the presiding officer: the senator from massachusetts. mr. kerry: mr. president, i want to thank the senator from wyoming for a grounding moment in the senate. we are enormously appreciative of his words, and i especially know what he was saying because my wife and i had the pleasure of welcoming a young grandchild about a month ago. as the senator was standing there speak, i couldn't help but think this is the son of christopher heinz, who is jack heinz' youngest. the child is called jack, little jack. and i think you gave us a good reminder. thank you. the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. inhofe: before my friend leaves the floor, my friend from wyoming, let me just say that i can identify with the things that he said. to prove that, let me put this up here. these are my 20 kids and grandkids. and while he may be, he has his name, they have given him, my name is pop eye. i is for inhofe. so it's mom-i and pop-i. that's what these kids call me. as i was listening to the great words that you were sharing for their lives, i would ask una

durbin: if i could ask the senator from massachusetts. the presiding officer: the senator from illinois. mr. durbin: through the chair, and they say less of a question than a statement but i'll try to end it with a question mark. i'd like to let the senator from massachusetts know that i have withheld the entire day from coming to the floor and speaking about the dream act, which will be voted on first thing in the morning. though it's very important to me. i wanted to give every senator the opportunity they needed on both sides of the aisle to discuss the start treaty, the new start treaty. and i would just like to say to the senator from massachusetts that when his debate on this matter ends today, as late as it may be, i will come to the floor and speak on the dream act. but i don't want to interrupt beyond what i'm doing at this moment his efforts to give everyone a chance to speak about this national security measure and so that this is in the form of a question, doesn't that sound reasonable? mr. kerry: i thank the senator for his f

the presiding officer: the senator from massachusetts. mr. kerry: mr. president, the senator from tennessee is absolutely correct, obviously. the key question here is, is there sufficient support to ratify the treaty? and once we get to that sort of question postcloture, when and if that is invoked, that's what the threshold would be for the passage of this item. it is not as if you have cloture and all of a sudden, boom, 51 votes necessary to pass it. secondly, i would sty my colleague -- i want to emphasize this -- if the majority leader were to put the cloture motion in this evening, it doesn't ripen until tuesday. and so we would have the rest of today, all of tomorrow and tuesday to have amendments, continue as we are now, and then if it did pass, we'd have another 30 hours, which as we all know, takes the better part of probably two days. so we're looking at conceivably thursday under that kind of a schedule -- and i know a lot of senators are hoping not to be here on thursday. so i think that's quite a lot of time within the context of

>> reporter: rob, mike, good morning, from scituate, massachusetts.s town bore the brunt of 20-foot seas by the seawall brought on by this winter storm. not the normal picture of a winter storm that we're used to seeing. but flooding has taken over neighborhoods in this town. again, the winds whipped the sea into the streets. dramatic pictures from monday morning as firefighters tried to battle a house fire, that started at one house. an electrical fire. that then spread to another house. they tried to rescue people here in town. they were successful. about 80 people overall along the coast had to be rescued by high waters. it's one of the problems they're dealing with here in massachusetts after the blizzard. the other thing, logan airport. they've been desperately trying to clear the runways. they're doing a great job so far. they have massive snowplows with 70-foot-long blades. they line up like an armada, as they clear off the runway there. officials say they have stayed on top of the storm, by battling it 24 hours a day. if you had to guess the n

>> the senator fromffic massachusetts. mr. >> mr.resident i spoke yesterday to most of the arguments. i don't think there is a need to go back over them. i appreciate the arguments inhe the concerns of the senator from oklahoma. thi so, i think i will let that stand where it was and we will see if another senator comes to pick up. >> i yield the floor. >> the senator from north dakota.nd >> mr. president, this is a very significant and important issue as i've indicated previously. we deal with a lot of issues here at the united states senate sum less relevant, some more important and we often treat this serious too lightly andri delight to seriously.hi in this case the think everybody understands that negotiating a treaty with the russians dealing with arms reductions is critically important. and that is what this is. i don't think when you talk about nucleark weapons that thee are other issues that are similar to it. if, god forbid, before sundownt today, we learned that a nuclear weapon has been obtained by a terrorist group or a r

