federal regulation. they say you will have people in the streets and no medical care. the whole thing is, if you don't have regulation -- say in the environment and different things or regulation on banking regulations, actually the market is a real strict regulation -- it is a strict regulation. our problem today is when you write the regulations say on drugs, the drug companies get involved and they write the regulation. banking regulations are written by the banking community. they become the law. so it isn't the lack of regulation. but if you have the market. you have the property rights and the contract rights and you have bankruptcy laws. and those are strictly enforced. it wasn't a lack of regulations that caused the enron scandal, but it was the market that took care of it. those individuals were convicted in texas court for fraud, and they went to prison. no, we have to answer back. i think we do a lousy job on that. they are saying the liberals grabbed the moral high ground and say we are going

federal regulation. they say you will have people in the streets and no medical care. the whole thing is, if you don't have regulation -- say in the environment and different things or regulation on banking regulations, actually the market is a real strict regulation -- it is a strict regulation. our problem today is when you write the regulations say on drugs, the drug companies get involved and they write the regulation. banking regulations are written by the banking community. they become the law. so it isn't the lack of regulation. but if you have the market. you have the property rights and the contract rights and you have bankruptcy laws. and those are strictly enforced. it wasn't a lack of regulations that caused the enron scandal, but it was the market that took care of it. those individuals were convicted in texas court for fraud, and they went to prison. no, we have to answer back. i think we do a lousy job on that. they are saying the liberals grabbed the moral high ground and say we are going

the federal government has a role to stand up to the federal teacher's union.eacher's unions are impeding the education of our kids by preventing in some cases cyber learning, preventing choice in school, preventing merit pay for other teachers. in many teachers are unqualified allowed to stay in the classroom. the only way to determine which schools were succeeding and which teachers were failing was to test our kids. the only way that could happen was for the federal government to stand up to them. i look forward to the day where we don't have to have the federal role. it should be managed and controlled state, by localities by parents and families not by the federal government. the role of insisting we are going to test our kids was an effort by president bush to stay stop to the teacher's union. >> would you support federal assistance for school lunch pell grants and gi bills? >> whole series of items there in some cases yes some cases no. moist that deal with the poor i work with a lot of systems with the poor. most of them i am going to turn the money bac

federal regulation.dical care. the whole thing is, if you don't have regulation -- say in the environment and different things or regulation on banking regulations, actually the market is a real strict regulation -- it is a strict regulation. our problem today is when you write the regulations say on drugs, the drug companies get involved and they write the regulation. banking regulations are written by the banking community. they become the law. so it isn't the lack of regulation. but if you have the market. you have the property rights and the contract rights and you have bankruptcy laws. and those are strictly enforced. it wasn't a lack of regulations that caused the enron scandal, but it was the market that took care of it. those individuals were convicted in texas court for fraud, and they went to prison. no, we have to answer back. i think we do a lousy job on that. they are saying the liberals grabbed the moral high ground and say we are going to take care of anybody. people will be suffering and

federal laws whether it is it health care or epa.ational relations board and fccc and the list goes on on. as pam said it is unprecedented how long that list is. it would be far better if i didn't have to play that role. when constitutional conservative don't have sway to reign in government state attorney generals are the last line of defense against an overreaching federal government led as a president like president obama. in 2012, america needs to elect a president who will govern as a limited conservative president. the goal is to see how the candidates measure up we can find ourselves a candidate who reveres and respects the constitution and has a plan in limiting the government and returningitous the first principles on which the government would be built. >> house speaker newt gingrich is our first candidate. >> good to be with you, mike as always. >> i will turn you over to the attorney generals and let them have at you. pam bondi will start. >> speaker gingrich thank you for being here. your plan for empowering local neighb

federal regulation. they say you will have people in the streets and no medical care. the whole thing is, if you don't have regulation -- say in the environment and different things or regulation on banking regulations, actually the market is a real strict regulation -- it is a strict regulation. our problem today is when you write the regulations say on drugs, the drug companies get involved and they write the regulation. banking regulations are written by the banking community. they become the law. so it isn't the lack of regulation. but if you have the market. you have the property rights and the contract rights and you have bankruptcy laws. and those are strictly enforced. it wasn't a lack of regulations that caused the enron scandal, but it was the market that took care of it. those individuals were convicted in texas court for fraud, and they went to prison. no, we have to answer back. i think we do a lousy job on that. they are saying the liberals grabbed the moral high ground and say we are going

