haas showed up with his paint brush. see it. it would just wash over them as a nothing. but you saw something. >> i saw this as an opportunity to meld the city back together. i think a mural can change the neighborhood in many ways. >> how so? >> because it begins to make people aware of what the beauty that is around them. >> this is he amazing. do you think it makes the neighborhood nicer? >> this is a work of pure fine art. >> it looks 3d like it could actually -- just so creative and beautiful. >> haas uses a technique called tromp loi which in french means trick the eyes. the green windows are optical illusion. it's a style he first learned about while looking at photographs his parents brought back from their honeymoon in germany. >> i said, fascinating. it stuck in my head. by the time i finally managed to go to germany i began to look at these things. a much more involved level. >> you have taken this image old, centuries old technique that has been used throughout europe brought it here and made it your version

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haas. the honorable the speaker, house of representatives. sir, pursuant to the permission granted in clause 2-h of rule 2 of the rules of the u.s. house of representatives, the clerk received the following message from the secretary of the senate on december 20, 2013, at :50 a.m. that the senate concurs in the house amendment to the senate amendment to h.r. 3304. that the senate passed senate 1614. that the senate agreed to without amendment house concurrent resolution 71. that the senate passed without amendment h.r. 623. that the senate passed without amendment h.r. 767. that the senate passed without amendment h.r. 2319. with best wishes i am sincerely, karen l. haas. the honorable the speaker, house of representatives. sir, pursuant to the permission granted in clause 2-h of rule 2 of the rules of the u.s. house of representatives, the clerk received the following message from the secretary of the senate on december 19, 2013, at 11:37 a.m. that the senate concurs in the house amendment

is involved in in southern california back in october los angeles businessman stephen haas sued mitt romney and nine others including goldman sachs over federal racketeering charges the charges relate back to the purchase of haas's former company eat toys buy another store k.b. toys it was owned by bain capital the details of the case are pretty complicated but they basically boiled out of this stephen haas is accusing willard mitt romney of being a gangster and to be perfectly honest has a point when it was running bain capital during the eighty's and ninety's the company made its money by forcing companies into debt and then squeezing them blind for every last bit of cash they had in fancy terms this was called private equity in real reality it was glorified piracy glorified piracy that was made possible by who else ronald reagan when he stopped enforcing the sherman antitrust act and deregulated the financial industry in the early one nine hundred eighty s. leading to the explosion of mergers and acquisitions the carer characterized the early eighty's the m. and a mania former lab

richard haas, see you on "morning joe" in a few minutes. thank you very much. >>> we want your thoughts on the life of nelson mandela and what it means to you. tweet us using the #mandela and we will put some of the best responses on the air a little bit later in the show. >>> i do want to get to a few other headlines this morning starting with president obama sitting down with "hardball's" chris mathews for an interview addressing an audience of mostly young americans, the president spoke about why they should sign up for health care. >> there's some resistance out there among young people, i've seen it in the polls, to enroll in the exchanges and get involved in taking responsibility for their health care. what's your argument why they should do that? >> well first of all, i understand why people would have been resistant to go on a website that wasn't working right. at some point let's say when you turn 26, if you're between jobs or you've got a passion, you're wanting to start a business, and you're not going to have health insurance, t

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haas wants this done by the end of today.s just a question of how long this day ends up being. >> simon mcgregor woods reporting there. >>> fears that hoards of rowe romanians and bulgarians. particularly about his constituency in sheffield. >> the page hall district of sheffield, more nonindigenous people here than locals. but they all say the same thing. thought aroma here is something else. two kids tried to sell them a baby. a roma woman came in with her baby, covered in lice, and a finger chopped off. >>> there is so much vitriol, against this group. if any other group, integrate here now just saying just the same here about the roma, that their neighbors' children urin urinate outside the gardens. >> i don't know if they understand or don't want to understand. i think they understand something at least not if language is a problem for them, at least body language is not a problem for them. but they don't want to do that. they just want to live their style. >> and in saying these things in this way, you don't feel like y

fcc said that if we do that, i need to be able to cover every inch of my city of license from rick haas tower or else i cannot ick's tower or i cannot share with him. serve 85% of my current audience from the sharing tower, that is a problem. to be muched the fcc more flexible. there is an nearing fact that could provide leverage for the commissioner. engineering fact that could provide leverage for the commissioner. let some of the perimeter channels move into the central antenna farm, you dramatically reduce the number of channels you need to repack and it makes reallocating the spectrum much better. i should say that an hour informal conversation the fcc has shown interest. no formal decision seven made. we are encouraged. there listening to us. >> we would like a one minute or less answer. broadcasters have expressed concerns about booster stations. intend tohe fcc address those concerns? , ande translators boosters, and the low-power television are important in rural areas. we realize that. congress did not determine that they would not be protected and were not eligible for compen

