passed at the state level. someone who lives in gunn county, iowa county or florence county doesn't have to take their case to a federal court. instead they can take it to a state court. scott walker and his allies repealed that law. veterans and women paid less, so they can have redresses in our state. those are issues important to me. treating people with dignity. making sure that that this state respects all people. >> governor walker? >> sure. paul, good question. i took an oath of office to uphold the constitution in the state of wisconsin, and it clearly defines marriage between one man and one woman. i continue to support that. what the mayor talk and is only disagreement with the facts. the facts is it's against the law today and will continue to be every day that i'm in office, against the law in the state of wisconsin today to discriminate against a woman based on unemployment, in promotion or employment itself, against a woman or to discriminate in paper based on gender. that's the law today. it's a

the state also of diversity. the votes are as follows from ohio, 45 votes for governor johnson, one vote for rice. >> a point of order. we were supposed to do this in alphabetical order. this is what our bylaws stipulate. >> i am right behind ohio, and oklahoma. even though i went to government schools, it seems to me that nevada would be next after nebraska. is there any objections could just taking the vote totals in the way people are lined up in front of the microphones? do i hear any objections? i did not hear a word you said. is there any objection >> oklahoma, to help choose the libertarian candidate for president and vice president, will not be able to vote for either of them this november because of ballot access laws and our sacred cast our votes as follows. one vote, jim burns, one vote jarret johnson, to vote -- two vot3es, arlie rice. >> the live free or die state where the new libertarian renaissance is going to happen. everybody should visit. in new hampshire, libertarians led the fight for marriag

state lines. so there's clearly a role for federal involvement. i'd like to take just a final minute if i could. to briefly respond to the written testimony of my fellow witnesses. in the written testimony i've heard of he's very critical of our work on greenhouse gas. i'd like to set the record straight on that. written an addendum to my testimony to do so. i'd also like to ask the committee to take into formal part of the record this paper methane emissions from natural gas stations which we wrote at the request in february which our work is compared with all other studies that have been done on this topic. >> without objection. >> our estimates of methane emissions for the first. most of the information is available on from industry sources. it's poorly documented. we called for direct independent studies that is starting to happen. the first now is now being pb lished by a university of colorado scientists. it shows us we are conservative and low. the methane emissions are worse than we said.

of the state's educational system? uw system, technical colleges, k-12, in better shape than two years ago and is it well positioned to help with thing likes job creation and economic development? >> i think it is. and i said i have a vest the interest throughout this whole process. i have twol sons, matt and alex, go to a public high school where we're we're standing today. no matter what zip code, where they come from across the state have access to a great education. one of the most underreported things positive about our reforms isn't just the savings and budgetary issues bts the benefits provided to our pub luck scho public schools across the states. tens and millions of dollars spent on health insurance plans instead of putting that money directly into the classroom. that's changed bawd of our re230r78r reforms. on top of that, a young woman in the milwaukee school system name wund of the most y0ud outstanding teachers in the year. exactly what you want across the state. a couple months after that announcement wa

state. a couple months after that announcement was being laid off long before i was governor, but because of cuts made in the past. under the old collective bargaining, the last one hired was the first one fired. the last one in was the first one out. the mayor and his allies want to restore that system, replacing seniority and tenure. i want a system that says merit should drive this. put the best and the brightest in our classrooms. even the survey conducted by the teachers' union said this is why they wanted to hide that information from the public showing that the responses were more positive this year than anytime over the past ten years. >> i can't think of an organization where you take $1.6 billion out of their budget. in the state of wisconsin, that's exactly what scott walker did. $1.6 billion taken out of k-12 in the state. it didn't end there. technical schools took a 30% cut. university system took a $315 million cut. we have to invest in the our kids. i've got four kids as well

