he secretary of the european committee on radiation risks. chris busby is a regular mainstream media guest in his black parade he has become an easily recognizable figure on the b.b.c. for al-jazeera he was recently consulted on the consequences of the nuclear crisis at fukushima. unlike the iraqi authorities he has investigated influenza but the way around that is to just knock on the door and say scuse me. how many people got cancer here in the last five years and who lives it in a series and what because if you know who lives. it and even then predict how many kinds as they should have on the basis of the national average of the rates and so on and just compare them with the numbers that they report on the one divided by the other is a rather some risk. so you did you frank you. know the way i've got so many people after my guts i'm not going to come stick myself a proper pulitzer so my hope tonight is that you know well all i did was i told them what to do i said look i'll tell you what to do i'll create a questionnaire. based on the ones

the question therefore is, are european supervisors allowing lower risk weights. the committee takes this seriously and has a process under way to verify that the two continents are operating comparably. the other issue is that the rules have not been implemented in europe or in the united states either. there is a european union directive in process, which we are looking at carefully. it does not in our view completely consistent with the agreements. but it's not a final document. we want to be sure that the capital rules in europe do in fact adhere to the agreement that we all signed on to. >> just a final quick point. in the context, you are still looking closely at these differentials of the european treatment of their sovereign debt and the way the voeka rule will treat it? >> the issue is that because there's an exemption for u.s. treasuries but not for foreign sovereignty, they plooech they're being -- we take this seriously. we are in close discussions and of course, we'll be looking carefully to see if changes are needed and do what's necessary. >> thank you, mr. chair

of the treaty, has to be very attentive to the respect by member states of european legislation, and that is what the committee has done. -- european commission has done. we have launched a number of procedures against hungary because we have doubts. the european commission has doubts about the compatibility of some of the laws. >> adjacently, maybe the press law. >> a number of issues. the european commission has concluded in a number of these cases, hungary was doing the right thing, and in a number of cases they were not doing enough. for some of the cases we initiated, they are not yet close. they will be pursued because we are insisting that we need more guarantees. the system is there. the system is there. if there are doubts about the fact that one country is not fully respecting the law, the spirit and the letter of the law, the european commission, guardian of the treaty, can act. and ultimately, if need be, the european court of justice will have the final word. >> can issue a judgment that can be enforced, a punitive judgment? >> absolutely. the judgments are fully applicable and enforceable. >> if

eastern the house oversight committee looks at the european debt crisis. federal reserve chairman ben bernanke and secretary tim geithner testify. when the hearing wraps up, live coverage of the house budget committee, as the it begins consideration of the budget proposal, the house budget markup at 12:30 p.m. eastern. a new report from the surgeon general found that one in four high school seniors smokes cigarettes. and 80% of them will go on to smoke as adults. the surgeon general and health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius spoke about the report earlier this month for about a half-hour. >> what a well-behaved group. good morning, everybody. thank you for joining us here today. i am delighted to be here to kick off the announcement of the 2012 surgeon general's report on tobacco use among youth and young adults. i want to start by acknowledging some of my terrific colleagues, dr. regina benjamin, the surgeon general you will hear from, dr. david sacher, former surgeon general involved in this effort for a long time. [ applause ] dr. howard k

eastern the house oversight committee looks at the european debt crisis. both federal reserve chairman, benjamin bernanke and treasury secretary tim geithner testify. when that wraps up, the house budget committee, beginning consideration of the republican budget proposal for next year. expect to bring you the house budget markup at 12:30 p.m. eastern. >> the news service reported earlier this year that it found millions of dollars of fraud in the food stamp program. the report said hundred of retaller banned from the program continued accepting food stamps. some in exchange for beer, cigarettes and cash. earlier this month, the house oversight committee held a hearing on the issue. this is about an hour and a half. >> the committee will come to order. the oversight committee exists to secure two fundamental principles, first, americans have a right to know that the money washington takes from them is well spent. and second, americans deserve an efficient, effective government that works for them. our duty on the oversight and government reform committee ti

eastern a house oversight committee looks at the european debt crisis. both federal reserve chairman ben bernanke and treasury secretary tim geithner testify. and when that hearing wraps up, live coverage of the house budget committee begins consideration of the republican budget proposal for next year. we expect to bring you the house budget markup at about 12:30 p.m. eastern. captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2008 captioning performed by vitac

