bob gramm and william reilly a. president obama will brief reporters after the meeting, live on c-span at 12:15. eric holder is headed for the gulf coast today to see areas affected by the spill. he will be meeting with attorneys general from louisiana, alabama, and mississippi. we will have his remarks to reporters a little later in the day. more about the oil spill and a live simulcast of the radio show. that is at 1:00. the four candidates running for the republican nomination for governor of south carolina debate tonight at 7:00 on c- span. is government broken? that is the focus of a panel discussion today hosted by the brookings institution. live coverage gets underway at 1:00 on a companion network c- span-2. >> david cameron field questions from members of parliament in his first prime minister's questions as the head of a coalition government. >> public television's ray suarez recently talked about race in america. the correspondent talked about his experiences. from durham, n.c., this is about 55 minutes.

let's go to bob in arkansas? bob, are you in arkansas? >> yes. >> welcome. >> >i worked as an engineer off shore for a couple of years. the big thing you guys are missing about this dispersant -- i worked on a platform for about a year and we carried to 55- gallon drums of dispersant. in case of a spill, my job was to go below, turn the pumps on, go up above, get on the fire monitor, and by that time, the deckhand would have a 55-gallon drum. i would train the fire monitor on the drum. we would put one engine forward and one in reverse. we would drive to this bill and turn it on. that barrel of dispersant -- we never used it -- but according to the redmen -- rigman, that barrel of dispersant would get rid of several hundred barrels of oil. it would be gone. my theory and, i don't have any cards in the game anymore, my theory is you have a company that makes their own dispersant, ships on their own boat to their own rate, indexes into their own well, and when you are calling product -- ships it on their own boats to their own or rig, in ja

to my far left is bob, the current president. he most recently served as the director of investigations. prior to joining the industry, bob served as the law enforcement community in several institutions, beginning his career with the new york city police department and retiring as sgt. he had appointments in the u.s. virgin islands and in florida. michael robinson, the senior vice president for content protection, joined the motion picture association of america in 2006 following a distinguished law enforcement career that spanned four decades. in his current role, he leads in four small operations and counter measures for the motion picture association, paramount pictures, sony pictures entertainment, 20s century fox film corp., universal studios, walt disney studios, and warner brothers entertainment warn 8, . tom kubic is to my right. prior to joining psi, he had experience as federal law enforcement specialist, an fbi director, and criminal investigative positions. as a group, we decided there's a lot of expertise here and w

we saw it in, aut all my sources in south carolina tell me bob ingli s's career is coming to an end. >> what has been his message to voters since then? >> he's billing himself as a true conservative. this is something that he maintained throughout the primary. he said that re-releasedn ad that said he's going to fight for conservative principals, support for the free market, constitution. things like that. he's really tried to contrast himself again. and with his voting record it was quite liberal considering he has one of the most conservative districts in south carolina. >> they've come out with final ads. we'll watch them and come back and talk about them. >> when joe wilson said you lie he should have pointed at every member of kong. i know what it will take washington and the truth. every congressman knows we're headed toward bankruptcy but they are afraid to tell you the truth for fear of using their jobs, afraid to tell you eliminate every program except defense and the debt still grows. why? medicare, medicaid and social security. beyond commitment to seniors, everything's go

utah's senator bob and judy utah senator bob bennett, pennsylvania senator arlen specter going down to defeat. this will be an interesting test to see whether the party unity and ideological purity becomes an overriding issue for incumbents. host: neck and neck in arkansas. any late polls? guest: all the polls show it is very close. if you show the tenant governor bill halter with a small lead, but within the margin of error. but all you need is 50 percent plus one. host: what is he bnging? guest: something different. that is what much of the challenger candidates areoi

i'm particularly pleased to be here with david walker, bob bucks bye, and bob green stein. bob and i have worked together since i started in together. a couple years ago. and bob bixby, extraordinary job. and david wwlker i congratulate david walker on the work that he has been doing not only in his present position but in his prior position where he brought a clear and honest analysis to some of the issues that were confronting our country, particularly from a fiscal standpoint. this month a gallup poll asked americans to name the greatest threat facing our country. two answers tied for the top choice. one was terrorism. the other was debt. this is a remarkable moment i %+ think in our political history. a time when our creeping fiscal danger of our $9 trillion of publicly held debt troubles pmericans as much as the -- as a prospect of the most brutal attack on our country. more than ever americans understand the danger of debt. a stagnant economy, a hobbled government, and a weak national defense. more than ever it's possible to imagine a government with nothing left to s