it is clear that the federal government has fail to manage that.ironmental solution to replace the epa. it has to look for entrepreneurism and collaborate to state to local government. >> with regard to education largely returned to the states what does that. >> it will be returned to the citizens. the 10th amendment talks about the states and the citizens and it is not just moving power for example for washington d.c. to richmond or tallahassee or washington d.c. to oklahoma. it is moving power and i tell every group of citizens, if we shrinkk the washington burrcrats we grow lets citizenship. i would advocate that states consider a pel grant for k-12 so that you, every parent decides where there grant goes and you return power to the parents than the government. >> mr. speaker you propose impeaching judges that rules unconstitutional, but advocating abolishing appellate courts. if president obama were to eliminate a judgeship where the judge ruled against the man date in the signature health care law, would that be an appropriate application of t

federal reserve. didn't care much about what they understand is there is a tacit agreement between merkel and sarkozy. the deal is, let's say the ecb is independent. we don't want to intervene. we don't want to meddle in the policies of the ecb and then the ecb is if you want has the power or the right to do whatever it thinks is needed. ie at the moment buying bonds from spain or from italy to help those countries is borrowing costs costa been rising at the moment. will the markets be reassured? first of all jessica, who are the markets? we will have to see whether they are -- i have to say this is a rather comprehensive package of measures. i think the idea of changing the rule of majority is clever because the biggest fear was guys this is all good, but how are you going to enforce it? we remember the drama around the lisbon treaty. we remember the referendum in the netherlands and france when voters declined. i think it is comprehensive but the first up is you have to sell it to the partners and y

where do the states fit in the model with the federal government? >> i was the author of the of federal reform bill when i was in the house and carried the bill on the senate. it is the only time we have taken a federal program and eliminated and sent back to the states. we need to do the same for food stamps and medicaid and housing programs and job training programs. all of these programs are administered by the states but have a heavy federal component that doesn't belong had there. the role for the states is to get back to taking care of the health and welfare of the citizens. we should cut the program and cap it and freeze it and give that money back to the states with the flexibility to manage the program. >> you describe yourself pro life want a limited role for the federal government. since the constitution doesn't speak to the authority to regulate abortion, how would you weigh protecting the rights of unborn suddenchildren through a federal law and limited partnering constitutionalism by allowing the states. >> i support a amendment to sta

, the role of the states and federal government. what is a governor, and state, key areas that affect americans lives from health care to immigration, to education to the environment and as attorneys general each day we deal with issues in these of those. we have a president, a president who doesn't respect those principles who believes that washington is always the answer. tonight to have the opportunity to discuss these candidates, their commitment to test their knowledge and see if they're going to be different as they lead in the white house is very important to americans, as relates to those particular areas because at the end of the day this is not some abstract legal concept about the constitution or federalism. those issues are real and it's real and we want to protect our freedom and liberty. >> mike: pam? >> governor, you know, as attorney general, it is my role to protect the citizens in my states and defend our laws. and now, as scott said, we have a president it's unprecedented, what he's trying to do is just undermine

medicare is a federal program. medicaid is the joint federal -- is the joint state programs. they passed something as part of that bill called program integrity funding. the idea is to provide a specific amount of money that is not going to be sequestered or cut to specifically get at fraudulent payments made in these programs and take action to reduce them. this is not primarily a state responsibility. states certainly want to work with the federal government, particularly in medicaid, to make sure money is spent by the federal government and state is done so in a non-fraudulent manner. the money i am talking about for program integrity -- i continue to monitor that. it will not be cut in appropriations or by the sequestered in the months ahead. in the months ahead. hoste >> good morning. -- host: good morning. caller: who appointed you to your office? there are 35 republicans to have cut the budget enormously in the schools. enormously. alcohol abuse of us who are going to get impeached -- look at all of these guys who are going to get impeached. the party is over. we're go

the dedicated, hardworking, middle-class federal workers. who are these federal workers? the veterans administration, nursing assistants who care for our wounded warriors, the department of defense civilian employees who support our troops at home and abroad. social security administration claims representatives who process benefits to our nation's senior citizens and people who qualify for disability payments. nobel prize-winning scientists conducting groundbreaking research at the national institutes of health and the national space administration. from everything to fighting cancer to understanding origins of the universe. the environmental protection agency and food and drug administration staff who keep our air and our water clean and our food and our drugs safe. the federal aviation administration air traffic controllers who keep the skies safe. the department of justice, federal bureau of investigation, the united states marshal service, attorneys and law enforcement officers who track down, arrest terrorists and drug cartels and gang members. and, mr. president, t

