so what i'd like to do, i know the gentle lady from california has an amendment. and the gentleman from pennsylvania has an amendment. so though this will have to wait until mr. waxmane can roll aud together. but if not, we will start with the gentledy california's amendment go from there. and the gentle ladyhe amendment. we'll ask unanimous consent that it be considered as read. the staff will distribute the amendment. and the gentle lady is recognized in support of her amendment. >> thank you. [ no audio ] all right. working now? there it is. we were worried about the two-hour rule earlier today. but we're well beyond that. thank you for recognizing, mr. chairman, and i want to raise a subject that we worked on and i want to thank you for it. the pipeline safety bill last year. pipeline safety is not anything that should -- a subject that should be taken lightly. i don't think anyone here does. i know that i don't. you're all aware. in the news and in september of 2010 when there was a natural gas explosion and san bruno, california which is just north of where

when you look at someone like ghandi, it's a gentleness, a tough gentleness that is something that we find. i hope i'm in the -- i might -- before i go into the grave see a world which is more gentle, which is more caring, which is more sharing. in our country, we have an expression that a mother can share even the eye of a fly. women, generally, are those who nurture, who bring to life, and who hold life together. and for goodness sake, let's -- we have tried for centuries, we have made a mess. let -- let them try out. >> all right. >>. [ applause ] >> prime minister. >> so i think that it's been expressed, i would like to ada poi -- add, a point, if women which a chance to be leadsers. the first thing on the area of the female don't have, the first and another thing that the social -- you will see the world has someone who is caring. and caring about the children or kids, this is a good combination between male and female and

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i yield back. >> i recognize the gentle lady from texas, ms. jackson lee for five minutes. >> that me thank the ranking member and secretary for visiting lone star college in houston. they expressed their appreciation. i am also very happy of the disaster aid increase in the president's budget and i would ask on the record for someone in the department for some issues that are still going on in houston, texas that are still going on. if i could get that, i would greatly appreciate it. you said something earlier that i would very much appreciate hearing again as you open. you said the issue of radicalization terrorism, and i am paraphrasing your words is not attended to the label by it any religion our particular group. would you want to just clarify that for us? i think it is very important to the many diverse groups and our nation how we address the issue of terrorism and terrorist threats domestically in our nation. >> what i said is terrorism is not narrowed to any ideology or nation. it is islam as, the hottest, it can be based on other ide

i recognize the gentle lady from texas for five minutes. >> mr. chairman, thank you very much. let me thank the ranking secretary for visiting the lone star college in houston. they express their appreciation. i'm also very happy of the disaster aid increase in the president's budget and i would ask public on record for somebody from the department of fema, the fema director on some issues still going on in houston, texas, regarding recent issues of disaster declarations. if i can get that, i would greatly appreciate it. you said something earlier that i would very much appreciate hearing again in your five points in your open. you said the issue of radicalization, terrorism, and i'm pair frizing, is not attended to a label by any religion or any particular group. would you want to just clarify that for us so that i think it's very important to the many diverse groups in our nation how we address the question of terrorism and terrorist threats domestically. >> what i said is that terrorism is not narrow to any ideology or nation. it's islamists, jihadists. it can be internation

gentle lady from illinois, ms. schakowsky is recognized for five minutes. >> i want to agree with mr. doyle and say let's be honest about this legislation. it's called the north american energy access act and at this point in the debate it seems to be called the north american energy export act. that suddenly we have changed the conversation from how important it is to have energy security and energy independence and now how great it is to export. so at the very least we have to have an honest conversation about what this is about. i also wanted to comment on the gentleman from pennsylvania who talked about national security and this picture of the young men and women dying over the protection of oil. well, last friday, the sub committee on energy and power heard testimony from retired brigadier general anderson, and he was responsible for getting the fuel supplies to getting the fuel supplies to the troops. i strongly oppose the keystone xl pipeline because it will degrade the national security. the pipeline keeps

thank you. >> gentle lady's time has expired. i believe all time is expiring for the debate on this amendment. therefore, the vote will occur on the amendment. all those in favor will say aye. all those opposed will say no. no. the opinion of the chair the no's have it, the amendment is not agreed to. mr. waxman and i have been conferring and we have come to an agreement that we will continue in our absence as we both go to the conference on the tax extender bill, however, we have also concurred that we will not have recorded votes before we come back, which would be somewhere between -- somewhere probably in the neighborhood ofh at noon. so at this point, i will recognize the gentleman from massachusetts to call up his amendment. mr. markey. and the clerk will report the title of the bill. >> amendment to hr-3548 offered by mr. markey of massachusetts. >> and the gentleman from massachusetts for is recognized for five minutes in support of his amendment and the staff will circulate the amendment. >> thank you, mr. chairman, very