and bob king will be a very able new president. i wish him well, but i'm here today, chairman dingell, to thank ron gettelfinger for all he has done for the united states of america. thank you. mr. dingell: i thank my distinguished friend from michigan. i yield now to distinguished the gentlewoman from texas, ms. jackson lee. ms. jackson lee: thank you very much, mr. chairman and to the speaker. whenever john dingell raises his voice to join in honoring a leader, you always have to take his affirmation as an honor of that leader. and so no one wants to be left out when it comes to honoring someone chairman dingell has designated as deserving that honor. but i come far away from michigan, down in texas, to be able to say that ron gettelfinger is an american hero, and america thanks him, because he understood the various assets of wealth. he might have understood a family in new york or down in houston or maybe in alabama who is able to get that first american-made car, made by the men and women of the united states and in this insta

i have talked with bob dudley about that as well. we've been working with the national hurricane is center and working through our national incident command with the coast guard commanders. depending on the type of vessel out there, it's going to take a shorter or longer time to be able to disconnect. the other ship will take six or seven day advance notice to evacuate. we have to look at the probabilities of the storms and act very early on. if you look at the area between cuba and the straits of florida, there's it's a radius or perimeter. anything that could fall in that area should prompt action. we're concerned about the vessels, when you get above igget -- eight foot seas they aren't effective. >> we noticed something had changed, the containment camp had been removed. do these units bump into the assembly snauven >> we've had two issues with r.o.v.'s. there are an unbelievable amount of r.o.v.'s down there it's our only eyes and ears for the relief well the vertical riser packages being installed, other installations. we were

bob gramm is a former democratic senator from florida. william reilly and led the epa from 1989 to 1982 -- 1992. this is almost 10 minutes. >> good morning. >> good morning. i just met

thanks to bob cutler has been working on this issue for many years, that's an area where progressives can continue to put a lot of energy and emphasis and still win the fight. >> thank you. that gives you the last word. thank you, everyone. we're going to go almost immediately into the next session. i will ask you to hold your seats and we will bring the panelists up and i will do it quick introduction. i'm sure you will be excited to hear what they have to say. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> busiest day of the year for congressional and governors' races with 12 states holding primary is today. senator boxer will learn who her snonet will be. and there is a race in california. we'll have live coverage tonight on the c-span networks. >> british prime minister takes questions tomorrow morning. it starts at 7:00 a.m. eastern. live on c-span 2. >> we three new c-span books for you "abraham lincoln," "the supreme court" and who eye buried in grant's tomb?" on to order, go to c-span.org /books. >> the state

bob monahan of west virginia. and some others. i can't recognize them from here. >> when we first started talking about all this, you said you hoped that the press, students and all, would read this? why does it matter? >> it matters a great deal. let me explain. the people in the media need to know the history of the united states senate if they're going to accurately report on it and interpret the day's events. to accurately interpret today's events in the light of history. for example, following the tower nomination vote, i heard a very fine news reporter make the statement on a tv show. she was on a panel and she said the senate will never be the same again. well, that reflected to me a lack of institutional memory. the senate is already the same again. i mean, those things come and go. that is why we need to read the history began seeing president tanner's time for example, 1843 -- said in the name of caleb cushing to be secretary of the treasury. the bill on march 3 because in those days congress wound up its work on march 3

either him or bob deadly. maybe multiple times a day. >> have you brought up the claims issue? >> yes. >> what is their response? >> they're looking for any type of direction we can give them. they want to do this right. >> the meeting at your having this week, is that with tony -- >> that is what the person who runs our claims processing. >> when you speak to tony, do you trust the information they're giving you? >> i question all the time. i'm not so sure it's a matter of trust. we try to create unity of effort. i ask for information, i get it. if i think any more, if something is to be clarified, i go back and do it. i say we're not going to go forward until we get this and it's an ongoing constant dialogue. you can call up partnering, but that is the way it works. >> we will be asking for greater transparency on the claims process. trying to shorten the window for what bp is legally required to do in filling those claims. in having a broader understanding through transparency about what has yet to be felt. >> there are some complicating factors. we're dealing with personall

