the obama administration is the first administration to use congressionally mandated sanctions on iran in a robust way. and you deserve considerable praise for that. i know that the president and you and numerous officials at state, treasury, defense have put in literally thousands of hours trying to persuade foreign officials and foreign businessmen to respect our sanctions and to help isolate iran. all for the purpose of implementing a policy intended to lead iran to abandon its nuclear weapons program. in that regard, i think it will be helpful to put to rest concerns of some observers that the administration is resigned to iran's becoming a nuclear threshold state. i think it's important to -- very important to reassure us on that point. based on my understanding of the administration's policy, i think you should be able to do that. three months ago on december 1st, secretary of state burns and israeli deputy foreign minister issued a statement that spoke of, and i quote, "preventing iran from developing a nuclear weapons capability." and a pentagon publication last month also said

america needs to realize that the policies of this administration is keeping this administration from harvesting its resources and being truly energy independent and providing the good-paying, long-term energy sector jobs. i recommend you go to one of these energy-producing states, oklahoma, texas or north dakota where the unemployment rate is 3% or less and earn $70,000 of driving a water truck if that is any indication. energy independent is a segue to get us out of this economy. and i yield back. mr. gardner: i thank the gentleman for his comments and you touched on the great point, not just energy creation but energy development that creates the jobs that this country needs. but it's the indirect benefits and cycle of energy production. if you have abundant, cheap energy, people will use their gas and use their natural gas in manufacturing at an affordable price and the businesses that benefit from the production itself. our family, like my dad, owns at the dealership, selling parts to farmers and ranchers. we have seen a boom in natural gas development and seen those same people

in january of 2011 based on the review of administrator, administrator pistole decided not to expand the 16 currently participating airports unless there was a clear and substantial benefits to doing so. i might add there should be a security analysis in this as well. i hope my words, substantial benefit in his testimony or questioning, we will determine that substantial benefit or clear and substantial benefit does not ignore the security ramifications. it cost the taxpayers more than using the federal screener work force. in a lot of that fact, that would be reason enough to support the administration's decision not to expand the program but the list goes on. further expansion of privatized screenings hampers the ability to push out intelligence information to front line workers and adds to inconsistency. it makes changes more complex. that means you not only have to vet the front line officers but vet the company, vet the executives of the company and vet the ownership and financial structure of this, vet the banks that the private company goes to. who is paying whom to turn their

so less than a year later it seems that the administration had tired of trying to work with. on such a proposal they decided to go it alone in march of two thousand and eleven the obama administration announced new rules that would allow the f.b.i. to hold terror suspects both foreign and domestic longer without reading them their miranda rights and they made this change unilaterally now the rule dramatically expanded the one nine hundred eighty four public safety exception to miranda which was intended for an imminent threat of a memorandum which was reviewed by the wall street journal says that the policy applies to exceptional cases where investigators conclude that continued unwarned interrogation is necessary to collect valuable and timely intelligence not related to an immediate threat so now terror suspects don't need to read the miranda rights if there is a valuable intelligence to be had now that denigration from miranda came from this administration but the latest attack comes this week from the supreme court so the court ruled six to three on tuesday that if a susp

this is a problem with the administration, not with our teachers. and [applause] >> i am going to have 20 people i am going to call out regarding martin luther king, so i will give you one minute each. goohere we go. [list of names] did you speak already? you have an 1 minutes each, and if you are saying things, try to listen to each other. do not repeat, because we are going to be hearing it over and over again. >> i have a kid who goes to it in now k -- goes to mlk. i am a single parent. i am the only one who deals west my son's issues. the reason my son was suspended for five days, i was not able to answer the phone, but i wait until monday to be able to speak to the official curio -- to the official. goothe official tells me, we are sorry your son got suspended, but we have nothing to tell you. i tell the officials, if you have nothing to tell me, my son should be of school. they said, we do not want him to come to the school. he is suspended for five days. due to this conversation with this official, there was a lot of communication, me as a pa

