about the commerce clause essentially says the cost of power is the federal government to regulate commerce in among and between the state yes absolutely and so the conservatives had a very strict definition of what constitutes interstate commerce and so there is a problem within one state even if it happened to be a big industry given it was a big industry that made stuff that went all around the united states and had a big economic impact i didn't matter what mattered was that the problem was located within a state and so they would say that congress had no right to regulate that this was the moment in american history when that way of thinking began to break down and roosevelt made a very strong argument against this horse and buggy definition is he. well bit of a commerce clause he said look we're not forty eight independent states anymore if we ever work we are interdependent and what happens in the economic life of this state affects the economic life of that state and so we need to be able to apply national power to national problems and that was an idea that finally took hold and th

we've seen cyber crime ever since we moved from bulletin boards to the internet to the web and e commerce, there has been efforts by criminals to take advantage of that. that increases the more we become dependent on i.t. systems, the more opportunities for criminals. on the other end of the spectrum, we start looking at the dependency we have as a government, as a civil society. somewhere there is an i.t. system running the power grid. any threats against the system is having more of a dramatic affect on us. we are identifying what is going on out there and try to isolate the impact that will be. more important, how do we stop that from happening? guest: different corners of the government's intent different views on how severe the threat is. one of yours is to coordinate -- one of their jobs is to coordinate these differing views, but one of the components of the government has been the pentagon, which officials warning of a cyber pearl habor. in your comments, i do not see that approach taken. how publicly are we supposed to simulate different views across the administration? guest: wh

making a decision not to buy health insurance is not interstate commerce. that's stretching the bounds, that's stretching the conceptualization of what interstate commerce is beyond all recognition. >> reporter: but the circuit court left the rest of the health care reform law intact, and that could be a huge problem for health insurance providers. beginning in 2014 they will no longer be allowed to deny coverage based on pre-existing conditions. but if individuals don't have to buy a policy, they may wait until after they get sick to shop for insurance. and companies would still have to sell them a policy. >> it becomes a real problem because you essentially have all the stick and no carrot. this means you won't get nearly the number of new enrollees that you thought you would. >> reporter: another apelate court in cincinnati has upheld the individual mandate. the court in atlanta has ruled it unconstitutional. that makes it likely the supreme court will decided who is right. >> now we have two circuit courts essentially with opposing rulings and that's al

it was energy and commerce. i was going down a list and finally billy tozan said this is funny but not true. i don't know where he gets this from. and we passed out the information from the web site and we got all these votes on everyone else including six members of energy and commerce. [laughter and applause] mike was one of those six votes. so thank you very much for honoring the committee and its staff. let me recognize two people. larry lavender is my chief of staff. [applause] if you don't think this guy is really extraordinary, i am not going to tell you what his age is but he has a 7-month-old baby at home and somebody didn't leave it on the doorstep. my wife, linda, who is my best friend -- [applause] -- if anybody wants to do advertisements of a grandmother with five grandchildren, pact and linda are available. so thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you very much. the thing that has been proven tonight is larry lavender has beaten me. i have two boys. one is 12 and the other is 49. and he has a ch

on capitol hill about the prospect for the legislation the pushback from not just the chamber of commerce the table communications company and technology companies are not fans of the sort of system that fans of the sort of system that the u.s. proposal and the proposals on the hill would set out to kind of require certain parts of the critical infrastructure to evaluate the systems and kind of report back on that. and i'm wondering what, how the white house is managing the industry concerns on this. >> i think there's a couple things. we said we've rolled out the proposed legislation this is the beginning of the dialogue and by no means the end of the bye all. second coming as we work with the private-sector, not only the white house but also the department and agencies that have the sector specifically committing feedback with a sector and shaping what is it that we really need to do and what are the things they need i don't know that i would characterize the private-sector response of the pushback. there's concerns about -- to make one person characterized it became out with guns blazi

chamber of commerce. they are encouraging all of their members to utilize the new public service announcement that we are unveiling today, and to find ways to partner with dhs to get this message out. we are working with the chamber now to develop materials that could be used in regional offices across the country, and also within particular communities. so i would like to congratulate the chamber on joining the campaign. i look forward to the support and to working with you on this import and initiative. so, today we're going to continue to see something, say something expansion. we continue to add partners, new materials, and a new ad campaign. and today we are releasing a new set of 30-second national public service announcements designed to engage the public in identifying and reporting suspicious activity. each public service announcement presents a different scenario involving a suspicious activity, what to do and how to notify the upper. authorities. we will be showing you one of the 30-second psa'

