alternate route would be almaden or byrd avenue from 280. traffic is getting by in one lane. no major problems so far but we'll follow it for you. >> cal state officials have done it and u.c. regents are going to do it. nick smith joins us from u.c. mission bay where the regents are meeting later this morning. >> reporter: if you look over my shoulder you can see those that are arriving are actually going through a mock security checkpoint of sorts. university of california bort board of regents is expected to approve a 9.6% increase and this inish to 8% to take effect in fall. it will cost u.c. students, $1900 more than last year and bring undergraduate tuition to just under $12,000 a year. that does not include room, board, books or campus fees. all of that combined would be a $31,000 a year tuition for anyone attending the u.c. system. yesterday students addressing the regents at their meeting said families had not been given enough warning to come up with the additional money that would be $1068 the increase would require and they expressed particular concern for middle i

marlon byrd with a fly ball to right. hunter pence, i got it, i got it, i don't got it. loses it in the sun. byrd is safe at third. that would come back to haunt the 'stros. a single down the line. in comes byrd. cubs walk off with the 5-4 win. >>> from one walk-off to another, cubs and pirates. winning run on third. the deep fly ball. he delivers. sac fly scores xavier paul. effective. pirates win, 4-3. >>> the baseball hall of fame inducted three new members. 12-time all-star and twice a world champ, roberto alomar, pitcher bert blyleven who is fifth all-time in strikeouts and the general manager of three world series winners, pat gillick. >>> three new members there. a new member to the list of champions at the tour de france. australia's cadel evans became the first aussie to win the tour de france. brothers andy and frank schleck took second and third. >>> that's your early look at sports on "early today." i'm mario solis. >>> after a record-breaking weekend, a big falloff for "harry potter." your early morning entertainment headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, b

almaden expressway or byrd off-ramp. it's getting bunched up toward the 24 junction, bay bridge toll plaza, metering lights remain off and traffic is flowing well into san francisco. for all the latest including carmageddon in los angeles, we'll have the latest. >> that a snappy word. >> carmageddon. >> 5:21. >> it's the smell that one east bay neighborhood can't shake. the expected culprit says they blame for the offensive stench. >> and why we're seeing a fewer of these in our gardens. switching to progressive could mean hundreds more in your wallet year after year. feed me! saving you money -- now, that's progressive. call or click today. >>> and east bay sewage plant is disputing complaints from point richmond residents that the smell of rotting eggs have returned to their neighborhood. they complained when the smelling. residents reported breathing problems. they took the waste to another location. new odors could be caused by the transportation of the waste. >> it doesn't smell good or smells like waste. it smells

throughout his solo career and his years with the byrds; crosby, stills, nash, and young; and now cpr, he's demonstrated that music can make a difference. now he's teamed with david bender, a founding contributing editor for george magazine, to write stand and be counted: making music, making history. welcome, gentlemen. it's a book about courageous musicians and courageous music, and at a time when i read on the front page of the new york times that record companies are routinely self-censoring themselves to enhance marketability of music, why this project, why the book, and why the television show now? well, to pick one of your words, courage. we are both very taken with human courage. our heroes have been people who had the guts to stick up for what they believed in, and we saw that there had been no one looking at music being used to gather people in a cause as a phenomenon. the two biggest events in the last 50 years in american history were civil rights movement and the vietnam war. civil rights movement was all activism. all. vietnam war-- strongly affected by it, strongly affe

marlon byrd with a fly ball to right. hunter pence loses it in the sun. byrd is safe at third.single down the line. cubs walk off with a 5-4 win. from one walk off to another. cards and pirates. the deep fly ball and delivers. xavier paul scores. >>> the baseball hall of fame inducted three new members. roberto alomar. blyleven. and the pet gillic all immortalized. >>> a new member to the list of camps at the tour de france. cadel evans is the toast of paris. becoming the first aussie to win the tour de france. that's your first look at sports. >>> now, for another quick look at the weather, here's nbc meteorologist bill karins with the weather frost. >> good morning. compared to friday when it was 104 degrees in areas like new york city, we'll take 76. this is the coolest temperatures we've seen in five days out there. it's not refreshing. but it's better than what we were at. if you're in northern new england, you're cooler and are going to get some rain today. but d.c., you're at 81. it's the one spot we're having trouble cooling off. the clouds and radar map is, the green i