smith. >> i think this administration has been a total failure. and quite frankly, i think all the groups around this country -- >> should know this and not pretend it is not true. the coptic christians in egypt should know this administration has failed them. iraqi and syrian, chaldean christians should know this administration has failed them. the vietnamese in vietnam, both buddhists and catholic ought to know this administration has failed them. and of course, the catholic bishops in china and the protestant house house jewish leaders in china should know that the administration has failed them. and the dalai lama should know that this administration has failed them. 11, 11 now buddhist monks and nuns have set themselves aflame. but i want to bring it back to this. and i did not know that you had made a request, i would like to ask both of the wives if they would say publicly, i see the media here looking. what would you say, because there's still an opportunity to meet after the vice president from china leaves. what would you say if you had

debate and the crisis of leadership within the party and then the obama administration has released a consumer privacy bill of rights outlining a plan to protect your data so is it any good and what are the chances we're actually going to see this go into effect and not just be trampled on we have all that morphine and i including a dose of happy hour but first take a look with the mainstream media has decided to miss. all right so tonight i'm not going to bother with what the mainstream media is covering today because tonight i want to take some time out to shine a light on something that happened yesterday at the white house press briefing which should make everybody in the mainstream media stop and think well since they're not talking about it today and for so that means that it hasn't you see yesterday's press briefing white house press secretary jay carney praise your analyst that have been putting themselves into dangerous situations to bring this whole truth to bring the story specifically he was referring to the two journalists killed in syria recall then and now let's also no

what has this administration done? it has issued a -- it has issued a regulation only for four of the states which are near the border where these violations going over into mexico most took place where a firearm licensee must provide information whenever two or more guns are broug bought within five days. so we get a remedy, but it's a regulation we turned around in the next administration and applies only for border states. remember, we're talking about guns that almost brought down an allied nation, mexico. what has the united states done about it? this regulation by the attorney general is a long and short of it and you heard almost none of that here today. the american people up were left in the weeds shaking their heads wondering why we were having this hearing at all, especially when it was the sixth hearing that we're it is redundant and reads at this. >> miss maloney. >> this hearing and investigation has become the vast and curious investigation, and it has shown that they are more interested in the symptoms

how does that square with the fact that this administration. has been so aggressively trying to stop aggressive journalism in the states by using the espionage act system to take whistleblowers to court here currently i think that you can go up to the sixth time before the obama administration you don't even use three times history. you're this is the sixth time you're sort of the cia officer for allegedly providing information to doesn't know about cia torture certainly that's something that's in the public interest of the united states this administration is taking this person to court it just seems to be a disconnect where you want aggressive journalism abroad you just don't want to stay well. now i got to say there is bravo jake tapper these are issues that we talk about all the time here on this show and so refreshing to see somebody who actually has access to the white house bring it up call them out. now let's take a look at carney's rather pathetic response i would hesitate to speak to any particular case for obvious reasons and i would

gooare brought 15 copies of a complaint, regarding our administrators. one of whom was given a three- year contract and moved into a metal cage, where they are having problems replicating what we experienced last year. it rose to the level of filing a uniform complaint. that should speak volumes. as a teacher, i want to relate to you one experience not referenced in the uniform complain. that is we scheduled a meeting, which are dutifully attended zero good -- which i dutifully attended, until it became the individual in charge was not happy with getting his way, and we were told, we agreed on this last time, and it was not even i who said, that is not what we want to do. that was the last meeting we had, so it was clear these last meetings and were just window dressing. we are not happy about being treated that way. the professional educators should not have to put up with that kind of treatment at their sites either. for that reason, i ask you to find a way to remove this individual from the school district and one and for all your good reason one and

the kennedy administration was a very bang-bang administration. kennedy hated people who lectured him, a little like obama. he thought he understood things, just tell me what's new, tell me what's interesting. >> host: and who was george bundy before he came to the white house? >> he was dean of harvard college, and some people felt he was the de facto president of harvard college because he was very smart, he brought lots of impressive people to the harvard faculty. he was surprisingly popular among the faculty for a person of that position, and kennedy had gotten to know him because kennedy was on the harvard board of overseers. kennedy was a harvard grad, and he had, and he was, of course, senator from massachusetts. so kennedy saw george bundy operate with the overseers, and he was impressed with that. so that made him -- so that's where he came from. and he wasn't, he had -- he had previous hi written a -- previously co-written the them memoirs of henry stimson, a very important figure in world war ii and before that. he had not done major wo

