largely because the state is not increasing our administrative allocation, so any new position would cost the general fund a lot more, and this is a phenomenon that is going on across the state for county human services agencies. this is sort of leading up to one element of discussion with the budget analyst around i.t. we have seen an increase that will be significant in 2014 because we will see at least 30,000 newly eligible clients will have come into our doors to the health care reform act in 2014. these are single adults age 19 to 64. supervisor avalos: i did have a question on your last slide. we have been talking about doing new modeling of outreach for food stamps, looking at school sites and things like that. has that really been explored? is that actually being conducted? >> as part of the food security task force, we have embarked on a number of initiatives. one of them specifically in response to a change in the state rules around asset tests. basically, you could have assets like own a house, and if you have a low income, you would now be eligible, and this is for -- so we are targeting

i am astounded that today we are sitting here weighing whether to hold the attorney general of the united states, the highest ranking law enforcement officer in our country, in contempt of congress. the house of representatives has never in our long history held an attorney general in contempt, and i am horrified that you are going forward with this contempt charge when the president of the united states and the administration have invoked executive privilege for the documents sought by the chairman. and the attorney general is being attacked for protecting documents that he is and i just speak strongly in opposition to this action and in opposition to this report. i would like to point out that our committee, the committee on oversight and government reform is supposed to root out problems and find ways to reform how government works. it shouldn't be a political witch hunt against the attorney general of our country and our president in an election year. and what we should be doing is looking at ways we can stop problems from happening again, so my basic question, mr. chairman, is where is the

the very start. attorney general gregg abbott, one of the outstanding state attorneys general of our country is with us today. his state of course was one of those that was contesting this invasion of the people's liberty and as the chief law enforcement officer of the state of texas, he has made protection of liberty, protection of the people of that state, his primary objective. he is a leader in the republican attorney generals association. he has been named the trial judge of the year in the past, his service on the bench. he has been made principal honoree from the federalist society, the texas journal of law and justice and he has been active in many of these very important issues that we've faced as a conservative movement. joining him is karen harned. karen is the founder and executive director of the national federation of independent businesses, small business legal center. she also has been active in the fight for liberty and particularly the freedom of small businesses to do the job that they do so well for our country and that is to provide jobs, to provide products and services that the

the united states supreme court. this was designed to embarrass eric holder. i think it is embarrassing for the attorney general the united states to be held in contempt. but in terms of practical ramifications, i don't think there are any. >> same thing happened to the republicans during the bush administration when top white house officials were held in contempt. but it took so long for the courts to consider what was going on, the bush administration was long out of business by the time anything could have been resolved. >> yes. that's true. i think that the primary political ramifications though is this is now clearly with it all being about executive privilege, the president owns this moving forward. so the american people will ultimately decide who was more reasonable? was it chairman issa? was he doing the exact -- was he playing the exact role he's supposed to play in oversighting this where a u.s. border patrol agent was killed, more than 300 crimes committed in mexico? is he playing his role or notd? executive privilege is a serious issue and president obama now owns this going into the election. >> i

the itu is an important institution to the united states, the secretary-general has been very important, is a leader and helpful not united states and otherwise. having said that, this is about other member states outlined by a number of the answers earlier today. and those are the issues and the coalitions we need to build, the issues we need to address and the facts we need to gather. and with that i believe my time is about to expire. and i don't want to delay this any further. thank you very much. >> master gross, thank you for your leadership and testimony today and encouragement on our bipartisan resolution, which we hope to be able to move rather rapidly to the house floor. mr. cerf, we're delighted and honored to have you here today and look forward to your verbal presentation, your testimony, and your insights on this matter. >> thank you very much, chairman walden, and i see that ranking member eshoo had to depart, i appreciate her participation today. members of the subcommittee, an honor to address you. my name is vinton cerf. i serve at chief evangelist at google. as one of

the state comptroller. under the second bullet point, about the cuts that have been made over the last six years from the state. specifically, the state general fund has been cut by $12.2 billion. about half of that, more than half, has been cut out of k-14 funding. that is the largest and most disproportionate amount of spending cuts in the state budget since then. the fact that the governors of -- proposed but it -- budget leaves k-14 spending flat is nothing to be overjoyed about. having said that, it is very significant. if it does not passed and our children future initiative does not pass, we stand to see very deep cuts. the second bullet point is hot off the press. the superintendent alluded to this in his opening comments. the legislature is, by state law, required to pass a budget by this friday and if they do not, then their own paychecks become suspended. until they do pass a budget. that is leading folks who are observing this process to predict they will pass a budget. the committees and their leadership have introduced versions of the budget in their respective chambers. all signs point to something being passed. the student fun

