. their study did not find anything now that is conclusive about the health effects of dry wall, but the consumer product safety commission did commit to continue the study. we all believe that just looking at 51 homes doesn't look at the full scope of this problem. this problem is in ove

i don't live in virginia. [laughter] i did not answer i am sorry to say but there's more of that and more on line. the industry itself notes that this is a big and important issue but at because there are so many, you can screen out which ones are not so good and which ones are fairly reliable. >> what about the independent voter equated with the agnostic or acs? how do these groups fit to into your thinking? a think they've been done on committed religious. >> right. if you look at the secular or those that are not attend ding had is not a situation where it is driven liberal or conservative necessarily make can find a lot of not attending liberals were church attending conservatives. i think there is this connection that than nonreligious the tender is defining for himself or herself for about and doing that in our country now we have seen a rise in the last 10 months of been dependents in terms of affiliation and that is due to the implosion of the republican party which is still a huge problem. if there is

like george washington, monroe craughwell in a modest virginia farm. after the war he decided against full-time farming. he went back to finish his education at the college of william and mary and studied law we under thomas jefferson. monroe then chose public service as a full-time career. the first american leader ever to do so. by the time he died, he had held more offices than any public figure in history. state legislator, congressman, ambassador to france, to britain, minister to spain, fourth term governor of his home state of virginia, u.s. secretary of state, secretary of war, and finally to term president of the united states, the fifth president. as governor of virginia he became the second most powerful figure in america. virginia than was america's largest, wealthiest and most heavily populated state with 20% of the american population. it stretched all the way to the mississippi river and all the way up north to the great lakes. it was enormous. and the prestige and importance of its governor was akin to the governors of california, illin

just prior to this last election in new jersey and virginia, there were survey reports done that said republicans are at an all-time low, 20%. in the exit polls we were at 33%. the surveys were saying -- that was one of the low points in terms of going back over time. republicans are down to 20%. that would be one of the most cataclysmic shifts in party identification the party has ever seen in its entire history. in terms of the country. a staggering shift. what that also -- a lot of democrats want to believe that. republicans are just hemorrhaging. if we had been at 20% as opposed to 33, not only could we not have won to virginia and new jersey, we should have been blown out in new jersey and

>> 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

virginia wins their sixth college cup championship. unbelievable. >>> back to basketball. a couple of other acc games this afternoon. wake forest had no probable with elan while clemson blew out fuhrman. >>> tune into "the final score" comes at you although 10:30 on most of these regional sports network. we have a good one going on as the rams of rhode island lead boston college at the half 33-25 the score. send it back out to chestnut hill after the break. enjoy the rest of the game. we'll see you for "the final score" tonight. oh! blue! time! time out. i touched it. i touched the ball before it went out, coach. come on, alex, the ref did not call that! you gotta be kidding me, alex! it's the championship game! talk to him, coach. i touched, it's their ball. don't foul them when they inbound. team on 'three.' one, two, three. nice going, alex. sorry coach. alex! good call. >>> the rhode island rams lead boston college 33-25. and akeem richmond, a perfect 3 for 3 from downtown with nine points to lead the way. more of the acura halftime report coming up. >>> rhode island l

in west virginia. that is a lot of students they would not sell that to them because this salesperson did not have it in his list. what ever. it was a lose louis. the school people were furious and they have a chip on their shoulders. we are not good enough? that is one of the frustrations of trying to bring through a new idea to have real books in the schools. i got an e-mail from an administrative it wanted to buy 1,000 copies price said i am sorry there out of print and last i heard she found 500 copies. she said there is no redouble u.s. history at high school level and easy to read with john indignity is and we're hoping to get it republished. >> host: will take a short break and issue a little piece from the pbs special free down. and all but zero of joy hakim reading or talking about a history of bus. then some of her favorite authors then we will be back live with of -- author joy hakim. >> it was sunny december 7, 1941. at the white house eleanor roosevelt preparing for a four will lunch with