administration after administration. and, actually, i believe you are now the 7th secretary of energy i have questioned on the topic. i continue to be appalled at the cost overruns and schedule slips of the department of energy's major construction projects. >>> the chairman has noticed some areas of concern. particularly the actions on yucca mountain. i speak for myself when i indicate that i share his concerns in that regard. i would also add my very serious reservations about the inclusion of $150 million request for usec, u-s-e-c, within the nonproliferation budget request. i hope to hear from you and others in the department why when coupled with a transfer authority request for fiscal year 2012, the department believes providing usec with $300 million in taxpayer's money is a good investment and not a bail out. mr. secretary, i do look forward to hearing from you today about the fiscal year 2013 budget request. that will help address energy and national security challenges. none of us will always agree, but, certai

i'm delight to see administra administrative pistol and thank him for his leadership. this is a time for tough choices, tough decisions, and strong commitments to secure this nation. i would offer to say that because of this committee and the leadership of ranking member and chairman that in actuality the united states has through some very, very difficult times managed to secure itself since 9/11. a hor irving act that no one will of -- a hor irvirific act no one will forget. it was on that day that the security of this nation through airports was privatised. and it was on that day that private security entities allowed individuals who ultimately sent planes into the towers of new york to kill thousands of persons. so i have a vigorous disagreement and i'm hoping that the administration will courageously hold the line. this is not a time for politicizing and making people happy and it's not in time for humoring small businesses. and in my mind and the work that i have done, i have considered a supporter of small businesses, medium sized businesses, large businesses. a

most recently, and acting city administrator. my nominee for city administrator for the next five years, naomi lelly. -- kellyl. [cheers and applause] ayman >> to first and foremost to thank her family who have been part of her life. throughout this time, she even raised a family and keep harlon and kelly out of trouble. [laughter] but also, i want to especially thank the whole board of supervisors for just now voting unanimously to confirm her appointment. [ears and applause --years and applause] they have seen in her the leadership, integrity, putting forth that verse communities of san francisco first, all the time, making good decisions, working in our communities to lift up everybody and to find those rays of hope. she has never been about herself. she has been about everybody else. whether it has been her family or helping several layers of, including me, adopt the right engine thct or keeping is very focused on what we need to do to make sure the city is administered well, she has been in there and she has done that. she

the budget also will dedicate $4.8 billion to federal motor carrier safety administration. these dollars will ensure that commercial trucks and bus companies maintained high operational standards and are dedicated safety professionals can get high-risk trucks and bus companies and their drivers off the roadways. finally our safety focus must also include the transportation of hazardous materials in our network of pipelines. that's why the president's 2013 proposal requests $276 million for the pipeline and hazardous material safety administration to help ensure that families, communities and the environment are unharmed by the transport of chemicals and fuels on which our economy relies. so with that, mr. chairman, again, thank you for the last three years for allowing us to come and talk about our budget. it's a privilege always to do that. not every committee affords us this opportunity. so we're grateful to your committee for that. >> we think it's an absolute priority. i think senator sessions and i are joined in that, that transportation has got to be a priority. it's

, so the administration has plenty of spokespeople. i do think though that, you know, from the time i was in the administration until the time i left, the administration closed the door to engagement ever. i also think that the, you know, the relationship with turkey has, it is i think a close relationship, and i have no doubt that there'll be a kind of extensive discussion when he is here on this issue as well as many others. i don't know that the administration is really anxious for the go betweens, but there is no doubt in my mind that the administration has consistently used a variety of different messengers, and one of the reason has the fact that the door to engagement was never close and the reason that the effort of engagement in the first year of the administration was intensive one at outreach was precisely because there was a fundamental concern that if you were going to have any possibility of producing a diplomatic outcome, the united states needed to talk directly with the you he iranians interp to usk and us interpreting