. >> would the gentle lady yield? >> yes, i most certainly will. >> i join with you in believing that andrew trader, the 2010, november 2010 dez signant shoul be confirmed. no one was put up for the first two years of the obama administration. it's sad they didn't have somebody in the cue earlier. i thank the gentle lady for yielding. >> i want to thank the chairman for supporting the confirmation. you certainly can help us make that happen. >> we now recognize the gentleman from utah. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, mr. attorney general for being here. i had an opportunity in the judiciary committee to ask you questions on december 8 of 2011. i asked if you spoke to president clinton -- or president obama, secretary clinton or napolitano. you said you didn't talk about fast and furious. is that still true today? >> with regard to secretary i a napolitain napolita napolitano, yes. >> secretary clinton, you have spoken with her about fast and furious? >> no, i'm -- no. i should say no. secretary napolitano know,

. >> thank you gentle lady. the chair now recognizes the gentle lady from california, miss richardson. >> i'd like to thank chair woman miller and ranking member cuellar for my participation today in the hearing. i'd like to note that representative boy balker is the one who represents the port of los angeles and long beach which is known as the san me dro complex and it's the largest port in the united states of which i will be focusing my comments today. i also want to note for the record that at a full homeland security committee hearing on february 5th, 2010, i questioned secretary napolitano on the progress of the 100% container screening. on june 16th, 2011, as chair woman of the subcommittee on emergency communicates preparedness and response, myself and committee members submitted a letter to the secretary regarding the impending deadline of the screening. and then again on march 3rd of 2011, i asked secretary napolitano about the 100% cargo screening. so this has been a concern of pine for quite some ti

thank you. >> gentle lady's time has expired. i believe all time has expired for the debate on this amendment. therefore, the vote will occur on the amendment. all those in favor of say aye. all those opposed will say noment. >> no. >> no. being the chair the nos have it. the amendment is not agreed to. mr. wax m

they said it should be more gentle and it is a very gentle curve. it is a pretty good experience so far. pretty smug. very nicely marked it looks pretty good so far. right now traffic is still pretty light on the upper deck of the bay bridge. >>george: being that al office for life traffic on it all to this as well we insist have so traffic in an account of one of a sub of the on the detail bridge earlier this afternoon, and the best conditions right an apparent it easy traffic on all of the stems. no traffic delays for 580 on the richmond and then recovered. >>brian: we have some a chance of off and on this body light rain of the morning hours. a a quarter of an inch of rain in the wettest spot at the highest elevations. for tuesday, things changed. we will see a lot of sunshine returning with warmer temperatures and it will stay warm for most of this week with highs in the '70s when it agreed will run for the libyan your 7 day around the bay is coming to report injuries when a small helicopter collided in salon in this there is no word on what cau

. >> he was a very kind and gentle... >> the nephew of the 78-year-old was stunned. he says his elderly uncle was found dead in his home. >> he was gentle. he was peaceful and nice. he won't hurt a bird. so... i can't -- it felt like he didn't deserve it. >> according to police he was found by friends who came to check on him this morning. his body had been inside several days. they're treating this like a homicide, investigators are looking at all possibilities. >> now we have a major crimes unit investigators here and are looking into circumstances behind the death. >> neighbors were shocked that the man who lived alone with occasional help from care givers and family was apparently killed. >> i hope it's not a random incident and that we have to fear here, it's getting scary because there have been break ins. >> for god sake, he was a gentle soul. if anyone knows anything, please, come forward. >> the police major crimes unit is here. and police won't say where he died. inside, his body was taken away by the coroner about three hours ago but that is an active crim

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state of mind -- a really gentle state of mind, i guess. ♪ >> just a few steps away from union squarea quiet corner stone of san francisco's our community to the meridian gallery has a 20-year history of supporting visual arts. experimental music concert, and also readings. >> give us this day our daily bread at least three times a day. and lead us not into temptation to often on weekdays. [laughter] >> meridians' stands apart from the commercial galleries around union square, and it is because of their core mission, to increase social, philosophical, and spiritual change my isolated individuals and communities. >> it gives a statement, the idea that a significant art of any kind, in any discipline, creates change. >> it is philosophy that attracted david linger to mount a show at meridian. a show at meridian. >> you want to feel like you