he's never been a judge. >> talking about the comparisons to rose byrd. conservatives in california and republican party are already talking about this particularly on the issue of the death penalty, he's anti-death penalty. he's made statements. >> he's written about -- he had skepticism about the way the death penalty is implemented, but he's also said he would have no trouble enforcing the law and the death penalty as of now is the law of the land here in california. but, you know, when he was a nominee for the ninth circuit, republicans said a couple things. many things really. he had no experience as a judge. and secondly, that he was one of these activist judges who would try to use his own personal feelings about the world and shape the law to that -- those feelings. >> if it's rejected does he become a poison pill or could he down the road kind of be rehabilitated if that's the word, to be appointed in some other point? >> like i said, one of the criticisms on him is he's never been a judge. he's now going to be judge and going to be on the suprem

one person that was in attendance was our friend jake byrd.met him first at the michael jackson trial, and he loves sarah palin, too. here he is during sarah palin's vice presidential campaign in 2008. >> god bless america. >> yes! palin loves beaver! yes! >> jimmy: he's very excitable. as you can see. so, as you might imagine, when sarah palin's movie premiered last night in iowa, jake byrd was there. >> i think sarah palin would be a fabulous president. she's a patriot. >> real patriot. >> sarah palin really does protect her family. >> that's right. she's a mamma grizzly bear and protects her cubs. except for that one time when he grizzly daughter went on that grizzly camping trip and got drunk on grizzly wine coolers and got knocked up by that grizzly hockey player. other than that, perfect grizzly record. >> oh, my. sounds good. >> you sound good. you smell good. let me get a whiff. >> oh, geez. >> check out what i got. i got a hard on for america and a hard on for sarah palin. you want a hard on for america? >> yep. >> let me get you. tel

but senator byrd's vote came with conditions. he said it hinged on writing into the legislation a 60-day delay in the actual repeal after certification that the military was ready for repeal. the certification would have to come from the president, the secretary of defense, and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. now, two of those three necessary certifications we are told will come tomorrow, when defense secretary leon panetta and the joint chiefs of staff will certify that the pentagon is ready to repeal the policy. the president is scheduled to meet with secretary panetta and the chairman of the joint chiefs at 2:45 tomorrow, and maybe at that point the president will give his certification too. if that happens, all three people who need to certify that the military is ready will have certified it. and if that happens, then there will be an inexplicable wait. they're ready, but they still can't do it. for no reason. it's just a pointless delay your civil rights 60 day wait. in honor of robert byrd, may he rest in peace.

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cbs said to me, because, you know, lady byrd, it was his pressure to take them off. >> that pattern oftal involvement continues today. it's a little deeper. my favorite example springs from where else? the obama administration. do you remember the henry lewis gates press conference. do you remember the lead up to that press conference? none of the networks wanted to have obama on. they gave a lot of kickback. he wanted to be on tv. we're going to lose a lot of money. his ratings had been dropping ever since he had been elected. his popularly was dropping and his ratings. he went over the heads to the corporate owners. he got them to green light the primetime program. he went to disney, ge, and cbs rather than the programs heads. all three are financial backers of the obama administration. he was named to obama's expert counsel about a year later, and he's one the head of the chief ben -- beneficiaries, ge, and he traveled to hang out with fidel castro. here's the dirty part, they accepted the order. coincidently, they bought in because obama promised to gap their liability. buried in t

byrd said guys on: all: master he shows up in a taxicab, the guys show up that a gun store in a taxicabhe >> private add to acted very private he's like six cantors and brings in to the counter. >> why are you buying these if you don't know what they are >> he played at $50 for a handgun and 6 lbs. of smokeless he left without his recede and change >> it is a 20 year retired air force veteran he reported this is a business customer to police police hunted him down and unraveled his deadly plan >> we interviewed him and we have that information from that interview. military target was the target police >> set and this would not happen inside ford would another 13 were gunned down it was going to attack soldiers in popular gathering places >> with we would been gathered here today giving you a different briefing had not been stopped >> extreme all islamic literature was found in his backpack they keep thinking about what what happened had he not can called police would >> that would be very unsettling if someone was injured or killed >> he remains in custody in >> weather at 650 i'll look

