because of earmarks, we did not. because earmarks are gone, arizona in the next authorization bill will likely be up to 95 cents on the dollar. that is hundreds of millions dollars more for arizona, not less. it just will not the one politician directing that and picking winners and losers. that is not a system we want to go back to. >> we have only about a minute left. let me ask you a simple question. it is something you have thought about. in the middle of november, only one of you can win. one of you will be sitting at home. will the two of you be active out there whichever one of you does not go to washington? only about 35 seconds. >> no matter the outcome, i believe i will prevail, i will be active in the community. >> same thing. we will expect to win, but either of us would be active. >> congressman flake, thank you for coming in. richard carmona, thank you for coming in. we have reached the end of our time. thank you for joining us. if you would like to watch this form again in its entirety, go to our websi

you are known for fighting earmarks. >> we do not have the earmarks right now.that is a wonderful thing. businesses in cities and others can compete for federal grants on a merit-based basis rather than by political patron is. that was a terrible system we had, and it is a good riddance. i am proud of the road i played the role i played. the last thing we need is to go back to the earmark era where politicians in the house and senate are picking winners and losers. that is not what we need. what we need is for the federal government to establish and create an environment where the private sector can flourish. >> talking about earmarks is exactly the kind of craziness we do not need any more. earmarked -- $16 trillion debt. earmarked account for 1/2 of 1% of the federal budget. we are better off, but talking about that is like talking about a drop of water in the ocean. the government does not create jobs. the private sector creates jobs. if you one example, take a look at texas. the people in texas are close to the people in arizona. why and there -- is their ec

you are known for fighting earmarks. >> we do not have the earmarks right now.that is a wonderful thing. businesses in cities and others can compete for federal grants on a merit-based basis rather than by political patron is. that was a terrible system we had, and it is a good riddance. i am proud of the road i played the role i played. the last thing we need is to go back to the earmark era where politicians in the house and senate are picking winners and losers. that is not what we need. what we need is for the federal government to establish and create an environment where the private sector can flourish. >> talking about earmarks is exactly the kind of craziness we do not need any more. earmarked -- $16 trillion debt. earmarked account for 1/2 of 1% of the federal budget. we are better off, but talking about that is like talking about a drop of water in the ocean. the government does not create jobs. the private sector creates jobs. if you one example, take a look at texas. the people in texas are close to the people in arizona. why and there -- is their ec

this is a pursuit that congressman flake spoke about, so-called earmarks. they are really less than 1% of our budget and the fact is his colleagues still circumvented. they are still going on so presented in a way that is a lot more than it really appears on a daily basis with his colleagues. as it relates to the security issues in iran, it's a combination of being ready to respond when necessary and ensuring that iran does not get the ability to get the substrate to enrich its uranium. they have to enrich the uranium and they have to be able to weaponize it and most of the experts believe anywhere from six months to have it your way. intelligence has evaluated every day in our government is embargoing as much as a can with its allies but fresh and china have failed to cooperate and they are still bring him in this applies airspace. this is a rest to the whole world of your extremists with nuclear capability so at this point diplomacy is the way to go. i don't think our nation is ready for a third war. we are still recovering from the last two but we have t

you are known for fighting earmarks. >> we do not have the earmarks right now.that is a wonderful thing. businesses in cities and others can compete for federal grants on a merit-based basis rather than by political patron is. that was a terrible system we had, and it is a good riddance. i am proud of the road i played the role i played. the last thing we need is to go back to the earmark era where politicians in the house and senate are picking winners and losers. that is not what we need. what we need is for the federal government to establish and create an environment where the private sector can flourish. >> talking about earmarks is exactly the kind of craziness we do not need any more. earmarked -- $16 trillion debt. earmarked account for 1/2 of 1% of the federal budget. we are better off, but talking about that is like talking about a drop of water in the ocean. the government does not create jobs. the private sector creates jobs. if you one example, take a look at texas. the people in texas are close to the people in arizona. why and there -- is their ec

