why are you pushing for the department of interior? >> we have a responsibility, congressman tipton, to make sure that we are protecting the lands on behalf of the american people. and in so doing, it's important that we assure that oil and gas drilling and production is done in a safe and responsible american. >> and as it applies to fracking, apparently that job's been done m -- done. >> well, i would say that you have an open question with respect to several of these issue, and that's why we have been involved in a long process that began with a forum that i hosted at the department of interior to take a look at this issue. i will also say that the industry in many ways has decided that disclosure is also important. so part of the web site and the frack focus program that they put together is a part of that. we've seen states from if wisconsin to texas move forward with disclosure programs, so we have not landed yet on what kind of disclosure we might require. that's part of the process we have ongoing under consideration. >> if i co

why are you pushing for the department of interior? >> we have a responsibility, congressman tipton, to make sure that we are protecting the lands on behalf of the american people and in so doing, it is important that we assure that oil and gas drilling and production is done in a safe and responsible manner. >> as it applies to fracking apparently that job has been done. >> i would say that you have an open question with respect to several of these issues and that's why we have been involved in a long process that began with a forum that hosted at the department of interior to take a look at this issue. i will also say that the industry in many ways has decided that disclosure is also important. so part of the website and frac focus program they put together is a part of that. we've seen states from wyoming to texas move forward with disclosure programs. we have not landed yet on what kind of disclosure we might require. that is part of the ongoing process we have under consideration. >> great. if i could have the chair's indulgence. >

i am also under the impression and correct me if i'm wrong, but the department of the interior does not have the ability to increase or adjust valuation land statutorily. that has to be done in a legislative change within the basic program itself statutorily. the department of interior does not have, in my right, the flexibility to change land categories, population payments and those types of things? >> correct and as dr. corn explained there is a set definition for which lands are subject and get full payments in lands that do not. >> thank you. let me turn to dr. corn for a few more questions. i think you have parties at this. are the county payments that are not counted against future pilt payments for some counties but not others? >> you pilt provides for -- >> actually doctor i'm going to run out of time. i will come up with that one later. on what counties get and what counties don't. mr. grijalva you have sat here and you are the only one on your side. do you want any more questions? [inaudible] >> i'm not that nice but you can go now if you would like. >> thank you. appreciate

their lease unless you want to move in they also offered to put it back in the arms and the department of interior denied that stating that they're quite all lands were no longer really good for anything they were rooting for agriculture or you know their purpose that the only economic derivative left of their lands was the gravel on the surface and that they could sell their gravel when they start realizing that cat had heavy metals and was was an environmentally hazardous part of interior realized that that's a liability. since they managed the asset for the try and fail allow that to be sold and they would incur liability because if this chat were sold and put somewhere else that place not be conversant with on site they're lucky there's so little left today there's no telling what the epidemic would look like if there were five times as much lead poaching their young polluting creeks are making ground channel but eighty years later there's that seventy five million times eighty years of kids passing through struggling in school. here gone this chad didn't just sort of the kids who tested i. wa

and the department of interior the night stated that there. were no longer really good for anything they were for agriculture or other purpose the only economic derivative left. with the gravel surface and they could sell their ground when they started realizing that heavy metals it was was an environmental hazard. part of interior realized that that's a liability since they manage the asset for the try and pay allowed that to be so and they would incur liability because if this chat were sold and put somewhere else that place might become a stick with one site they're looking there's so little left today there's no telling what the epidemic would look like if there are five times as much lead poaching their young polluting creeks are making the ground channel but eighty years later there's it's seventy five million times eighty years of kids passing through struggling in school. here gone this chad didn't just heard the kids who tested i. read was here in mountains before anyone drowning test. so not only is the chad left on the indian elise

in the department of interior. stating the there. were no longer really good for anything they were rooting for agriculture or you know the purpose but the only economic group who left. the gravel surface and they could so ground when they stirred realizing that chad had heavy metals it was was environmentally as a. part of the interior realized that that's a liability since they manage the asset of the tribe if they allow that to be sold and they would incur liability because if this chat were sold and put somewhere else that place might become a super fund site they're lucky there's so little left today there's no telling what the epidemic would look like if there were five times as much lead poaching their young polluting creeks are making ground tremble but eighty years later there's it's seventy five million tons eighty years of kids passing through struggling in school. here gone this chad didn't just sort of the kids who tested i . bet was here in mountains before anyone was running test so not only is the chad left on the ind

