and brown report mattered a lot to me. i was four or five years to the project and this this was a massive undertalk about taking. it was about 2006 i realized how big it was. how much time it was going to take. how many years it was going to take. and there was a good part of me that didn't want to go forward. >> why? >> guest: it seemed enormous. it wasn't clear that five years later, ten years later i was actually being done with coherent book. what it seemed i would have more and more information. at that time the book wasn't clear in my head yet. what i'm clear about the amount of material there was to go through. the number of places i had to go to pull it together. it took me from quebec city in canada to the carolinas along the east coast to scotland and to england, to holland. >> host: why. let's start with those that are farthest away. why scotland? i can understand england. why scotland. bring people up in to understanding why would a book on race slavery and the troubled history of american universities. why sc

. >> thank you very much, chairman brown. i appreciate your having this hearing. no question, it is extremely important topic and we all agree on the importance of addressing retirement security. as you pointed out, mr. chairman, americans rely generally on three main vehicles for financial stability. private savings that often comes in the form of tax preferred accounts. there is employer pensions, which as you pointed out, are increasingly defined contribution plans. there is the social security program. government the policy should focus on protecting all three of these pillars of retirement security. a couple of ways we can approach this, one, recognize the strengths of the current retirement system and preserve what works. the other thing we need to do is acknowledge the hard truths going toorms that are be necessary to protect programs that seniors depend on. i think it is generally good to adopt the approach of first do no harm. one of the advantages of our current system is the diversity of saving options whether it is 401(k) or ira or pretax accounts from

[laughter] soiery brown was -- jerry brown was governor at the time, my friend. chair, whatever, maybe northern chair. he said this lady used your name as a reference. will you interview her because she wants to be appointed to a commission? commissionship. like the chair of the commission. in california. and i'dery big job, like -- i couldn't really remember her. he said, interview her and let think. what you so she comes to the house. we're sitting there. in the living room. of them come in. my son and two of my other girls come in, come in like this. good evening, mother. [laughter] and then says to the lady, are maid?ing to be our new [laughter] and, of course, we never used maid.rd we were never looking for a maid. so it was like, oh my god. said, i don't think so. >> she was one of the most -- most is one of the glamorous, wonderful, well-dressed women. >> i'm so proud of my daughters, how they manage it all. it's just a remarkable thing to me. i'm in all of all of you. i could never have done that. >> i wand ped to ask you about that. you grew up in this h

if you have five cases of brown bananas, suddenly hate them with a passion. eight recipes i have figured out. you have to hem, pay me lots of money. the education process is not just educating other people, ourselves educating as well. i think i just circumvented your question. >> you go girl. >> at any rate, the education process does start at home first. it starts with ourselves and asking certain kwis about what it is that we will eat. noticed is the at risk kids i work with -- and these kids are -- these are from families where the homes are broken. the mother might be in jail because she did something to the dad or the dad might be in jail because he did something to the mom. mom. these kids didn't often eat at night. what they do eat is what was just donated to me. they need food. go to the local high school where the kids have the money. much.don't need food so he two different demographics, the kids who need food that you think don't know anything are ore open to what i have to say than the kids who have food. that blew me away. come 't expect kids wh

i want to thank senator brown for calling the hearing and the work he and senator toomey did to bring this hearing about. i wanted to start with mr. romasco. i had a couple questions prepared, but your opening statement, the way you personalize the, sometimes a kind of testimony we don't hear too often in this room. i wanted, if you could, i know this is somewhat of your answer probably is dependent on some of extrapolation may be. if you could reject to the present scenario you describe that your mom was facing, how do you compare what your mama spacing in terms of the dependent the end social security and the effectiveness that it was whether when a 33-year-old mother would face today. are you able to do that? >> it's hard to do that, but i can tell you that if we look at the circuit dances, if that were happening today, i suspect we'd have to raise the finding a job and pay the rent. as it three decker house, working class and the part about him. the economic forces in the late 40s and early 50s weren't lavish, but they are more severe now. health care costs have increased. all the