medicare is a fault -- federal program. medicaid is the joint federal and state program. they passed something as part of the bill called a "program integrity funding." the idea of this is to provide a specific amount of money that will not be sequestered, were cut, to specifically get at -- or cut, to specifically get out a fraudulent payments and take action to reduce them. this is not primarily a state responsibility, but the state's early want to work with the federal government, particularly in the medicaid area, to make sure that the money is spent by the federal government, and the states, is done so in a non fraudulent manner. economthis money that i'm talkig about for program integrity, we will continue to monitor the because it will not be cut in the appropriations, or by the sequester in the months ahead. berlin host: 10, iowa -- host: burlington, iowa, thomas. welcome. i was guest: -- caller: i want to ask who appointed you in your office, and the governor's -- there are 34 or 35 that are republican that have cut the budgets enormously in the schools. you get

probation officers, especially federal probation officers are really tough. their recommendation is often in line with the prosecutor's request. >> does it surprise you that the tough probation officers would recommend probation? >> not at all. they cited two factors in the federal code, one is, as cases like this go this is one of the least serious they've seen and also barry's long history of civic work in charities and so on. >> thank you dean. you want to keep it here for the latest developments. vic tweeting from inside the courtroom. for up to the minute dates you want to follow us at abc7 news bay area we are expecting the sentence to come down between 11:30 and noon. abc 7 will bring it to you on air and online as soon?tofm as t is announced. >>> our other top story. a san jose police officer shot and killed a man last night and police are revealing new information about what that man was doing in the moments before the shooting. amy hollyfield is live in san jose with the latest. >> reporter: police just briefed me. now they are saying the man they s

federal workers had certain rights. i tell the story of the 1978 civil service reform act in my book, and i explain that it deeply disappointed air traffic controllers and some others in the federal government. the treasury employees' union, for example. and both patco and the treasury employees' unions were two of the unions pushing hardest for one thing to be included in that bill. they wanted the right to negotiate over pay. and that bill did not give federal workers that right. they were, that was one reason why they were so disappointed with carter, because they believed that carter should have given them that right. and, in fact, it was after 1978, and they realized that no law would come in to give them the right to bargain, that they tarted to think -- started to think the only way they could get it was through militancy. they would accomplish by walking out what the congress had not given them in the 1978 bill. but your question is super, and it gets at one of the real cruxes of this story which is what happene

is the only federal agency focused on improving federal election. this was an outgrowth of the disastrous process of the 2000 election. remember that 100 million votes were cast but it took the decision of the supreme court before a winner was declared. the experience left a black eye on our elections process. it's not something america should go through again. in the state and local budgets are cut, the value of this commission is going to grow. have there been problems at the e.a.c. -- i would ask for an additional 30 seconds. yes, there have. there have been problems and what should we do about it? we need oversight and reform. we shouldn't just abolish this commission because we are going backwards to the bad old days of inconsistency among voters. i urge my colleagues to focus on the economy, focus on jobs, and don't pass bills that give corporations and special interests even greater influence in our elections. i yield back. i thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back. the gentleman from mississippi. mr. harper: thank you,

probation officers, especially federal probation officers are really tough. their recommendation is often in line with the prosecutor's request. >> does it surprise you that the tough probation officers would recommend probation? >> not at all. they cited two factors in the federal code, one is, as cases like this go this is one of the least serious they've seen and also barry's long history of civic work in charities and so on. >> thank you dean. you want to keep it here for the latest developments. vic tweeting from inside the courtroom. for up to the minute dates you want to follow us at abc7 news bay area we are expecting the sentence to come down between 11:30 and noon. abc 7 will bring it to you on air and online as soon?tofm as t is announced. >>> our other top story. a san jose police officer shot and killed a man last night and police are revealing new information about what that man was doing in the moments before the shooting. amy hollyfield is live in san jose with the latest. >> reporter: police just briefed me. now they are saying the man they s

we are a federalized project. we do hire regionally and we have members on this board from other counties. east bay, san the tail, -- san mateo, santa clara, and even the proposal at the federal level as part of the jobs action that included the provision on local hiring, adjacent to the project site, so it was never just about strictly within the place where the pride is being constructed. we are definitely tracking regional. we will be providing that to you. director ortiz: we would love to provide accessibility. >> santa clara, san mateo. director kim: now we will open up for public comment. >> we have public speaker cards from mike brown, danny campbell. if there are other members of the public, please line up. >> good morning, directors. michael brown. senior agent. i wanted to complement again maria ayerdi-kaplan and bob, the lso wanted to remind you, local 22 has been rebuilding sanlocal francisco since the 1800's. you want to continue to do so and we're looking forward to building the project. also, on the