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>> it's part of the administration's we can't wait campaign. it was something that they've been discussing for over a year. they originally called it a plan b for no child left behind. the idea was to give states some sort of out to a provision in the law that requires all students to be at grade level in reading and math by 2014. 2014 is coming can up fast. there are some schools that won't make that deadline and obama wanted to give those states some abilities to come up with other school reforms while congress works out whatever problems that they might be having in rewriting the law. >> they gave the waivers to ten states. is it likely other states will follow suit and ask for the waivers as well? >> yes. when the administration first announced the plan which was last september, they offered up what they would call an advance for states who are ready to go, a quick approval process for them so that they could plan for their next couple of years budgets and other things they're doing for their schools. there's always an expectation there wil

i don't have a problem with administration officials traveling. but some of the locations seem a little bit -- i won't say puzzling, but interesting. you were recently down in brazil at a conference on urban sustainability. can you tell us what urban sustainability is. >> i accompanied the president of the united states when he visited brasilia to meet with the president, and there the two presidents decided to focus on sustainability issues in advance of the rio plus 20 conference which is a unconference to be held in brazil. urban sustainability is an issue facing rio de janeiro as they look at the gains that are coming in the next several years and as the large influx of people into cities in much of the developing world they asked us for information on what cities here are doing that help them to be green, to help them to save energy, to provide energy and water and waste for all those people who are moving in. we're working with the city of -- >> can you just -- >> they're doing innovative waste water work. >> can you tell us what that trip c

es the bush administration increased spending by over 2%. over 2.5% of gdp.. they expanded entitlement spending massively. they turned in massive budget deficits and they presided over an unprecedented government intervention in the housing market, encouraging bad loans bh dragooning taxpayers into covering of the losses for thoss bad loans.admini my beef with this administration, my concern overh this budget is that it has not e only not corrected those mistakes, those policies, but instead has repeated them and doubled down on them which like brings me to the concerns that's i'd like to raise with this budget and get your feedback. a year ago, we had one economist after another coming before thit committee warning us that the t federal government needs to gete its finances in order in the 5 next 3 to 5 years to avoid a fiscal meltdown that would dwarf the 2008 crisis. one of those economists was secretary geithner.nomi and i'd like to read you a quot from his testimony. he said over the next five to ten years, we have an rethe unsustainable fiscal position.

>> it is part of the administration we can't wait campaign. it was something they discussed over a year. they originally called it a plan b for no child left behind. the idea was to give some states some sort of out to a provision in the law that requires all students to be at grade level in reading and math by 2014. 2014 is coming up fast. some schools will not make that deadline. president obama wants schools to come up with reforms while congress comes up with rewriting the law. >> will other states follow suit and ask for the waivers? >> yes. when the administration first announced the plan which was last september, they offered up what they would call an advanced -- for states who are ready to go -- a quick approval process for them so they could plan for their next couple of years budgets. there is always an expectation of a second or third round. most of the states have actually expressed interest there. they are just putting together their plans. there is a complex vetting process before they grant the waivers. new mexico was one of th

the dalai lama ought to know this administration failed them. buddhist monks and nuns set themselves a name. i want to bring it back to this and i did not know you had made a request. i would like to ask both of the wives if they would say publicly, i see the media here looking, but what would you say because there is still an opportunity to meet after the vice president from china leaves. what would you say if you had an opportunity to meet with president obama and shame on them both if they do not meet. shame on them both if they do not meet! you know that president reagan would have met with you and you know president clinton would have met with you. you know president bush would have met with you. you know president jimmy carter would have met with you. shame on them if they do. maybe they won't. this may be the only opportunity. what would both of the wives want to say if they were talking to president obama and vice president bush? [ speaking foreign language ] . >> if i had an opportunity to meet president obama and vice president biden,

i would like to welcome the administrator and mr. rush. good thing we have drilling and fracking that will have us move to the future, without that we could not access the natural gas. i am hoping that epa will not regulate and try to stop the natural gas. your request is for 8.3 billion to fund the epa, i have been quoted that i want to go line by line, but unfortunately the documents that we have been given does not give us an idea of where the money is planning to go and how it is supposed to be spent. hopefully this hearing will flush that out and we will get clarification so we know where the money you are requesting is designed and going. based upon what i see, only 1% less spending is proposed from last year, with such a minimum decrease from an agency who has been skyrocketing budgets. we are not using our efforts to scale back spending. whether it's clean air, solid waste, disposal, all the programs deserve a complete review. and i hope we will work together to have a transparent look at where the dollars are flowing at the epa. i

