head of the united russia executive committee. and if there were a view of censorship has international audience seen i'd like to ask you if you make any adjustments to russia's foreign policy when they interview your rivals the leaders of other political parties we all said that it has to change me. the digic priority is mutually beneficial partnership no matter how trivial this may sound to some. we have common interests and should be guided exclusively by vast there is no doubts we may have been vicious projects in plain of asian. and social reforms. we're open for that. i think that's through such joint projects. our diplomacy and our relations will develop successfully. but what about change is there anything that needs to be changed. no major changes necessary we're always open and predictable. leaders regularly present our position openly and clearly. goals and objectives. so i think it is important for us to seek practical application of this big time diplomacy. there were a bit of we all know that as soon as mr putin anno

the reentry council that i serve as co-tier and the community corrections partnership at the executive committee. there are special duties and powers as enumerated by the san francisco administrative code. the executive community corrections partnership has a specific power as stated and authorized in the state penal code. i appreciate the work that went into the drafting of this ordinance and emphasize the importance of section h. the sentencing commission shall work in collaboration with the reentry council and the community of corrections partnership. these partnerships are key to make sure that each body is fulfilling their specific role. and to make sure there is not a redundant effort, i want to ensure that these efforts, while corrugated, should remain very distinct so that to implement and oversee realignment shall not be in conflict with the proposed sentencing commission. as those authorized duties are defined by statute. supervisor kim: i had a question. i support local incarceration and custody, but as we increase the number of folks that need revision through multiple services, woul

months before the election the party's leader now is under a deny of who had been had of the executive committee of the right because since the first days of the party's existence. as a wrestler mr noir thank you for joining us today first of all could you explain to our viewers does the word royds in the right cause title mean opposites of the left . as and the right thing to do have a problem he says for both the right thing to do and the right wing politically. according to you i quote stagnation is very likely to happen in the country you said yourself that you were willing to leave the country since you were reluctant to send your children to a russian school what is the reason behind this hopelessness cordons there's no hopelessness in the contrary i'm leading our right course poteen to the state duma to ensure that people like me would not feel hopeless but rather leave a confident and stable life in this country what i would want to see in russia is not. stability something that often used as a euphemism for the word stagnation rather want to see a developing country russia should be a d

an executive committee will determine the names of those people and officials.wo, to stop dealing with the syrian central bank. three, the stop trade deals with the syrian government with the exception of strategic products that affect the syrian people. four, to freeze the bank's assets of the syrian government. five, to stop financial dealings with the syrian government. >> those sanctions may hit the country's oil industry. but it remains to be scene how effective they'll be when it comes to bringing about change in syria. iraq is syria's biggest trading partner after the european union. it does not support the decision to impose sanctions and neither does neighboring lebanon. russia and china also have close economic ties and neither is likely to jeopardize those interests for the sake of isolating syria's government. meanwhile iran has retail ated against sanctions imposed by the uk by voting to expel the british ambassador and step down in terms of diplomatic relations with the country. iranian parliament resolved to dissolve economic ties. media reports s

and want to thank our republican executive committee. carol crane who heads the women's convention. jane murphy and many other of the folks. we appreciate for all you do. this is the third year we had a ronald reagan dinner. we have more than 300 people in attendance. we come to mark this of the premier events. this is a wonderful event. we appreciate your support. i also want to thank the members. we raised $20,000 for the parties. this is the fuel that is propelling our momentum. it is paying off. it paid out in 2010. being a political fund-raiser reminds me of the old joke. we have lots of money in the county party. we have every time we needed to win the elections. there are three great opportunities for you to do this. these are items their actio auctioning off. do not feel shy about moving up another 10 are $15 to win. we have a new opportunity this year. we are hosting a raffle. what is the big prize? [inaudible] you and your family and friends can enjoy a week's vacation and this 6 belgium 3.5 back to retreat. they done it a week's stay at the lodge. this really was the play

closer look at recent events in syria as murhaf jouejati who has recently been appointed to the executive committeethe syrian national council, an opposition group created to help overthrow the assad regime. andrew tabler a fellow at the washington institute who spent more than five years as a journalist in syria and. welcome to both of you. subpoena this a potentially important development? >> it sounds very nice but it's not going to happen. the assad regime has made many promises into many interlocutors before including the u.n. secretary general, include the prime minister of turkey and the king of jordan and these promises have never materialized into anything. i believe this is simply a measure to buy time on behalf of the assad regime. >> you don't see any impact on the ground? >> two hours ago there have been the first violations in the neighborhood in homs and a ty has been shell sod we don't believe it. >> brown: what is the calculation by the arab league? who's behind this and what are they thinking they can get from assad? >> well, the arab league put assad in dilemmas. and until now, a

