columbia has free rights in america, and we don't have that in columbia.her billion dollars a year. >> what were the jobs? >> accomplishes to create jobs, and from an export stand point, and these are types of things that i think the president has the right feelings about, but he hadn't led. go back to social security, medicaid, and medicare, those programs need to get under control. >> a question from a student at the university of ohio. go ahead. >> senator, "new york times" recently found while the united states has combined federal and state corporate tax rate of around 39%, the actual burden that falls on corporations is substantially lower. united states actually according to the world bank ranks around 124 healthdyne of the for tax burden. what are the loopholes that reduces burdens and our inability to pay off the deficit? >> that's a good question, and frankly, we still -- all these other nations have tax expend cheers and -- expenditures. they have tax credits we don't. we can't giver our companies the -- give our countries the consistency to rel

who live in the district of columbia. and we're trying to do that, this is a new approach that we're taking. we're trying to do that in more than just a punitive fashion, by saying if you don't do x, you will be fined in the following ways. we're looking now at an incentive system that will say if you do these things, here's what you can earn additionally in order to be able to meet the requirements of the first source law. you know, it's kind of basic behavioral psychology and that is a rewards system typically works more effectively than a punishment system. secondly, we -- to go back to what mayor nutter said about the recreation centers -- we have the same problem. as a matter of fact, we have a number of recreation centers, some of which have been built in recent years. and we are really now challenged in terms of being able to staff those, the facilities, let alone what's coming online. we also have a robust with nonprofit community in the district of columbia that provides a host of services in the city. many of th

to columbia. canada will implement a trade agreement in june. the eu is sent to complete one. with regards to those agreements, i appreciate the language that you want to complete those by this year, but frankly those are statements i would expected two years ago. we are seeing other countries move forward dramatically. we are losing market share in those countries as they develop trade relations with other places. we need specific, concrete steps. can you tell me what specific things or items need to occur with regard to the columbia- panama agreements that would allow the administration to move forward? >> let me assure you, we share your concerns with respect to the competitive market that is developing in south america and they're very aggressive efforts to sign other agreements. but we also share a very firm belief and an unshakable belief that the only way we can go forward in a manner we would like to is if we work together collaborative lee just as we did on the correa free-trade agreement

in the district of columbia. need -- needle exchange. i'm against that? where? in the district of columbia. and couldn't go back home and accomplish these in their districts but imposed it on the district of columbia. my role and i did accomplish it but it may change soon, little by little, i got bipartisan support, both parties to remove under your leadership and i'm being honest about that because you pushed and you pushed and you pushed, under your leadership to remove these riders, to let them decide what to do with the hiv-aids crisis, have district of columbia to vote. that's all we did. we still kept the constitutional provisions. i don't go around rewriting the constitution. now what i think will happen and we begin to see is a desire to once again use washington, d.c. as the experiment or the place where you do these things that you can't do back home. so i would say to my colleagues, if you're strong, and i respect you on the issue of school vouchers, if you're strong on the issue of not letting women m

people who live in the district of columbia.nd we are trying to do that, this is a new approach that we are taking. we're trying to do that in more than just a punitive fashion by saying if you don't do x, you will be fined in the following ways. we're looking now at an incentive system that will say if you do these things, here's what you can earn additionally in order to be able to meet the requirements of the law. it's kind of basic behavior psychology. that is a rewards system typically worked more effectively than an punishment system. secondly, we -- go back to what mayor nutter said about the recreation center. we have the same problem. as a matter of fact, we have a number of recreation center which have been built in recent years. we are challenged in perm -- in terms of being able to staff those facilities. we have a robust community in the district of columbia that provides a host of services. many don't have stable places to be able to hang their hat. we are looking now at creating partnerships, especially as a quid

it is the highest in the district of columbia. what we are working to do is try to integrate the homeland security with the community so there are amenities and businesses that are developed in the community. one of the worst things that happened is that we wound up with an enclave for people go into the campus each day, go out and have no relationship over the community. we have so few amenities in either of these that we hope they will be able to do that and be able to generate quality jobs. we just doubled in number of sit-down restaurants that we had in toward a seven -- in ward 7, from one to two. we are focusing a lot of our attention on creating new modalities of transportation. they have a fabulous street system. we are committed to developing a streetcar system in the city. it will take to fully mature the system that we envision. it will take 20 years. we are starting now. we laid the first tracks for the first line. it to be a 37 mile system. we also know from experience that it has a major impact on economic developmen

