in the state. today we will consider whether the legislative proposal authored by our colleagues, congressman steve loebsack of arkansas and congresswoman jackie spinner of california. their bill, h.r. 3179 the marketplace equity act of 2011, has bipartisan support from members both on and on the committee. in the 1992 case of not to cover, the supreme court held that under the dormant commerce clause a state may not compel the retailer to collect and remit the state sales tax the retailer lacks a physical presence in the state. the supreme court's view to for savory character collect taxes to more than 9,000 state, county and local tax interest actions throughout the country places a serious burden on the retailer's ability to sell and interstate commerce. the physical presence rules for tax collection mix interests that cannot afford to track and comply with 9,000 different tax codes as a cost of doing business throughout the country the constitution doesn't allow one state to reach into the pocke

in the state. today we will consider whether the legislative proposal authored by our colleagues, congressman steve loebsack of arkansas and congresswoman jackie spinner of california. their bill, h.r. 3179 the marketplace equity act of 2011, has bipartisan support from members both on and on the committee. in the 1992 case of not to cover, the supreme court held that under the dormant commerce clause a state may not compel the retailer to collect and remit the state sales tax the retailer lacks a physical presence in the state. the supreme court's view to for savory character collect taxes to more than 9,000 state, county and local tax interest actions throughout the country places a serious burden on the retailer's ability to sell and interstate commerce. the physical presence rules for tax collection mix interests that cannot afford to track and comply with 9,000 different tax codes as a cost of doing business throughout the country the constitution doesn't allow one state to reach into the pocke

[applause] currently occupied as the 50th state of the united states. we look forward to the day -- this is my fourth out of five presidential nominating conventions. it is nice to be here. i am waiting for the time when we have our convention in hawaii. [applause] from santa fe to los angeles to denver to chicago, i missed milwaukee, i was not there, and then to 2012 here in baltimore. as a young person, i lived in maryland, outside of washington d.c.. we are the state that presented this nation with the first part to send a victory of the green party against the democrat and bond, cans, 1992, keiko who this year is coming back and reporting -- running against the current speaker of the house in hawaii. she is challenging him in oahu, the 20th district. >> 30 seconds please. >> ok. aloha to everybody. hawaii would like to give two votes. we have to send delegates and two proxies'. we would give two votes to bar -- a favorite daughter, roseanne barr, and our other two of votes for jill stein. [applause] aloha. >> somebody with a resents and keeps holding

it is about 50% in the state. when you are lacking all of that, you are really starting out at a massive disadvantage that is almost impossible to compensate for later on. >> belva: in the last few seconds here, who is listening? where could something happen to change the forecast for the next report? >> to kind of quickly -- i asked these questions. patrick mccarthy, the president of the annie e. casey foundation said it is a culture of our climate. ted richards said the problem is that the political will in this state is disagregated. we need all of the issues to come together. >> belva: that's a big command there. thank you, kathryn. the number of obesity and health problems has prompted a movement from new york to california to ban or restrict sugary drinks. should sodas be taxed? that is a question voters in richmond will take up in november. our pbs correspondent spencer michels has the story. >> he is deeply concerned about the measure which would place a penny-per-ounce tax on sugary beverages. the plan des

efforts here not only in san francisco, but across the state. and to mayor lee, thank you for example, your leadership, your stewardship, and her strong support and wisdom of identifying a great leader of china sf and darlene chu, carrying the torch for the board of directors. there are a number of you assembled here and you have done an extraordinary job to demonstrate our commitment not just rhetorically but substantively in terms of engaging in defiance -- advancing our collective efforts to focus on trade and exports. to the entire team that have been at the helm for decades now, here in san francisco supporting our efforts to reach out to china on behalf of them, dianne feinstein who established our sister city our protocol chief, i am honored to be here. a 12 take a brief moment to say a few things on behalf of the state of california. like san francisco, california has always been a state of dreamers, and doors, and entrepreneurs. a state head -- that has prided itself of being on the leading and cutting edge of new ideas. we're one of the

