he was born in cuba. back in 1971 he was involved in the break-in involving the pentagon papers. he was one of the burglars found crouching under a desk in the democratic national committee headquarters in the watergate building. he served a prison sentence that was suspended in 1975." joe, south carolina. caller: i used to know plenty of people in chicago that were in construction and the unions. their entire model was to make the job last as long as they could. they worked half taste, half- hearted. that is the model of most unions, including the uaw. could you imagine everyone in this country working at that pace? imagine if your doctor said that he would make the surgery last longer, what kind of productivity would we have?

these guys sound like the castro regime in cuba. we will go on forever with the same failed system. more money for doctors and fewer fees, lower malpractice fees and things like this. this sort of response is terrible. you'll have to take the various interest groups, and try to bring about change. host: our guest is kevin baker. first up is richard joining us from massachusetts. good morning. caller: you'll never see change in our government. our government, they are all a bunch of crooks. that is the way it is. they have their own insurance, but me, i have a pension from the fire department. they are going to take half away because i get my pension. we as americans, we are proud and honest people. but our government is the most corrupt government and the world. thank you for listening. host: your response? guest: i would agree with a lot of that. the government comes from somewhere. these people did not land from mars. we will all have to get more involved with making the government respond. one of the great advances fdr had is that he was being pushed hard by working people in thi

the same that they have in france and canada and cuba. we have the higher infant mortality rate than cuba does. >> how will a single pair plan remedy that? >> everyone will be on a single playing field. >> john, in new york city. what do you think? >> good morning thank you for c-span. the debate of healthcare is all over. nobody really talks about what prevention actually means. that is really what are we putting into our bodies. you think about all the packaged and processed foods. why would i pay for other people's habyits of not taking care of their bodies. >> thanks for your call. from democrats. what's your point? >> di definitely support single payer. it's an important thick that all the people ask themselves. which is more important? healthcare for people in this country or profits for insurance companies? if we could cut 30% off the cost of our healthcare, because they are draining off 30% of every dollar in our system. the worst part about it is it is self per pet ue waiting. the insurance companies can put under their healthcar

he had a gold eagle, teddy, and a dog, cuba. so to train his men, he had three animals with him all the time and would write letters about the cougar biting a man's foot and he would find all this funny. this menagerie of roosevelt continued in the white house. famously he had a pony in the elevator. he had a pet badger he picked up on this trip, josiah where he fed it potatoes and warm milk. he didn't have a dog like the obama's dog. he had six animals. the dog he picked up in colorado would sit on his lap. he inherited this love of animals a lot from his uncle robert roosevelt who in the 1850's and 1870 was was an expert on fish. he would write about wild florida which is very big to roosevelt. it came part of the family tradition being a conservationist. >> how did you convince or do you try to conversion harper collins to public a 1,000-page book in this economy we're in right now? >> my vision is do a quartet called america and the age of conservation with the first volume really on t.r. they don't like to promote publisher

but cuba wouldn't take him. so he and another fellow who had an independent case had been incarcerated in detention facilities awaiting re repatriation to cuba, one for eight years and another for something like 13 years. this was occurring before a supreme court case, and the feature was how does a circuit judge spot that case given that it was a handwritten petition, pro se. you have to really read carefully. it takes time to take care of a case like that and to develop the legal analysis. the person had sort of recognized that there was a due process concern, that he was in detention without having any crime, but not being able to be repatriated to cuba under the circumstances of the case. that is one illustration of a case where it is vitally important the judges pay particular attention to the case, figure out what is involved in the case, then write an opinion, figure out the situations and produce a final opinion that can be adopted by the majority of that panel. sometimes those kinds of cases end of goin

we have worked together in the past on many issues related to lifting the embargo on cuba and normalizing relations with that country. and on many, many issues. but i believe that he is wrong about the funding i requested in the homeland security appropriations for the city of emeryville's community emergency safety facilities project. the city of emeryville is in my district, it has a dense population of nearly 10,000 residents and a 1.2 square mile region. although much smaller in size than the neighboring city of san francisco, this small city has become a leader in interagency cooperation and for the new economy innovation. on behalf of the city of emeryville, now, this was the only request that i made, i requested $600,000 to help finance the sizement retrofitting of the city's principle and only emergency community gathering and housing facility in the event of a natural disaster. it's the enry -- emery unified high school gymnasium. they've used these funds to finance 15% of the initial costs for phase one of the project for seismic planning and development which in total would cos