however, there are two outstanding trade deals with columbia, and with panama. there are languish engine the congress and he can do a lot to get behind it and he hasn't quite yet. >> panama say huge market? what about our own market, john? >> it might stimulate some inventiveness. >> companies are move to panama! [everyone talking at once] >> we invented the computer. we have 160,000 people who work in the computer industry here and a >>> issue three, senate shakeout! >> i don't want to be asking people for money unless they can be certain that i'm going to use it for campaign. >> that was virginia senator jim webber, democrats, two weeks ago. he was non-commit al on whether he would lawn in 2012 for a second term. he made the decision this week and voted nay. webb is a vietnam vet, former navy secretary, journalist, novelist and lawyer. then another bombshell, on thursday -- another senator, a republican, announcened he would not run for another term in 2012. four-term arizona republican senator and minority whip, get this, john kyl, webb and he joined three ot

i was made chief council for columbia records and five years later i was made president. and i looked, i watched for a while for maybe a year until i found myself at the montery pop festival and i saw a revolution. i saw a social revolution, a musical revolution, and i saw an artist there, janice joplin, big brother and the holding company, with a vibrating and electrifying and just the most inspiring, spine tingling white soul sister that you would ever see and i got this, if you will, it sounds like a cliche, maybe an epiphany, maybe that tingle, and i said, you know, you've had this job as head of the company for a year, music is changing, a revolution is in the air and i signed big brother and the holding company and i started trusting my instinct. very shortly after that was what came and bill graham asked me to go see santana at the fillmore west in san francisco. i kept trusting my instinct. it was working and it went on from there. tavis: i know this is impossible to answer, but when you say trust your instinct, when you run the list and we haven't mentioned areth

for the district of columbia is here. [applause] the folks of the district of columbia, please stand up and be recognized. [applause] i am delighted to be here. i appreciate it mentioned by governor kaine about what we have done for the children of the dirict of columbia. we are working hard on it. i introduced legislation to do what was a fairly bold moves, to create pre-kindergarten services for everyone in the district. we introduced the legislation and we said we would get ourselves six years to get that done. we said we were going to create higher education incentive grants and other programs associated with it. i am pleased to stand here today to say this program has been so popular that it has not taken us six years. in september, we became the first city in america to say we have a seat in an organized education program for every child between3 and 4 years old -- between 3 and 4 years old in the district of columbia. we have seen an enrollment increase in our traditional public schools in the district of columbia

for the district of columbia is here. [applause] the folks of the district of columbia, please stand up and be recognized. [applause] i am delighted to be here. i appreciate it mentioned by governor kaine about what we have done for the children of the district of columbia. we are working hard on it. i introduced legislation to do what was a fairly bold moves, to create pre-kindergarten services for everyone in the district. we introduced the legislation and we said we would get ourselves six years to get that done. we said we were going to create higher education incentive grants and other programs associated with it. i am pleased to stand here today to say this program has been so popular that it has not taken us six years. in september, we became the first city in america to say we have a seat in an organized education program for every child between3 and 4 years old -- between 3 and 4 years old in the district of columbia. we have seen an enrollment increase in our traditional public schools in the district of columbi

at columbia presbyterian, the sidenham chief said, no, we're not going to give up our chiefs, you know? every hospital has a chief in different departments. so it was to upgrade -- jonathan made reference to it -- it can't have an entrance on the ground floor. you have to carry a stretcher up a staircase to get into the hospital for the emergency cases. it can't go on that way. and so i decided, yes, we will close it. well, there was an enormous storm. the person i felt most badly about was the city councilman, fred -- >> fred samuel. >> fred samuel. he was a wonderful man. he's now dead. i tried to explain it to him and, obviously, he was very nice, but it was a wound. okay. so we closed it. there were riots and sit-ins, and we ultimately prevailed. just a brief episode, the police commander who went in to take repossession of the hospital which was empty except for the sit-ins of people, maybe 15 of them, he -- we had cut off electricity, he opens the door at midnight, and he says, don't be afraid. you know me, i'm so and so. i won't hurt anybody. and the lights were on. and he said,

maybe sixteen years later maybe in his columbia's second city one of its busiest and richest and the country's bread basket. sixteen years later in the city still has a bad reputation. the settling of scores continues but these days it's between small time drug dealers. and it's nowhere near like it was in escobar time. well ecology at the time of the humans a mad house bullets for breakfast and lunch and bombs for dinner. you know what people die every day every morning that the bodies near the mountains would call it public cemetery each day that because people would be mowed it off and just dumped on the open ground. there are few people left but well you have to know where to look. so the toss is to find them. according to some one of best balls formal of time outs is still a lot of. little video from those years still exists. his name is john gyre of ls quiz alias. police wanted posters back then popeye was not far behind his boss escobar when it came to the pecking order he was implicated in a number of murders sources claim that he's been serving time in prison for several giv