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state of mind -- a really gentle state of mind, i guess. ♪ >> welcome to "culturewire."oday we are at recology. they are celebrate 20 years of one of the most incredibly unique artist residency programs. we are here to learn more from one of the resident artists. welcome to the show, deborah. tell us how this program began 20 years ago. >> the program began 20 years ago. our founder was an environmentalist and an activist and an artist in the 1970's. she started these street sweeping campaigns in the city. she started with kids. they had an exhibition at city hall. city officials heard about her efforts and they invited her to this facility. we thought it would coincide with our efforts to get folks to recycle, it is a great educational tool. since then, we have had 95 professional artists come through. >> how has the program changed over the years? how has the program -- what can the public has an artist engage with? >> for the most part, we worked with metal and wood, what you would expect from a program like ours. over the years, we tried to include artists and all ty

it is a very easy and a gentle curve. >>darya: coming up at 7:30 p.m. we will surely have a closure impacted traffic over the weekend. we were just talking about how the golden gate is such a mess. it is really good that this is open this morning. >>george: light traffic around the bay area. it is an easy commute to the san mateo bridge although it was busy did not seem nearly as much traffic as the golden gate curiosity let's head over to the weather center. we have been looking at what pavement and domestic divisions. let's find out how long that will last. >>erica: the good news is we are on the dry side. mostly cloudy conditions from the roof camera overlooking downtown san francisco. oakland, concord in downtown san francisco are all coming in at 47. future cast 4 as predicted by 10:00 a.m. we will continue to hold on to the upper forties in the north bay and the down the peninsula as well. we could see low 50s begins to make an appearance down the east shore. as we advance closer to the afternoon, no green situated over the area indicating most lo

. >> he was gentle. he was peaceful. he was nice. he wouldn't hurt a bird. if so i can't say anything except if it was foul play, he didn't deserve it. >> for god's sake he was a very gentle soul. if anybody knows anything, please come forward. >>reporter: robertson lived alone with occasional help from part-time care gives and famil family. police are waiting for an autopsy to determine exactly how he died. >>> it has been especially violent week in oakland. besides robertson death police are investigating a string of shootings in different part of the city believed to be unrelated. we are live from oakland police headquarters with challenge officers are facing. >> unfortunately gun violence is nothing new here in oakland but as you mention, there has been an increase over the past couple of days and of versus doing everything they can to keep up. oakland police are stretched thin as they investigate 5 separate shootings in just 12 hours. >> it has been a busy week. we had i think at least 3 homicide last week and then obviously whatever i know at least one

robinson lived alone in the home and described as a gentle man who never fathered anyone. >> the kill was murdered. he didn't have it coming. i can't think of any reason why anybody would want to hurt a gentle soul like that. >> investigators are asking anyone with information about what happened to robertson to call oakland police. a union city church today removed graffiti found yesterday as parishioner they ares arrived. someone paid santannic symbols on the wall. they also religious statute and tore down the crops on the run in front of the church. crews today power wash removed graffiti. the pastor of the church chose to put up the clean up because he said he wanted people to see it and hopefully learn from it. police want you to look at this surveillance video. they say chose a woman who stole a donation jar on tuesday at ups store is still on the square. somebody in that jar was donated for the mother theresa foundation. another visit on first street reported its donation star for a charity called friends with animals. here south bay drug company nearly doubled today after pane

>> it was a surprise because it was so gentle. you didn't get to the high acceleration until are you up there. >> he will be 91. his mission evened out the space race but he said it's a space exploration that will be the lasting legacy of the space program. >> complications while pregnant could have a lasting impact on your heart health. the science women need to look for. to toss large rocks in liverm ensive . >>> vandals are uses a launching device to throw large rocks at homes. don ford on what's behind the strange and potentially dangerous crimes. >> reporter: it's usually quiet in livermore but last saturday night it got noisy and dangerous. someone started smashing windows with rocks but not just any foxes. >> there is river rocks, decorative and from size of a softball to a tennis ball. >> reporter: large stones that police believe were thrown from a launching device. >> like a water balloon launcher. it's like a gain rubber band. >> reporter: the damage is widespread. eight homes and a school hit by the vandals. throwing t