the federal government makes a special effort to give veterans preference for federal jobs and it isecially acute in the defense department. if you start hitting defensivelyions, it is inevitable that you are going to be hitting military veterans alongside that. >>> steve, thanks very much. we'd love to have you back as we look at this important issue as time goes on. >>> coming up, >>> for decades china has diligently worked to build a high tech air force but hasn't always been successful despite reforms to its military aviation sector. but that's changing as beijing becomes richer and works smarter to steadily improve air comat capabilities. china is gaining ground so fast it won't be long until it will give western and russian industries a run for their money. our next guest is phil saunders, an expert on the chinese military at the national defense university and the coauthor of a new report, ," buy, build or steal, china's quest for military aviation technologies which details china's aircraft development and procurement strategies." phil, merry christmas and thanks for joining

federal government. it has cost us money -- obama has gone and expanded all of the federal government. it has cost us money. we do not have money to put food on the table. he has bazaars -- czars after czars. what are they getting paid for? the country is in the worst condition it has been in since the great depression. host: do you think newt gingrich is the strongest republican challenger? caller: i like newt and i like mitt. i am one caller earlier. either one of them would be satisfactory. i think we just need to get rid of obama. he is a nice man, but he is not a leader. he is absolutely not a leader. host: here is what joe says on twitter. carlsbad, california, jillian, independent line. caller: i would vote for romney. i think a lot of super- conservatives like newt gingrich. he is very, very smart, but he is not going to carry the rest of the country outside of a very conservative from a narrow group of people. -- conservative, narrow group of people. romney is the person i would most like to see

she appeared in federal court today and schwab confessed to two of the crimes. she's due back in court next tweak. >>> a maryland man strong -- week. >>> a maryland man strongly denies any involvement in the disappearance of a woman in a rube. gary giordano appeared on good morning -- aruba. gary giordano appeared on good morning today. robyn gardner is presumed dead. giordano claims she was swept away while they were snorkeling. >>> expect to pay more to ride metro. the transit agency faces a deficit of nearly $125 million next year. they say a fare increase will be needed to help close the budget gap. it's unclear how much the rates will go up, though. >>> tonight the senate failed to pass an extension of the payroll tax cut. why republicans and democrats support the tax cut, so what is the deal? details from the hill next. >> this is fox 5 news edge at 11:00.  >>> lawmakers on capitol hill battling it out over paying for an extension of the payroll tax holiday. members of both parties want the cut but differ on how to pay for it. fox'

they eliminate 18 out 365 federal judges, over half the federal judges are abolished.i'm not arguing for a specific case although i think biery is such a clearly antireligious bigot that he ought to at least be looked at. there are way fors for the congress and the president to rebalance the system. you don't have to tolerate judges running over our liberties in ways that are very dangerous. >> bill: okay. now we are going to hold the speaker over for another segment. i want to talk about the campaign and the polling and all of that. santa claus not wanted by a massachusetts school district until the community rises up. is it legal straight ahead. >> bill: thanks for staying with us i'm bill o'reilly. continuing with newt gingrich from iowa where is he campaigning. front page article in the "new york times" today saying the anti-gingrich ads running in iowa right now are hurting you. do you see it that way? >> absolutely. when you have millions of dollars of negative advertising saying all sorts of things that are untrue, you bombard people with robo calls that are neg

the man accused of trying to kill president obama will be back in federal court. today's hearing will focus on oscar romortega-hernandez's mental health. preliminary psychiatric tests showed he is competent to stand trial, but federal prosecutors want more tests done. >>> the man suspected of murdering his ex-wife and her son and will be in court for a preliminary hearing. carlos lopez beat jane mcquain to death in her germanton apartment in october. her death along with the disappearance of the sun amberher son william sparked an amber alert. he was later found dead. lopez has been extradited. >>> a maryland judge will decide today if a u.s. soldier charged with sharing top-secret information will stand trial. >> prosecutors say bradley manning aided the enemy by giving thousands of classified documents to the wikileaks website. jummy olabanji explains what is next. what's the case is headed to court martial after months of delay. the government is trying to determine future of leaks of potentially damaging secrets while bradley manning is trying to avoid a possi