you're talking about scott brown, and other people are talking about scott round, and -- scott brown, and everyone is tweeting about it. the reason it matters is we sort of form our consensus on twitter, and that is what makes it into the new york times. that is what makes it into politico. that is what makes it onto the evening news, and that is what gets projected out there in the bigger universe, so twitter is really the gathering universe right now, and, again, i think it is really changing the way things go. >> just to back this up some, you started this conversation as a boy on the bus. and then in the plane -- >> lots of reporters on the campaign. >> there are. >> who is in this bubble now, and why? explain this? >> in 1972 when tim cross wrote "the boys on the bus," the big guys were on the road, bob novak, and, again, they were out there with the candidate, riding the big narratives that would land in the paper and drive television coverage. today, fast forward to 2012, it is a very young group of reporters, and it is a mixture of television producers. i was an embed, and bas

brown the main source of an average and monitor income. and secondly even more important source as a result of the disappearance of the benefit pension plans i want to comment recently on proposals to change the index format for social security and switching to the elderly consumer price index is very much in keeping with the original intent of congress and i would argue the opposite would be chain price index basically when you cut program. i want to quickly make a couple comments. raking member toomey said it was cash negative. in fact, that's not the case. it is the bonds held by the trust fund under the law. a business adventures income would not be considered cash flow negative if i put in positive territory. another point i want to make quickly in terms of the tax increases, it's important to realize two points. one is the extent to which the shortfall facing social security is dead distribution income of the last three decades. wage income is covered by the cap after the greenspan commission. we now cover less than 83% of wage incom

i should point out for the record senator brown may not know this, but mr. sweeney went to the greatest undergraduate institution in the world, wally cross. >> with a name like sweeney, that's shocking. >> i have four daughters, mr. sweeney. i'm just realizing with your chart, when you indicate generation y .78 to 80. our oldest daughters and generation y in the next three or millennialist. in the chart you have on gen y tells a lot a threadbare, meaning their potential or likelihood of saving is not very high up on the scale. what would you say to both the gen y and younger folks at the millennialist? what do you have for them? >> bow section is surprising. >> so i can tell my daughters. >> i'd be happy to calculate as well. two things. we were surprised to find gen y was so red because there's so much more time to correct the trajectory they were on. >> explain red again. >> it meant they were not on track to recover are covered henschel expenses. to be drivers. they're not saving enough. the second big drivers the goalpost has been moved down the field an

it has only to do with the fact that it has got brown on it. trying to educate people around aesthetics can be really difficult. i would say generational. trying to be innovative in that space with these foods -- salad greens, i have not figured out what to do it. you have to eat them or compost them. that is what i do. with bananas, i have discovered different ways you can use them. part of it is the reeducation process for me is for me as well. i am noticing i have to change the way i think about things in order to create something out of them. i am fine with eating brown bananas. i think they taste good myself. when you have five cases are brown bananas, suddenly you hate them with a passion. i have probably eight different recipes that i have just figured out. i scoured the internet for recipes, and there are none. i have the recipes, if you want them. the education process is not just about educating other people. it is about educating ourselves as well. is about making sure we understand what we need to do. i think i just circumvented you

i mean, i'm fine with eating brown bananas. i think they taste good myself. i know some people don't. but when you have five cases of brown bananas, suddenly you hate them with a passion. [laughter] so i have probably eight different recipes that i've, that i have just figured out. i scoured the internet for recipes x there are none. so now i have them. i have the recipes. if you want them, you have to pay me lots of money. [laughter] but this, the education process is, it's not just about educating other people, it's about educating ourselves as well. and it's about making sure that we understand what it is that we need to do. and so i think i just circumvented your whole question and went totally off into bananas and's nettics. >> you go girl. [laughter] >> all right. at any rate, the education process really does start at home first. and it starts with ourselves and asking certain questions about what it is that we will eat. because really what i have noticed is these at-risk kids that i work with, i mean, and these kids are, these are from families where

ron brown's plane crash in 1995, oklahoma city occurred in 1995 raising all kinds of other questions about intelligence and the relationship of those who collected intelligence abroad and those who collected it at home, how it should be shared and what should be done. meanwhile boris yeltsin was trying to preserve his position as a true democrat in russia against opponents who wanted a more authoritarian future either going back to communism or forward with a kind of ultranationalists and that would recreate in their own minds the 20th and twenty-first century version of a russian empire. meanwhile, we were also seeing the emergence of terrorism justified by islamic politics and certain interpretation of religion. we had the first world trade center bombing in 93 remember, and the people getting pummeled in bosnia where muslims. it was a source of concern to people all across the world. i received calls from both the polk ape and the king of saudi arabia asking me to intervene, the first time they were ever on the same issue. dick holbrooke said it was a problem from hell. and when w

