state party chairman chad connolly says the state has the right mix of voters reflecting the entire party. >> we've got the social conservatives and the fiscal conservatives. >> reporter: in recent years, it's also seen the emergence of the tea party. on monday, senator jim demint, a tea party favorite, held a forum to test the top candidates on everything from jobs to abortion. minnesota congresswoman michele bachmann. >> i would put forward a human life amendment and at the same time i would do everything within my power to restrict the number of abortions that occurs in the united states. >> reporter: with the state's unemployment rate at 10.9%-- nearly two points higher than the national average-- the candidates-- including former

connolly: i thank the chair. to conclude on this matter, you know, i find it very sad, and i have enormous respect for my colleague on the other side, but to oppose a simple study, to require that we look at the benefits of clean energy technology i find very troubling and that resistance sadly is going to impede american growth and competitiveness and is actually going to cost us jobs. there is no question in the coal industry in particular we've kind of reached a plateau. in fact, in the state of kentucky we've lost a lot of jobs relative to, say, 30 years ago. whereas, as my colleague from massachusetts pointed out last night, in wind, in wind energy just in the last four years we're up to 80,000 jobs. it's a fast-growing, lucrative part of our economy. it's clean and it actually helps jobs concretely. that's a worthwhile thing to study if not invest in, and i regret the fact that the manager on the other side finds even a study something to be resisted. i yield back. the chair: the gentleman's time has expire

[applause] >> cynthia marie lise connolly >> john e.r. >> james lee connor >> jonathan m. connors >> kevin patrick connors >> kevin f. conroy brenda e. conway >> dennis michael cook >> helen d. cook >> john a. cooper >> julian cooper. >> joseph john coppo, jr. >> gerard j. coppola >> joseph albert corbett corcoran. >> alejandro cordero >> robert cordice i said my father, we miss you and will always love you. >> and my father, we love you and miss you, and you will always be in our hearts. >> ruben d. correa >> danny a. correa-gutierrez >> james j. corrigan >> carlos cortes >> kevin cosgrove >> dolores marie costa >> digna alexandra costanza >> charles gregory costello, jr. >> michael s. costello >> conrod k. cottoy >> asia cotton. >> martin john coughlan >> john gerard coughlin >> timothy j. coughlin >> james e. cove >> andre cox >> frederick john cox thanks and my mother, susan conlan. we love you and miss you so much. we think of you every day, and we know you are looking down on us, smiling. >> and my father, we love you and miss you

. >> i am rob connolly, president of the boys and girls club in san francisco, and we of nine clubhousesround san francisco. i do not know much about this piece, but i wanted to say it -- if the cheap believes in it, then i think it should be passed. i have worked with him for seven years. he gets community policing through and through. this done through and through. we have had a chance to

. >> my name is jim connolly. i animal home owner and live on green street -- i am a home owner and live on greene street. this is my second appearance on this particular issue. on listening to the testimony today, what struck me is i do not recognize ambient noise. i cannot identify ambient noise when i hear it. i could not tell you how many decibels i hear, but i certainly no loud noise when i hear it, and i would ask the board to think back to our last meeting on this issue and the dramatic down record things that i think caught all of us by surprise -- dramatic recordings i think, all of us by surprise. listen to that noise and know how much it is impacting in a negative way this community of homeowners. >> next speaker please. >> patricia. what we have is the issue of the doors. this is of a one. -- a big one. i am suggesting the doors remain closed except one door in and out if they would like to use the patio. i do have concerns, and i thought about this really hard over the week, of people staring out fron

we also have jason connolly from the department of energy. he is the product manager for the chrysler pev project. now we will get questions from the press. >> [inaudible] >> how long do you charge it? [inaudible] >> [inaudible] >> it depends on how you drive it. for the first 50 miles, that is the charge to peak cycle. that is when you are in a state of charge or the vehicle will be a regular hybrid vehicle. then you can charge it as often as you would like after. we are recommending that you drive twice a day. chieonce it goes into the chargg station, the truck driver, you get 22 mpg. chrysler does not at this point have any production plans but is an enabler to implement this technology, modify technology come into other applications. it could be an electric vehicle or hybrid vehicle or a plugged and hybrid vehicle. that is the purpose of this demonstration program. >> [inaudible] >> it is in comparison to the existing fleet vehicles. i give you numbers on the economy, how much vehicles would be consuming, their fuel efficiency. again, mr.