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stanford and uc-berkeley haas. take it away shows us how schools are catering to students' startup dreams. >> reporter: off campus, in downtown berkeley, the top floor of this office building looks like a startup company. right down to the fun and games in the workplace. we're at the skydeck accelerator. it's actually a group of about two dozen startups all founded by uc-berkeley students. >> just even on a personal level it feels great to be building something. >> reporter: traditional mba programs have had to change course because of students like mitch gordon. he left corporate life in new york city to come to the haas school of business. >> the students want to start companies. they are coming in with that idea, more so than i think has ever happened before. >> reporter: the dream is to follow the path of successful cal startups like the crowd funding site indiegogo or the test prep startup magoo. andre marquis says the entrepreneur track is so popular it's tough for the school to keep up. >> when we're trying

. >>> haas pavilion. freshman jamari bird, a speck tack for, a boot on the sprained ankle.ears hosting a paladin. a paladin, any of the 12 peers of charlemagne's court. wallace, steal and dunk. he had 18. justin cobbs had 18, so did jeff powers. red shirt senior from de la salle. 6 of 7 from three-point range. he only had two points all season. cal beats the paladin by 30. >>> nfl, stilt plenty to play for in week 17. the 49ers can clinch the nfc west and the first-round bye with a win over arizona, and seattle losing to st. louis tomorrow. arizona just one loss in their last eight games and that was only by three points to philadelphia. cardinals win over san francisco tomorrow. and tie or loss new orleans, they will get in. >> they were improving last time we played them. they had a couple of rough early games but you could see them improving before we played them. they've improved a tremendous amount since then, winning 7 of 8 games. >>> raiders finish with rival denver, terrelle pryor gets the start opposite peyton manning. manning, 266 yards shy of the nfl record for m

thing happened very quickly because the movie of the with haas the terrorists were hiding out in their lead and the other half they were lying in ambush nearby they started shooting at us from the bushes all of the same time and from several different directions. we the militants decided to try and break through it with her give you any apple screaming grenade. or men so i'm throwing himself onto it the explosion blew him or run his back and it was all over all of us. moving when we approached the militants hideout they had the advantage because we weren't expecting an attack. that's why we suffered such losses. but we did retaliate well that we completed our task every single one got what was coming to them. thank you have a number of if right after the assault we didn't know exactly who was wounded and who was killed some of them later the commander reported casualties and said into his dead or you know i didn't believe in the tourist who. in the neighborhood down all of them was took off my gear with me and cried. which of your journey was in duty on the night of the twenty fifth of

i can't want to make these more than those directly involved richard haas is clever. he's experienced and he's ambitious but the point he was making to the north's politicians today is that when he tore all the counter help them. they are the ones who have to cop that day. of course he's here up to a request seeking to compromise to stay themselves couldn't agree. we're in pretty interesting. the important few weeks. time to go on rte news of cost. surgeons from around the world of trouble to go late to learn about a revolutionary treatment for blood pressure the simple surgical procedures being used in all their efforts to tackle the issue don't succeed a new way of dealing with an old problem. since then a bit of pressure readings were taken two years ago. even more daunting to take seven tablets each day now he's the latest person to undergo this procedure a goalie university hospital and over then again the pos most medications. thomas and the phone lesley risk of stroke heart attack comes later on using equipment manufactured in goal with white medtronic surgeons