>> that varied from state to state. there was no national standard. for example, massachusetts always insisted black people ins massachusetts were citizens of massachusetts and other states denied that and then the supreme court made that a national principle. but it really depended on the states, who was a citizen and what rights it they had and one of the purposes of the 14th amendment is to create this national standard so that you wouldn't have all these variations within the country. >> and obviously citizenship didn't mean the right to vote, did it, professor gerber? >> not necessarily. and that's why there is 15th amendment that says no state may deprive a person of the right to vote on the basis of race or national original or religion. there was a struggle, there was an effort to put sex into the 15th amendment which would say no person has the -- no state maiden the right to vote on the basis of sex, that lost. and at that moment, elizabeth katie stanton, this is 1870, and she says this is a chance to make sure that the vote is a capacious v

the state epidemiologist, the chief nurse of the state, the office of health data in the state, the health state officer, they're all putting together reports, specifically on this problem, reports to the state legislature, so the policy makers and the state legislature can try to fix this the problem. the most recent report shows that they believe they brought their horrible infant mortality rate down. they say they've got it down below 10. it's still awful. it's still one of the worst in the country, but when the next nationwide stats come out, mississippi may no longer be the worst in the country anymore, because they're working on it. but they still need to keep working on it. and lucky for mississippi, on their state board of health, which decides policy direction for the state on health issues, it's the board that appoints that state health officer, that appoints the state's overall health plan, that approves the state's overall health plan for its overall health policies. luckily, on that board, mississippi is lucky enough to have somebody uniquely qualified to understand and help t

there is not one state that both candidates in that same state need to win.ack obama can actually lose ohio and florida and win the presidency. it would be a very difficult road for obama around ohio and florida, but it's possible. mitt romney needs ohio virginia, and florida. so all of these states are extremely important. i would add colorado to that mix. if you had to pick four of the most crucial swing states i'm confident it's those four. >> and that's for romney? >> that's for -- >> or for both? >> that's for obama and romney. now if we're talking about the states that let's say barack obama cannot afford to lose he certainly cannot afford to lose -- it's those mountain swing states in the mountain west, so if he is losing nevada and if he is losing new mexico, he really will have to win ohio. he will have to win florida, and that means the traditional map will swing to the right. we're watching those states to see if he can compensate and if he has rallied around the more traditional swing states. >> we were having a discussion last night on this show

and with the united states, the immigration since then. we have progressed in our relations with israel significantly. it is a friendly country. and the visa with each other. russians go to israel. >> i think you probably have to switch the microphone on. >> and coming back, russian origin. coming back with ideas. with sometimes, money, technologies. to work in the country that they know very well. and that is quite normal. i would say that we have -- normalcy in our relations with israel but we do not have normalcy, relation in the particular field with the united states over the issue that is no longer. by all standard. still there because there is a political context for this. and probably we will see, hear it a lot. debate to whether russia can graduate from jackson/vanek or not. in terms of russian economic interest, the condition of negotiations, offen tr entry, ie wto, give us an opportunity to become a member pretty soon befrp the e before the end of the year. if it is not granted to russia that means, kind of it isresip r recip re

the united states should recognize the recreated jewish state. in an event which is completely unique in the annals of foreign policy, i know of no other case like this, the state department, the defense department, the pentagon, without exception told the president of the united states don't do it. if america recognizes this jewish state, there's going to be a cutoff of oil from the middle east to the united states. american soldiers are going to get embroiled in a war there because the jews don't know how to defend themselves. don't do it. the secretary of state at the time, george marshall, who was the most revered american of his generation, said that if the president recognized the jewish state, he, george marshall, wouldn't vote for him in the 1948 presidential elections. but the president was a gentleman named harry truman, who claimed to have memorized the bible by age 14 and had himself joined a restorationist group called the american christian committee for palestine. he locked himself in the white house for 48 hours and on -- at 6:11

