number two, we newsed to sneak ese in budget resolutions and now it's in here in plain sight. and what are w doing? we are actually cutting spending while we do this. that's cultural. that's significant. that's a big step in theright direction. we are getting 2/3 of the cuts we wanted in our budget and as far as i'm concerned, 66% in the right direction is a whole lot >> the house to raise the debt limit. during the vote, gabrielle giffords returned months after being injured in a shooting in tucson, arizona. here is that reaction. [cheers and applause] cape st. clai -- [cheers and applause] the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 2 -- the speaker: on this vote the yeas are 269, the nays are 161. the bill is passed and without objection a motion to reconsider is laid on the table. for what purpose does the gentleman from utah rise? >> permission to speak out of order. the speaker: without objection, so ordered. mr. bishop: kids who are at the back that you can't see because you're standing in front of them, this is the first time we've ever had pages here had not in

newses crews from around the world were sent to cover the first same sex marriage >> i think today marriage as an institution has been strengthened. i think today marriage has been affirmd and today we can say, it's the first day in the state of california that we are providing marriage equally and fairly to everyone, denying no one their right to live out loud. [applause]. >> meanwhile, the office the clerk had been busy planning to move its licensing for a 2-week period to handle the hundreds of apointments. >> we couldn't shut down our offices because there's other services we provide. it wasn't like we could shut down, take the equipment here and move it to a satellite office. >> it was up to the it director to do the best you can. beg, borrow and steal and we knew what the mission was, what our goal was. with our it group and our software vender, they came together and pulled it together for us in the north light court >> handling several hundreds of marriages required volunteers >> you know, on the outside, it looks pretty simple. behind the scenes, there was a momental, mountain of w

. >>> new mothers and their babies took part in a nationwide sin dro newsed nursing event -- synchronized nursing event. they came together, to remove the stigma of breast-feeding in public. >> we're just looking for support. where we can sit down and have a conversation with somebody else and breast-feed our baby andis no big deal -- and it's no big deal. >> today's event helps wrap up world breast-feeding week which ends tomorrow. >>> women across san francisco came together in a march against sexism [ chanting ] >> the ray was held at delores park this afternoon. no matter what people are wearing, women do not reserve to be raped, they rallied. >> so this is to change the collective mindset of our cult chur. >> the event stems from an incident in toronto where police officers advised women to change how they dress so they are not victimized. since then, women have marched in other areas. >>> hundreds got help today taking the financial sting out of buying school supplies. >>> turning to divine intervention to fix the nation's woes but not everyone is happy about this. >>> how a simple

number two, we newsed to sne these in budget resolutions and now it's in here in plain sight. and what are we doing? we are actually cutting spending while we do thi that's cultural. that's significant. that's a big step in the right direction. we are getting 2/3 of the cuts we wanted in our budget and as far as i'm concerned, 66% in the right direction is a whole lot >> that figure is an americanization. that is not a classical figure. >> if you missed our latest documentary "library of congress," there is a preview on our youtube channel. see all the latest videos and watch the entire documentary and hundreds of other timely videos online at youtube. >> the c-span networks -- providing coverage of politics, public affairs, nonfiction books, and american history. it is all available to you on television, radio, online, and on social media networking sites. find our content anytime through the c-span video library. we take c-span on the road with our digital content bus. it is washington your way. the c-span networks -- now available in more than 100 million homes, created by

a sin kron newsed sunday for democrats who simultaneously trashed the decision to downgrade the u.s.'o the brink of a default. >> i believe this is without question the tea party downgrade. >> republicans, at least the ones showing up on the sunday shows, said blaming s&p misses the point. they argue there's plenty of blame to go around. >> on the s&p thing, don't shoot the messenger. is there anybody that believes that s&p is wrong in their assessment of the situation, of the fiscal situation of this country? >> i'm not very surprised at this downgrade. we more or less saw this coming because we're on the wrong fiscal path. both political parties are responsible for the mess we have right now. this is not a republican or democrat only problem. this is both parties got us to where we are. >> on the 2012 presidential watch, former governor and presidential hopeful tim pawlenty, who needs a good showing in next saturday's republican straw poll in iowa, kep up his attacks on fellow minnesotan and presidential candidate michele bachmann. >> whether it's any candidate, i don't think it's u