eastern, the house oversight committee looks at the european debt crisis. both federal reserve chairman ben bernanke and treasury secretary tim geithner testify. and when that hearing wraps up, live coverage of the house budget committee. consideration of the republicans' budget proposal for next year. we expect to bring you the house budget markup at about 12:30 p.m. eastern. >>> the u.s. ambassador to the u.n., susan rice, testified on capitol hill today about the obama administration's foreign operations budget. some members questioned the $79 million used for unesco, the u.n. educational scientific and cultural organization. even though palestine is not internationally recognized as a country. ambassador rice's testimony is an hour and a half. >> i want to welcome everyone to today's hearing. ambassador rice, thank you for being with us today to give testimony and answer our questions on the administration's budget request for the united nations and international organizations. i know it's challenging year since you last. we commend you for your efforts

eastern the house oversight committee looks at the european debt crisis. both federal reserve chairman ben bernanke traensy secretary tim geithner testify. and when that hearing wraps up live coverage of the house budget committee as it begins consideration of the republican's budget proposal for next year. we expect to bring you the house budget markup at about 12:30 p.m. eastern. >>> lawrence lindsay led the white house economic council during the first two years of the george w. bush administration. at the atlantic forum on the economy last week he said neither democrats nor republicans have credible economic plans. he was interviewed by the atlantic's editor and chief. [ applause ] >> there's been a lot of discussion about how difficult the last decade has been in global markets, global economies. we don't need to belabor it. what is your diagnosis of what we have just gone through, the problems that we've been facing? >> well, you know, i think the guilt that we should all have for a little bit of hubris is in order. in my profession, i started talking

timothy geithner testified before the house financial services committee on the stability of the international financial system. the european debt crisis and how it affects the u.s. was discussed during this two and a half hour hearing. chairman spencer bacchus and other republican committee members wrote a letter to secretary geithner earlier this year opposing increased contributions to the international monetary fund for the purpose of alleviating the european debt crisis. the treasury secretary last month indicated at a g-20 meeting that the u.s. did not intend to make additional imf contributions for that purpose. the imf meets in april for more talks on europe and other issues. representative jeb henserling h attend. it's about two hours and 40 minutes. >>> this hearing will come to order. the purpose of the hearing today is to receive the annual testimony of the secretary of treasury on the state of international -- the international financial system. the chair would note the very notable absence of our chairman today, chairman bacchus, who is undergoing a minor surgical procedure. he is expected to rejoin us tomorro

i chair the european affairs subcommittee on the foreign relations committee and we've been watching very closely what is happening in russia right now, the protests, reaction to putin's announcement that he would switch from being prime minister -- to be president again. and you talk in your january testimony about return to the presidency is resulting in more continuity than change. can you talk about how we view first of all the impact of demonstration on russia at what a change that might affect as we look at the changeover imprudence role there? >> well, i find this evolution very interesting. and again, this is another manifestation of the impact of social russian ali are finding those challenges and putting my free information flow via social media genie back in the bottle. and i often wonder whether mr. putin will be the day he decided to come back. he might've been better served while he was ahead. i think he comes from kind of the old school and i don't think the old order is going to work and russia. and i think when the thousands of people willing to turn out in a bitter,

of the economy because timothy geithner and bernanke eat both appeared at a house committee hearing today on the european debt crisis earlier. my goodness you can just predict what the chairman of the federal reserve would have to say but just in case you can't listen. although progress has been made more needs to be done secretary geithner discuss some of these issues further strengthening of the european banking system an expansion of financial backstop so far walls to guard against contagion in sovereign debt markets. european leaders european central banks they need to do more they need to pump more money into the economy they have already turned more than a trillion dollars of trash to cash in the case of l.t. arrows so come on line is this talking point going to cease to be relevant to lawmakers or anybody listening well that's the strategy i mean that's how you consolidate power it's the only dialectic it's time you have a crisis you don't wear out imagery that's true galeon dialectic it's a crisis reaction solution right and these guys are always saying we're looking forward here's the solution h