extensive evidence documented cheap glass as a source of avian mortality and a contributor to of robert byrd population decline. preventing these unintended fatalities will require education addressing preventive techniques regulating -- regulation addressing the installation of glass and buildings and enforcement of existing position to protect wild birds as a valuable natural resource. weigh in have worked with the planning department to make positive changes to bird mortality. we supported the lights out for birds. this made san francisco the west coast's leader. this program has spread to over 25 cities. while lights out for birds has been a positive step, and has not been widely adopted. they will and for more people of this program to save natural resources, money, and birds. in 2009, the urban wind protocols were adopted and these call for property owners to perform monitoring to share their results. to date, no monitoring results have been provided yet it is needed as the demand for alternative forms of clean energy grows. last october you heard a presentation by dr. christine sheppa

together, the two men understand the rules of the united states senate in the only way that robert byrd knew them. mcconnell and biden, they've talked twice in the last couple hours, they are talking about triggers oath. mcconnell's looking for a guarantee on no tax hikes. doesn't want taxes to be part of the trigger. what they're talking about is the particulars, sort of -- so how do you guarantee that second round of deficit reduction if the joint committee fails, which, of course, is where they've been stuck for three weeks. the president and boehner were stuck on it, reid and mcconnell were stuck on it. boehner and reid were stuck on it. this has been the sticking point for so long. now, what mcconnell does want here, there is a little bit of a game of leverage still going on, believe it or not at the last minute. reid has the leverage, he doesn't want to give it up. mcconnell wants him to give his bill up, so that -- they force more of the compromise that apparently mcconnell and biden, at least a framework of a compromise may have been agreed upon. he wants to force that to go. re

marlon byrd beats the throw and the cubs take a 3-2 lead. werth would atone for the gaffe later. top of the sixth, still 3-2, cubs. bases loaded for geovany soto. he delivers to right. ramirez would score. werth comes up throwing. gets carlos pena at the plate. cubs take just a 4-2 lead instead of more. to extra innings, tied at 4, bottom of the tenth. pudge rodriguez comes to the plate with jayson werth on second base. werth steals third base with no throw. and that is a huge, gutsy play for werth. three pitches later, carlos marmol uncorks a wild pitch. that's the winning run and the nationals beat the cubs. jayson werth enjoys some relief with this one. >> steal third and score the winning run, if the inside moves me, i'm probably the goat. but oo win's a win. it was it was a good win today. especially on the fourth of july. we were kidding earlier that you've got america's team down there in dallas and team america here in washington. >>> the orioles oesing the rangers. top of the second, no score, runner on for mark reynolds. reynolds got all of this one. to the seats in lef

byrd. he said vermont had a notice statute in place that was ineffective? how did that wework? did it fail? >> i think the notice requirement failed because of the extremely low level of understanding in the public about how local phone bills can be used as a way of charging people for unrelated goods and services. you will not open the letter that comes from the vendor that looks like a piece of junk mail because why would you? you would not scrutinize your phone bill because it is your phone bill. you are being charged for your phone service. isn't that correct? it is not correct because there may be something on their that is often not related to your phone bill. we have been working for decades to get people to scrutinize their credit card account statements. you can be charged for lots of unrelated things. that has even been difficult thom the data pa discussions. the phone bill is such a normal payment pathway for normal goods and services that people are not looking there. this is one of the reasons why you have a huge disparity between the number of complaints are filed

dream team scars and pages byrd have a point if they knew you were tired star players zubov as their assistant coach the team time stanley cup when they left the n.h.l. to join the northern russian club three years ago but hip surgery put an end to the forty year olds playing career in april however pick champions is staying with scar to help their new head coach melissa as one of russia's richest sides still being hard pushed to deliver the goods nick h.l.v. that best result in for three years since the league's inception was a quarter final exit in the playoffs last season. and there's also been a huge signing for tesco moscow's basketball club as the european powerhouse has agreed to transfer the continent's best player the last paths which twenty four b.n. has yet to pass a medical before joining the army man on a three year deal that god is leading from the greek islands in p.r. after being named by the euro league's most valuable player to europe's player of the year and twenty ten. is the latest big name to be brought into the lives of men of the state and some yeah also joine