in the most diverse state in the world's most averse democracy. the delegation will appreciate this as you walk the streets of san francisco at our best as it is across the state. people are living and a dancing together across every conceivable and imaginable difference. i have believed the world looks to us to say it is -- if it is possible to live together across every conceivable difference. we're proud of our home and place in history and proud of our example. but we also are humble in the context of the world we're living in. a world that is another connected but hyper-connected with a merger of i.t. and globalization. we recognize our faith -- fate is connected to the fate of others. that is the spirit that binds us together. the spirit that brings us here today. i want to close by reminding you that california is the birthplace as mayor lee was saying of life science, biotech, the home of the california stem cell institute, a state with more engineers, more scientists, more global -- nobel laureate's than any other state or we still lay cl

we're at the missouri state penitentiary, the old missouri state penitentiary in jefferson city, missouri, and it's kind of right in the middle of the capital city of the state of missouri. from 1836 until 1989, this was the only maximum security prison for adult male offenders that was run by the state of missouri, and so basically you got every individual that was a problem child. at one time, 1967, this was called the bloodiest 47 acres in america. the building of the prison itself is located off east capital avenue, which used to be called east main street, and initially when the prison was built on this site it would have been on the outskirts of jefferson city, but the town actually built around the prison, so actually it's on the eastern side of jefferson city, but it's still with the way the city limits incorporated other areas, it's right in the middle of the town. there's two basic philosophies that evolved with regard to prisons in the united states, the first one being the pennsylvania system, which was initially started by the quakers, the first prison being the walnut street

the state communities are very opposed. and i think that it's been described a number of the detail. but whip is what gives me the optimistic confidence that we can move ahead. because i think the attitude that we found down there, that we found down there, i'm not an expert, was immensely re-assuring that this consent adaptive approach if really taken seriously by both sides can work. >> now, general skull kruf you still didn't answer. the question was very pointed here. should a state as a whole have the right to accept or reject a nuclear waste sites in its borders and how should the authority work? you're comparing nevada and new mexico as you know and i think the history you're talking about what happened in nevada was the high net level nuclear waste policy act which had a very scientific process, broad selection of sites was shortened by congress. and congress basically said it's going to nevada. and forced it down nevada's throat. i think at the time the governor and local officials, there was a lot of objection. in

and we're the first board of supervisors in the state seeing the plan for 2012. i think we are ahead of the curve. i know how great our programs are and hopefully we will highlight them today. i would like to invite the chief to begin the presentation. >> thank you very much, supervisors. it is a pleasure to be here before you today and to talk about public safety realignment. at first, i will start off by saying i'm proud to be in san francisco. i have been here only a little over two years, but the spirit of innovation and collaboration amongst the criminal justice partners is what has made a very difficult, challenging situation, such as realignment, the most historic reform in california's history related to criminal justice. i would like to recognize all of the criminal-justice partners for how hard they have worked together, collaborated, negotiated, and it has been an absolute pleasure. with that, -- prior to public safety realignment ab 109, there was another piece of legislation by our own senator leno. what that really did was start the whole evidence,

steve, a democrat, from the southern part of our state. he's the president and as such the most powerful democrat in the state of new jersey. and he is the president of the ironworkers local. in new jersey. so like me, a shy and retiring guy, i saw steve on the way in, and i said, steve, you are know, i saw all those things you said about me in the newspaper today. you've really turned me around. i'm going upstairs to vacate the executive order and send this problem down the hall. you guys can fix it. all you need know about new jersey politics for the next 2 1/2 years from that date. he looked at me, hey, don't overreact. you know. i don't think you did all that bad. come on. it's politics. it's politics. but we inherit aed a huge probl. before i game governor, 115 tax and fee increases at the state level in the eight years before i became governor. that's a tax and fee increase every 25 days for eight years. now, if you want a definition of how to kill the goose that laid the golden egg, look at new jersey the economy in the '80s and '90s

