the state is being given the banks money so the state can hand it over to the wronged parties here.le, to the homeowners. but scott walker is taking tens of millions of dollars of that for his budget hole instead. for the budget hole created by his tax breaks. we learned today the effort to keep governor walker in office also includes this. a rally apparently scheduled for friday, remember the so-called brooks brothers riot in florida in 2000 when the republican party bussen and flew in and made a scene at the site where the florida presidential recount was underway, remember that? this year in wisconsin, pro scott walker organizers are asking people to march on the government accountability board in wisconsin. where workers are certifying the million signature petitions that are are expected to put the scott walker recall on the ballot. they want to march on that office. so yeah, the masterlock insourcing american job story has national rest on nance, so does the turn for the weird in wisconsin's own politics. joining now is tammy baldwin, democrat representing the second district

history of our state we were the first state to pass workers' compensation laws. the first state to enact unemployment insurance benefits and in one thousand nine hundred fifty nine the first state to grant collective bargaining rights to public employees so it's a state with a rich history of. respecting. workers rights of understanding how important it is that you be safe at work things that labor has argued for over the years you've watched what's happened in the state of wisconsin over the last year since the last election voters in wisconsin are standing up and speaking out about these actions to repeal decades worth of progress in just a matter of weeks and they're really particularly upset because they feel like they were deceived in the course of the election we didn't know any of this was coming and so people are as i said speaking out taking action i've seen that all over the state what do you think about the the the we just saw this primary down from the republican primary. newt gingrich two to one in south carolina that wasn't enough and so in florida h

and in both those states, mitt romney has gotten the endorsement of the state's republican governors. michigan's governor, rick snyder came out and endorsed mr. romney earlier this month. the latest polling out of michigan, he has erased rick santorum's advantage there. mr. romney holding a slim lead in michigan ahead of the vote. the republican governor of arizona, jan brewer withheld her endorsement, waiting until yesterday, two days before the primary to announce she, too, is endorsing mr. romney. governor brewer's last minute endorsement is not exactly a profile in courage. given so much of the state has voted when you look at the polling, it looks like mitt romney will run away with arizona. governor brewer waited long enough to figure out who was going to win and then she said i'm with that guy. jan brewer, always brave, always classy. if you believe the polls, mitt romney has a prohibitive lead in arizona right now. but if you believe the curse, maybe jan brewer endorsing him might turn it around. having the arizona republican establishment on your side ha

it's stated in the statute. and so there is a specific process that is spelled out, as i mentioned, through state statute. and those things -- those things are important. i have two points that i want to make to mr. rush's points. one is the reason why there's this kind of catch all is that if you have one land owner that, you know, has aligned themselves with the nrdc and then you have one land owner that can stop at 1700 mile pipeline and i think that's really what the basis of this amendment is. but also what it does is it usurps nebraska law. it makes nebraska law that's been vetted, has been adopted by the state legislature that the people are behind saying we're going to make this law irrelevant or nonapplicable here. and that's what this really does here. and so the other part of this is they are duly compensated. there is due process of law in this process. they have to be compensated at market prices. so all the rights done here. what you're doing is saying that beer going to block state law. we're going

some states change it occasionally. the law requires every state to set a proficiency standard in reading and math that they chose themselves. usual usually it is the state board of education. say 65% of the students will pass the test on a math test. it gets confusing because what does go up, basically, every year under the law, is the percentage of students that are required to meet to pass that other bar. so, you have two percentages. you have a cut bar that is a proficiency level that is set by states and then you have a percentage of students that have to pass it. that's what goes up every year. that's a confusing set of formula. it is a formula that most don't understand. >> kansas city, kansas. nancy on the independent line. you are on with sam dillon of the new york times. >> caller: hi, i never thought we needed a federal department of education like this. i feel local parents and officials can decide what the children in their communities need in school. my grandchildren have learned nothing in their schools. all

will likely at least count toward the state's total results. ey say they recommend that this weekend's caucuses in washington county count, which would be a reversal of the ste party's previous position and knowing that ron paul is fewer than 200 votes behind mitt romney statewide according to the state republican party, and knowing that there are nearly 7,000 registered republicans in washington county, which is voting this weekend, the ron paul campaign is now organizing its butt off in washington ounty to turn people out for saturday. our guest from the portland press herald last night said he expects that washington county may have turnout this weekend that exceeds the entire turnout in the whole rest of the state of maine because now they know the final results may depend just on them. but again the state republican party caved today saying that the overall results of the maine caucus are under review and they would like to include washington county once they finish voting this weekend. there are still three big outstanding problems though.

