. >> as a seni gornment official in charge of the cemetery i accept full responsibility for all my actions and for the actions of my team. i want to express my sincere regrets to any family who may have been caused pain. >> he served it for 19 years until he was forced out because of a scandal. >>> right now dozens of san jose firefighters are working what maybe their final shift. they have been laid off because of the city's budget deficit. teresa garcia is live in san jose and the firefiter union has been trying to head this off? >> they really have, but you know, i spoke to the mayor tod and he says it's too late down to the wire. it's not o late to reinstate those men and women who are firefighters. san jose is tenth largest city in the nation but has one of the lowest staing levels. it respoed to more than 80,000 incidents last year. they try to get them in less than 8 minutes but firefighters are starting their last shift on saturday. >> san jose resident is frustrated public safety has come to the point that people may have to protect themselves. >> i'm just fortunate i live across

enterprise in many northern cities like my own of york which for so long has been neglected by the labour gornment and what assurances can we give to me my constituents that the coalition will do all it can to encourage the economic growth. >> order, order. >> i'm grateful to the right honorable gentleman, prime minister. >> my right honorabl friend it's q r tisis point. over the last decade the disparity between regions actually got worse. the fact is regional policy over the last decade has been a complete failure and that's why we are right to cut rates of corporation tax and say to new businesses, to bias this policy in fav of parts of the country whose needs are greates and also to have a 1 billion pound that can help parts of the country that he represents. >> does the prime minister accept that one consequence of a prison sentence is that those serving them are unavailable to re-offend? >> absolutely. you're absolutely right. that's why prison is there. that's why prison is there. but the fact is i believe prison can work. the fact is that it's not working properly at the moment. when you'v

after 13 years of labour gornment i'm afraid we have not the best cancer outcomes in europe. we want the best cancer tcomes. that means rapid treatment, yes, but it also means rapid follow-up and it also mns getting the radiotherapy and chemotherapy and the drugs that you need. those are all essential. and the one thank we will do on this side of the house is we will tipo put real terms increases into e nhs whereas i understand it it's now labour policy to cut the nhs. >> quite apart from the anxiety of having to wait results are best if treatment starts as soon as possible. that's why it's important to get diagnosed and see a specialist quickly. he hasn't answered the question. the whole house will have seen that. he's dodged the question just like his health cretary did. this is what the health secretary said when he too was damaging the question. --donning the question. dodging the question. i have n said abandoning the cancer waiting time targets at the moment. so i asked t prime minister to give us is straight answer. will cancer patients keep their guarantee to see a sp

and certainly we have elements of compassion or mercy that play out in our -- are reflted in our gornment, which i would agree, as congressman gutierrez noted earlier, that should be reflected to an extent. and things such as in general where it applies very evenhandedly, such as the role of due process or punishment that fits the offense. >> in your testimony, if i may, in closing, this is what you say. "it would be unwise to misapply biblical principles in any public policy area. this is true with respecto immigration. immigration," you say, "is one of those issues in which scripture does not detail al public policy. this issue differs from clear-cut biblical preaccepts such as prohibiting murder, stealing, or perjury. thus we have to consider such biblical principles to appropriately apply carefully -- thus we have to consider which biblical principles do appropriately apply, carefully assess the situation at hand, consider this nation's experience and unique characteristics, judiciously estimate it will various policy options and then exercise prudent judgment." i'm clear about that.

we are moving to a place for more people are becoming dependent on the federal gornment. that the roads the culture. look at europe where relativism is rampant far more than here in america. that accelerates the pace in the culture and diminishing the value of human beings. that is where people in government have a role to play. 70% of americans want a free market democracy that has made as great. the rest want a welfare state. that would make it harder for families to stay together. free-market democracy is the best thing we can do to support culture and embrace the idea that there are fundamental unchanging truth in life in government that we should be embracing. that is how i would take it. >> what have you heard about numbers in terms of obama care. i do not think most people know what that is going to cost. do you have any idea and can you break it down? >> what is obama care. the cost? we have the statistics -- going to cost? we have statistics. many have said it will produce a deficit. your health care expenses will exceed 9.3% of your income and obama care will su

. >> according to the gornment site, $266 million in stimulus money has been spent on grants, loans, and contracts in rhode island, in the first congressional district alone, which netted about 213 jobs. are you ok with those numbers? >> that number is a wall full return on investment. -- a wall full -- woeful return on investment. we need to keep businesses ving. we need to visit the state future commerce and tax revenues. -- we need to facilitate future commerce and tax revenues. as a state representative, it has been apparent to me that rhode island would have been suffering much more without the stimulus. there would of been further cuts to schools, municipalities , and increases in property taxes. >> would you support a second stimulus? >> i would support the stimulus that focuses on jobs, infrastructure, green jobs, in for structure that helps facilitate commerce down the line, and kickstart our economy in the long term. >> he is looking for a bigger stimulus. >> this is the example -- an example where the perspective of a mayor would have been very beneficial. we argued for re