the state. more aretwo have to do with political and economic concerns. this is the early 17th century. they looked around and saw, well, there are some states that allow a measure of religious toleration or freedom. of all the places they looked to site, it was the muslim empire, the ottoman empire, the turks, the muslims said even there, jews are allowed to live and christians are allowed to live with a kind of toleration that is not permitted in england. they held that up as an example. we may want to press them on how such a good example it turned out to be, but nonetheless, there were clear that there are benefits from allowing this kind of religious freedom. finally, the economic benefits. they looked across the channel to the netherlands where they had lived for a while. that was one of the places in europe at the time that allowed a measure of religious toleration, again, largely because this is the age of the company's selling wares and commerce and trading. they felt the policy of reli

as state treasurer of indiana, i represent indiana state police pensioners, as a trustee for their pension fund. they own the secured debt of chrysler corporation back in 2008. when the federal government organized the bankruptcy of chrysler in may, ultimately, of 2009, all of the rules of secured creditors, all of that law, the bankruptcy law that had been in existence since the since the first congress of the united states was thrown out the window. and as a result, our secured creditors, it happened to be not just teachers, but -- i'm sorry, not just police officers, but retired teachers here in indiana, had their property ripped away from them. in an unprecedented way. and in that case, i did file a lawsuit. we went to the united states supreme court, first time they failed to take the case, the second time we went back, they ultimately ruled in our favor by vacating the earlier court's decision. >> is the auto bailout of 2010 different than when chrysler got bailed out and dick lugar was part of the 1978 bailout, i think it was in 1978, was that a different situation? >> yeah, it was

kerry states. nevada, new mexico, and colorado where you'd say boy, that's tough for obama, look at what's going on with foreclosures in nevada. of course he should get all the blame on that but we'll pass on that for argument's sake here. the problem is romney cannot win those states with the differential he's running with latinos and hispanics. these are states with -- all three of those have sizable enough minority representation, particularly with latinos, that you can't lose that group 68-19 or whatever -- depending on what poll you're looking at now, and win those three states. so give him one of them. that means obama's got to pick off one of the tossup states that he's now heading every single one of. some by two. some by seven. but he's got to win every single -- and so you get into -- that's why i'm not -- look, this is going to be fought out on the issues on going forward, going back. he hasn't done anything in the economy. we've lost jobs, we've created jobs. we're going to have all tha

secretary of state. now, that can be a little bit confusing, because at the federal level, the person who has the title secretary of state is hillary clinton. and she's not at all in charge of elections. she's in charge of something totally different. but at the state level, the person who has that same title, secretary of state, is usually the person who in that state is in charge of voting. in that charge of elections. well, in the great state of indiana, the republican secretary of state this year, a man named charlie white, indiana's top elections official, was convicted of six felonies this year, including voter fraud. ow. prosecutors said that mr. white lied about his own address on his voter registration forms. he used his ex-wife's address instead of the address of a condo he shared with his new fiancee because he wanted to hold on to a thousand-dollar a month gig on the town council in the town where his ex-wife's house was with even after he had moved out of that district. the guy in charge of

other states, many other state dos not do fracking at all. the ones that do do it have a track record that indicate they can do it. oklahoma, texas, west virginia, ohio, et cetera. even if they don't have an existing prom now they as states and i can this as my experience as a state regulator are in the best position to know their states, know what to do and get the regulatory plan that they need in their state. >> but you would concede at least as an intellectual could see that will could be a state where fracking is occurring that is not as robust and diligent as pennsylvania. >> i could concede that sasquatch is in the woods. >> this is my time. and the point is you don't have expertise with respect to the other states. you do with pennsylvania. >> that's a red herring you don't either. >> the issue here is whether or not the federal government has a role. you've testified you think it should not have a role. >> no, i don't think the issue is whether the federal government has a role. the issue is whether the federal government should have