is it bob mcdonnell and virginia? or is it sarah palin and 2012? there is a process where republicans have to decide what is the way back? >> i know for myself i very much believe is in the role of bob mcdonnell. i don't think it is so clear-cut we could do one or the other. if you look at what he stood for, he was very conservative on all issues. he focused his principles of free market and limited government on the kitchen table issues plaguing virginia voters and began to represent a leader that could deliver some results. >> there is a broader problem that is a trend with a disgruntled oppositionist right -- we have the uk independence party opposed to europe. australia has had the opposition conservative party just allis its leader for supporting climate change. we have one in italy and here we have glenn beck and rush limbaugh. it seems like there is a clear and turmoil on the right -- there is a clear turmoil. >> there are a lot of voices in both parties and there is a different motive in terms of those in the media than those of us who owe

that meant sending a boat up the atlantic coast to virginia and in virginia there was a telegram office that could reach washington, d.c.. and so, the note went to virginia and became a telegram and in the beginning of my book, ali quote sherman to lincoln. the telegram not surprisingly tells lincoln you have savanna for christmas. and i hadn't expected to write this book. he says to his excellency president lincoln washington, d.c. i beg to present you as a christmas gift the city of savannah. and as i said i hadn't expected to write this book. i was working on the soldier vote and so i was at a book signing for one of the books you see up there on the battle -- eleven days in december and one fellow came to the signing and said have you thought about writing the civil war? and by selling working on the civil war right now and explain why was doing. he said no i mean writing about the civil war and christmas. what do you mean? and he said lincoln as a telegram from sherman saying you have savanna for christmas. well, i took my research and turned it around, and i hope to have a book si

he is a member of the york and virginia historical societies. it for more information visit william hyland jr..com. >> every once in awhile to get the chance to talk to a children's author on booktv. and judy blumenauer is one of the more famous children's authors and she is joining us now while we are doing our show at the national book festival. judy blume why did you start writing? >> i started because i had so much creative energy, locked up inside me. and it was making me sick, i didn't know at that time but i was sick throughout my 20s and once i started to write off all my illnesses magically vanished. i do think that the creative child, i had a lot of outlets when i was in school and suddenly i didn't have this same. of balance or i didn't know that i did. i didn't know what to do. and once i started to write in i always have the stories inside my head and i let it out and it was cathartic and it was wonderful and it changed my life and to this day it continues to change my life. >> did you write when you were in school? >> never. 2i mea

the gentleman from virginia. mr. boucher: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. boucher: the bill before the house is the local community radio act of 2009. it was introduced by representatives doyle and terry and will provide additional opportunities to create new low-power f.m. radio stations by allowing their operation on third adjacent channels to the full powered radio stations. low-power stations, which are community based nonprofits that operate at 100 watts or less of power and have a broadcast reach typically of only a few miles play a unique role in our media. they are far more likely than their full-powered counterparts to be owned by women or minorities, and they're an important forum for local clergy, for institutions and for a wide array of community leaders to have a say on important local issues. . i commend radio broadcasters, significant stakeholders in this matter, as we have resolved the concerns of local public broadcasti

is it bob mcdonald in virginia? 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

the first campaign i ever ran was in a virginia. do you know where that is? my very nerdy family asked how you ended up in the south. halfway between d.c. and charleston, a strong community, a small town. people ask me where are you people from? detroit. detroit, virginia. never heard of that. high am running this campaign, 25 years old. i don't know of from down but i'm figuring out and we're getting beaten in the primary. i did her mother's back surgery, door to door. i don't care. let's go. anyway. a really nice guy but kind of moderate and pretty conservative in the republican primary and our opponents was a right wing w wackadood wackadoodle. he had his grassroots people who were totally organized. every day in the local paper there was a different letter about how he was going to raise taxes and none of this was true. he wasn't going to be a speaker even though he was pro-life and anti-tax. he was right on all the stuff but it wasn't his style. every day you would read the paper and we are getting the crap kicked out of us. some guy opens his door sobbi

five missing muslim men from virginia have been found and arrested in pakistan. the men are from the alexandria area. all in their early 20s. some members of the muslim community alerted authorities on suspicions that the men may have been planning terrorist attacks. joining us in washington, jeanne me serve, and the director of the council of islamic relations who has spoken to the families of the missing students. he's viewed a videotape left behind by one of the students. he said it disturbed him. and the former muslim chaplain at howard university. knows one of the students. he has spoken to the fbi. jeanne meserve, what do we know? >> we know there are five young men from northern virginia, between 19 and 25, all of them u.s. citizen. one of them a student at howard university. the parents became concerned about the young men's whereabouts. apparently they told the parents they were going to a conference. but when the parents tried to call them on the cell phones, they got a ring that sounded like they were overseas. they were concerned. they went to their r