and the national archives has all of the transcripts from the dnc meetings, the executive committee meetings, and these are, these can be some pretty dull reading material. [laughter] but not when bob was chairman. bob was really known around town and around the country because he did become a household name after he was chairman which. you cannot say of the current rnc chairman. he was hilarious. so i was laugh anything the national archives, and i think they frown upon -- they frown upon everything in the national archives. [laughter] but they frown upon laughing. but bob was hilarious, and he went about his job with a sense of humor. and during this, it was a very controversial election when he became chairman. this was after mcgovern lost in '72, nixon won every single state except massachusetts and the district of columbia, so you can imagine, i mean, nixon did that well, how badly mcoregon -- how bad of a candidate mcgovern turned out to be through no fault of his own. and this was what bob was up against. and i found this at the nixon library. they have recordings, um, of the phone ca

myler would've been 50,000 pounds, and other members of the executive committee, the chief operating officer, chief financial officer would've been authorized i believe up to 500,000 pounds. >> did they go through any of those? >> i can find no record of those authorizations being sought or given. and we have looked and tried to find out exactly how that escalation occurred during that period. spirit as far as you are what it really was tom crone and mr. myler show? >> i think very much in the documents given to you, you know, we're very much driving the agenda around the litigation but i think that's also what mr. chapman testified to as well spent i will come to mr. crone and mr. meyerle, but the matter of tom crone, wrote to -- on a saturday which was a very busy day for "news of the world." the following tuesday where he is clearly expecting colin myler to the meaning within, which he said he can't be advocacy group are in for a holiday. when did you first see that name of? >> i didn't see that memo at the time. i first saw that memo recently since i gave evidence to you in july

joined by the executive director of the national republican committee and executive director of the democratic committee. i sense a theme. i know there are lots of senate rates we could talk about. but let's be honest. the race everyone is focussed on is warren and brown. warren got in this race officially. the obama administration raised a lot of money very quickly and is now up with ads. yes, it is november of 2011. let's listen to a little bet of that. we'll come back and talk about it. >> for years i worked to egs pose how wall street and the beg banks are crushing middle class families. it just isn't right. i stood up to the big banks. i worked to hole them accountable. i led the fight for a new agency to protect consumers and we got it but washington is still rigged for the big guys and that's got to change. >> so this a very traditional biographical spot. they are essentially saying elizabeth warren sympathizes with occupy wall street and she's radical. this ad makes elizabeth warren seem pretty reasonableable. >> the one part i think is most notable is she regretfully talked about how

myler would've been 50,000 pounds, and other members of the executive committee, the chief operating officer, chief financial officer would've been authorized i believe up to 500,000 pounds. >> did they go through any of those? >> i can find no record of those authorizations being sought or given. and we have looked and tried to find out exactly how that escalation occurred during that riod. irit as far as you are what it really was tom crone and mr. myler show? >> i think very much in te documents given to you, you know, we're very much driving the agenda around the litigation but i think that's also what mr. chapman testified to as well spent i will come to mr. crone and mr. meyerle, but the matter of tom crone, wrote to -- on a saturday which was a very busy day for "news of the world." the following tuesday where he is clearly expecting colin myler to the meaning within, which he said he can't be advocacy group are in for a holiday. when did you first see that name of? >> i didn't see that memo at the time. i first saw that memo recently since i gave evidence to you in july spent

the news international chief executive testified for a second time before the british committee overtigation. members also questioned mr. murdoch about his knowledge of the settlement made to gordon taylor who claimed his voice mail messages were hacked by employees at "news of the world." this is about two hours and 35 minutes. >> we understood that nedecision was taken by you, but that you were not made aware at that meeting of the details on why the settlement should be reached. as you know, we subsequently heard that they say they did make you aware of the circumstances of the mail. do you still assert you have no knowledge? >> yes. thank you, mr. chairman. the meeting that occurred on the 10th of june in 2008 was for the purpose of gaining the authorization to increase the offer of settlement they had already made on a number of occasions to mr. taylor and his lawyers. the meeting was short. i was given sufficient information to authorize the increase of the settlement offer that had been made and authorize them to negotiate that settlement. i was given no more than that. certai

