the gentleman from colorado. mr. polis: i yield three minutes to the gentleman from michigan, the ranking member of the judiciary committee, mr. conyers. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan is recognized for three minutes. mr. conyers: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank jerry polis, who is a formerly brilliant member of the judiciary committee, and we miss him very much. ladies and gentlemen, the reason these two bills are put together is very easy to fathom. that is that we have started off by, for the first time in the 112th congress, violating the cut-go rule, formerly known as the pay-as-you-go rule, and we are trying to mask it by talking about how wonderful the second bill, the jobs and energy permitting act, h.r. 2021, is. but it's not going to work, friends, because we know why we are trying to play down the patent bill that the rule is originally committed to. it's because there are growing numbers of members that are not overwhelm going to vote no on the rule, but they are going to vote no on

. >>> en colorado, se continúa buscando a tres jóvenes hispanas que desaparecieron en situaciones extrañas una de 40 personas reportadas como extraviadas en colorado. >>> angélica desapareció fuera de su casa, su auto estaba con la puerta abierta. >>> su hermano, no oió nada, y los vecinos tampoco. queremoso saber qué pasó con angélica. >>> dejó atrás, su bolso, con licencia, y dinero, y su pequeña hija que mira el retrato de su madre, en un boletín de extraviada, que fue colocada en colorado. >>> está muy triste, quiere a su mamá, y no puedo llevarla. >>> al igual que ashley co y kea son jóvenes que desaparecieron, sin dejar rastro alguno, cifras del año pasado fueron de más de 700 mil. >>> no sabemos qué pasó con ella. >>> botes de basura, fueron revisados, y terrenose recorridos, autoridades locales, el fbi, y el pueblo se puso a buscar. >>> es muy triste, no sabe qué pensar. >>> la única pispta que tienen autoridades, es que angélica iba a testificar contra este hombre, que por semanas asaltó al vecindario, no quisieron descartar esfo como un motivo. >>> josé, el fbi está involugrado e

it is a clear shape from the colorado plateau. we do see it in calinke, you see it in certain incan sites in south america. so it might be a pan american feature. i'm not sure what it is. some hopi people have told me that the t, the bottom of the t, goes down into a mythical underground lake so this is an upside down mountain that leads down into a place called the house of rain. that is where twyla, probably oldest american deity, the rain deity, lives down in the house of rain and this is a t shape from up on the colorado plateau and that is the last picture on these slides, so -- the t shape, the pottery, i followed genetic information that you find in bones and teeth. i followed as many different pieces of information as i could and they sent me walking. i started in chaco canyon and walked north up to mesa verde, around to comb ridge in utah, down into the hopi mesa, across the mugion rim, to mexico and then into the sierra madre, following people, following routes. because everything in the desert leaves a route that leads

his work has won the spirit of the west award as well as the colorado book award. the book, house of rain, is craig's latest book. please help me welcome craig childs. . >> hello. i come to you from out of the desert. i'm coming to you from a landscape where once you get an eye for things, 3 grains of sand out of place draw your attention, where everything is brought to bear, where everything is hinged to a story, every drop of rain leaving a dimple in the ground. stories are everywhere out in this landscape. when you walk down into the bottom of the narrow canyons made of sandstone and you put your hands on the sand stone faces and the smooth shallow scallops that look like champagne glasses, you can feel the shape of the last flood that came through. every place in the desert is a story. every place is a passage way. it's really hard to walk very far in the desert for me because there are so many stories that start opening up and lead you from place to place and place and soon you start picking up the patterns of wind, of rain. you pick up the patterns of people

decision last year to get corporations the right to buy our democracy which brings us to boulder colorado where the city council will soon consider a referendum to be put on the ballot calling for an amendment to the united states constitution to strip corporations of the personhood the corporate court reporter davis deceptively gave them more than a century ago course this resolution in colorado is just a tiny step in other communities have passed similar resolutions thirty one point arena california about a decade ago it keeps the message going and most importantly it keeps waking people up to amend the u.s. constitution congress must pass an amendment in both chambers with a two thirds majority and then three quarters of all state legislatures need to pass it as well so you have boulder colorado passes the resolution still a long way to go to convince congress to write and introduce and pass an amendment and then send it to the states you could take years on the other hand on march twenty third one nine hundred seventy one congress passed by two thirds the twenty sixth amendment after