the other's ability to function. as complaints increase against amcs, states may lack the resources to investigate out of state companies who have substantial legal resources. alternate valuation services. broker price opinions and other evaluation products are generally not regulated by appraiser licensing boards. consumers do not realize the difference and may think they are receiving an appraisal when an appraiser was not involved in the process. there is limited authority to discipline brokers for errors in the development of these valuations and they are not sufficiently regulated. evaluation of the appraiser regulatory system. some of the cooperative efforts between state boards, the asc and the appraisal foundation are an investigator training program provided at no cost to the states, task forces on trainee supervision and consistent enforcement, the foundation issues exposure drafts and request comments when there are proposed changes or the appraisal qualification criteria and schedules meetings to coincide with their own conferences. the staff provides foundation meetings and assists the states in drafting ru

it raises every aspect of the state's economy. texas, i don't care who the governor in texas is, they're going to take the money. $52 billion, and they have a really sophisticated network of hospitals, probably the third or fourth most sophisticated in the whole country. they're one of the real meccas of american medicine. if you think the governor, whoever it is, republican or democrat, is going to turn down $52 billion and not be eaten alive, you have another thing coming. there's a payment called a disproportionate share program that is made to statsz to help them pay for uncompensated care. with every state except louisiana, that payment disappears. these hospitals are going to take it on the chin and face a great medical establishes like texas are going to be left to be second class citizens if the governor doesn't take the money and i think they will. >> i think they will. one argument they have made is sure, the law said it will match it 100%, but in two decades, they could vote it down to 85% or 75%, and then the state is l

in the united states when people come to the united states they become us. i'm an italian descent, whether you are jewish-american or hispanic-american you become americans and maybe the first generation is whatever the home mother country was but by the second generation the kids are in the mall and have the earphones in and are normal american kids. we integrate them into our society. europe has failed to do that and i think that then presents a very different threat. i think what you'll see politically as the europeans go to the polls is that a voting block they cannot ignore and the worry is that as europe faces economic crisis, the margins of victory are ever, ever closer in any election that they cannot ignore that voting block. and if that voting block is radicalized then i think it becomes a serious and major problem for europe. >> as in t.t. mcfarland as in ambassador ware as in many of the women in public service or private life in colorado today and across the country, conservative women, women who love freedom, women who know what's at stake. in k

actively working because the state has defunded all the prop 36 courts in efforts across the state. so i think this provides senator leno's bill really does the right thing and tries to move in a direction that's not contingent to how much money is available within one jurisdiction or not and actually frees up $64 million of general fund at the state level that could be reinvested into services. i know when you look at realignment, for example, here in san francisco, a 1/3 of our plan, a third of our dollars for realignment has been invested in substance abuse treatment, mental health treatment and housing but we've made that choice. i think if you compare us, though, to many other jurisdictions, we have a collaborative court continuum that is unmatched in other parts of the state. so i think to say they wood, it's not happening. and if you look at other jurisdictions throughout the state, you'll find heavy incarceration rates and not used. in fact the prosecutor is not using those programs. we're very fortunate in our district attorney. he is very visionary, and i just commend him f

can the states -- are we making the states eat broccoli, or do the states have the option now to eat broccoli now when they want and they want to, if you will? sara. >> well, i think that is a very good question. i think that the -- here's what the statute says. beginning in january 2014, this new group, um, becomes a, you know, required group with an asterisk now under the program, so it's not really a required group in the normal sense. it's a group with limited enforcement powers from the secretary. and federal financial participation for this new group is available according to the schedule that tim laid out. that is in the first several years it's at 100%, drops down to 90% in whatever the year is and thereafter. so i would assume that the secretary in thinking through how she will interpret this concept of flexibility will, you know, make it clear that the state has flexibility at least as to the year it comes in, that the funds that will be available will be the funds that would have been available in that fiscal year. so if you don't come in until 2020, you would get a 90 pre

