or go to bed at night with our children talking to us about their problems. i get back to my hotel room. my daughter-in-law said, we can a range that, you know. the best mom, white, and grandmother -- wife and grandmother, ann romney. >> there are so many of you. thank you for coming out. i went to say something that i said in my speech. i hear your voices. [applause] we have an awesome responsibility. i am pleased to know that i have a guy standing next to me that has done amazing things in his life. he has turned around difficult situations, brought economic prosperity where people thought it was impossible. i have seen him do it time and time again. give this man a chance. he will not fail. [applause] we need to give america a chance. it will be an exciting ride. florida will have to help us bring it home. thank you very much. [applause] she is something else. you've got some great people here. some of the people i want to recognize today are your next senators. there is a great guy over there representative and soon-to-be senator connie mack. [chanting usa ] ] i want to thank y

framework he is thinking about, and what measurement he would use to measure the success of it? >> let me start by addressing the piece about the gallup poll and governor romney's speech. most americans are looking for answers to the questions about how we are going to restore economic security for the middle class. the middle class has been stretched thin, so they want to know how we are going to create good paying sustainable jobs for the middle class and insurer america wins a race to the talk, and the republican convention did not address those questions last week. we heard the same recycle and widely the bug attacks against the president we have being treated widely -- heard the same widely debunked attacks against president. we are going to use this convention to answer those questions. we are going to have an honest question about where we were in 2008. manufacturing was in decline. the auto industry was on the brink. we have made progress. businesses created new jobs. we created more than 500,000 manufacturing jobs after that sector had been in decline, but now we need to lay on the pillars of how we are going to restore economic security for the middle class, and that involves paying out the deficit now in a balanced way. that involved in b

. >> let me just go to the last point. nobody is talking about using the military or veterans as pawns. i have never heard that statement by anyone accept george, kind of throwing back at me, and that is the kind of charge that you have to be careful about. i take second to no one in appreciating the service of our folks in active service and in the military. military guardspeople, 15,000 of them deployed in the war on terror. i went to iraq and afghanistan, and i celebrate the fact that all units are home. we have to figure out a way to get to a result point. again, i have laid out a pretty concrete plan for how we can in the short-term avoid sequester cuts so that we do not harm defense and so we protect the northern virginia economy. this is not about taking anybody prisoner. it is about solving a problem. we have to have some problem solvers. >> i want to give you each one minute to respond to this. the war in afghanistan, one decade plus. our troops are being targeted, by the same troops that we are trying to stand up so we can stand down. governor ella, can we accomplish th

the united states congress, becomes the reins act. and the reins act is a good way for us to check and provide that balance with the executive branches to. make sure that we're not putting too much of a burden on our businesses. mrs. roby: right. and, you know, let's just go back in time for a minute and talk about some of these other repeals. we have the boiler mact provisions, the cement market, net neutrality, the regulating farm dust. i mean, we go down the list one by one by one and talk about the efforts that we have taken here in the house, all under the -- with the strength of the numbers here, some of these are -- have been with bipartisan support that we pass these measures and yet again and again and again, time after time after time it's sitting in the senate without any action and, look, all you have to do is go look at the budget that the house has passed the past two years, that chairman ryan put forth out of committee and came to the full floor. you mentioned the president's budget where there were zero votes, zero votes, and we talk about offering solutions to the american people, to look that small business owner in the eye and say, yes, i am working for you, yes i have a solution for you, yes, i have a way to get out of your way which is wha

unknown is one of those things people talk about zero day attack, zero day exploits. they're going to happen. but most likely -- >> can you give us just a little bit more of a handle and -- i know it's hard and complex but it sounds,fy understand what you just said, you are basically saying the terrain, despite some advances in filling in the holes, terrain is as vulnerable in as many ways as it was 12 years ago but seems complexity, talking about innovation in part or what comes next, what is evolving next, has i assume evolved tremendously as talents, skills, microprocessing capacity have grown so dramatically. so you're basically saying on one level, bottom line, we haven't progressed in 12 years on the protection side why the nefariousness of the vulnerability has grown i suppose exponentially. >> yeah. i think the opportunity as i mentioned on the previous panel, opportunity to attack is much greater because of advances in technology. i think one thing we're looking at is instead of like i'm saying known right, we're very signature based if a protection standpoint. we've got to evolve more characteristics, a detection which is ki

uniform, we're going to help you fully participate in our economy. so every single one of you has defended the american dream for the rest of us, and every single one of you deserves the chance to live the american dream yourselves. that includes jobs worthy of your incredible talents. by the way, it's not just good for you, it's good for the country because after a decade of war, the nation we need to be rebuilding is the united states of america. all of you has the skills that america needs. we're upping our game in every stage of your careers. we've overhauled the transportation assistant program, kind of a reverse boot camp as you leave service to help you find a job pushings sue that degree, or start that business. hopefully this is one boot camp you actually like. by the way, we're cracking down on the schools that have been trying to take your money then rip you off by not giving you the education you paid for. that needs to stop. we're going to bring an end to that. we're going to keep hiring our newest veterans in the federal government and in communities as police officers and firefighters and first responders. because we