the presiding officer: the senator from massachusetts. mr. kerry: i ask unanimous consent that this interruption not show up in the senator's remarks. i would ask the senator if he would yield to me for purposes of unanimous consent. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. kerry: i thank the senator. i ask unanimous consent that the time until 6:00 p.m. today be for debate with respect to the pending inhofe amendment 4833 and the thune amendment 4841, with the time divided between the leaders and their designees, with no amendments in order to either amendment. that at 6:00 p.m. the senate proceed to vote in relation to the inhofe amendment. that upon its disposition, the senate proceed to vote on the thune amendment with two minutes of debate equally divided as provided above prior to the second vote. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. kerry: mr. president, i thank the senator from south dakota. mr. thune: mr. president, if i might just continue. so if you add up to 60 bombers, up to 420 icbms and 240 dep

and actually two or three days before the boston tea party, lexington, massachusetts, had, you know,ook all its tea to the town square and burned it. you know, and concord and charleston do some of the same things. so this then becomes the thing to do to enforce all over the country the idea of not importing british goods by 1774, but especially tea. and so there are other actions, but, you know, but often the boston tea party is definitely a kind of very dramatic event. that's a very good question. yeah, there are other dimensions to -- there are other tea parties that kind of happen elsewhere, but the boston tea party is the most dramatic early one in december of 1773. >> question this back. question in back. >> dr. carp, could you comment on the role that the green dragon tavern played in the story? >> yeah, the question is about the green dragon tavern, i loitered in that exhibit that we'll be able to gather in after the talk. the green dragon tavern was one of many t.a.r.p.es where the boston sons of liberty might meet to plan things. it was also often the meeting place for one

the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. mr. lynch: thank you, madam speaker. i'd like to yield three minutes to the gentlelady from texas, ms. jackson lee, for three minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from texas is recognized for three minutes. ms. jackson lee: i want to thank my good friend from massachusetts for his leadership and his co-manager on the floor for her insightfulness on this legislation and as well to senator kohl. i rise in support of s. 118. madam speaker, it is because so many of us have these very questions being raised in our districts, particularly with populations of seniors increasing. my district happens to have one of the highest percentages of senior constituents and all of them seem to be looking for housing. i support the underlying legislation or the underlying initiative, section 202 housing. i have a number of those units in my congressional district. one of the points i wanted to highlight is the fact that many of these facilities are falling in disrepair. even though there are so

the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, at this time i yield 2 1/2 minutes to the gentleman from colorado, mr. polis. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for 2 1/2 minutes. mr. polis: mr. speaker, i rise today in strong support of the rule and the underlying bill. i'm very excited that president obama has demonstrated that he believes in keeping taxes low for all americans. mr. speaker, you know, as i talk to people in my district and across the country, people like the fact that the democrats are the party of staying out of their personal business. we are not doing them moralizing about how they should live their lives. live your own life. personal accountability. we are the party of personal responsibility. they are always concerned in the back of the minds the democrats are going to raise their taxes. that's something i hear. i like the democrats because of the liberty issues, but you know, i always worry they are going to raise my taxes. i'm proud to say, mr. speaker, that we are conclusively p

somebody i know wrote on massachusetts, which agreed the massachusetts chapters? you know, the way historians read other people's work is the different than the late way editors three people spoke. who's the flip here, could document. type on page 10. it got the name of the town were on 15 and you might rethink what you say and 23, and of consultation. loeffler went through this line for line. it took me a while to realize he'd even gone through the nose. and he knew the documentary records so well. at one point he said he put it john jay yes, you're right. the book you got a quotation from does say what you say, supernode isn't wrong, but that's not what jay said. go to the j. papers online, on the columbia library site. i mean, who gave this information? ytd do it? who said this to be a landmark book that he wanted to be as accurate as possible. you get my point. i put the better part of a decade into this book. of course i was teaching a bit at that time, only about two years was i able to work out the full time. but that's a fraction of what this book took. ho