administration after administration and actually believe you are the seventh secretary of energy i have questioned on the topic. i continue to be appalled at the cost overruns the department of energy's major construction projects. in 2009 the subcommittee had a hearing on the department's continued appearance on gao's list. position it held since 1990. given the challenges of last year on major construction projects i fear not much has changed and i do hope you can provide insurances today is that you are taking significant strong actions to get the department of the list. the chairman has noticed areas of concern particularly the department's decision on yucca mountain. i share his concern in that regard. eyewall so at my very serious reservations about the inclusion of $150 million request for usec in the budget request. i hope to hear from you and others in the department why when coupled with transfer authority request for fiscal year 2012 the department is providing usec with $200,000 in taxpayer money is a good investment and not a bailout. mr. secretary, i look forward to hearin

perhaps the administration stepping into quick sand. will there be a change regarding this issue from the white house? >> i can't speak to what people are predicting about the white house. i can speak to what the policy is and what the effects are. what i'd really like to speak to is there is so many people on the right being hypocrite cal about this. he was governor of massachusetts for four years. this policy was in effect in massachusetts ma. there was a mandate. he did nothing to chapg it and as far as i know, he never said anything about it and for him to discover this is a problem really does speak to what his entire candidacy is about which is the political opportunism i can attack the president regarding what my policies have been. >> thank you. >> thank you. joining me more to talk about it is michael smerconish. i know you were just listening in. what's your take here? will the white house be forced to back away when you have dolan and other high ranking officials really coming out swinging here? >> i think they will back away

we're not going to get it under this administration. and i hope my colleagues on both sides of the aisle wake up and realize that we're putting our country right down the drain. i just saw this last couple weeks the "congress" magazine, front page of that magazine criticizes us for the overregulatory nature of our economy and of our government. we're making it so it's almost impossible for businesses to really make the money and income that they need to make to have high-paying jobs in this society. yet, all we hear are various approaches that really don't work. madam president, we can solve our own energy needs. we have between 800 billion and 1.6 trillion barrels of recoverable oil and oil shale in utah and colorado. we have billions of barrels of oil in anwr up in alaska, billions of barrels of oil in other sites in alaska. fortunately we found oil in the balkans in north dakota. the only reason we've been able to drill there is because it's private land. fortunately we found some big place down in texas. again, the only reason we're

this is an administration that fears that diversity. the obama administration has crossed a dangerous line and we will fight this attack on the fundamental rights of religious freedom until the courts overturn it or until we have a president who will reverse it! [ applause ] picking winners and losers, rewarding friends, punishing enemies, silencing critics. these things don't just strike the heart of conservatism. they strike at the heart of what america is all about. these are the things that drive the obama economy. and they drive an ideological agenda that as we have seen again and again has little regard for those who descend or for a constitution that's meant to protect them. so let me leave you with this. keep up the fight. if someone would use the powers of their office to curtail our freedoms or limit free end prize, then we need to use the power of free citizens to restore them. you know before i became republican leader in the senate ways best known for a very long fight i waged against campaign finance laws. [ applause ] the

this happens not only in republican administration, but also in democratic administrations. it happens not only from the white house, but members of congress who posture on educational issues so you'll end up with some congressman or senator who's acting like the national superintendent of schools and the law, the no child left behind law was proscriptive in many ways. in my opinion, it's had some contributions. it was overly proscriptive. a lot of educators complain about it. there are positive and negative features of the federal rule. most people don't agree about the local school. a good solid majority of people have a favorable opinion of their public school, thank you think they do a pretty good job. >> jan asks you to speak about the move towards common core and what you think the impact might be on nclb. >> well the -- >> what is common core? >> well, the common core was a movement begun by the national governance and the school's superintendents. they were reacting to the fact that our country with educational standards set by every state had a total hodgepodge of a

