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spending a lot of time working with government agencies in a much quieter way. what are market-based incentives that can help drive government officials to a more accurate assessment of spectrum? that is to say, if they are not really using it, they have to put it into some commercial plate, as well. it is just that those discussions tend to be quiet, whereas discussions with broadcasters tended to be more public. >> you probably could auction them off. . . >> we have talked about spectrum and competition. there are a whole bunch of things we are looking at. for saving energy, had we...

president barack obama's achievements in his first year in office. "washington journal" is next. . >> we begin with a piece from the washington who writes after healthcare we need senate reform. you see the line for republicans, democrats and independents. host: 55 votes is not enough to win or anything close to it. it is enough to get five from 60. you need to shut down a filibuster. only then can a lobby pass. the modern senate is a radically different institution frómç the 1960's and the dysfunction over healthcare, absence of bipartisanship, useç of the filibuster to obstruct...

and looking benignly at me as i argued. i even thought there was a nod somewhere. when the opinion came out, it was 7-2, and he was one of the dissenters. i wrote a law review article about the issue of was addressing in the lawsuit, and essentially said don't take people for granted on this issue. justice stevens wrote a dissent that is a roadmap of how legislation and administrative actions ought to be taken to steer clear of some of the problems he saw in the federal statute i was defending. . . the style of each justice as you prepare. >> certainly the more of an advantage it is ...

style of judging and writing. because there is is constantly changing internal dynamic, the addition of a new ingredient changes the whole. it does not cause other justices necessarily to change their views, but it does open up the possibility of a kind of shifting of majorities, a shifting lot within the court. >> a new judge to happens to be hispanic will bring great diversity to the bench. when a visitor walks into the court room, there is only one african-american justice right now. adding a hispanic justice will increase the diversity there, and adding a second female voice will...

proposed models going forward, i tried to imagine scenarios under which the other models could have succeeded that were less likely to succeed in the prefab rigid than the prefab models. the restoration model for occupying powers becomes more likely than an outbreak of violence. . . >> it seems that violence was actually instigated by agents themselves in the hopes that this would happen. if you have soviets shooting at germans -- germany has 900,000 troops on its soil, foreign troops, and more nuclear weapons than anywhere else and not under its control and there's the potential for...