sponsored by the full chairman of this committee which would try to address that and says thank current compensation packages. that is consistent with the executive schedule, which would be less than what was out there. it passed the committee 27-6. the gentleman from california voted no on that piece of legislation. just for the record, we are trying to address the situation. with that, i yield to the lady from new york. quarks welcome mr. demarco. we welcome your comments on what is the 15th proposal the subcommittee has reviewed in the area of subcommittee mortgage markets this year. i know that this question is not exactly on point with what we are reviewing today, but since you are here, i wanted to follow up on something i have been involved with your with your office in the past several months. a recent story was in the october 19 issue of the new york times entitled "rush to drill for natural gas create conflicts with mortgages." it has raised important questions about how many of these new gas leases on private property is in many states that do not have a history of such releases -- such leases and how this will impact mortgages. the ar

i would also like to introduce some of the other members who are here as part of the executive committee. they have given me the strength and determination to step it up to more visibility. if you would just hold your applause, i will introduce pat parker and then we have our president from a south carolina and coming in as third vice president. she was one of our members at large several years ago but is back and involved with the palladium view that did our convention. a couple of other state presidents are here -- the pride of arizona with jan brewer. we also have our membership chairman and the membership growth has been substantial. we have added 113 new clubs in two years. we had an increase in membership in 33 states. that is wonderful news i would like to share. one of our committee shares is here. she is a veteran and i think we should give her a round of applause for service to our country. [applause] i would also like to acknowledge the national republican committee women who have partnered with us but are also a part of us who are here -- my mentor from a wisconsin, are you i

we are on the executive committee and still are involved in that. we step back a little bit and look that the mers piece of this for the time being but we're still part of a multi-state effort. my colleagues have been investigating that for over year, led by tom miller, the attorney general of iowa. that investigation is limited to servicing fraud and misconduct. anytime you have 50 attorneys general, half of whom are democrats and republicans, agreeing on something in this day and age, you know something has gone terribly wrong. that's why every single attorney general is investigating the servicing banks and servicing entities for massive servicing fraud and deceit. the rose signing scandal the sum of your listeners might have heard about, written about extensively, it is far too benign the term. robo-signing this fall at -- filing false affidavits in court. one person is calling this the greatest fraud and american history. another thing is to attract, far too benign a phrase. banks are talking of both sides of their mouth. a person tries to get

myler would've been 50,000 pounds, and other members of the executive committee, the chief operating officer, chief financial officer would've been authorized i believe up to 500,000 pounds. >> did they go through any of those? >> i can find no record of those authorizations being sought or given. and we have looked and tried to find out exactly how that escalion occurred during th period. spirit as far as you are what it really was tom crone and mr. myler show? >> i think very much in the documents given to you, you know, we're very much driving the agenda around the litigation but i think that's also what mr. chapman testified to as well spent i will come to mr. crone and mr. meyerle, but the matter of tom crone, wrote to -- on a saturday which was a very busy day for "news of the world." the following tuesday where he is clearly expecting colin myler to the meaning within, which he said he can't be advocacy group are in for a holiday. when didyou first see that name of? >> i didn't see that memo at the time. i first saw that memo recently since i gave evidence to you in july spent

but i'd also like to introduce some of the other members that are here who are part of the executive committee and have been on our committees because they really have given me the strength and the determination to really step our nfrw into a little bit more visibility nationally. i'll just pat parker, jessie morton, then we have betty po, who is president from south carolina and is also coming in as third vice president. ladonna rigs is here and ladonna was one of our members at large several years ago but is back involved with the palladium view who did our straw poll and she's from south carolina as well. and leona johnston from arizona, the pride of arizona with jan breuer. and then june williams from louisiana is here as well. and then we also have tonia steele who is with us, who is our membership chairman, and the membership growth at nfrw has been substantial. we have added 100-and now 13 clubs in two years. we also add an increase in membership in 33 states so that's just wonderful news that i'd like to share. and then one of our committee chairs is here. sarah sellers who is chairman

executive director of the national operating committee for standards of equipment. i'm still confused about what you do, what you all do, and what you do not do. >> i think i can cover that. thank you, mr. chairman, and members of the committee. i appreciate the invitation to provide testimony and answer questions on the topic that is extremely important to me personally as well as to the organization i represent. my name is mike oliver. since 1995 have served as the executive director and general counsel for nocsae, national operating committee for standards of athletic equipment, which publishes standards for athletic equipment. we operate as a board of 18 directors representing a wide variety of national sports medicine and other interested medic -- organization. each organization by definition to our bylaws selects members to sit as a director on the board. in addition to the 18 voting directors, nocsae has two voting positions. there is no single controlling interest or interest group on the nocsae board. a balance of interest is inherent in our bylaws. there's