and that caucus, it it was a very newsful caucus. joe biden, jack lew head of the budget office, people answered questions. i believe that this bill was frankly better understood when we voted on it than most. >> listen, i have to ask you this. a veteran like barney frank who knows had his way around washington and legislation, why would you endorse something that you hadn't read? >> the answer is this -- as you said on monday, i didn't absolutely say i was for it. i was giving an indication because i try to be open with people of my current thinking. and i was explicit as to what i had in mind. and when i learned later that it wasn't there, i changed my mind. no harm came from my having said that at the time. what happened was -- and at the caucus i specifically said to the members, you know what? i spoke for this on saturday. it was a different bill. i thought it looked good, but it didn't. the answer was, i respond to people who ask me what i'm currently thinking. i made it clear monday morning i hadn't made a definite decision. a

. >> reporter: more good newses.ldl, they are mostly large particles, the kind that don't turn into plaque in vessels: putting it all together, what can you tell me? >> you are at low risk for future heart attack though there is a family history. clearly the lifestyle that you maintain your weight, do exercise has helped decrease your risk. >> reporter: if diet and exercise can make someone like me low risk for a heart attack, even with a strong family history, that's encouraging. >> i don't think there is any question that not only could we be past our last heart attack, but the vast majority of people, even my age, if they are prepared to change their diet, exercise more could actually reverse a lot of their

live in san francisco, taramoriarty, ktvu channel 2 newses. >>> in overnight news, one man is wounded in a police shooting in santa clara county. it happened on stevens creek boulevard last night. ktvu's kraig debro live to tell us there are many unanswered questions about this. reporter: good morning, dave. we're at stern and stevens creek boulevard, right next to 280. the scene here is still ongoing, crime scene here. it's been about eight hours since this all happened. according to a news release, released by santa clara county this morning, a deputy was driving down the street, spotted a person walking. the deputy believed that person may have been involved in a reported stolen vehicle. he made contact with that person and then shots were fired according to the news release and the suspect, at least the person deputies stopped has non-life- threatening injuries. we're not sure if he has been arrested, in custody. we still have to talk to deputies about that. even though this is cuppertino, since they don't have their own police force, santa clara county patrols this part of the co

that would be your knee jerk reaction is to panic, but i think to alleviate the action newsing zits thatthere because consumers are up against any number of head winds, as jack mentioned, you have to have a cash position. not only businesses, but consumers alike. you have to try to protect your job, try to keep your job and make yourself indispensable. it's a team to try to pair down your debts, and get the downgrade on the credit. >> jack, there's another tweet i want you to respond to. this is from haw 1380. they say the things that worries me most is how it makes our country look on the world stage. >> well, yeah. we should always be concerned about how people think about us, but, on the other hand, who cares as long as it doesn't have a bad effect on our economy? this downgrade does make us look bad, but it should bother us only to the extent that it raises our interest rates. costs are extremely high in interest in the united states. this -- somebody estimated that this downgrade is going to cost the united states as much money as the entire war in southwest as asia. that's bad news

corey again took over in 1988 and -- corrigan took over and told his staff that he aggo newses aboute of -- agonizes about the current state of california and wants to turn it around. >>> right now, dominique strauss-kahn is a in a new york city courtroom where it is expected that the judge will throw out the sexual assault case against him. this is strauss arriving for court. the prosecutors say there's evidence that the woman had sexual contact with strauss- kahn but they are not convinced it was forced. >>> back here at home, a 21- year-old summer camp employee accused of having sex with a 14- year-old boy will be a -- will be arraigned in court. katrina worked at the teen extreme summer court program in vacaville. she was arrested earlier this month at her home in fairfield after police were called by the teenager's parents. they told investigators they found a suspected -- a suspicious text message on the phone. they say she's confessed. if you have any other information about this case contact vacaville police. >>> 8:55. today's ticket tuesday's winner will can get to check out

battles in the last election in the 2008 election it's fascinating to me to see dillinger is in the newse news every day so i think it looms large in our politics. >> i was wondering if there were any papers now that you are thinking sort of live up to the underground ideal. i have friends at berkeley working on the slingshot and they are trying to do the independent press and i think a lot of papers of the political stance that may be people within that group would rate so i'm just curious your thoughts on the current press. >> there's a lot more diversity now. the cliche that says the internet connection as their own press in a sense it is easy for people to put across dissenting viewpoints nowadays. ironically even though i am very critical of the way that "the new york times" and the 60's tended to put across the kind of mainstream est feel to acknowlee their own body -- bias there is a place for the daily staffed newspapers today more than ever and so, you know, a paper like "the new york times," they have a publisher and editors who are professionally trained who tried to the best o