the path-through, the earmark like we have for the police department, the municipal earmark from the charter goes directly to the san francisco symphony in it's entirety resulting in 12 community events, symphony events including dolores park and other parts of the city. and the gift that is received by the arts commission from the san francisco symphony is in compliance with the admin code or the arts commission's ability to accept gifts under 5.100 of the city charter. so and it's our feeling that that is a great partnership and it is the gift is greatly valued and supports our general fund program including community education in our grants program so the arts commission is very grateful and we believe based on the city attorney's advisement that we are in compliance with the charter and with the law on that. >> we can certainly ask the city attorney about that if we want to in a bit. so they submit back 40% i know it's not necessarily the same pool of money. i guess the response is if they didn't do that going forward you could always ask the board of supervisors for a supplement

. >> as of now you are fined violation of the senate earmark been a, if you have an earmark been a, i think the american people are really expecting you to live up to it. >> reporter: others argue the $165 million request came directly from the executive branch, which isn't bound by congressmember self-imposed earmark band. it doesn't meet the definition of an earmark. house appropriation committee chair republican hal rogers called the prison purchase backdoor move by the administration and pledging full opposition by the appropriation committee. supporters of the deal say there have been bipartisan support. several republicans including congressman done manzulo and shilling publicly praised the transfer. today, illinois democrat senator dick durbin said president obama desevens credit for getting the deal done. >> it's a commitment to a man who knows the state, a man who represented the state, the united states senate. a man who hasn't forgotten his home state of illinois. >> documents filed today do give the attorney general wide latitude to house people at the facility who in his

i mean, senator mccain has been talking tough about earmarks, and that's good, but earmarks account for about $18 billion of our budget. now, when senator mccain is proposing tax cuts that would give the average fortune 500 c.e.o. an additional $700,000 in tax cuts, that's not sharing a burden. and so part of the problem, i think, for a lot of people who are listening here tonight is they don't feel as if they are sharing the burden with other folks. i mean, you know, it's tough to ask a teacher who's making $30,000 or $35,000 a year to tighten her belt when people who are making much more than her are living pretty high on the hog. and that's why i think it's important for the president to set a tone that says all of us are going to contribute, all of us are going to make sacrifices, and it means that, yes, we may have to cut some spending, although i disagree with senator mccain about an across-the board freeze. that's an example of an unfair burden sharing. that's using a hatchet to cut the federal budget. i want to use a scalpel so that people who need help are getting help and thos

. >> you find the violation of the senate earmark ban. the american people really expect you to live up to it. others argue the request be directly from the executive branch which is bound by the self-imposed earmark ban. because it never went through the pros tess cess it doesn't m earmark. the back door move by the administration and is pledging full opposition by the appropriations committee. supporters of the deal say there have been bipartisan support and several republicans including john manzulo. senator dirk durbin says senator deserves credit for getting a deal done. >> he represented the state in the united states senate a man who hasn't forgotten his home state of illinois. >> documents filed in conjunction with the transfer of the prison give latitude to the facility. it is now 25 after the hour. coming up mitt romney and president obama set to face off tonight in the first presidential debate. but what does mitt romney need to do to convince americans he is the man for the job? >> there has to be a compelling reason for chang

the latta not earmarked lottery money going for education. -- the lottery did not earmarked lottery money going for education. lottery commercial never implied ticket sales will be fundamental to education. a percentage of gambling revenue goes to education trust fund. this would continue under question 7 and the new law sets up a commission to make sure that happens. this claim is false. it has nothing to do with education funding. the 300 to $2 million comes from local income tax reserve account. the money was used in place of general funds. >> remember early voting is underway in maryland this weekend. registered voters and began casting their ballots this saturday through thursday, november 1. the polls will open from 10 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. every day except on sundays when they will be open from noon until 6:00 p.m.. you will find the location of this centers in your present needs of our smartphone app. we have a voters guide. the latest in the race for the white house. you can get more on our website, wbaltv.com. >> a deadly shooting inside an atlanta make a charge. details on the i