the presiding officer: the senator from massachusetts. mr. kerry: i just want to clarify for a couple of colleagues of mine that are waiting on the executive session. there are just a couple of items that are going to be done quickly in legislative session by unanimous consent, and then we'll come right back to the procedure that we had talked about previously. so, mr. president, for the purposes of that consent and legislative session, i yield to the senator from colorado. the presiding officer: the senator from colorado. mr. bennet: mr. president, as -- mr. udall: i ask unanimous consent that the banking committee be discharged from further consideration of s. 2919, the business lending enhancement act, and the senate proceed to its immediate consideration, that a udall of colorado substitute amendment which is at the desk be agreed to, the bill as amended be read a third time and passed, and the motions to reconsider be laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: is there an objection? mr. sessions: i o

the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. frank: i ask unanimous consent to be substituted for mr. capuano as the manager on our side. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. frank: i salute the good soldier attitude of my good friend from nebraska in the absence of any member of the financial services committee. he agreed to stand up and read what was written. he has no way of knowing how silly it is. nobody explained to him how inaccurate it was. for example, he said this has not gone through regular order. it is in fact exactly the same legislative language that was debated, amended, and adopted in the house financial services committee during financial reform and then in conference. it is exactly that. there is language in here that the gentlewoman from ohio sensibly agreed to that makes it clear that organizations that have been convicted of criminal abuses can't be here. only legal services organizations can get this money. there can be no class action. it was carefully done. i wish the people who had been there

sales tax board had agreed, and they gave an exemption to massachusetts. if congress passes the mainstream fairness act as it is now, the governing board can just change those rules without any input. congress would have lost that authority, and we don't think that just ceding that authority to this governing board is the right way to go. let's get some really true simplification here and then that's something -- and we don't think that they have it. and i think scott and be i would disagree on it, but we agree that's where the discussion should be here. we also, i have to say one thing before -- we disagree that it's $20 billion. we've done some studies that show it's about 4-5 billion -- >> host: in lost revenue? >> guest: in lost revenue for states. research has said it's three billion across the country. and a lot of that stems from the fact that a huge amount of remote sales are business-to-business sales. some of them are pretaxed, they're wholesale type things, so there's no sales tax usually goes to that. others states really do audit businesses, s

the presiding officer: the senator from massachusetts. mr. kerry: mr. president, i want to thank the senator from riflt. i first of all thank him for his generous comments, on a personal lex but let me thank him for his work. i think everybody in the senate will agree that he is, as a member of the armed services committee, one of the most respected voices in the senate, one of the most diligent, hardworking members of that committee, and he knows and understands our weapons systems, our military needs, our security concerns, as well as anybody in the united states senate. so i value enormously the history that he provided in his discussion today. i think it is an important predicate to the -- to this debate, and i really thank him for his work very, very much, and for the comefntses that he made on th -- and for the commes that he made on the floor. mr. president, i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: mr. nelson: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from

scott brown of massachusetts has said he will vote for it. judd gregg has said that he is leaning toward voting for it. their compromise seems to be centered around amending a resolution that would go along with the treaty to address some of republicans' concerns about whether or not the u.s. would be able to develop its missile defense. we could see a final vote on this this week. >> tracy pots in washington. thank you. and now here's a being look at other stories making news early today in america. in massachusetts, police are looking for the person or persons responsible for stealing some 1,500 gifts intended for needy children from a storage facility. police say the thief or thieves took only the more expensive items valued at more than $15,000. amazingly, just a day later, residents have banded together to donate more toys and over $30,000. >>> an indianapolis man proves its never too late to finish what you started. the 79-year-old graduated college this weekend 55 years after service in the army redirected his life. determined to earn