state republican chair chad connolly told "u.s.a.irst in the south and we're not going to share our date with anybody, especially a state that breaks the rules." yeah! south carolina has proven that unless you play by their rules they will take their state and go home! (laughter and applause) well, i say i say in all that campaign cash is attracting all the early primaries, let's make sure south carolina gets all that campaign cash by letting the cash decide the primary. just do away with the voting and give all our delegates to whoever spends the most money! on primary day, campaigns just hand in their receipts. (laughter) that way, unlike electronic voting, at least we'll have a paper trail. (laughter) to protect your interests, south carolina, as long as we're deciding presidential bids, shouldn't we give our state to the highest bidder? we'll be right back. (cheers and applause) (cheers and applause) snung thank you very much. welcome back, everybody! nation, it's two out, bottom of the ninth, bases loaded and i'm holding a spear

connolly is also drawing attention to the "snakes on a plane" hearing as a way of pointing out that the republicans are not really working on jobs right now in congress. they are instead working on stuff like this and calling it jobs. and while i'm sure it is a cool perk of being a congressman that you can have the snake breeding guy with the amazing hair in your hearing room, that is in fact what the republican-controlled house is convening hearings about right now while the president, on the other hand, is touring the country promoting his $450 billion comprehensive jobs legislation. so far the response from the house republican leadership to the president's big jobs proposal has not taken the form of legislative action or hearings like the ones they held on the snake guy. it's rather taken the form of speeches like the one house speaker john boehner gave today, where he derided the united states senate as if the senate is the place where they are really working -- the senate is not the ones working on jobs while the house is. the senate hasn't been doing anything and the house, well,

connolly, jr. james lee connor jonathan m. connors kevin patrick connors kevin f.anuel contreras-fernandez brenda e. conway dennis michael cook helen d. cook john a. cooper julia t. cooper joseph john coppo, jr. gerard j. coppola joseph albert corbett alejandro cordero robert cordice >> and my father. we miss you and love you. >> and my father, john murray. ruben d. correa danny a. correa-gutierrez james j. corrigan carlos cortes kevin cosgrove dolores marie costa digna alexandra costanza charles gregory costello, jr. michael s. costello asia cottom conrod k. cottoy martin john coughlan john gerard coughlin timothy j. coughlin james e. cove andre cox frederick john cox >> and my mother. we love you and miss you so much. we think about your every day and we know you are looking down on us smiling. >> and my father, james. we love you and miss you. james raymond coyle michele coyle-eulau anne marie cramer christopher s. cramer denise elizabeth crant james leslie crawford, jr. robert james crawford joanne mary cregan lucy crifasi john a. crisci daniel hal crisman denn

connolly: thank you, mr. chairman, and i thank my good friend and the distinguished ranking member of the energy and commerce committee. mr. speaker, mr. chairman, this bill is extraordinary even for the most antienvironmental house of representatives in american history. republican leadership has attempted already to pass over 110 environmental -- antienvironmental bills, amendments and riders, but the train act would be one of the most destructive for america's environment and our public health. it appears that the republican leadership took every antienvironmental bill, rider, amendment and nighttime fantasy of the koch brothers and drafted it into a single legislative package called the train act. this bill would block clean air public health standards for mercury, smog, soot and other toxic pollutants and we're supposed to believe no, no, all we're doing is just delaying and studying. 21 years is a long time to study. and if you have a loved one whose health is at stake, that delay can be life-threatenin

during >> it is is it to the bay area there will be at all hall meeting that connolly what was the the republicans presidential candidate still in a singlto >> of thousands of nurses across california are going on a one day strike the nurses' strike are against kaiser the letter dealt and children's hospital >> at the california nurses association and oakland no opinion matters is and union supporters moved supplies to the moving vans nurses will carry the designed outside and 34 hospitals for one day the strike will be to separate what i'll tell on same date first 1500 mental- health providers will pick it kaiser because of cut to their health care. others are insupportable their co- workers indeed >> we want kaiser have this thing and we have and that it is fair >> there's a strike is on ongoing contract negotiations >> and will have a high number of quality personnel >> a new business day was coming in they have enough providers of for quality care for the patients' lobby >> we have a number of nurses that are not part of a strike and are qualified at the bedside and they will be wo

