that is why the town is floundering. >> consistency has not a problem with republicans. they have endorsed the ryan plan which does not provide for a balanced budget, and now they are pushing for a balanced budget. 103 house republicans have already gone on record as saying and they will not vote to raise the debt ceiling unless there is a cap of 18% of govement spending -- federal spending which is 7% below what we're spending right now. in addition to that, if they insist on a constitutional amendment and to cut spending by half, the deficit by half next year. all of which are impossible. every serious person who has looked at this, whether in a group or a study group or commission or whenever, knows at they -- there have to be revenue enhancements, taxes raised as well as spending cuts. the idea of just trying to do it with spending cuts alone is just irrational. >> docrats have not even produced a budget for 2012. >> the -- >> what's -- >> the case is there -- >> where are the numbers and where is the plan? >> it is right there -- >> where? >> look, the president, th

that is why the town is floundering. >> consistency has not a problem with republicans. they have endorsed the ryan plan which does not provide for a balanced budget, and now they are pushing foror a balanced budget. 103 house republicans have already gone on record as saying and they will not vote to raise the debt ceiling unless there is aap of 18% of gornment spending -- federal spending which is 7% below what we're spending right now. in addition to that, if they insist on a constitutional amendment and to cut spending by half, the defit by half next year. all of which are impossible. every serious person who has looked at this, whether in a group or a study group or commission or whenever, knows that they -- there have to be revenue enhancements, taxes raed as well as spending cuts. the idea of just trying to do it with spending cuts alone is just irrational. >> democrats have not even produced a budget for 2012. >> the -- >> what's -- >> the case is there -- >> w where are thebers and where is the plan? it isight there -- >> where? >> look, the president, the deali

20%, although we're only 10% of the population, but yet most workforce is coming from abroad, from flounders, from outs. so they are coming in at 9:00 in the morning and the workers are again leaving to the north or the south of the country in the evening and we have ourselves a population with also considerable amount of people who live in poverty. there is about 20% of unemployment. we do have for 20 years now our own regional parliament and government and i'm very proud of that because i really think that we have been able as politicians to put brussels solution on the brussels scale thanks to that legislative power we have. you see we have been quite ambitious. we voted already in 1997 a resolution in the parliament saying 10% of all mechanical transport should all be by bike. we also held a summit on road safety and, there again, we referred to a european and that wanted to have only half of the fatalities over a period of 10 years. quite important because many people don't cycle because they feel it is not safe. and often they're right, but you have groups like here of pupils being gui

that is why the town is floundering. >> consistency has not been a problem with republicans. they have endorsed the ryan plan, budget, and -- which does not provide for a balanced budget, and now they are pushing for a balanced budget. 103 house republicans have gone on record of saying they will not vote to raise the debt ceiling unless they ate at a cap -- they have a cap on federal spending that is 7% below what we are spending now. the ins d -- they insist on a constitutional amendment to cut deficit spending by half next year, all of which is impossible. every serious person who is look at this knows there has to be revenue enhancement, taxes raised as well as spending cut. the idea of doing it with spending cuts alone is just irrational. >> the democrats have not even produced a budget for 2012. what is their budget? >> no, the case is there -- >> where are their numbers and where is the plan? >> it is right there -- >> where? >> look, the president and the dealings with the joe biden and the senators and congressmen, is there. $400 billion in revenues, $2 trillion in c

that is why the town is floundering. >> consistency has not been a problem with republicans. they have endorsed the ryan plan, budget, and -- which does not provide for a balanced budget, and now they are pushing for a balanced budget. 103 house republicans have gone on record of saying they will not vote to raise the debt ceiling unless they ate at a cap -- they have a cap on federal spending that is 7% below what we are spending now. the ins d -- they insist on a constitutional amendment to cut deficit spending by half next year, all of which is impossible. every serious person who is look at this knows there has to be revenue enhancement, taxes raised as well as spending cut. the idea of doing it with spending cuts alone is just irrational. >> the democrats have not even produced a budget for 2012. what is their budget? >> no, the case is there -- >> where are their numbers and where is the plan? >> it is right there -- >> where? >> look, the president and the dealings with the joe biden and the senators and congressmen, is there. $400 billion in revenues, $2 trillion in c