committee. they say european legislation could restrain some decisions. they welcome the efforts to make sure the efforts don't impede the fdc and they say it could be used to signal risks. i think we've had as well a little bit on the account. the deficit was 8.5 billion. it was forecast at 8.7. so not quite as bad as we thought. sterling has fallen, though, after that revised gdp data. so the fourth quarter weaker than we thought originally. we'll take a short break. still to come, italian banker and credit is making its way in cleaning up its balance sheet. what does the bank plan to do with all the ltro. we'll hear from the ceo right after this. >>> you're watching "worldwide exchange." the french energy giant says it will take months to stop the gas leak at its >>> you're watching "worldwide exchange." the french energy giant says it will take months to stop the gas leak at its el begin platform as a cloud builds over the north sea. >> hon hai becomes the biggest holder. >> sterling loses a bit of ground after the uk's gdp is revised lower for the fi

chairman bernanke, at our last hearing right here in the committee on the european debt crisis i askedut the expose your of our largest banks to the european financial system. the feds has yet to respond to our, my request for this information. will you provide the committee with this information regarding the individual expose yours of our largest banks to europe? >> of course, supervisory information has legal protections, but i we'd be happy to work with the committee to provide you with the information -- >> but we need to know what's going on as far as your -- our expose your of our banks to europe. >> yes. we want to make sure that you understand the situation, have all the information you need to make good decisions. i just wanted to add that, um, the sec working with other agencies has provided now some guidance and templates to banks to provide public information on a quarterly basis about their exposures and their hedges. but, yes, we certainly can work with you to help you understand everything you need to know to make good decisions. .. want to take too much comfort from th

european crisis, that was a u.s. problem and we need to resolve it ourselves. this committee has the same belief. yes, we're concerned about europe and we're concerned about their crisis. we want to assist them in any way we can, but the financial burden should not fall back on this country to resolve their problems over there. some of the major regulations the administration is imposing will have the effect of imposing that burden on us, we believe, especially in our financial sectors because they're not adopting similar policies to what we're adopting over there and it will put us at a really financial disadvantage. there's not a european country that seems to want to comply with the regulations placed on our companies. if they don't, what position does that put the american companies at a disadvantage to the european companies in the future. if we're ever going to get out of the situation we're in today and we're moving slowly in recovery, we cannot put the financial services sector at a disadvantage and i believe the volcker rule will do exactly that. i hope the administration looks at that a

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there are also reasons to be concerned, such as a european debt crisis, and the continuing drag of the housing market on the broader economy. this committee has paid close attention to these two issues and held numerous hearings. while we remain hopeful that we are moving in the right direction, we must continue to monitor the situation here closely. on housing, there are a variety of policy proposals, some that do not record an act of congress that should be considered to improve the housing market. i want to thank governor duke for her thoughtful testimony on tuesday before this committee and the federal reserve's white paper on options to improve the housing market. americans continue to grapple with higher fuel costs when they fill up their cars or heat their

european crisis but a u.s. problem, and we need to resolve it ourselves, and this committee has the same beliefs.we are concerned about your wpm yes, concerned about the crisis to we want to assist them any way we can put the financial burden should not fall back on this country to resolve their problems over there. ..

committee. this is a very important issue. european officials have taken actions to reestablish the ability in a eurozone. american officials have helped the consultations. no one is declaring mission accomplished with the signs of improvement are hard to miss. the house republicans released a budget proposal of $5.30 trillion over the next 10 years. its will shift costs to seniors. the majority will seek for greece's financial troubles. the united states should cut taxes to avoid these things. do not believe it. while strong medicine is needed, who should be taking the hit? what we have learned is that austerity measures imposed have very real negative consequences for hard-working people what they leave the economic elite unscathed. secretary geithner warned against this. you said this. "we need to stay intensely focused on strengthening our economy in the short term. we cannot share cut our way to growth." house republicans have viewed this. different problems require different solutions. economists agree that the investment grade b