firm financial footing is to close, including among other things, the department of education, the department of energy, commerce, interior, housing and urban development. you would cut back the federal work force by 10%. you've also suggested we should close fema which is the emergency management agency. >> right. >> schieffer: i have to ask you this. what do you do about all the things that those agencies control, run, supervise? for example, what happens to the national parks if you close the department of the interior? do we just let them go by the by or what? >> no. no way. the program deals with this. there's transition funds but we would like to see a lot of land sold off. we're not just going to ignore the parks. no, not at all. i mean, the money isn't there. these are departments that are doing too much. the american people are sick and tired of our educational system. just think of how we've been involved and give out loans and we educate students, the cost of education goes up. they graduate. they don't have jobs. and they have a trillion dollars worth of debt. we have to question that. this country is in bankr

in fact, we questioned secretary salazar yesterday who stood by the department of the interior's positionld indeed dilute the central message of the memorial. now, when questioned further, secretary salazar actually said he personally did not believe that to be true. so we've got -- we've got a dichotomy going on between what the secretary believes personally and what his department's position is officially but it absolutely makes no sense, steve, they're standing on a law from 2003 that has been -- that has been amended or waived twice to add commemorative acts to the national mall. >> i think we both know that if it were simply a little quotation from somebody famous, no problem because it is a prayer, there is a big problem. >> you know what baffles me, steve, this is not a prayer that was offered by some religious zealot or anything like that, this prayer was offered by the president of the united states. the commander in chief as a prayer of solace and comfort not only to the nation but to the men who were going into harm's way at a critical time in our nation's history. >> i know yo

the department of interior is totally corrupt and we never hear about it on the news. have stolen most of our public lands for privately owned welfare cattle. they destroyed our west, our water. you see these dust storms -- host: can you get us back to the subject at hand? caller: is my subjects. we have a country here. i don't live in pakistan. i want to see my problems here covered and i want to get the heck out of these countries. we have all kinds of problems here. that is my problem is that apparently, who wants to be over there all the time? we have problems here and i would like to see them reported on. one problem is the horrific cruelty going on to our wildlife and the destruction of our public lands. by ken salazar and the department of interior with obama's blessing variant host: let's go to orlando, fla., independent. what is your reaction and your thoughts about the future of u.s.-pakistan relations? caller: everything that has happened over there, it has been shrouded in mystery. from the cia agent and everything that has happened, you see part of the sto

and the department of the interior has let it be known that franklin roosevelt's iconic speech about y and our prayer is not welcome on memorial of d-day and extraordinary bureaucratic effort of mentioning god in any of our institution ises one of the most memorable of reasons and one of the most defensive. >> corps think, thank you, bret? >> this is a hit for me a few weeks ago on this show. i predicted president obama would not allow the pipeline project to come forward. a million barrels a day from canada into the united states and make us more independent for middle eastern oil and tens of thousands of jobs and thousands of miles ever pipeline all over the country and the president found excuses not only to cave to his environmentalist base, but denying thousands of americans a right to work. >> paul: you were right, i was wrong and cynical of politics, the wrong place to be. >> kim. >> a miss for the white house, solyndra, the bankrupt company with a federal loan guaranteed and the white house declared no political hanky-panky and did not interveer in the loan process and solyndr

nonsecurity allocation, which funds the corps of engineers, the bureau of reclamation under the department of interior, and the department of energy, is $20.575 billion. while our security allocation grew by $528 million, or 5%, the nonsecurity allocation is $584 million, or 2.8%, less than fy2011 and $3.5 billion or 17% less than fiscal year 2010. so you can see the crunch that's put on one part of the budget and the other part of our appropriation bill has actually expanded. as i mentioned, the security allocation is $11.05 billion, which is an increase of $528 million, or 5%. so this is an increase of $1.163 billion, or close to 12%, for the security portion of this appropriation bill. now, to clarify, nnsa is responsible for three primary national security missions. first, maintaining the safety, security, and reliability of the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile. second, responsibility for reducing the threat of nuclear terrorism through nonproliferation programs. and, third, it designs and builds nuclear reactors for safe and effective nuclear propulsion for aircraft carriers and submarines in t

he attacks supporting memos from the white house police and department of interior to join him in opposing the idea of a guidebook in behavior that cannot be called a profile in courage, my father gave the memo to his secretary to forward to my mother who is on the case. last night it reads in part, the large flow of people through the white house of accomplished by the fact there is no obstructions to slow traffic. the secret service and white house police contend that a moving crowd is a safe crowd. we must take into consideration the possibility of severe criticism from the public. frequent references are made by touristic commercialism does not and has never existed in any form in the president home. consideration must also be given to the impressions by visiting dignitaries who would be exposed to the commercial venture and the president felt he had also possible criticism from the press and the members of congress. as examples of the criticism that may result, we would like to cite the unfavorable publicity that was given the truman balcony and the efforts of the eisenhower administr