we will not debate amendments dealing with the transferor release of detainees from guantanamo bay, cuba, boo the united states. finally, i strongly agree with many members who believe that congress should do everything possible to ensure that the detainee pictures presently subject to the freedom of information act are not released. the president and our military commanders determined that these photos, if released, would risk the safety of u.s. forces in iraq and afghanistan. given the overwhelming support for this language in the senate, i regret we could not address this issue on the house floor today. as in years past, i believe that this legislation reflects many of the armed services committee's priorities in supporting our nation dedicated and courageous service members. i thank the chairman and helping to stay focused on delivering a bill that protects, sustains and builds our forces. i look forward to working with my colleagues to improve and pass h.r. 2647 and i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from missou

one last comment, in cuba, cuba is something that is always talked-about. what do they do with aids patients in cuba? don't they send them to an island by themselves and separate them? host: care to answer? guest: 62,000 figure was something that senator orrin hatch calculated out yesterday from the cbo analysis that was released late yesterday. the health committee bill in the senate would cost more than one trillion dollars. and that is a number that we will see repeated and thrown around a lot in the next few days, because republicans have been saying for a while now that we don't know what the president is trying to do, that is trying to spend so much money and whether or not he will accomplish his goals. if this was a look at the bill, but there were missing parts in it, missing some parts of the health reform program, and where mandates, a public insurance plan that would change the final calculations and there was left out how much medicaid expansion would cost. that would add a couple hundred million dollars to the bottom line. there are other aspec

the united states insisted that the larger debate on cuba be framed to democracy and human rights. along with key partners we won a reafter mation of the principles of democracy that define the american states. wisdom was evident yesterday's when the oas and inter-american democratic charter were used as the basis for our response to the coupe that occurred. let me also say a word about the detention of five british embassy staff in tehran. we are following the situation with great concern. we have noted the statement from the european union. we find that the harassment of embassy staff is deplorable and will continue to support the united kingdom in calling for their release. finally, on iraq. tomorrow, june 30, marks the end of u.s. troop presence in iraqi cities and localities. this is a significant milestone in the responsible withdrawal of our forces from iraq, and in iraq's journey to become a stable, sovereign, self-reliant state. this morning held a secure video conference with ambassador hill and some of his senior team in baghdad. the ambassador provided updates on the si

cuba didn't sign it. india didn't sign it. they laugh at us for signing it. and they are really doing a better job of making sure that they produce energy cleanly. perfect example. as you know, and have also advocated, we should drill in the gulf of mexico for more crude oil and natural gas. we can do that safely and cleanly. but we are not doing that. so who is going to do that? the cubans and the chinese are going to be drilling in waters near the united states where we ought to be drilling. and i can assure you that those platforms that the cubans are building and the chinese are helping them build are not going to be near as safe, pollution safe, as we what concurrently do. it makes no sense that we hurt ourselves in producing energy and automatically say we are going to punish energy consumption by taxing energy and its consumers, american people, out of business in hopes that we can get a cleaner environment. we'll all be riding bicycles and living in towns where we just have to use canls because we are not going to have the -- candles because we are no

regarding the nuclear assistance that the iaea provides to member states especially to iran, syria, cuba and sudan. the g.a.o. report noted that from 1997 to the year 2007 the international atomic energy agency's technical cooperation program provided over $55 million to these state sponsors of terrorism, supposedly for peaceful purposes, but as the g.a.o. report notes, nuclear equipment, technology, and expertise can be dual-use, meaning capable of serving a peaful purpose but also useful in contributing to nuclear weapons development. the g.a.o. report criticizes offices at the state department for having little or no idea what these programs actually consist of, much less working to stop the most harmful among them. . unfortunately the bill contains no language that addresses this problem despite the administration's full request for over $100 million to be given to the iaea. the bill before us does not mandate that the state department take immediate action to implement the recommendations of the g.a.o. it does not require our representatives at this agency to do anything to prevent

fact no circumstance under which i would like to be a citizen of north korea, zimbabwe, venezuela, cuba or russia. i am a citizen -- [cheers and applause] >> i am a citizen of the united states of america. and the rest of this speech is about the united states of america. [cheers and applause] >> america is an unique civilization. calista and i a couple of years ago did a movie called "rediscoverying god in america" which ises a walking tour of this city. we did it deliberately. it was our answer to the ninth circuit of court which is in fact irrationally out of touch with this country and irragly ruled that one nation under god was unconstitutional, grounds for my thought we should abolish the court and -- thomas jefferson eliminated 18 out of 35 federal judges, over one half of all federal judges. i am merely proposing one court of appeals. i am a moderate on this issue. [applause] >> but the core of this is a very historic straightforward debate. it's not a theological debate, it's not a religious debate despite every effort of the elite media and every effort of the left to distort