have it be free. we have to get people energized in understanding what's being happened to us. people understood what was being done and still chose not to vote, i understand that they have some mental problems. if they are unaware, then maybe that's our fault. we have to lead from washington going by, and explaining to people what's going on. i appreciate the opportunity the you have to come here all over the country to hopefully leave with a voter guide toolkit you can take back your home district and understand this a voter i.d. law is intended to have some consequences. my father just turned 90 years old and he is just as alert as anybody in here. he rides a bicycle about 3 miles two or three times a week. the men last long time and maintain their mental dexterity. my father would not be able to vote because it would not have a driver's license. if you do not have an id in the state of texas, its $21. $21. we need to leave here energized and in some ways angry at the audacity that people have in trying to keep us from the polls. they're not going to stop us. the have been trying to stop us from more than 400 years and we have not stopped yet. this is not the time to even think about stopping. let me now introduce one of my classmates, the person i came to congress with, and whe

younger you get, the less you believe you're going to get this program. we should restore the trust is going to be there for us when we retire. [applause] >> a last question. i think it was fairly similar to a last question the president took as well. lester asks, social security and medicare are too important for you to keep fighting in washington. what specific steps would you take to forge bipartisan compromise? >> it's the best question i could have been asked this entire time. first i think you might have heard the word voucher earlier today, right? that's a tested word designed to scare today's seniors. here's what a voucher is. a voucher is you go to your mailbox and you get a check and you go buy something and you're on your own. nobody is proposing that. what we're proposing is an idea that i propose with a democrat in the senate last year. an idea that came out of bill clinton's 1999 commission to save medicare. what we're proposing is an idea that has traditionally been supported by democrats and republicans in the past. the reason i am so familiar with this idea is it works like the plan i have as a con

here. my knowledge of history tells me there's a lot of blame to go around. i care about who is going to get us out of here. who is going to solve these problems? who is going to move us from the precipice of economic disaster back to the robust american economy for which we are known around the globe? this house has passed that plan, madam speaker. not once but twice. what i show here, madam speaker, is the budget that the president has introduced. i want to give this president his due. i come down here, we saw it with the rule yesterday, we see it in some of the presentations on the other side of the aisle, you come down here and it's as if the other side is just evil and that's why nothing works. that's just not true at all. there are honest hardworking men and women on both sides of this aisle who represent constituents back home who just have very different understandings of who we are as a people. some of them have different hopes and dreams about where we will go as a people. different needs that they are asking government to meet. this president got more done in the first two years of his t

are being persecuted. when they go to church, they do not know if they will make it home afterwards. now the violence has come to us, the united states. on the anniversary of 911, no less. our libyan ambassador and his courageous the embassy staff lost their lives in a cool, gruesome, intentional terror attack. all the while, the response of this administration has communicated weakness and lack of resolve to the world. [applause] a top official seems incredulously convinced that the only way to curtail this crisis is to put a full frontal attack of the free-speech rights of american citizens. i want to be perfectly clear. this is not just about a movie. this was an intentional act that was done by radical islamists who seek to impose their beliefs on the rest of the world and we will not stand for it. [applause] no one here is suggesting that all muslims are radical. but we should not be ignorant of the objective reality that there is a very radical when of islam that is dedicated to destruction of america, israel, and israel's allies. what we are watching developed before our eyes today are the consequences of this ad

more skilled at striking heroic poses against imaginary adversaries. this election, we are going to call him on it. [applause] the president is given to lectures on government, as if anyone who uses rampant government power should be given gratitude. he treats private enterprise as a revenue source for government. he used government as the redistributor and aloe indicator -- and allocator of opportunity. the results are in for that, too. here we are, four years under economic stewardship under these self-proclaimed advocates of the poor, and what do they have to show for it? more people in poverty! after four years of dividing people up with a bogus rhetoric of class warfare, just about every segment of society is worse off. to see this played out in any country would be bad enough. to see it becoming the daily experience of life in the united states is utterly contrary to everything we are entitled to expect. mitt romney knows that this country is made for better things. to borrow the words of another mentor of mine, jack kemp -- [applause] i had to do that for dr. bennett. no government in history has been able to do for people what they were able to do for themselves when they were fr

rudimentary concrete plans. and give us an inkling of where they would like the country to go and how they think they might be able to do it. >> who did you vote for four years ago? >> john mccain. >> what about this time around? >> i am interested because i think we are in such a quagmire. i am interested in hearing what both sides have to say, especially if we can get down to the nitty gritty. >> what about those who would say it is time to stay with obama versus going with mitt romney? >> i would like to see them reform the department of education, the epa, and i would really take a look at some of the laws on the books that are outdated or religious put out so someone can make a lot of money -- or really put out so someone can make a lot of money. good >> i have listened to you for two hours. you can say you are undecided, but i have only heard one side, so why won't romney get your vote? >> i am leaning more towards romney, i guess, and part of it is from what i saw on the tv. based on what some of the people are saying, i am leaning a little towards romney, and i think it is

