lynne. >> if i could ask you a question, how have you enjoyed, you've met so many different personalties -- >> larry: i've enjoyed every minute of it. >> really? >> larry: 50 years went by yesterday. i remember the first day i started. but this is about you. so i'm going to, the great artie shore, he stopped playing at age 53 and i asked him why and he said he had nothing more to say. do you ever feel that way? >> for as long as there's life, for as long as we have things happening in the world, for as long as people haven't been able to work it out, for as long as people are not trying to work it out, for as long as there's crime and destruction and hate, bigotry, for as long as there is a spirit that does not have love in it, i will always have something to say. >> larry: do you ever sing what ray charles used to sing, you ever sing "america"? >> i haven't sang the song. i like the song. >> larry: you ought to sing "america the beautiful". >> okay. i think it's a very, very pretty song. certain songs you hear people sing, you say, you know what? i'm not going to think about touching th

of texas and lynn shank in california. and it authorized the creation of the nation's first trusted traveller program involving mexican citizens and u.s. citizens crossing on the mexican border and i remember talking about the need to balance trade and facilitation. it was seen as a zero-sum game in which if you were to enhance security by definition, you would decrease facilitation in the movement of travelers across the u.s.-mexican border. i now do not accept that paradigm as a useful one. and want to challenge all of you today and then have you challenge me back in the question and answer period about the relationship of security and facilitation. because it is, i submit, critical to the examination of your subject today, north american competitiveness and the global supply chain. remember where the term "paradigm" came from. those college students of my vintage will remember the term was introduced by thomas kuhn, a historian of science who wrote a terrific book now, unfortunately, according to my children, not on the

ton brooks, under george w. bush said, "i'd have killed for that kind of budget, and that much high-level attention in the administration." so the issue of dealing with our nuclear arsenal is being addressed with more energy and more resources and more attention than it was in the preceding administration. and i don't think that that argument can be used as an attempt to delay the ratification of the -- this treaty. many have argued that before we consider the treaty, we must commit to substantial funding increases in the future budget to modernize our nuclear infrastructure. we are doing that. and while i support the need to provide a safer, reliable nuclear arsenal, i applaud the obama administration's to commit significant resources to do so, we have to recognize that this is a recent change. in fact, the obama administration is not only bringing this treaty to the senate, it's also bringing to the congress a level of commitment that was lacking previously, i think and both of those are necessary and both of

of texas and lynn shank in california, and it authorized the nation's first trusted travel program involving mexican citizens and u.s. citizens crossing the border, and i remember advocating for that program talking about the need to balance trade and facilitation. it was seen as a zero-sum game in which if you were to enhance security by definition, you would decrease facilitation in the movement of travelers across the u.s. mexican border. i now do not accept that paradigm as a useful one, and want to challenge all of you today and then have you challenge me back in the question and answer period about the relationship of security and facilitation because it is i submit critical to the examination of your subject today, north american competitive inns in the supply chain. remember where that came from, those college students of any vintage will remember it introduced by a historian of science who wrote a terrific book now according to my children is not on the reading list of the histories of science, but it was the revolution and introduced the par time, par time being the -- paradigm bei