legitimate role in conducting oversight on how the executive branch has spent the taxpayers money. the committee needs to better understand what the white house involvement was with regard to solyndra loan guarantees. if colleagues at the white house has nothing to hide, they should just simply cooperate with the investigation and quickly and readily produce the documents. i believe the president owe it to the american public what happened to their money. >> i remember what, this is a sad day in the annuals of this august committee. in my 15 years of this subcommittee we have forged a strong bipartisan tradition of thorough and meaningful investigations. that could have been the case with the solyndra investigation. we have here a $525 million loan guarantee made with taxpayer funds that went bad. we need to learn the circumstances of the original deal as well as the refinancing. we need all the facts, all the witnesses, all the documents. sadly, after seeing the majority's conduct of this investigation, i do not believe they share this goal. for example, in the last hearing that we had in this

hideo yamada, who told the committee that they had informed kikukawa of their accounting manipulations for years. olympus told reporters earlier this month that three former executives, including kikukawa, had been involved in the cover-up. the committee will continue its investigation into the matter to try to unravel the contradicting explanations by the three former executives. >>> a plaj or challenge in areas devastated by the march 11 disaster is how to dispose of the mass of debris. the amount estimated at 22 million tons, the equivalent of ten years of garbage normally produced in those areas. heavy chunks of concrete most difficult to deal with. can't be easily eliminated or recycled. in our weekly segment, the road ahead, we look at construction materials, using a rather unorthodox method. >> this professor from the university specializes in concrete engineering. he is trying to think of ways to use the big concrete chunks in rebuilding efforts. >> it's better to use everything that's available. it's such a waste just to use this material for landfill. >> but the problem is the concrete debris was soaked in sea water at one point, and salt quickly erodes th

the next level up, lower middle management, and then at the vp level, it's 28%, and at the executive committee, it's 14%, and 3%, so you just see this drop off, and when you sort of peal back why is that the case as to why that happens, it's interesting to see some of the barriers are not the traditional ones. there are issues about flexibility that people are looking for and so forth, but the barriers are around mind sets of senior executives. can we risk a senior woman in this role? what if she leaves? what if she has children? can we do it? it's never said explicitly, but it's implicit in terms of what's happening. there's actually not a lot of role models for people to look up to and sort of see a path of where things are going. we talk about networks that women have, and we, in the work we did with you and catalyst, we actually mapped out women's networks at the middle management level comparative to mens' and it's factor of a quarter of that in terms of people. i don't know why that's the case, but that's where it is, and so i think there's a good news that there's a number of things tha

we are on executive committees, still part of the multi-state effort. my colleagues have been a part of the investigation for over one year, led by tom miller. that investigation is limited to service fraud and misconduct. anytime that you have 50 attorneys general, half of them being democratic, half of the republican, agreeing on something in this day and age, you know that something has really gone wrong. dorobo-signing scandal that some of your listeners may have listened to over the past year has been about filing false affidavits in the wall. they call it one of the greatest fraud of the court by an american history. looking at the service in fraud perspective, we call it a dual track. banks are talking out of both sides of the mouth. after that they ask for some form of modification of their mortgage because their wife got cancer, the economy has given them a squeeze, they can afford $300 breaks and have asked for a reprieve from their banks. tacking on the term of the note, three more years, you will be made whole. if they can have that discussi

at 10:00 a.m., a house oversight committee on executive bonuses at fannie mae and freddie mac. at 2:00 p.m., a house financial subcommittee hearing on community banks. allied video also available at c-span.org. up next, "washington journal" with your phone calls. then live coverage of the house. members will debate and naon

oversight and government reform where the two top executives of fannie and freddie will face lawmakers' questions. yesterday the house financial services committee4 to end those bonuses and any future ones, as well as reduce executive pay to standard federal levels. committee chairman republican spencer baucus said, quote, these lavish compensation packages and bonuses are unfair, unreasonable, and unjust to the taxpayers whose assistance is the only thing keeping fannie and freddie afloat. martha: what an incredible story this has been. it goes all the way back to the leadership during the financial crisis and franklin raines and the money he had when he left all of this. so what could be the explanation for the bonuses that are being paid by taxpayers, as you point out, jim, to these people who are still accepting taxpayer bailout money? >> reporter: well, the head of the federal housing administration, which oversees fannie and freddie, said yesterday and will say again today that he needs the kind of people who have executive financial firm experience. listen: >> i am trying to encourage these people to stay and continue to mitigate losses a