turned four years old this year, but she was three at the time -- she told me that she didn't want to be brown anymore because she needed to be white so that she could be the princess and where the pretty pink dress. this is a conversation that i think black families know we are going to have with our daughters. we know we are going to have it with our young daughters. i didn't expect to have it with my three-year-old niece. i thought this is going to come at six or seven or eight. that is what i mean the experience about being an american is very different in colored skin. we have to look at our sons and say, perception does this for your life. we have to look at our daughters and say, perception does this for your life. sort of guarded their minds and hearts and souls about it. my question is, how do we, in an integrated community, make that experience real for people who don't live it but will still have to make decisions about stand your ground laws, george zimmerman verdicts, trayvon martin, those everyday things that for us are so personal, but to them are another day in the life? >> i w

i ask it the way i did because whatreally is useful about senator brown and senator casey are trying to do. this is the kind of fact-finding effort we should be doing more of. is an award-winning journalist. she is not saying this is going on with every cup at a plan -- with every company plan. ofyou have the kind documented examples here and you do not have enforcement against those kinds of instances, that is an invitation to others to try to skirt the rules. mr. baker, have you done some suggestion with respect to penalties and consumer protections for workers that should be put in place? >> i have not written directly on this issue. i do have to say i look at this as part of a set of malfeasance and probably criminal actions that were taken. almost no one has gone to jail in connection with that. that raises a serious issue. the question of incentives. people think they can violate the law and the company at worst faces a modest fine. you are not discouraging that behavior. >> i am over my time. thank you. i would be open to suggestions. its truck me as an important -- it struck

ohio senator sherrod brown who chairs the subcommittee recently endorsed to increase social security benefits. this is two hours. found my [inaudible conversations] >> subcommittee and family policy to order. welcome ranking member senator tumor and senator isakson. i think others will join us. this is likely the first of a series of hearings that senator to me, i would like to do for retirement security, social security and all that it relates to. i appreciate his cooperation as i do senator hatch and chairman boxes cooperation. senator isakson and other members are welcome to do the same. retirement security in america as we know for a fdr and other stories from the new deal on has traditionally been thought of as a three-legged stool. social security employer-provided pensions and personal savings and investment. for sake of the store, social security is a modest but stable income during retirement years, but it's not just retirement security. social security provides basic financial security in the face of unexpected tragedy. social security provides safety net that is so bold, o

i am fine with eating brown bananas. i think they taste good myself. when you have five cases are brown bananas, suddenly you hate them with a passion. i have probably eight different recipes that i have just figured out. i start with recipes, and there are none. i have the recipes, if you want them. the education process is not just about educating other people. it is about educating ourselves as well. it is about understanding what we need to do. i think i just circumvented your whole question and went bananas. at any rate, the education process really does start at home first. it starts with act -- with asking certain questions about what we will eat. these at-risk kids i work with these are from families where homes are broken. the mother might be in jail because she did something to the dad, or the dad might be in jail because he did something to the mom. or they shot somebody they were pissed off at because they were drunk. these kids do not always eat that night. what they eat is often what i am bringing them from whole foods, or just donated to

brown: i thank the presiding officer. i'm here to join my colleagues in asking for unanimous consent to pass -- which we will do later -- to pass the tax extenders act of 2013. the bill will do number of important things, including particularly importantly for my state extending the health care tax credit for the hctc. it's important we extend it for workers and retirees who lose their jobs and benefits due to no fault of their own. extending it -- extending ht -- ctc preserves for people in my home state of ohio who worked hard and played by the rules, know, understand and trust. these tax credits are set to expire in just two weeks at the end of the year. while affordable health insurance will be available on the health exchanges, one of the most important things about the affordable care act, obamacare, extending the hctc to hctc ensures that retirees who have already faced a number of transitions can keep insurance that is familiar to them while they learn about new options. extending the tax credit for one year is fi

janice brown's nomination took 1 -- 684 days. tonight 190 days, and on that in similar cases, they completely changed the rules of the senate and how the senate nominates people to a lifetime appointment to the second highest court in the land. but despite this record and despite the fact that the d.c. circuit is still known to be underworked today, the majority presses ahead with what will be about a midnight or 1:00 a.m. vote to install a controversial law professor on the nation's second-most important court. so what's changed? what caused the same people that used to routinely filibuster highly qualified judges? what's caused them to now come here and make these changes? what's changed is that now there is a democrat in the white house. what's changed is they now want an ideologically compliant court. what they want is a liberal activist court, one that protects all the things they rammed through congress over the years and imposed through regulations and pushed through executive order. now we know why senate democrats were l