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haas, clerk of the house. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to clause 12-a of rule 1, the chair declares the house in recess until approximately >> with one minute compete -- speeches and pleaded. three bills on the bills today -- agenda today. to the white house for today's legislative breeding -- briefing that began just a few moments ago. qwest what i think is important to note is that the queuing system is a feature designed to improve the user experience. we talked about concurrent users , it was always going to be the case that on a day like today we would see a surge beyond even the vastly improved capacity result oft are the the changes that have been made and the fixes that have been made. what was important when we talked about this for -- before, is that we had a queuing system that made for a better user experience so that individuals could get into that queue, could he notified when the best time to return to healthcare.gov and enroll when they so desired. among the other improvements made to the

and in some respects richard haas has important timing on this site because you have to contrast this is what happens when there's a political vacuum. and in some respects that's a challenge for the politicians were expecting the richard house to house all fight parties around the table tomorrow or thursday at the latest. and he's going to try to get some shape on an agreement before the weekend friday it could be a very important day in the meantime there are extra psni officers on the streets here in belfast tonight keeping an eye out for four other incidents involving dissidents spent on legal texts about parenting a vote to determine what fourteenth president of the irish farmers' association has been going on holiday. the ifa sat there and stare vice president europe or in its deputy president didn't eat any of those contesting the election. the latest on that comeback and teleportation eight us he joins us now. and she made it in dili have the results yet an unknown results here yet seen casting off this evening but we are expecting a decoration within the next hour or so they c

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. >> the one monkey wrench here could be prime minister netanyahu who haas laid out a mo max millisthe united states. if we could come up with a deal acceptable to the administration, are you confident that you can sell it to the israelis? >> we certainly would only present a deal here, a settleme settlement, they thought achieved the goal of preventing iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon and preventing it from breaking out in any short time frame which would require really substantial roll back of the program. i think the prime minister netanyahu is spent by a strong sense of israeli security. there's a conviction here, understandable, that this program is an ex sti sten shall threat to israel. so he's driven by that as the prime minister, as the person possible for the security of israel. i think he's driven by conviction but i also think the israelis are trying to drive as comprehensive and tough a bargain here as is possible in order to get -- >> they're setting out a position to hope to move the deal toward them. you think they'll accept something short -- >> they've been very

smith and haas am anler the casualties. kallis retires from test cricket after the match. south africa 181-3 in reply to india's total. >> at the mcg a catastrophic batting collapse by india. the visitors will hate the sight of this man. nathan lyans picked up five wickets, including his 100th in test cricket. englands last five fell for six. mitchell johnson claimed three wickets. england all out for 179 much to the delight of australian fans. englands bowlers have it all do on day four. the aussie are 201 runs away from a win, taking them 4-0 up in the series. the home side with 10 wickets in hand to reach the target. >> brad mcewen of channel 10 in australia looks at what has been a drama-filled ashes series so far sfoo. it's been a dramatic day apt the mcg at the third day of the fourth ashes test between australia and england. australia has regained the ashes after winning convincingly in brisbane on the back of mitchell john on brilliance, australia 2-0 up, securing the series on the bouncy waca deck in perth. we headed to the mcg, australia won the series. it was a

you ran a retail operation, you waffle a little bit, does not have to tar-jay-whacachet it haa couple years ago, what does target do? >> it one of the class operators. they know more about this than anyone. they were vulnerable to this. their sales have gone down as a result. it is untach nait is unfortunatl recover. they are ready -- they are already offering free track of credit information and so on. and incentives to get people pack in the store, this will set them back. law the are unfortunate -- lawsuit are unfortune that the but they will come as well. charles: your opinion on knee-jerk reaction from chase and other banks that limited how much money people could use with their debit cards, just a couple days before christmas. thii seems a panicky move on their part, does not en gender confidence. >> it is unfortunate that credit card maker said that way to control this is to limit aim that people have spent, not all have done it, i think they are trying to do is protect consumers and themselves, this is a blunt axe to a problem that indicates we don't know what the issues are.

