seated to my left is sergeant daniel burgess and his wife, janette. sergeant burgess is from twinsburg, ohio, or up in the cleveland area, belongs to a psychological operations unit up there. sergeant burgess last year was in afghanistan, and he was in southern afghanistan attached to the marines. out on a mission as a psyops sergeant, helping work with the local afghans to get them to show the marines locations of ieds and other dangers to protect him. while doing that, he himself stemmed on an ied and he lost his leg, severe wounds to the rest of his body, mild tbi, and janette said the first thing he said when she contacted him when he got to germany was, "i'm not getting out. i'm staying in." and today he is down in ft. sam houston at the warrior training brigade rehabbing so he can get back in the force. that epitomizes what -- why we're here. we're here because of them. and we're here to say we've got to make sure we're doing everything within our power in an era where we are looking to save money and reduce debt, but we cannot afford to shortch

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seated to my left is sergeant daniel burgess and his wife janette. he is up from the cleveland area. belongs to a psychological operations unit up there. last year he was in afghanistan, and he was in southern afghanistan attached to the marines. while doing that, he himself stepped on an ied. he lost his leg. severe wounds to the rest of his body. the first thing janette said when she contacted him is i'm not getting out. i'm staying in. today he is down in ft. houston at the warrior training brigade rehabbing so he can get back in force. we have to make sure we're doing everything in our power in an area where we are looking to save money and reduce debt, but we cannot afford to shortchange the great soldiers. and as the admiral said, they are indispensable. our army can't do what it does without them. i use him as a symbol of why i'm here. and i look forward to your questions, sir. >> thank you to your service to our nation. we're very proud of you. please be recognized. >> and also your wife. [ applause ] i'll call upon the marine general. >> tha

but the virginia house of burgesses were first elected body like this. after they renamed it, madison thought the he would run for election. here we see something about his personality. they had a tradition in virginia called treating. that is, in other colonies, you may not know this, but in new york, for example, when you showed up on voting day, you showed up at the polls, and if you didn't show up in virginia, you could be fined. if you were elavil to be there and you did not, people were fined for not voting. not a good idea idea. not too sure about that. anyway, madison thought that he could be elected to the house of delegates. they have this tradition of treating, which was that people would show up in the sheriff would ask you, who do you vote? and i could say that i voted for john randle. and randolph would say i will never forget it. and of course the other day saying, i will never forget it. this is why people tended to vote for the nearest rich guy. the rich fellow living here is your house was a patron, you will count on him in case your ho

in general i know they can ien decided burgess to that undecided unless they tried to avoid of argument. >> host: how many people switched every two years? >> it is fairly low because of different electorate. i don't think people change very often. this is not like the '70s with ticket splitting and switching the drive of strong issues that both parties had moderate elements but we don't see that any more. maybe if we had where people floating family do would be better to seven looking back over our history what the elections are your favorites >> of course, the election of 1800 just imagine if thomas jefferson have lost? i cannot even imagine. he made a big difference for the united states with the louisiana purchase was useful for jefferson because his philosophy balked when he became president it tends to shave off the sharp edges but anybody would say 1828 the election of jackson as it was the beginning of the new era in 1860. how could you not? we had a long dry spell because 1896 was realigning win mckinley won the first time when we shifted from a closely divided country and they

he fled virginia and so the council and the house of burgesses decided to rule in his absence and they met jointly in what came to be called the convention. they had an election for the convention and people were told we are going to be creating a new model of government. the virginia convention of 1776 was responsible for writing the first written constitution adopted by the people's representative in the history of the world. madison was the youngest participant. before they did that, they decided and here we see the influence of george mason, madison's older colleagues, who called himself a man of 1688 because he was a devoted a of the glorious revolution in england by which parliament had been made supreme, over the monarchies, they decided before they adopt a constitution they had to lay out their philosophical premises with a declaration of rights. madison was appointed a member of the committee chaired by george mason to draft a declaration of rights for the full convention to consider. once again he was the youngest member of the convention and must be the youngest member of th