the committee has ruled on an appeal that he had lodged after his five-year suspension. for the second time in a matter of months, the european central bank has made loans with hundreds of billions of euros to financial institutions. a hundred banks have borrowed 530 billion euros. they have taken that money at the rate of 1%. it is the latest attempt to shore up the debt. an italian cruise ship that had been drifting in the indian ocean looks as if it is going to be at sea for a few more hours. it has refused the help of tugboats which could have sped up the mission. it has more than one dozen people on board. it was crippled -- 1000 people on board. it was crippled by a fire in its engine. the burning of korans was given as the reason for the killing of two americans. the latest violence has led to the question of timing. we have been speaking to the top nato commander in afghanistan, general john allen, and also the u.s. ambassador to afghanistan. he began by asking the general if he accepts it was naive not to understand that burning the koran would have caused a violent reaction. >> we are not surprised in the least. the

i would encourage you to give your speech to the environment committee of the european parliament the next time you are over in brussels because they are all a terrific bunch over there. let me take the opportunity to open up the discussion to the distinguished guests that we have here the conference who might have some questions. some of the remarks were a little bit provocative although you hit them a little bit in your speeches. for instance, rinehart, you raised some points about msm, you touched upon some issues of the e.u. of respecting its obligation in some areas, so let's open up the floor and get some kind of russell questions to some of the hidden controversies you had in your speeches. would anybody like to kick this off? >> i have one for the audience than. for those of you interested in the sector we have a couple industrial sector people appear, who could accept to go with reinhardt's question related to them the msm principle this of course the big challenge if your industry were to go to be the only with an msn rule due to open all of your markets to the chinese and t

committee. this is a very important issue. european officials have taken actions to reestablish the ability in a eurozone. american officials have helped the consultations. no one is declaring mission accomplished with the signs of improvement are hard to miss. the house republicans released a budget proposal of $5.30 trillion over the next 10 years. its will shift costs to seniors. the majority will seek for greece's financial troubles. the united mstates should cut taxes to avoid these things. do not believe it. while strong medicine is needed, who should be taking the hit? what we have learned is that austerity measures imposed have very real negative consequences for hard-working people what they leave the economic elite unscathed. secretary geithner warned against this. you said this. "we need to stay intensely focused on strengthening our economy in the short term. we cannot share cut our way to growth." house republicans have viewed this. different problems require different solutions. economists agree that the investment grade

the european debt crisis and the continuing track of the housing market on the broader economy. this committee has paid close attention to these issues and held numerous hearings. while i remain hopeful that we are moving in the right direction, we must continue to monitor the situation closely. on housing, there are a number of policy proposals that should be considered to improve the housing market. i want to thank the governor for her fought for -- hurt thoughtful testimony on tuesday and for her paper on options to improve the housing market. an additional challenge, the sharp increase in oil prices, has the potential to impede the economic recovery. americans continue to grapple with higher fuel costs when they fuel up their cars or heat their homes. it is important that all markets are closely monitored -- supply disruption, and i look forward to hearing the fed's views on how raising oil prices affect consumer spending and affects economic growth. i appreciate all the fed has done to encourage economic recovery. i look forward to hearing more from you on the recent actions and possible

committee, thank you for holding this important hearing. i appeared before your regional subcommittee in november to discuss the crisis in syria. since that time, our european friends have joined us in sanctioning the central bank of syria impeding the financing of the regime's brutal crackdown. the eu has completed its implementation of its embargo on oil pur chases from syria halting a third of bashar's government revenues. the arab league suspended the membership with many states downgrading relations and freezing bank accounts. the arab league put forth a political transition period for syria. over 137 countries supported the un general assembly resolution condemning the syrian regime's violence and supporting the arab league transition plan. more than 60 countries and institutions met in tunis as friends of the syrian people to endorse the arab transition plan, to demand an immediate end to the violence and commit to practical steps to address the syrian crisis. the syrian opposition in tunis articulated a clear, credible transition plan and addressed minority fears directly and convincingly. we announced $10 million in immediate humanitarian assistanc