i'm a citizen of the state of michigan, and i'm a citizen of the united states. you have three real sovereign citizenships. you are citizens of the united states. you've shown that certainly during our wars, in numbers. many of you fought. you're a citizen of the state in which you live, and you're a citizen of your sovereign tribe. you have three citizenships, so those are real citizenships. those aren't just fancy get well cards. they are in the constitution of the united states. says the congress shall have the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations in among the several states and with the indian tribes. they put you on the same level as france or germany. you're sovereign, and they recognize that congress has the power to regulate commerce with these three types of governments, sovereign governments, and also the constitution says this constitution and the laws of the united states shall be made in pursuance thereof and all treaties made or which shall be made under the authority of the united states shall be the supreme law of the land and the judges

so we go over the level of what the state will pay. as they take more and more funds away we're really stuck with trying to resolve the problem and eliminating cost within the budget and making an educated guess as to when we put on the breaks. that's it. we can't reduce and have to draw down on the rest of the reserves. >> this is going great and we want to continue it next week. come back next week for another edition of equal time.

among the swing states, florida has the largest. cally, what we're talking about is a large number of electoral votes in a state that republicans have not 145 elections. they have a chance this year. obama has on average about a eight-point lead on the state. a swing state, but likely democratic is the most people would say. romney does have a chance to win this day. host: if you look at the demographics, the strongholds are for the democrats. if mitt romney is to make this competitive, where does he need to cut? guest: he is not going to do it in the big cities. there are two ways to think about this. one is you have to get your base vote appeared to have to get the turnout of your loyal supporters. in 2008, democrats were more enthusiastic. as a result, obama won the state by 10 points. go back to debris zero years ago, we saw the reverse. the republicans easily swept the state winning a senate post, a governor's race, five congressional seats shifted from democrat to republican in 2010. the state house had been democratic and fled

they will be eligible for the state program medi-cal. above that, between 138% or to put it in numbers, $30,000 a year to $92,000 a year, there will be a sliding scale of subsidies that will help pay for the insurance that people will be able to buy. there will be a range of products that will be offered through the health benefit exchange. the benefit exchange will be a place where our goal is to make buying insurance as easy as ordering a book on amazon. >> what's the current status of that? this has to go live next year. some states haven't started it yet. i know california has been a leader in getting this going. how much of that platform is built? >> we are well on our way. we have sort of three main things we have to do. we have to have a system for people to enroll in the programs. we have recently awarded a contract. we had a very robust bidding process. we awarded a contract to an information technology company that will build an i.t. system for us. a web site and web capability that will be used by county programs to enroll peop

this facility has support functions for the public face in the state capitol. the main purpose is to store the many artifacts we have from the collection. last year, 2011, we were lucky enough to get a very large donation of artifacts, approximately 5,000 pieces all related to the 1904 st. louis world's fair. the fair came here as part of a series of international expositions, some of the most famous worldwide was the crystal palace expedition in the 1850s, there was an expedition in paris which the eiffel tower came from, chicago got the columbian exposition fair, which missouri tried really hard to get. and part of that, though, because of their efforts to get the 1893 fair, they were up and running on their efforts to get the next fair, the u.s. congress had decided we need to have a fair to celebrate this important piece of our history, and st. louis was awarded the fair that the u.s. congress had decided would happen on the anniversary of the louisiana purchase. i want to tell you a little bit about the souvenir aspect of the fairs, and this happened at man

i have worked for the state. and you will probably remember that i tried to get a job down in washington, but something happened to me at that time. ♪ ♪ >>> all summer on sundays, american history tv presents "the contenders." this 14-week series highlights key political figures who ran for president and lost but who nevertheless changed political history. our program with al smith airs again tonight on american history tv on c-span3. next sunday, we continue our "contenders" series featuring wendell willkie who ran against fdr in 1940. watch "the contenders" each sunday at 8:30 a.m., 7:30 p.m., and 10:30 p.m. through labor day weekend. >>> up next, at the organization of american historians meeting in milwaukee, new york university professor linda gordon discusses birth control in america. she argues that birth control in the u.s. wasn't controversial until women became politically active and seeking the right to vote in the 19th century. she also outlines the history of the politics of birth control leading up t