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people get is that normally they get what i am trying to achieve, the sense of calmness, it's really gentlef mind -- a really gentle state of mind, i guess. ♪ >> i am the director of visual arts programming at intersection for the arts. intersection for the arts is based in san francisco and has always been an organization that looks at larger social political issues through the lens of practice, and we are here today at our exhibition of "chico and chang." the original inspiration was drawn from a restaurant chain in new york city. half of their menu is -- what struck me was the graphic pictures and a man in a hat on a rig truck carrying take that time is containers and in the black sea to representation of a mexican guy wearing a sombrero and caring a somali horn. it struck me that these two large, very subversive complex cultures could be boiled down to such simple representations. chico and chang primarily looks at four topic areas. one of the man was is whose stories are being told and how. one of the artisans in the show has created an amazing body of work working with young adults ca

i saw people in my community not being able to be employed so i started gentle parking. with the thought of bringing parking service back to the city which i love. what happened is it transcended as i reached out to a lot of troubled youth and we expanded to 50 jobs currently. we have three parking lots. -- across the city. it is important for people in the small business commission to be approachable. one of the things you said is a grant or through the minority- o andwned businesses -- owned businesses. i am approachable. my parents were immigrant merchants. it is essential for us to have people who truly represent san francisco. we're different. the commission should be diverse as the city of represents. if you have any questions. supervisor kim: are there any questions from supervisors? could you tell us how many people you employ? >> 50. supervisor kim: i know you have done a lot of work to connect small businesses to community organizations. i was hoping you could talk about that. >> certainly. i will give you an example. i started a bitter project where we took un

. >> if the president -- >> would the gentle lady yield for just a second? >> did you mean to say four years on this the agency? >> almost. >> when it was -- >> dodd-frank was a year ago. >> i stand corrected on the time, my point remains. >> the gentle lady will have an additional 30 seconds. >> i think the gentlemen for putting into the record the correct number of years s years whatever it is and i'm sure it's the case. the point i made by introducing this is that the president's patience had been exhausted and that even members of a prior administration who had held this very office said at some point somebody has to quote call the senate's bluff, i think that is what was done here and i ask for your response with respect to that or should he just have it go on for another two or four years however long it might have taken. >> i do that opinion reflects the fact that the basis for the president's actions are not uniquely partisan. there's a sort of wider more sod i -- more solid ground in which he is operating. i think the president faces a situation whe

roberts gives a gentle push.nd another until this wild thing runs back into his natural habitat. >> now he's happy at home. that's the best. >> reporter: which seems to be getting smaller and smaller every day. as animal control officers are responding to more and more wildlife calls, they're also juggling a growing pet population along with a shrinking budget. we're going to show you why prince george's county's people problem is causing so many pets to be euthanized. and what the county says it's doing to fix it tomorrow on news 4 at 6:00. jim, doreen. >> thank you. >>> the whole kitchen was full of smoke. >> but it wasn't a stovetop fire, it was the dishwasher. a class action lawsuit claims a well known companies a hidden a dangerous product defect from the public. so the question is is your dishwasher safe? we've got a news 4 special report tomorrow at 11:00. >> usually you want to wash the dishes rather than cook them. >> yeah, mine better be safe. >> are we safe to head out into the sunshine tomorrow? >> th

. >> he was gentle. he was peaceful. he was nice. he wouldn't hurt a bird. if so i can't say anything except if it was foul play, he didn't deserve it. >> for god's sake he was a very gentle soul. if anybody knows anything, please come forward. >>reporter: robertson lived alone with occasional help from part-time care gives and famil family. police are waiting for an autopsy to determine exactly how he died. >>> it has been especially violent week in oakland. besides robertson death police are investigating a string of shootings in different part of the city believed to be unrelated. we are live from oakland police headquarters with challenge officers are facing. >> unfortunately gun violence is nothing new here in oakland but as you mention, there has been an increase over the past couple of days and of versus doing everything they can to keep up. oakland police are stretched thin as they investigate 5 separate shootings in just 12 hours. >> it has been a busy week. we had i think at least 3 homicide last week and then obviously whatever i know at least one

i yield back. >> i thank the gentle lady. madam secretary, thank you for the testimony, and thank you againerccommodating our schedule for the floor voting, and we thank you for that. anb thank you por the testimony, and the questions and the members of the committee may have additional questions for you and i would ask for you the respond to those in writing. and the record will be held open for ten days, and without objection, the committee stands adjourned. >> thank you. >>> more of president obama's cabinet secretaries will be on capitol hill testifying about president obama's 2013 budget proposal. energy secretary chu will be at the senate committee at 9:00 a.m. eastern time, and then secretary geithner at 2:00 p.m. eastern. both of the hearings are here on c-span3. >>> now, interviews and political news from c-span radio's washington today which we are joining in progress. >> caller: and the likelihood of the capitulating. >> let me ask you a message from the book "a single rolf the dice, obama's diplomacy with iran." f