the casinos currently generated $14 million. nos have been cash cows for the state, generating $150 million. 5% is supposed to be used for small businesses but critics say the process is too slow. >> be prepared to fasten your cosmic seat belts. scientists and amateurs were excited about an extremely rare celestial event called a transit of venus. >> it kind of looked like a beauty mark. that was venus passing between the earth than the sun. a cosmic spectacle called the transit of venice. -- venus. this was the last in -- a once in a lifetime ban. >> it only happens twice every 130 years. >> these events provide a unique opportunity to study things that are relatively difficult to understand. >> light -- like the atmosphere of venus. >> this represents one of the best ways we have to detect and measure properties of planets around other stars. >> to celebrate, museums and observatories around the world through viewing parties like this once at johns hopkins university. and it was standing room only. >> people really love the sky and they are interested in what is g

whitehouse and john mccain have joined forces to both take his side in case at the united states supreme court. he's the attorney generalreat state of montana. montana has done something that might offer the country way out of the mess we've gotten ourself into in the past couple of years. almost half of the states in the country had laws restricting corporate spending on state elections. when citizens united removed the corporate ban on federal election spending, the states followed. every state reverted back to the wild, wild west of rich guys and corporates buying the government they preferred. every single state in the union abandoned its own corporate spending regulations after citizens united except for one. except for montana. for 100 years, since 1912, they have had a law that limited how much corporates could spend the it's called the corrupt practices act. back in the early 1900s, montana was a mining baron's playground. they would spent a thousands dollars to win the election official they wanted. they sponsored parades. they distributed free cigars. they gave out five dollar bills to win people's loyalty. th

it seems an odd argument to say the federal agency has to answer the state's question, but the state can't ask it. general verrilli: well, we're not saying the state can't ask it in any individual case. we recognize that section chief justice roberts: you think there are individual cases in which the state can call the federal government and say: is this person here illegally? general verrilli: yes, certainly, but that doesn't make chief justice roberts: okay. so doesn't that defeat the facial challenge to the act? general verrilli: no. i don't think so, mr. chief justice, because the i think the problem here is in that is in every circumstance as a result of section 2(b) of the law, backed by the penalties of section 2(h), the state official must pursue the priorities that the state has set, irrespective of whether they are helpful to or in conflict with the federal priorities. and so justice alito: well, suppose that every suppose every law enforcement officer in arizona saw things exactly the same way as the arizona legislature. and so, without any direction from the legislature, they all took it upon

state governments will comply with the supreme court's decision. joining me now in studio to tell us how her state plans to respond is the attorney general of the great state of florida, our friend pam bondi. >> hi, sean. great to see you. >> are you doing okay? let me go to the dissent again. i found -- states are not free to turn down large grants. obama kerry give states no choice. obamacare thought they were giving states a general russ gift but states like yours rejected it. i'm proud of florida for rejecting it because we still believe firmly it's unconstitutional. what the supreme court has done is they haves to it had back into the political arena. that's exactly what they have done. >> actually, that was the -- and i'm sort of shocked by the chief justice's position on this. did you find that odd when he sort of decided to rewrite the law for congress? >> well, and it's really clear in scalia and the other justices' dissent, they are saying clearly this says it is a penalty, yet justice roberts chose to determine for the american people that in his opinion it was a tax, and yet he talks -- i mean, this really this been has been police sized.

state governments will comply with the supreme court's decision. joining me now in studio to tell us how her state plans to respond is the attorney general of the greatur friend pam bondi. >> hi, sean. great to see you. >> are you doing okay? let me go to the dissent again. i found -- states are not free to turn down large grants. obama kerry give states no choice. obamacare thought they were giving states a general russ gift but states like yours rejected it. >> right and i'm proud of florida for rejecting it because we still believe firmly it's unconstitutional. what the supreme court has done is they haves to it had back into the political arena. that's exactly what they have done. >> actually, that was the -- and i'm sort of shocked by the chief justice's position on this. did you find that odd when he sort of decided to rewrite the law for congress? >> well, and it's really clear in scalia and the other justices' dissent, they are saying clearly this says it is a penalty, yet justice roberts chose to determine for the american people that in his opinion it was a tax, and yet he talks -- i mean, this really this been has been police sized. he tal