berman: my colleague from virginia, the gentleman from virginia, mr. moran for unanimous consent. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for unanimous consent consent. mr. moran: i would like unanimous consent to insert my statement in the record at this point. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered.. who seeks recognition? the gentlelady from florida. ms. ros-lehtinen: i believe we have 40 seconds left, i'll be glad to use them at this time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady has 30 seconds. ms. ros-lehtinen: thank you. you can do a lot in that time. sanctions, when fully enforced, weaken oppressors and signal support for the opposition. they send a clear message to dissidents and those hungry for freedom that we stand with them. this will force the regime to use its resources to take care of the iranian people, something they have not done, instead of using its funding to develop nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them. support the iranian people, support peace and security, support this bill. i thank the gentlelady for the time. the s

host: here is virginia. your favorite book of 2009. caller: polite to say merry christmas. -- i would like to say merry christmas. everytime a recall, to read something new. it is new to me. pettitte every time i read, i read something new. jesus was born in december. i was a former for many years. in wintertime, we did not put our sheep on the side of the hills to graze. it might be something you might be interested in studying. host: over the last 11 years, c- span has covered some 9000 book events. one is the "ph of reagathe age a gan." . portsmouth, virginia. caller: good morning. this is one of my books. it is "how to prosecute george w. bush for murder." you can see extend the policies in this book and the prosecution to obama out because he is complicitous in continuing this illegal war in the host: i think that might have come out in 2008 or 2007. what are your reading? caller: hello. merry christmas. my favorite nonfiction book has been and always will be the bible. host: thank you. jim on our independent line. caller: good mo

welcome to virginia. ms. cyma zarghami, the president of nickelodeon, which my grandchildren watch a great deal. and the mtv and family group from new york, mr. james dyer, is that right? >> yes. >> i am terrified of names like that. the ceo of common sense media. sounds like a dangerous group. [laughter] from center cisco, california. >> i actually came from lake tahoe, my family vacation. it is very important to be here. >> do we have a chocolate chip cookies? we're joined by the good senator from alaska. you've got here too late to make your statement. don't you think? just barely missed it. he is absolutely terrific. he is 47 years old. first term, walks in here, does not use a note, everything occurs appear, he seems to know everything. and he is part of the new eagerness of this committee, which i want to make very clear to you. we are now eager committee. we have hired investigators, like henry waxman has. we look into dark corners. we want to know who is doing what. we love beating up on the insurance

virginia forced to have a balanced page. so he's looking at tough choices," for the republican governor, and yet on the federal level, we continue to raise the debt limit. explain the differences between virginia, new jersey, most other states, and what we see here in washington. many guest: right. most states have policies where they balance their budget on a regular basis. that's one of the reasons that we give money to the states. when they are unable to borrow, you want a little flexibility. that is why at the federal level, we don't have an annual balanced budget requirement, because what you really want is flexibility, where your government is borrowing during the downturns, or bad times, and saving when the money is good. so when the budget is good, we should be running government surpluses. in is no annual restriction at the federal level. unfortunately many of us are starting to think that it has been so abused in the way we are borrowing during the downturn. right now the federal government has more flexibility to

he was in virginia and had lost the iowa caucuses. he came on the phone to tell his mother, and she said that is all right, i am sure you work hard and it will get better. then she said, teddy, do you know that nice blue sweater i gave a christmas time? he said it was a turtle neck with a small pocket on the front that had been made in france. >> have you wanted? >> i am not sure i have worn it. is there something special about it? i just got the bill for it and it is $220. if you have not worn it, send it back, because i have another one here that has not been warned. -- has not been worn. >> everybody has put rose kennedy on a pedestal, but what he does here, his dad was the one that he truly loved as well. i am sure everybody told him he had to talk about his father and what he did during world war ii. he says he was too young to comprehend his father's attitudes. in some region of my mind, he remains internally and solely my dad. he shows that the father was the one who kissed him when he came home from school and made all his hom