lastly, i would like to mention, as written into the conditions of approval, the department is requesting a direct interior connection on the ground floor to a unit one of the main floor above. the plans are drawn out in the project sponsor would like to request that. those stairs would also be subject to a variance. the department would like to recommend approval with conditions for this project so that the buildings would be more consistent with the size and density of the community. the project is appropriate. the project is necessary in creating the four family size dwelling units that would have four bedrooms. they would have increased size and efficiency with more family- sized housing. the project would bring the unit density and to agreement with the zoning district. i would be happy to answer any questions. >> thank you. but its sponsor. -- budget sponsor. >> president, honor commissioners, distinguished members of the planning department, i thank you very much for giving me this opportunity. i want you to know that i am not a professional developer of any commercial projects or any other projects

border patrol and antifraud enforcement at the department of interior. throughout the course of my career, i'm not aware of any fraud by any hud or any other federal officials in connection with the home program. over all, in my experience, they're has been relatively little fraud by private individuals, or more rarely by state or local officials with respect to the home funds. i agree with the assistant inspector general's testimony that there is a very good relationship between the oig and the home and the program's administration is probably rather than most hud has been responsive and agree 95% of the time about homes the vast majority of people and involved in homes or other federal programs and private institutions are honest and trustworthy. unfortunately, dishonest and greedy people do exist. we strongly condemn fraudulent activity related to the hud programs in place a high priority on preventing, uncovering and punishing such activity. attempted fraud related funds provided under helm and other provinces and private institutions like banks have

as to the specific preservation standards, the planning department relies on the secretary of the interior pepys standards for changes to a historic building. it also uses this as a tool to determine effects on resources for ceqa purposes. for projects that comply, the standards are typically exempt from ceqa review. these standards are generic across the country, irrespective of the location or size. however, in an urban center like san francisco, with our zoning and history, we should not use a one size fits all set of standards. as a result, the supervisor proposes the department prepare san francisco standards, following an examination of the planning code and consideration by the hpc. the department strongly supports this proposal, and it makes a lot of sense. finally, limiting to portions of the building visible from the public right of way. phillies have portions visible from the street and other portions that are not visible. property owners should have more flexibility for and less administrative review of the parts of their homes that are not visible from the public right of way

it falls under the jurisdiction of the interior ministry. the department had responsible for the program says it is because his ministry has the strength to implement it. >> our goal is to create a family model in which children see their parents get up and go to work every morning. >> for decades, the mother of his family have we went off to work every day. she even earned an entry into the who's who listing of successful of professionals. she is well known as an outspoken journalist. she is jewish and the single mother of four. shortly after the orban government came to power, she was dismissed. >> i tried everything to find work. i said i would do almost anything. it has always followed the same pattern. at first people were enthusiastic about my education, i have three degrees. the next day, they would make some excuse in turn me down. now i am in this program as a kindergarten helper. he would not believe how badly they treat me. -- you would not believe how badly they treat me. >> the family is thinking about moving to israel. they are not the only o

. >>> in the fall of 2008, the minerals management service became the most famous agency within our nation's very unfamous interior department. yay, minerals management service. but they did not become famous in the good kind of famous. it was the kind of famous you get for earning headlines like this. sex, drug use and graft cited in interior department report. an inspector general's report found, quote, a culture of ethical failure. more specifically, a number of managers, quote, frequently consumed alcohol at industry functions, had used cocaine and marijuana and had sexual relationships with oil and gas company representatives. in addition to getting high with the oil company people they were supposed to be overseeing, the bush administration's minerals management service also had its employees shtooping each other and doing drugs with each other, too, leading even relatively staid newspapers like the "houston chronicle" to lead stories this way. quote, a program director allegedly snorts crystal meth off a toaster oven. snorting meth off a toaster oven. in the bush administration, this was your minerals management servi

of inexpensive energy sources, fracking for oil and natural gas is under attack by the department of the interior. what is the expected outcome? look at what the administration has done to coal offshore drilling, not to mention we haven't built a new nuclear energy plant for decades due to overregulation. hydrofracking of oil and natural gas will inevitably be pushed into red tape, higher cost of production and lower yield, again, hurting america through high energy costs and fewer jobs. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized for one minute. mr. thompson: thank you, mr. speaker. the hardship of all those involved in the recent tragic developments of penn state university is heavy on our hearts as this community moves forward and these individuals and their families continue to cope with the horrific adversity and pain. despite the tragi