determine. >> i would ask that a letter dated february 4, 2011, signed by the assistant attorney general, that reflects the states made by the internal general -- attorney general regarding what was not known about operation wide receiver and operation has been curious. cracks without objection, the statements are added to the record. >> thank you for being with us today. mr. holder, you have been criticized for not turning over information on request to one of the committees. did some of these requests involved information concerning confidential informants and wiretaps and information related to ongoing investigations? >> that is true. we have turned over a significant amount of information. we have conducted data from 240 custodians. we have turned over 7600 pages on 46 separate productions. >> can you tell us what is wrong with handing over information involving confidential information? >> we are, by law, prohibited from discussing or turning over the contents of wiretapping materials. there is a lot that presents us from doing that. there are concerns about people who are involved in these matters. you migh

i'm a critic because i don't think the attorney general for the united states of america should have any political ideology whatsoever. you are the attorney general for the entire country. regardless of your political ideology, or anyone else's political ideology. you're the attorney general for everyone. you're a former judge. you're a former u.s. attorney. you're currently the chief law enforcement official for the united states. i don't know what attracted you to the criminal justice system. i haven't had an opportunity to ask you. i can tell you what attracted me to it was the notion of working solely for a woman who was blindfolded and carries nothing with her except a set of scales and a sword. no political ideology, no agenda, just a set of scales and a sword. and it's important to me that she doesn't care about anyone's station in life and she doesn't care about their political ideology and doesn't care whether they're black, white, brown, progressive, conservative. it's just about the equal application of the law. and further in that interview with "the new york times," you s

on february 3rd, 2009, attorney general holder was sworn in as the 82nd attorney general of the united states. attorney general holder has enjoyed a long career in both the public and private sectors. first joining the department of justice through the attorney general's honors program in 1976, he became one of the department's first attorneys to serve in the newly formed public integrity section. he went onto serve as a judge at the superior court of the district of columbia and u.s. attorney for the district of columbia. in 1997, mr. holder was named by president clinton to be the deputy attorney general. prior to becoming attorney general, mr. holder was a litigation partner in washington d.c. mr. holder, native of new york city, is a graduate of columbia university and columbia law school. mr. holder, we appreciate your presence today. we look forward to your testimony and please begin. >> good morning, chairman smith, ranking member conyers and key members of this committee. i would like to outline our plans to build upon this record of achievement. i'm proud of the work that's been done

the state side. i think principally the attorney general from new york, eric schneiderman as well as other state attorneys general, i think the progress we're making there is very good. >> thank you. in 2009 you created a working group to review the departments of profiling guidance that came out in 2003 under then attorney general ashcroft. in april of this year, 64 members of congress wrote to urge you to revise that guidance. what's the status of the working group? and are there going to be changes to the guidance? and if you can, what would some of those changes be? >> well, we're in the process of looking at that earlier policy and in light of experience there are changes that need to be made ahead of meetings concerning this issue over the last two weeks, it would be my expectation as to the extent the changes are to be made that those would happen relatively soon. we have an interagency -- we're working within the justice department and i suspect we'll have to have an interagency group because there are a number of agencies whose educates are implicated by the change. but it is something we continu

there is something funny about why the chairman refused to sit down with the general of the united statesd basis as others have done as this is the first african-american attorney general in the united states of america. now, let me be very clear. an individual who comes with credentials beyond what his racial background is from being a judge to a u.s. attorney to the acting attorney general under the bush administration and the deputy attorney general and now the attorney general of the united states of america who has been -- who has been one of the strongest proponeevents of allowing, no matter what american you are, what viewpoint you may have one vote, one person, so i think the chairman is saying: is it because of the uniqueness of the way that this general has fought so hard to overcome voter oppression and suppression? is it because the general has recognized the history of those who have been denied opportunity in this nation? and the many cases that he has taken up and revitalized the civil rights division? is it that reason that all of the sudden he becomes the eye. storm? not

the united states. why would our government help smuggle guns to our neighbor and put them in the hands of the enemy of mexico and the united states? the violent drug cartels. and no wonder the attorney general of mexico wants those in the united states who are responsible to be eblings tra -- to be extradited to mexico and tried for those possible crimes. mexico is more interested in fast and furious than our own government. as a former judge, i can tell you that contempt is used as a last resort to let individuals know they will comply with the lawful order whether they like it or not. evener to -- even the attorney general cannot evade the law. time for america to find out the truth about gun smugtology mexico. time for a little transparency. today is judgment day. that's just the way it is. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: let me remind my friend that this gun walking program started under president bush and that's just the way it is. i would like to yield 15 seconds to the gentleman from texas. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for 15 seconds. >> i'm from texas, we believe it's our constitutiona