i will not let it floundered because we foresee a path we cannot sustain. it is vital that we keep exploring, so we can live and work other places, and find out what it means for us as a human race, but also for the benefit of that exploration to continue. we keep generating new knowledge about our plan in the universe in the new solutions that our challenges faces on new levels. president obama has put a fed the forefront of renovation for our country. we are pleased to be an essential part of this national focus on research and development, which will greatly improve our future. we will maintain and grow u.s. leadership in space and arrive all of the benefits that flow from it. tomorrow is taking shape right now. earlier this year, and made a decision to base a multipurpose vehicle model on the additional work we did on the zero ryan capsule. the spacecraft will carry a certain amount of people. it is designed to be much safer during ascent and entry ban the shuttle. we want to work on the space launch system. these systems will open up the entire solar s

program that works all right for a couple of years and then and others and you know what it was floundering before that before too quickly yes reagan reagan yes ross homeless people on the streets we don't want to go out is not to remember you know not why did you decide we did not have almost people on the streets before reagan i think raising a video of him kind of like that voice dragging the homeless people out on the even that money just to shut down the mental hospitals stop and the bernie goldberg in his book talks about how like when reagan no it's about homeless but the day after like couldn't get some of our own homeless recently limited there's no more stories about homelessness and everything's fine fine in the world i have not seen a failure stories where almost it's an ongoing and terrible problem. so well ok let's let's move on to quick for here. drudge is reporting that pray for rain governor perry's rick perry's wife is encouraging him to get in the right in the race temple once he is floating apparently we don't know for sure but the reports are that this is coming out a p

if you look at obama's numbers there floundering at best.re god forbid something happened in t wo countryould be deemed as a terrorist attack. a i further much rise police state u the dallas thing you ever do in your lofty behind the wheel of a vehicle. >> host: i don't really quite did what you're saying. there are scare tacticssa t involved?tas in >> yes, ma'am. probably a reaction, solution. so the one thank you for the question. one of the things l.a. and in this book is documentation that the justice department has gathered over the last couple of years. what you see is that there has been a documented case of home grown terrorism come caseserror- involving american citizens with some type of tied to an era atto -- international terrorist organization. the numbers are there. people ask me how many people j are there, i can't tell youhere that.in the i can tell you what these cases. are. you see them falling a couple of different patterns.th one, american citizens who have traveled overseas to pakistan od yemen to get training, perhaps ni of the most famous cases is the times square b

our economy continues to flounder and families across utah and all of america are forced to cut back among washington refuses to make the tough choices to bring down our massive debt. they know we need immediate spending cuts. they know we need to cap spending. they know we need a balanced budget amendment. next week, we have an opportunity to set things right. in the senate, all 47 republican senators back a balanced budget amendment i have introduced with my colleagues that would require the president to submit and congress to pass a balanced budget every year. most importantly, it limits spending to 18% of gdp and requires a supermajority in both houses to raise taxes. unfortunately, last week, the white house dismissed a balanced budget amendment saying it would not be good for the economy and that our debt is not a constitutional issue. the american people know better. a balanced budget amendment is the solution and our debt is definitely a constitutional issue. after all, the constitution belongs to the people who determine what is a constitutional issue, not the white house. i