state department weigh in on this and make the announcement as opposed to the department of energy or the department of the interior? guest: every time you have a pipeline that crosses the international border, that is when the state department ends up weighing in. even though the state department did not in the past have a lot of experience doing environmental review processes, they had to do that for this pipeline. host: we are talking about the delay in the proposed keystone pipeline. if you would like to get involved in the conversation, give us a call. the numbers are there on the screen, as well as website nrdc.org. and you can give us a call. you can also send us messages via e-mail and twitter. explain why nebraska is central to this issue and why they are so engrossed in this debate. guest: in nebraska, the pipeline goes through the nebraska sand hills, which is a place with this major up over -- aquifer bubbles up to the surface. if you put a posthole digger i mean, you have water come in, and the pipeline would go right through it, in danger in farmland throughout the central heartland of the united stat

ron paul offered a plan to eliminate five government agencies, department of housing and urban developer, interior, commerce and agriculture. if there is a president cain would you keep agencies he proposed eliminating and why? >> h.u.d., interior, education, commerce and agriculture. >> the difference is how i'd go about making that determination. to say he would eliminate those on the surface i would saint that. i'd use approach to go in wimp to determine which chunks to eliminate. in some instances there may not be anything left. you go in and make tough calls. there may be some pieces left. >> stay and keep them as they are. >> not necessarily. >> i would approach it to see if the agencies were cut or still be around. >> bret: more with herman cain and the panel in a minute. >> bret: back with mr. herman cain in the center seat segment. we've asked you to submit questions. thousands coming in. tom would like to know would you stop sending taxpayer money for foreign aid? because we're suffering enough here at home. >> first, let's start with what my philosophy is. which is peace through strengt

of overregulation is energy. the republican program would require the interior department to move forward in order to free up leasing and development of drilling on public lands on shore. it also eliminates e.p.a. foot dragging on air permits necessary for offshore drilling and removes e.p.a. authority for unnecessary and burdensome greenhouse gas regulation altogether. this deregulation would ensure a steady supply of low-cost energy essential to booming economic growth. also in the proposal is the reins -- regulation. this will reestablish the original congressional check on executive power and democratic accountability for regulatory burdens so politicians can no longer hide behind faceless bureaucrats to evade public scrutiny for regulatory drains on our freedom and prosperity. this would provide an important solution to excessive regulatory burdens and costs across the board. the tea party will favor the plan's plank for a balanced budget amendment to the constitution which would include necessary tax and spending limitations in the constitution. also included is a statutory line-item veto giving the president

of his dad and brothers while reportedly signing an autograph for a kid. the suv used in the get away found after the interior said ablaze. in washington the u.s. state department. >> it's obviously of great concern to us. we did cite con true the real dangers of kidnapping and violent crime in venezuela. >> what are called ransom expressed kidnappings are surging in venezuela. typically ending nonviolently only after hundreds of thousands of ransom cash paid. >> shepard: are they working on the investigation at all. >> baseball says it is working very closely with the vends. it has several of its own investigators down there on scene. the justice minister in venezuela says the best of the best are on this very high profile case. police have confirmed that ramos is alive. although no word on any contact with the kidnappers. in a statement from baseball, quote: our foremost concern is with wilson ramos and his family and our thoughts are with them at this time. and right now tonight the tigers baseball game in venezuela in which ramos was supposed to be playing. his teammates are all wearing ribbons in support. shep? >> shepard: phil keating in miami tonight. th

in october of 2008, magnitsky voluntarily gave a sworn testimony against officials from the interior ministry against russian tax departments and the private criminals whom he found had perpetrated the fraud. a month later, interior ministry officers came to his moscow apartment, arrested him in front of his wife and two children, and threw him in pretrial detention. at the same time the russian federal security service claimed there was evidence that magnitski had applied for a u.k. visa and was considered a flight risk. the russian courts used this to prolong the term of his detemtion without a trial -- detention without a trial to 12 months. i should note that the british embassy in moscow has confirmed that mr. magnitsky had not applied for a u.k. visa since the year 2002. and so the pretrial detention was based on a fabrication. once in custody, magnitsky was pressured and tortured by officials hoping we withdraw his testimony and asking him to falsely incriminate himself and his cliend. they placed mr. magnitsky in an overcrowded cell with no window pane payne panes and kept lights on to deprive him of sleep. each tim

