On his 26year career. And a discussion on corporations and stock values. Dan burton is retiring from the house this year after 30 years in office. The 15term congressman represents the Fifth District in east Central Indiana which includes parts of indianapolis and the surrounding suburbs. Earlier he talked with cspan about his past investigations of the collective demonstration and the oversight ruled congress. This is 30 minutes. As you exit the institution how would you say it stated . It has changed a great deal. It is not the same as when i came 1983. There seemed to be more comedy. Tip oneill was speaker. I will never forget he was the first time he was on the floor raising cane with democrats. He had someone take his place and he came down and started giving me the dickens. After that we became very good friends and played golf together. Michael was a wonderful leader. There was a spirit of camaraderie even though we had differences politically then that we do not have now. Now i
Cspan, created in 1979 as a public service. James glanz is an Investigative Reporter with the New York Times. Mr. Glanz, what is an internet datacenter . It is a place where all the information you sent out from your communicatocomputer or mobe goes into process and storage. How big are these centers . There actually colossal. Their colossal in the amount of electricity they use. Some use as much electricity as a mediumsized town. It is a very secretive industry. They tend to be hiding in plain sight. Littlees youll see diesel generators on the side. Those are backup power supplies. And it is a data center. Were those located at the road theyre all over the place. Theyre in high rises in cities, in greenfield sites out in suburban areas, there tucked away in the back of offices. They are the way that most commerce takes place now. Everyone has to have one. There are concentrations of the in the country. Northern virginia, silicon valley. Theyre everywhere at this point. Who runs them .
Washington, d. C. Today and a little less of what we have. What do we have now . And overgrown city with too many politicians and lobbyists and consultants and media. Seven out of the 10 richest counties in the united states, metropolitan washington, is the capital that cannot produce. It is the country that is still great with capital that is not. Who in 1775 whatever predicted this . I suspect some of them were pretty cynical about politics. If you ever had an idea there would be a country of 300 Million People with a capital that would have its finger on everything in the world, they might have been able to come up with a little pcynicism about that. Said during the last years of the campaign of 2012, you started. The first time i did Something Like that was in the 1990s. I wrote a book about the englishspeaking civil wars. The english revolution, the American Revolution, and the american civil war. I did that because i cannot stand the idea of thinking about it bill clinton and New
This is a few miles. That would be a cool ride. And your short excursion would take you around the moon and back. Ok, im going to talk about Lessons Learned in my career. Informal chats are more effective than formal meetings. I have always found that it be of a meeting with a lot people and youre sitting down, the meeting is not worthwhile. This is a chat at oshkosh. People want to understand about airplanes. They want to share stories about the airplane they are flying. I said, lets just have a chat. This happens every year for many years. Everybody meets at that time every day, and we talk. A couple of need pictures. This movie if you have not seen it, it really shows the human parts, the emotions. The introduction dvd has some pieces of the. There is nothing stayed there. There was nothing in the script. Everything in that movie is because these people were embedded and they were there for years and we did not even notice them. And they did get some neat stuff. And everything these
Time zones. You can also contact us via social media on twitter or facebook or by email. Before we get an update on the fiscal cliff, two articles to show you. This is from the houston chronicle. Thats from the houston chronicle. If there are updates, we will get those throughout this mornings program. One other article and we want to show you according to one article, the nominee has flown back from hawaii with the president on air force one. Most of the papers are filled with articles about the fiscal cliff issue. Joining us now is merideth shiner of cq roll call. Ms. Shiner. Guest ms. Shiner seem so formal. Were having a recession in between christmas and new years. That has not happened since the 1970s. Maybe we should play disco or maybe they should just finished their work so they can stop making terrible jokes. I think you are a point to see some push in the next few days to try to get some sort of small deal done. You have to remember and your viewers will notice, because they