funeral of the last heir to the hunger an empire people gathered to pay tribute to crown prince otto von byrd the son of austria last emperor european world some political leaders were in attendance prince died earlier this month at the age of ninety eight and will be buried in the imperial crypt. but one of president hugo chavez is to return to cuba for more cancer treatment including chemotherapy he recently asked the national assembly to authorize his trip as required by the constitution his return to venezuela after spending nearly a month in cuba where he had a cancerous tumor from his poll that region removed his battle with cancer has raised doubts over his fitness to lead the country but officially he still plans to run for reelection next year. a japanese nuclear reactors being closed down because of problems with an emergency cooling system there was a sudden pressure drop in the safety tank at the oakey plant west of tokyo pressure return to normal after an hour meaning there was no radiation leakage but engineers have decided not to take any chances the closure will lead to power

secretary geithner byrd wrote that the regulators have outlined major elements of reforms to bring oversight transparency and greater stability to the 600 $600 trillion derivatives market. main street businesses had nothing to do with the financial crisis. dog-francs -- dodd-frank will impose huge costs when they least can afford it. secretary geithner ur said the administration has started the process of winding down freddie mae and -- fannie mae and freddie mark. actually, their shares are increasing. with other government programs, including the federal government now controlling 97% of the market. housing finance reform has not even begun in the congress. secretary geithner claims that the success will depend on making sure that we can write sensible rules that will promote the broader economy. political connected unions and groups were among the biggest winners under dodd-frank. at contains an assortment of compensation requirements that harms shareholders by empowering special interests and encouraging short-term thinking by managers. 50 years ago president eisenhower admonish us all t

. >> reporter: the lawyer for the editor of nicole byrd called rebekah brooks' arrest outrageous but says she will testify tomorrow along with her former boss rupert murdoch and his son. >> she remains willing to attend and answer questions. >> that panel will be the first time they were questioned in public about the scandal. lawmakers hope to learn more. >>> the california attorney general's office is reviewing the wording of a referendum that would repeal a law. kamala harris declineed to comment on the process when we spoke to her office today. her office has to okay the ballot and summary. amazon is backing a petition to get the issue on the ballot. it needs 500,000 voters signatures to qualify chairs of linked in dropped today. it had a public offering in may and traded as high -- today shares closed at $102. down $6. jp morgan said it felt the company was sound but the stock was overvalued. netflix stalks dropped $800 a share. they closed at $279 per share after the company created a firestorm by changing its price structure which will lead to higher rates for customers. >>> a

daniel gill byrd widely read psychologists and harvard. he summarized tapping his bindings because there are journals of happiness and science of happiness. here is a summary. flow when calls are better. a's are better than cs. everything is better than a republican administration. another behavioral economist has opined that he does not see how anybody could study happiness and not find himself leading to the left politically. robert frank, a well-known economist. we are like trees and the forest. one tree grows higher than another, casts a shadow. the other tree must try to keep up or it will die and we are in this in this race. if only we could cappings, come to an agreement to stop trying and stop competing. we would have a more blissful life. well, i think this is wrong. you hear this in terms of greed. people should not covet. there coveting their neighbor. of course the bible says don't covet your neighbor, covet your neighbor's life or your neighbors absorb your neighbors wife's livestock. let me ask you this, if kevin is bad what

years ago, a center named robert byrd wrote a book -- senator called robert byrd wrote a book called losing america. it predicted the fiasco that is happening in washington today. >> the republicans are out of touch with the american people. the american people do not have trust funds to lead to their children. >> who is the book by? >> you need to get a grip. the republican party needs to get a grip. senacca falls. >> i am an independent. i am tired of the bickering and the fighting. it is definitely a spending problem and not a revenue problem. the rest of us have to live within our means and it is time the government live within its means. if we are spending billions of dollars overseas, we need to bring our troops home and let them start taking care of our borders and kicking out the illegal immigrants and everybody in our country sucking up our money that could go to senior citizens and other people who are legal citizens and could use the money. i just think that the debt crisis and the debt ceiling should not be raised at all because we are already at $14 trillion in debt. our

. >> reporter: barry byrd had not heard about his great uncle until yesterday and brought him his purple and his flag was brought to him. >> i think eddie is here and i just wanted him to see his things ago. >> reporter: after 66 years alone in the battlefield edward o' toole is alone no more. >> we have more details now oust deaths in wars during the 20th sent -- on u.s. deaths in wars during the 20th century. world war ii was the deadliest war. more than 53,000 troops died during combat in world war i and vietnam was the third deadliest war for the united states military with 47,000 killed in action. these numbers are just for troops killed in combat. there were many more deaths, but they are class filed as other. >>> nearly two dozen san jose firefighters back on the job tonight after being laid off last year due to budget cuts. a $15 million federal grant enabled the department to welcome back 22 of the 49 firefighters let go. during a ceremony today chief willy mcdonald gave the men back their badges. one firefighter told us he's thrilled to be back on the job. >> you can't even exp