-cuba policy. the u.s. congress must continue to condition access by the cuban regime to the billions of dollars in u.s. tourism and massive u.s. investment and trade financing to the liberation of all political prisoners without exceptions, the legalization of all political parties without exceptions, labor unions and the press, and the scheduling of multiparty elections. that is critical leverage for a democratic transition to take place in cuba when fidel castro dies for he is the ultimate source of absolute personal totalitarian power on that enslaved island like a modern day nero. and that moment is approaching. we must keep in mind the effect of unilateral concessions such as last week's shameful o.a.s. action on fidel castro. how does he react to such unilateral concessions? the repression is more intense than ever. the true talt more savage -- brutality more savage than ever. the alliance with chavez, the syrian regime, and middle eastern terrorists and with the north korean dictatorship is closer t

the united states insisted that the larger debate on cuba be framed within the oas's commitment to democracy and human rights. along with key partners, we've won a reaffirmation of the principles of democracy and constitutional order that define the organization of american states. the wisdom of our approach i think was evident yesterday when the oas and inter-american democratic charter were used as the basis for our response to the coup that occurred. let me also say a word about the detention of five british embassy staff in tehran. we are following this situation with great concern. we have noted the statement from the european union. we find that the harassment of embassy staff is deplorable, and we will continue to support the united kingdom in calling for their release. finally, on iraq, tomorrow, june 30 marks the end of u.s. troop presence in iraqi cities and localities. this is a significant milestone in irresponsible with all of our forces from iraq, and in iraq as a journey to become a stable, sovereign, self reliable state. -- i atarax the journey to become a stable, sovereign,

i believe there were some discussions held between the united states, russia, and cuba in the early 1990's that brought some of the key players -- some of the key players in that crisis together. and secretary castro was asked how close the world was to a nuclear war, and he put his fingers together by this and he said, this] it was a dangerous period. i think one of the reasons it was dangerous is at the time of the cuban missile crisis in 1962, there really were no agreements that limited and managed the risk posed by the u.s. and russian nuclear arsenal. i think it is a different time today, that this agreement that the u.s. and russia are going to sign tomorrow will enhance the security of both the u.s. and russia, and it will give each side the consonants and transparency necessary to continue to work -- confidence and transparency necessary to continue to work together and hopefully continue talks on reducing their respective nuclear arsenals even further. host: a twitter -- guest: president obama said in his speech this will be a very difficult journey and something that is probab

that this house of representatives has done in places all over the world, whether it is and tibet, cuba, or in eastern europe, the middle east, or any other region. to reaffirm our commitment to stand for certain fundamental, universal principles involving human rights, participatory democracy, and the affirmation of the rights of the people of any country. today, it is about the people of iran. with that, i reserve the balance of my time. >> we have an impressive lineup of speakers on our side. i like to start by yielding five minutes to the gentleman from indiana, the author of the bill. >> the chairman from indiana is recognized for five minutes. >> ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. >> without objection. >> i rise with a great sense of humility and a great sense of moment before this body. but a great sense of gratitude. to the rescue member for her extraordinary leadership in bringing this resolution to the floor, a resolution in which, as the chairman of the committee just stated, it will give the american people, through their elected representatives, clear op

he had spent time in florida as a rough rider in tampa bay on his way to go fight in cuba. here he is getting ready for battle and was taking notes on birds in the tampa bay area. places like around santa bell island, a beautiful place. a lot on the gulf coast of florida he saved. most famously, key west, the dry or the tuegas, great breeding places. >> go back to the beginning. how did you find this place? >> that was it. when i start going to thes, they would all say, did you go here, the headquarters. >> i'm basically asking you these questions for others that need to research. how did you get in the door? >> called mark madison, the historian for u.s. fish & wildlife, and part of his job is to interface with scholars. they helped me to particularly -- with looking material, but with these, with slides. i was talking about -- these are the old lantern slides. there's a box of them, brian. i don't know if you can see this there. gron you can see it. but maybe we could get an image put up. that's craigle in a canoe. >> they've got all of the battles and washington state. t