deputy gem haas who returned -- gel haas who returned to duty said that lopez was carrying what lookedwith you it turned out to be -- but it turned out to be a replica. >>> kwame harris is due in the san mateo courtroom today. he was convicted of assaulting his ex-boyfriend in a restaurant. the argument stemmed from the use of soy sauce. we should learn more about the sentence we're facing. >>> there is a reminder that people should not drink and drive this hoyle holiday -- this holiday season. brian flores is live. >> reporter: we're on christmas tree point road and twin peaks here in san francisco. this was the scene of a pretty bad accident one year ago today involving drunk driving. the d.a.'s office and several law enforcement agencies hoping to get that message across this weekend and really any other day to be safe out there during the holiday season. but as is the case during the holidays, chp and other law enforcement agencies will be conducting dui and driver's license checkpoints starting tonight and some through this weekend. locations won't be announced until closer to whe

that's why n york haa new plan -- dozens of tax free zones all across the state.ere, or start a new busine here dozeand pay no taxesones allf ten years...ate. e're new york. if there's something that creates more jobs, and s more businesses... we're open to it. start a tax-free busiss at startup-ny.com. ♪ >> it is almost a wrap. but before we say goodbye to a year full of flops and successes, this holiday season is bringing in a range of types of movies that are short take catch your eye. this film find it is in touch wheatley senior editor, and we welcome you. i am filling in for melissa. what is the big hit? and some are just being released this month. >> that is the big money maker for 2013. a little over 400 million. domestically over a billion dollars. that is a huge -- catching fire. adam: they were laughing. >> i loved it. that is number two domestically. despicable me to which has been aahuge moneyyaker domestically and worldwide. movies like fast and furious six to one gravity. a great film. >> it may sell its money. talked about as we get closer. adam: t

now, jennifer lee is working at dhs, so this organization was haa hostile to dhs is the new source of employees. also an employee named mara we. she came from another organization, worked for the aclu immigrant right project. when she was there, she wrote scathing condemnations of dhs because they were collecting fingerprint information of people they collected at the border. the reason this is important is people cycle through. they cross, they get caught, they get sent back. the fingerprints is a radical policy that affects our open borders. >> were the attorneys they hired necessa necessary? did they have vac aenlss that needed to be filled? >> they didn't need to hire this many people. they originally were going to hire a few, and the chief lawyer at the dhs component, a man by the name of steve lagompski, wanted to hire dozens and dozens and got special approval. why this is important is this unit will have the power to effectively suspend immigration laws, that if congress doesn't pass amnesty or comprehensive reform, these new lawyers will have the power to just let everybody i

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and haas not to say there are not some people who talk about race who only want to use it as a grievance to bang people over the head and who are not opening up. but we need to displace those people by conversations that say this is the gateway historically and every other way, the gateway to a larger freedom for everyone. there are no magic answers, but i think the first answer is to never, never take today's failure as the end. it's the beginning of the question how do we get around it. thank you. be yes, sir. [applause] >> thank you very, very much. you know, you are nothing but -- you're like a ball of fire, man. half half you're a ball of fire. [applause] i mean, sir, you inspire me. you really do. and i think i more white people need to learn to talk like you do. [laughter] [applause] because if they did, we'd open up this conversation. and i'm on the faculty of the university of maryland, and we are in college park, and we're taking on this issue especially in the area of health and health disparities. we believe this is where jim crow was still hiding out. and i hope that one day

the united states senate haa a budget.gned by the president but the president announced he will sign it. the senate has approved by a vote of 64-36 the budget that was approved of in conference between house, house finance leader paul ryan and pat murray from the democrats in the senate. now the full senate agreed to it. all that remains is for the president to sign it. when that happens we're going to be a country with a budget, folks, again the first time in several years. and that is thought to be a good thing. maybe that had an influence on market booming today. liz: how about that? that is quite amazing. whipped cream and cherry with 292 point gain for the dow. take it "off the desk." the bank of england announcing that it will switch to plastic currency, seen as cleaner an much more durable than paper. this will happen in 2016. the plastic currency features a see-through window and features that make it hard to counterfeit. the switch could save the bank more than $160 million just a decade. i like that. david: will