. >> reporter: barry byrd had not heard about his great uncle until yesterday and brought him his purple heart and his flag was brought to him. >> i think eddie is here and i just wanted him to see his things ago. >> reporter: after 66 years alone in the battlefield edward o' toole is alone no more. >> we have more details now oust deaths in wars during the 20th sent -- on u.s. deaths in wars during the 20th century. world war ii was the deadliest war. more than 53,000 troops died during combat in world war i and vietnam was the third deadliest war for the united states military with 47,000 killed in action. these numbers are just for troops killed in combat. there were many more deaths, but they are class filed as other. >>> nearly two dozen san jose firefighters back on the job tonight after being laid off last year due to budget cuts. a $15 million federal grant enabled the department to welcome back 22 of the 49 firefighters let go. during a ceremony today chief willy mcdonald gave the men back their badges. one firefighter told us he's thrilled to be back on the job. >> you can't ev

joined now by former pennsylvania governor and nbc news political analyst ed ran dell and michael byrdrst to you, michael. we've got a number of states, eight states i think that have been put on a warning list by the ratings agencies that they will be downgraded because their bulgts are so connected to the federal budget. that i know clouds surplus states in maryland and virginia. what ps to the states? how do they figure out what bills to pay? medicare waub a big piece of this? >> the states are in three places. one, i think they're confident that a deal is going to be struck. they're also just as equally weary that two things would happen. one that there will be a default and that there be a downgrade in their bond ratings and therefore the cost of borrowing is going to increase. and two, they're also concerned about the fact that there's no certainty as to what kind of payments are going to be made for the many state federal partnerships that are out there. whether they be medicaid, transportation or homeland security programs. >> governor, what do they do? you've got to figure out

floor of the united states senate for my orientation in 1996, and your predecessor, senator robert byrd, would sit in that chair and tell all the new members and their spouses the history of the senate. and i sat right over here and loretta sat next to me, and at one point senator byrd said open that desk drawer in front of you and you're going to see a great senate tradition. remember how the teachers told you don't write on the desks? the senators never got the message. inside virtually every desk on this floor is the name of the senator who sat in the desk scratched in the wood by the senator at the bottom of the drawer. and so he said pull open the drawer on the desk and see whose name is in there. i pulled it open and sure enough it was john glenn right there. it was his desk that i was sitting at. i also looked next to it was paul douglas, the man that i worked for as a college intern and the man who inspired me to get started in public life. and so i have that desk today. i'm honored to have it and to add my name to the desk drawer of these two great men. i didn't realize at the

i wish senator byrd were here to respond to that particular suggestion. in the next election, i thank the senator from arizona for campaigning against me last time. when he did, limb got 60% of the vote in illinois. i welcome you back to the land of lincoln any time you'd like to come. >> i'd love to come out. i did so well in the presidential campaign in the land of lincoln i'm not so surprised i had such a dramatic impact on the senator from illinois's election, as well. could i just say this kind of discussion i think is important, number one. number two is we should have this national debate on other forums just besides a sunday show and perhaps the floor of the senate is the best place to do that. i want to continue to engage with the senator from illinois. but i hope that this agreement, i hope that this agreement will assure the american people that we will meet our obligations, that we will meet our obligations not only physically but -- fiscally but also meet our obligations to them to govern. to govern. because they did send us here to govern. i

i wish senator byrd were here to respond to that particular suggestion. as for my prospects in the next election, i thank the senator from arizona for campaigning against me last taoeufplt when he -- last time. when he did i almost got 60% of the vote. i welcome you back to the land of lincoln any time. mr. mccain: i did so well in the presidential campaign in the land of lincoln, i'm not surprised i had such a dramatic impact on the the senator from illinois' election as well. this kind of discussion i think is important, number one. number two is we should have this national debate on other forums besides just the sunday show and perhaps the floor of the senate is the best place to do that. and i want to continue to engage with the senator from illinois. but i hope that this agreement, i hope that this agreement will assure the american people that we will meet our obligations, that we'll meet our obligations not only physically but fiscally, but also meet our obligations to them to govern, to govern, because they did send us here to govern. i think the