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committee with its work. in your remarks, i think, at page 4, you cited the concern regarding the downside risk to the economic outlook that's due to stressors in the european banking system and the eurozone in general. and i note that recently there was an agreement between the greek government and private bond holders where the greek government will.i. impose a hait of a little over 50% on those bond holders. i'm trying to understand the agreement itself. it looks like there is a collective action clause that says once a certain amount of the old bonds are redeemed, then the government will impose a collective haircut across all of those bond holders. and there is a question here -- well, i guess you could say that charitably, at least, there is a default here. and i guess there is a controlled default. and what remains unclear is whether these bond swaps will constitute a creditor vent for some of our vault protection derivatives and whether it will trigger a payout on false swaps of greek debt. i guess what i'm concerned about is that even though the amount is fairly small -- 3-plus billion is a small number, relatively speaking -- is what that means to

committee understand what you mean by that? >> well, in the wake of the passage of 1929, which raised substantially the baseline of global sanctions against iran, we, the united states, our european partners and a number of other countries, japan, south korea, some of the gulf countries, canada, australia and others implemented additional sanctions using 1929 as a legal foundation but raising the national bar for each of these countries even higher. the cumulative effect of those decisions as well as what we have seen most recently with respect to the central bank of iran sanctions, the eu decision to embargo oil that we were discussing earlier with respect to swift has been that the global pressure on iran is mounting

the european debt crisis and the continuing track of the housing market on the broader economy. this committeeattention to these issues and held numerous hearings. while i remain hopeful that we are moving in the right direction, we must continue to monitor the situation closely. on housing, there are a number of policy proposals that should be considered to improve the housing market. i want to thank the governor for her thoughtful testimony on tuesday and for her paper on options to improve the housing market. an additional challenge, the sharp increase in oil prices, has the potential to impede the economic recovery. americans continue to grapple with higher fuel costs when they fuel up their cars or heat their homes. it is important that all markets are closely monitored -- supply disruption, and i look forward to hearing the fed's views on how raising oil prices affect consumer spending and affects economic growth. i appreciate all the fed has done to encourage economic recovery. i look forward to hearing more from you on the recent actions and possible future actions to protect our econo

committee -- he's an academic physicist, research scientist. his commitment was that the united states, americans, should pay the same price of gasoline as europeans. that's $9 or $10 a gallon. dr. chu was asked last week what he thought the right price -- was he willing to try to lower the price of gasoline? and he said no. he is not in the business of lowering the price of gasoline. he is in the business of developing replacements for gasoline. he then explained about some breakthrough in battery research, which i suspect in 15 to 20 years' time will be useful. but most of us don't have 15 to 20 years to fill up our cars. now -- i believe -- so first of all, i believe the lesson of where we are is that we should abolish the department of energy as a grotesque failure. [cheers and applause] >> i simply want to start with the premise no more solyndras, no more boondoggles, now let's talk about energy. the president said there's no silver bullets. he's right. but there is a presidential panel. -- pen. he could sign three documents and change the oil trajectory of the united states. first, he could approve the keystone x.l. pipeline. [cheers and app

i appeared before your regional set committee in november to discuss the crisis in syria. and since that time, our european friends have joined us in sanction the pennsylvania to syria and the financing of the regime's brutal crack down. the e.u. has completed its implementation of its embargo on oil purchases from syria to halting it aired at the shyest government revenues. the arab league serious membership with many arab states downgrading diplomatic relations and freezing syrian ink accounts. the arab league called for the political transition plan for syria. over 137 countries supported the u.n. general assembly resolution can domain this hearing machines violent supporting the arab league transition plan. my than 60 countries and institutions that into nasa's friends of the syrian people to endorse the area transition plan to demand an immediate end to the violence and commit the practical steps to address the syrian crisis. the syrian opposition articulated a clear, credible transition plan and addressed minority fears directly and convincingly. we announced $10 million in immediate humanitarian ass

european sovereign debt default and he says major u.s. banks are not view neverable. ben bernanke and tim geithner will testify before the house committee today. and a new poll suggests that the era of quantitative ease may co-- easing mae come to an end. you don't know -- whether they say one thing, whether we should think the opposite. but a march baker of america/merrill lynch says they no longer expect further kwav measures taking an easing. sovereign debt is still big. >> when you poll portfolio managers and you ask a question like that and it's three months of really nice action in the s&p, that's what they're going to say. >> right. that's exactly -- >> right that's p.r. >> it has nothing to do with their outlook on the economy or what they think about the fed. >> they're classic contrarian indicators. >> that's the word i was looking for. >> maybe not quite to the extent that the survey or retail investors is but i think they don't exactly have a track record of foreseeing the next move in the market. >> mr. wapner. >> does anybody really? do you have a view on this? >> no. i mean it -- no one has a -- i don't think anybody has