. >> reporter: good morning from scituate, massachusetts.nt of 20 to 30-foot seas that whipped over the sea wall, brought on by this winter storm. certainly not the normal picture of a blizzard we're all used to seeing. this flooding has taken over neighborhoods of this town. the winds whipped the sea into the city. dramatic pictures from monday morning. firefighters actually went to try to battle a house fire that started at one house, an p electrical fire, then spread to another house. they not only tried to fight the fires, they also tried to rescue people here in town. they were successful. about 80 people overall along the coast had to be rescued by these high waters. it's just one of the problems they're dealing with here in massachusetts after the blizzard. the other thing, logan airport. they've been desperately trying to clear the runways there. they've done a great job of it so far. they have these massive snowplows with almost 70-foot-long blades and they line up like an armada as they clear off the runway there. airport officials

cbs's seth jonas in cambridge, massachusetts. thank you, seth.caused a mountain of travel troubles in the northeast and beyond. michelle miller at laguardia airport in new york with the latest there. good morning, michelle. >> reporter: good morning, betty. well, airport officials have been battling the snow all night, suspended operations here last night as well. the other two major airports, jfk and newark airport, also suspended operation. now, the problem for cleanup crews here, the snow on the ground, up to 20 inches, but the wind. gusts were up to 60 miles per hour, and they're still clearing runways. now, airport officials here have been jokingly calling the terminal hotel laguardia. because some 250 passengers were stranded overnight. they're hoping to get the operations here up and running by 4:00 p.m. this afternoon. good news for these travelers. they're looking forward to it, but airlines suggest you call ahead. betty? >> good advice. michelle miller at laguardia airport. thank you. >>> award winning champion greenspan chronicled game

the presiding officer: the senator from massachusetts. mr. kerry: i move to table the risch amendment and i ask for the yeas and nays. and i ask unanimous consent that this be a ten-minute vote. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. is there a sufficient second? there appears to be a sufficient second. the question is on the motion to table. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: vote: the presiding officer: are there any senators wishing to vote or to change a vote? if not, on the motion to table, the ayes are 61, the nays are 32. the motion to table is agreed to. mr. reid: mr. president? mr. president? the presiding officer: without objection, the majority leader is recognized. mr. reid: we're in a position now, we don't have the consent agreement completely fixed, but we know what we're going to do. we're going to have three votes, three different amendments. it will be a half-hour debate on each amendment. so we likely will have another series of votes at 8:15 or thereabouts tonight. we'll have -- senator kerry

the presiding officer: the senator from massachusetts. mr. kerry: mr. president, the senator from tennessee is absolutely correct, obviously. the key question here is, is there sufficient support to ratify the treaty? and once we get to that sort of question postcloture, when and if that is invoked, that's what the threshold would be for the passage of this item. it is not as if you have cloture and all of a sudden, boom, 51 votes necessary to pass it. secondly, i would sty my colleague -- i want to emphasize this -- if the majority leader were to put the cloture motion in this evening, it doesn't ripen until tuesday. and so we would have the rest of today, all of tomorrow and tuesday to have amendments, continue as we are now, and then if it did pass, we'd have another 30 hours, which as we all know, takes the better part of probably two days. so we're looking at conceivably thursday under that kind of a schedule -- and i know a lot of senators are hoping not to be here on thursday. so i think that's quite a lot of time within the context of

the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, when my friends talk about passing on to future generations debt, i can't help but wonder where they were when president bush passed his tax cuts that added over a trillion dollars to our debt. totally unpaid for. most of them going to millionaires and billionaires. i want to know where they are right now, why they are not saying that the -- they want to extend the tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires, they still don't want to pay for it. but somehow when it comes to debt and piling it on to future generations, when it comes to tax cuts for very healthy people, they are silent. they are silent. where were they when president bush at 2:00 in the morning, whatever, kept a roll call open for three hours and passed the medicare prescription drug bill totally uncalled for that cost more than advertised. totally silent. where are they when some of us are saying we ought to pay for these wars? if you want them you ought to pay for them or end them? i prefer to end them, but fo

frank from massachusetts. mr. defazio, oregon. ms. kaptur, ohio. ms. woolsey, california. mr. engel, new york. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009, and the previous order of the house, the following members are recognized for five minutes -- mr. poe of texas.