it violates the obama administration's own earmark policy. it violates it.o, it's strongly opposed by the families, and it sets the stage for the closure of guantanamo baby increasing space for de-- by increasing space either at that prison or at the supermax in colorado. and lastly, it jumps illinois, thompson prison where they were originally thinking of taking the guantanamo people, it jumps them above new hampshire, alabama, every other state of the union. and it's an earmark that they say is not appropriate, and yet they have done this. alisyn: as we you said it, congress -- understand it, congress specifically prohibited the transfer of gitmo prisoners to the u.s. how does this play into that? >> they could right after the election by executive order, they could do this. what they're doing here violates the law. you have never had a reprogramming of $165 million earmark, never been done. and yet they've done it. alisyn: how do you know this'll be used for gitmo prisoners? >> well, you could then put the people into supermax in colorado in thomson and t

the path-through, the earmark like we have for the police department, the municipal earmark from the charter goes directly to the san francisco symphony in it's

feels that the blatant capture of funds is at the expense of employees who are not receiving money earmarked for health care, nor are the customer who is are paying the surcharge for what they honestly believe is for employee health care. in reviewing the armorial intent of the health care program, we reminded ourselves repeatedly that this program is about providing health care for employees, not creating additional profits for businessess, the jury has no issue with restaurant eurs raising their surcharge, a significant number of restaurant owners

maybe we could have an earmark, pork barrel project, do away with all pbs but have an earmark for big'm not a big bird -- i mean, i'm not an earmark fan, but maybe it would justify. >> senator, always good to talk to you. thank you very much. >> thanks, piers. >>> next, a reenergized president obama goes back on the attack and did the job numbers stop mitt romney's momentum before it could really start? >>> why won't romney level with Ñ >>> why won't romney level with us about his tax plan which gives the wealthy huge new tax breaks? because according to experts, he would have to raise taxes on the middle class, or increase the deficit to pay for it. if we can't trust him here, how could we ever trust him here? >> roller coaster week hitting a high note for president obama. the new jobless numbers are easing the pain of his poor debate performance and bring romney's momentum to a sharp stop or it may not. joining me now, "new york times" columnist, nick kristof. let's start with the job figures today. because it's clearly good news for barack obama politically if nothing else. >> not

maybe we could have an earmark, pork barrel project, do away with all pbs but have an earmark for big'm not a big bird -- i mean, i'm not an earmark fan, but maybe it would justify. >> senator, always good to talk to you. thank you very much. >> thanks, piers. >>> next, a reenergized president obama goes back on the attack and did the job numbers stop mitt romney's momentum before it could really start? a ! [ wife ] a beached whale! lawn clippings! a mattress. a sausage link. mermaid. honey!? driftwood. come on, you gotta help us out here a little. [ male announcer ] febreze eliminates odors and leaves carpets fresh. ♪ [ male announcer ] febreze. eliminates odors and leaves carpets fresh. ♪ [ male announcer ] how do you turn an entrepreneur's dream... ♪ into a scooter that talks to the cloud? ♪ or make 70,000 trades a second... ♪ reach one customer at a time? ♪ how do you help doctors turn billions of bytes of shared information... ♪ into a fifth anniversary of remission? ♪ or turn 30-million artifacts... ♪ into a high-tech masterpiece? ♪ whatever your business challenge, dell has the

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i never asked for an earmark.to work with republican senators mccain other republicans colleagues against the majority of my party, and banned earmarks. i'm proud of that work. akin has requested hundreds of earmarks and was a proud defender of the earmarking process. then there was contracting, as a prosecutedder, i looked a the the government contracting going on. i looked at what was happening in iraq and afghanistan with the abusive wasteful contracts, once again working with both democrats and republicans we were able to move across government and reform the burke obamacare that were wasting your money. and jeff sessions a couple of years ago more than a couple of years ago came to me a conservative republican senator from alabama and said, clare, you seem like the kind of democrat that would work with me on putting a cap on federal spending. i said i am that type of democrat. together even though my party's leadership fought me we worked put a cap on federal spending. ii think our legislation made a differen