now is not the right time to be raising taxes on anyone as the economy continues to be flounds floundering. >> here's what i'm hearing. it's what concerns me the most. i've heard when you get the president and speaker boehner in the room together and chat, they can come up with a basic understanding, but as soon as they bring in the rest of the folks and they realize the president has to sell to his wing and boehner has to sell to his, they can't get them in, because they get the ultimatums, and without people backing off the ultimatums, there's no way to get to the center. that's the concern a lot of people have. the reason why they never seem to advance these talks. >> that is a valid concern, because as we're hearing, bottom line, no debt deal can pass without both republican and democratic votes. that's why there's such an impasse here. while we did hear again today coming from the president that they did have good faith efforts and he complimented speaker boehner. the rank and file are making their voices known. we heard from more people today on the republican side, tax increases are

fail to pay our bills, interest rates would spike, and markets would crash, and the economy would flounder. we would be in a very serious situation going forward. so, about the only good thing that it does is to avert that kind of catastrophe. >> but then, what is -- and i agree with you completely on the size and the seriously of the catastrophe of not raising the debt ceiling, but as we look forward to the negotiations of the potential 10-man or 12-man committee that is going to end up deciding the next bargain, aren't they worried that the republicans will pocket the spending cuts and hold the line or taxes again and so that the ultimate deal is not three to one spending cuts that the obama administration wanted, but something much, much more tilted towards the deeper spending cuts? >> well, that could be the case and it is not attractive at all, but my own view is to have a debt crisis and not to do anything significant about the debt, and $1.5 trillion sounds like a lot of money, but you and i know, ezra, it does not change the trajectory we are on. we are headed for a debt that is 25

do you feel that the relationship basically floundered the moment you heard he'd been unfaithful to you? >> yeah. i mean, honestly, i put my heart and soul into the marriage. we started out with, you know, nothing really. i met him. i didn't know what he did. he really wasn't famous. he'd been in the "rocky 3" movie, and i thought that was -- oh, wow, it's exciting, you know. but i saw a good person in him in the beginning. and i still do today. i just think that with the men in those positions as like you're seeing in the news now with the politicians and all these celebrities that it just happens to them so easily. it's there. it's in their face. so the first time he had an infidelity and admitted that to me it was earth shattering to me. >> why did he tell you? >> well, in my opinion, i think the reason that he had to tell me was because the woman that he was philandering with had filed a lawsuit against him and it was probably about to be public and i think that if he had me on his side that they could roll it out as extortion, like a lot of these celebrities do. i knew differently.

and while i was going the college, he was floundering and doing drugs. during the period of time he was my mentor, he was taking me to alternative bookstores to read about left-wing ideas. you know, he very much resent to the class struggle. when i started to have this epiphany is, when i started to get my job, i was aspiring to be an intellect, trying to understand his world view, so strange in place to struggle, a certain point, my dad had sent to that nobody told him, you need to get a job, you need to clean up and get your act together. you need to stop doing drugs. and so there is a certain point where he started to challenge my mentor. he wasn't that i felt like i was an intellect or that i was able to reach him at the game as sat scores. i saw was about 400 points below him on that level, but i started the game with self-confidence and self-respect to make a call him out on his misbehavior. and i just started to move away from the sky and got a phone call once as i was starting to move towards independence and away from this type enology but obsol

i have watched these proposals and these ideas to flounder. getting back to this idea of free trade, i guess my question is, is it about time -- isn't this the moment when we have seen in your disastrous failure of this absolute idea of free trade and how was supposed to raise all boats. it was supposed to be good for america. the results are in. i am wondering why the political environment has not changed more that it has. accounting for the distractions caused by the rise of the tea party and the focus we are seeing on cutting the budget, i am not sure why some of the underlying economic thinking has not changed more. >> there is one sector of the american economy that hasn't suffered. what sector am i talking about? the financial sector. the financial sector has not suffered a bit. you have to look at that. why we genuflect at this altar of free trade? and you have a huge sector that has a lot of influence in congress. they like things just as they are. they're doing quite well, thank you. that is what has happened in our society. we have m