now, one of the problems with massachusetts politics was that the council didn't have to do what the golf said because they weren't -- governor said pause they weren't appointed by him. which is why one of the coercive acts, the massachusetts government act, was going to change that and say, oh, you know, the council will now be appointed by the governor, not by the house of representatives anymore. they wanted to make sure governors in the future in massachusetts would have a cooperative council rather than a resistant council. so governor hutchinson is completely unable to order the army and navy to do anything. also if they'd done anything, it would have been risky. what's the admiral going to do, fire cannonballs into the town? they weren't ready to make it that kind of fight just yet. so it's a tricky thing, but some of it has to do with how the british thought about the kind of constitutional role of the armed forces and civilian, and civilian control. so the boss toke yangs talk a good game about, oh, they could have fired on us all the time. that's a good question. >> actuall

. >>> snow from a massachusetts sith blizzard continues to blanket the northeast tonight. the most recent storm dumped 20" of snow in manhattan, other areas of the northeast were covered with close to 3 feet of snow. wind gust to have up to 80 miles per hour created whiteout conditions and knocked out power to thousands of homes and businesses all over the east coast. now this also means travel is coming to a standstill at airports all over the country. >> it's not like you can go, you know, you knew the storm was gonna hit, once, you make your peace with it. >> if you're wondering how much snow fell in new york we're told that, in less than 24 hours, it got nearly four times the amount of snow that it usually sees in the entire month of december. >>> so exactly what does two feet of snowfall in 24 hours look like? well check in out. it's time lapse home video from michael black of bell march new jersey, he sat his camera on his deck and took a picture

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the massachusetts governor has declared a state of emergency. that's an edict, stay off the roads at all costs, especially for the danger when whiteout conditions are expected to be the worst. roads are already jammed with holiday travelers trying to dodge the full assault of the storm. they are trying to get ahead of this. again, that's an exercise in futility. overnight the issue is going to be power outages, officials are worried that with 30, 40, 50-mile-an-hour wind gusts that could cause massive power outages. >>> a fleet of tugboats has finally freed a freight that has been stuck in new york. the ship went aground carrying 12,000 tons of coal. it was on its way from cleveland to a power plant. the coast guard is trying to find out what caused the vessel to run aground. >>> in other news, eight americans have been killed on a bus crash in egypt. their bus was on its way to a major archeological site when it ran into a truck. it's common in egypt because of bad roads. the excellent injured nearly two dozen people including the driver and to

there are tax holidays, i think massachusetts has a tax holiday just before back to school. that adds another complication to it. states are constantly doing it. i think, in answer to scott, from the point of view of -- it's so easy to become a national or international marketer, it is probably time for the tax code to grow as well and become realized that things are changing. they are starting. we don't think they have gone far enough. but i think that that's a key as well. i don't think the states should sit there and say, well, things have changed, and therefore businesses, you have to pile up all these extra expenses and get a tax department, and tax lawyers to learn and worry about what you've collected, if you've done the right collection, getting it off to the right place, and the states not do anything to change this tax code that's based upon political boundaries, which are becoming less and less relevant to an extent in today's marketplace. >> isn't it fair to say that there are software packages today that worked in 1982 when the supreme court made the decision. i

the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, i'm happy to yield two minutes to the gentleman from california, mr. sherman. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized for two minutes. mr. sherman: i'll be voting yes on the amendment and if it fails as i expect it will, i will be voting yes on the bill. i'll vote yes on the amendment because we ought to have a fair estate tax in this country. but instead republicans insist that we increase the deficit $28 billion over the next two years in order to provide the lowest tax rates in 80 years on the richest few dozen families in each of our states. we should care about the deficit. and to say that the tax rate included in the amendment is unfair is to say that every republican voted for an unfair tax when they voted for the bush tax law that was applicable to 2009. furthermore, another problem with the estate tax in the bill is that it provides a rate of tax for those debts that occur in 2010 that is less than zero. because the richest families can c