people going to support us, it's not that, it's can we change their behavior and make them vote? that is something they've not yet become habitual condition to do. >> i want to give you guys all a chance. the dynamic that a lot of people had assumed through tampa was the romney campaign was trying to run to iton the kind of arguments charlie mentioned earlier, that obama is not -- has not lived up to his promises, the economy is not good, give someone else a chance. >> that would have solved the stimulus promised. >> obama did not live up to it appear now the perception is that argument alone is not going to do it. >> i agree. corrected the republicans miss a big opportunity? >> >> the president spent $100 million on negative ads in the swing states over the summer refraining who romney was. and they were enormously was that happened without any real organized response from the other side. one of the things i learned as a candidate is braces are partly about telling your story and making your case and framing who you are. it's also about realizing the other side will do everythi

fighting for the cell. we think that is a very important statement for us to make as a party. before i go any further, i do have many thank yous to give. people have done so much to make this successful, particularly our law enforcement officials at the local, state, and federal levels to make -- who are helping to make this convention what we wanted to be. they are an integral part of this process. we cannot thank them enough. ever since the first lady announced the site of the democratic convention through an e-mail, nearly one year and a half ago, we have been working and our citizens have been preparing and are excited about this wonderful event. throughout the week, the world will have the opportunity to expiries north carolina, and a dynamic state. charlotte is part of that wonderful narrative. charlotte residents are ready to put their best foot forward. i think many of you have already seen what we know this part of the dna of this community, which is good, southern hospitality. if we like to say hello to you when you are coming down the street. we like to treat you well. although thi

health. i understand the d.o.d. is working hard to fill that need. they are never going to be able to fill all that need. and there is also a stigma that will always be attached. it makes it difficult for us to access or know about these nonprofits. or maybe asking the senate for an interpretative clsks moslem -- clarification memo to make it easier for these nonprofits to coordinate. >> one of the questions was also an increase in the number of peer supporters and peer workers. complete with families and peers can be incredibly important supports. i don't know, scott, if you want to add anything into that. >> a couple remarks. one of them is for standing up and identifying those issues. this is an incredibly complex set of interwoven policies that we will keep working harder at to resolve. the issue of destigmatizing, seeking help, and then figuring out how to manage that relationship after a person revealed that they are having a problem, i think is the core of what you are concerned about. we are working with this. we realize there are certain legislative edges to the services we can provide. we also have a national resource web site where we identify resources for folks, both family memb

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ask you to go back to washington. stop campaigning. go back to washington and help us pass the postal bill. >> i think i heard what the answer was. if you cannot make the thing work, we will take money from somewhere else to help pay for it. i do not know that that is a very responsible solution. the idea or the fact that the rural post offices are important, i never said there were not important. i think they're great, but there has to be some kind of fiscal responsibility. it is not responsible to say take all of the stuff you want, and we will somehow make money appear. that is where we're going. because of policies like that and thinking like that from claremont castle, that is why we are running over one trillion dollars that we do not have every year. you want to talk about gridlock, let's talk about the senate. it is completely stuck. it has not done a budget for 1200 days. let me tackle the budget first. this bill is the school responsible. it continues to make the post office reliant on their income. on the budget, congressman a good nose last summer instead of passing a reso

positive things about it? it's poll numbers are starting to go up a little bit. also there is idea that whatever our problems are, obamacare has not really kicked in. is that what is causing increasing health care costs? >> i used to write a blog at harvard pilgrim. >> it was great. >> i wrote that any reform plan would be better than the status quo. at the obamacare is worse than the status quo -- i think t obamacare is worse than the status quo. it did not do anything about the fact we had a system where most folks have chronic illnesses and what they need is help with managing what i would describe as -- that is what health care services are supposed to be about. they got hit harder than anyone coming out of that legislation. it is going to increase the federal deficit. i do not come away with it think it is part of the answer. i used to write a lot of what i do instead. ok? this would be a good question to ask you, mike. i struggled with this issue a lot. so our reporters are wrote columns that my wife was pretty funny. how do you talk about policy matters in a serious way and at a level that is understandable and that the same time meaningful? what end up happening is that i would flop onto the ground and los

existed, believes that israel should be destroyed and has threatened america that they're going to blockade the gulf of hormuz. which would block all the oil going worldwide, it would enter us into a world depression. sooner or later, unless we draw the red line that netanyahu wants, we're going to have the problem of iran having a nuclear bomb. we cannot afford that. it will end up in a world war. we've got to stop them. my opponent in 2006, 2009 and 2010 voted against the sanctions of iran. only now three months before the election she's now for them. and i believe that it's time for us to draw the red line and say, no more ahmadinejad. we are going to stop and you are not going to have a nuclear bomb. we cannot afford to allow that individual and that cupry to have a nuclear bomb. >> representative baldwin? >> iran's nuclear ambitions are a threat to the united states, a threat to the region, a threat to our allies, including israel and especially israel for which it is an existential threat. it's a threat i take very seriously. iran must not become capable of creating a nuclear weapon. i support the president, who has said that all options remain on the table. i believe this