and abolitionists went even further and they said, and the slave trade in the district of columbia has got to be ended. people come here, tourists, foreign dignitaries, and they see men and women and children bought and sold. what a whore that is. we've got to stop it. you do, said the southerners, and we secede. robert tens got up in the house of representatives and said this is treating the south as though we are not part of the government, as though we have to do what you want us to do. and you don't recognize that our way of life would be jeopardiz jeopardized. so we will leave. and mississippi passed a resolution calling on all the southern states to meet in convention in nashville, tennessee, on the first monday of june 1850. and they are setting up the machinery to take the south from the union. think of it, how desperate they were. and that's why we were really fortunate to have a man like henry clay in the house, in the senate actually, speaker of the house, who had the vision and the determination and the love of this country to keep it together, to try to work out a compromi

it's one of the pleasures of being at columbia university is you get to be colleagues with the people who are essentially creating the discourse on a subject rather than just sort of discussing the work of the people creating the discourse. so here we have two books, both published this year -- i should switch them. "network nation" by richard john of our faculty, and "the master switch" by tim wu of the columbia law school faculty. they're on kind of somewhat related subjects, although in other ways they're quite different books. and we're hoping that we'll get the two authors to disagree somewhat to make the evening more entertaining. [laughter] i would say, though, they agree about a few things if, i'll try this out on you and see if you agree that you agree about these things. they agree that neither is a technological determinist, that is in the general conversation about the internet in particular and telecommunications in general is a sense of, poof, the telephone is invented and everything just naturally flows from that. poof, the internet is invented and everything flows from

don't live columbia i want the. dead. within thirty minutes or one thousand men of the special unit have arrived on the scene. a whole city appears to congregate at the house and at the news of death some up lord others are in tears. his face hidden the american agent steven murphy makes his way through the crowds of soldiers he wasn't about to let the culmination of sixteen months work go by i'm recognized everybody's very happy everybody's very exhausted. you just can't imagine the pressure that we felt had been lifted off our shoulders. much less how the colombian national police must follow. one thirty pm on the second of december one thousand nine hundred three marks the end of the largest manhunt in history. was the pub or escobar is buried the next morning just outside maybe ten thousand people show up for the funeral for many escobar had been an idol. come. off to one corner of the female members of the family already most crushed as the crowd tries to touch the coffin one last time. sixteen years off of the death

we will send a team to columbia next week. the vice president was here. two weeks ago he met with itself, members of the administration of precarious state. we are cursed with the new leadership. we hear a message will go forward as quickly as we can. >> turning briefly to china, i want to highlight and experience in a nutshell animal follow-up with you what the letter, ambassador. it is involved in essentially a nightmare scenario with the joint venture that is scott's house and they have not been able to get the legal remedies that they deserve. if it is a very, very serious example of manipulation on the part of some in china that are taken in the image of an incredibly submit to manufacture in the chicago area. because icann is truncated, i won't belabor the point, but i want to highlight it because they think it is an area where the administration and congress can work forthrightly to advocate and defend american manufacturers who in some cases and in this case a quick reading of the story, you know, something the wild west. so i know you don't have

i have a degree from columbia university. now, i'm stacking pennies to make a pie chart.nouncement. a bittersweet one for us at "america this morning." >> after 2 1/2 years of waking up with you, this is my last morning. in terms of what is next in the future, not waking up this early. >> enjoy the extra sleep. ♪ >>> i'm terry mcsweeney live at san francisco international airport where president obama will be taking off in a few hours headed for a hi-tech meeting in portland, oregon. i gotta tell you, folks, it's not gonna compare to the one he had in the bay area last night. i'll show you in a live report. >> a good morning to you. we've made it to friday and made it to another round of rain. i'll show you where it is. live doppler 7 hd, where it's going to go for the afternoon and how it's going to linger in the saturday forecast. >> now it's dry at the bay bridge toll plaza, however, still a wind advisory for the bay bridge. pretty quiet elsewhere. show you on live cameras coming up. >> also this morning pg&e says it's underestimated how much the san bruno pipeline ex