the united states. at is who i want to relax. host: next up is fairfax, va. on our line for democrats. caller: good morning, sir. thank you for the wonderful job you have been doing. this is my first time calling. but congress -- the congress and the senate have to work together. the problem we have in this country is that they are not working together. that have to work together and we don't need a massive cut. thank you. host: we've got this from lawrence j. korb - we will get back to more reasons to keep the defense budget sequestration cuts in place. back to the phones, anchorage, alaska, on airline for independents. caller:yeah, i just wanted to say that ultimately, going back to the issue at hand, i cannot help but be reminded of a teacher and my grandma once war that said -- i think we have completely lost touch with reality in regards to defending our nation when really it is -- are biggest threat is to ourselves trying to figure out the future. and i'm 23 years old trying to refrain from using a

care outside of the united states. and the data, essentially, looks at medical tourism principally to places like india and singapore, and they always give the data above the numbers that go there -- about the numbers that go there. now, the vast, vast, vast majority of those are from southeast asia and the middle east and not from the united states. so it is a trickle of people who leave the united states for health care outside. i think it has almost negligible nick influence on health care in the united states. >> do the people who utilize your 24-hour call service have to have insurance? >> no. [laughter] >> aren't there other factors beyond smoking and obesity that cause ill health like chemicals, air and water quality, and what are you doing about these? [laughter] >> you guys are mean. there's no question that there are multiple other things that affect health care, but those are the, those are the three really big ones. the thing that concerns me, quite frankly, is the epidemic of autism. autism, frankly, was so

he has been responsible for some of the state's most innovative public policies. and because of his commitment to and leadership of high-speed rail, we know this is the right investment for the state's economy and transportation infrastructure and the right investment for people in pursuit of a better future. let's bring a -- give a warm round of applause to our governor jerry brown. [applause] >> thank you. it is an exciting day here, it really is. i sign my first high-speed rail bill 30 years ago. it has taken that long to get things going. i was at union station earlier this morning and that station is full of people. it looks like grand central station in new york. maybe not as many, but thousands of people. people lined up around the corner to get into the restaurant. pretty significant. why? 30 years ago, nobody was in there. it was an empty cavern that you could echo your voice down the corridor, but there were no people. now there are trains locally, and now we are connecting high- speed rail to san francisco. yes, it will take awhile. it took awhile to do

at the national, state, and local level. for 15 years in california, drug policy alliance has been involved in some of the nation's most progressive criminal- justice reform efforts, as i mentioned, in the nation, including creating the largest treatment amphetamine incarceration program, working on the rehabilitation act of 2008, which is designed to evaluate criminal sentences, as well as reducing prison overcrowding that was occurring at the time. as well as working on the state level legislation and reducing penalties for drug possession. from its inception, we had an office in san francisco, and we have been involved in multiple initiatives to make san francisco a model city. our wo providing funds to the d.a.'s office for the bike and track program, of working with various tax -- task forces, working to crackdown on medical marijuana, and working with medical marijuana access for patients. my commitment to criminal- justice reform began early. i grew up in south africa. for more than seven years i've been involved in a

and then is yours the third largest state? so between the way your agency is approaching reform and accountability with districts. >> a couple things. one is we know we have a capacity challenge. even though the department is fairly large, it's because we have legacy of k through 12 and higher education and adult education, job placement for disabled adults. i could go on. so we had that major responsibility and the portion of the department that is dedicated to k-12 is fairly small so we have to be smart about how we leverage our limited resources. one thing we're doing is trying to work with other states on implementation of the common core because we think schools that are implementing the common core effectively are schools where achievement is going improve so we worked with massachusetts and rhode island on curriculum materials against the common core. we're working with states on assessment and we're working on how we use technology better so we launched a web site just to provide professional development material for sc