i am astounded that today we are sitting here waiting whether to hold the attorney general of the united states, the highest ranking law enforcement officer in our country, in contempt of congress. the house of representatives has never, in our long history, held an attorney general and content. -- in contempt. i am horrified that you're going forward with this content charge when the president of united states and the administration have invoked executive privilege for the documents sought by the chairman. the attorney general is being attacked for protecting documents that he is prohibited by law from producing. i speak strongly in opposition to this action and in opposition to this report. i would like to point out that our committee, the committee on oversight and government reform, is supposed to root out problems and find ways to reform how government works. it should not be a political witch hunt against the attorney general of our country and our president in an election year. what we should be doing is looking at ways we can stop problems from happening again. my basic question, mr. ch

the united states. >>> held in contempt. attorney general eric holder becomes the first cabinet member ever held in contempt of congress. >>> and raging wildfire, the colorado springs fire is now blamed for at least one death and the destruction of hundreds blamed for at least one death and the destruction of hundreds of homes. captioning funded by cbs >> this is the "cbs morning news" for friday, june 29, 2012. >>> good morning everyone. happy friday to you. good to be with you. i'm terrell brown. in 2010, president obama's health care overhaul law none as the affordable health care act narrowly made it through a battle in congress. the achievement survived yet again in a 5-4 vote. the supreme court uphold the provisions in the law. it was chief justice john roberts, an appointee of george w. bush, who broke to join in the majority. the decision is held as an election year victory for president obama. a rallying cry for republicans who want to see him out of office. susan mcginnis with more. >> terrell, good morning. house republicans sched

. >>> more than half the states in the union challenged obama care. attorneys generalnt states argued that the individual mandate is unconstitutional and today they lost, including alan wilson, the attorney general for the state of south carolina. mr. attorney general, nice to meet you. thanks for coming on. is this just years of work, just down the drain for you now, with this ruling? >> well, brooke, i don't believe so. yes, it was a victory for the administration on a few legal points, but there was one victory that the states have, and the nifb also has, and that is we stopped congress and the administration from redefining the authority and power of congress to expand well beyond the commerce clause. they tried to extend that power, and the court said, no, you're wrong, you can't do this under the commerce clause. unfortunately, the court disagreed with the president in this way, but gave him this tax. now the president owns this tax going into the november election. >> i want to listen to something you you said on another cable network in march around the time of

should bother all of us and that is that we do have an attorney general who just like we did, swear to uphold the constitution of the united states. and it seems to be a presumption that when certain privileges are asserted, certain concerns are raised by the attorney general, with regard to deliberative documents, things that go on between staff, things that have traditionally been privileged, that someone has to be hiding something, that it has to be dishonest and i think we do have to respect the separation of powerings here, people are saying, what is he hiding? i don't think he's hiding a damned thing, he said this during this meeting with him yesterday. he made it clear that this was hiss watch. and that there's certain things that attorney generals protect as a part of this office. not of eric holder but this office and he said that he's going to protect those thing but at the same time trying to accommodate the committee. it's easy to presume the negative, but maybe, just maybe, the attorney general is trying to do what attorney generals have traditionally done but at the same time have tried to work with the committee to

the administration. >>neil: we shall see. you have been prescient about this. thank you very much, leadership. attorney general eric holder the first u.s. attorney general to be held in contempt by the united statese will be speaking to reporters shortly making a statement shortly on a big news day. more after this. an accident doesn't have to slow you down. with better car replacement, if your car is totaled, we give you the mone for a car one model year newer. liberty mutual auto insurance. our cloud is made of bedrock. concrete. and steel. our cloud is the smartest brains combating the latest security threats. it spans oceans, stretches continents. and is scalable as far as the mind can see. . welcome to the uppernet. verizon. see life in the best light. [music] transitions® lenses automatically filter just the right amount of light. so you see everything the way it's meant to be seen. experience life well lit, ask for transitions adaptive lenses. >> neil: all right. the attorney general is responding to this develop in the the house, where he has been held in contempt of congress. the attorney general eric holder right now. >> i put in place two policie policies. new safeguards and new leader