but the virginia house of burgesses were first elected body like this.fter they renamed it, madison thought the he would run for election. here we see something about his personality. they had a tradition in virginia called treating. that is, in other colonies, you may not know this, but in new york, for example, when you showed up on voting day, you showed up at the polls, and if you didn't show up in virginia, you could be fined. if you were elavil to be there and you did not, people were fined for not voting. not a good idea idea. not too sure about that. anyway, madison thought that he could be elected to the house of delegates. they have this tradition of treating, which was that people would show up in the sheriff would ask you, who do you vote? and i could say that i voted for john randle. and randolph would say i will never forget it. and of course the other day saying, i will never forget it. this is why people tended to vote for the nearest rich guy. the rich fellow living here is your house was a patron, you will count on him in case your hors

burgess. >>> the time right now is 11:51.ot for her job, why a woman is suing her former employer. >>> a new york city woman says she was fired for being too hot. now she's going after the company that let her go. lauren odes was hired by a lingerie manufacturer. native intimates. shortly after she began, her supervisor told her the company's owners, orthodox jews were not happy with her attire. she also says she was told that her breasts were too big and she was told to tape them down. after being fired, she contacted gloria allred and filed a discrimination complaint. >> she was told by a supervisor that quote you are just too hot for this office end quote. >> when it escalated to the point of her walking me over to a closet and suggesting that i put on a bright red bath robe and sit at my desk and wear it all day. i felt completely humiliated. >> the company has not commented on this complaint. let's take a look at stories we're following for news4 this afternoon. >>> cane from hot 99.5 joins us at 5:00 for the hot talk an

it's highly successful and it's successful because of soldiers like sergeant burgess and other soldiers. >> we've been advised that you have -- how is that impacting your mission? >> the -- what i can tell you, sir is if you look at the figures it says equipment on hand for the army reserves, we're better than we've ever been. 86%. we're 66% modernized. the equipment that we have in a lot of cases is old equipment. now as far as our soldiers being able to do their job in iraq and afghanistan and other places, not an issue. because we make sure they're using modernized equipment in those theaters. where it impacts me is back home. it impacts me back home because now, and especially now that we've drawn out of iraq and we're going to draw down out of afghanistan, i'm focusing on home station training. how do i keep the soldiers trained at home so they're ready to go? and i need that modernized equipment back here. it's a morale factor. if you're a young soldier trained and equipped with the best standards and come home and go to the weekend drill in your army reserve unit, and there's a p

but the virginia house of burgesses were first elected body like this.ter they renamed it, madison thought the he would run for election. here we see something about his personality. they had a tradition in virginia called treating. that is, in other colonies, you may not know this, but in new york, for example, when you showed up on voting day, you showed up at the polls, and if you didn't show up in virginia, you could be fined. if you were elavil to be there and you did not, people were fined for not voting. not a good idea idea. not too sure about that. anyway, madison thought that he could be elected to the house of delegates. they have this tradition of treating, which was that people would show up in the sheriff would ask you, who do you vote? and i could say that i voted for john randle. and randolph would say i will never forget it. and of course the other day saying, i will never forget it. this is why people tended to vote for the nearest rich guy. the rich fellow living here is your house was a patron, you will count on him in case your horse

sheryl burgess. >> you're welcome. >>> coming up, looking for new leadership. the caps are searching for a new head coach. and meteorologist tom kierein will be back with another check on the forecast. [ female announcer ] with xfinity, you can always expect more. like more on demand shows and movies than ever. and more ways to discover them too. plus more speed from america's fastest internet provider. so you can run more devices at the same time. ♪ feel a firework [ female announcer ] and best of all, it keeps getting better. no wonder more people choose xfinity over any other provider. ♪ love can be so mystical ♪ >>> it's only been three days since their season ended and the caps are already looking for a new coach. dale hunter says he's stepping down and will return home to ontario. and his old job of coaching a junior hockey team. hunter spent less than six months with the caps after replacing bruce boudreau. but his impact may be lasting after instilling a gritty defensive mindset on a team known for freewheeling offense. one of the caps stars may be leav