>> i came here to sell hope because a lot of cable newses want a crisis. let's look at some things.owngraded and overall, interest rates went down, not up. that's our big fear, that interest rates will go up because of this. also look at canada. pound for pound, canada is a stronger economy today than the u.s. is. yet, they went through a downgrade somewhere around the early 90s. that was a wake-up call. they got their act together. what if we were to get our act together? goldman sachs, a barish call, they're out saying, we thought the s & p would hit 1450. >> eric: small businesses, is this a head wind to new hiring? >> absolutely. 'cause what happened is it's taking away confidence. we don't have confidence in the government. our confidence was lacking coming into this. i think the biggest issue i have is the way that washington reacted. washington came out and said, what do you mean? we didn't do anything wrong. >> eric: small business, what about it? can you hire if you're a small business? >> it's a difficult time now because new business creation is at their lowest level sinc

battles in the last election in the 2008 election it's fascinating to me to see dillinger is in the newse every day so i think it looms large in our politics. >> i was wondering if there were any papers now that you are thinking sort of live up to the underground ideal. i have friends at berkeley working on the slingsh do the independent press and i think a lot of papers of the political stance that may be people within that group would rate so i'm just curious your thoughts on the current press. >> there's a lot more diversity now. the cliche that says the internet connection as their own press in a sense it is easy for people to put across dissenting viewpoints nowadays. ironically even though i am very critical of the way that "the new york times" and the 60's tended to put across the kind of mainstream establishment value and sort of feel to acknowledge their own body -- bias there is a place for the daily staffed likeapers today more than ever "the new york times," they have a publisher and editors who are professionally trained who tried to the best of their ability to, you know, fi

number two, we newsed to sneak these in budget resolutions and now it's in here in plain sight. and what are we doing? we are actually cutting spending while we do this. that's cultural. that's significant. that's a big step in the right direction. we are getting 2/3 of the cuts we wanted in our budget and as far as i'm concerned, 66% in the right direction is a whole lot >> the house passed the vote. during the vote, rep giffords made a surprise turned -- return. here is a look. the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 2 -- the speaker: on this vote the yeas are 269, the nays are 161. the bill is passed and without objection a motion to reconsider is laid on the table. for what purpose does the gentleman from utah rise? >> permission to speak out of order. the speaker: without objection, so ordered. mr. bishop: kids who are at the back that you can't see because you're standing in front of them, this is the first time we've ever had pages here had not in two small groups but in one summer group. these pages are going home this week and they have had a chance of being

. >> we are trying to step outside the box, figure out how to make tv newses exciting and intertaping and informative again rather than, i'm sure, but the garbage it's really dwindled down to be. >> she'll talk about her network and show sunday night on c-span's q&a. live picture from the national prep club here in washington this afternoon. we're here for a discussion on social security and medicare. two public trustees today talk about their roles with the programs. there are a total of six trustees including the secretaries of treasury and health and human services and labor. the social security commissioner and two public trustees appointed by the president. this year's annual report on the program on their financial health of medicare and social security called the two programs financial future challenging and not sustainable. this discussion this afternoon is being hosted by boston college center for retirement research. >> it's time to get started. [inaudible conversations] steve, sit, please. i, again, have the honor of introducing the lunchon speakers. we are privileged to ha

number two, we newsed to sneak these in budget resolutions and now it's in here in plain sight. and what are we doing? we are actually cutting spending while we do this. that's cultural. that's significant. that's a big step in the right direction. we are getting 2/3 of the cuts we wanted in our budget and as far as i'm concerned, 66% in the right direction is a whole lot better than going in the wrong direction. with that, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: all time for debate on the bill has expired. the previous question is ordered on the bill as amended. the question is on third reading of the bill. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. third reading. the clerk: an act to make a technical amendment to the education sciences reform act of 2003. the previous question being ordered the chair notes the absence of a quorum in accord with 7-c and chooses to entertain a motion of the call of the house. without objection, the call of the house is ordered. members will have 15 minutes to record their presence by electronic device. [captioning made possible