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i mean, senator mccain has been talking tough about earmarks, and that's good, but earmarks account for about $18 billion of our budget. now, when senator mccain is proposing tax cuts that would give the average fortune 500 ceo an additional $700,000 in tax cuts, that's not sharing a burden. and so part of the problem, i think, for a lot of people who are listening here tonight is they don't feel as if they are sharing the burden with other folks. i mean, you know, it's tough to ask a teacher who's making $30,000 or $35,000 a year to tighten her belt when people who are making much more than her are living pretty high on the hog. and that's why i think it's important for the president to set a tone that says all of us are going to contribute, all of us are going to make sacrifices, and it means that, yes, we may have to cut some spending, although i disagree with senator mccain about an across-the- board freeze. that's an example of an unfair burden sharing. that's using a hatchet to cut the federal budget. >> i want to use a scalpel so that people who need help are getting help and tho

. >> earmark projects. [ inaudible ] >> candidate young, i'm so sorry we have to wrap you up. thank you for coming in and best of luck. remember, if you'd like to see this interview again, you can log on to abc2news.com/politics. don't forget to vote tuesday, november 6th. >> we'll have more candidate interviews every day leading up to the elections. >> thank you for joining use we'll see you back at 11. as a pastor, my support for question 6 is rooted in my belief that the government should treat everyone equally. i would not want someone denying my rights based upon their religious views, therefore i should not deny others based upon mine. it's about fairness. this law does not force any church to perform a same sex marriage if it's against their beliefs. and that's what this is about. protecting religious freedom and protecting all marylanders equally under the law. join me in voting for question 6. i've always been lucky. flew 37 bombing missions over germany. made it home every time. i'm lucky to have good friends who are all still around, and we're all lucky to have a fr

bill law did not earmark lottery money going for education. tv lottery drawings never suggested ticket sales support and education funding. early lottery commercials never implied ticket sales would be funneled to education. >> a percentage of gambling revenue goes to the education trust fund. this would continue under question 7 at a new law sets of the commission with enforcement power to make sure that happens. >> politicians rated $350 million in the education trust fund. >> this claim is false. has nothing to do with education funding were slot money. the money comes from local income tax reserve account. the state are owed $350 million in fiscal year 2011. those dollars were credited to the education trust fund. the money was used in place of general funds. >> here is how it actually works. the plan enhanced education funding levels. in 2007, the general assembly create the education trust fund to puts lots money into it. casino money is used for education but it's not on top of what the state has earmarked. the state has the option of s

regularly receives authority and state transportation funds from grant programs and congressional earmarks from caltrans. one of the conditions in order to receive these funds is have an updated resolution identifying person who can enter into the agreements. last resolution we have is from november 2010. this has proven to be effective and has allowed us to execute agreements within the 60-day requirement and to more quickly seek reimbursement of grant funds from state and federal grants. during fiscal years 2012 and 13 we anticipate receiving the following federal and state funds from caltrains. we anticipate the planning programming and monitoring program funds from fiscal year 2012 and 13. funds were geneva, bus rapid transit. mobility transit management plan and for various phases of the yerba buena island program. this was brought before the cdc october 10th. adopt a motion of support for staff recommendation, with five members voting in favor, one dissenting. the fiscal impacts would be -- authority would be in compliance with caltran's funding agreements in terms of when we approve

so i never asked for an earmark. i went to work with republican senators mccain and demands another republican colleagues. against the majority of my party and we banned it marked the i'm proud that were. congressman akin has requested hundreds of earmarks. until they raise alee a proud defender of in marking process think it was a constitutional principle. then there was contracting. as a prosecutor i looked up the government contracting company can't come a i look at what's happening in iraq and afghanistan with abusive wasteful contracts. once again, working with both democrats and republicans were able to move across government and really reform some of these bureaucracies that were wasting your money through wasteful contracting practices. and then suggest sessions a couple years ago came to me very conservative republican senator from alabama and said you seem like the kind of democrat that would work with me on putting a cap on federal spending. and i said i am the kind of democrat. together, even though my pa

