actually here in washington they would return it to him some years later he came back to guam which was a very emotional thing they died from both the japanese. how were they treated differently or were they treated differently? >> they were treated very differently. the americans of course were treated not much food, medicine, a lot of physical beatings and that was due to the japanese military training and that was disloyal to surrender. as of the american p.o.w. were considered not honorable men. on the other hand of course the u.s. treated the japanese in accord with the geneva convention hopefully that would lead to better treatment of americans. the difficulty of early on they wanted to commit suicide for the very reason i mentioned earlier they thought the

the island of guam and he stayed there with another guy until 1960. he came out 15 years after the end of the war and went back to japan as a hero and had a movie made about him and all that. by a quirk of faith i happened to find his long-lost diary actually here in washington. i went to return it to him some years later and he came back to guam and i met him and gave him back his long-lost diary out it was a very emotional thing as you can imagine. >> you looked at prisoners from the allied side in the japanese. how were they treated differently and where they treated differently? >> yes they were treated very differently. the americans of course were treated very brutally, not much food comp and not much medicine, hard labor and a lot of physical beatings. and the japanese military training which thought it was disloyal to surrender. so these american p.o.w.s were considered not honorable men and they were treated that way. on the other hand of course the u.s. treated the japanese prisoners in accord with the geneva convention hoping that would lea

. $2 billion is for highway repairs, anywhere in the country, including up to $20 million each for guam, american samoa and the mariana islands that aren't even in the same ocean as hurricane sandy. >> $20 million is a lot on a little island. tom forman joins me now. tom, obviously we're so used to pork being laden in these bills and of course, it makes all of us angry, but where is the pork in this bill? is it really that bad? >> well, if you listen to the republican critics, i have been listening to them all day, they say the pork is everywhere in this $34 billion amendment the democrats tacked on to this emergency spending measure for super storm sandy. take a look. this amendment includes $194 million for the national oceanic and atmospheric administration to buy equipment to improve weather forecasting and for tending to their satellites. it would give $2 billion, billion with a "b" for repairing roads virtually anywhere after a natural disaster, including, yes, guam, which is about 8,000 miles from where sandy struck. more than $100 million for amtrak to tend to its trains and tra

billion dollars for highway repairs anywhere in the country, including up to $20 million each for guam samoa, they're not in the same ocean as hurricane sandy. there's $16 billion to quintuple the amount we're spending on the community development block grant program. the slush fund that paid for such eshaken shall programs as a doggie day care center in ohio and a day at the circus in new york. they've got $111 million in that bill for weather satellites. now, explain to me how a weather satellite can be damaged we a hurricane? we may need more weather satellites or data but that's not storm relief. of that $50 billion in the bill pending before the house, only about $4 billion, even is expected to be spent this year. so, more than 90% of that isn't expected to be spent until next year at the earliest. that part needs to go into the normal appropriation process, where it-follow the normal scrutiny it's supposed to be given to spending bills. >> neil: the argument has always been, congressman, ya, ya, ya, we know this this way things happen in washington, they add on and throw in goodi

. $2 billion is for highway repairs, anywhere in the country including up to $20 million each for guam, american is a mow ya and the mariana islands isn't in the same ocean as hurricane sandy. >> $20 million is a lot on a little island. tom foreman is joining me now. obviously we are so used to pork being laidn in the bills and it makes us all angry. where's the pork in this bill? is that it that bad? >> if you listen to the republican critics, they say the pork is everywhere in this $34 billion amendment that the democrats tacked on to this emergency spending measure for superstorm sandy. take a look. it includes $194 million for the national oceanic atmospheric organization. it will give $2 billion for repairing roads virtually anywhere after a natural disaster including, yes, guam which is ,000 miles from where sandy struck, more than $100 million for amtrak to end to its trains and tracks in the northeast corridor even though it looks like less than a third would involve repairs related to sandy and it's damage. and the amendment includes $16 billion for the department of housing a