, i know you sent a lot of time with governor engler helping him to develop a program to go after african-american votes. if you were sitting next to governor romney, what would you be telling him? >> thanks for the opportunity. about six years i used to think i was outnumbered but i've grown in faith and i don't think i'm outnumbered. i'm here with my brothers and friends in christ and so forth. but the answer the brother on health care, i think the president did a wonderful job getting health care done but i tell you what, if my son is coming to me at 26 saying daddy, i want to be on your health care, no. i want that brother out there working. i'm not going to be taking pride in having him on my health care. i want -- don't want him on my health care at 26. i want him out there working, building his own family. and i have had the privilege to engage with the romney campaign. from a microperspective, i've said look, we've historically had four african-american cabinet positions ofe the last three-point presidency. get us back to four the i'd say if there were a supreme court nominee, give us one. i know you're going to take some heat from it, but let's get another black supreme court candidate. we had a chance to do it it once. a lot

communicate and other mechanisms. i think the system they have created in oregon is going to help us run 15, 16 experiments in each of the communities. maybe not all of them are going to succeed. some will succeed. very well i'm sure. some will have growing pains. we can't expect, you know, to bat 100%, 1,000%, but we're going to learn from this going forward. what works? what actually is able to control congestive heart failure. what is able to control diabetes or emphysema. the big cost drivers. you have to give oregon credit. they were out there in the 1990'sing that they had to cover everyone in medicaid and try something bold recognizing that we have a different system and they are trying something bold. unlike many placers this actually putting money down on this because the penalty if they don't succeed to the federal government are pretty substantial, the hundreds of millions of dollars as you heard from the governor, the state already has fiscal problems. that is a pretty big bet that they can actually transform the system and i think it is this kind of bold system that is going

long way to go. is there more work to be done? of course there is more work to be done. that is why we need president obama to continue the job he started and keep working for us for the next four years. [applause] >> four more years! four more years! >> president obama will make sure that we have a strong middle-class. president obama will keep investing in our workers to grow our economy and middle- class. president obama will insure we are caring for our most vulnerable citizens, children, those with disabilities, and seniors. president obama will make sure our children see the best education possible. president obama will continue to ensure anyone who wants to work for it can still reach the american dream. [applause] now, first lady michelle obama, who gave a great speech at the convention -- [applause] she said so well, she said, the president believes that when you work hard and have done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you. he reached back and you give other folks the same chance of that help you succeed. i say we keep that door open by reelecting barack obama. [applause] and now, it is our pleasure and

. larry is going to talk about best practices in job-training programs and give us a perspective on what can work. the discussion -- harry joined georgetown in 2000 and served a substitute dean in 2004 and 2006. he is currently a senior research fellow at the american institutes for research. he is a senior affiliate of the national polity center of michigan. boy, this list is long. he is a senior fellow at the brookings institution and at the research for -- the institute for research on poverty in madison, wisconsin. the fact that he has so many associations reveals he is a great source of information on this important topic and many people turn to him when they are thinking about the hard problems in economics. with that, i will hand it off tulare will begin with a 25- minute presentation -- tulare who will begin with a 25-minute presentation. -- to larry. that will give us 20 minutes or so for general conversation before our first break. >> thank you. i am delighted to be here. we have a wonderful group of true experts on job training programs that will be following me and speaking t

going to get love and affection, you get contempt. it helps them get other people to join in the fight against us. this president is doing great damage to us. and it's time to bring his presidency to a peaceful law-abidinging end with the election. things look tragic around the world unless we have a new commander in chief and a new leader who wants to rein in the spending. one thing i promise my colleagues across the aisle, if you want to go back to that run away spending that was too much in 2008, that speaker pelosi presided over and harry reid had in the senate, when that ended in the last day of september, you want to go right back to that total amount being spent, i'm with you. i'm vote. i'll do it bipartisan and i'll bring a bunch of people with us and we'll bring down $1 trillion a year in spending. how about that? that's pretty bipartisan, isn't it? go back to a democratic budgets of 2008. i offer that. let's see how many democrats are bipartisan enough to take us up on that. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from arizona, mr. franks, is recognized for the balance of the tim

need to look at something like that of the federal level. we need to use a committee process at the federal level. one senator is not going to be a to make all these changes on their own. but if you use a committee process and look at those rules and regulations that have a certain economic impact, that is a good way to start. here in nebraska we look at the dust. we have all heard about the farm dust and how really ridiculous that rule was. sen. kerrey mention the emissions of our public power plant that is of deep concern because in nebraska, we're so fortunate we have public power and lower electric rates. it helps us all as consumers, but also helps us to draw businesses to our state, to grow businesses. it is an advantage to come to nebraska because of those rates. you grow jobs. but we have to remember that if you set the rules and regulations, government should be there to help. they should be there to help individuals and businesses. we all want safe workplaces and clean water and clean air. that should be the goal of a rule or regulation, common sense. >> sen. kerrey. >> at the same time, we have to be careful to no