from 45 other states? and it was the very small but an important part, the land and water conservation fund, which is very popular even amonging a a churl interests. all of this cobbled together, allowed us then to have part of the bp fine money, and this could be substantial money, anywhere from what is estimated maybe five billion, all the way up to $20 billion. 20% of that money goes in to the oil spill liability trust fund and/or the treasury, and the 80% is doled out according to a formula that all of these republicans and democrats came up with. and then was embraced by 76 senators. and so i commend it to you who are not familiar with the gulf of mexico, you have already heard the words of senator shelby and senator vitter. and that's all i want to say, madam chairman. thank you. >> thank you, senator. so the next on the list is representative john duncan. put your mike on, sir. >> i want to commend you and chairman micah and all the members of the house and senate who are here today who have worked

it has been recalled -- resolved on a state-by-a state issue. when roe v.de was decided, it is decided and subject to the federal 4 -- federal courts. now, we're over a generation, it may take a u.s. constitution amendment to change that and put it back to the states or a constitutional amendment at the federal level. unfortunately, it is a very controversial, very litigated issue. northwe'll go to our carolina line for our voters in north carolina. david is waiting on the independent line. he wants to talk to our pope. caller: good morning. i am an independent thinker. long time resident of north carolina. you have not really mentioned the onslaught that conservatives had to withstand from the media. just a few years ago, we had our first republican governor in north carolina. now have a republican legislature. all we are trying to do is level the field of ideas. i think you have been instrumental in doing that. i wonder seeking comment about the other forces that are impacting, if you well, the media, the newspapers. people like that. i will hang up. than

we need corporations in our state. we need industry in our state. we need businesses in our state. but we need true shared sacrifice. tax breaks, fine. but tax breaks without accountability to create jobs is where we have a problem. have you to give back to the community in order to get a tax break. we are seeing tax breaks without accountability. >> greta: you have not have done the tax breaks, to corporations. how do you recover the $3.6 billion deficit that you are facing. how would you get revenue to account for the deficit? what would have done besides not have the tax breaks to corporations in january? >> have you to look at people like diane hendricks, one of scott walker's billionaire buddies, who has paid no taxes last year and if you look at tax breaks and the loophole, if we were to fill the loophoacialtion i would imagine you would find more than $3.6 billion to balance the budget. >> greta: so the theory is revision of the tax code would be the way to handle the budget deficit, give or take a couple million, i assume. >> my theory would be that we look at all avenues.

continues united states support for 10 years beyond when all u.s. combat troops are scheduled to leave afghanistan by the end of 2014. remember, as well, another important piece of information, we are told the president will be dressing the nation. addressing americans, about 7:30 p.m. eastern time. still nailing down exactly whether there will be in afghanistan when he gives the speech or whether he will be near, somewhere else. second, beyond that, i want to point out obviously the president, being in afghanistan, on this first anniversary as you mention of the killing of osama bin laden, likely to only increase the republican charges that he is politicizing that anniversary. but we should underscore the context. the president is doing this trip, his third secret trip to afghanistan since he took office. just a couple weeks before he hosts a nato summit in his hometown of chicago. at that summit, topic (a) is afghanistan. the timetable for withdrawal of combat troops by 2014. and turning over all security to afghanistan forces. so, there are a lot

if you break down the state-by-state voting, 30 states now have laws or constitutional amendments prohibitingiage. seven are key battleground states including north carolina that voted last night for the same thing. bring in the panel. david druger, associated politic editor for roll call. juan williams, columnist with the hill and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. about the timing and positioning and the development? >> well, it surely the first time in scientific history that revolution has been accelerated by the upcoming election. that's never been recorded before. granted the cynicism, need to do it for electoral reason, withholding donation from gay right activists and the gaffe that biden made to pel rate this, granted that give him credit for what he said. two sides, in abortion and other unresolved social issues deserve respect. theod who believe in traditional marriage, that it's been main stay of society forever until yesterday. tampering with it should invoke trep daig or those like obama with sympathy of the same sex that learn to have what heterosexuals have. i understan