that is if you're in one of those contested elections and most of them weren't, for the house of burgesseseat every voter, and they would be totally drunk. so yeah, it's one of the things that had to be reformed if there was going to be ultimately with the australian ballot. as long as voting was a polite public activity it was surrounded with booze. >> even new hampshire, though. virginia we can believe but new hampshire? >> live free or die. >> i guess that's right. >> we should say something about our mutual centuries. right? although it didn't rise to a constitutional level, saloons were not just places that union leaders, organized folks, i mean salons were where politicians walked in and treated -- >> the smoke filled rooms were? >> that was one of them. they treated everybody to a drink and of course the custom of drinking was if somebody treated you, you had to treat back, one beer led to another. and it's really where a lot of americans became familiar with the political machine. they didn't have fox news. they weren't smart enough. they didn't even have you know, internet. they g

and mike burgess, michele bachmann and i went to see our friends. and numerous other leaders of the national front. now, it's interesting, they pointed out, you know, you probably heard about karzai saying, gee, he believes so much in our constitution and the constitution says if you serve two terms you can't run for a third term, he believes so much in that he may resign a year early. so your people, your leaders in america seem to be eating that up. the truth is people that are advising karzai, they're all trying to figure out, how can we get around that prohibition from running for a third term? and they think they may have it. they think that if he resigns a year early, somebody else takes over afghanistan for a year, with or without an election, then he could say, gee, i never served two terms. i didn't make it two terms. i resigned before the second term was up. so now i can run for a third term and, gee, the u.s. is going to have troops out by 2014, therefore i could run in 2014, the u.s. will be -- will not be around with any strength to enf

seated to my left is sergeant burgess and his wife. he is from ohio and belongs to the psychological unit. last year, he was in afghanistan. he was in southern afghanistan, attached to the marines. out on a mission, helping work with the local afghans to get them to show the marines locations of ieds and other dangers, while doing that he himself stepped on an ied, lost his leg with severe wounds to the rest of his body. the first thing he said when she contacted him was "i am not getting o ut. i am staying in." he is at the warrior training brigade rehabing so he can get back in the force. that epitomizes why we are here. we are here because of them. we are here to say that we have to make sure we are doing everything within our power in an era where we are looking to save money and reduce debt. we cannot afford to shortchanging these great soldiers. they are protecting our nation. they are our first line of defense. they are indispensable, because our army cannot do what it does without our army reserve. we are an indispensable force

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. >> reporter: admitted plastic surgery addict sarah burgess.he entire family is trying to make. sarah bemoans all the negative press you've gotten. >> you could say this is the [ bleep ] that i put up with every day. >> reporter: but shock value seems to be a well-loved part of the family. sarah, whose spent what she says amounts to a million dollars on dozens of surgeries, is seen injecting her own face with poppy, her youngest child turned 7, her supposed christmas and birthday presents included vouchers for future lipo section and breast implants. this is who sarah used to be. >> how i never want to look. >> reporter: she says her cosmetic streak started when she was the victim of brutal domestic violence that disfigured her face. she brands herself as everything from a public figure to a pinup girl. >> believe you me -- looking like a middle aged matron. >> reporter: in the british press the criticism has been districted at her. especially over pictures like these, of poppy. and now here comes another stage for her, and mom. big hair and bi

sheryl burgess joins us to explain. hair dressers? tell us how they can help. >> well, there's an initiative to get more people involved in diagnosing or at least letting the person know that there is something going on. particularly in the scalp. and a lot of people go to hair stylists and barbers and they're the ones that see our scalp. we don't tend to see our scalp. so for the most part, being able to let us know when they see something new, something that appears new on the scalp or something that may bleed with combing or styling the hair, to alert the customer to go see the dermatologist. >> one of the most virulent cancers is skin cancer and very often, that's where you'll have it start is in the scalp. >> melanoma, one of the most common areas is head, neck, trunk and extremities. so it can occur internally, but the ones that are visible on the outside of the skin are easily detectible and there's a better cure rate if we can detect them and remove them from the skin. >> how are you getting the word out to hair dressers that