brown: thank you, mr. president. 75 years ago, president roosevelt signed the fair labor standards act written in part by senator hugo black of alabama who actually used -- sat at this desk as he was writing the minimum wage law and some of the fair labor standards act legislation in the 1930's. this legislation ensured that american workers would receive a minimum wage and work reasonable hours. we know what that's done for families in this country. we also know that the minimum wage hasn't even been close to keeping up with the cost of living, with inflation. we also know a number of other things, mr. president, about the minimum wage. minimum wage is now $7.25 an hour. many of -- many of minimum-wage workers working -- making $7.25 or $8 or $9 an hour -- less than we want to raise the minimum wage, too, so all would get a raise -- we know that many of those workers work in the fast-food industry. the c.e.o. of a fast-food corporation makes, we figure, about $8.7 million a year. while his average employe

he showed up in brown shoes and a dark suit. his shoes were muddy because he was campaigning. their glamorous honeymoon consisted of an overnight in michigan sitting outdoors listening to thomas, the favorite son. and a football game in an are -- ann arbor. she stayed in the hotel in ann arbor. he went to the game. they went back to grand rapids on monday, and he said he had to campaign that evening. could she make him a sandwich? he said, number of times he said later on she never let him hear the number of it. i think they took a number of second honeymoons. >> thing a lot of women are thinking -- they were born in 1948. children followed soon thereafter. michael in 1950, jack, steven, and susan born in 1957. i'm returning to steve ford talking about their congressional years. because in fact the politician won the race for the house of representatives and it was next 25 years as a member of congress. let hear steve ford talking about that life. >> dad was on the road 150 nights. maybe 200 nights a year campaigning for other republicans trying to get a majority in congress.

and senator scott brown from massachusetts, liberal massachusetts, home of ted kennedy who believed in government involvement in health care, he was elected on a promise in massachusetts to be the vote to kill it. there was a vacancy. senator kennedy's death created this vacancy. and he campaigned to kill and be the -- deny the democrats the 60th vote necessary. what did they do? they used the reconciliation budget process to pass this monumental policy change in america in a way that kept scott brown and the american people, through the electoral process, from ending this piece of legislation that put us in the position we're in today where you don't get to keep your doctor, you don't get to keep your health care, where people's deductibles are going through the roof, where the price of their insurance is going up, where people are not being hired, where two-thirds of the people who get a job this year in america only got a part-time job; clearly being driven by business interests and trying to avoid being caught up in the obligations of the affordable care act. but they insisted -- a

he has been public about the idea of looking for help in some of what we call mature fields or brown fields and we will also be very open to see how it transits in shallow waters. it it seems to be the case that areas of deep water and deep waters off mexico or the shell gas in the northern part that borders with texas, these are the states in the northern part seems to be more promising for participation. >> please. >> georgetown university. the united states and germany have embarked on a very ambitious plan for clean and renewable energy as part of the energy transportation process. could you talk a lil bit about your plan for energy efficiency and industry standards in that regard? thanks. >> this has been a very important topic of discussion in congress. two of the articles in the constitutional reform establish the responsibility of the mexican state to come up with a plan, a transition plan. that plan is going to be the responsibility of the ministry of energy. what we see is that natural gas is a very important fuel because right now we have this big irony in the country that

they call the place and you see the monitor on the far left is covered in brown paper. they told the girl that was something wrong with the computer and that in order to fix it they had to put brown paper around it and she had to write "omg hax." massive cooling equipment could not be found on the internet. i never really worked on an industrial setting before but this is a building that has 15 youth average of coolers. this is the interface. it is publicly accessible. us talk about information linkage -- begins. this is a ui. if you can tell what the name of the guy is that at men's this when i am not doing it, i will give you one dollar. he even mailed me because my computer's name appeared in the list when i landed on this controller. things in the world around you are keeping track of and loosely logging places in not a lot of people look. the protocol that was designed to bring together hvac systems and industrial systems that were running in businesses like this one. if you wanted the air- conditioning to talk to the garage or the alarm, you could use this to do t