airline not united states. as many complaints at the second most complained about airline, united. the spirit c.e.o. says that is irrelevant. and laura is in new york city newsroom. the c.e.o. actually had a whole lot to say. >>guest: he did. the c.e.o. acknowledged the vietnam vet, a tragic situation but says the airline is going to stand its ground on the decision not to refund the fare and in a telephone interview with fox news today the spirit airlines c.e.o. said he was refused the refund because he did not buy the $14 travel insurance they offered and repay him would be "cheating" other customers. >> we feel bad for him and we greatly support the men and women who defend our country. we are not antivet or unpatriotic as many have accused us including on the air, and it is just a simple case of accountability. >>reporter: heçéeu likened it ta homeowner with no policy calling the insurance company after the house burns down. >>shepard: public back lash has been aplenty. >>reporter: he says he is not surpris

states. president obama is in iowa tonight. six electoral votes but a hotly contested tossup state at a wind turbine plant in newton, iowa, the president said he understood times are tough but he argues the republican agenda isn't the answer. >> when you hear somebody say, we should cut more taxes, especially for the wealthiest americans, well, newton, you've been there and you've done that. we did that. 2000, 2001, 2003. when you hear people say that we should cut back more on the rules we put in place for banks and financial institutions to avoid another taxpayer bailout. well, we tried that. >> that's the president in iowa just moments ago. republican challenger mitt romney has his eyes today on pennsylvania's 20 electoral college votes, encountering some democratic protests as he made his case on education. >> education and the gap in the educational opportunity and achievement of people of color in this society, i believe, is a civil rights issue of our time. and you'll have a better per

in the state senate. so there is some possibility that if any of the democrats pick up any of the republican senate seats, that majority could go to the democrats. >> suarez: freed reek ka freyburg of wisconsin public television, thank you for joining us. >> you're welcome. >> brown: now, the state of al qaeda one year after the u.s. launched a military strike to eliminate its leader. judy woodruff has the story. >> tonight i can report to the american people and to the world that the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden, the leader of al qaeda. >> reporter: the president's dramatic late night announcement one year ago heralded the end of a 10-year manhunt. on a dusty road in pakistan, navy seals stormed the high wall compound where american intelligence finally tracked the man who had eluded capture for so long. bin laden's deputy, egyptian physician a with ary, assumed al qaeda's leadership, he remains at large and has fledged to continue attack. and even president obama

but rather the rent-generating state. thanks. >> explain it further what you mean. >> exactly. >> it's -- it's political economic system where the state essentially controls access to markets through political patronage. so it oversteps the political arenas into more the economic and even the social arenas where civil society organizations included are very much tied in the sort of top down vertical network of patron client networks. >> so like the corporatist state coming out of the '20s and '30s. well, let me start out with this. i think you know, what we've seen across the development field is there have been different approaches that have worked in terms of engagement of the state. so you know, it starts out sort of 19th century liberalism, property rights, contract, basic performance, basic education, services and others. but obviously, there's been models sometimes of state-driven development. this gets to very tricky governance issues. so if you look at the history of a lot of state-owned enterprises say in latin a

towards china, developed developing debtor states, towards creditor states.hing that happened, the united states, a lot of america's population felt like they didn't benefit as much from globalization. they are not getting the jobs. so why they support the policies? how many people want to keep troops in afghanistan or iraq? how many people are prepared to support expenditures on europe or japan that we did after world war ii. the constituency isn't there. >> but is that because we can't afford it? we are drowning in debt. we owe a fortune to china. we have their foot on our economic throat. the american interest and being the global hero for -- in some ways because we can't afford. it we don't have the appetite for it. >> we certainly don't have the appetite it. whether or not we could afford it, we could afford k-12 education and we decided that's what we wanted to do. we are not in that position. i think the real question is -- in this environment, where there is so much more risk and volatility, a lot of people are going to put money into the united state