state legalized it too. then today, just hours ago, the new jersey state legislature passed its same-sex marriage bill by a vote2 to 33. the new jersey bill already passed the state senate. so it's passed both sides of the legislature. that means the bill is on its way out of the state legislature, going to the governor's desk. chris christie, new jersey's republican governor and potential republican vice presidential nominee. now, there's not much speculation about what chris christie is going to do when the gay marriage bill reaches his desk. he's been saying for weeks now that he will veto it immediately. the governor says he prefers that in new jersey, civil rights like these be put up to a popular vote. >> rather than having stalemate and deadlock on this issue, which is inevitably where it will lead, if they pass the legislation and send it to me, because i will not sign it, it will be vetoed, let's let the people of new jersey decide what's right for the state. let's put the question of same-sex marriage on the ballot this fall, in the hands of the people. >> governor christie then went on to explain why

at the time the white house stated the legislation was unnecessary because the state department would be making a decision by the end of 2011. but as president obama's campaign began to warm up for president, the president's political advisers realized that the environmental groups would be quite upset if president said yes to this pipeline. on the other hand, the labor unions were going to be quite upset -- at least five or six of them -- if president said no to the pipeline. so at that time the president instead of making a decision said that he would wait until after the election to make a decision. so from our perspective this really was nothing but a political decision. and since we've had 40 month of detailed study and analysis on this, we felt like that there was no reason to delay anymore because we do need to be less dependent upon foreign oil. we can bring in this oil from our friendly neighbor to the north, canada. and we can create jobs as well. so i wanted to just make that comment about the koch brothers the -- and the fact that i don't see they're in much of a different

do you give the state the right to kill you. this is the question and see what the response will be. >> let me ask him that question. do you support the death penalty, under what conditions do you want the state to be allowed to kill you if there was a law enforcement officer trying to evaluate whether or not to seek the death penalty. >> many of us will not say that we want to stay to be able to kill us. i am not certain that this is the way the question needs to be framed. i think that mrs. woodruff -- they are embracing the point that has been discussed. these are very complex issues. i am not certain that modern society, that the state should have the power of life or death. i understand all the nuances as to why this is here, as well as why this should not be here. i do believe that

agaibegin some people say it's d for the united states but i don't think it's bad for the united states. i don't see any reason why the rising influence of brazil or turkey or india is in any way temporary to american interests. >> charlie: is the rise of the arab spring in the arab world good for the united states? >> i think on the balance -- >> charlie: and for the world and the people of the arab world. >> this is a classic it's too soon to answer this question. i don't know what the arab spring will lead to. what's interesting is in the best of all words let's say egypt really is a democracy we're going to have this very mixed picture. there are ways in which it's going to be set backs for the united states strategically. popularly governed egypt is not going to be as close an ally and is war on terror, on other issues as, you know, as the stalwart are lubaric was. my view nevertheless because our transcending interest is in a certain kind of world order we benefit nevertheless even if we pay a price in some short term interest. one example like that i think of is the philippines i

different the united states. mexico needs your help, in order to stop the violence we are suffering. the best way to do that is stopping the flow of weapons toward mexico. no more weapons to mexico. >> greta: former u.n. ambassador john boll top joins us -- john bolton joins us. good evening. >> good to be here. >> greta: it's an interesting billboard. your thoughts on it? >> it gets mark for creativity. this is calderon continuing the argument he made for years that the obama administration agrees with. and just simply isn't true. which is that the guns that are destabilizing mexican civil society come primarily from the united states. they do not. they come from mexican police and army and a lot of places. >> greta: the nra rained all over my parade about this. when we were down in mexico and arizona, we met with the atf and they showed us a stack of guns that we found. what they told sus guns were coming from china and reason -- region of belgium. they were being laundered through the united states. they were c