. >> a coalition of conservation groups today called on congress to avoid cuts to interior department programs for conservation, recreation and preservation. among the speakers, the great grandson of president theodore roosevelt, the president of the wilderness society, and a former fish and wildlife invest director. this is about 45 minutes. >> okay, i think we're all set and ready to go. i'm the president and ceo of the theodore roosevelt conservation partnership. i want to thank all of you for coming today and thank the folks on the phone for tune anything and/or thank the national press club for hosting us. we'll have four speakers after me, and there are several other people in the audience who have questions as well. the speakers are the president and ceo of the nature conservancy, dale hall is the president and ceo of ducks unlimited, stephanie meeks and bill meadows, the president of the -- [inaudible] society. our key speaker who will lead off is ted roosevelt, theodore roosevelt iv, and i want to thank him for taking a break to come to us today. ted is, obviously, a leading

interior department approved over the river installation. the plan is to suspend silvery panels in colorado. >>> look for new bike docking stations soon in and around the district. it's part of the capital bike share program where riders pick up and drop off bikes. 36 new docks were added to four stations yesterday and there are plans to install more stations around the district. what's m the washington post reports, plans are in the works next year. >>> and it is a day of celebration today at one prince georges county school. but it's not about student achievement, it's about solar power. a ribbon cutting for one of maryland's largest solar powered pools. the event celebrated the installation of 550 solar panels and the panels are split between two campus rooftops and they are going to generate power between the school's new state of the art center and its main academic building. >> we are less than three weeks away from thanksgiving. already local food banks are worried more families could be left in need and they want to change that. we want to remind you, we are sponsoring food drive 9 again this year. when looking for your donations of foods and other items like the one

the interior, and according to the catcher and the neighbors the van drove by the house before the two gunmen invaded the house and grabbed him. the u.s. state department is monitoring. >> it is of concern to us. we did cite in our country, specific information, the real dangers of kidnapping and violent crime in venezuela. >>reporter: he is a citizen of venezuela, not the united states. however, the fbi will assist if it is asked to. it has not been but kidnappings are surging in venezuela reportedly two a day. >>shepard: has anything like this happened before? i don't remember anything like it. >>guest: we have searched and this appears to be the first time ever a major league baseball player has been kidnapped with what is expected to be a ransomment. however, in venezuela, in particular, family members are pro baseball players in the advance been kidnapped for many in the past. in 2005 the mother of two time all star pitcher was rescued after five months being held hostage and a son and brother-in-law of colorado rockies player kidnapped in 2009 and the mother of a former pitcher also kidnapped. at this point, they are hoping he is still alive. >> incredible. thank you. >> w

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department says it will hold egypt's military leader to his promise to treat demonstrators properly. >> while thousand students wait it out in jail, in cairo a fifth straight day of violent clashes. a battle centered around the interior ministry, as they reject a promise by egypt's military ruler they want him to step down immediately a human rights group raised the death toll to 38 since saturday. >> occupy wall street protestors who walked from new york here to dc spent the night at freedom plaza 40 demonstrators with occupy the highway arrived in the nations capitol yesterday they planned to get here today but the committee as we know failed to come up with a deal a dispointment and not lost on protestors. >>> the occupy movement is costing tax payers a lot of money a survey by the associated press shows local governments in 18 cities dealing with demonstrations, spent $13 million since the protests began the biggest burden is falling on law enforcement in many cities, they are monitoring the marchs and camp sites around the clock. >>> republicans continue their grueling debate schedule, gop presidential candidates face off last night in washington right here for the 11th time this year. doug luzader recaps the se

you know you have covered the story of the pipeline, keystone pipeline the environmentalists have blocked, but what they need now is the interior departmento happen, allow more drilling on public lands, and, for example, in the gulf of mexico, that doesn't just mean more energy production, here in the united states, and less we have to import from the middle east, but, it also means if we get it right, we could really raise trillions of dollars of royalties for the u.s. government. what a great way to reduce the national debt. >> dave: and meanwhile well, talk about all the green energy, in terms of the money pouring there, if there were some technologies that were going to work, wouldn't the private sector find it either way, without the government's help? >> i think so. i mean, look that is the way every other energy industry has developed. not with government support but basically by private entrepreneurs and the private entrepreneurs and the wild caters found the huge oil find in north dakota, which is, by way, larger than the oil production in prudhoe bay in alaska. keep the government out and create a level playing field. i'm not ag