>> billion in a prior story, not this story, when we looked at earmarks we did find earmarks that wase to his undeveloped property. >> right, i saw a nice deal here on a land deal in 1998, 700 grand. anyway, just wondered. >> right, exactly. we have a whole host of stories that we've done that look more at this intersection between their duties and their personal assets and that's -- >> that's the best way, not with a couple of, you know, stock tips in congress. i like it ben they do the earmarks, where they buy something and then maybe check the former speaker, too. anyway, right? kimberly, thank you. appreciate it. >> thank you very much for having me. >> all right, see you. >>> oh, it's me. coming up, this morning's top stories set to foreboding music. the rails for the white house, both hitting the campaign trail. former governors face off in the issues and former hp boss carly fiorina, why she calls the board a serial dysfunction, and not like cereal. your ford dealer. who's offering a rebate? your ford dealer. who has the low price tire guarantee... affording peace of mind to an

earmark processed saying it was a constitutional principle. then there was contract and. as a prosecutor, i looked at the government contracting the was going on and i looked a lot happening in iraq and afghanistan with abusive wasteful contract, once again working with both democrats and republicans. we were able to move across the government and relief for some of the bureaucracies that we're wasting your money through wasteful contracting practices. and then senator jeff sessions a couple of years ago, more than a couple of years ago came to me very conservative republican senator from alabama and said you know, you seem like the kind of democrat that would work with me on putting a cap to federal spending. and i said i am that kind of democrat and to get even though my party's leadership fought with the we worked together to put a cap on federal spending and the legislation made a difference. a strong bipartisan record is much different than a congressman akin's record. congressman akin has been one of a handful of congressmen voting again

first, earmarks. i had no idea how ugly the earmarking process was until i got there. factory, lobbyists, campaign donations. i decided not to play the game. we should spend public money based on mart, not on who you know or who you help out. i never asked for an earmark, and i went to work with republican senators mccain and demint and other republican colleagues against the majority of my party, and we banned earmarks. i'm proud of that work. congressman has requested hundreds of earmarks. until recently, he was a defender of the earmarking process saying it was a constitutional principle. then there was contracting. as a prosecutor, i looked at the government contracting that was going on. i lookedded at what was happening in iraq and afghanistan, with abusive wasteful contracts, and, again, working with both democrats and republicans, able to move across government and reform some of the bureaucracies wasting your money through race for contracting practices. then senator jeff sessions, more than a couple years ago, came to me, very conservative republican senator

. >> not all the grain that's harvested worldwide is earmarked for human consumption. much of it is used as animal feed. the growing number of people eating meat means more livestock has to be raised. the result is a growing demand for animal feed. it takes 10 kilograms of grain to produce a kilogram of beef; five kilograms of grain for one kilogram of pork and 2.5 kilograms of grain for a kilogram of poultry. over 40% of the worldwide harvest becomes livestock feed. grain has other uses, too. for car drivers, biofuel made from grain is an increasingly popular alternative to gasoline. in the us and germany, there are even laws in place requiring refiners to blend renewable fuels into the gas supply. the aim is to ease global dependency on oil and protect the environment. increasingly, farmers are therefore growing crops for fuel rather than food -- because it's more lucrative. this development is particularly acute in the us. almost 40% of the corn harvest is used for fuel. 37% becomes animal feed. that leaves just 11% for food, while 13% is exported. the german world