because brown was the last one with the ball, he got into the end zone before time expired except the officials ruled he had stepped out of bounds before scoring. now, madam president, what if pittsburgh had said yesterday wait a minute, we're the home team, we'll change the rules. and say if you ten out of bounds only once as you're running towards the end zone with lateral passes on the last play of the game, then you score. so pittsburgh wins the game. or what if they said we're the home team, we'll add five minutes and see if we can win the game in that five minutes. they'd be happy in pittsburgh yesterday. but maybe not for a long time. but what happens when miami becomes the home team? and pittsburgh goes to miami to play. and miami changes the rules in the middle of the game so miami can win. and what happens to the game of professional football? if the home team could change the rules in the middle of the game to get the result it wants. the national football league knows, they spend a lot of time on rules. they know if there is no integrity for the rules, there's no integrity

it was already tagged as a brown bat. the scientists had a big fight. two of them said it was an indiana bat and one said it was a brown bat. they took the tag off of it, called an indiana bat but did they tell me i had to do anything to help the bat? no, they just cut me money to cut down trees on my own land. so it really isn't about the bat. it's about money. they charge you $2,400 per acre to chop your own trees down. another city in my state, grand rivers, when it rained, the sewage was flowing into the river, overflowing. they were over capacity and wanted to have a new sewage plant. they couldn't do it because the e.p.a. was saying, we need to know how many pocketbook muscles there are. now, are we going to stop the building of plant? no. what it does is it causes hundreds of thousands of dollars to be spent looking at this. bottom line is, remember, separation of powers is important and the loss of the filibuster i think is leading towards a one-sided party rule and leading towards less power here and more power in the executive branch. i think

every member jerry brown being there. she would make a speedy catering department. bageluld send us to the store to get bagels. one person would be in charge of putting cream cheese on the bengals. we would walk around serving at five years old or six years old. it was not all-consuming, she did not talk about it the way -- >> you look at her as a homemaker. >> yes. i still do. we were just at thanksgiving. in her is a 1950's housewife. >> 1950's teenager, 1970's housewife. [laughter] allverybody would be there, 20 of us. every meal, all she did was cook and clean up and prepare for nte next one. home, people think we have interesting political conversations at dinner. when she gets home, all she wants to do is relax and talk to herids and retreated family life. she cooks and cleans and reverts to that. >> not too much on the cleaning anymore. was all over she it. on thanksgiving, she made the kids go to saint anthony's dining room. teaching them about how lucky we are and how grateful we should be and all the good lessons she wants to teach them about being a membe

ensuring that the hope he gave lives on for all of those whose liberties and rights denied.l gordon brown. >> mr. speaker, 51 years ago, directly across from this house, standing ent square, lincoln of the statues, and general schmaltz and with is friend oliver tanbull, nelson mandela asked the question -- when if ever would a represented in that parliament square? that day in june in 1962 was an important one. the first visit to london and possibly his last. because he was on the edge of arrested, imprisoned, put on trial twice, once for his then spent 27 years incarcerated. it was a great privilege on what have of the people of that i was able to a statue to the irst black man represented on that square, nelson mandela himself in the presence of his wife.dela and elson mandela stand there now and forever. his hands outstretched but his finger pointing upwards as he always did to the heights. man most responsible for the of what people thought was indestructible, the system, the man who taught us no injustice could last forever. greatest mana, the of his generation, yes, but across the g

when things are not working, and they work for black kids and brown kids and poor kids in our you have tom, then change direction. it's not about opportunity. it's not about saying if all the for the kids than you have done your job, it is not about that. it's about holding ourselves to higher standards where we measure ourselves by successes as opposed to our desires. so much for joining us today. next think you. -- >> thank you. [applause] up, the administrator gina mccarthy talks about with china on climate control issues, and then discussing u.s. trade policy. then he lay next egg and on the workings of the court and justice clarence thomas on adjusting to -- then elena kagan on the workings of the court and justice and clarence thomas on adjusting to the supreme court. we talk about the deal with iran on the nuclear program. that is discussed along with the volcker rule. washington journal, every morning at 7 a.m. eastern. >> we look at the u.s. response to typhoon haiyan in the philippines. >> if you are a middle or high video student, c-span competition wants to know what is the