such as a european debt crisis and the continued drag of the housing market on the broader economy. this committee has paid close attention to these two issues and held numerous hearings. while i remain hopeful that we are moving in the right direction, we must continue to monitor the situation closely. on housing, there are a variety of policy proposals, some that do not require an act of congress that should be considered to improve the housing market. i want to thank governor duke for his thoughtful testimony on tuesday before this committee and the federal reserve's white paper on options to improve the housing market. an additional challenge, the sharp increase in oil prices has the potential to impede the economic recovery. americans continue to grapple with higher fuel costs when they fill up their cars or heat their homes. it is important that all markets are closely monitored, and i look forward to hearing the views and how rising oil prices may affect consumer spending and economic growth. i appreciate all the fed has done to insure continued economic recovery. chairman bernanke, i look

committee. your remarks, he cited the concern regarding the downside risk of the economic outlook due to stresses in the european banking system and the eurozone in general. there was an agreement between the greek government and private bond holders where the greek government would impose a hair cut of over 50%. there is a clause that says once a certain amount of the old bonds are redeemed, then the government will impose a collective hair cut across all of those bond holders. there is a question here, i guess you could say that, charitably, there is a default here. i guess there is a controlled the fault. what remains that it is unclear is whether these bond swaps will constitute a credit event. whether it will trigger the payout on credit default swaps on greek debt. what that means to u.s. bank's exposure to greek debt. whether credit default swaps are still a mechanism for protecting against that event. does this make you concerned about what those balance sheets look like? >> there is a private sector body that determines whether a credit event has happened. i do not know what they will determine. if they

hearing right here on the european debt crisis, i asked the federal reserve witness about the -- the fed is yet to respond to my request for this information. will you provide the committeeding the individual exposures of our largest banks for krurp? >> of course supervisory information has legal protections, but we would be happy -- >> we need to know what's going on sxars our exposures to banks -- >> we want to make sure you understand the information, unfortunate all the information you need to make good decisions. the s.e.c. working with out agencies has provided some guidance and templates to banks to provide public information on a quarterly basis, but yes we can work with you to help you to understand what you need to know to make good decisions. >> are you concerned about some exposure of our larger banks to europe. >> we're concerned in the sense we're paying a lot of attention to it. our sense is, having done a lot of work on this, including -- in their current capital stress tests that they're doing now, our sense is that it is direct exposures of u.s. barons to sovereign debt in europe, particularly that of the weaker countries is quite limited and is well he

european nations were in a single digits collectively much more sycophant than that. but i had run out at chollet to meet with a gentleman that is the chair of the standing committee on international trade remember of parliament, rob mary field from canada and we had a little conversation about this and talk about what is happening in canada, and with their budgets they are going to be introducing an austerity budget. they have lowered the tax rates and they believe that they are on firm ground and certainly the prime minister harper who's been here and other places and the world is looking for those partnerships, so we know that when we are talking about america we are talking about an expanded north america on the influence and canada being tied directly to year up there are also affected by that and i want to talk a little bit about you were starting to things, you're starting to head down the path and i believe we'd run out of time but the bridges to bring the retail forces the institutional spending and use that it's much more radical and i just wanted to give you time to expand on that and then i've got a very specific question as well. kuran not sure i can do

european level and with the potential to try and deal with it. i know we have the full >>> let me try that one again. good morning, everybody. the committee meets today to hear from secretary of defense leon pa net take and martin dempsey to update the committee on the situation in syria an discuss the policies of the administration with respect to syria. was nearly a year ago that demonstrations in syria peacefully demonstrators took to the streets. to call for an end to the rule of president assad and demand an opportunity to choose a leader through a free and fair democratic process. since those first days of the uprising, the world has watched as t syrian people have continued to challenge the assad regimite tyranical ways. according to the united nations estimates, more than 00 people in syria have beenilled andt least 100 more people are being killed each day. the assad regime's brutle crackdown included gross human right violations, use of force against civilians, torture, extra judicial killings, sexual violence and interference with access to medical treatment and other humanitarian assistance. these ac when committed in part of