are chartered at the state level in their state charter in laws but there are a number of states the doe were were there's just no mechanism to create a genuine work or own a co-op how's it going in changing. well that that's a challenge because the many of the states it's very. difficult obviously to get laws passed you know we have gridlock in lots of states but the the we are able to form cooperatives under a number of statute maybe just the general business statute in a state and then in the byelaws operate as a cooperative sort of some innovative ways that we can achieve in order to accomplish the same goal of a real worker own cooperatives that's there to serve the worker members and not outside stockholders wisconsin's kind of famous for you know peninsula manufacturing i've been there i've seen a union cab company in the many co-ops out of that state are there are other places that are great models in the notices for the san francisco great history worker cooperatives and there's a very innovative group of cooperatives that are forming in cleveland ever doing cooperatives and

in those 12 states, what happened in 2008? obamacare = states by more than did before%. john mccain got just over 45%. here we are in 2012 and obama is 7 points below where he was and romney is where mccain was. who do you think will come out with a better shot of winning? romney's to win five of the 12 states and hwins the election. -- rodney needs to win five of the 12 states and he wins the election. >> if obama needs to win the carry states -- nevada, colorado, new mexico -- mitt romney can not get there. this is where demographics start to play in. obama is going to win the carry states. nevada, new mexico, and colorado -- but it was going on with foreclosures in nevada. of course, he gets all the blame for that. the problem is mitt romney cannot win those states with the differential he is running with latinos and hispanics. these are states that have minority representation -- you cannot lose depending on what paul you are looking at now and when those three states. that means obama has to take one of the states where he is ahead in every single one. some by two,

moreover, he'd been a member of both united states house and united states senate. in the latter 1850s he served as chair for the military affairs committee. in addition between 1853 and 1857 he had served as secretary of war in franklin pierce's cabinet. despite these credentials davis has been harshly judged by historians in his starring role, the president of the confederate states. the judgment of davis almost makes a prima facie case for disregarding prior achievement and experience in awarding higher responsible office. give a man with his background a big job, he fails. why do you need a background? witness professor neely. of course davis is usually matched against his wartime opposite abraham lincoln and invariably he comes in second. usually quite a distant second. yet, to me, trailing lincoln does not automatically brand davis a failure. for, in my judgment, and lincoln was clearly the greatest war leader in our history, but even when viewed alone, outside the lincoln boundary, davis commonly receives poor marks. without going into an extended discussion,

as hosni mubarak to be to step aside i don't think so united states should. every every arab country who faced uprising united states should immediately as the head of that cease to be step aside i think this is would be simplistic unrealistic and doesn't reflect the reality on the ground i think and doesn't reflect the complexity of the social politics of the different countries in the middle east. strategic geopolitical elements are very important but i think we have really a new phenomenon year if you see like what i notice is that you seen united states or european countries are not taking in regard with syria or egypt or other libya or yemen they're not taking a unilateral actions if you see their. mind then they will when you when the united states says well here hillary clinton says this leader must go ok that's pretty unilateral sounding to me and sounds very definite as well what right does the united states have to say what leadership and what they will should go if if i might come in here jump in jumping if i might come in here years you know i thi

they are in weakened state. as long as they are in a weakened state, they are susceptible to influence, foreign influence, communist influence. when people are at their bottom rung they're willing to listen to anyone who offers them a different message of hope, whatever. the best way to hold back communist expansion is with a healthy, rebuilt europe. $13 billion to rebuild western europe to hold back the soviet expansion. congress passes the national security act in 1947. this is an amazing piece of legislation. it's got lots of different facets to it. creates a national security agency. we're going to revamp our military. we're going to coordinate our various branches of the military. but what i wanted to talk about specifically today is it created the cia. what does that stand for? >> central intelligence agency. >> if yes self stalin is bent up on getting free and countries around the world, we need to know that. how do we know that? we need to start sending out secret agents, folks who are going out there to