gordon brown. >> 51 years ago, directly across from this house, in parliament square standing in front of the statues of gladstone, lincoln, general smarts, with his friend oliver temple nelson mandela asked the question -- when, if ever, would a black man to be represented in that square? 1962, that was an important one. his first visit to london and possibly his last. edge of being arrested, imprisoned, put on trial twice, once for his life, and then itnt 27 years incarcerated, was a great privilege on behalf of the people of britain that i was able to unveil in 2007 a statue to the first black man to be represented in that square, nelson mandela, in the presence of him and his wife. it stands there now and forever. his hands outstretched, as the prime minister says, but his finger pointing upwards as he always did, to the man roast responsible for the destruction of what people thought was indestructible, the apartheid system, the man who taught us that no injustice can last forever. nelson mandela, the greatest man of his generation but across the generations, one of the most coura

often when you hear about profiling, normally you hear it about black men, black and brown men, or in the last few years, you may have heard what that looks like for people in the community. whenever i think about policing and what that does to our ,lients and the way they think that they are conscious of every move they make because everybody aows in new orleans there is jump-out tuesday -- the police roll up, even even if nothing is going on -- even if nothing is going on. we work in the community. when we had 10 housing developments, we could be handing out information, doing testing, and it literally, you would get 30-something police -- semi-i automatic automatic, and if you looked like they wanted to stop you, they could. if they want to go through our bags, they could. this is what poor communities in poor communities of color live with every single day. that means someone who is five years old, 10 years old, we live with this. if you think about what that does to your mind in how you think about yourself, that is one piece of it, but then you womenabout what i see for -- many

do a speech about an important issue, and then he would say something goofy about rihanna or chris brown, and that would make it. >> you also mentioned tupak. >> rubio is good with talking about rap. talking to campaign operatives, no one sees a solution to this. i had lunch with a fairly prominent republican governor out in arizona, and this person a few weeks ago said, how can the media get better? how can we work with them better? i did not have an answer for that. they are scared. editors at newspapers are terrified for lots of reasons. the web is disrupting them. campaigns are scared of the media >> a couple of questions, , two. and i want to open this up to you guys. what is retweet journalism? >> this is interesting. retweet journalism was coined by a man who does not like reporters very much, but he understands how quickly twitter can shape things. he calls it when a reporter just blindly retweets something without making a phone call to see if it is true. the example that tim used was a story about haley barbour, that he haley barbour was about to be indicted by the feds for tax

two blue-eyed parents will not produce a brown eyed child this way and furthermore with the number of different traits, 100 embryos or even 1001 give you a very good chance of getting your favorite on each of 20 different traits were 30 different traits but on 10 that are important to you the odds are pretty good. so what will that mean? i don't know. that is why i'm writing the book. but i do think it will mean that our children and our grandchildren and our great-grandchildren will face different parenting issues than we did. there issues will start well before birth in deciding what kind of baby they want. how will that baby feel knowing that he was picked to be andrew luck and rather than having andrew stream of being an architect he instead wants to be a poet or how will the parents feel when their football quarterback turns out to be a poet? what's going to happen in terms of fairness? will some people be able to afford it and some not? my own guess frankly as everyone will be offered this for free because if you are an insurance company or national health care system preventing

often when you hear about profiling, normally you hear it about black men, black and brown men, or in the last few years, you may have heard what that looks like for people in the lgbtq community. whenever i think about policing in the same way. often when you hear about profiling, normally you hear it and what that does to our clients and the way they think, that they are conscious of every move they make because everybody knows in new orleans there is a jump-out tuesday -- the police roll up, even even if nothing is going on -- even if nothing is going on. women with a vision, a lot of times, we work in the community. when we had 10 housing developments, we could be handing out information, doing testing, and it literally, you would get 30-something police cars, semi-automatic, and if you looked like they wanted to stop you, they could. if they want to go through our bags, they could. had to catch anybody in the act. they never had to catch anybody performing oral sex. they definitely didn't catch anybody having sex -- anal sex, the two things under the crimes against nature statute

neil brown, cory and lee hendrix made immeasurable contributions. i think the first finding that we make in this report is that you have to appreciate what a remarkable feat of political statecraft and statesmanship this reform is. here in washington we got ourselves on the back if we get bipartisan agreement to keep the government open for another few months. in the course of your mexico has with the agreement of three parties that don't agree with each other much have done education reform, fiscal reform, and now with two of the three major parties energy reform. it's a formidable a competent. it's breathtaking in the scale of its ambition. if it succeeds it will mexico from being a major to by 2025 i think a strategic supplier of oil and it will revive its economy and i think be very positive for bilateral relations and the hemisphere. i think of to understand that these changes are permissive and directed in nature. the constitution permits private investment into the upstream, midstream and downstream. directs the legislature to create legislat