the gentleman from massachusetts deserves to be heard. the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, house resolution 1781 provides for the consideration of the senate amendment to h.r. 5116, the american competes re-authorization act of 2010. the rule makes in order a motion offered by the chair of the committee on science and technology or his designee that the house concur in the senate amendment to h.r. 5116. the rule provides one hour of debate on the motion equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the committee on science and technology. the rule waives all points of order against consideration of the motion except those arising under clause 10 of rule 21. the rule provides that the senate amendment shall be considered as read. the rule also provides for the consideration of the senate amendments to h.r. 2751, the f.d.a. food safety modernization act. the rule makes in order a motion offered by the chair of the committee on energy and commerce or his designee that the house concur in the senate amendment to h.r. 2751. the

if it were -- would top mitt romney of massachusetts by 7. in a match against thune, obama would beat him by 20. and if the president were to face sarah palin, beats her by 18. that's more. 22 votes. these numbers don't mean much, but they're fascinating. and had your shoes shined. well, i made you a reservation at the sushi place around the corner. well, in that case, i better get back to these invoices... which i'll do right after making your favorite pancakes. you know what? i'm going to tidy up your side of the office. i can't hear you because i'm also making you a smoothie. [ male announcer ] marriott hotels & resorts knows it's better for xerox to automate their global invoice process so they can focus on serving their customers. with xerox, you're ready for real business. >>> president obama's war review shows military gains against the taliban in southern afghanistan, but pakistan's refusal to attack extremist havens threatens to unvalve progress. how much longer should our troops fight? jack reed of rhode island is a member of the ar

massachusetts?aller: now it's climbed up but a year ago it was $800 million and marcia blackburn said $5 billion and fox news a hundred times said 6 .2 billion. guest: i actually -- first of all, you should know there are a number of sites on the internet these days that doal fact checking so it's very easy to go check on those things. i have written on massachusetts' health care bill which has been more costly than it was anticiped to be. i think you'd agree with that, right? it has been expensive. and what we've seen in the -- the numbers i'm siting come from the office of management and budget which i don't think is part of a right-wing conspiracy. and the reality is the cost of this health care bill goes up every time they look at it to about $150 billion. so it's not expected to fwend cost curve which was one of the ambitions of health care legislation. and it's also going to cover a lot fewer people than people thought. so i am not -- i actually, just for the record, i do unbelieble amount of

the presiding officer: the senator from massachusetts. mr. kerry: i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. kerry: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the judiciary committee be discharged en bloc of the following nominations: pn2353 and p.n.2349, that the senate then proceed en bloc to the nominations, that the nominations be confirmed en bloc and the motions to reconsider be laid upon the table, that any statements relating to the nominations appear at the appropriate place in the record as if read. the president be immediately notified of the senate's action and the senate then resume legislative session. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. kerry: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that after any leader time on tuesday, decemb december 21st, senator alexander be recognized for up to 10 minutes. ing that following his remarks, the senate the house message with respect to h.r. 3082 and that the time until 10:15 a.m. be divided as follows: 10 minutes und

. >> glor: 18 sentences handed to him in this brighton, massachusetts, court, for everything from grand larceny to drug possession. >> i remember not being able to get up and get out of myself, and wishing, just praying they could just die. i didn't want to live any more. >> glor: it was dyer at rock bottom withdrawing from a 42-bag-a-day her win addict. >> my first memory of him is in the cell depressed and despondent, maybe even crying. >> glor: the charles street jail in downtown boston is where dyer ended up eight times. it's now been successfully converted into the liberty hotel, a real-life metaphor for dyer's own transformation. >> i remember being, you know, behind him. >> reporter: he earned his g.e.d. while behind bars, got his law degree when he got out, and then former governor michael dukakis gave him a governor's pardon so rick dyer could officially practice law. are there times when you still look back now and say i can't believe what's happened? >> yes. probably every week, if not twice, three times. >> i think that attorney dyer had an experience that brought him out on