david, norfolk, virginia, hi. caller: how are you doing? i really believe that we're in trouble, and the sooner we do things about global warming, the better. the biggest problem that i can -- that i believe is happening that i can see is overpopulation. and you've got these nitwits going around promoting population, like the catholic church with their anti-contra crept i was and all that jazz. that's our real problem is overpopulation, and yes, global warming is real. and we've got melting glashese and ice caps to prove it. and anybody who can't look at it and tell something's wrong is an idiot. host: roger in dallas. independent line, you're on c-span. caller: yes. the panic and the hi stairya that's being generated about global warming is at best based on unproven science and perhaps just even a pack of lies. we're going to ruin the u.s. economy just to satisfy the fears of people, when we -- when there's no proven science underneath it. i know that everybody says that it is proven. but it's not proven. we know that from the emails that

the presiding officer: the senator from virginia is recognized. mr. warner: thank you, mr. president. i want to thank my colleague, the senator from delaware, for his comments and his leadership on this issue. i want to also thank all of the fresh ph*erpb. this is, i think -- all the freshmen. this is, i think, the seventh time the freshmen have come to the floor on this issue. i think our colleagues have had to endure over 65 speeches from the freshmen on the subject of health care. before i get into my remarks, i want to personally thank senator baucus and senator dodd and the majority leader, and particularly their staffs for working with the 11 freshmen members who have come together to unveil a package of health care amendments around the issue of cost containment. we've been working on this for now close to three months. later today we'll have a formal press conference. let me say at the outset, i'm proud of the enormous broad-based support we're receiving for this package of amendments. we're going to be having a business round table come in an endorse the amendment

smith: i thank the gentleman from virginia, mr. goodlatte, the deputy ranking member of the judiciary committee, for yielding me time. madam chair woman, those who confront mortgage foreclosures are understandably in a difficult situation. but this bankruptcy amendment will only lead to a worse situation for everyone. the number one cause of foreclosures today is job loss. the number two cause is homes that are mortgaged for more than they are worth. sending these homeowners with these problems into chapter 13 ups bankruptcy will not solve at all. they don't have the income required that is required to file chapter 13 bankruptcy. and those should honor the mortgages for which they freely contracted. allowing bankruptcy courts to cram down mortgage principal will only lead to higher interest rates and tucker mortgage terms for all future homeowners. why should those that did nothing wrong have to pay that price? i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields. the gentleman from georgia is recognized. mr. marshall: i yield myself such

the same is true in virginia . they are due all of the respect a national park would be due. you think forward on those transmission lines that have to be built. make sure you are mitdepitting and compensating on the impact on those resources. >> thank you. our final witness is david jose, president and chief executive officer of the principal subsitry energy consumers. welcome. >> thank you. and thank you for announcing my name properly. >> i appreciate the opportunity to address the subcommittee this afternoon. we there for appreciate the difficulty in siting new transmission and new interstailt lines as a last resort. we see a need for transmissions in michigan. along the lake michigan shore line as part of the renewable standard. we believe the developments should meet three key commomon sense principals. number one, proposed project should be similar or superior to other alternatives including other transmission solutions, low voltage solutions. finally, costs ought to be fairly allocated to the beneficialries of the project as determined through the planning process. i

began to trickle into washington from virginia and other slave states. searching for their freedom. and that trickle became a flood with the emancipation proclamation of 1863. so thousands and thousands of slaves came to washington. they live here. they died here. they died in great numbers in the early years after the emancipation proclamation, because we were not prepared for the flood of refugees coming here. they didn't have any place to live. they didn't have anyplace to each. so the union army decided, let's build a place for them at arlington. so they build -- they established this here on the old lee plantation. as many as 1500 slaves came to live here in the spring of 1863. early 1864. and they stayed here one generation to the next generation to the next generation. three generations. the last slave, former slave left friedmans village in 1900. >> and so that's why they are very here amongst the soldiers, but that's way they say citizens? >> yes. it became a military cemetery, but there are also people who were not in the military. they were citizens. they were civilians,