administration and the senior bush administration have followed the right line on this.n particular, this administration over the last two years with regards to a round. i do not know of one individual who has had responsibility for intelligence in any serious way in the middle east or israel who has said an israeli strike in iran would be the best solution and we ought to look seriously at that. this is i think an example of an international community coming together with sanctions, tightening. that is only one part of this. inside iran, there is great uncertainty. their inflation is 20 or 30%. iran is not a monolithic power. ahmadinejad says things but make no sense, but you have a different power bases within iran. it is my opinion and the opinion of most people in this administration that a military strike in iran would be a terrible mistake because we do not know what the consequences would be a. we could unleash a terrible armageddon in the middle east. you look at all the options. i do not think we are there yet. to get to the answer to your question, what happens

i thank the administration for putting pen to paper. that's good. we have something to dialog with. >> i want to emphasize it's not the first time the president put forward in april, september -- >> i'm not going back in history. i appreciate that. i'm hearing from you that it's responsible to have a budget. last year the president proposed a budget to the senate and he got zero votes, if i understanding. recently the senate president said he has no intention of putting a budget up, so as far as i understand right now, i commend you and i commend the president for coming forward with a budget. as of right now, if what you said before is responsible thing to have a budget, it's irresponsible not to have a budget -- it's seen as though it would be irresponsible for senate president reid to not take this budget up and have a vote on this. would you agree with that? >> as mr. sherman said, the president and obviously the legislative bodies put into effect the balance that the bca last summer, that serves as a budget. and that's a real accomplishment. >>

get the clinton administration part 3. if you feel it was such a crisis and panic at that time as many say it was coming out of the calamitous bush administration into the tar, bringing in a team of rivals as obama talked about, all you had was larry summers and tim geithner. both of them have their control over the policies that led to the crisis. in my mind, that opened the door to the tea party. it opened the door to right-wing populism. people saw in this white house favoritism towards goldman sachs and the banks. the problem was the left populism has not emerged until now. for too long, many felt with the bomb in the white house that things would be sorted out. that is where movements become important. every administration in modern times has had to deal with insurgency's or movements on its left and right. reagan in many ways was a movement president. i say that with contempt for what he did in damage to this country. you need to see the pendulum has now swung. the tea party in many ways has lost a lot of this mojo b

guest: and then the obama guys said -- the bush administration -- the obama administration review it and it is full speed ahead. they are concerned about the past history. they had more controls and what exports and what is allowed to come in. now, it is very interesting. congress as well, the people who raise those concerns are strongly behind the program. host: tell us about the nuclear facility. how are they checking off all of the boxes by the international community to say, it is peaceful, go ahead. guest: a few things. they signed the uiaa, the nuclear watchdog. they signed them all. the former head of their nuclear program. u.n. officials coming pretty regularly. it means that the nuclear sites, you have all these weird folks. what is interesting, when you got there it is just flat terrain. they're hoping to begin construction this summer of the actual reactor. when you go there, you see a red flag which is exactly the reactors can go. iran is only about 100 miles away. there's this big red flag or the reactor will be. host: you have been there. you have been there with this f

that makes a big difference. >> it's not just obama administration.the boy scouts because they have god in there. you have a attack on cemeteries. you have the hietd hated speeches. they announced they want to take god out of the air force oath. happy holidays, merry christmas. we see range of attacks upon our faith. it's not obama is drum major for it. >> they wanted to restrict religion freedom of worship. this is about, we

during the clinton administration. the average over the clinton administration's eight years was 32.8% of the total income tax burden was paid. under bush it was 36.7% and then the top 1% paid 40.6% which was a larger share than the entire bottom 95% of the -- now, again, you're saying that's not quite enough. that's not a fair enough share. >> senator johnson, the root cause there is the tremendous wealth accumulation by a few. and the fact that our middle class has not -- has not benefited. >> we have a very progressive tax rate. that's why when we have recessions we have such a falloff. it's not fair enough that the top 1% paid here than 40% and paid more than the entire 95% bottom part of the income tax. >> i think it's fair that we are in a situation where we need deficit reduction and that reduction should come in part through revenue. the president is proposing $2.50 in spending cuts for $1 of revenue in fair share and that the wealthiest 2% should pay their fair share and we should have no tax cuts on those und