host: served as press secretary for bob livingston that presented the north new orleans area. this next call comes from william in new orleans. caller: good morning. very interesting to me that there's been a great deal of l talk about diversity in the nomination to the supreme court and yet when one looks at mrs. kay fwan. so list or the i think it's very interesting that we find the this kind of feminism in the courtroom but wheres the diversity. there's the ivy league background. deep within the tentacle office supreme court as a clerk. father was a very high powered lawyer. when you look at this. one is really hard pressed to look at the supreme court and talk about diversity. i don't think feminization or simply the placing of two on women on the supreme court counts as diversity or diversity of life experiences. they all seem to come from the same general ar. guest: the caller makes a very good point. peter, he - he's absolutely right. if she gets on the court, all nine justices will have gone to harvvrd or yale law school. four of them will have been from the new york a

i am deeply grateful that former senator bob dole has agreed to lend his expertise and assist in the proper structure of this new organization, so that it can effectively meet its muddle mission. these two gentlemen are true american heroes, men whose service is deeply admired. both the army and i are enormously grateful that these two individuals have agreed to step forward in service to others and to this nation once again. as to the negative findings in this report, there is no excuse. on behhlf of myself and dick armey, i deeply -- myself and the army, i deeply apologize. to the men and women that wear the uniform, to all citizens that believe that that arlington national cemetery is the most sacred place on this planet, the army goes better. i am not able to explain the past. i will promise this about the future. the army will take every step necessary to fully insure that clearly understood and effectively addressed. we will unissued the steps to correct yesterday's oversight, and meet tomorrow's requirements. for them, their loved ones, this nation, a better tomorrow for arlin

off -- our guest is bob benenson. our first call is from toronto, ohio. we will show you a map from "the wall street journal" of the u.s. essentially the dark states are e ones who have action today. bernie, a caller from ohio. i think he cannot wait any more. we were talking so long. guest: i apologize. host: it is my fault. linda on the democrats' line from the mexico. go ahead. caller: my question is about carly fiorina. i did not know when she left hewlett-packard. at the time it is my understanding that she was fired. but i have not heard one word about that. host: what does it mean it is true? caller: it means to mate she probably was not bowing as good a job and she would like us to think she was. because i do believe she was fired. and i would like to know the truth. host: would that make heard less and effective elected official? caller: it would make it less attractive to me, yes. legacy as fiorina's head of hewlett-packard appears to be a matter of significant debate in the businessorld. there was a very interesting profile of her in "thnew yor

[applause] >> first, i want to sit think you to roger and -- to say thank you to roger and bob. [applause] i also want to appreciate darcey who is a magnificent leader in this progressive movement. i thought about this debate, and reflected on the fact that i have been arrested at the white house for criticizing the administration for the lack of leadership on immigration reform. i have been an early in a consistent critic for the white house on that figure to articulate a big enough and bold in a solution to our country's unemployment crisis, especially in communities of color, and i wondered if they might be thinking over as 1600 pennsylvania avenue, is this the best they could come up with to defend us? we agreed pretty much across the board. i want to make a couple of points that i hope will be provocative. first, we have achieved much more in the last 18 months and progressives typically give ourselves credit for. the change is woefully inadequate given the level of crisis that our country faces in the scale of the crisis that the world, france, but we do ourselves a deep d

you have been so instrumental, along with bob corker, in this, and of course blachly and worked tirelessly on this as well. -- and blanche lincoln worked tirelessly on this as well. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i apologize for the other members jumping in on the middle of this, but it turns out asked me to come back over and share some thoughts on title 1 and 2. i think we spent literally hundreds of hours trying to fashion appropriate titles for systemic risk resolution, ending too big to fail. while both of us feel that the original project that amended in the process, i'm still quite proud of the work. the most bipartisan part of the senate bill are title 1 and 2, which was later amended by the dog-shelby amendment, which got the votes. -- by the dodd-shall the amendment. one of the import distinctions i think between house and senate bill is on the role offthe systemic risk council and the role of the members including the federal reserve. i think we have to recognize that each of the members of the council bring particular expertise to the table. the house approach, which allows the fe

bob on the republican line. what's the name of your city? caller: home of the barefoot mailman. host: go on ahead. caller: i saw probably back in the late 70's or early '80s and they changed fannie mae and it used to be a conservative loaning process of three per tenth and ten then 10% for the next 10,000 and 20% for the next 10,000. when they departed from that and they raised at least on the government corporations for that are owned by the federal government and they upped it from maybe, a maximum of 70 thousand on up to 125,000 and then it just kept getting worse and then what we had, we had, we allowed some of the savings and loans to invest more than 3 percent of their money into real estate and we had the savings and loan crisis. i think if we pursue a safe conservative policy in the future for home purchases, that would be in a lot better shape and i think the building industry is a large industry throughout the united states and i think that's where the country is taking their hit on the chin and i think we need to put the people back to work and the best way to do that