the pakistani authorities they they were the young men from virginia. they say they tried to hook up with people in pakistan and were not successful. the u.s. officials are not going that far. the operating believe is that they were the young men but they cannot confirm it and at this point, no charges have been filed against anyone. >> do the parents know that the boys were going overseas? >> what i understand, they were concerned and there was a video left behind by one of the young men. it's its described, it was a disturbing video and there were hints in there that the young men were going some where. there were images of conflict and an exhortation that young muslims had to do something. and they suspected that pakistan was the final desation. that is why the state department reached out and informed pakistani authority they might be there. >> you have viewed the video, is that correct? >> yes,dy. >> larry: how did you obtain it? >> the families brought it with them in the presence of lawyers. >> larry: what disturbed you about it? >> it's almost l

the pakistani kids here in northern virginia didn't tell their parents. that tells you something right away. the community base of support in europe for this problem of radicalization is very different than here where the problem as i said exists on the margins and the parents actually turn them in or their pierce will turn them in. the process of becoming american is determinative and the more compelling force and the antidote to this radicalization and a sense of alienization. at the end of the day, what we have to do is more of what we do and do it better instead of less. >> the reason i asked the question, when you saw the recent incidents around the country, i was under the impression that europe is more susceptible and given what happened in the recent weeks and months, i started to question that. >> that's why i suggest if you look at each one and take them apart and see where the patterns are, the ft. hood is different than minneapolis. i would say that one of the things from somali experts and people in the community said since the withdrawal of

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 memberships as opposed to lower premiums, copayments and deductibles. let me read you some letters from my constituents. these are real lives being affected by the cuts contemplated in this bill. i'm going to have to get my reading glasses on. and you should see some of the beautiful handwriting. some of it is very shaky but beautiful, to me, anyway. from cedar city, utah. "senator hatch: i'm writing to you to request your help in preserving our medicare advantage plans from being cut. my medicare advantage plan provides me with benefits and servings that traditional medicare did not provide. i like my plan very m

in the western part of virginia, in montgomery county, virginia, which is different from montgomery county, maryland -- the supervisor chose two books, to adopt two books, mine and a standard textbook. he gave each school the opportunity to pick. half the schools went one way and have the other way. seven years later she gave them the same choice, and only one school chose the textbook. if you make the choice, then you are committed to it. when i was teaching here, i was asked to teach a subject i did not want to teach. i did not like the textbook. i agree to teach it if i could pick my own textbook, which i did. the text book i picked was terrible. i made a bad choice. but i had chosen it, and i was going to make it work. let teachers make that decision. don't force it on them curren. host: here is the fifth grade teacher who uses your books. he says, i am lucky to use her book, "freedom: a history of us", in my fifth grade classroom. the reason they worked so well is the quality of writing. joy is absolutely right about the poor quality professional development offered by school district

tiny chaminade university of hawaii, with an enrollment of 800 students, hosting powerful virginia, ranked number one and led by player of the year ralph sanchez. >> basketball players a tiny college in hawaii fliering high and with good reasons. >> chaminade actually pulled off one of the upsets of the entry, handling the nation's top ranked and previously undefeated virginia team. >>> legendary ohio state football coach woody hayes was famous for his temper. and in 1978 that temper proved costly. >> woody hayes has been fired as coach of ohio state because of what happened in the gator bowl last night. woody hayes punches clemson's charlesy bauman because bauman had the audacity of setting off an reefer pack. so eddie hayes is out after 28 years of coach of ohio state. >>> in 1982, the cal bears proved why teams should always keep fighting until the final whistle. >> the bears have to get out of bounds. roth areas long the sideline. another one. they are still in trouble midfield. the ball is still loose as they get it to rogers. they get it to the 30, down to the 20. all of the band is

we are not sure if virginia checked or not or if taxes dropped the ball. we do know that the public school in virginia was not aware with the situation. >> but we do not know if anybody checked. >> we do not no. >> i referred the case to beat virginia department of education on friday. they are investigating it. the committee will ultimately be informed about what happened. something broke down in the system, clearly. >> yes, clearly. i do not know if there is a system for that. if the texas registry was a public record, the question would be did you check with a person was last employed to see if there was anything on the record. i do not know if there is a system in place to do that. what is the point of the registered? >> they do ask your last job employment. >> i would assume you want to know where somebody came from. >> mr. killdee. can you suggest how the federal government could implement or impose a federal standard a lot were rigid relating to restraint. in the illinois system, would that be of some guidance? >> i certainly think it is worthy of a

pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from virginia, mr. boucher, and the gentleman from nebraska, mr. terry, will each control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from virginia. mr. boucher: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and insert extraneous material into the record. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. boucher: and, mr. speaker, i recognize for such time as he may consume, the chairman of the energy and commerce committee, the gentleman from california, mr. waxman. the speaker pro tempore: we would ask that conversations be removed from the floor so that we may proceed. the gentleman from california. mr. waxman: i rise in strong support of h.r. 1147, the local community radio act of 2009. and i want to thank chairman boucher for his leadership in guiding this bipartisan bill through the committee. i also want to recognize and thank mr. doyle and mr. terry, the original sponsors of the bill, for their efforts to expand diversity

this is a map of virginia and power outages. richmond, williamsberg, more towards fairfax and frederi fredericksburg. more outages. the airport is not closed but the runways at washington's national and dulles are not running because the snowfall has been coming down all day long. drew, back to you. >> plenty of this and more tonight at 10:00. we have the live coverage of current conditions on the bottom of your screen. but now stay tuned for more "larry king live." okay i'll hold. she's holding. wha? (announcer) progresso. you gotta taste this soup. it's not always easy living with copd, but i try not to let it hold me back... whether i'm at the batting cages... down by the lake or... fishing at the shore. i'm breathing better... with spiriva. announcer: spiriva is the only once-daily inhaled maintenance treatment for both forms of copd, which includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. i take it every day. it keeps my airways open... to help me breathe better all day long. and it's not a steroid. announcer: spiriva does not rep

host: next up is connie the in omar, west virginia. go i a head. caller: hello. host: hello. caller: hello. host: connie, what are your thoughts about what the president's domestic and/or foreign policies should be in 2010? caller: sir, i am really upset about these -- the congress, the way they are handling this. host: the way they are handling what? caller: all of the health insurances and think, like that and their doctors. an i sympathy we need to be free. i think people -- i think what's happening is people don't even realize it. but it's older people and people who have lived under communist rule and things. there's a communist rule. that's what i think. host: connie, how do you feel like your freedoms have been lost over the last couple of years? why do you feel like that? caller: well, because they are making all the decisions. the people are not making the decisions. we're having to thereon people that are listening to someone that is trying to say, oh, you have to take this or you're going to be fine, you're going to go to jail. host: who are they and what are they

sandra calvert -- here is my west virginia pride. you are considered an absolute master of the subject. the children's digital media center, you work in georgetown. i am thrilled that you are here. mr. john lawson the executive director of arlington, va. ms. cyma zarghami, the president of nickelodeon. my grandchildren what's that a great deal. we also have mr. james steyer. he is that ceo of common sense media. it sounds like a very dangerous group treat. [laughter] he is from san francisco. >> i came from lake tahoe. it is a very important hearing. >> we are joined by the good senator from alaska. he got here too late to make a statement. he just barely missed it. he is terrific. he is 47 years old, the mayor of anchorage. his first term, he walks in yohere and seems to know everything. he is part of the new eagerness of this committee. we are a different committee. we have hired investigators. we look into dark corners. we love of reading up on the insurance industry. we are very good at it. we do not want to have to do that on te

in the blue room is the official white house christmas tree, and 18 foot tall douglas fir from west virginia decorated with hundreds of ornaments designed by people and children all across the country, each one a reminder of the traditions we cherish as americans and the blessings we are thankful for this holiday season. >> that is right. we have parents without a job who have struggled to put things on the christmas tree, families and neighbors who have seen homes for clothes, and folks wondering what the new year will bring. but there is still so much to celebrate this christmas. a message of peace and brotherhood continuing to inspire more than two dozen years after jesus' birth, the love of family and friends. the bonds of communities. men and women who are far from home, risking their lives to protect hours. soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, and coast guard men, i have no greater honor than serving as your commander in chief. i have been altered by your eagerness to serve at the naval academy at west point. i have been energized by your dedication. we have been moved by your determina