senator brown become did you ask the panelists -- i appreciate you using the bully pulpit or positions to either encourage or shame us into more nonpartisanship. at the gridlock still exist. has no labels movement consider taking on one issue like transportation or immigration reform or taxation and fixing that problem and brandy that as a no labels initiative? and breaking the paradigm that way. >> let's have this be the final comment from both of our presenters. >> well first, you come from a great state, one of my favorite. my twin taking your voice, some of the best vacations we went up in alaska, fishing, hiking, all that kind of thing. hope you will take good care of it. yes, we have. the first initiative, nancy, correct me if i'm wrong, no budget, nobody. it's amazing. it ma may come as a spice state legislator and former and former governors of the federal government has gone years without -- not passing a budget. so finally in an attempt -- we tried shaming people into voting and so forth and so on. finally, concluded that maybe an appeal to the pocketbook would be more persua

they actually -- jerry brown took the opposite direction and said let's have a pro-growth, pro-worker, pro-public education strategy for moving our economy along. you are seeing the same thing in some ways in massachusetts. you are seeing it in maryland. so you're seeing some states make different choices. i think what has happened in detroit is a disaster. and i think it is a disaster because when you have a city go into bankruptcy, what does that say to the rest of the country? what is that saying to the people who live in th city right now? as i said, new york made a very different decision 30 years ago, in terms of a city as a public good, not a private entity. the private assets. it is a public good. so -- but the other question that you raise, which is the most important question, i think, is that it is an american value that if you work hard and play by the rules, the promises that have been made to you will be kept. and the unraveling of that social contract is an unraveling of the democracy, the lockean democracy in america. and that i think is very, very, very troublesome. a

it seemed like charlie brown and the football, but our reporters tell us that there is going to be a budget deal this time. [laughter] ryan, patty murray -- they are going to reach some sort of small deal so that reporters and lawmakers in budget directors are not working on new year's eve again. have you been briefed on the murray-ryan conversations? we submit a budget and then they act -- and then congress acts on it. we are excited and happy to be at this point. we are supportive of the process. what the administration can best do to get the ball over the line is be supportive of the process. the supportive of the effort that ms. mari and mr. ryan are doing -- mr. murray -- ms. mu rray and mr. ryan are doing. that is what we're doing. the entire process began before i came back to the office of management and budget. being specifics are worked out. it is pretty clear the gist of this deal. we're going to set some spending so we can have regular order, to change some of the sequester , and no big, new taxes. no big changes in entitlements. --s that just sound like does that gist se

libby was famous for what we all call an insulting performance of a black prostitute in brown space to a genuine love on the part of her proteges, even for charlotte mason, to a kind of heroic status for nancy's work in putting blacks' culture expression in the largest anthology that i think to date has still ever been created. harlem held back on its judgments. saying we are not sure what race is. we don't know, we want to celebrate it, and we don't know if we want to be free of it, and we didn't know if race is ethics or owe the people we were born to allegiance. we don't know where to stand. let's get it on the table. it was a remarkable openness to cringe worthiness. it was invited many in, and that convinced me to hold back my own judgments because i think we might find that the more we all put on the table, presidenter off we are. >> very good of you. again, generous of you. i'll push you, and then we can open it up to the floor for questions, but you cite joplin. >> i do. >> being black for a while will make me a better white. that could apply to characters in the book, and that

brown: thank you, mr. chairman. i ask unanimous consent that on roll call 640, if i have been present, i would have voted yes, i wanted it included in the record. and i want to state for the record that i am very disappointed that in the bill, that we did not include unemployment insurance -- unemployment insurance. i think it's criminal that the people -- the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlelady's statement will be ncluded in the record. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina seek recognition? >> i ask permission to address the house. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i'm going to ask our north carolina colleagues to join me here, along with the dean of our delegation, mr. coble. mr. speaker, our colleague of many years, mel watt, has just cast his last vote in this body. mel watt, the representative of the 12th congressional district, from charlotte, north carolina, has just