a young gentleman captured in guam, was in japanese prison examples. the other was a slave labor in a steel mill. that was a very, very difficult time. lucky to come out of that alive. interesting one on the japanese side, i met and knew a japanese straggler. they were elected to stay in the jungle after the war was over on the island of guam, stayed there with another guy until 1960. he came out 15 years after the end of the war, went back to japan a hero, had a movie made about him and all of that. by a course of fate, i happened to find his diary, a long lost diary, and, actually, here in washington. i was able to return it to him some years later, and i gave back the long lost diary, a very emotional thing as you could imagine. >> you looked at prisoners from both allies' side and the japanese. how were they treated differently? were they treated differently? >> well, yes, they were treated very differently. the americans, of course, were treated very brutally, not much food, no medicine, hard labor, a lot of beatings, physical beatings, things of

we have changing of our personnel from japan to guam. this is the sign for the president's to be diminishing the punishment. i knew this was coming. i remember his first budget four years ago. i knew what he was going to do. he was going to be starting his army of america. in may sound and fair but that is what i mean. i went to afghanistan so i can watch what is going on. but remember what happened. he defunded are only fit generation fighter. he did the same thing with airlift capacity. he did away with our future combat system. that is the first time there has been a major change proposed in about 40 years on the ground capability of america. the worst thing he did was do away with the interceptor in poland. i was part of that program. we discovered in 2007 that iran would have the capability of sending over a delivery system. we saw all of our innovators were on the west coast. the president has cut that number down to 30. and knowing that you have the capability by 2015, that is the most serious thing he has done to our security. th

it just got back from its asian humanitarian assistance from guam, indonesia, vietnam, an amazing number of nations we're partnering with. those hospital ships with 1,000 beds, 12 operating rooms, they produce their own medical oxygen, they have ct scanners and they can do almost anything a hospital on the west coast can do and we can park them offshore as we did in haiti and in haiti they spent the first 72 hours once they got on scene doing nothing but repairing crush injuries and restoring life. that's the capacity we have. i like to think in our partnership with the maritime services and the coast guard and our reserve forces, i like to think of us as america's or the world's 911 when something bad, either man-made or natural happens, some catastrophe happens in the world, often times the ambassador will pick up the phone and dial 911 and the navy marine corps team answers the phone. it is our those, it is our dna it is our ability to be there. if you look at the communicate dapbt's 3 central tenets of what he believes it importance, readiness is in there. the ability to move and go

. >> quite the guam mut, i have -- gamut, i have a little bit of film watching to do. >>> i would giveommute a "b" plus, bay bridge is out early but san jose looks good getting up to 17 and we are off to a good start in santa clara valley and 101 as well. sunole grade looks good and we have had a couple of rough days and keep your fingers crossed, bart is now back on time after some earlier issues. let's go to steve. >>> it is still a damp cold a little bit of patchy fog but it's much warmer in the city and in fact i saw some 47- degree readings along the embarcadero which is very mild. highs today mid-50s to a few low 60s, pam. >>> coming up next, we are following a developing situation in algeria. what happened this morning at a natural gas facility where dozens of hostages were being held. >>> also some of the best companies to work for right here in the bay area, we have a little lift coming up and the onlying bell is about to ring -- opening bell is about to ring on some of the stocks to watch, we will be right back. whatever you're in the mood for, sizzler's endless salad bar has

norton is here and will speak, puerto rico and the district of columbia, as well as guam, the u.s. virgin islands and the northern mariana islands. we have extended in congresses past when i was the majority leader the ability for those representatives to vote on this floor, not to vote on final passage, the constitution would have to do that. but to vote in the committee, the committee in the whole. they ought to give them that here as a show of respect to honor their service to american citizens in the territories and the district of columbia. as this new congress begins, we have an opportunity to commit ourselves to the spirit of compromise which our sit zepps seek from their representatives. our nation continues to face a number of challenges that can only be addressed by working together and giving every family the opportunity as our leader said when she spoke so eloquently to make it in america. let's take advantage of this new session to start off on the right foot and show americans we are ready to come together to tackle our greatest channels. i thank the gentlelady for th

they take us--i feel like i'm samoa or guam in american possession.n to suggestion that it has a white picket fence and a rainbow over the thing but that this is a complicated story. i believe we are as lincoln said, the best last hope of earth but to achieve that greatness we have to be willing to hold our own feet to the fire about our failings both past and present and learn from those and go forward and not backwards. >> see i see the whole universityuniverseas an instrument. everything in the whole universe, some of you don't like that because its noise or you don't understand. but when you sit next to the surf it's a wild sound. you can't tell when the next wave is coming but it's beautiful or the trees and the wind blowing animals or human or music, which is vibrations controlled vibrations. that's what i do for a living i'm a rhythmist. it's a special interest to me because it's my profession. >> cenk: did go through a period of time saying i'm going to hang this up. >> no, i never said i i'll hang it up but i wanted to change partners. it's l