just to take an example of technically how difficult that is, bob mentioned that going to the gulf coast mar, we have been working there for a number of years, to track our money post- katrina, we have over one dozen agencies with reporting requirements. it is difficult to see where that money went. take that if you look at the different ministries, different governments, different agencies. it is going to be very tricky to make that transparent, but i think there is a real effort behind that. i think that there are going to be some very difficult times ahead in whether we are going to stay engaged and deliver on the assistance going in. i think there are some very positive signs, but we are very cautious in what we are looking at and whether there is going to be enough coordination on the ground to mechanically ensure that all of these different implementing agencies are working in conjunction and meeting with people. one of the things that we have not touched on enough in today's recession is this little society participation. they have positions for civil societies, but they are not v

jones, and especially bob brady for their hard work on this important and critical piece of legislation. by making funders identify themselves in ads, the disclose act takes a significant step in giving people the information that they need to understand who is funding the ads. but, mr. speaker, shouldn't people know where these ads and the money to fund them are coming from? let me give you an example. halliburton pays for an ad endorsing a politician. shouldn't the voters know that not only the company paying for the ads but also that it is based in houston, texas? people have a right to know if people or companies outside their state are trying to influence their elections. my amendment, mr. speaker, is a commonsense addition that both republicans and democrats should support. whether living in bristol, pennsylvania, or bristol, tennessee, people should know who is trying to impact their vote, and this amendment is very simple. it enhances the ad disclaimers by including the location of the funder. specifically, this amendment requires that the city and the state of the funder's resi

. >> i wonder if you can speak to the criticism about bob feinberg, who is a political appointee. >> ken feinberg is a leader on issues like this. he showed his abilities with the victims of 9/11 and the president is confident that he is the right guy to make sure that the people in the gulf are taking care of. >> you said that the president did not say ow that went. do you have a record of the conversation and how it did go? >> no, i do not. hawkthe president has made his standpoint clear on immigration. >> there is no record of this conversation? >> there hobbins no transcript. >> is there a tape? >> -- there is no transcript. >> is there a tape? [laughter] >> no, there is no taping system. >> there is no one taking notes? >> haweis this just a listening session for the president, on wednesday, or is he going to be putting pieces of legislation out there? >> there are proposals out there already. the house has passed a bill and the proposal has made it through committees in the senate. the president is going to talk about what we need to do to get it going and move legislation forw

as a great american, former united states senator, bob dole, who ed to say his body, the u.s. senate, is a great place if you ke to see paint d and in which things are done. ed however here they have acted with due diligence and great speed and in that speed have made a minorechnical error and i'm not going to tell anyone about it because th is the situation in which we must proceed on anemergency basis. i'm going toverlook it in irness. and i'd also like to yield to the gentleman, our honorable chairman, my partner, mr. oberstar. the eaker pro tempore: the ntleman yields. the geleman from minnesota is recognized. mr. oberstar: madam speaker, i thank the distinguished ntleman for ying. and we have agreed that the technical issue raised by representatives of t other body is of a nature that can be relved by the administration upon passagef this bill. it is better for us to pass this bill now to releasehe sutantive -- to address the substantive issue, relea of funds from the oil spill liability ust fund and not dela progress in cleanup. for that reason we will pass the bill inta

that's not the original because bob byrd gave it to so many of us. but i looked at that and i thought to myself, what a kind gesture, how impressed i was this young member of congress being accorded this kind of respect from this giant of the united states senate. robert c. byrd will be duly missed by us all. and he will be missed most of all when very difficult issues confront the legislative body, and there is a clamor that the legislative agree with the executive for whatever reason, a clamor that all too often emanates from fear of this, that or the other. and in that fear would ignore the constitutional role played by the congress of the united states. it is then that we will miss senator byrd's clarity of intellect, of conscience, of commitment to the constitution of the united states of america. and as well to the rules of the united states senate. he was a passionate and advocate for people, for principle, for the constitution and for our country. senator byrd, we will miss you, but we will remember fondly your contributions and be forever th