who would be against commerce? we just said we are living in a world that has been overly come modified. where everything has been turned into a commodity value. people do not have the identities. we are world full of brands and no identity. you can read your entire life -- you can do your business and go about in the world using your credit card and never really look anyone in the eye. a world in which things have been comodified, things that should never have been. you cannot put a price on love. you cannot put a price on things that make life meaningful. but this isn't a consumer culture. even though we know we cannot keep it up. if the chinese adopt our lifestyle, we are all goners, we know that. it is not the third world anymore, it is the developing world. well, they are developing and they want things, too. the 21st century will be about competing for resources. there are not enough in a consuming world when there is no limit of appetite. it is a philosophic position. it would be interesting for people to li

other parts of the government; commerce, department of treasury who all have different respondents and see it through their lens. you're correct. when the president created this office, the idea was to coordinate these and develop good policy that the president could put forth on behalf of the u.s. government. >> host: what do we make of the pentagon's much stronger statements? if you liken it to a cyber pearl harbor or, you know, when they talk about the millions of scans that are done of defense systems every day? >> guest: yeah. and i would say it's not necessarily only the defense systems that are scanned. we have private sector, other parts of the government including other governments. and what it is, we hear what they say, we take that into account, figure out what they can do to help, how much is it directly related to defense activities, how much of it goes to the fbi, department of justice, secret service, how much of it goes to homeland security. but this is part of an overall picture but not the whole picture. >> host: we alluded to the white house's legislative cybersecuri

was working with the chamber of commerce to sabotage progressive organizations like think progress in the union as you it appears their strategy was to use fake on line personas complete with fake twitter facebook and linked. in accounts to infiltrate and gather private data and people who work for organizations critical of the chamber of commerce for example meet holly webber born in one thousand nine hundred four attended reynolds high school worked for lockheed martin served time in the air force and is completely made up and holly webber is not real she's one of the fake online personas created by h.b. gary federal and it looks like the guy who created so called holly weber and executive h.b. gary federal air and bar apparently drew his inspiration for maxim magazine and this model whose name is actually holly weber and was actually born in one thousand nine hundred four so what's going on here at least one of you guys over the center for american progress found out about this. this is this is pretty wild you know as you accurately described there is this massive hacking plot that

paid to post by conservative agencies organizations to do it but it appears that the chamber of commerce may be up to something much more nefarious using fake internet identities earlier this year at think progress and to act emails from the defense contractor aid should be federal and suggests that with the help of other security firms h b g f was working with the chamber of commerce to sabotage progressive organizations like think progress in the union as you it appears their strategy was to use fake on line personas complete with fake twitter facebook and. in accounts to infiltrate and gather private data intimidate people who work for organizations critical of the chamber of commerce for example meet holly weber born in one thousand nine hundred four attended reynolds high school worked for lockheed martin served time in the air force and is completely made up holly webber is not real she's one of the fake online personas created by h.b. gary federal and it looks like the guy who created so called holly weber and executive h.b. very federal aaron barr apparently drew his inspiration

peter is supervisor and senior adviser of the traffic and transport division at the chamber of commerce, amsterdam. they are partners with businesses and public authorities to develop a robust and economically healthy region. they supervise a team of professionals in the port industries, barge, rail, and road transport. sounds like mta. the chamber of commerce amsterdam is known as an element of innovative approach to connectivity and mobility. he is strong and establishing unique partnership to create groundbreaking solutions. he started a task force formability management for employers and employees to reduce car trafficked by 10%. -- he started a task force for mobility management for employers and employees to reduce traffic by 10%. >> i will give you the perspective of the business community in amsterdam. athis is the region of amsterda. this is the inner city of amsterdam, and the rest of the city are the suburbs. the whole city, there are 2.2 million people, but the real city of amsterdam, there are less than 800,000, which i think is about the same as san francisco. i will also

he believed through transportation, commerce, we could tie the country together. house says that he was a better visionary than he was a politician. he could not get other people to go with him. if he could have stood out here on the front step and looked out to the west where interstate 75 and interstate64 come together, he would have told you by god, i told you so. that was what he had in mind. connect the country and it would stay together. it was a vision that was important. it is what we have become. secondary, and i don't think it was his intent, but that american system while it was not introduced nationally, it was portions of it was introduced in the northern states. so the northern states became superior to the southern states in commerce and industry and manufacturing. and that was a critical issue when civil war did break out ten years after clay's death. so he helped hold the country together beyond his lifetime, i think. >> why do you think he was never able to get elected? if he was prominent, why wouldn't people follow him? >> that's the question t