happened to find his diary share in washington and returned it to him some years later he came back to guam and i met him and give it back his long last diary. a very emotional as you can imagine. stat you'll get the prisoners on malae side and the japanese. how were they treated differently or were they treated differently? >> yes, they were treated very differently. the americans, of course, were treated very brutally. not much food, no medicine, hard labor, a lot of physical beatings and things of that. it is due to the japanese military training which thought that it was to surrender so they were considered not honorable men and they were treated that way to it on the other hand of course they treated the japanese prison in accord with the geneva convention hoping that would lead to better treatment of americans. the difficulty early on they wanted to commit suicide for the very reason that i mentioned earlier they thought that being captured was dishonorable and in many cases they did americans to let them commit suicide. in the most part they swayed them the other way the ones i write

[inaudible] >> on the pacific re-alignment defense bill and the money for guam and okinawa and there's no way in -- what is taking so long to get the report out? >> well, i mean, there are a number of complex issues, political and operational with regard to the move of the marines from oak na waugh to guam, we think we have a plan. we haven't yet fully convinced congress, but i believe we will make this work. it may be later than he won't but i think we'll come up with a plan we can achieve which is to maintain our prepares in the pacific area and also moving some of the marines off okinawa. >> second row, please. >> thank you. kate can from politico. can you talk about assumptions you're using to build the 2014 budget and how they have changed over the last couple months or last week? barracks. >> basically the strategy is one we have already announced and shiedded briefly. that has been the overall guiding -- summarized briefly. thats the overriding principle. we are planning on the same top line numbers announced with the budget a year ago. and i don't know whether those will change

will give $2 billion for repairing roads virtually anywhere after a natural disaster including, yes, guam which is ,000 miles from where sandy struck, more than $100 million for amtrak to end to its trains and tracks in the northeast corridor even though it looks like less than a third would involve repairs related to sandy and it's damage. and the amendment includes $16 billion for the department of housing and urban development to help with disaster relief, rebuilding an economic revitalization but not just in sandy's path, in any disaster zone anywhere in the country. that is what the critics have been pointing to all day and calling pork, erin. they say they do not belong in an emergency relief bill and it is about rebuilding programs instead of rebuilding from sandy. >> as we know you can put in the money and when there is a disaster they ask for more. that's the way it works. thin furuated some lawmakers republicans and democrats. when it is you, you want the money. it doesn't matter what your party is. there was some irony in that. how have they fought back against the accusations

should point out that missouri is supported in this case by 32 states, the district of columbia and guam as well as, not surprisingly, mothers against drunk driving. >> marcia coyle, national law. thank you. >> my pleasure, jeff. >> ifill: as the president's second term takes shape, the obama administration is grappling with one of its thorniest challenges, deciding how many troops will or will not remain in afghanistan after 2014. judy woodruff has that. >> woodruff: the talk of how many u.s. troops to leave in afghanistan comes with 66,000 still serving there, down from a peak of 100,000 in 2010. under current plans, combat forces would be withdrawn by the end of 2014, leaving an undetermined number of americans to train afghan troops. but yesterday the white house deputy national security advisor -- ben rhodes -- told reporters the number could be zero. he said, "we wouldn't rule out any option. the u.s. does not have an inherent objective of 'x' number of troops in afghanistan." the comment raised eyebrows in washington, especially in light of something that vice president joe biden

should point out that missouri is supported in this case by 32 states the district of columbia and guam as well as, not surprisingly mothers against drunk driving. >> marcia coyle national law. thank you. >> my pleasure, jeff. >> ifill: as the president's second term takes shape, the obama administration is grappling with one of its thorniest challenges, deciding how many troops will or will not remain in afghanistan after 2014. judy woodruff has that. >> woodruff: the talk of how many u.s. troops to leave in afghanistan comes with 66,000 still serving there, down from a peak of 100,000 in 2010. under current plans, combat forces would be withdrawn by the end of 2014, leaving an undetermined number of americans to train afghan troops. but yesterday the white house deputy national security advisor -- ben rhodes -- told reporters the number could be zero. he said, "we wouldn't rule out any option. the u.s. does not have an inherent objective of 'x' number of troops in afghanistan." the comment raised eyebrows in washington, especially in light of something that vice president joe biden sa