journalists will never like it with the social networks and accidental billionaires' marked the zucker byrd said not true. and he called me the jackie collins of silicon valley which i loved. but, you know, he never pointed out anything that wasn't true. she never said this isn't true. he just said the whole thing isn't true and then he didn't read the book so why don't know where you go with that. so i think their reality is it is a very true story. he meant to have sex on moon rocks because he wanted to be like having sex on the moon. he spread among the dead and had sex on the moon. they have a problem with that theme saying he just put them under the mattress but that isn't true, she did this on purpose and so i use the facts but i tell it in my style and, you know, some people like it and some people don't. >> you are saying some journalists might not like it. or to a journalist or -- >> i never saw myself as a journalist. i saw myself in the entertainment business and i only stumbled into true stories. i always hated nonfiction and grew up watching really bad television and i was a fa

we, of course, know he replaced e great, legendary robert byrd. the people of west virginia should be happy with the peformance of joe manchin. his executive experience as governor of the state of west virginia which had an impeccable record of surpluses every year he washere. he's brought this talent to washington and has been very helpful to us all. mr. mcconnell: mr. president? the presiding officer: the republican leader. mr. mcconnell: five months ago president obama unveiled the only concrete statement he's made to date on our nation's debt crisis. continue a budget plan so preposterous, so unequal to the moment that it was rejected in the senate by a vote of 97-0. the president's response to this crisis was to pretend it didn't exist. two months later the president doubled down on his vision for a future of debt by demanding that congress raise the debt limit without any cuts to spending or a plan to rein it in. it was a total abdication of leadership, and it wasn't sustainable. so over the past several weeks the president has been doing hi

>> if robert byrd can change, maybe david duke has a shot. maybe it will be an endorsement.ible. i don't think anything is going to save pawlenty. he's four people behind the front-runner. >> pete, you changed this into a civil rights discussion here. leave it to pete to totally change the course of the conversation. pete, weigh in. >> what was the question, again? oh, right. mike huckabee's daughter has joined the tim pawlenty campaign because mike huckabee won the 2008 iowa caucuses. his daughter was part of the reason. unless she can inject some of mike huckabee's personality into pawlenty, i don't think pawlenty's got a chance. we'll see. maybe she can perform for him. >>> the president is holding a twitter town hall today. should he limit his responses to 140 characters? dana? >> i don't think that he would need to go over it. he's had jesse lee out defending white house policies for a couple weeks. he may not have to go over 140 characters. >> cornell? >> i think there's an important trend here. 62% of the electorate the first time around were under 30. this is a trend

and the nation forward without changing our constitution as a requirement room, i wish there robert byrd was still here. he would be on the floor with its constitution in hand and reminding people about the utility that we should show when it comes to this great document. approach this in a responsible and bipartisan way by starting with read suggestion coming together at a bipartisan basis. he is offering his measure and an olive branch or to work together for a bipartisan solution that is sensible and timely. i hope that senator mcconnell will join him. we do not want to put americans through this month after month every three-six months. we owe it to the economy in the constitution to do better. i want to thank senator reid for his leadership. we are listening to top democrats talking about how we need to find an effective solution to solve the nation's debt ceiling. we have live pictures into the kron 4 news right now. >> the fog is slowly lifting on the golden gate, louisa hodge has more. >> a similar picture, dealing with low cloud cover round the bay. we will continue that for the

i wish senator byrd were here to respond to that particular suggestion. as for my prospects in the next election, i thank the senator from arizona for campaigning against me last taoeufplt when he -- last time. when he did i almost got 60% of the vote. i welcome you back to the land of lincoln any time. mr. mccain: i did so well in the presidential campaign in the land of lincoln, i'm not surprised i had such a dramatic impact on the the senator from illinois' election as well. this kind of discussion i think is important, number one. number two is we should have this national debate on other forums besides just the sunday show and perhaps the floor of the senate is the best place to do that. and i want to continue to engage with the senator from illinois. but i hope that this agreement, i hope that this agreement will assure the american people that we will meet our obligations, that we'll meet our obligations not only physically but fiscally, but also meet our obligations to them to govern, to govern, because they did send us here to govern. i think the