the reason they chose a so-called right to work state in the united states, they are competing with boeing which chose south carolina. they are competing on the low road and that is not good economic policy for the country. it is what they are doing to pad the bottom line. >> i don't know wayne, maybe all is fair in love and cheese. maybe the french have a point. what work in america. we'll build our aircraft in america . right to work state, going to do it. >> what christian mentioned was the word competition. that is the key to this. and there is competition for venues where people want to work and companies want to go and work and where the environment is for that. there is competition for venues and bid for that. if they get a thousand workers who are paying taxes that. is a boost to that economy . not only is the competition for that. but there is competition for labor and we know that capitalism. we have capitol. and labor and it is going to go to the place where it produces the most for the least coast and that is a good thing. jobs going over seas if it is cheaper to produce it ove

> this would be one of the first times we have seen, what we can describe as a house bomb in the united states. some of these things do exist overseas. >> reporter: according to a law enforcement official who watched recordings from inside the apartment, the space was rigged with more than 30 homemade grenades, and 10 gallons of gasoline. it was all carefully orchestrated to maximize the strength of a blast. investigators say holmes stockpiled weapons and explosives for months. >> he is expected to be formally charged next week. >> while the accused gunman faces the law, the shooting victims struggle to recover. one of them is a university of maryland grad student. her survival is nothing short of a miracle. >> reporter: petra anderson's story. she was excited about her upcoming graduate studies at the university of maryland. now she is in the hospital after being shot four times, including once in the face. >> doctors did tell us initially that she's really not even supposed to be alive because of where the injury is. she's not only alive, but she's walking around, and talking to people. >> r

what should the dialogue be in the united states and these countries and in the united states? >> on the migration issues - we need a whole different new perspective. if you look domestically at the country, you are looking at it an aging population and even though we are in the midst of high unemployment, and people think today if you look ten years from now, this country is going to have deficit both at the low end and at the high end. so i think we need to get migration very differently. secondly, from the sort of more we work with and collaborate with our partners to the south to develop economic opportunities at home, the less migration we are going to have in this country. and i think to the degree that we can reform our immigration law and have an honest conversation about migration and separate because there are two issues. first is the contentious issue that we are dealing with and we hear about all the time is the number of immigrants in this country and what we are going to do with those individuals and that is what gets the headlines. what doesn't get the headline is

>>> what's the future of california state parks and updates and as the vatican's current as the work of nuns there's an exhibit in sacramento telling the story in america. we to local fashion " that turned to a passion for style into a daily block with the following. >>> woke up a two day area focus the california budget cuts of made state parks your uncertain future. the '70s the parts were about to close on july 1st. the dish a private donors and nonprofits and a few other sources there's been a temporary reprieve. the question is for how long and what's needed to keep this beautiful natural landmarks open. here with an update jury the director of communications for the california state parks and foundation. i was surprised to think of as driving somewhere somewhere when i heard this and everybody thought it can't be serious digit are rethinking what happened? >>> is the series of threats over the years climb back to the governors schwarzenegger when he proposed the close of 200. but this time round because of the economic situation and the budget situation in the state was very se

>> the elderly poverty rate in the united states in 1965 was 30%. we did -- improved social security, today it's about 9.5, even in the middle of a recession. that is the act of a just and moral nation. that is a moral act. god in heaven, the god of the catholic church that i'm in, would be very proud and very happy about that. very, very -- that -- about two-thirds the number of old people in this country go to bed cold or hungry has been reduced, is really a staggering accomplishment in the united states. we should be very proud of that. >> and i think democrats' political response to that now should be, like nancy pelosi said about medicare, we do have a plan on social security. it's called social security. >> yeah! >> we stand for it and we'll defend it and we're not going to let anybody -- >> but what i'm saying is, if you said you were going to do something to strengthen social security, people would say, well, okay, that makes sense. what they're not willing to do is cut social security to reduce the other part of the deficit. >> yeah, yeah. i