, and snook college in northampton, massachusetts, where women marines and women accepted for voluntary emergency service were trained. the women of the advisory council were some of the brightest and most well educated women in the country. the chairman of the council was virginia gildersleeve, dean of varner college who was overheard at one point in the deliberations regarding the acceptance of women in the navy, she said: now, if navy could possibly have used dogs or ducks or monkeys, either of those certain admirals -- the older admirals -- would certainly have greatly preferred them to women. [laughter] in november of 1942, the waacs and the army chief of staff, george c. marshall, found out exactly what it meant to not have full military status. five waacs in an advance party flew to england and took a ship to north africa because they were told it was too dangerous for women to fly by aircraft at that point. and be they were to set up the clerical support at general eisenhower's headquarters in north africa and give support to the casablanca conference. one day out of that north

massachusetts delegation is democratic. they can't draw a republican out of the district because there is no republican. on the other hand, you have ohio where the republicans.... >> somebody is going to lose there. >> the democrats control the process and a democrat is going to have to lose. on the other hand, you look at ohio. republicans control the entire process. so they control both chambers of the legislature, the governor. they ought to be able to add new districts except, judy, they just gained five congressional districts in the november elections. there are enough democratic voters in the state located in a certain part of the state, in the north-northern part of the state from toledo to youngs town where they'll have to get their district, four or five congressional districts. just because somebody controls the process or the state is in the south or the northeast it doesn't guarantee certain winneres arch losers. it does suggest there is a republican advantage here. >> woodruff: in most states it is the state l

those losing seats are illinois, iowa, louisiana, massachusetts, michigan, missouri, new jersey, new york, ohio, and pennsylvania. for 32 states, there is no change. texas gained the most seats this decade, a total four, and indeed has gained seats for seven consecutive decades. the next graphic shows the national staff shot of the 2010 census apportionment of the u.s. house of representatives. california will have 53 seats. texas will have 36. new york and florida will each have 27. seven states will have only one representative. the average population size of each house district will be 710,767 persons, and this is up from 646,952 at this time in 2000. i might note that in 1790, each representative represented 34,000 people overall. population change. over the last 100 years, the rate of growth of the u.s. population has gradually slowed, and this is as you can see from the red line on this graphic. there are two notable decades here. between 1930-1940, the small growth rate of 7.3% is thought to be related to the great depression of the 1930 loss. between 1950-1960, the high growt

forecasters warn the storm will march from north carolina toward massachusetts, packing heavy snow and punishing winds with gusts up to 50 miles an hour. >> this storm is certainly the real deal. especially in the case of north carolina. say even five or six inches can be a major issue. in this case you're talking six to ten inches, in some cases more. it verges on the epic snowfall for north carolina. >> reporter: with conditions already deteriorating, the timing couldn't be worse. millions of americans are expected to drive home from their holiday destinations. >> it could be a big mess across the east coast. so we're advising that families get out early, listen to your forecast, and be prepared. >> reporter: a festive holiday wrapping up with a less than festive forecast. and rail service is also being affected. tonight amtrak has announced that it has had some cancellations on some routes between washington, d.c. and virginia. you'll want to check ahead. kate. >> peter alexander at la guardia airport tonight. thank you. >>> the weather channel's samantha mohr is keeping a close eye

i fought a project like this when i live in a silk mill in massachusetts. they wanted to turn this beautiful building -- an art historian wrote a beautiful book about it. they wanted to turn it into 26 apartments. the little village got a lawyer. we fought at city hall. we came close to stopping it. i got them to reduce its to 19 apartments. it is now an incredibly depressing slump. one of the most beautiful buildings in massachusetts. it is going to happen here again. we can keep the community that is here and not destroy it. please do not do this. [applause] commissioner miguel: before the next speaker, because we have been here this length of time, we are going to take a 10-minute break. we will continue directly we will continue directly afterwards. commissioner miguel: if you'll pardon me, with this brightly shining, i cannot necessarily read this correctly. >> hi like to introduce my next- door neighbor at two years, nellie delaware bottle. >> thank you very much. i have lived here for 21 years. my husband, my two children, and me move from a two-stor