executives, including almost 13 million in bonuses. the government now runs the two firms. today a house committee called top executives to capitol hill for a grilling. lawmakers from both parties demanding answers. >> surely, you can understand the frustration of taxpayers who are paying bonuses while the bus is driven through the gates of hell and then you want us to pay bonuses while the people change the tires. >> you know, i am mist find as to why these so-called achievements should entitle executives to-million-dollar bonuses. they appear to reward a continuing downward spiral in our housing market. >> i need to ensure that the enterprises of people with the skills needed to manage $5 trillion worth of mortgage assets and 1 trillion-dollar of annual new business at the american taxpayers supporting. others may believe that this sort of talent is easily and quickly hired at compensation far below that of competing private firms, but i do not. >> fannie mae and freddie mac own or guarantee about half of all the mortgages in all of the country. gerri willis from the fox business network is here

committee. i was asked by our executive director to tell you about a particular project we always engage in in fleet week, sometimes is not either get the recognition or the notification perhaps that it should. in particular, i'm talking about community relations projects that the fleet in gauges in when they come to court. historic day, when the fleet comes in, an important aspect of their visit is to reach out with their sailors, marines, and coast guard to the local community by undertaking tasks which benefit that community. this year, about 100 sailors and marines helped with habitat restoration of the san francisco zoo on monday. additionally, they did landscaping and means projects -- maintenance projects. others help with habitat restoration projects that land'' end, the battery and of the presidio, and at the pacific co. on the curled vincent, and they collected 2 tons of crushed cans worth $200,000 for charities. why is that even more significant? because the aircraft carrier had just returned to the first american corp., san francisco, after a seven-month deployment and an historic tour t

i asked the committee to invite solyndra's executives to testify. when they testify, the republicans publicly humiliated him for asserting his constitutional right. in last hearing, they accuse the department of energy of violating the law but refused to allow anybody from the department to testify to defend the agency. the republican majority resisted releasing information. today we're being asked to give blank c u 10pton a heck. this is no way to run an investigation that should be bipartisan. it is an unprecedented departure from the practices of this committee. we have heard that there is no other choice. i think there is another choice that reasonable people would take. se get the white hou documents. we can always go to a subpoena if that is insufficient. instead, we want to go to a subpoena first. then we can see what request are out of balance. i think a subpoena should be sparingly and only as a last resort. this is not the case that we see today. we are entitled to advance our legitimate oversight needs. i think it is sad that we are seein

i would also like to introduce some of the other members that are here, who are part of the executive committeetees, because they really have given me the strength and determination to really step us up to more visibility nationally. if you will hold your applause, i will introduce them. betty is the president from south carolina and is also coming in as the third vice- president. donna was one of our members at large several years ago and was involved with the palladium few who did our straw poll at the convention. she is from south carolina as well. a couple of other state presidents are here. rihanna johnson from arizona, the pride of arizona -- leona johnson from arizona, the pride of arizona. we also have our membership chairman. the membership growth has been substantial. we have added 113 new clubs in two years. we also had an increase in membership in 33 states. that is just wonderful news that i would like to share. one of our committee chairs is here, sarah sellers, who is chair of our armed services committee. she is of veteran. i think we should give her a round of applause for her

i respectfully disagree with the characterization by the majority that the executive branch has not cooperated. this committee has made a formal document requests. to the treasury department, to the office of management and budget. over 80,000 pages have been produced. they have a review of documents. these of the representatives we have had. i do not know how you can see how the a ministration has not cooperating. i think the committee has the responsibility to be straightforward. i regret that they have not done so today. that is to the detriment of figuring out the matter. i yield back. >> the gentleman from texas is recognized for one minute. >> i think he for the recognition. they say this is unprecedented activity. it is unnecessary had the white house not practiced pay the mantra of "delay, delay, delay." this would have been a one day story. the white house has fought every step of the way. this seems to be the management plan. the ranking member said it is no way to do this. they might do well to follow the counsel. the recommended when you have a problem to get it out and getting out early. the whit