one of those americans that lived -- we are ready to work for every american who wants to go to work. we are here to say to our colleagues, "do not cut and run. " it is time for us to roll up our sleeves and show the american people that we can do this bipartisan. it is not as american taxpayers are workers or farmers that are being left behind today. back in april, the u.s. senate passed by an overwhelming majority a bill to help women who suffer from domestic violence. the violence against women act passed by 68 votes in the senate. it has been languishing since april in the house of representatives. every day in america a woman dies of domestic violence. behind her is another woman, and behind her is another woman. three women in america die every day as a result of domestic violence. since april, this house of representatives has been unwilling to put the violence against women act up for a vote. it is not as american workers. it is not as american farmers and it is not just american taxpayers that are being left behind that -- by those who wish to cut and run. it is women who are fighting for their very lives. each member who is standing behind me is saying we

pay the interest on that? guess who is going to pay the interest on that, guess who is going to pay it back all their lives. you are. i see a sign up there, $16 trillion in debt. thanks for making that. thanks for rear minding it's. governor -- reminding us. governor branson and i won't be paying that, we'll be gone when they're paying for that. you guys are going to pay for that. you're going to pay the interest on it and it's going to get larger and larger until that interest swamps our total defense budget, that's what's going to ham unless we get serious about reigning in the excesses of government. the president's answer, we all respect our government, but we don't want it to get so big that it crushes the dreams of the american people and i will night for the young people of america by getting us finally on track to a balanced budget. you guys, we're going to win this thing. this day, we're stepping forward, we're taking back america, we're going to make sure that america remains the hope of the earth. we're going to keep america the shining city on the hill ronald reagan spoke of. i love this country, i love the people of america, i believe in the people of america, and we're going to take back america and keep it strong. thank you so very

tragic for me to end the war in iraq. he will not tell us how he is going to end the war in afghanistan. while he wants to spend more money on military programs that our joint chiefs say will not keep us safer, i will use that money that we are no longer spending on war to pay down our debt and to put more people back to work rebuilding some of these bridges around cincinnati, rebuilding schools and runways. after a decade of war, it is time to do is a nation-building here at home. [applause] that is the choice you face. that is what this election comes down to. 50 days and you will start making that choice. -- 15 days and you will start making that choice. over and over again we have been told by our opponent that their way is the only way, that if government cannot do everything, they should do nothing. if a company is polluting the air your children breathe, that is the price of progress. if you cannot afford health insurance, hope you don't get sick. if you cannot afford to start a business or go to college, borrow money from your parents. [crowd boos] don't boo. vote. you know what? that is not who we are. that is not what this country is about. as americans, we insist on personal resp

as do is going to a candidate that you do not support, there are contributions to go to candidates. there are processes that we use explicitly where rank-and-file members, if they choose to pacific in the process, can have a void and -- voice and vote on where those cuts to patients are sent. i would encourage your sister to become of that process. when it comes to the for work force, not long ago, i visited the country of colombia. my purpose was to document human rights violations. they are the second-largest international trade country with my home state. i spoke with families whose brothers, uncles, fathers, are being killed and maimed on a regular basis because of human rights activities because that government and those folks over there do not want a strong working middle-class, which organized labor helps. host: sam from the associated press recently had this article. citizen of the world tweets in. costco is non-union but there employees are treated with dignity and fair wages. by the way, a founder supports obama 2012. guest: absolutely. we are not talking about every worker and every company. there are times and in

view is always easier to go after the guy you disagree with. >> any time someone has a reputation for salacious behavior, it makes them a rich target for us. and certainly the clinton years, i got out of the office very early every day. that was back when i had a six handicap. [laughter] >> george w. bush was fun for me. he is great to drop. -- to draw. the term progressed, i disagree with him on some of the -- if you are conservative and you have a conservative a dental office -- when they screw up and disappoint you -- we kind of expect them to be goofy and silly, but when our guys do it, we tend to be harsher. so my cartoons of romney are pretty harsh. >> and the politicians in the last 20 years? >> i get sick of drawing bush. every day was a tragedy coming from his mouth. when i started, i just met in college cartoonist back at our convention, and brought him back to starting as a editorial cartoonist. i cut my teeth on ronald reagan and that was like having george w. bush in office. reagan would say crazy stuff, off the cuff stuff. he was great to draw. i kind of miss reagan for different reasons than you. [laughter] >> we have a question

million tricks that made it go ok. there is a sketch of how bad it is going to be, what is considered by the essential theices, it's a service y're taking their money. and basically, the idea is that this big expansion, this entitlement is going to save us money. governor romney house a proposal that in the long run could get ahead of the curve by creating competition between firms. competition between firms is really the only hope that we have. having a single payer pay providers less and thinking it will not affect anybody's welfare is a pipe dream. dodge the idea that the solution to medicare is to give people a voucher from health insurance companies and giving them a bigger cut i don't think is any evidence on that. we would have the most efficient health care system in the world right now. the romney plan says to each senior, we will give you a fixed cash amount and you will have to buy from a private insurance company that insurance package. and from the house budget, it won't grow as fast as health care costs. the cost of health care coming out of their pockets, a recent study by harvard colleagues found that what this would mean by someone who is 50 years old today is $125,000 over a lifetime. we actually have to make the tough choic

question. what would he think of us now. he had to fly through an airport, go through tsa? you know what i mean. it's sad. so i don't know -- he certainly had a great vision of a free democratic society. and to avoid -- he also said explicitly how quickly this can change, that the good guys can become the bad guys and the bad guys can become the good guys. he definitely, he loved america. he wanted to keep america strong but also fair. >> another interesting person at ias at the time, also doing so much theoretical work, and there's a question here about the conflict between them. can you talk a little bit about the conflict that occurred between the two of them? >> he never really did come to the ias. he visited it but he was not a member -- he was at mit. and the game can we try to play of these conflicts. actually, they worked very closely together on a number of things and then he was very opposed to the hydrogen bomb, and that's sort of where -- tour a lot of very sad conflicts between people that just broke up friendships. they differ greatly on whether -- he believed we could