health care services in cuba are not our model. we should not be looking towards cuba for that. i believe we have excellent health care professionals in this country. of course, i agreed that we need to make it easier to become a physician or a health-care professional in one way or another. but i do not think we should look toward cuba, but i think what we need to do is fix the system here and we have the foundations to do that. host: independent line, just in from illinois. caller: first-time caller and it is great to be on. i would like to agree with the last caller about how our medical system is costing too much and i believe that anyone that had it in them to go through college and make it as a doctor or attorney should have their education paid for free and i also believe doctors are getting paid way too much. topical know, michael jackson who just recently passed away, they just reported there was only one doctor at a hospital at the time he was brought in. i just wanted to make the point that instead of spending one trillion dollars -- $1 trillion , up 12 zeros behind i

speaker, i rise today to speak for those in cuba who cannot speak for themselves. as the administration is moving forward with immigration talks, as we're welcoming cuba, i rise to say that when you deal with cuba you are not dealing with a good regime, you are dealing with a dangerous regime. in may, 2008, pastor omar gutierrez was arrested and charge with human trafficking. when no evidence was found to try the charges, he is now in prison. a man who has been dedicated to his religion now faces years in prison. 30 angellecal pastors were arrested by cuban authority. this is a clear attack on religion by the castro regime. we hear that two castro spies may be working among us in our government for decades. it's crucial that the united states government move slowly and cautious with cuba. the administration must not go forward with cuba until congress is fully briefed. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania rise? mr. pitts: i ask permission to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore:

at the general assembly earlier this month, the united states insisted that the larger debate on cuba be framed within the oas's commitment to democracy and human rights. along with these were -- partners, we want a reaffirmation of the principles of democracy and constitutional order. the wisdom of are protesting was evident yesterday when the oas and the democratic charter were used as a basis for our response to the coup that occurred. we also -- let me also say a word about the detention of five british embassy staff in tehran. they are -- we are following this situation with great concern. we find that the harassment of embassy staff is deplorable, and will continue to support the united kingdom in calling for their release. finally, iraq. tomorrow, june 30th is smart -- is the end of u.s. troops present -- presence in to run. -- in iran. iraq. the ambassador provided updates on the security, political and economic situation in iraq, and we discussed a number of the challenges and opportunities that we are facing. this withdrawal is occurring under the so-called so far agreement

if you look at cuba, for example, it is something that is a hypocritical u.s. policy in a part of the world that drives a lot of countries down their crazy. his talk about the embargo in cuba and its limits. he talked in cairo about the 1953 coup. other that will clear the air and allow people to start over -- maybe not because there's a lot of history. he mentioned gaza. i was a correspondent there. these are stories that emerge and then slip back out of sight quite a bit. i think he expresses a lot of frustration. much frustration that is felt in the arab world about u.s. policy. host: in addition to being a juror salaam your chief, and has also served in latin america and elsewhere joins us. our next call is from miami. caller: good morning, i am a cuban-american. i do not know what your opinion is about that. in to both we have no freedom. i have never been able to visit my homeland. anyway, why should we apologize all the time? 9/11, i don't think we need to apologize -- we have done wrong in the world, but we have done good. i am not jewish, but we cannot

i recently visited guantanamo bay, cuba. one thing that impresses me more than anything else is the men and women that wear our uniform. they never talk about politics. they never talk about policy or how they stand on certain issues. they're there to do a job. they're putting themselves in harm's way so we can stand here tonight and discuss these issues and talk about what we think is best for the future. and to sit -- and to think that politics is being played with the ammunition that goes in their guns or the body armor or the vehicles they drive or anything they have to rely on from us as a congress to pay for what we are sending them there to do is unconscionable to me and it's something that i hope, as you said earlier, has been delayed and hopefully that delay is felt -- continues on to next week and maybe we can reconsider what we're doing when we talk about politics should have no place when it comes to funding what we send our men and women in uniform to do abroad, whether you agree with these wars, whether you agr