here.l have anne richards ambassador brown of jordan. and we know the united nations has traveled a long distance. we are grateful for that. i thank senator graham who proposed this hearing. we have a humanitarian catastrophe in syria. it continues to unfold in syria. not just that syria, no one more directly than jordan and lebanon. i want to commend you for your generosity. you've done this even though others might shirk from this. i commend both of your countries. the number of refugees change all the time. 557,000. we know that there are more than that. in jordan, they are living mostly in tent camps like this picture here. in lebanon, they are scattered among the general population. over here. for people who have traveled to lebanon, as i have, know that you have some varied types of topography and geography. you have two governments. they are facing huge strains on their government and their populations. the war in syria shows no sign of ending. the protracted crisis is going to be stressful on lebanon and jordan. turkey andas on i

in support of the equal employment for all act, a bill i introduced today with senators blumenthal, brown, leahy, markey, shaheen and whitehouse. this legislation would prohibit employers from requiring prospective employees to disclose their credit history as part of the job application process. it makes sure that hiring decisions are based on an individual's skill and experience, not on past financial problems. this is also about basic fairness. let people compete for jobs on the merits, not on whether or not they have enough money to pay all their bills. many people have bad credit because they hit hard times. they got sick, their husband left, or their wife died, that he lost their jobs. these are tough events urnsdz er any circumstance and put a strain on a person. the strain sometimes results in late praimen payments orange inn the amount of money they -- or an increase in the amount of money they must borrow. the problems of bad credit were compounded following the 2008 crisis. man depreciated savings left people with a smaller financial cushion to survive fluctuations in their inc

a famous example would be brown versus the board of education which reversed the separate but equal doctrine that ended the southern governments' laws that banned white and black persons from associating together. now, this created a certain upheaval at the time, but it stuck, and part of the reason that it stuck was the public saw that this was a decision by this nonpartisan court that was acting as an arbiter of our constitution, and the respect that the american people had for our courts was a big part of why a contentious decision quickly became accepted and became part of our fabric. alexander hamilton explained that the judiciary's integrity and independence are absolutely critical. otherwise, americans' confidence in the court will be replaced by what he described as universal distrust and distress. he said -- and i quote -- "the benefits of the integrity and moderation of the judiciary must have commanded the esteem and applause of all the virtuous and disinterested. considerate men of every description ought to prize would what will fortify that temper in the courts as no man a may

corrine brown -- this is medford, new york, hello. caller: i would like to bring up something that people should not forget, is that disgraceful way ronald reagan treated mandela. he wouldn't put sanctions on the staff african -- on the south afton coming. he indicated he was a communist. shame on ronald reagan. he was a great man. host: one more from florida, and hello? caller: good evening. host: good evening. and we i am a jamaican, will miss man della -- mandela. jamaica, we love him. thank you very much. host: and more of your comments are welcome at facebook.com/cs pan. tomorrow on "washington journal," more of your comments. we will take you back to 1998 and the congressional gold medal ceremony or nelson mandela at the capitol. [cheers] >> thank you very much. thank you. thank you. thank you very much. thank you. [cheers] thank you. mr. speaker, senator thurman, senator daschle, congressman gephardt, representative hotten, thank you for what you have done to make as they come to pass. we are in your debt. waters, thank you. he

gordon brown. >> mr. speaker, 51 years ago directly across from this house in parliament square standing in front of the statutes of -- [inaudible] lincoln and general -- [inaudible] and with his friend, oliver, nelson mandela asked the question when, if ever, would a black man be represented in that parliament square. and that day in june 1962 was an important be one. his first visit to london and possibly his last. because he was on the edge of being arrested, imprisoned, put on trial twice -- once for his life -- and then spent 27 years incarcerated. so it was a great privilege on behalf of the people of britain that i was able to unveil in 2007 a statue to the first black man to be represented on that square, nelson mandela himself in the presence of nelson mandela and his wife. and that statue of nelson mandela stands there now and forever. yes, his hands outstretched, as the prime minister said, but his finger pointing upwards as he always did to the heights. the man most responsible for the destruc

schumer, feinstein, murray, sanders, king, franken, harkin, murray, warren, whitehouse, blumenthal and brown. mr. durbin: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection so ordered. mr. schumer: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from new york. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of s. 1882, a bill to extend the exclusion from income for employer-provided mass transit and parking benefits, that the bill be read three times and passed and the motion to reconsider be considered and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: is there objection? a senator: reserving the right to object. the presiding officer: the senator from utah. mr. hatch: mr. president, i understand and appreciate my colleague's commitment to this particular issue. however, this is just one of many tax provisions that will expire at the end of the year. in the past the seni