i know they are going to try it, and how far they will go with the guam of chicken, i have no idea, but tell you can't -- you really can't -- this is stuff that we've already indebted ourselves. i mean, if you're a real conservative, really honest conservative without hypocrisy, you would want to pay your debt, and that's what this is. they are not running up anything new. they are paying off and who can believe -- i mean, they owe $16.4 trillion and by the late caper they did they added 4 trillion to it. i mean, this is madness, but anyway. >> right. >> there are other places to play the bat. can you play that battle at sequester time instead of mindless cuts in defense and non-defense. >> right. >> you can play that game at the continuing resolution which is inside baseball which means you're going to chicken out again and just extend and extend and extend. this game is going to be played for months on end. >> so let's -- >> let me ask you this, senator. >> it does make no sense, and i'm glad you brought up the fiscal cliff deal, because in the fiscal cliff deal they added $4 trillion

the mariana islands in there, and i say i know the hurricane didn't impact guam and the islands. why are there funding opportunities for those folks. >> you can read it in the bill. >> that's what is so frustrating to me, is that we, we here in the body politic, create cynicism. we create it. it doesn't exist naturally in our communities back home. we create it, and we have an opportunity here with the chairman's mark, to make certain that we get dollars out the door to folks who need it and make certain we don't do one thing to further that cynicism back home that folks are profiting from other families' tragedy, and i just -- i wish we could rally around that. i yield back. >> thank you very much. the spirit that has been talked about today is very much alive and i hope that you sensed this, that this committee does have great -- not just empathy but we care vary much -- very much about the people who are impacted. i hear that word, talking about people. people we care about. i previously lived in new jersey. i do admit that i'm thinking about running against rodney in a couple

on the pacific realignment defense bill -- [inaudible] money for guam and okinawa because there's no -- [inaudible] the department has submitted to congress, and the senate and house have been saying this for a couple of years, so what is taking you guys long to get the report out? >> well, i mean, there are a number of complex issues, political and operational, with regard to the move of the marines from okinawa to guam. and we have been working on it. we think we have a plan. we haven't yet fully convinced the congress. but i believe we will make this work. it may be later than we'd hoped, but i think we will come up with a plan that they will buy, and we will achieve our goal which is to maintain our presence in the pacific area while also moving some of the marines off of okinawa. >> here in the second row, please. and then we'll go to the front row after that. >> thank you. kate brannon from politico. could you talk about what assumptions you're using to build the 2014 budget and how those might have changed over the last couple months or even the last week? thanks. >> well, bas

virgin islands or guam. how much time should you allow to get the passport renewed? to do it as soon as possible if you're nearing the expiration dates. some countries require passports be valid for six months after you arrive. so don't think you can get someplace and then it's going to expire when you're there. the processing time is generally four to six weeks. leave yourself six weeks. if you need it renewed quickly, send in the application plus the expedited service fees. you can write expedite on the envelope and put the departure date on your application. if you need it immediately, schedule an appointment at your local passport office. >> so what did you do when it happened to you? >> i realized soon enough. i expedited it and got it back in two and a half weeks. >> i thought you meant it was right before you were walking out the door, oh, my goodness. >> no, no, no. my expires on my birthday and my driver's license is about to expire too. january 31st for all of you who want to sending me a present. >> happy early birthday. thanks, christine. >>> there's anot

rebalancing asia pacific, maintaining the present era, moving around from forces and it is more on guam. a rotational presence in australia. warships in singapore and possibly a presence in the philippines. we will pay attention to long-term threats, including china. we will maintain technological superiority. the third element of this strategy and invest more of some high-priority types of activities, but we recognize that we are going to have to meet budget constraints. we have made some proposals from fiscal cliff 12 fiscal fiscal cliff 17. we work to increase things like fiber investments and another number of other decisions involving that strategy. we believe that the current level of defense spending is roughly consistent with that strategy. so we hope congress will continue to support that level or something close to it. strategy isn't enough in lean budget times. strategy is not enough but we owe it to the taxpayers to stretch the defense dollars wherever they can. it is often referred to as efficiencies. i do not like the term because what we are doing is an economist to defin