federal regulation, again, we are giving up this part of our business. one person's losing their job. quote, this is a small example of how excessive government regulations is stifling business. it's the number one impediment and all we're asking with the reins act, if it's going to cost $100 million or more, let's have congressional approval. it's common sense. it forces accountability. it simply waives the benefits of a regulation to be balanced with the cost to our own jobs. jobs ought to be number one in this house and the number one jobs bill we can pass is the reins act. i ask for once that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle join me and let's put america back to work. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from michigan is recognized. mr. conyers: mr. speaker, i'm pleased to recognize a ranking subcommittee chairman in the judiciary, steve cohen of tennessee, for three minutes. the chair: the gentleman from virginia is recognized for three minutes. mr. conyers: tennessee. mr. cohen: i appreciate the time but i don't ap

caller: i am a federal employee. why would youecrease our pay and an increased our health care -- and then increase our health care? all of us do not make the same money across the board to that is obvious. why would you do that the federal employees? it is not our fault the economy is bad. guest: a another -- another great question in sharp contrast to the previous caller. health plan costs go up every year. as you mentioned, the federal share will be going up 3.8%. that is not big. you can shop around and save $1,000 or more. it's like giving yourself a pay increase. host: stephanie from utah. caller: we live in rural area in utah. we have three plans available in our town. because of the zero area, the docts are -- because it is a rural area, the doctors aren't attracted to the area. i have to disagree that we have hundreds of cices. we only have three. they are national plans. can you comment? guest: i can only say there are rougly 20 plan choices for every federal employee. go online to www.opm.gov/insure to get

terry mcsweeney is live at the federal courthouse with more. prosecutors are recommending one sentence. probation officers recommend another. >> reporter: yeah. and it is a huge difference.÷ the dii.xnce between prison and freedom. this isiwe where s is going toe today at 11:00 when the hearing starts. the sentencing for barry bonds for obstructing justice in the balco steroids investigation possibly putting an end to this story that has been swirling around the homerun king since 2003. take a look at bonds coming down to the courthouse many times over the past few years. he is convicted of one count of obstructing justice for evasive testimony before a federal grand jury looking into the balco steroid scandal. prosecutors want bonds to spend 15 months in prison. that is the bottom, the lenient side of the federal sentencing guidelines. the judge has sentenced others convicted of similar crimes in the same scandal to just home detention, federal probation department says that home detention would suffice. bonds could also receive probation or

strong language for the federal reserve. in the event of that scenario, that the european situation were to deteriorate further, what is the fed prepared to do to prevent this outcome? >> i think my language was more about how unacceptable the high unemployment rate is, if the unemployment rate were to go higher because of the events in europe that would be very unsatisfactory. >> to be specific and my time is limited, i will read you the whole paragraph. that is not what the reinstatement says. >> i will stipulate to your interpretation in the interest of time. the federal reserve is doing what we think is appropriate to support lending in the united states and that is why we have engaged with foreign-exchange swaps with five other central banks. i don't think we contemplate any other action at this time to do anything else in terms of providing assistance to europe. is really their problem to solve from the federal reserve perspective. the ecb has liquidity in place in terms of the eurocurrency. they have swap lines we thi

and that the federal government has been overreaching. and so you have a great desire not only on the part of arizona but on the part of a number of statses to take over essentially immigration enforcement, enforcement against illegal immigration. yes, arizona wants clarity but they want clarity in a particular direction. there's a very clear outcome they're aiming at. >> ifill: a lot of states want clarity on the health care mandate as well. how is it that all these kinds of challenges end up at the court at once? anybody watching this would think inocently that ther is a design behind this. but that's not the way it works. is it? >> it really isn't. the cases come to the court baseded on how quickly the lower courts act, how quickly a lawsuit is filed and then the lower courts act. everyone knew in a sense that these three issues would be challenged. the law and the redistricting plans and immigration. but it's purely coincidence. the court has discretion so what it takes. with the health care law it was a no-brainer that they would tak

the eligibility for federal aid on the federal level to the best i know -- and i administered student financial aid programs for a number of years before i came here -- is it's rooted exclusively in information provided on the facet which is subject to so-called uniform methodology, which spits out a bottom line called the expected family contribution, which, by the way, is not perfect. but i think it's the best system we have. if you do learn of something, i think we would -- i at least would like to know about it, and i thank you. thank you for your testimony. i just want to be clear. you have found that the principal driver of increased student tuition is cost shifting, that is to say, reduced state appropriations for publicly supported colleges and for all colleges reduced income from endowment and so on. is that correct? >> yes, in the public sector in particular, there's a little bit more evidence of increased spending, driving tuition among some private, but not all private -- >> when you say some private with increased spending driving tuition, is that more localized in what w