by then ake and hatch had escaped in colorado.rgeant in moffat county, colorado, back then. >> our deputies found out that the car was associated with ake and hatch and that they were wanted on a number of different murders in oklahoma and texas. they tried to pursue the car, but what we had then was just kind of old pickup trucks for patrol vehicles and, of course, these guys got away real quick. >> reporter: ake and hatch floored the 280-z. lost the lawmen. aware of how dangerous the two were, the searchers scoured the county. >> our guys gave chase and the car just got away from them. disappeared about 25 miles north of town. >> reporter: they'd given the cops the slip. low on money and freezing in the colorado winter, ake and hatch were as desperate as cornered animals. they resorted to what they knew. they invaded a ranchhouse owned by mike pondella. outside craig, colorado. >> they got the car stuck in the driveway leading up to his house. they went out of the car, went to his house, basically forced their way in, armed, of

corporations transformed into people the march to end corporate personhood is underway in boulder colorado they say art imitates reality and with the new transformers three movie set to hit theaters next month that same holds true. talking about cars and appliances turning into massive demonic robots waging war on cities across america that still confined to the realm of fiction the real transformers rampaging our cities in stomping out the middle class or the corporations i'm talking about something called corporate personhood. the transformation that began more than a century ago and was cemented in january of two thousand and ten turning corporations into people now just regular people like you and me super people people who aren't born and don't die people who don't need safe food or health care people who can't be imprisoned or executed for their crimes and people who have far more money in their bank accounts than even bill gates will ever ever have and they will never have to pay an estate tax because they'll never die but according to five right wing justices on the supreme court t

the gentleman from cole. -- colorado. you have one minute remaining and the gentleman from colorado is recognize dollars. -- recognized. mr. schrader: i recognize the gentleman for one minute. mr. blumenauer: i appreciate all my colleagues who represent the oregon coast in bringing this forward. my district may not touch the oregon coast but my constituents spend time there and value its beauty, the ecosystem and the economic benefits it brings to the united states. the underlying bill could allow an expedited drilling for offshore oil, a process that is expedited for those who would drill, but a process that is much worse for citizens who may object. we need to continue to respect the wishes of the people of oregon to keep oil rigs off our shores to drill off the coast of oregon. this is an appropriate safeguard to protect our coastal communities. and i yield back. the chair: the gentleman from oregon reserve? mr. schrader: reserves. the chair: who seeks time? the gentleman from colorado is recognized. mr. gardner: when

a perfect mix for this historic blaze in eastern arizona, smoke spread as far as new mexico and colorado. >> that would be horrible. >> reporter: the fire is a week old blanketing 140,000 acres. on the scene, 1300 firefighters from across the country. but the numbers were no match to mother nature. >> the column that's up in the air is about two days of being in excess of 30,000 feet. if you have something that large and that huge, it generates its own weather. >> reporter: not just arizona baking. record shattering temperatures have melted the south and the midsection. >> the nation up in the north in the mid to upper 90s. this is catching a lot of folks off guard. >> reporter: including in chicago where heat and humidity hovered over the half marathon. one man collapsed and died while a dozen other runners were hospitalized. down south, houston recorded 105 degrees yesterday breaking a record set 30 years ago. >> the rest of the country has all of this rain, too much water, we don't have any. >> reporter: by the way, summer won't even be here for another two weeks. frances coe, nbc new