a year ago the committee met to examine the state of the workforce. it was our first hearing of the 112th congress and reflected our commitment to make job creation in america competitiveness top priorities. much has happened since we met in january 2011. unemployment was 9.1%. nearly 14 million workers were unemployed. now 1 million fewer workers are unemployed. the number of long-term unemployed, out of work 27 weeks or more, has declined from 6.2 million to 5.6 million. these facts may demonstrate modest progress, but far too many americans continue to face significant hardship in this tough economy. the number of americans participating in the labor force is at its lowest level in 28 years. more than 8 million individuals are working part-time because full-time jobs are unavailable and 1 million discouraged workers have abandoned their job search entirely. we've experienced the weakest recovery since the great depression. the recovery of the 1980s led to 18 straight months of growth greater than 5%. yet our own recovery over the last 2 1/2 years h

situation of the state. let's begin by building on our economic strength. we know that new york is a destination location. tourists spent $50 billion in new york in 2010 alone. new york is the place to be. new york is the place people want to come to. but new york just stay ahead of the competition. convention centers are important economic generators. right now when you look at the list of where new york is in terms of convention centers, sadly, new york's convention center, the jakub jab vitz convention center on the west side of manhattan is down at the bottom of the list, literally number 12 after places like anaheim, california, washington, d.c., los angeles, there's new york. right now the jakub javits convention center is not competitive. that hurts the new york economy. because we're just not getting the shows here. the largest convention center in the country is in chicago mccormick place at 3.1 million feet. you see javits is 832,000 square feet. this is not a new problem. we've talked about it for

why can't we call the state? tra cautious here, and we have good reason. you see the big cities, rochester, st. paul, minneapolis. only 21% of the vote in so far. we want to get more than that. that's where the people are. >> 22% of the population. >> a largely democratic area. 21% of the vote, not a lot of the votes. this is 21% of the precincts. we want to wait. so we want to wait to see. let's move over to st. paul right here. st. paul is here, you come here, washington county, 4.1% of the population. again, 16% of the vote, right down here, the suburban areas between the two. we're getting more, but we want to wait until this plays out. the rochester area, 70% of the vote, so much more of the vote down there. we want to wait to be safe. also a lot of the small, rural areas, 1% of the state population. not a huge amount of the vote, but if you look at the map, 24% of the presinks. we have three quarters of the vote still out. we want to be extra cautious. if some presink comes in big, they can swing it, still a

it's not the state's forte. there are people in the private sector who are expert at this who want to be helpful. we want to incite them in, put together a task force and actually lead this effort. we want a comprehensive master plan of all of the state's construction over the next few years and how we can coordinate and maximize that work to have a positive synergy among the projects. we also want to accelerate the construction. we can't do this on government time. this is going to having to happen on realtime. it can't take three years to put a shovel in the ground. it just can't work that way anymore and it's not going to. and as i said in the beginning, the task for us is to find leverage with private sector partners. we want to find a 20-1 leverage throughout these projects so we maximize the impact of the state money. we are planning to improve more than 100 bridges which will include building a new tappan zee bridge because 15 years of planning and talking and could miss rating is too long. it is time to b

and the epa and state primary delegations? >> could you repeat the question? >> i'm going on to the next one. if fy 2013, are you plans to propose revisions to the ambient air quality standards? if so, went? >> yes, probably. they're due by statute. we have not announced date. it has not been set. >> can we be assure add that the epa will not pro those any change to the current course? >> yes, i have so stated, sir. we will not -- we do not anticipate based on the science we have seen so far, that a change will be warranted. >> does the epa publish in one publicly accessible place a list of all the petitions for rule maiking that are submitted to the agency? >> i do not believe so, sir. we'll double check the answer. >> we haven't found one, if there is. so when you check, and confirm that there is not, one place that public or members of congress can go to, will you commit to posting that information on the epa's website starting this year? >> petitions sir? >> yes. >> think that's a fair request. i'm happy to look into it. >>