that got passed off to the first bush who just kind of let it flounder until 1992 when we had hurricane then there realized we are actually needed it. then you had clinton who also took it seriously. he appointed someone who made a professional organization. then bush 2 came in and was opposed to the idea of fema and appointed his cronies and then we actually need it again. host: we will leave it there. paul light. guest: the quality of appointments really matters. the clinton appointee was a blessing. you can make an agency work well. what did he do? he flattened the hierarchy and put career people in as the regional directors. he fought hard for staff. he was still understaffed. at the veterans health administration, they made a big turnaround. the legislative affairs unit, public affairs units of departments and agencies, they are there only because they did something for the president during the campaign and needed a job. we have to reduce the number and put more career experts in charge of these agencies. we have to reduce the layers of these positions so that state directors, regi

bipartisan grouch senators that for months had been working on a deficit reduction plan but had floundered as one of the republicans stepped away from that group. that republican, senator coburn has rejoined the group and the group presented their bill for deficit reduction yesterday to a few dozen senators. this is a pretty big plan, $3.7 trillion in deficit reduction or deficit savings often years. that's pretty close to the number of the $4 trillion that president obama was pushing. so president obama saying generally speaking he likes the idea here, but you have to take a look at this plan because it includes tax increases which is you know house republicans have been completely resist search warrant to and entitlement reform which democrats have been resistant to. this is politically very difficult on both sides and the clock is ticking. >> it would be possible for congress to tackle a plan like this before the august 2nd deadline? >> reporter: if you talk to the two top democrats in the senate, harry reid and dick durbin the answer is no. dick durbin said this isn't ready for prime t

i have watched these proposals flounder, getting back to this idea -- i guess my question is isn't this really the moment where four ideas like this -- we have seen this absolutist ideas of free trade and how it was supposed to raise all votes. particularly american votes. it was supposed to be good for america. the results are in. i am wondering why the political environment has not changed more than it has. even accounting for the distractions called by the rise of the tea party and the all- embracing focus we see now on cutting the budget, i am not sure why some of the underlying economic thinking has not changed versions of these proposals have been out there for a while. it seems that now, more than ever, it is their moment. >> is there one sector of the american economy that has not suffered as of this so-called free trade and the huge trade imbalances that we have? what sector mind talking about? the financial sector. the financial sector has not suffered a new bid. they have actually made quite a bit on this. the data and the facts are in over the past. you have a huge sector th

i'm not going to let it flounder because we pursued a path that we couldn't sustain. it is vital that we keep exploring, not only so we can learn to live and work other places and find out what that means for us as the human race, but also so the benefits of that exploration continue to return to the earth. so we keep generating new knowledge about our planet and our universe and new solutions to the challenges our planet faces on many levels. president obama has put nasa and several other technology- focused agencies at the forefront of the innovation agenda for this country. we're pleased to be an essential part of this national focus on research and development, which will greatly improve our future and give coming generations more choices in how they face planetary challenges and seek knowledge about the universe beyond. we will maintain and grow u.s. leadership in space and derive all the benefits that flow from it. tomorrow's space program is taking shape right now. earlier this year, i made a decision to base the new multi- purpose crew vehicle, or mpcv - our d

the pressures will beyond these governments and the economy is floundering. so i think it is going to be really tough for these two countries in this transition period. >> hello. i am very happy to be here and i will try to say something and eight minutes, which is a challenge. david and i divided the pie and i got -- he got to monarchies and i got two republics, tunisia and egypt. but i will focus more on egypt because this is what i'd know best. i have been in and out of egypt for so many decades and hardly dare say how many. i was in tunisia last month, and i was in egypt during the revolution, the first phase. some people call it the uprising. and i left on march 9. that was the day after the international women's day demonstration which turned rather nasty. so, i think i have got the good news in a way, part of it, because there was a need for having toppling these dictators and moving in a more democratic direction, and also although the economy is in a very bad shape and the gross national product is going down and all that, nevertheless the bulk of th