i see the colorado plateau. this bowl is from american museum of natural history and that's where it is now. that's the storage place. where it was from before is pueblo bonito in chaco canyon where there were rooms filled to the ceiling with bowls stacked within each other, bowls like this. all their designs, you can kind of get a glimpse around this. they have this flawless symmetry blending all the way around. it looks like that place. it looks like that landscape. i look into this and i see the sharp edges of the land. i see the way the earth is shaped out there. i see the routes in their vessels. i mean, to understand these, this one came out of a 13th century site in southwest colorado and i would sit with these bowls for hours and hours, drawing them into my sketch book because that was the only way i could really understand the complexity of how they got their symmetries to match up because i could never get them to match up in my drawings. i could never do a 100 percent accurate rendition of these becau

el fuego amenaza con extenderse a montaÑas de nuevo mÉxico y colorado.s de una pequeÑa ciudad. >> cientos de residentes de la ciudad dehubieron ser evacuados de sus casas debido al desbortamiento de una de las afluentes del rÍo. un vocero del departamento de seguridad nacional indicÓ que la orden fue ordenada esta maÑana y los residentes fueron llevados a albergues donde permanecerÁn. >> tres personas que resultaron heridas por el tornado que azotÓ murieron este fin de semana, por lo que la cifra de vÍctimas se elevÓ a 151. no revelaron las identidades de las tres vÍctimas. continÚan trabajando para remover los escombros. >> y con una mortal explosiÓn en pakistÁn, abrimos nuestra ventana al mundo. ♪ >> al menos 18 personas mumieron y otras 28 resultaron heridas este domingo al estallar una bomba en una panaderÍa en el noreste de pakistÁn. anunciaron las autoridades en una llamada telefÓnica deste un lugar no determinado. >> aviones de la otan continuaron los bombardeos en trÍpoli para mantener la presiÓn sobre el dictador muammar al gaddafi poco despuÉs

the gentleman from colorado. mr. polis: mr. speaker, not only does this rule before the house drastically shortchange homentland security priorities but this rule puts into force, by deeming and passing the republican budget resolution. this rule, section 9 states very clearly that the republican budget resolution shall have force and affect, that's a traditional language of a deem and pass. yes this budget keeps -- deems pass the elimination of medicare in order to keep in place tax cuts for the highest earners and tax breaks for oil. although i do thank the majority for offering up the first open rule during my tenure in the house, i ask at what price? well, i think there would be broad bipartisan support for an open rule, i for one cannot support a rule that deems pass the elimination of medicare. americans resoundingly oppose the approach of dismantling medicare. they want us to put our economy on more secure fiscal footing and do it while strengthening our economy, creating jobs and mending, not ending, medicare

i'm glad they chose colorado. it wasn't that long ago that i was a state legislator and i remember one of the debates we were dealing with was a particular regulation that many small businesses were struggling to figure out whether or not they could survive under that regulation. while the debate in the colorado state legislateture was taking place on whether or not it was good for job creation or not, there was an advertisement on one of the state's largest radio stations from our neighbor to the north, the great state of wyoming, and their chamber of commerce in one of their municipalities said, come to wyoming a business-friendly place. they said that because colorado is forcing a regulation on its business owners that was going to put the men and women of our state out of business. they saw an opportunity. they said come to us, we'll take your jobs. we'll take your businesses. you can do it right here and you'll be better for it. that's not the kind of policy i want for colorado and that's not the kind of poli

when dad was vice president, we would go to vail, colorado in the wintertime. mom and dad had bought a small condominium there. we skied when he was a congressman and when he became vice president, and dad still wanted to do that. our first christmas in vail, colorado after he became vice president, there was a young photographer who work for "time magazine," and he showed up in vail, colorado at christmas without a hotel reservation. [laughter] that is something david would do, thinking he would find a hotel room at christmas in vail, colorado. that found out that he did not have a bed to sleep in. but about this. this was 1973. that invited david to come and sit with us for the holidays. his luck on your couch, -- he slept on their couch, literally, in our condominium in vail, colorado. i remember waking up and say, dad, who is the guy on the couch? >> he is at -- and he said that was a pulitzer prize-winning photographer sleeping on her couch. [laughter] we were talking about the recession and i was saying that dad encouraged us kids to be readers and reader

