. over the next hour and a half, maryland senator ben cardin hosts a town hall meeting on health care. he met with constituents at towson university. i m dr. gary rubin, and i m vice president for university advance:i m pleased to welcome you to maryland s metropolitan university, a university with over 21,000 students. while we have 6,20 200 graduates and 43 graduate programs relative to this topic tonight, in the health topic, we offer 13 programs, including nursing, speak language pathology, allied health, to name a few. towson university is the second largest producers of nurses in maryland and we have the largest undergraduate nursing program in the state. on stage with me this evening is u.s. senator benjamin cardin. [applause] and miss dina handy. we also have some elected officials that i d like to recognize and i d like to recognize them at this time. senator janice bicaanni, delegate adrian jones, delegate steve lafferty, delegate joseph bodner. bodner, delega
authors about summer releases. these include haynes johnson. they will be taking your calls, e-mails, and tweets. pennsylvania senator arlen specter met with constituents about health care legislation. this will provide our event was near harrisburg. good morning, ladies and a gentleman. thank you for coming out this morning. for the past three decades in august, when the senate is in recess, i made a practice to have town meetings. i will make a very short opening statement for about five or seven minutes. . . and i m looking forward to a civil discussion. where we have ideas and freedom of speech is a precious commodity in america, and freedom of speech means to express yourselves, but if somebody else wants to express themselves, to have quiet and decorum and civility so we can exchange ideas. there are a great many subjects of importance in washington today. we re working very hard on global warming, the president has put immigration on the agenda for later this year,