yes, the united states. if you're stalin and paranoid and you're suspicious, it's the united states. and so, if you're joseph stalin, you have to respond. the cold war senior like a tennis match. it goes from one court to the other. we do something, the soviet union does something. we respond, they respond. here is stalin's response. he's going to tighten up control over countries in eastern europe, hungary and czechoslovakia i mentioned specifically because those were two countries that were supposed to have free elections after world war ii was over. yeah, those free elections sort of go out the window by 1948. the communists, there is a purge of leadership and these two countries are going to basically become puppet regimes of the soviet union. and then there's berlin. this is -- it gets a little complicated now. just keep in mind that during world war ii at the very end, you've got the russian, the soviet army is driving deep into germany. they're going to get to berlin before we do. they're going to occ

it's the united states. if you paranoid and suspicious, it's the united states. so if you are joseph stalin, you have to respond. the cold war is like a tennis match. it goes from one court to the other. they do something and we respond and they respond. here is stalin's response. he is going to tighten up control over countries in eastern europe. hungary and czechoslovakia i mentioned because those were two countries that were supposed to have free elections. well, the free elections go out the window. by 1948. the communists have a purge of leadership and the two countries will be puppet regimes of the soviet union and then berlin. it gets complicated now. during world war ii, they are driving and getting into berlin before we do and occupy much of eastern germany with their army and forces. berlin is a very important city in german history and culture and government and politics. it is going to be a divided city here in the cold war era. we are going have the eastern part of berlin controlled by the soviet union and the western part will be dwighted into diffe

and try to -- we had 13,that pal over the state and trying to find an economic vision for the state county by county. how do we become more pro- business? we heard people wanted to -- safety and more pro-business and less red tape and access to capital. it wanted a good education system. it is training so businesses can get the right workers. it is best known for its ski resorts and quality of life. the real challenge we have been working on in turning this thing around is to say, how do we become the most pro-business state? california will be more pro- business. oregon will be more pro- business. how to create that competition to be the most pro-business state but to hold ourselves to higher standards. we want to be the best of being pro-business. that focus, trying to get the partisanship to -- our legislators and state voters are one-third independent, republican and democrat and our legislature is almost evenly divided. if we pass our budget last week with 94 of 100 boats. i think we have been successful and beginning to get past the partisanship. this time to quit playing games and f

effort in the state of california? >> this is a great time to work on the issue of the death penalty. every day we get closer and closer to ending the death penalty in california and across the country and indeed, across the world. several states have into the death penalty in the last four years. most recently, the state of illinois into the death penalty in march of this year. [applause] we are now at the time when 16 states, puerto rico and the district of columbia do not have the death penalty. many more states are addressing this issue, connecticut and montana, colorado, kansas, these are all states that have had bills in their legislature to into the death penalty that have moved through least one house in some cases, both houses. connecticut passed a bill a couple of years ago to end the death penalty that was vetoed by the then republican governor who is no longer in office. this is for states in four years and we expect more on the way. >> this deserves applause. >> we're making progress in california. the sta

ron paul won for state chairman.hairman whose had the job for a decade. six ron paul delegates will be sent to tampa. we have seen this ron paul plot are before. remember the iowa republican caucuses this year. first saying romney won it. no, then that wasn't right. then tried it say it was a tie. then rick santorum was the winner. but then none of it mattered in any practical sense but the iowa caucuses did not allocate a single delegate. a state republican committee does that. a committee picks the delegates that go to the republican convention. last month ron paul supporters took over that committee. guaranteeing ron paul at least half, at least half of iowa's 28 tell delegates. so ron paul won iowa and by the way, a ron paul supporter chairs the iowa republican party as well. securing victories large and small that will have an affect on the republican party. if not the nominating process for president this year. ron paul's strategy hasn't been to convert nonbelievers or swing romney delegates to his side the ron