you'll get severe weather like that in colorado for sure.tern colorado under a severe thunderstorm watch, more hail like that can be expected, along with some damaging winds. so let's show you where some of these watches are in effect right now. i'll take you over there and show you more of colorado, how about that. there it is, east of denver, also into the panhandle of nebraska, there are several very large storms, especially along interstate 70. so be aware of that, be aware that sometimes tornadoes can and do occur within severe thunderstorm watches and we have had a few isolated warnings here across parts of the deep south as well. so be aware of that for the upcoming hours, we're especially watching stuff that's going on along the tennessee and georgia state line. it's going to be an interesting afternoon and evening. let's talk a little bit more about what's been going on with those wildfires, you saw the video out of arizona, the wallow fire is 38% contained now but 500,000 acres have burned. so it's still the largest wildfire in sta

y vamos a denver colorado, buscan a una joven hispana que desapareció en un bar, no es la única latinamero de abril, y no encuentra ninguna pista, muchos se preguntan si tiene que ver con otras jóvenes hispanas desaparecidas. >>> dios sabe qué pasó con ella, y si alguna gente la tiene encerrada, que nos avisen a nosotros. >>> en casa de la familia, los días pasan desesperadamente. >>> es horrible, es una pesadilla. >>> el primero de abril, luego de reunirse en este bar, kenia desapareció misteriosamente, se le vio hablar con un hombre desconocido, y abordar un vehículo blanco, dos meses transcurrieron, y no se la vio más. >>> muchas muchachas fueron drogadas, y violadas. >>> y esta familia, también llora la desaparición de una joven de quince años. >>> quiero saber si está bien. >>> dos misterios que las autoridades insisten que no tienen relación. >>> no creo que sea la misma persona. >>> aunque las familias piensan lo contrario, asegurando que no vieron interés de autoridades, o medios de comunicación, como otros casos en el pasado. >>> si hubiera sido una americana, hubieran dicho v

his luck on your couch, literally, in our condominium in vail, colorado. i remember waking up and say, dad, who is the guy on the couch? >> he is at -- and he said that was a pulitzer prize-winning photographer sleeping on her couch. [laughter] we were talking about the recession and i was saying that dad encouraged us kids to be readers and readers of newspapers. our breakfast every morning, growing up as a kid in high school, he came down and was very quiet. everyone grabbing section of the newspaper. you study. you read the newspaper in the morning. but breakfast was very quiet because you wanted to absorber your facts and figures and you could have a good debate that night and you could defender positions. that is how dad looked at it. even before he passed away, 93 years old, the image of him walking over to his office -- he always had up to seven newspapers under his arm that he would read that day. he read 45 journals. he always had the new york times and the wall street journal and the washington post. the last paper he read every day i think spoke

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coming up next, a dog from from colorado made its way to the bay area. a big reunion with his owner. >> it's always a wild ride, but this year it will be wet too. the annual aids life cycle from san francisco to l.a. will make history this weekend for a lot of weekends. june 5th is the 30th anniversary of the first reported case of aids in the united states and the tenth anniversary of the ride, the world's biggest fund-raiser for aids research. the week long 500 mile ride begins sunday at the cow palace. 3,000 riders raising $12.5 million. among those is our esteemed producer. >> they will be riding in the rain. >> sheer riding again. >> the buster poseya continues. they are doing damage control and we will hear from the giants and the player who injured posey. >> this turned into a fine mess. it forced the giants into damage control. they lashed out at scott cousin who is injured buster posey. during a radio interview, if cousins never played in another game of baseball, we would all be happy. cousins received death threats. the giants issuing a statem

lock heed martin will lose 1200 jobs nationwide with most of the layoffs coming from sunny vale, colorado and pennsylvania. lock heed says it will offer voluntary layoffs to eligible middle managers first. that could ruse the number ofin voluntary job cuts. >>> social security misspent billions of dollars.