virginia foxx. western north carol line. she was first elected in 2004. she won a multicandidate primary, both in a general and run i don't have and had a pretty competitive race in the general election. after she won the primary still had a lot of conservatives weren't happy with her partly because she had, believe it or not, supported equal rights amendments in the 1980s. partly because she had taken money from a gay and lesbian pac during her time in the legislature and she voted to allow some communities the right to impose taxes upon themselves if they were on option elections in the state legislature. she had some conservatives were not happy with her. but these were not issues we wanted to deal with in the general public. this is the first ad we ran for her in the fall election. i will let it run and talk a little more why we chose this and what worked for it. remember, this is 2004. >> i'm virginia foxx and i approved this message. i support president bush and our troops. it is a mistake to let anyone or any country doubt for a second that we will

post go here's jonesville, virginia on a republican line. your favorite book of 2009. >> caller: i'd like to say merry christmas to all the troops serving in the army. i appreciate them and my favorite book is the bible. and every time i read it i learn something new about it. so it's new to me in this time of year fori would like to say jesus was conceived in december and conceived in september. i was a farmer for many years and in the wintertime we didn't put our sheep out on the side of the hills to grace, we took entered the barn so that might be something you might be interested in studying there. post up a couple of the political books of the many and by the way over the last 11 years c-span has covered some 9000 book events. this year one of them in the age of reagan 1982 m-mike 1980 name by steven hayward. also looking back a couple of presidencies we covered the book h.w. ray and his perpetrator to his class. here's portsmouth, virginia. this is cliff on a democrat plan. >> caller: good morning. a good book came out in 2009, but it'

he was in virginia and had lost the iowa caucuses. he came on the phone to tell his mother, and she said that is all right, i am sure you work hard and it will get better. then she said, teddy, do you know that nice blue sweater i gave a christmas time? he said it was a turtle neck with a small pocket on the front that had been made in france. >> have you wanted? >> i am not sure i have worn it. is there something special about it? i just got the bill for it and it is $220. if you have not worn it, send it back, because i have another one here that has not been warned. -- has not been worn. >> everybody has put rose kennedy on a pedestal, but what he does here, his dad was the one that he truly loved as well. i am sure everybody told him he had to talk about his father and what he did during world war ii. he says he was too young to comprehend his father's attitudes. in some region of my mind, he remains internally and solely my dad. he shows that the father was the one who kissed him when he came home from school and made all his hom

the first campaign i ever ran was in a virginia. do you know where that is? my very nerdy family asked how you ended up in the south. halfway between d.c. and charleston, a strong community, a small town. people ask me where are you people from? detroit. detroit, virginia. never heard of that. high am running this campaign, 25 years old. i don't know of from down but i'm figuring out and we're getting beaten in the primary. i did her mother's back surgery, door to door. i don't care. let's go. anyway. a really nice guy but kind of moderate and pretty conservative in the republican primary and our opponents was a right wing w wackadood wackadoodle. he had his grassroots people who were totally organized. every day in the local paper there was a different letter about how he was going to raise taxes and none of this was true. he wasn't going to be a speaker even though he was pro-life and anti-tax. he was right on all the stuff but it wasn't his style. every day you would read the paper and we are getting the crap kicked out of us. some guy opens his door sobbi

since there was a question raised and seeing the young students here from virginia, university of virginia where i send a lot of money with my daughter when she came down here, and what is the purpose of the senate and so many of us have heard the story so manyñr times that i assume you have heard this, but it goes back to jefferson in france and wrote back to washington and said what's the purpose of this united states senate? and he used the analogy at that time here in the south where the hot tea in the cup was poured into the saucer to cool. and that the united states senate was like that saucer. and when you think about the fact that the house of representatives took all of 14 hours to pass a health care reform bill and the united states senate is at least on the 18th day of it, you can see that the saucer is cooling and the health care debate and i think bringing a number of visions. and quickly, and i will make a couple of points because a lot of what i have said has been given and john and i worked together in a bipartisan manner to achieve a balance budget agreement that came abo

pascrell here is jones fell virginia. republican line, you're favorite book of 2009. >> caller: i would like to say merry christmas and thank all the troops that serve in the army and military. i appreciate them and my favorite book is the bible in every time i read it i read something new about a so it's new to me at this time of year our savior's dearth it is a good time to read it and i would like to say that jesus was conceived in december and born in september. it might be something somebody wants to study but i was a farmer who for many years and in the wintertime we didn't put our sheep on the side of the hills to graze. we took them to the barn that might be something you are interested in studying. >> host: a couple political books of the many political books, and by the way the past 11 years c-span's covered some 9,000 book even one of the and the age of reagan, 1980 to '89 by steven hayward. also, looking back a couple of presidency's we covered the book hw bram, his book trader to his class. here is portsmouth