burgess, for two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for two minutes. mr. burgess: i thank the gentleman for yielding. this is not a perfect bill but it's a good bill, it's a solid bill. it's worthy of the support of everyone on this floor. this bill re-authorizes the f.d.a. user fee programs for prescription drugs and medical devices and generic devices and what is known as biosimilars. it provides powerful tools to prevent and alleviate human suffering. the food and drug administration must have the infrastructure and the resources to ensure patient safety and to approve new products in a straightforward and predictable fashion. delayed reviews increase costs, it costs jobs and deny patients potentially life-saving products. these agreements ensures that we have a strong and efficient f.d.a. and the committee responded appropriately and seized that opportunity. this bill will help the f.d.a. build on what's working, address what isn't and provides resources to meet future

texas republican michael burgess is on the house, energy and commerce committee that is leading thiswelcome, congressman. what evidence do you have that there was any sort of arrangement between the white house and pharmaceutical companies as they headed into the vote on this bill? >> well, you know, this all goes back to about three years ago, it was may, june and july of 2009 when the president same out and had some photo ops with leaders in industry and said we've carved $2 trillion in healthcarence expenses out of of the next ten years. that is a pretty interesting figure for somebody like myself who has a background in healthcare delivery and an interest in health policy. so what was the make up of this? and for three years we've been stymied in trying to find the answer to this. now, when the house republicans took over the leadership of the committee in 2011 we really began to investigate this in earnest and now some 12, 14 months later we are beginning to get -- pull the curtain back a little bit on just exactly what was going on, were companies actually trading public suppor

seated to my left is sergeant burgess and his wife. he is from ohio and belongs to the psychological unit. last year, he was in afghanistan. he was in southern afghanistan, attached to the marines. out on a mission,

but the va office of procurement now handling prosthetic burgesses is unclear which office will servepoint of contact to provide veterans with timely assistance or questions or concerns that may arise. pv has reached out to psa s. leadership on several occasions to identify status of the reorganization and appreciates the opportunity to provide input. while we have been informed into a purchasing system of edited and three veteran integrated service network beginning january 2012th goal be further implemented in additional areas in july 2012, we are not aware of how va tends to make sure veterans are aware of changes. therefore we encourage leadership to do so with veterans and families as well as stakeholders who regularly work with offices to provide input as they further developed a process for purchases to the office of procurement and logistics. they further recommended the regularly update the committee with finding compiled as a result of the pilots implemented in january 2012 as well as future findings at business nowhere. lastly, the opposite procurement and logistics is gove

seated to my left is sergeant burgess and his wife. he is from ohio and belongs to the psychological unit. last year, he was in afghanistan. he was in southern afghanistan, attached to the marines. out on a mission, helping work with the local afghans to get them to show the marines locations of ieds and other dangers, while doing that he himself stepped on an ied, lost his leg with severe wounds to the rest of his body. the first thing he said when she contacted him was "i am not getting o ut. i am staying in." he is at the warrior training brigade rehabing so he can get back in the force. that epitomizes why we are here. we are here because of them. we are here to say that we have to make sure we are doing everything within our power in an era where we are looking to save money and reduce debt. we cannot afford to shortchanging these great soldiers. they are protecting our nation. they are our first line of defense. they are indispensable, because our army cannot do what it does without our army reserve. we are an indispensable force

burgess stops by with s >> first of all for today, we're expecting to see a risk of strong storms fromhe southeastern atlantic coast. tomorrow we've got a strong risk, oklahoma into kansas. we're looking at rough weather there. look for beryl, the remnants could become a tropical storm again off the north carolina coast. showers in the pacific northwest. sizzling to hot from texas into the southwest. here's what's going on in your neck of the woods. >>> good morning, it's sunny and we're heating up, it's up around 80 degrees most of the region. later today, should climb to around 90 by 3:00. after that, likely scattered storms. some of which could produce some severe weather. only a slight risk of that. that would be late afternoon into the early to mid evening hours. some lingering showers and thunder after that. perhaps into the morning hours on wednesday, lower humidity moves in wednesday afternoon, highs in the mid 80s. a beautiful day with low humidity, dry conditions thursday, more showers >> and that's your latest weather. >> all right, al, thanks. coming up next, social etiquet