constantly fights for getting those universally accepted human rights respected in my native homeland of cuba. iran should be no exception. how honored i am to be with a long line of heroes here who are speaking on behalf of the iranian people, who may feel that they have no voice, but they are being listened to internationally. for decades, the people of iran have been denied the most basic fundamental human rights and civil liberties by an impressive -- and oppressive iranian regime which uses a sham process and candidates handpicked by the ruling apparatus. real reform and real democracy were never an option. the machine relies on so-called elections to provide them with a veneer of legitimacy, but that aside has been shattered by iran -- in iran by the protesters that took to the streets this week. the state department's human rights record noted iran's human rights record worsened and it committed -- continued to commit serious violations. it severely limited citizens tried to change their government peacefully through fear, free and fair elections, using smear tactics and fear and intim

number one, iran is linked to venezuela, cuba, castro, the new president in cuba. when you look at ahmadinejad, you look at him during a photo op, he actually calls bush the devil, challenging him at the united nations. this is just another country where the man is a puppet. i do not know a lot about his opponent. i knew none know a lot about him. i know that he represents the people, which is why we are obviously having a lot of uprisings over there. all that it is is that it is more photo ops. we have enough issues around the world right now. we went to the united nations, as i remember, to get a resolution. i have yet to hear that publicly put out so that everybody hears about it. host: so, moving forward, how do you suggested the united states handle this situation, assuming that mahmoud ahmadinejad will retain his presidency? caller: #1, we have hillary clinton as the secretary of state. she is powerful, but she needs to act. president obama needs to give her more leverage so that she can act with these countries. we need more support from allied countries as

you should focus on africa and cuba. give us other perspectives to see other opportunities. host: we will take your request into consideration. guest: i can understand your caller's concern in regards to why i'm here today has to do with the fact that there is somewhat of a crisis in a given part of the world. i think the one point that i would make, maybe not directly related to the caller's concern, there is a great deal of thought about change in iran and whether how far the change is going to go. i doubt that there are that many people that expect, as i have seen or suggested that there is a good time that the regime is vulnerable and may be a good time to change the regime and all. i want to caution to the degree that the regime is going to take place. after all, we're talking about a country of immense political importance. the country that is sitting between iraq and afghanistan for still unstable countries. i doubt that anyone would want to envision an unstable iran as well in the middle of that. i hope one thing we will take out of it is a very widely civic society

cuba does not allow humanitarian agencies to monitor these prison conditions. the fact that somehow prisoners are rebelling against these conditions, we are led to believe that this is the responsibility of the united states. it is the responsibility of the cuban government. they include those in custody. they should live up to those obligations. >> they accuse the united states and european countries. is this going to be a possibility of a more coordinated an approach toward cuba? >> i am sure that when we talked to other governments around the region, cuba tends to come out. but what i just described is how would this. >> there is this saying that they want to sell them about $5 billion worth of weapons. do you know which kind of weapons? >> what relationships governments have is up to them. what they do in those relationships is a matter of bilateral issue between venezuela and russia. we do not care. on the other hand, to the extent that venezuela is purchasing equipment, we are hard-pressed to see what legitimate defense needs of venezuela has. our primary

whether it is in tibet or in cuba or in eastern europe or in the middle east or any other region, to reaffirm our commitment to stand for certain fundamental principles involving human rights, participatory democracy, and the affirmation of the rights of the people of any country. today it's about the people of iran and with that i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentlewoman from florida. ms. ros-lehtinen: thank you, mr. speaker. we have an impressive line-up of speakers on our side. i'd like to start by yielding five minutes to the gentleman from indiana, mr. pence, the author of the bill, republican conference chair and an esteemed members. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. pence: i thank the gentlelady for yielding and i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. pence: i rise with a great sense of humility and a great sense of moment before this body but a great sense of gratitude. to the ranking member for her extr

the former state department employee and his wife, accused of spying for cuba, have been behind bars since there arrested thursday. "the boston globe" is reporting that the new york times co. has hired goldman sachs to manage the possible sale of open code the boston globe." the report says they have begun accepting bids. >> "washington journal" continues. host: gov. howard dean joins us, the author of "howard dean's prescriptions for real healthcare reform." guest: i do not think we are blind to get much agreement between dr. dean and dr. coburn on this one. the idea that we were better off with insurance companies is a crazy idea. there are more bureaucrats telling doctors what to do than there ever were in the united states government. host: as far as prescriptions that the obama administration one for health care, how did they fall in line with what you are prescribing? guest: that is the plan in prescribing. there needs to be a public option. the most effective, efficient plant in america -- taking care of people with medicare. yes, there are serious problems. compared to what t