host: chester, west virginia, louis on the line for democrats. caller: i think dennis kucinich, and the senator from west virginia robert byrd, they voted against the war in afghanistan. time and time again they stand up. i think the two inspired me the most this year. thank you c-span for all you do for us every day on tv. host: an independent line from greensboro, north carolina. caller: hello, greta, hello, c- span. harry reid and nancy pelosi because of the fact that harry reid virtually was nullified during the bush administration and now no one is paying attention -- the new dog, harry reid right in the middle. he is so impressive -- i think he should get credit for that. i think he is the most impressive. have a big christmas. host: springfield, ohio, betti on the republican line. caller: now is the time for mr. john boehner, a patriot, he is the one we follow and listen to. host: thank you for all of your calls. in the house of representatives will begin its legislative business.

is it bob mcdonnell and virginia? or is it sarah palin and 2012? there is a process where republicans have to decide what is the way back? >> i know for myself i very much believe is in the role of bob mcdonnell. i don't think it is so clear-cut we could do one or the other. if you look at what he stood for, he was very conservative on all issues. he focused his principles of free market and limited government on the kitchen table issues plaguing virginia voters and began to represent a leader that could deliver some results. >> there is a broader problem that is a trend with a disgruntled oppositionist right -- we have the uk independence party opposed to europe. australia has had the opposition conservative party just allis its leader for supporting climate change. we have one in italy and here we have glenn beck and rush limbaugh. it seems like there is a clear and turmoil on the right -- there is a clear turmoil. >> there are a lot of voices in both parties and there is a different motive in terms of those in the media than those of us who owe

think about new jersey and virginia. in new jersey the public polls showed corzine winning by 5 points and he lost by five. in virginia and no one saw mcdonnell winning 60% of the vote. in a survey done just recently, a you going to vote republican or democrat? among those who voted republican, 37% voted democrat. one point margin for democrats. then they asked how enthusiastic are you about this coming collection. 50% of republicans were enthusiastic. what does that mean in terms of turnout? that helps the environment of who -- you can't simply contact those obama 2008 voters and say come back out in 2010 because we need your vote. it is not as easy as that. we lost too many seats. look at the independents. 35% voting republican 56-22 advantage for republicans. there's something going on here if this continues next year will give republicans the day. how interested are you in the upcoming election? this is a question we ask closer to election day. absolutely interested in the vote, great indicator of who is most likely

for what purpose does the gentlewoman from west virginia rise? mrs. capito: madam chair, i rise time to claim time in opposition although i'm not opposed to the gentlelady's amendment. the chair: the gentlelady is recognized for five minutes. mrs. capito: the amendment deals with making home affordable program which has been in effect most of the 2009. i think it's important to note that the department of the treasury is collecting some of this data, but i would like to take this opportunity to express my concern as the gentlelady expressed hers with the loan modification in general. the house financial services committee held a hearing in which there was bipartisan frustration with these programs. it was testified that they would help. to date the loan modifications have only helped a fraction. i have serious concerns that the administration that is overpromised on these and raised borrowerso expectations and the loan modifications are not being completed. lack of documentation was one of the main contributors. jp morgan chase recently disclosed in n

he was a child prodigy and went on to virginia university where he met martin luther king jr.. that sparked a friendship that lasted until king's assassination. he represented king. he was a washington bureau chief. he was a founding member of the congressional black caucus. toward the end of 2009, we're just recently celebrating the 25th anniversary of the free south africa movement. he was a prime mover in that. he is still someone that is traveling around the world. he just retired this year after 50 years as pastor of the church where i was christened and married and around the corner from where i live right now. my wife and i and our two kids live in the house that my father and his family grew up in. >> i read that you wrote that walter fauntroy met martin luther king when martin luther king was 22. martin luther king would today be 80 and your uncle is 76. what has your father done? >> my father has been retired. he was at the department of justice for years as a program analyst. he graduated central state college in may of 1957. he was born in 1935. he swam and played f