really grilling white house spokesman jay carney and saying you know the obama administration has now use the espionage act six times now to retaliate against whistleblowers and that is twice as many as all previous presidents he's combined so i think the message that the obama administration is trying to send is very clear that if you see something don't say something we don't want to hear it and i think. that's unfortunate and we need to put a stop to that very interesting zach thank you for weighing in and coming on the show that was jack paisa vento press liaison for the bradley manning support network. well still ahead an r t calling in the neo republican presidential contenders are assembling a ragtag team of foreign policy advisers to help them take over the white house but this meeting of the minds might just be a meeting of the malicious we'll introduce you to some of the questionable characters that. you. just put a picture of me when i was like no new years old and don't you know the truth. i'm a confession i am a total ghetto princess i love grabbing hip hop music and pret

that's why we need the administration's help. when students found out that the administration was going to help us in this way, there was an environment of jubilation, just celebration. i told one person that students went out that night and celebrated. there was some drinking, okay? we were excited. there was some cheering and some yelling in that bar. it was not over a sporting event, it was about access to birth control. i think the person i told that to was sort of incredulous. really, you went out and cheered about health regulations? yeah, we did. the reason we did that is because it has such a huge impact on our lives as students. i think the people who haven't gone to these schools and haven't seen the types of terrible situations that i talked about might not realize that, but yeah, on the campuses, people are talking about it, they're excited about it and they vote. >> about a week ago catholic university students for choice had an event where we collected signatures for petitions about this issue, and i was so surprise

it leaves the regime, the administration, you'll excuse the confusion. we defer to democracies as administrations and dictator ships as regime, it was a slip of the tongue. it leaves the administration in the position of continuing to argue that the same kind of economic and political pressures that have failed to produce an effect object the strategic calculus of the assad regime, define the strategy that we should stick with into the foreseeable future. and this, i'm afraid to say, is not the position that i think any administration wants itself to be in. and in fact, the obama administration finds itself in the very unenviable position of arguing that our best course is simply more of the same. even though conditions on the ground are not waiting for a slow-moving u.s. policy to affect the strategic calculus of the assad regime. and if the rate at which the regime is willing to apply repression outpaces the rate at which our policy has an impact then we're kind of in the position of arguing and you know, this is an old joke from the sales community. w

the article states that despite environmental opposition, the obama administration administration has approved a controversial oil sands pipeline. the article refers to an oil sands pipeline approved by the administration over two years ago. on august 20, 2009, secretary of state clinton approved a 1,000-mile pipeline with the capacity to carry 800,000 barrels of oil from canada's oil sands to wisconsin. mr. speaker, if a pipeline that closely mirrors that of the proposed keystone x.l. was good enough for the president in august of 2009, why is the keystone x.l. pipeline not good enough for him in an election year? if time and the environment were reasons to deny keystone x.l. in january, 2012, they should have had the same reasons to deny the canada-wisconsin pipeline in 2009. keystone x.l. is a shovel ready construction project that doesn't need a stimulus bill to get it started. estimates show that the project could create 20,000 construction jobs immediately and could transport more than one million barrels of oil per day from canada and the shell formation in north dakota and mon

i don't see this administration taking any steps to do that. yes, they make little savings here and little savings there, h and phony comparisons against a baseline they created and say he we're saving money when rear not. >> we're not greece. >> and i'm fed up with this.p >> we're not greece yet. e're >> and we're n not going to be greece. this budget achieves a sustainable level of debt as a r percentage of gdp. be a and we'll make sure this countrv continues to be a good place toe invest in. i believe in our workers, our e competitiveness. >> so does everyone in dghere. so the rhetoric, i wish your i budget matched the rhetoric thae you put forward. but i do appreciate you being here, you have a tough job. inte >> it's interesting for me, just as i have two points of reference as i listen to my colleagues go back and forth. one is to look at what is proposed on this by the the presidential candidates running for the republican nomination in terms of more defense spending, no revenuemes, and even people like george will pointing out that it's