with the corporation is the state so it comes with the will of the state. states have the authorities to decide what you get when you get a corporate charter. this is an old story in america and we use to do better actually at keeping an eye on these tools that we handed out at the state secretary offices. they used to have the 20 year limits and after 20 years he would have to come back in and say what you do with the public view of the privilege of the corporate charter again. they have the charter laws still in existence in every state in the country. we've petition to the free speech for people and ask the attorney general and the him in delaware to provoke the corporate charter of energy that i talked about a few minutes ago because of their legality. that is the standing of the corporate charter is to reduce the crimes and illegality or even the immoral purposes and i share with that. the charter is supposed to be revoked so it is preposterous the supreme court is able to tell the state these things the states created these to able to make rules about

the real issue is on the bottom line. how much do states and taxpayers need to spend on prisons in totality. and we're of the opinion and et cetera not just vera. we over use prison. we have too many people in prison for too long for things that are not threats to public safety. this is a call, especially in these financial times, to really examine that. let's look at how we use prison, how much we spend on prison, and try to use that parsley. it's a very expensive, very punitive sanks. it's perfectly fine to use it for people who require it but we shouldn't be over using it. i don't think states that have a higher than average cost have to try to get lower than average cost but they do need to look at the bottom lines. >> do we know how states are making up the shortfall? >> well, you know, states are doing what they do to make up shortfalls, especially now. it's one of the reasons why we put out this report. state economies are severely depressed right now. revenue picture is pretty bleak. it will be for a while. states are enacting all s

and [applause] the insurance commissioner for the state of california, the hon. david jones. e] and your state senator in the state of california, mark little. an[applause] his colleague, state senator at leland neyeat. [applause] member of the california state assembly, fiona ma. [applause] and a majority of your board of supervisors are here, which is a good thing. [laughter] the president of the board, david chiu. [applause] the rev. of the board, sean elsbernd. [applause] and the three women that are always undying loyalty you in support almost everything you'd do, and i will introduce the three of them together -- jane kim, leah komen and carmen chu. [applause] mark farrell. [applause] scott wiener, member of the board of supervisors. [applause] eric mar, a member of the board of supervisors. david campos, a member of the board of supervisors. [applause] you have some other city officials who are here. you have, of course, the man who takes all of our money, the treasurer, jose camos. [applause] campos would like to be there one of these days. i am so focused on campos, h

now south carolina started this war and they say that the constitution of the united states in the article provides as follows. this was south carolina's article of secession. no persons held to service or labor in one state under the laws thereof escaping to another shall in consequence of any law or regulation be charged from service of labor but shall be delivered upon claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due. and then they go on to say that -- they said if that provision -- as a matter of fact, let me finish the next sentence. this stipulation was so material to the compact -- now they're talking about the compact that forms this nation, that without it that compact would not have been made. the greater number of the contracting parties and they had previously in their estimate of the value of such of the stipulation of making the condition in the government of this territory seceded by virginia, which now composes the state north of the ohio river. now they go on to talk about they name these states, be y th way that are violating the slave act, which is not allowin

and there's a scene the united states may have to defend there we're. going to question that's who the purist and those are sort of five of them but you know the attitudes that we see in terms of this are really interesting to for example right we had u.s. officials coming out last week saying that israel was in fact funding the enrique. a in order to carry out or at least play some kind of a role in the assassinations the murders of nuclear scientists in iran you have some people arguing that well it's ok if israel's doing it because it's for a good cause and i thought was kind of interesting that kevin drum decided to step in here and take a look at both sides and he basically made the following point saying that it's still terrorism when israel does it so says still is it terrorism yes do both sides use it yes is this in many cases the future of warfare probably yes is there a better alternative that's a good question so you know what's your take on that is everyone to start assuming that well that's that's the future of warfare that's the way that it

law. >> they gave the waiver to ten states. is it likely that others 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 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 and the other things they're doing for the schools. but there's an expectation there will be a second or a third round. they have expressed interest there. there's a complex vetting process, the administration takes the state plans through. for example, new mexico was one of the states that applied early for a waiver. and administration officials said there's still working with that state to try to clarify some parts of the plan before they give new mexico a waiver. >> there's a rewrite on capitol hill, both house and senate have versions. how are they different? >> in almost every way. there are some similarities in the sense that i think in the senate an