we, of course, know he replaced the great, legendary robert byrd. the people of west virginia should be happy with the peformance of joe manchin. his executive experience as governor of the state of west virginia which had an impeccable record of surpluses every year he was there. he's brought this talent to washington and has been very helpful to us all. mr. mcconnell: mr. president? the presiding officer: the republican leader. mr. mcconnell: five months ago president obama unveiled the only concrete statement he's made to date on our nation's debt crisis. continue a budget plan so preposterous, so unequal to the moment that it was rejected in the senate by a vote of 97-0. the president's response to this crisis was to pretend it didn't exist. two months later the president doubled down on his vision for a future of debt by demanding that congress raise the debt limit without any cuts to spending or a plan to rein it in. it was a total abdication of leadership, and it wasn't sustainable. so over the past several weeks the president has been doing

caller: byrd, white -- 7,800,000 -- yep, $7,800,000, and their wives were drawing $275,00 during the last years of their lives -- host: anything you want to latch onto? guest: this is the reason i'm for term limits. i think our founding fathers never had in mind career politicians. i would let them serve a maximum of 12 years and have them go home could to keep remembering george mcgovern's letter to "the wall street journal," where he went bankrupt trying to run a bed-and-breakfast, he wrote a letter of apology that appeared in "the wall street journal," saying "when i voted for these regulations and ordinances that put a burden on sma businesses, i had no idea what i was doing, and i apologize." if they could only serve for 12 years, they would not hav these retirement programs. they would be in the same retirement programs as everybody else. this would make for a far more responsive congress than at the e we have now. i have been a strong supporter of term limits and will remain a supporter of term limits. in terms of your social security, the money is there to pay your social sec

for, this nation forward without changing our constitution as a requirement in law, i wish robert byrd were still here. he would be on that floor with his constitution in hand and remind people about humility we should show when it comes to this great document. there has to be another way, and the way to approach this in a responsible, bipartisan way is to start with majority leader id's suggestion. he has offered an olive branch to senator mcconnell to work together for a bipartisan solution that is timely and moves forward. i hope senator mcconnell will join him and hope that we can find that path forward. we did not put america through this every three, four, five, six months. we owe it to the people we represent and to the economy and to the constitution to do much better. >> thank you. i want to thank senator reid for his leadership during these difficult times. with only four days until a catastrophic defaults, the house continues to waste time. the senate cannot afford to wait on the house any longer. speaker boehner they should give it up. he throws piece after piece after piec

caller: byrd, white -- 7,800,000 -- yep, $7,800,000, and their wives were drawing $275,000 during thears of their lives -- host: anything you want to latch onto? guest: this is the reason i'm for term limits. i think our founding fathers never had in mind career politicians. i would let them serve a maximum of 12 years and have them go home could to keep remembering george mcgovern's letter to "the wall street journal," where he went bankrupt trying to run a bed-and-breakfast, he wrote a letter of apology that appeared in "the wall street journal," saying "when i voted for these regulations and ordinances that put a burden on small businesses, i had no idea what i was doing, and i apologize." if they could only serve for 12 years, they would not have these retirement programs. they would be in the same retirement programs as everybody else. this would make for a far more responsive congress than at the one we have now. i have been a strong supporter of term limits and will remain a supporter of term limits. in terms of your social security, the money is there to pay your social securi

secretary geithner byrd wrote that the regulators have outlined major elements of reforms to bring oversight transparency and greater stability to the 600 $600 trillion derivatives market. main street businesses had nothing to do with the financial crisis. dog-francs -- dodd-frank will impose huge costs when they least can afford it. secretary geithner ur said the administration has started the process of winding down freddie mae and -- fannie mae and freddie mark. actually, their shares are increasing. with other government programs, including the federal government now controlling 97% of the market. housing finance reform has not even begun in the congress. secretary geithner claims that the success will depend on making sure that we can write sensible rules that will promote the broader economy. political connected unions and groups were among the biggest winners under dodd-frank. at contains an assortment of compensation requirements that harms shareholders by empowering special interests and encouraging short-term thinking by managers. 50 years ago president eisenhower admonish us all t