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barriers, new rail links and caltrans officials say the curve you are looking at is supposed to be more gentle the what was before. it does look like a very easy curve. various will. >>brian: here it is a look at the ever that of the bay bridge from early as today. this and there is a weather system pushing into night that will impact us tomorrow morning. this entire system is fishing south into the bay area. here is this that played view. outthrust still somehow saddam and it somehow and added a few of our show has of what has most aquatic sky. by 3:00 a.m.-4:00 a.m., light rain. we will have perhaps a stray showers late morning early afternoon, but breaks of sunshine and increasing high clouds late into the afternoon as another weather system president for the tomorrow morning in the forties. the highest moral are still on the chilly side. >>vicki: three skiers are dead after an avalanche. there were swept up in a snow is live. authorities say they're all experience. the woman who survived had an avalanche safety kit >>vicki: barbara hall shows as whitney houston the base, iodine the mother

i recognize the gentle lady from california for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you for your testimony, administrator jackson. i want to begin with a brief comment. i was disappointed with the decision to eliminate the grants. i find the epa's justification observed. without funding, county and environmental health officials will have to drop testing. we've seen 11 occasions when conditions were so bad that officials closed a stretch of shoreline to all contact. the possibility of cutbacks is not good news. we can't assume local jurisdictions will be able to replace lost grant funding. epa needs to partner with our local communities, not leave them to dry. now on to questions. last year when you appeared before us to discuss the administrati administration's 2012 budget request, you noted that add daptation to changing conditions is a significant issue faced by the nation's drinking waters and waste water utilities. unfortunately, the cost of these add daptation needs is not currently included in epa's replacement cost estimates for water and waste water sy

the gentle lady from california is recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to yield my time to mr. marky. >> i thank you. >> i wish you would have told me that before i yielded. >> i thank the gentle lady very much. so here's the problem. the gentleman from illinois is saying that we should just get over it. that this oil pipeline is going to come down from alberta, go right through the middle of our country, and just going to then go out into the rest of the world and th will be great. that will be great because the price of oil will go down globally. and we should be very happy for that. and somehow or another american consumers will benefit even though the export strategy will be to send that oil to china or to send it to argentina or to send it to europe. and somehow or another, our consumers will be benefited by that. because that's law of supply and demand. the problem is, we're kind of late in the game on this to kind of reach this point of realization. we played under opec's laws of supplies and demand. and their law is -- and here's what they

. >> i recognize the gentle lady from new york. >> thank you for all your service to our country and all you do to protect america and keep us safe, we appreciate that and certainly your efforts to put together a budget during challenging times. thank you on behalf of all of us. a few issues, thank you for including $10 million for northern border technology that will help implement the beyond the border plan. and i agree with the peace bridge, it's so important with our proximity to canada and we are the source of a tremendous amount of commerce every day which is often stifled at the border because of the inability to cross and the delay particularly for the trucks. this could be a huge boost to the up state economy which is not faring well. we appreciate any faenattention can give to that. we had a letter urging you to find the funds for this inspection station at the nfall station. while it's a giant unit, the guard station will be leaving. to us it's a opportunity to have a federal campus, and again, the collaboration that goes on already, it's going and i know the air guard has

when it opens on tuesday it will have a gentle curve you see outlined in orange there.the gentle curve is there because they have to move the roadway from where it exists right now over this way so we can work on the landing site as you come off of the bridge. that's for the future. folks will be pushed over. there's the eventual reality of bay bridge. that's so we can save a year in the future. that's great news. we're also worried about the now. nbc's bay area christie smith is live in emeryville this morning, the last stop before hitting the bay bridge. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, mike. we're nine hours away from the bay bridge closure of the upper deck. we might think it affects us here locally. caltrans has the signs up here in the bay area. they also tell me they have the message signs up across the state from los angeles to redding. and crews are ready to start laying cones this evening to drive traffic off the bay bridge access points at 580, 80 and interstate 880, all this to reassign less than a quarter mile approach to the eastern span of