, you know, we are testimony -- i told you my testimony, i would rather save that when i go to church. i didn't get to learn that until recently. and i'm 36 years old. i'm just realizing it. you call it a mascot. and i started cracking up like sometimes that's how people look at us sometimes. people with authority or people who have the ability to preach but here to help out communities. but they become -- and the values of the from the organization. i say, i get it. i think, you know, i get it. it's difficult. it's difficult to -- one, i think just the reality. i met people who i would say, listen, it might not be the work for you. you probably should go back to school. i don't know why you think you have the right to sit at the table that spent ten years studying criminal justice policies and get the same respect and authority they get. maybe you should choose not to do this. and unfortunately felt the need to say that. the truth is that everybody in the audience is thinking, okay why should i listen to you. if all you have is your testimony. that may per said some people to listen. they're going to look at the question again and the testimony and lean toward the other person on the panel. again, i mean, i got out of prison, and i went to college first, i went to commun

what we're going to get out of it. benjamin friedman was one of my founding fathers. another spectator said to franklin, this is fun, but what use could this possibly be? franklins retort was, well, what use is a newborn baby? that is a little tough. but that is franklin. but he's right, of course. what use is a newborn baby? we don't know. but many turn out to be quite usable, so invest in them. .. has written 12 nonfiction books, including best-seller come in 1820 committee or the six presidents. also in 1960, silent cal's almanac and is 2011 release, in 1848. >> host: david pietrusza, what was it about the 1920, 19161848 election that made you write books about them? >> guest: at all stars one at0 a time. i have been playing elaround win factoids and about presidential elections. and i've looked at that one and i started calculatingabout presd presidential elections. and i looked at that one come and i started calculating amount. 1961 or 1964 -- you had one president, lyndon johnson, you get kennedy, nixon in 1960, in 1968 we did nixon. you would get reagan. you might get three, usually get to. in 1920, you have six. >> six u.s. pr

. there are several others i can go into if they are of concern to us, and it's because there is some uncertainty here. some whether we'll make this, you know, we over promised and under delivered for years. i want to be honest with you. i'm reasonably confident, but i can't by absolutely sure for two broad reasons. one, as we finish discovery efforts, there may be problems that come up we didn't anticipate, and two, frankly, because of the uncertainty in the budgetary world i mentioned. we go through sequestering, that affects the resources and drains away an enormous amount of time. >> if you could pull the microphone up a light closer. >> is that better? >> yes, thank you. >> okay. bottom line, we support the goals of the pentagon act, we are concerned about some of the means. >> thank you. i wanted, also, to get your perspective, the dodig published a report to talk about some of the problems with enterprise planning systems, scheduled delays, cost overruns, and i wanted your perspective on what the root causes of those might be, what the plans are to overcome those to get things

that you think of and mention for us to get off planet. i don't care if it's an asteroid. i don't care if it's the sun going red and 5 billion years. if we stay here we are doomed, and as far as we know, we are it >> this is a point that was made by stephen hawking murray said we have to be a multi plant species, otherwise we are doomed because something bad can happen to earth, a virus, astra, what have you. here is my rebuttal, if i may. >> math is the question? >> yes,. [laughter] >> do you feel that the motivation like that is valuable as a component to make the economics are part of feeding the species, part of the our country, part of feeding ourselves. >> i don't think it is a good enough driver because i don't believe it. i'll tell you why. and talking made this point. we have to be a multi plant species, otherwise, all the eggs in one basket. you go extinct. what might be that which threatens our, an asteroid, a killer asteroid the size of mount everest, the one that renders 70 percent of eight species extinct 65 million years ago, the yucatan peninsula of mexico. it was in mexico back then, by the way

division to go after them. i think president obama has been right to wage the very tough campaign against al qaeda. al qaeda is an and my of the united states and all of us know that after 9/11. >> host: i want to get more of your take on syria. they pointed a world leader clash over the syria. they point out the sharp differences on how the end the civil war service. one arab ruler urged total support for the rebels soon after the secretaried a monod nations not to harm either side in the conflict. what's your take? >> guest: i think it's a tragic part of the arab revolution. 25,000 people have died in syria. at least because of the syria government is using artillery and president obama said the right thing yesterday. "the dictator" of sure ya has to go. there has to be a new government that is more representative of the people. and here is the tragedy. the government is strong enough to stay in power, and the rebel alliance is strong but not strong enough to dislodge them. they seem to be almost evenly matched. and there doesn't seem to be a clear winner of the war. and the diplomatic problem is that russia and china in a very cynical way are blocking ever