levels in the range state, transient state, and consumer state? >> thank you, chairman. one of the great strengths of cites is its a very pragmatic and very operationally focused convention. so it works very much at ground level trying to actually achieve things. one of its weaknesses has been the high-level political engagement. and and with some of these issues, if we don't get very high level political engagement and very strong political signals, it's very harder at the arpgsal level. one of our objectives is to lift the debate. not lose the operational side, but lift the debate into a higher political sphere so that in countries that are consumer transit countries, at the highest level the message is unequivocal. this is not going to be tolerated. you will be punished severely if you're found breaching this convention in the national legislation that implements it. so we are working with all states consumer range and transit states in trying to bring them together at a higher political level to have that discussion about what they're going to

indiana and a dozen additional states have been donor states for three decades. currently we give back $0.92 on the dollar but of late as the 1980s only $0.78 on the dollar. we need to create a formula to provide adequate funding to each stage and the amendment provides pace with dollars they contribute to the trust fund. the senate bill does not accomplish these goals and puts in the and and other states at risk for significant cuts. funding by eliminating equity bonus program. i would like to thank chairman mike and senator boxer for your leadership on these issues. i look forward to working for the bill that gets us on up half way to creating jobs and rebuild urination's infrastructure. >> is mr. crawford here? note? we will -- if he comes we will go back to him. we will hear from representative hannah. >> can you hear me? >> i can hear you fine. >> thank you, madam chairman. i want to thank john mica for allowing me the privilege of being on this committee. i watched him and his staff worked tirelessly for the last year and a half and everyone has done their

he stated under the law of the sea, the united states would have a chance to expand over 291,000 square miles of extended continental shelf. much of this is in the arctic, controlled one quarter of the world's undiscovered oil and natural gas. mr. kelly said, and i quote, by some estimates, in the years ahead, we could see a historic dividing up of many millions of square cilometers of off shore territory and all of the rights of living and nonliving resources. how much long er can the united states afford to be a laggard in this, end quote. it could be asserted to robust naval power, are not relevant to the real world. the overwhelming majority of ocean disputes do not involve enemies or issues that warrant military action. as admiral patrick waulsh testified at our first hearing in 2007, and i quote, many of the partners we have in the global war on terror who have put life, limb, and national treasure on the line, are some of the same ones where we have disagreements on what they view as their economic zone or their environmental laws. it does not seem to me to be wise now to conduct

we will work with the united states in as much as the united states is willing to work with us. in a respectful, mutual and beneficial way. i think that opportunities are great. unless somebody wants to torpedo that kind of interest, we can do it. >> the unmentioned piece of legislation goes by the moniker of the [inaudible name] act. google it. i have some concern the administration is shying away from a debate -- a public debate on russian policy during a campaign year per and i don't think that they should. i think there are a lot of positive data points that you can point to. the things that russia has done has really served russian interest. one of the lesser ones has to do with the transit quarters. the transit quarters that supply u.s. troops and forces in afghanistan in which the russian federation plays a key role. three and half years ago, our troops in afghanistan were being supplied through the port in pakistan and what the military calls from loss of communication. we were totally dependent upon that supply line. we opened up a new line of supply that went through t

indiana and a dozen additional states have been donor states for over three decades. we would give back about 92 cents on the dollar. as late as the 1980's only 78 cents on the dollar. we need to provide adequate funding to each state and provide states with dollars they contribute to the trust fund. the senate bill does not accomplish these goals and puts indiana and other states at risk for significant cuts. i would like to thank the chairman for your leadership on these issues. it is good for all states equally and gets us on a pathway to creating jobs and rebuilding the nation's infrastructure. >> thank you. if he comes, we will definitely go back to him. we will hear from rip hand up. -- representative hanna. >> i think everybody has done their best to produce the best possible bill. i am privileged to be a witness to that. as a contractor for 30 years, i have had hundreds of employees. i have completed thousands of projects large and small. i am also a member of the operating engineers for over 25 years. what i know is that many millions of people in this countr