so our stylists have fully blown e-commerce sites. and social media so they can grow their business faster than has ever been done before. and design is the difference. it's working because the stylists are making money because the customers love our product. we have taken a front end to back end approach. a woman deserves a great business. the product has to be irresistible. >> we were talking about failures. you must have along the way come through a long period to figure out what worked. >> yes. what's comical is i started doing everything out of my living room. i made the jewelry and it was so not as cute as it is today. i was able to partner with the great design team. as we have grown we have been able to hire and attract the best of the best. and, you know, they love working at stella&dot. we take all three of those things very seriously and staff accordingly. >> you did jewelry design too? >> blight did. she's the design side. >> did you feel like there was stigma you had to overcome? >> my mom has a friend who sold tupperware

i think a subcommittee of energy and commerce is already reported out a data breach bill. we have a couple of provisions in armed services, the science committee just approved last week a bill relateed to cybersecurity, so things are moving. and, again, i think the hope is with this framework over the next year and a half we can make substantial progress in a variety of areas. but not put -- my preference personally would not to be to put all our eggs into a single 2,000-page bill that you have to ram through and nobody knows what's in the it. i don't think there's a very good history of that sort of approach. >> host: jennifer martinez. >> host: and then the budget crisis has consumed washington for months, as you know. how do you think that's going to impact the type of bills coming through the house. >> and, also, the house gop freshmen have made it very clear they're against anything that's going to increase spending. do you see that as a possible issue going forward as these various committees are looking at cyber legislation? >> guest: i think you're exactly right, i

and nine compared with the previously reported four point one percent drop now this is from the commerce department but the most important thing that they say here is that companies fared better and workers worse over the past three years than previously thought before tax corporate profits adjusted for the value of inventories and capital depreciation were revised up by two hundred sixty four point nine billion over the period led by improved earnings at financial institutions max so from two thousand and seven to two thousand and nine the commerce department is saying that the corporate profits at banks actually went up yes well corporations rely more and more on their dealings with all three and their dealings and derivatives which are extraordinarily profitable and when you get the government to give these corporations trillions now we know that they gave away thirteen trillion dollars to american banks and foreign banks it's not hard to make money money even a rhesus monkey could make a billion dollars if you give a billion dollars in free coupons and if they make a mistake you give

i cannot believe anyone is trying to stand in the way of commerce. thank you. >> i am a resident in san francisco and also a business owner. i used the company, but we found them on google. we had a noise issue at our first establishment on a cold streak, which is similar to union, who -- on polk street, which is similar to union. they have heavy traffic and have been created for mixed use. i just want to say that even though they have gone in our favor, we were able to avoid this process where we had an amicable agreement with the landlord. our landlord was happy. our tenants were very happy. expertise was definitely the finest. i also want to save us -- to say san francisco has a long history of being a vibrant nightlife community. i think we should be lucky to have people like logan and darren, to engage the community. we could have owners who do not listen and cause trouble. these guys are doing what i think is best for the neighborhood, and i hope you'll approved their applications. >> next speaker please. >> i am from 2827 octavia, and i wish t

holding a event when she was shot in the head back in january >> new figures just came out from the commerce department americans cut back on their spending in june the first time in two years and their income increased by a small amount. the spending dropped 1.2% >> new details of the 16 year-old that was kidnapped at robbery at a barbershopper and there was an amber roller issued to find this teenager and now he is back eight hours after he was abducted from the barber shop he is now save and they are still looking for his kidnapper. >> here is the place where he was kidnapped al's barbershopper he i walked in on the robbery he forced the teenager into the vehicle at gunpoint they found the issue it has been processed locally more informations will come out of the any of police department they have good reason that he is safe although the police have not talk to him directly. >> they found a car somewhere in antioch and they are processing the car right now looking for for fingerprints and also the owner of the vehicle to see if he knew who this robber was we will have an update at 7:00 a.