on the state's 100th birthday. that is how seriously bob marshall took the problem of virginia's e-mail swearing epidemic back in the 1990's. >>> this year, virginia delegate watch your mouth bob marshall is championing a really big government conservative cause. an anti-abortion anti-birth control personhood bill that would define a person under essentially the entire code of virginia state law as beginning at the moment of conception. you might remember the whole personhood idea from the double digit defeat on the mississippi ballot last november or 46 point defeat in colorado in 2008, and again in 2010. what bob marshall is proposing in virginia is essentially the same thing has been defeated by voters in mississippi and colorado. a key element to personhood's big loss in those states was the implication spelled out graphically on this billboard that went up during the mississippi campaign. the implication the personhood thing had for birth control. if you grant a fertilized egg the rights of a person, you might

in the state of virginia. watch. this was the silent protest at virginia state capitol in richmond today. in part it was silent because of the rules for gathering on the capitol grounds. prohibit assemblage without a permit. they don't mandate you be silent. organizers looking at that decided that these people, meaning the state representatives, these people are used to signs, yelling, chanting, et cetera. it is not new. they are not used to silently being stared at and looking us in the eye. that is what patriot testers did. and it was a powerful way to protest. in part because it's not a typical way to protest of the this was a way of showing rather than telling one of the complaints people have particularly that women have this was a mostly female group of protesters today, one of the complaints, you can show it rather than explain it, about this round of controversy right now in american social conservatism. >> what i want to know is where are the women? >> from the outrage over house republicans convening a heari

now is the time to get our state working again. now is the time to move wisconsin forward. [ applause ]

the individual states have to pay c.c.a. what are called prisoner predicament pre-date costs and looking over the letter c.c.a. sent to forty eight different states corporation has just a few requirements the state has to agree to to maximize insure excuse me to insure maximize profitability one being that the prison has to be able to hold a lot of prisoners minimum a thousand beds to be exact and another being the state has to guarantee a minimum of a ninety percent occupancy rate over the term of the contract which is twenty years that shouldn't be much of a problems and c.c.a. working with alec has been successful in passing several stricter drug laws that lead to more and more americans being thrown into prison for longer and longer times just last year ohio's old state own palais curie correctional facility to c.c.a. for seventy two million dollars according to a report by policy matters of ohio that state will actually that sale it's going to actually cost ohio taxpayers eleven million dollars more over the next

world her home state is the great state of new jersey. >> you bech a. but she's looking at michigan to figure out how romney won. as we are a week out tmay tell us the trends in terms of groups of voters. >> let's break down how mitt romney did this in michigan tonight. it's truly a broad story. he won with women, seniors, college graduate, high-income voters. republicans, moderates, conserve thifs -- conservatives, those who are worry abouted about the economy and who want to beat barack obama. seniors were a quarter of the voters, almost half went to mitt romney. catholics backed romney. the mormon, over santorum, the catholic who, has been very outspoken about his catholic faith, especially in the later terms of this race. women favored mitt romney by 5. beating obama in the fall is their number-1 issue and romney is their guy with 61% of that group. the top issue continues to be the economy. those who care the most about fixing the economy more than anything else in that race, they went for romney in a big way. those who had the top issue as the

the state department testified that we would get 5,000 to 6,000 temporary jobs. these jobs would be around for two years and transcanada said the jobs would be 100,000, that is looking at the lifetime of the pipeline for a hundred years. this is the republican jobs bill. 20,000 jobs they say, maybe 1 100,000 jobs, the state department did an analysis and they said 5,000 to 6,000 jobs for two years. i am glad we have excellent witnesses here today that will give us their views, two departments that will be excluded from giving their usual review of the project, that might change, and two gentlemen who have special insight at what this project will mean. thank you for this seven seconds beyond the time and i yield back whatever time i have left. >> thank you mr. waxman, today we have two panels of witnesses. those of you on the first panel, if you will come forward, that is ms. smith, who is chief regulatory for army corp of engineers and mr. mike poole, deputy director of u.s. land management shs department management, department of the interior. we appreciate you

they have protection from the united states. this gives this case in particular, a special connection to our country. we have given them asylum status in the united states. gao himself has residual asylum status based on his family's status. if we can reappear him and if he's willing to go, he could immediately come to be free in this country and to live his life with his family. so we need the united states to recognize the special responsibility that we have taken on to our great credit, as a country, to gao zhisheng and his family. and to raise this case at the highest levels. the last thing i will note is my biggest fear about the president and vice president or secretary of state not meeting gao, gao's wife, geng he, is not exclusively about the optics of that meeting taking place and the message that would send to the chinese government, though that is very important. my biggest fear is that the chinese government has rebeatedly and publicly lied about what's going on with gao zhisheng and other countries around the world h