. >> a gentle flow from the east- southeast, again a little bit of fog, the bigger issue is first warning weather doppler showing shower activity now in the area. it is going to be in the metro here i am figuring between 8:00 and 9:00, once you start seeing it rain it looks like damp through the day, keep an umbrella handy. now up to 37 degrees on tv hill, a difference of two degrees from yesterday. the normal daytime high is 49. that will be our lunchtime and evening temperature with showers, though, don. >> thank you. your rush right now from sharon gibala, wjz traffic control. >> hi, don, good morning, everyone. it is busier, plenty of problems. the biggest one on the outer loop past frederick road, the jam from liberty road to baltimore national pike. also a new accident on 895. we cleared up that earlier accident on 895 southbound. now we have another one, that one just approaching the tunnel. another accident on 97 northbound, this one at new cut road. there is your speeds on the beltway. 21 miles per hour, so big delays. there is that back up, the outer loop, again this jam running

and the lack of customers is also holding back -- >> the gentle lady's time has expired. dr. heck? >> thank you, mr. chairman. thanks to both of you for being here today. i appreciate your testimony. governor snyder, i was really interested if your comments on workforce investment in your job connection program. being one of the -- having the companion bill to go along with -- the question i have is how were you able or what kind of response did you get to the idea that we were going to have to move people from the job they might have been in to the job that exists? i ask that because i represent some of nevada. we have the dubious distinction of having the highest unemployment rate in the nation contribute largely in part to the construction jobs we've lost in the last several years. we had a field hearing on workforce investment out in las vegas. i asked one of the local analysts, economists what they thought about this 70,000 jobs, would they ever come back. his answer was no. we'll never be back to that .evel of construction in nevadao next to him on the panel was a representat

i would first ask the gentle lady, i've had the privilege of being able to go and take a look having chaired this committee before, the subcommittee before to many of the ports abroad to see what conditions they work under. and i would just say that i think aside from trying to take a look at some of the major ports we have here this committee might think about taking a look at the major ports that actually export to us and see what conditions there are. there's a big difference between mumbai, for example, the port of mumbai and singapore. and that allows us to understand just how -- it is difficult to get to this 100% scanning issue. in fact, as we just learned and we've known for a while that it's just 5% or so that we scan. and i understand the layered approach. i was one of the people who pushed the c-tpat for example. but still there's some uneasiness at least for me about relying on the manifest for majority of what's going on and just looking for abnormal patterns and risk analysis towards that, and then taking a look at that. so i think we're -- i think it's very difficult t

we recognize the gentle lady from new york for five minutes. >> thank you. i'd like to respond to my good friend and colleague mr. mchenry's statement that the a.g. had not responded to agent terry's death. he responded immediately. and has expressed his concern for the other agents that are being killed at a higher rate than ever in our history. >> if the gentle lady will yield. i will not yield. i will not yield. and not only did he do that, he immediately took swift action to stop gun walking which did not happen in the prior administration. and establish reforms to prevent this type of flawed operation from ever happening again. he further called for and we can all help him do this, particularly the republican majority, to confirm a permanent atf director. that would help moranhe also ca fire arms trafficking statute. he called for appropriate fundfo do its job. and increase penalties for straw purchasing. so these are some of the concrete actions that he's taken in response to that tragic death. and once again today, this investigation continues on its

i yield back. >> i thank the gentle lady. we've been advised we're going to be called for votes between 3:45 and 4:00. now i recognize the gentleman from mississippi, the ranking member of the full committee, mr. thompson, for any opening statement he might have. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. i'm pleased that administrator pistol could join us to day to discuss tsa's screening partnership program. i'd like to also extend a welcome to our second panel of witnesses. it is my hope that some of the myths and rhetoric surrounding this program can be put to bed today. by this hearing title, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle have implied that the current use of federal screeners impedes job growth. there's no proof in law or effect for that assertion. the number of screeners at an airport is determined by an analysis of the risk, threat, and involve at that airport. these factors do not change. so the number of jobs cannot change based on whether the screeners are public or private sector employees. under the repu

for gentle relief of occasional constipation. can i get an autograph?emale announcer ] live the regular life. phillips'. >>> welcome back. a little auction 2012 coverage for you. the donald in vegas entering the auction himself as a bet on the republican in the party. >> it's my honor, real honor and privilege to endorse mitt romney. [ applause ] >> so the casino billionaires have set their sights on one another. gingrich picks up sheldon adelson and romney picks up trump's huge ratings. time for the mega panel. karen, susan, and jimmy join us. i watch the trump endorsement and the romney response. i have to say superficially, romney's commentary on trade, romney's rhetoric on bank restructure. we heard it in florida saying the banks are lying and fearful and need to restructure and write down their debt and get over it. those are the things i would love to hear from this president. yet we haven't. am i wrong to be encouraged by his opponent in mitt romney potentially escalating that rhetoric? >> i think you're wrong on this one. i think you have a guy