home friday night against colorado. yankees finished off the a's three straight. derek jeter had one hit today. 16 hits away from 3,000. josh willingham and the a's had a early lead in the 25,469, when the yankees are here they get over 20. here is the nick swisher with the a's leading in the fourth, hits a 3-run home runner and that was pretty much the game. 10 straight win over the a's, 4- 2 is the final. c.c. sabathia did not pitch in the series but he did return to his home grounds, in fact, his old little league field. he helped out financially, refurbishing the field. signed a 7 year, $161 million

a missing dog from colorado ended up in california. now, the brown lab is going home.er a year and a half on the run. 7-year-old buster brown, there he is, he was found wandering in salinas last week. how he crossed hundreds of miles in the western united states, no one knows. thanks to the micro chip under his fur, employees at the salinas animal shelter were able to track down his owner in boulder and give her the good news. >> she's been looking for him, she's been missing him. she kept his stuff in the house and really sad that her dog was missing. thought maybe he was stolen or even because it's rural, a mountain lion got him. she was thrilled beyond belief. >> what a great story. what's going to happen now? first class treatment for buster brown, tomorrow morning sfo to denver, frontier airlines is flying him home for free. >> and he gets a new pair of buster brown shoes. >>> another buster blowing up the airwaves tonight. the general manager is speaking his mind, very interesting thing here. >> i heard that. >>> the giants returning home after giants manager --

. >> some people here in western colorado believe a national gas production technique cled f >> brown: ray suarez examines allegations of war crimes committed by the sri lankan government near the end of the country's 25-year-long civil war. >> woodruff: and we continue our collaboration with "the economist" magazine to highlight the art of filmmaking. tonight, letting kids be kids in a skating park in war-torn afghanistan. >> there's nothing like watching an afghan woman go down a ramp for the first time. she's achieved something that she never thought she would. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> i mean, where would we be without small businesses? >> we need small businesses. >> they're the ones that help drive growth. >> like electricians, mechanics, carpenters. >> they strengthen our communities. >> every year, chevron spends billions with small businesses. that goes right to the heart of local communities, providing jobs, keeping people at work. they depend on us. >> the economy depends on them. >> and we

one hundred sixty five jacksonville florida one hundred seventy five colorado springs colorado one hundred eighty six las vegas nevada one hundred eighty six austin texas one hundred eighteen i am the mayor by a large margin houston texas three hundred seventy three speed traps and if you're in one of those ten cities i want you back there be bandits about all right with decadent overspending tax parasites bankrupting their municipalities nation i've got to plug their budget gap somehow right now and i just have the cops deal for it after all the unemployed masses are such easy prey. all right and as the police become more desperate they become more corrupt unfortunately cover up seem to be a new cart of standard operating procedures as the internet age brings a new level of scrutiny in miami beach footage has been released of a police officer snatching a camera from a local ten news reporter covering the brutal memorial day shooting in this instance the newsman's camera was locked in the back of an officer's car without any justification officials all reporting that they are investigating

we'll get a break today in the dakotas into areas of colorado. it's really not until tomorrow that the heat comes down in the midwest. and it was 101 in san antonio. this is just a broken record ever since the end of last week. we're starting to get a little taste of that spreading east now, the appalachians. atlanta was 93. d.c. was up to about 88. now, the weather pattern hasn't changed much. because of these storms finally on the move, we're going to try to knock down this heat rig. if we're not going to knock it down so much, we're going to slide it to the east, anyways. that's going to push this storm off the new england coastline further away. we've got flooding problems. remember this winter and early spring we had a ton of snow in the northern rockies. up here in montana, finally temperatures have warmed up. now you're getting the heavy rain storms. they're concerned about flooding through northern idaho up through montana. those were all heading northward at this hour. today's forecast, we don't have a lot of rain out there. i'm going to