detention facility in guantanamo bay, cuba. mr. brown said the decision was the right thing to do and he was happy to help the united states and to president obama. new mexico, last call on the issue of the response to iran. this is chris. good morning. on a cut of the lady before the last digit of a cut, the lady before the last caller was absolutely correct. any direct support from the united states would strengthen the hard-liners from iran and the iranians know that and that is what is coming on

but we can look at cuba. cuba prior to fidel castro taking over that government was very prosperous. certainly they had problems but not the problems that they have today. in cuba we have a very rich elite headed by a marxist, fidel castro. and we have a vast majority of the people in that country are struggling, very poor with no choices. that's exactly where we're headed in america today if we continue down this road, the steam roll of socialism, this high-speed train that's going to drive us off the economic cliff. and we've got to stop it. republicans have offered alternative after alternative. we had alternatives to the housing crisis. the liberals on the other side were obstructionists. they wouldn't let our alternatives be heard. we had alternatives to the stimulus bill. i call it a nonstimulus bill because it has not and will not stimulate the economy. we had alternatives. the other side were obstructionists. they would not allow those things to be -- our ideas to be heard, brought to this floor for d

look at cuba. in cuba, you have universal health care, universal access and it's all free. the problem is, there is no health care in cuba. and anti-buy on thics medication, nonexist tant. how does that apply to us? what we are doing in effect with this bill is taking two big entitlements, medicare and medicaid, the states can't afford medicaid. the federal government can't afford medicare. it will run out of money in eight years. we are taking out $-- half a trillion of dollars out of it and then tax people and create a new entitlement, stacking one entitlement after another. look, the bottom line here is, there are two ways to bend the cost curve down in health care. one is to have a giant system like this and create bureaucrats who are going to control things and micromanage and ultimately save money through long lines, waiting list and rationing. the other, one i prefer, is the free market, where we attack the doctor-patient relationship and we empower him where he has power and clarity and transparency and health savings accounts and he can go and decide and have patie

so i feel it's been an honor and a privilege as a caribbean american whose roots fly cuba, an tiga, st. kitts and the danish west indies, now the virnlen islands, to host this hour with the congressional black caucus is recognize and paid tribute to caribbean american heritage. with that, madam speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back the balance of her time. under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009, the gentleman from texas, mr. carter, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. mr. carter: i want to thank you for recognizing me today. i got some stuff i think's kibeds of interesting to talk -- kind of interesting to talk about. let's see, let's start with -- recently while listening to the radio i heard an announcement that president obama was appointing a gentleman to be named the compensation czar and that kind of threw me, i being an old criminal law trial judge. i remember the drug czars of past. i remember i think a couple of homeland security czars, but i never had heard of a compe

he spent time in florida as a rough rider on a camp on his way to go to fight in cuba. he is getting ready to battle. he was taking notes on birds in the tampa bay area. places like santa bell island, he saved on the gulf coast of florida. he saved key west, the tortugas, a great bird places. >> how did you find this place? >> when i would start going to the spots, they all said, did you go here, to the headquarters? >> i'm asking you these questions for others. how then did you get in the door? >> i called mark mathisen, an historian for the u.s. fish and wildlife. part of his job is to interface with dollars. they helped me through particularly looking at material, with slides like the spirit of was talking about -- these are the old lantern slides. a whole box. maybe we can get an image put up. that is paul in a canoe. they have the battle of oregon and washington state. they have slides. in florida of the early conservationists. we may not know these people. but in u.s. fish and wildlife culture paul cragle is a hero. he has a whole monument in florida. a singer spo