of minnesota, all over the united states. this is not a good use of taxpayer money. and i find it absolutely shocking that all these fiscal conservatives lining up to throw money at this enormously overexpensive, overhyped megabridge. where are the antiearmark advocates around here? where are the people who call for smaller government? where are the conservatives, small c, who say, let's build a right-sized bridge that makes sense so that other bridges may be fixed around our state? well, i guess all of that only matters, mr. speaker, when it comes to your own little project or earmark project. then all of a sudden it gains a whole lot of other kind of credibility, undiscovered before. you know, mr. speaker, i think it needs to be pointed out that this bridge, this proposed bridge which would carry about 18,000 vehicles a day, that's important. i feel for those folks and i want them to have their bridge and i would support a sensible bridge. but you know what? the i-35 bridge, much talked about tonight, carries a 140,000--- ca

he was called most of the prosecutor in the united states. he was posing with a miniature electric chair. and this had several african- americans on this. i was in the middle and in this picture, six of us are there. one of us is still awaiting trial. he was given and it -- the release of sentence. he was a winter of $14 million lawsuit against this man. in this matter -- is also passing this returning to help me out. what would you do? >> thank you for the chance to respond. one reason i accepted this appointment was because i believe that there are a lot of problems with the criminal justice system, i think that this is to be reformed in many ways. we have problems with prosecution misconduct, problems with police misconduct and i believe that we have wrongly incarcerated a number of people in many communities and this is something i have worked on for many years. one thing i have done, and i was appointed to it -- i have been known to say that one of the things i say in my office -- we have the structural integrity unit, and the evidence an

it just shows that they're on the books for more than more than one state all right so then if that's the case right if this was. civically is an example not an example of widespread voter fraud why do we have these bills that are being passed in states all across the country to combat voter fraud as if it is a huge issue are there any statistics to say that voter fraud is a really big deal i haven't seen any so for really there's not much distance i mean back in two thousand and two to two thousand and five somewhere within that period the justice department did a survey and what they found was eighty six convictions and of those eighty six convictions they really were not of the kind of voter and person nation the ones that we're talking about to combat voter fraud so disillusions eighty six within one year with a weighty sense of in that period of time i think it was eighty six within a three year period of time eighty six people not enough to sway in a way the six and that anything is right and again it wasn't for vote and person nation most of the conv

the state is now going to do its part. localities will have to fund their share of the teachers retirement. since teachers are local employees. and local governments have the duty to fund their share of the system. doing the right thing at the state level is not an unfunded mandate on our localities. the rates have been set and the bills are now due. in this new state cash infusion will not fix the problems with the retirement system. to ensure a stable retirement system in the decades ahead, state employees who really do a phenomenal job for us every day, will be asked to accept some changes and adjustments to the vrs plan. in the days ahead, i will announce a number of very specific vrs reform proposals to ensure a long-term solvency of the system and i look forward to working with you to enact some of those this session. i also want to continue the success we found in bringing private sector management incentives to state government. you remember in 2010 working together, we enacted a 3% performance bonus for state emplo

they ain't seen nothing yet. 2012 is the year that we're going to make the empire state the empire state once again. and we're going to make the dreams of this state a reality. thank you, and god bless you. [ cheers and applause ] [ applause ] >>> the nations governors are headed to washington d.c. this weekend to attend the winter meeting of the governors association. our coverage begins saturday at 10:00. we will show you a discussion on growing state economies and we will hear from the economic development and commerce committees. sunday, our coverage starts at 9:30 a.m. eastern with a look at education and early childhood issues. we will talk about hunger and the changing role of the national guard. we will wrap up on monday at 9:00 eastern with the closing session with dave heineman. the winter meetings on saturday, sunday and monday on c-span. >>> join us later from american history tv. the focus is george washington and his lasting impact on american life. historian richard norton smith lectures from washington's home in virginia. american history tv gets under way tonight at 8:00