this for better part of the last couple of decades and have watched these proposals, these ideas flounder again, getting back to this idea of god to free trade. and i guess my question is, isn't it about time, isn't this the moment for ideas like this, we have seen a near disastrous failure of this sort of absolutist idea of free trade and that it was supposed to raise all boats, particularly american votes. it was supposed to be good for america. the results are kind of in. and i guess i'm just wonder why the political environment hasn't changed more than it has. even accounting for the distractions caused by the rise of the tea party, you know, the all embracing focus we're seeing now on cutting the budget. i'm not sure why some of the underlying thinking -- these proposals, versions of them were sitting out there for a while. it seems like now more than ever there is movement. >> there is one sector of the american economy that has not suffered of the so-called free trade and huge trade imbalance as we have. what sector am i talking about? the financial sector. the financial sector has

i'm not going to let it flounder because we pursued a path that we could not sustain. it is vital that we keep exploring not only so we can learn to live and work other places and find out what it means for us as the human race but also so the benefits of that exploration continued to return to earth. we keep generating new knowledge about our planet and universe and new solutions to the challenges our planet faces on many levels. president obama has quit nasa -- put nasa and several other technology-focused agencies at the forefront of innovation for our country. we are pleased to be an essential part of this national focus on research and development which will greatly improve our future and give coming generations more choices in how they face planetary challenges and seek knowledge about the universe beyond. we will maintain and grow u.s. leadership in space and derive all the benefits that flow from it. tomorrow's space program is taking shape right now. earlier this year, i made a decision to base the new multi- purpose crew vehicles ormpcv on the original work w

decades is a real hindrance to our ability to make decisions, whether it is the decline of the winter flounder in rhode island or the increase in diseases that humans get their pc in the wild dolphins in florida we have very little ability to go back and understand what the causes of those features are. when you compare this to whether, we understand how much changing weather influences the economy, but i think we have it realized how much that lack of knowledge and lack of big ability about the oceans affects our competitiveness, ability to use resources wisely and our ability to prepare for the changes will see in the future. so, it is a need for baseline. if the need for understanding evolving processes as well. >> i will follow up on these questions with the remaining witnesses, but my questioning time at this point has expired and our chairman has returned, so i will yield to the chairman and perhaps the chairman would gi us another round afterwards so we can can tinea this line of inquiry. >> let me thank senator whitehouse. i apologize for having to leave. we have this gem: nomination o

shuttle and i'm not about to let human space flight go away on my watch and i'm not going to let it flounderd a path that we could not sustain. it's vital that we keep exploring, not only so we can learn to live and work other places and find out what it means for us as the human race but also so the benefits of that exploration continue to return to earth. so we keep generating new knowledge about our planet and our universe and new solutions to the challenges our planet faces on many levels. president obama has put nasa and several other technology-focused agencies at the forefront of innovation for our country. we're pleased to be an essential part of this national focus on research and development, which will greatly improve our future and give coming generations more choices in how they face planetary challenges and seek knowledge about the universe beyond. we will maintain and grow u.s. leadership in space and derive all the benefits that flow from it. tomorrow's space program is taking shape right now. earlier this year, i made a decision to base the new multipurpose view vehicle or m

the economy is floundering.going to be really tough for these two countries in this transition period. >> hello, i am very happy to be here. and i will try to say something in eight minutes, which is a challenge. david and i divided the pie and he got two monarchies, and i got twot republicsgotunisia and egypt -- i got two republics, tunisia and egypt. i will focus on egypt. i have been in and out of egypt for so many decades, i hardly dare say how many. i was in tunisia last month, and i was in egypt during the revolution, the first phase. some people call it the uprising. and i left on march 9, the day after the international women's day demonstration, which turned rather nasty. so i would like -- i mean, i think i have got the good news in a way part of it, because there was a need for having -- obviously, toppling these dictators and moving in a more democratic direction. and also, although the economy is in very bad shape and the gross national product is going down and all that, nevertheless, the bulk of t