woodall pointed out, up to $29 for highway repairs in guam, marianna islands, and american samoa. that aren't even in the same ocean as hurricane sandy. $111 million is for weather satellites to explain to me how it was a satellite can be damaged by a hurricane. we may need more weather satellites or better weather satellites or better management of the data, but that's a legitimate debate to have, but not in an emergency release measure. that is what demands a scrutiny of the more normal appropriations process. i could go on but you get the point. the trenton that i'm offering as was the underlying rogers bill without the cdbg funding, limit the expenditures to fiscal year 2013. in other words, all of the emergency relief measures that are necessary to get to the current fiscal year are left in the builder everything else is put into normal appropriations process so that they can be given appropriate scrutiny in relation to all of the other competing demands on the designations resource. so would ask that those be put in to the rule for consideration by the house. the other amend

resident commissioner from puerto rico and the delegate from american samoa, the district of columbia, guam, the virgin islands, and the commonwealth of the north mariana islands, are treated by statute and not the constitution. they represent territories and associated jurisdiction, not states. they are not members of congress and they do not possess the same rights accorded to members under the constitution. -- we recognize them and listen to them. as it refers to voting on the floor in the committee, that is an issue that i believe is well understood. i reserve my time. >> the gentlelady from new york is recognized. >> madam speaker, let me give 30 seconds. >> i grant the gentleman that the delegates are here by statute, but the gentleman should recognize that the vote we have in three congresses was a vote the federal courts have said is constitutional. once we are here by statute, once we get a constitutional vote, it seems to be a completely arbitrary to withdraw that vote, particularly for the district of columbia. as far -- lummis to take our taxes, the very least the people i repre

some of it will go to guam, as one republican said, that is in a very different ocean than the one wheren spawned. then there's money going to fix amtrak in the northeast corridor. only about a third of that money, though, is actually going to parts of amtrak that were damaged during super storm sandy. two-thirds of the money is going to completely unrelated repairs. so this is why a lot of lawmakers are very angry about the sandy bill. we do expect a vote sometime in the next hour on whether this is going to pass or not. we will be joined by a congressman who has been taking on john boehner on some of these things and will be voting no on this bill. we will talk to him about why he's doing that. we are also going to be talking about the history of the nra. i'm really excited about this. so curious bhow the nra got to e so powerful. it is one of the most powerful lobbying organizations in this country. a few decades ago it was lobbying for increased gun control. now it's become a much more absolutist organization. the history of the nra, exciting and fascinating. that's coming up, top of

i'm still sore from laughing. [ laughter ] steph is legally married to this guy in guam after the showm most happy to be here, i'm grateful to be around the smart people like jacki and chris. >> john: for the occasional brilliant guest you coerced into calling in. who would it be this morning? ♪ rude pundit ♪ ♪ ooh pa, pa, pa, ooh ♪ >> good morning, rude. >> john: how is it going lee? >> hello surprise john. [ laughter ] >> john: well, stephanie -- >> you're some guy who jumped out of the alley. >> john: i am named after a guy who pays call girls, that's true. but lee, i want to let you know stephanie's not here. she's distraught she won't be able to see sarah palin shucking and jiving on fox news anymore. >> it sort of cuts down on the number of stomach pills that i have to take. [ laughter ] >> the number of bromides. >> the number of new screens i have to get from throwing things at it. >> john: where will sean hannity insert his nose? >> i love how optimistic you are about what he's inserting. >> john: just his nose, trust me. you know, lee, sarah palin spent more time as a fox new

including as he pointed out up to $20 million in guam the islands, and american samoa that aren't in the same ocean as hurricane sandy. 111 million is for weather satellites. explain to me how a weather satellite can be damaged by a hurricane? we may need more or better weather satellite or better management of the data. that's a legitimate debate to have not in an emergency relief measure. that demands the scrutiny of the normal appropriations process. i can go on. you get the point. the amendments that i am offering to the amendments as well as the other amendments strip out the cdbg funding. limit the expendture to fiscal year 2013. in other words all of the emergency relief measures that are necessary to get through the current fiscal year are left in the bill. everything else is put to the normal appropriations process so they can be given appropriate scrutiny in troalings all other competing demands on the nation's resources. so i would ask those be put in to the -- other thing i might add strips $2 billion of highway repairs out of the bill. >> thank you, mr. mcclintock. would