jewish settled because there are several telegrams asking grant, did you mean for us to expel the jewish settlers? and armies then and now run of their stomachs so if there's nobody to sell thing0s to troops, that's going to be very bad, and the settlers weren't expelled but lincoln overturned the order. >> i am jim. my question deals with the relationship of henry haleck and grant. haleck had removed grant from command. are you suspicious grant would have done something as provocative as general order number 11 without haleck even knowing about it, in spite of the fact the communications were down? >> well, first of all, it's wonderful that people really know their civil war history. it's great. i can't imagine -- grant had no way of knowing when he issued the order, that the telegraph lines would be cut less than 72 hours later. if he had, he would have made sure to have been there and not given a drunk murphy in charge. so i'm sure that grant assumed in the narl course of events, copies of the order would immediately be telegraphed to washington, which was supposed to happen, and then haleck would have seen it at once. at least my understanding -- because otherwise the whole story is uninintelligible -

commerce and they're going to have to understand they can't take away jobs in an unfair basis. >> we need money investing in companies that operated from the m.i.t. china. pioneers. now you can't stand up to china when i use done is send them our jobs. >> the senate today had a bill that would've created a $1 billion jobs program for veterans. they spend beyond the limits congress agreed to that here. the senate democrats choose those short to need to go forward.t here is 20 t minutes of senate debate on the bill.alking >> regardless of what she feel about a budget and budget point of order, we are talking a technicality to kill a bill to halt unemployed veterans at apey time that they desperately needb help because they are coming and back from iraq and afghanistan and they can't find work. and and so we come out of the recession and the recovery way a higher percent of unemployment and especially veterans under age 24 have an even higher percentage of unemployed, and so what we have here is a piece of legislation to give an unemployment cushion for veterans for at least a year until they can find employment in the private sector, and this is employment to do things that we need since so many of our national

efficient. they have to be there in order for us to carry out our mission. so looking at the past, looking at the success we've had with the partnerships in the private sector, we hope to play on that going forward to when the confidence and to get this type of, whether through legislation or executive order to pass it, our ability to carry out our mission. >> okay. my staff just handed me a note that said reuters, the new service, it's is reporting that the bank of america, the bank of america's website has suffered intermittent problems on the internet that a group was planning to launch cyber attacks on the bank and the new york stock exchange again, in retaliation for this film. do any of you know anything about this at this point? >> mr. chairman, there has been some ongoing activity, attribution, whether it is retaliatory i don't think has been determined. without going into more i would just simply say that this is an example of where working public to private to private benefits everybody. >> director olsen or director perkins, do you want to add anything? >> i would just add we were family with these reports as of last night. so the have been ongoing efforts in this regard. >> yes, sir.

money going to fund dictators. an american spring, where we understand what happened in the arab spring. the arab spring is a direct consequence of us sending foreign aid and lavishing it on people who don't respect the freedom of their constituents who don't allow constitutional freedoms. the arab spring's anger, as much as it is directed against america, is not against our constitution. it isn't because they don't believe in freedom. it's because they're upset that we have been funding and subsidizing their dictators. the u.s. has given guinea almost $300 million over the past ten years, despite guinea having one of the worst human rights records on the planet. torture is said to be commonplace. "the new york times" reported that last spring, any policeman can arrest any citizen at any time. torture is a current thing -- a current thing -- said mr. mico, a lawyer who is in opposition party, recalling his own beating in the presence of high officials. gonzalo negonb sema, a pharmacist in the center of town here recounted his recent encounter with police over a simple traffic mishap. "they beat me like an animal." so what do we do? we give

program was a human interaction, people that are going to operate this program involved in us develop it and that our testing have been insufficient to really understand how this is going to work in a wheel world environment. as a result of a valid link this program and everything that went with it, that's what was behind us putting the management changes that we put in place. establishing a centralized program management organization that will bring best practices program management to ensure that we can hit deadlines, we can hit milestones and we can get budgets. that's why we elevated and expanded the responsibility of our nextgen organization so that we can ensure that we have appropriate system integration that we're taking account how one project effects of the projects and schedules and so forth. what we wanted to do was make sure that we were using best practices that are used in any business for managing a large complex undertaking of this sort. it was in june 2011 that we rebaselining to the eram program. at that time we said that that project was going to be three years and

talk to the higher platforms so that the higher up authorities have, the ability to go to one platform and be able to google, so to speak, use that term, not necessarily that company but your name and find that everything that someone had a -- at a decision-making level needs to know about. and so i applaud your work. i appreciate this committee. the questions that have been raised here. and mr. chairman, i really don't have anything else. >> gentlemen, the gentleman from illinois mr. davis, is recognized. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. and thank you, mr. paul, for your testimony. governmentwide there have been challenges to development of unclassified and classified systems, information sharing. in particular, in dhs, has had problems in the past of developing and deploying these information sharing systems. let me ask you, how will the recent round of cuts to the budget impact development of some of the systems, and how can we make sure that they are developed and get to state and local and tribal governments that need them? >> it's difficult to comment on the cut specific to dhs but i do want to highlight that, dhs with

