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good afternoon everybody. my voice is loud so that the mic is not on i m just going to go ahead and speak up. welcome back everybody. i hope you enjoyed that panel as you can see we have shown things down a bit. back here, we do not need quite as many people seated appear for the next panel. but it will be a good one. this one works at that. there we go. it is my pleasure to introduce ron hicks the rnla vice president for communications and partner at meyer he is a pittsburgh native and a great guy. i will let him introduce the panel about lobbying regulation, ethics rules and it is good that none of those have been in the news recently. good afternoon everyone i went to congratulate david for pronouncing the name of my firm properly. i am from pittsburgh pennsylvania. not only was this conference pertinent with regard to what s going on today but also more significant event tomorrow night and that is when the just so you know i have been also keeping track, cin ....
she last time you appeared before our committee you were in the virginia undersecretary for health and now kicked upstairs after a nance confirmation vote and that says a lot in this political environment. so congratulations. you have a great background in the philadelphia area, just learned you were in marstown and you certainly bring lat of experience to the job and although i m sure these days that the challenges are very dawning for you daunting for you. this hearing is unusual. rather than the typical budget hearing we have at this time of year, we re limited to a discussion of the skinny budget, the skinny budget materials the onb sent to the hill in march. they two-page entry for the va doesn t give us much to go on in terms of program priorities but the skinny budget gives us the administration is proposing a $4.4 billion 6% funding increase for the agency and addition there s $2.9 billion proposed in new mandatory funding for the virginia. you must be ....
41 year career in the air force and in the national intelligence and national security area and talk to us about his book, playing to the edge: american intelligence in the age of terror. the title playing to the edge is kind of a sports metaphor i think. it s like pushing the envelope or playing right to the edge of the field with truck in your cleats and it s appropriate that general hayden would use sports metaphors. he practically was born in the shadow of the pittsburgh steelers stadium. they tore down my home to build three rivers stadium. all right. and we didn t mind because it was the steelers. modestly dangerous comment. he was born in pittsburgh, of irish catholic family and the son of a welder. in junior high school he was quarterback of his football team and coach of the football team then was the son of the founder of the steelers, the connection with his team who goes way back and there s actually a road now along the side of the stadium called mi ....
a united states senator again respectfully is subject to a sense of self-importance after it while and you ve got to guard against that. i think at the time president-elect reagan said to you, think he came up to you at a party. jack is too modest to tell the story but i will tell you the story that i heard. and the story was that on his first visit to washington having won the election he was being vetted at katharine graham s place, the famous owner of the washington post and there was a receiving line. reagan arrived. jack happened to be there and reagan came in and he was talking to kay graham and he looked over and he saw jack watson. he made a beeline over to jack. the story i heard said jack, it s so good to see you. my people tell me that if you had been chief of staff from the beginning i wouldn t be here. [laughter] a story of extreme exaggeration. [laughter] i think there s a little bit of truth to it. he did say it but he was also one of the most cha ....
times correspondent kayleen cooper will explore the life of liberian president ellen johnston shirley, the first democratically elected female president in african history. the women were so hell-bent on getting her elected president, that though they do it anyway they could and so the women were perfectly happy to play dirty as well and ellen johnson sweet found the perfect vehicle for that, somebody who was so-called at all about playing any dirt with security order so it was a number of things that the reporters did. they bribed guys to give them the voter id card so when the men showed up and wouldn t be able to vote. all the young boys voting for the football player, a lot of them their moms stole their voter id cards so they couldn t vote. there were two rounds, first round and second round and a lot of the young men realized they would need their card after the first roundabout in the second round so that s how the women were able to get around men. they were p ....