yet our health care, life expectancy is on par with cuba, on par with cuba. so we have got to make fundamental changes. as the gentlewoman said, to focus on prevention. four cents of every dollar is focused on prevention, yet we have some of the worst chronic diseases that continue over this period. we want to stress that folks will have more choices and bean counters won't decide, but doctors will decide the type of health care they get and there is enough money in the system to pay for itself. those are the delee guideposts and the beacons we are using as we are drafting legislation in the house. . ms. pingree: i want to emphasize the points you made, every time i sit down and meet with a group of doctors, i feel like i'm in a completely different era than when i first ran for office in 1992, when i was first elected to be a state senator and i would meet with my local group of physicians the first thing they'd say is you keep your hands off health care reform, you know, we're perfectly happy with the way it's going. i'd meet the occasion member of the prac

same thing in cuba. when cass stre came in an kicked out the sand niece stas, that's when you get a problem. you look at democracy. what is democracy, about 200 years old? how do you change 2,000-year-old cultures? go over to israel. nobody is saying what is going on over there, because the united states have an agenda with israel. they don't have a problem with the palestinians getting murdered, but as soon as a bomb blows up, it is terrorism. host: we will leave it there. mr. ambassador? guest: iran is going to change in the long term, but that will happen in accordance with the wishes of the iranian people. i'm not trying to dictate what shape that should take, and i don't think that's the intention of any of the politicians who comment on iranian affairs, other than to say that there are ra union versal status in mill rights. if the country itself claimed that it wish the to have a democratic element to its national element, like iran does, then it is reasonable to listen to voices coming from within

for example, i know cuba is something that is always trotted out. what do they do with aids patients in cuba? do they not send them to an island and segregate them? host: kerik to take any of those questions? -- do you care to take any of those questions? guest: i am familiar with the cbo numbers. orrin hatch put out the numbers from the cbo that was released yesterday, that the senate health committee bill would cost more than $1 trillion. that is a number that we are going to see i think repeated and thrown around a lot today and in the next few days because republicans have been saying for a while now that we do not know what the president is trying to do. he is trying to spend too much money and will he accomplish his goals. i think you will hear from democrats that this was a -- that the cbo look at the kennedy bill but there were missing parts of it. it does not look at the bill as a whole, it misses some parts of the health reform program, a public insurance plan that will change the final calculations. it also left out how much medicaid expa

regarding the proposed description of any individual who is detained at naval station guantanamo bay, cuba, the secretary shall conduct a threat assessment for each such individual who is proposed to be transferred. the chair: for what purpose does the gentleman from iowa rise? mr. king: madam chair, i have an amendment at the desk made in order by the rule. the clerk: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: part b, amendment number 4 printed in house report 111-183 offered by mr. king of iowa. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 573, the gentleman from iowa, mr. king, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from iowa. mr. king: thank you, madam chair. i yield myself two minutes. chape the gentleman is recognized. mr. king: thank you. my amendment prohibits the department of homeland security funds in this bill from being used to hire illegal immigrants. the immigration and nationality act is very clear. section 274-a makes it a crime to knowinglyire or employ an illegal immigrant. there are no exceptions. despite the law, over

i am if embargoes wert cuba would have been free market, pro-growth as well. it would seem the truth, beauty and light of the american way. zimbabwe did not be there. and farkas don't work but when embargoes do to is the cause your country as much damage as the country yum vargo. what these people are proposing with trying to punish these countries, what they are proposing is that we don't want to rely on these bad people because they might cut us off, so what do we do in exchange for the threat that they might cut us off? we cut ourselves off. it does that make sense to you? it is like a guy at 24 realizing some day he is going to die and he was so upset he shot himself. it is guaranteed that solution is worse than the actual problem. you know, using the bhagwati theorem, we have ways of dealing with that government. very simply we have the bully pulpit. the president can go up there-- that doesn't work we have got another department which deals with that. it is called the state department. we have that the shays and all these sorts of things. if that does no

he hired john leonard as a harvard dropout and then he sent him to cuba to do a story on one of castro's early prisoners. john was 19 years old. and he also grabbed me at the age of 14. a second movement in right time right place is the time and the place. 40 years is a long time. it goes from the vietnam war to the surge in iraq. we missed obama's election. that's not in there. but all of that -- all of that history, 9/11, fall of communism -- it's all there. and one of the lessons i think for conservatives at this moment were pretty glum because things are pretty grim and they really are grim, but you have to remember it has been worse. the mid to late '70s were awful. they were just awful. there was watergate. there was the fall of vietnam. there was stagflation. there was an energy crisis. there was gerald ford's good but bumbling intentions. there was jimmy carter's puniness. cubans were patrolling africa. africa? soviets were occupying afghanistan. it was an awful, awful time. and it ended with ronald reagan. i'm not saying every disaster ends with ronald reagan. [laughter] sometim