: "columbia" was on a science mission.tronauts, 16 days, 70 experiments. >> a more courageous group of people, you could not have hoped to know. >> reporter: this morning the crew finished packing up for re-entry, landing planned for 9:16 this morning eastern time on the runway at florida's kennedy space center. at 8:15 a.m. they fired their engines to begin their return from orbit. >> this is mission control houston. >> reporter: shuttle landings are normally quiet but at 8:53 a.m. mission control saw some odd temperature readings here, along the left wing. a few minutes later, there were more oddities, apparently having to do with the landing gear on the left side. at 8:59 a.m. the shuttle came over texas, still 39 miles high and moving at 12,000 miles an hour. mission control had its last contact with the crew. >> "columbia," houston, we see your tire pressure messages and we did not copy your last. >> roger that. >> reporter: there was nothing more. people on the ground saw the streak of the shuttle breaking up. >> and

. >> reporter: "discovery" led the way back into space, after both the "challenger" and "columbia" disasters. >> it will stick with me forever. >> reporter: richard jones, the flight director of the mission, was right here in mission control when "columbia" went down eight years ago. >> i still carry a scar, to this day. it was the worst day of my life. >> reporter: once again, "discovery" is leading the way. but this time, it is the beginning of the end of the space shuttle era. bob woodruff, abc news, johnson space center, houston. >>> well, downed trees and power lines are littering parts of the south this morning, after a wave of severe storms. at least ten twisters touched down, as heavy thunderstorms battered six states. >> winds hit 80 miles per hour in tennessee, where thousands of customers lost power. and in kentucky, at least three amish children were killed in a storm there. they were swept into a swollen creek as their family tried to cross the road in a buggy. >>> now, for this morning's weather from all around the nation. up to a foot of snow in the cascades, rockies and sierr

for what purpose does the gentlelady from district of columbia rise? holmes holmes this is a -- ms. norton: this is ar insult for those who voted for the new majority on the promise of jobs. they don't know how to produce jobs or haven't produce jobs yet. but they will never understand a bill that will make history on the number of jobs it affirmatively destroys. the deficit commission warned about cuts that are at the centerpiece of the majority bill, cuts that don't distinguish between short-term and long-term deficits, between the job-producing role of government investment during an economic turndown and needed savegs to reduce -- savings to reduce long-term deficits. but the majority loses its focus entirely with its obsession on snatching local authority, local jurisdiction over local funds from the district of columbia. while the majority wants to make draconian cuts in most federal programs, putting at high risk the economy itself, it at the same time expands federal power into local funds and affairs of a local jurisdiction, the district of columbia. three writers in this b

spacecraft after the two thousand and three space shuttle columbia disaster columbia exploded during re-entry into the earth's atmosphere all seven crew members died shuttles track record includes another tragedy in one thousand nine hundred eighty six the space shuttle challenger broke apart seventy three seconds into its flight. path the russians so use proved to be the safest way to deliver people to space and now with the shuttle retiring it will be the only way we're no longer racing against an adversary we're no longer competing to achieve a singular goal like reaching the moon. in fact what was once a global competition is long since become a global collaboration the leaders of both russia and the u.s. are saying space is no longer a place for competition it's now a ground for cooperation but the question remains if ever wanted here in the world was ready to fully accept it. are to washington d.c. . brings us up to date here in our remember our web site r t dot com i'll be back shortly weather headlines before that though we'll take a look at what's happening in the world of b

disaster columbia exploded during re-entry into the earth segments here all seven crew members died shuttles track record includes another tragedy in one thousand nine hundred eighty six the space shuttle challenger broke apart seventy three seconds into its flight. the russians so use proved to be the safest way to deliver people to space and now with the shuttle retiring it will be the only way we're no longer racing against an adversary we're no longer competing to achieve a singular goal like reaching the moon. in fact what was once a global competition is long since become a global collaboration the leaders of both russia and the u.s. are saying space is no longer a place for competition it's now a ground for cooperation but the question remains if ever wanted here in the was ready to accept it. are to washington d.c. . and rick tumlinson so the co-founder of the space frontier foundation says that with private enterprise well into an exciting new era of space science. of. a transition government which. if you get out of the benefits is that it should itself and it's those cost

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the district of columbia often does have that appropriations right or applied. it was just taken off just a few months ago, so that would be corrected by hr3. >> well, all right, it's my impression that this is a misleading title of the bill, not federal funds, dc taxpayer funds, not funds from fed treasury. well, that's just a staffer. i mean, -- [laughter] you're an expert witness. let me turn to another consideration. as my time -- has my time expired? okay. well, you're so kind. one final question, chairman, and thank you. section 311 of this bill protects individuals who refuse to provide abortion services. as i read it, ms. ruse, this would mean someone who refused to provide life saving treatment and allowed a woman to die as a result might escape any consequences if that were to happen. is that your understanding? >> no, not at all. what this section of hr3 does is simply stand with the long standing principle of the church amendment. that's been around for 38 years, and in that history of the church amendment, we've never seen a situation where women we