live from the russian capital our top stories u.s. secretary of state takes a shot at moscow and beijing claiming the two are supporting also as the u.s. spearhead a pro rebel gathering. the pentagon mind kuantan a mowbray out for a multimillion dollar overhaul as critics say the promised closure of the scandal ridden facility seems ever more than likely. and russian lawmakers review a draft bill to name noncommercial groups funded from abroad as foreign agents a move opposition parties say could be used to crackdown on activists. next peter the well and his gadgets cost the sudanese conflict in crosstalk. please. you can. start. a low in welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle is the arab spring finally coming to sudan as the protest movement grows the regime of al bashir appears to have limited options with a contract thing economy and it goes with the newly independent south still at a standstill is it possible the west help by local actors will i regime change. and. start. to cross whether sudan will also experience an arab spring i'm joined by omar

russia and china for the continuing violence in syria to the trouble of three draws attention to other states that are fanning the flames of civil war with arms and. extradition deadline passes while his wiki leaks website starts to release the so-called syrian five. and coming up it's peter lavelle crosstalk. please. continue. to. follow him welcome to cross talk time peter lavelle targeting africa the u.s. is expanding its covert military and intelligence operations across the continent this is being done we are told under the pretext of fighting terrorism is africa again being colonized by outside powers. can. start. to cross talk the u.s. military in africa i'm joined by my guest in washington ivan eland he's a senior fellow and director of the center on peace and liberty at the independent institute james middlemen he's a university professor of international affairs at the american university and peter pham he is the director of the i'm sorry africa center at the atlantic council all right gentlemen cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want ivan eland if i g

biggest and the oldest chinatown in the united states. and so, there could not be a more appreciative place to hold this conference. i will say as i said earlier to the vice minister that it is interesting to note to and i am a student of our chinese history. in the 1800's as darlene has mentioned, many of the ancestors came over from china and whether it was for economic opportunity or search of gold, it is interesting to know that today we're of course seeing our contemporaries coming to invest and look for partnerships opportunities in the united states and in san francisco. it is a very nice twist. i am proud to say that san francisco is the innovation capital of the world. and we have been dubbed the center for clean technology in the united states. our goal of reaching the zero waste in 20/20 -- 2020 is a real goal. . companies are popping up in our city. we recently signed a memorandum of understanding in beijing with the national energy conservation center where our leader of our economic development represented our city. in agre

within the state? >> the thing that depends on when the amendments were made. in the present form, they could be locked in. that is still an item for discussion. >> i think i am confused and enough. [laughter] and i yield back. >> the gentleman yield back. the chair recognizes the other gentleman for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you for being here. we appreciate your expertise. governor, we're sympathetic with this issue. we're trying to work through with the best piece of legislation. i know that your state is one of the few states that uses the physical presence for business activities taxes. this committee voted favorably for the business simplification act that confirms -- i do not know if you had time to review that bill to see how we reconcile that with this particular piece of legislation. >> i'm sorry, congressman, i have not. >> and i would not expect you to. i think you testified on that bill when it was here. can you reconcile the two? >> bashar. although it is an issue tha

eat fresh. >> close to 9% of maryland state middle schools are passing of the maryland state assessment. overall, math scores increase but middle school reading scores were down over last year. more than 350,000 students took the msa >> students began to get more focused over the year and it depends on the different students and a different mix of students. >> parents can expect copies of their children's individual test scores in the coming weeks. the world's largest museum complex is giving visitors a high-tech upgrade when it comes to navigating through the displays. starting today, visitors at the smithsonian institution can use the smart phone to find their way through museums and locations in northern virginia and new york city. it includes maps of the national air and space museum, the museum natural history. >> this year's national sports collectors convention in baltimore just got a whole lot more interesting and will make you want to check out your attic. family members cleaning out a grandfather's attic in ohio stumbled across a fine that could be worth millions. century old