and we're looking at the 12.5 million and i think we had earmarked 9 million of that for chinatown and 3.5 million elsewhere, if i'm reading it correctly. and, i mean, he i think the impact is probably heaviest obviously in the plan area itself where you're creating the most impact by having the development there, and you need the open space to complement that. and then, you know, you have to kind of decide where the impact, next impact is the greatest and that was the decision that was made and that's what's before us and it sound reasonable to me. you can also conjecture about relative impacts here and there, but it seems to be a reasonable position to take. and i'm fine with it, especially the prioritizing of the first of the monies as was mentioned at the end of this document to be used in chinatown as they pour forward. so, that sounds fine with me. >> commissioner wu? >> so, i have some comments. i don't think they pertain to the nexus study in particular, but i think that overall logic is that chinatown is the densest neighborhood in the city. these parks are the most heavily us

and we were fortunate enough to be given a congressionally directed appropriation, we don't say earmark any more, to assist us with disposal. and over the last couple of years as we've put together a full project, we have set aside port capital funds to pay for the balance. so, what is the project? no matter how we slice it, it is going to go in multiple phases. we've been working with the navy's primary general contractor for demolition and disposal on the west coast to evaluate different ways we can approach this project. and they came back to us with an analysis and study that had four options, two of which were prohibitively expensive so we took them off the table right away. the two that are left, both have the same first phase. whichever way we go, it starts off the same. so, that's why i'm here hoping to get the project moving while we figure out the rest of that. phase 1, by removing of the end sections which are removable by design, the dry dock was built so that it could -- dry dock itself lift itself up out of the water. so, one of the early stumbling blocks with this project

there is sitting outside the plan, 12.5 million, 9 million earmarked * for improvements in china town. one would assume that these improvements could take the form of creating new open space or adding back open space in areas to existing parks that would create presumably a lot more sunlit areas lost from the blockage, the small shadows allowed by increase in shadow allotment. i'm poising that for your consideration. that is what i would presume would be some of the possibilities for 9 million used to china town, which no one has brought up. but that is important and very beneficial part of the plan. perhaps staff can look at that before the next hearing to say that is possible, yes, to create more space than is being lost if that was the desire of the community and desire of the commission. >> commissioner moore. >> mr. switzky, your third slide speaks about plan open space program, indicating there would be 12 acres of new open space in vicinity of project which are going to be casting shadows other further away spaces. my question to you is we obviously do not know as to whether or

. >> money raised is not earmarked to fight obesity. is a new business license tax that applies to businesses in richmond that will be required to pay annual fee on inventories or sales of any sugar sweet ended beverage of any type. >> the coalition again the beverage tax is funded by several soft drink companies they say opposition includes richmond chamber of commerce and local naacp. >>> teens and smartphones, new study finds young people who have them are hooking up more often than those who don't. researchers surveyed 2 1/2 high school stew tens in los angeles -- surveyed 2 thaw high school students . >>> screening for breast cancer saves lives. experts say it can cause more harm than thought. independent panel confirmed findings in the u.s. and other studies the panel says mammograms saves lives of 1300 women every year but at the same time 4,000 -- 4,000 women are overdiagnosed. >>> governor brown scheduled to speak at grand opening of space shuttle endeavour exhibit in los angeles this morning the craft is sitting at its new hom

we have earmarked a couple schools under that funding, which is thurgood marshal, cesar chavez and downtown high school. between the money we do have from the hetch hetchy and money available from transbay funding we can do more schools. >> in terms of allocations, this is a partnership, we have efficiency or renewal projects with city facilities as well. how do you sort of all -- allocate that scarce money to get us to be less reliable on energy. >> you mean allocated between schools and other city departments? is that the question? >> right. >> that is a matter of prioritizing projects. so on the renewable side we have potential portfolio projects we are looking at on city properties and the schools. we go through a process there where we look at roofs of buildings of a structurally sound electrical system in the building. support the system and so forth. we come up with a list of buildings. then within that framework, then depending on project and depending on funding we select the project to fund. >> is it tied into what people pay i want the system? the school pays for energy, i'm gues