. $2 billion is for highway repair anywhere in the country, including up to $20 million each for guam, american samoa and the mariana islands that aren't even in the same ocean as hurricane sandy. i offered amendments to restrict funding to emergency relief for this year. future year expenditures should be included in the normal appropriations process where they can be given scrutiny and evaluated in relation to all the other demands on spending. these amendments were refused. worse, this rule overrides the house rules requiring spending offsets against unauthorized appropriations and most telling of all, against mixing nonemergency funding in an emergency bill. a tragedy like hurricane sandy shouldn't be used as an excuse for a grab-bag of spending, having nothing to do with emergency relief. at the rules committee hearing i was told, well, you have to understand that's just the way things are done around here. mr. speaker, republicans were supposed to change the way things were done around here. clearly we have not. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of h

and you've got the south and east china seas, and then you start getting into territory towards -- guam, our own territory. in many recent years there's been an interest in expanding that out into the india assets where we have very few assets. we have diego, and that's about it. we respect using a lot of the means -- we aren't using a lot of the means that we need out there such as autonomous vehicles to do high-level surveillance, mid-level surveillance, we don't have fire scouts out there in the numbers we need. we should be pushing japan, pushing south korea and others to build up this capability and begin sharing it amongst themselves which does political good, but also it's an operational good. there is, i think, you know, when we -- whether or not it's true, but it certainly seems to be at least a viable urban ledge gemmed, you know, when we find out about a new soviet -- again, soviet. [laughter] >> russia. >> it's the gray, it's getting to me. when we find out about a new chinese attack sub or ballistic missile sub off of google earth as opposed to, you know, a traditional proc

thank you, i have talked and a variety of capacities from being a reading specialist on the island of guam to teaching high-school adults. i have noticed a real decline over the years in a focus on writing, critical thinking skills. i am wondering why the reading of eight craters was not focused on? only the math and science. it seems to me that if comprehension is an issue, it will -- is a problem across the subject areas. guest: in this particular international assessment, we do not assess eighth grade reading. that is more a decision among the various participating countries. in the u.s., we take that seriously. we continue to assess reading and writing at the fourth, eighth, and 12th grade levels. there is a great deal of interest moving to the next generation of assessments in trying to get the language arts. to be more authentic. that is certainly something that this international group of assessments has not caught up with. host: from twitter -- can you give us a sense of how students are doing in the fourth grade compared to older? guest: we see this trend across almost every subje

. >> on the pacific realignment defense bill and the frozen money for guam and open our -- okinowa, web is taking so long to get the report out customer clicks -- what is taking so long to get the report out? >> we have not fully convinced the congress. i believe we will make this work. it may be later than we help. we will come up with a plan that we will achieve our goal. that is to maintain our presence in the pacific area while moving some of the marines off japan.now i >> kate brennan from politico. what assumptions are you using to build the 2013 budget and how those might have changed over the last couple of months or even the last week? xp strategy is one we have already announced, and i summarized very briefly. many of you know it well. that has been the guiding principle. we are planning on the same top line numbers that were announced with the budget a year ago. i do not know whether those will change or not he did it a possibility that they will, given the american taxpayer affect and the new year's day legislation on the fiscal cliff. we do not know yet. there may be some d

resident commissioner from puerto rico and the delegate from american samoa, the district of columbia, guam, the virgin islands, and the commonwealth of the north mariana islands, are treated by statute and not the constitution. they represent territories and associated jurisdiction, not states. they are not members of congress and they do not possess the same rights accorded to members under the constitution. -- we recognize them and listen to them. as it refers to voting on the floor in the committee, that is an issue that i believe is well understood. i reserve my time. >> the gentlelady from new york is recognized. >> madam speaker, let me give 30 seconds. >> i grant the gentleman that the delegates are here by statute, but the gentleman should recognize that the vote we have in three congresses was a vote the federal courts have said is constitutional. once we are here by statute, once we get a constitutional vote, it seems to be a completely arbitrary to withdraw that vote, particularly for the district of columbia. as far -- lummis to take our taxes, the very least the people i repre