this morning, the commerce department reported spending fell 2/10, the biggest drop in two years. it comes tas consumer prices are slipping -- it comes as consumer prices are slipping. the commerce department says most americans increased the amount they saved during -- during june. >>> starting today, highway patrol cars will be decorated with purple ribbons. it's part of a campaign to remind people of the danger of leaving children unattended in the car. the campaign was started by the national organization for keep our kids' safe. the founder is the mother of a 6-year-old who died in a car after being left there by a baby-sitter for more than two hours. >>> it's back to school for many in the bay area. many need supplies. in san jose, more than 2,000 signed up with a nonprofit group to receive free backpacks. sacred heart community services have only collected half of what they need to donate to the kids. say yet heart ends on friday. if you would like to -- sacred heart ends on friday -- hearts ends on friday. >>> tonight at 5:00, keeping talent in silicon valley. >>> and new

but the phone and all the information it provides, not to you, but about you, are the future of commerces is a major battleground for the future of computer. >> reporter: karen is the executive editor of the influential silicon valley blog "all things digital." >> a lot of monon is being put into commerce, which is hugely location gives you a lot of information about where you are and what you're doing. >> reporter: some analysts see one piece of good news for google in apple's history. by putting android on as many different kinds of mobile phones as possible, google is taking a page from microsoft's windows back in the '90s, which dominated apple by getting on many different computers, while apple, back then, just like the iphone today, stuck with its own system run only by its own device. >> i mean, google is not stupid to want to be on as many choices as possible. people like choice. walk into a supermarket, there's 400 kinds of cereal. so, apple is making their bet that this is what you want. android is making the opposite bet. >> reporter: to give you some perspective on how import

how e-commerce is getting in the game, next. >>> it is that time of the year again. back to school season, believe it or not. americans spend some $60 billion on school is supplies every yea. and the second most important season of the retail industry. so, how to find the best prices? steve krezner is with me. he's the respect of pricegrabber.com. steve, great to have you on the program. >> thank you. >> so, price comparison, daily deal sites, certainly becoming bigger and bigger and a real booming part of online commerce what's the impact to your site when events like an earthquake, a hurricane, occur? of course, we're watching this hurricane irene impact so many people's plans. do you see consumer demand spike for everyone is things or slow down? >> we see them slow down in anticipation of the event and spike afterwards and i'm certain we can see a lot of demand nor emergency kilts coming up. >> how does price grabber work in terms of back to school shopping? what is the experience like? >> well, it's a free service where they can come to the site and get expert re

chamber of commerce in pointing out the house proposal locks in failure for six years. in effect, it gives up on america. likewise, we join with others in praising your political courage and focus on maintaining a foundation for the future which is is illustrated by your partisan proposal. i want to emphasize to have the necessary economic impact, investments must be made through the existing core program and highway trust fund and there must be a commitment that in the short falls do not result in less investment that is made. liuna welcomes investments and believes that properly structured mechanisms such as the infrastructure bank could provide a valuable supplement. but we believe some of the prooh -- proposals are years away from creating a significant number of jobs. like many others, we also believe there must be greater transparency. we've all heard about the bridge to nowhere. we must remember that there are plenty of bridges to somewhere that are deficient or obsolete. in fact, four years after the i-35 bridge collapse in minneapolis, 27% of our bridges still

chamber of commerce, this is an hour. >> okay. now we're going to get into the meat of our discussion, our panel. as you can see, we have quite a big pam here, and the intent is to really have a dialogue with the audience. two ways to do that. i'll ask a series of questions to prompt discussion, but feel free to ask questions. there's also index cards and pads of paper on your table, and if you prefer to do that, just hand it to matthew -- raise your hand -- or will, who is around here too, and they'll bring the questions up to me as well. two ways to do it. you have the bios, but i'll introduce the panelists briefly if i may. first of all, commissioner ralph basham. he's one the most distinguished and diverse backgrounds in law enforcement and homeland security. over the course of his 38 year career in federal law enforcement he servedded in leadership positions at four of the eight operational components in what is now the u.s. department of homeland security, most recently, he served as the commissioner of customs and border pr

chamber of commerce. i appreciate the opportunity to testify today on behalf of hundreds of thousands of main street businesses that the chamber remits. we support sound consumer protection regulation that have fraudulent actors and ensure consumers have clear and precise disclosures about financial products. we want to ensure that the bureau takes a targeted approach for regulation and enforcement without making sweeping policies that impose due publictive burdenses on small businesses and prevents them from getting the credit they need to create the jobs we need in this country. i'll lay out our concerns in two general baskets. first, you know, we have concerns of small business that are subject to the cfpb's regulation and other oversight because they engage in one of the ten activities laid out in the law. they could be regulated by the bureau. all these businesses are subject to oversight by the ftc. it's important to point out these are not businesses that have been heretofore unregulated. overlap a