the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, can i inquire from the gentleman from texas if they have further speakers. we don't have further speakers on our side. mr. sessions: i thank the gentleman from massachusetts. in fact, i would be very pleased to yield our time if the gentleman would advise me if the gentleman is through with his speakers. mr. mcgovern: it's just me. mr. sessions: if i could be recognized for closing for the republican party. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentleman is recognized. mr. sessions: the agriculture committee chairman was selected today, the gentleman, mr. lucas, spoke very clearly not only on behalf of farmers and ranchers across this country, but really on behalf of a group of people who are in the food chain of this country, who all the way up through grocery stores and providers of content to make sure that the food safety linings of this country are properly taken care of. there are so many food workers all across this country who have established not only high

the presiding officer: the senator from massachusetts. mr. kerry: madam president, i would like to ask unanimous consent -- senator demint will be next. after senator demint, senator thune, according to the list. i would ask unanimous consent, since there were three opponents in a row, if we could insert -- i've been asked by senator mccain to put senator are issue in and i'd like to to put senator shaheen before that. so after senator thune, i'd ask that senator shaheen be recognize the for 10 minutes, subsequent to that senator are issue for 10 minutes, and senator sessions would follow that for 30 minutes. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, so ordered. mr. kerry: finally, i would just -- quickly, before the senator from south carolina begins, just say to my friend from illinois that i would point out to him that actually the russians have helped israel by cooperating with us, as a result of this cooperative arrangement that we've reached. they refuse to sell the s-300 interceptor -- air interceptor missile to the

and as mitt romney ought to know better than anybody, because when he was the governor of massachusetts and he had it democrat controlled, about the only thing that he accomplished was romneycare, which he'll get to explain the difference between romneycare and obamacare for the next two years. >> it's not your candidate, ed? >> pardon? >> it's not your candidate? >> ed rollins got to that before john thune could. >> i think at the end of the day, as the senator has said, and romney did try to be a senator, he didn't make it, but he tried to be a senator. and i think at the end of the day, he tried to take democrats out and he didn't succeed. so what he did the last year of his governorship is he ran around the country 344 days running for president. so he's off trying to run for president again. >> if you're scoring this one at home, ed rollins is not for mitt romney. 25 years covering politics and i got that one. >> right. >> exactly. >> but, john, to ed's point, i mean, ed said it in a semi-political kind of way. but it is interesting the day after this big federal court ruling that

the presiding officer: the senator from massachusetts. mr. kerry: mr. president, would you please inform me when i've used the first four minutes? the presiding officer: yes. mr. kerry: mr. president, our cleelings on the other side of the aisle are fighting against a phantom. all of this argument that they have been going on for several days o now is about language tht has no binding impact on this treaty whatsoever. senator kyl acknowledged that yesterday. he also acknowledged that if you change it, it requires this treaty to go back to the government, the russian government, and then we don't have this treaty, we don't have any verification for whatever number of months follow. now, i'll come back to that in a moment. a moment ago senator kyl said, the russians didn't want to continue the verification methods of start i $of stamplet and he somehow insinuates that because they didn't want to continue it, what we have here is something less than what we ought to have for ourselves. mr. president, we didn't want to continue the verification and process

he was for the health care plan in massachusetts. pro-choice in massachusetts. the minute he cleared the state board or commonwealth border, he's now hiding from the health care bill he passed up there and he's changed on abortion rights, but here he is saying he's against this tax deal. help me, howard. i've never needed you more. how can a guy who claims he's a supply schneididsider and he's he's against it. >> well, there's both substance in music here. the substance is in the op-ed he wrote in "usa today" today, he says his objection is that he wants these cuts to be permanent, not two years, but permanent. what he's really trying to do is show he understands the music m imic of the tea party. i talked to one of the founders of tea party p patriots and he said what he doesn't like about the deal is it was quote, done in the dead of night. in other words, with barack obama. what a lot of conservatives don't like and what mitt romney -- playing to is the fact that in conservative circles, this is now known as the obama compromise and that in and of itself is e