. >> holman: congressional democrats, like virginia congressman gerry connolly, complained today thedent will not get a fair hearing from the other side. >> the president tonight will be putting forward his jobs creation proposal. unfortunately, some on other side have already decided that they're not even going to come and respect the president's joint appearance tonight. talk about closed minds. >> holman: but senate minority leader mitch mcconnell insisted republicans are standing on principle when they criticize the obama policies. >> there's a much simpler reason to oppose the president's economic policies that has nothing whatsoever to do with politics-- they simply don't work. yet, by all accounts, the president's so-called jobs plan is to try those very same policies again, and then accuse anyone who doesn't support them this time around of being political or overly partisan, of not doing what's needed in this moment of crisis. this isn't a jobs plan; it's a re-election plan. >> holman: tomorrow, the president takes his plan on the road, with an appearance in richmond, virgin

connolly, for five minutes. mr. connolly: mr. speaker, we need a real jobs program that builds an actual success. the president tonight will be putting forward his job creation proposal. unfortunately, some of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle have already decided they are not even going to come and respect the president's joint appearance tonight. talk about closed minds. according to reports, middle-class tax release through an extension of the payroll tax cut. policies we know can create jobs. i look forward to working with the president and those who are willing to work with us on the other side to jump-start our economy and get jobs creating again. . during the last two years, every federal dollar we invested we leveraged 41 dollars of private sector support for more than 2,000 projects in every state and created hundreds of thousands of jobs. build america bonds is the kind of public-private partnership that republicans generally support and we know from the recovery act they create jobs. lending venture capital

connolly: i thank my good friend from michigan. thank you, mr. speaker. let me take this opportunity to thank the 174 republican members of this house who voted with us at the bipartisan fashion just last month to avert the first federal default in the nation's history. may not have been an easy vote for some, but it was the right thing to do to prevent a catastrophe that would have certainly shaken further our fragile economic recovery. today's vote is no different. and i urge my colleagues to not give in to political gamesmanship, the standard & poor's cited as the very reason for its downgrading of the united states credit rating. we must reaffirm our commitment that america will meet its obligations. and we don't want to find ourselves politically explaining how we were voted for it before we voted against it. make no mistake, voting in favor of this resolution will in fact lead to the very default we voted to avoid the budget control act. you cannot now being for a default after having just voted against it. we must reject this resolution and move on

connolly: i thank my good friend from michigan. thank you, mr. speaker. let me take this opportunity to thank the 174 rublican members of this house who voted with us at the bipartisan fashion just last month to avert the first federal default in the nation's history. may not have been an easy vote for some, but it was the right thing to do to prevent a catastrophe that would have certainly shaken further our fragile economic recovery. today's vote is no different. and i urge my colleagues to not give in to political gamesmanship, the standard & poor's cited as the very reason for its downgrading of the united states credit rating. we must reaffirm our commitment that america will meet its obligations. and we don want find ourselves politically explaining how we were voted for it before we voted against it. make no mistake, voting in favor of this resolution will in fact lead to the very default we voted to avoid the budget control act. you cannot now being for a default afteraving just voted against it. we must reject this resolution and move on to the r

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let's ask bob barnett, senior partner at williams & connolly, he's been a democratic debate coach in. he knows a thing or two about it. good morning to you, bob. >> good morning to you, gretchen. >> just from the outset since you have so much experience in this, what were the highlights to you? >> well, i think that to me, there were a couple of amazing highlights, one was that during the course of the 105 minutes, ron paul abolished the f.d.a., the f.a.a., the t.s.a. and air conditioning in iraq. that to me had never happened before in the history of presidential debates. the other thing that was striking to me and i'm sure we'll talk about the candidates was the fact of 234 executions got thunderous applause. you wouldn't see that at the democratic debate and i wondered about the propriety of it at this debate but there's a lot of strong feeling about that issue. >> very interesting. let's talk about rick perry. good or bad job in your mind? >> there are two audiences in these primary debates and we as democrats went through 23 of them in 2008. there is the primary audience, primar