he is a member of the board of directors of the american conservative union and a former senior bush official thanks for joining us thanks for having me so you're a conservative and you support striking down doma why is that why i believe in giving the states option the right to make their own laws including to marriage so in that regard to the supreme court made the right decision yesterday and holding up the state's ability to determine who they want to recognize as a married couple and the supreme court ruled that congress has no right to undermine a state's decision somewhere as to how you feel. i have a saw it here i've even when they're speaking on yesterday it's a court decision. children born today will grow up in a world with. and those same children who happen to be gay will be free to love and get married. with the same federal benefits protection and everyone else. because this case involves federal tax implications and federal programs benefits of federal programs is it really fair to say that congress should have no saying and how the states determine marriage well it's

supreme court ruling as soon how connie he is a member of the board of directors of the american conservative union and a former senior bush official thanks for joining us thanks for having me so you're a conservative and you support striking down doma why is that why i believe in giving the states the option and the right to make their own laws including lead to marriage so in that regard at the supreme court made the right decision yesterday and holding up the state's ability to determine who they want to recognize as. a married couple and the supreme court ruled that congress has no right to undermine a state's somewhere as to how you feel. i have a thought here i've even when they're speaking on yesterday it's. children born today will grow up in a world without them. and those same children who happen to be gay will be free to love and get married. with the same federal benefits protections everyone else. because this case involves a federal tax implication and federal programs benefits the federal programs is it really fair to say that congress should have no saying and how the states determi

. >> reporter: the tennessee conservative union has taken aim at the chinese company, ending mountain top mining would effect a lot of companies owned by americans. then property rights of land owners that spent millions for the mountains, not to mention hundreds of jobs in a part of the country where there's not much going on besides coal. one of those jobs belongs to george. he worked the mountains 32 years, feels betrayed a conservative group wants to put him out on the street. >> i think they're idiots. that's my opinion. they don't know what they're doing. they don't know what effect they are doing on people. >> reporter: and the industry argues they're making the mountains better, going into areas previously mined, scarred and abandoned decades ago, using new technology to get more coal, then restoring the land, fixing the mistakes of a previous generation. state senator frank nicely defends the process. >> do you think lloyd is wrong on this issue? >> i am not going to say lloyd is wrong, he is looking at it from different angle. lloyd wishes it never happened. it did happen, i am wishing we fixed it. >> reporter: the ban on mountain top

conservative group which is wildoli out bonuses on union members even asurloughs have been ordered, same agency who spent wildly on conferences, solution for healthcare, nope, ama is a trage for americans tonillis report, thanks for joining us have a great night. lou: good eveng thank you for being with us, it has been a day of drama on capito hill. on wall street, and at an undisclosed location in the world, possibly china, perhaps russia or in south ameri. whereabouts of nsa leaker, snowden, sll unknown tonight. we'll bring you up-to-date on the very latest develment in the so far futile search for thosthosesnowdesnowden. and federa reserve officials started sounds what sou

endorsed by the citizens against government waste, americans for tax reform, the national taxpayers union, heritage action, a slew of other fiscally conservative organizations. professor from iowa state iversity helped reinvent reform in the 1990's. he said it's a social program. because of how american agriculture works, it's a social program that helps the biggest agribusinesses the most. my amendment got an endorsement from the farm bureau because they realized this subsidy has now become just too lucrative and too excessive. the lobby was afraid of my amendment and big agri kept my amendment from being presented on the floor because they were almost certain it would pass. mr. speaker, we have to make changes in the future so too much tax money will not go to cadillac crop insurance programs. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the chair recognizes the entleman from south carolina -- mr. murphy from pennsylvania for five minutes. mr. murphy: i thank the speaker. mr. speaker, in may, more than 130 employees at pbs coals in somerset county, pennsylvania, were laid off. it was the thi

of the soviet union, countries that are friendly at times with the united states but often fractious. let's talk to jim pinkerton, contributing editor and writer for the american conservativeews contributor. alan colmes is host of the alan colmes show and author of "language the liberals for saving america and why you should." interesting there alan too hear the question about whether or not should be more involved, motorcycle public about snowden. he hasn't said much about this guy, and whether he has said things privately to vladimir putin for instance, we don't know, but jay carney seemed to suggest there that oh this is all stuff that is beneath the office of the president. what do you think? >> i didn't quite get that from what carney was saying. what i gleaned was that this is an ongoing negotiation. there are probably communications going on between us and the former soviet union with russia. it's a little bit premature to weigh in on either beating up on mute pursuit or russia. there are sensitive talks going on as we speak, probably. the sunday morning talk shows yesterday, you had chuck schumer and people like lindsey graham making very pronounced bold statements