with respect to via the best of byrd, a federal court, concerns expressed in the 2007 had diminished significantly as a result of the supreme court's decision last term in dillinger versus united states. in that case the court affirmed the commission's view as expressed in section 1.103582 proceedings are not fulfilled full-scale sentencing. as judge made clear in his testimony on behalf of criminal law committee of the federal judiciary, judges, officers and litigants implemented the 2007 amendment, notwithstanding the considerable resources expended. the commission estimates the number of crack offenders will be eligible for a potential reduction in sentencing will be substantially less than the number who are eligible in 2007. and as in 2007, the commission anticipates a vast majority of the anticipated 3582 motions can be handled on the papers without the need for the hearings or the presence of the defendants. however to minimize the need for the findings, the commission votes today to limit retroactive applications of amendment 750 to part eight ansi in addition the commission

i don't know what robert byrd, the late senator from west virginia, would say if he were here. i think i know. i think he'd be very uneasy about the process that we've gone through this year when, through the power of the chair, the majority leader on -- has blocked legislation after legislation, has blocked us moving forward with a budget, refusing to allow the committees to move forward, refused to allow the budget even to come up last year. we're now i think 812 days without a budget in the united states senate running the largest deficits the nation has ever run. and those deficits are not transient things. they're not just going to turn around when the economy picks up a little bit. it's a systemic, deep, structural problem and we are endangering our future and we're being blocked from even being able to discuss it while people meet in secret over at the white house with the vice president and with the president and a few group of senators meet. nobody elected them but they're good people, they want to meet, that's fine. but we need to be seeing legislation, actual bills t

byrd being here as well. .. and the urgent need to find workable solutions that protect the public, i very much appreciate the work that went into this year-long investigation. i am disappointed that the findings were only released right before the hearing because i would have liked to have heard from our witnesses more of an analysis of what their view also is of the report. so going forward i hope all of you will feel free to augment the record with your purpose -- perspectives on the year-long investigation was conducted by this committee. i appreciate each of the witnesses for sharing their expertise and for helping the committee better understand this issue and as a follow-up to this hearing i also believe it is necessary that we do hear directly from local exchange carriers, aggregators as well as the department of justice who have been prosecuting and imposing fines on those who conducts cramming so that we can hear their perspective on this report and also provide additional information as we address thi

and i had the honor of serving with senator robert byrd, who most of us here have, and he always carried around this constitution in his pocket. so today i took a look at section 4 of the 14th amendment and do you know what it says? "the validity of the public debt of the united states shall not be questioned." and i swore to uphold this constitution. it says the validity of the public debt of the united states aougt rised by law shall not be questioned. so i'm not going to play games with this. and i'm not going to allow the public debt to become a political football. i want to show you before i leave the floor just a couch more charts -- just a couple of more charts. this is what speaker boehner said july 11. said i'm not interested in a short-term increase on the debt limit. he said our economy won't grow as long as we continue to trip it up with short-term gimmicks from washington. this is what speaker boehner said, so what does he give us, mr. president? a short-term extension of the debt limit a few months. we can't do that, even his own words he says we hurt the economy. eric cant

secretary geithner byrd wrote that the regulators have outlined major elements of reforms to bring oversight transparency and greater stability to the 600 $600 trillion derivatives market. main street businesses had nothing to do with the financial crisis. dog-francs -- dodd-frank will impose huge costs when they least can afford it. secretary geithner ur said the administration has started the process of winding down freddie mae and -- fannie mae and freddie mark. actually, their shares are increasing. with other government programs, including the federal government now controlling 97% of the market. housing finance reform has not even begun in the congress. secretary geithner claims that the success will depend on making sure that we can write sensible rules that will promote the broader economy. political connected unions and groups were among the biggest winners under dodd-frank. at contains an assortment of compensation requirements that harms shareholders by empowering special interests and encouraging short-term thinking by managers. 50 years ago president eisenhower admonish us all t

we, of course, know he replaced the great, legendary robert byrd. the people of west virginia should be happy with the peformance of joe manchin. his executive experience as governor of the state of west virginia which had an impeccable record of surpluses every year he was there. he's brought this talent to washington and has been very helpful to us all. mr. mcconnell: mr. president? the presiding officer: the republican leader. mr. mcconnell: five months ago president obama unveiled the only concrete statement he's made to date on our nation's debt crisis. continue a budget plan so preposterous, so unequal to the moment that it was rejected in the senate by a vote of 97-0. the president's response to this crisis was to pretend it didn't exist. two months later the president doubled down on his vision for a future of debt by demanding that congress raise the debt limit without any cuts to spending or a plan to rein it in. it was a total abdication of leadership, and it wasn't sustainable. so over the past several weeks the president has been doing