fiat. it is a trick, but some in the chinese have gotten used to and this is a really interesting test case for them. >> so do you think some of the things you talk about these airports. giant airports in the middle of nowhere. do you think those are going to be real airports? or do you think 20 years from now will look like silly white elephants. >> the white elephant in china is a highly populated one. you see me of cities that can hold 2 million people at our holding no people. it's worth recognizing it in the near existence they serve an role and people are hoping these things. it's also the case that infrastructure in china has been under bill so far as to the overbuilding they assume will be cut up sooner or later. the united states is 5000 of which about 100 plus are suitable for big commercial airliners. it is fewer than 500, so they're trying to ramp it up. a lot of these things the quick wacky, booster projects. i describe one of them were people in the equivalent of some alpha and nevada built this huge runway with the idea that they would absecon currents of silicon valley and disney world and universal studios in seattle boeing factories all in one place. they're probably not going to do that. but the idea is there's so much p

might be a cost, but the cost was already being borne, it was just people going to emergency rooms and seeking care and then shifting costs to the rest of us. individual responsibility is not a bad, is not a bad principle. >> moderator: governor allen, as i give you a minute to respond to that, i have a basic -- allen: don't i get a minute and a half? >> moderator: according to the rules, you get a minute. i promise you -- kaine: give him an a for effort. >> moderator: we're taking time away from you as we debate it. allen: go ahead. >> moderator: are you committed to universal coughage? coverage? allen: there's so many things wrong with this current health care tax law. part of the way that in addition to adding a trillion dollars in spending over the next ten years, they're taking $700 million out of medicare. this is why seniors are so concerned about whether they'll have access to doctors, and many doctors i've heard from have said we're not going to take any more medicare patients. have health care decisions being made by doctors and patients, not bureaucracies up in washington. and that's why health savings accounts are the way to go. for those

the tax code is going to be in three months. that's impaithat's embarrassing. when people ask me what's necessary for us to get washington, d.c., to solve the country's proficiency the answer is we desperately need leadership, somebody that encourages us to come together and it's been lacking. it's embarrassing to me for the nearly years i have been a member of the united states national not to see that leadership exhibited in the united states of america. thank you, mr. president. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from mississippi. mr. cochran: mr. president, this week my home state of mississippi received the sobering news that our economy had slipped back into recession. frankly, i'm concerned that my state may be a harbinger for the rest of the country. despite national efforts to create new jobs and opportunities, our economy is not getting significantly bett better. it is a problem, we think. in most states unemployment has remained over 8% for more than three years despite spending nearly $1 trillion with the president's 2009 stimulus package. investments in small business

reform. i believe the two have to go together. let me emphasize that is that going to happen either republican or democratic way. it has to happen both of us working together. >> myth that they come in many raise taxes they will cut back on spending, which will further stagnate the economy. also it may discourage small businesses from hiring. is this the right time to raise taxes? >> the truth is, in thank you to all the sponsors and appreciated and yes, congressman bass that won't be personal. it is our point of view that is very different in where the country is headed and this is really one of the fundamental differences between us. my senses these are challenging times. we have to get serious about the deficit and it's not serious to give millionaires and billionaires and additional tax break and i think we do need to cut the deficit. we can't afford a trillion dollars in tax relief to the wealthiest members of our society. everyone will continue to get the tax break up to $250,000 in income and frankly new hampshire, that is a comfortable style of living and above and beyond that come in millionaires are willing to contribute what they need t

position on climate were still going to burnett. why don't we use ours? it makes no sense. so right there you've got $600 billion to shoot him but right back in the economy tomorrow. that's without even changing rights. all problems are not hard to figure out. the problems are the politics get in the way. it's been great to be with you. thank you guys so much. [applause] >> thank you, senator. we'll see you all -- [inaudible] >> families of 9/11 big guns gathered in new york for a memorial marking 11th anniversary of the attacks. as in years past, the 2988 the dems were read aloud at the national september 11. janet napolitano, new york governor andrew cuomo, new york city mayor michael bloomberg, senators chuck schumer and kirsten gillibrand, new jersey governor chris chris the former new york city mayor, rudy giuliani were among those in attendance. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? ♪ whose broad stripes and bright stars through the

>> we are going to go get a drink, which is probably what we need. let's have a good round of applause. [applause] please join us for our reception. [inaudible conversations] max, oregon governor john kitzhaber on reducing health care costs in this state is in a coordinated care model where doctors are paid on health outcomes come enough to reach medical procedure. this new model is also part of the affordable care act. and the center for american progress, and this is just under an hour. >> is a person has worked on health policy for over a decade, i would say that governor kitzhaber is really a hero for all the work he's been doing them were particularly excited today for him to discuss what his innovations in the medicaid program. as many of you may knows, c.a.p. has devoted a lot of time and effort to the issue of lowering health care costs because we see this as an issueor the federal budget, but also state budget, employers, employees and basically an issue of america's competitiveness over the long term. and so, we have devoted a lot of resources to looking at ways to lower health care costs and one of the gr