and then i went around the state for a next nine months. ver 30 town hall meeting, and campaigned for that plan. and ultimately, with thousands of protesters on the front steps of the statehouse, and in the galleries of both voting sessions, in a bill sponsored by the senate president and the speaker of the assembly with only eight of the 24 democratic members of the senate and only 13 of the 47 democratic members of the assembly voting yes, those reforms passed in the assembly and in the senate and were signed into law by me and will save over the next 30 years $132 billion for the taxpayers of new jersey, and will return those funds to solvency. now, it took not just gubernatorial leadership but courage on the part of the legislatures to post the bills and move them forward without the majority of caucuses voting for it. they knew they had to dom that, that's the environment created he in new jersey but it would in the have the happened if the executive didn't lead first. if i didn't put that plan out first and campaigned for it, it wouldn

state. that's part of the confusion. i was on a panel recently with a secretary of state in west virginia who said she had voters s in her state calling to say what are the voter id requirements in my state? that shows how confusing it is to voters. they need to find out what the requirements are in and do what they can to insure they're meeting the requirements because what we want is to insure that all voters have the right to vote, that they can exercise that right because that's what's most important, regardless of who they vote for, we want to insure every voter has the opportunity to exercise that right. find out what the requirements are and do what you can to meet them. >> thank you very much for being here. >> thank you, ezra. >>> make no mistake, being on live television has a certain intrinsic level of risk to it. i mean, what if you forget how to read in the middle of a segment or you get a sneezing fit? once again tonight, we're going to push the risk to its intellectual limits to try to explain the nearly in

and the total numbers stacked across the state are hot. hottest spot the patuxent river running at 90. it all adds up to extreme heat indices, feeling like the mid-nos knots -- mid-90s. storms reaching into north carolina. there's the storm that's a dry slot in maryland, still kind of cloudy. but most of the storm action is split around the state and is basically not a factor for us. we will see a continued chance for storms tomorrow, but the main threat may stay south as it is today a weak high pressure area, still allowing storms to develop. it's not one of those heavy high pressure domes that can stablize things. and the cooler air continues to be bottled well north of us. look at this map, it's well north of des moines iowa. here you see we're looking at mid-100's. mid-section. where does that large pool of heat goes? it reaches into charlotte. we think we'll catch the edge. we're back close to 90 on wednesday. it's a huge heat dome. extreme drought conditions that we haven't seen across much of the country. we haven't seen this type of

doing arms trade but yes it's about oil yet for the united states yes it's about containing china in this is done under the banner of terror a war on terror ok peter where do you come in all this. well i agree that africa has increasingly a strategic importance to the united states but let's get some facts straight first for example if the pursuit was rid of terrorists was merely a cover for pursuing and defending oil interests the u.s. would certainly not have gone to back to bring about the independence of south sudan where eighty percent of sudan's oil reserves are found and which goes almost exclusively to china the interest would be far more in the western part of the cause of the cotton in nigeria algeria where the u.s. does purchase its oil on the weapons sales certainly the u.s. is a major arms. source of arms globally but for most african countries u.s. arms are not affordable u.s. systems are too complex in fact the u.s. military in a number of cases has sourced weapons for allied countries to the former eastern bloc or even look at china as a source simply because those

and to amend the state's finances more transparent and accountable to the public -- and to make the state'sances more transparent and accountable to the public. [applause] >> i will spare you what the distinguished council president requested me to do, which is to sing for all of you. we used to go out for karaoke, but he would sing and i would leave. this is a magnificent evening. we gather tonight in celebration of asian-pacific heritage month. we take a moment to reflect upon our past, to understand the heroic struggles, obstacles, hardships that so many people, including this evening's tremendous honor read, had to overcome. this is a very special place. norm gave me the good fortune of putting my feet to the marble in the halls of congress. we will give the opportunity to 20 interns this summer so that they can partake in the greatest democracy that has ever resided on this planet. this is also a tremendous significance as congressmen alluded to. this is the home were people left when i came to this country, when they had to leave the fields of california from farming. that applies to