colorado, a 21 m-minute rain delay on cody ross bobblehead day. the diving stop.d's throw goes wide. 1-0 rockies. tulowitzki, three hits, drove in a run. but in the giants could not score until mr. bobblehead himself, cody ross, homers homeo left. fifth of the season. bottom ninth crawford at the plate. started his proseason with a grand slam. ryan sill -- spill -- spilborghs makes the catch. >> we moved on shortly after it happened. one of those things that it's obviously terrible, but the season keeps going on. we can't stop. just try to move forward with who we have now and try to keep winning ball games. >> it's not like we're going to get him back any quicker so we're just moving on. as soon as we had word he is done for the year, we -- he is a big part of the team and will be for a long time. >> mike: a's and bobts. this dog has heartburn written all over it. top of the green monster, 1 or red sox. eighth. boston up 5-4. carl crawford, the two rbi single. but in the ninth, the a's rally, pendington down the left-field line, the score. jackson, two runs score

the winner, andy pots of colorado. he has won four years in a row. the winning female racer is a first-time participant, nicky samuels of new zealand. >> let's go to the weather. leigh, turned out the way you said it would, cloudy. >> leigh: some folks still picking up showers, and in the last couple of hours, live doppler 7 hd, look at the moisture band feeding back over the bay area. i want to take you to the north bay between winters and davis. check out this cell here at 3:30 this afternoon. moved through the dixon area. spotters thought they saw a funnel cloud. of course, you can see since it moved through, it has started to decrease in its intensity, but still, quite strong for the bay area. and it is headed toward north woodland. the rain coming down. ben nearby sharks -- benecia, concord, walnut creek, and a strong line off the coast. most of these showers are rotating back towards the west where the low pressure system is sitting. scatter showers in the forecast. maybe few brief showers tomorrow morning, then we should see and clearing, brin

and the incredible influence colorado college at on me.t was the most formative four years of my life to date. from this podium standing here, i can see over to polymer all where i took science classes and learned about things like just and unjust wars or where are took socially the best sociology classes or geology and learned about these mountains right behind us. i can look over there to slocum and see -- first year. now i am going for the chief applause line. one wes in the house? i knew there were some out there. right there is where i met some of my best friends that are friends for life within the first week of school. i can look beyond shows and kind of see a little corner of jackson house which is where i first met with my initial academic adviser and he sat down on the grass with myself and the other advisees and gave us what i think is probably the most clever alerts advice you can give. it is really a liberal arts in a nut shell. he said just have fun. that was his advice. and he doesn't mean it -- that didn't take it that way.

she's in colorado and she was also this year's miss colorado actually just returned from the miss usa pageant. and claire you have such an interesting story i know on we've spoken once before and you're certainly not the typical beauty pageant contestant since you were actually homeless just wanted to hear what's been going on with you lately and with your quest to get into a better place. you know a lot of good things. for my mom and i specially friends i was going with you last time the most important thing that i heard for our two new jobs that i was working prior to leaving for the contents and another important thing that have been we got my mom coverage which was really extreme you considering that my mom is constantly thinking in the hospital. that's definitely a good thing but i wondering you know what i think what if you know what that was just thinking about your position i mean you're educated you're smart but obviously beautiful what about you know other people who may not have been you know as good looking or as well educated as you are and they're struggling to make it t

evicted from their colorado town house. blair had lost her job. and her mother had lost her health insurance after suffering a heart attack. the medical bills took their toll. >> you can't get -- >> reporter: but blair never gave up. >> the most important part of my story is that i am currently homeless. >> reporter: she continued to work as miss colorado, living with friends while acting as a voice for all those who are one paycheck away from being just like her. >> oh. >> reporter: and she's refused to let homelessness hold her back. come this sunday night she'll be on this stage, hoping for yet another crown. this time, miss usa. pretty remarkable in and of itself. but even more remarkable when considering that she still doesn't have her own home. >> i followed my dream. you know. despite people saying it couldn't happen, and despite my lifestyle, it seemed like i couldn't get to this moment. but, i've gotten to this moment. you know. i had to work hard but i'm here. >> reporter: after she first told her story here on "today," donations came ou