russia, not as quickly as kosciuszko but like him to, but he was of the same faults in general and cuba sent a tyrant like his mother catherine the great who wanted to stretch russia as far as she could. >> in your book you mentioned that there was [inaudible] written about kosciuszko on polish and american sides. can you comment on the reasons you think that is because it is a fascinating story and surprising so little is known so far. >> well, i think for starters he has this unpronounceable name american historians wouldn't even know where to begin, and heave was this humble guy who didn't seek the limelight but benedict arnold and people from history and historians in poland many years didn't have access to archives in the united states and american historians didn't have orchitis, access to archives in poland and as i am fluent in both languages i decided i am going to try and bridge the gap between the two. >> can you say anything about kosciuszko's linguistic ability? how did he communicate when he was here in the u.s.? >> when he first arrived he spoke french because he studied

sam's entrÉe into the johnson administration was secretary secretary of the treasury cuba: who faced a colossal task of financial reconstruction. convincing congress to support his plan would not be easy. one of those to whom he turned for help with sam who could both talk the talk of finance and more importantly, bring together men of opposing views to talk over their differences. and sam was happy to oblige. for new headquarters on east street, sam set of 20 victory for macola cookery with a treasury paying the bill. dan was delighted when reporters place the cost of the suppers for the secretary of the treasury at $12,000. soon the key senators and representatives on both sides of the currency debate were sitting down to dinner at sam's table. although macola was disappointed when he didn't get all he wanted, he was not disappointed in sam who claimed credit for the partial victory. thanks this work for macola in a string of successes with other kinds, sam star was rising. tuccillo he boasted he was a figaro, everyone calls me, everyone wants me. but what exactly do they want from

he was born in cuba on may 12, 1914. at able 19, he joined the cuban army and served his country and graduated from the cuban military academy in 1941. during his years of military service, he attended various u.s. army schools in the united states. following a distinguished career in the military, he found his passion in military education. in the classroom, he worked to instill a culture of civic awareness within the military's ranks and found the cuban national war college and eventually was promoted to the director of cuba's military schools. following his career in cuban military education, he was appointed as cuba's military attache to the united states and delegate to the defense board where he was selected vice chair and developed a plan for a joint defense of the western hemisphere. for his work, colonel marking was honored in 1955 with grade of commander. he learned the shifting political winds in cuba and conspired to prevent freedom from losing its foothold in his native land. i can remember as a young boy in

each day in the world to hundred million children sleep in the states not one of them is in cuba. can america say that? while lee is watching, obama takes a step closer to the presidency and an african proverb comes to mind. one that his black countrymen tried to describe the dilemma and post-apartheid era. a got a stone but not a nut to crack, got the not know stone to brackett with. south africa's black majority government build homes for the people that left them without the money to pay their rent provided them with running water but shut off the tap when they couldn't pay the bill. replaced names of bullheaded white segregationists on the public school houses with those of black liberation heroes but didn't replace the shoddy roofs. ordered companies to hire blacks but permitted them to slash their wages. so it goes for the new south africa where a small white minority continues to inhabit a splendid country, splendid country that is for all intensive purposes canada while three-quarters of the population reside in a country with living conditions similar to those of kenya or

the hired at john brunner as a harvard dropout and as an him to cuba to do a story on one of castro's early prisoners, john was 19 years old. he also grabbed to me at the age of 14. the second movement is the time and the place. 40 years is a long time. it goes from the vietnam war to the surge in iraq. we missed obama's election. that is not in their. but all of that history, 9/11, all of communism is there. one of the lessons for conservatives at this moment were pretty blunt because things were pretty grim and they really are grim. but you have to remember it has been worse. the mid to late seventies or awful. they were just awful. there was watergate, the fall of vietnam, stagflation, an energy crisis, there was gerald ford good but bumbling intentions and jimmy carter humaneness and they were patrolling africa, africa. soviets were occupying afghanistan, it is an awful time. and it ended with ronald reagan. i am not saying every disaster and with ronald reagan the. [laughter] they don't. sometimes they keep getting worse and worse but sometimes it is important for conservatives t