some law makers are asking the state attorney general to review the decision. >>> a bill passed today by the senate would make it illegal for lawmakers to accept gifts, included in the list, tickets to parks, race tracks or sporting events, spa treatments and golfing, skiing, hunting and fishing. >>> a small group gathered this afternoon to try to draw attention to a lack of help in dealing with problem mortgages. >> the demonstration at the bank of america branch was part of a national effort called the home defender's league. they are calling for a moratorium on foreclosures and for families to be allowed to rent their homes after foreclosure. >>> this man built this cross and has been maintaining it for 30 years, why he can no longer go up here. >> a warm up today. a cool down tomorrow. i will let you know how much cooler. >>> the man accused of killing sierra lamar appeared in a courtroom today. antolin garcia-torres is scheduled to enter a plea instead the judge granted a request to extend. >> the district attorney gone all in in the murder conviction. they believe they have a st

have probable cause to believe that person is in the united states illegally, it gives the police the right to -- we have heard from the state attorney generalis will be implemented quite carefully. here from our affiliate knfv in phoenix. >> everybody is still in shock, because we have been out here for four days, lack of sleep and just waiting for the news finally. it was very, you know, shocking for some folks. >> reporter: are you surprised by the decision? >> i am very surprised. you know, i was expecting, you know, to get it completely taken off, but unfortunately, the one that i fear the most got -- >> the one provision that you were talking about, would allow police officers to check immigration status after they are already stopped someone, that is going to move forward and you said that really scares you and that's the worst one that could have gone through, tell me why. >> when i do drive, i drive to work, i drive to school, i drive my sister to her babysitter. and school so it's very scary for me to have that in the back of my head that i could still be pulled over and even maybe deported. >>a reaction on the ground from knxb fro

the central authority. there were not going to have that. so when you start talking about general verse federal tax. these were important terms. you hear the term united states, the nation today. that term is still turnaround. but the founding generation would say that general government was for general purposes. will talk about that in the preamble and a few minutes. so the constitution out of philadelphia in september 77, no one was even sure that the thing would get ratified. they had written it, talked about it, sweated over. they had poured their hearts out in some cases, but no one was sure that this thing would even make it because there were all required to ratify the document. so then it had to be sold, and that sales job is actually what i talk about more in the book than anything else. i bring up the philadelphia convention because sometimes eaten to understand the constitution and the language without understanding what they said in madison. oftentimes you cannot understand the constitution and what they said it meant a better understanding what they said in the state ratifying conventions all throughout the united states . in fact, james madison

filed the lawsuit, we were told it was frivolous, we were told sanctions should be given to the state attorneys general7-2 on the case that we took the most grief, that being the medicaid expansion argument. so there's significant language on state sovereignty in that opinion that we very much appreciate. yesterday from my perspective was a pyrrhic victory for the president. we need to not only repeal and replace obama care, we need to replace president obama and i think this has engaged and energized both republicans and independents with the need for a new president, at which point you can then do a reconciliation, throw this act out and in fact, adopt appropriate real health care. >> sam, let me ask you one more thing away from the politics and on the policy. in terms of what's next. the president's health care law would add 650,000 georgians to medica medicare. one in five folks in georgia are currently uninsured. the big question coming forward now is about medicaid funding and whether georgia and many of the other states, some of the other states who voiced resistance to taking the federal funds,

case troubles in europe and the uncertainty that that generates does give you pause for thought in terms of exactly when you toil the process of reducing the role of the state privatizing some of the businesses reducing the role of the state more generally in terms of its share of the g.d.p. but i don't think that should distract us i think it's very important that we see a government that's committed to that as a process because i will send a very positive signal to the markets of arab reform in general in russia and about their for the long term economic prospects of the country. and staying with the euro zone issues were of course know that spain recently asked for one hundred billion euro bailout to secure and help support its banking system well would be talking to k p m g international represents their michael andrew and he said while some say it's way too much he said it's not enough actually. what's not well understood some time which is the european banking system is probably three or four times the size of the u.s. banking system chicken markets have to be convinced that the reason actually soloed funny the way she supported guarantee these people

the border states? >> he's clearly wanting to appease the upper south. and appease the south more generally. he's clearly -- you know, that's why he vows not to interfere with slavery in the slave states. but he goes further than to say, i believe i don't have a constitutional right to interfere with slavery in the slave states. he goes further then to say that i will make sure fugitives are returned to their property owners. what he's referring to is the two days before he gives the inaugural address congress, in its effort to conciliate with the south passes a new constitutional amendment. it's the first 13th amendment. you all know the 13th amendment is the one that abolishes slavery. the first 13th amendment is the language is really weird because it essentially is an unamendable amendment. no amendment shall be made to the constitution which will authorize or give to congress it have power to abolish or interfere within any state with domestic institutions thereafter helped or serviced by the laws of the state. it guarantees slavery in the slave states forever. and lincoln supports it. y