. >> tommy haas been racing since '69. he was a true racer.f the tracks were opened and there was something going on, he was there. david hugo was a smooth driver. they had a team that would do anything for you. as far as i know, tommy adams nor david hugo has ever, ever had an accident up until that day. >> both drivers' flawless track records are about to take a major hit with a heart stopping collision all caught on camera. >> david hugo on the right lane looked like his car moved out of the groove towards the right guard rail and tommy looked like he was going right down his lane and david's car actually darted across the track and kind of hit tommy adams' car in the corner panel which sent tommy's car right. we knew that was bad. >> in the business of drag racing, everything could change in a fraction of a second. when david's car steers into tommy's, traveling at 150 miles per hour, that's all it takes for things to go seriously wrong. >> when it went right and off the track into the grass, there was a small hump right there when you wen

that's why n york haa new plan -- dozens otax free zones all across the state. here and pay no taxes for ten years... we're new york. if there's something that creates more job and ows more businesses... we're open to it. start a tax-free business at startup-ny.com. neil: the government massenet, now the president calling and rock stars to help have to do. but why were they not involved when health care lalas starting out. welcome, everyone, no, i am melissa francis and not neil cavuto. president obama meeting with dozens of huge companies the heads of apple and twitter and yahoo and google. talking health care at the white house. the healthcare.gov website, former adviser to presiden

what they do is it is very hard to get money from banks so this industry haa developed and grown up. they sit on top of the balance sheet. they helped money to medium-sized corporations, senior debt and variable rate. they are reasonably well-protected as long as the economy is expanding. if you believe the economy is still going to expand these sell at book value. the book value grows and yields 9%. they are prudent plays but you have to stay on top of them. cheryl: tom, talking of plays, you're actually looking at alternative investment space which honestly we've seen this bond outflow the last three months but we haven't seen equity inflow we should have seen. alternative invests, where's the money going? >> we think that will be a bigger trend going into 2014 because we have a lot of investors, a lot of our investors who are near retirement or in retirement. they need income in their portfolio. even with the generous return you've seen in the stock market this year, they need income-producing assets. alternatives by their nature, whether it is in real estate or oil and gas, are v

does any of them haas and she got back into the kitchen how but decided to put the confection on the menu. what was the original tiramisu made up of the song are no shows for the crappy old family says is the true recipe for the crane separate the egg whites from the oaks. a choker. mix and master all that. to get a pic but i was that stands in stiff peaks. now we take a sponge fingers and get them in the coffee not too much they were and we have the pastry see here with sugar on the pool. after spreading the blossom of the tin with biscuits. covers with the brain. when it comes to new layer upon layer finish by sprinkle with chopped up powder and chilli for at least four hours. and here we are good tiramisu is done. but kerry is recipe is no pop into the boards over to popular even qaeda regrets not having it into just because variety says that charity is to spread it everywhere this italian national treasure mm mm you'll use. tammy sue is the second most famous italian word in the world after looking at it. bows to lose all that old italian and his views. but the name and the quali

you've categorized a whole group of people as haas, but you think may may not survive at all. and this question began in the hospital, shouldn't we be thinking about putting the patients out of their misery? >> host: by the way, the phone numbers are up on the screen if you'd like to participate in our conversation with sheri fink who is the author of "five days at memorial." she's also a pulitzer winner and a medical doctor. we're talking about hurricane katrina, medical ethics. 20 2 is the area code, 585-3881 for those of you in the mountain, pacific and further west time zones. you can also send a comment or question via twitter. @booktv is our twitter handle. so back to my question -- >> guest: yes. yes, so several people started talking about this, according to, you know, when i investigated and looked into how in this all played out. and it was interesting because even at the time there was great dissension over this. there were people, staff who felt like this was the right thing to do, and some of them bravely spoke to me. i say bravely because, ultimately, there were

they could see anywhere from a quarter inch to eye haa half in ice.e could see power outages anywhere from northern virginia through d.c. and then up into the northeast. and then by the time it makes it to new york city and boston, it will be more of a wintry mix. they could still deal with sleet and snow though as we go through the overnight into monday morning. and then it basically turns into a rain event as we head through monday. more rain for the southeast even on monday as well. so what we're looking at for snow totals, up to five inches across portions of minneapolis and des moines, milwaukee and then lesser amounts, one to two inches, as we get around the d.c. area. we'll be watching this over the next couple of days. >> all right. jennifer grey, thank you. >>> people around the world are mourning the death of former south african president nelson mandela. the current president in south african is urging his country to celebrate mandela and everything he stood for. millions of people across the country are doing just that. ♪ these are the str

we are honored to bring you richard haas.me smart essays on what nelson mandela meant to south africa and to america. --ery special conversation maxine waters will join us. anddebate over apartheid divestment within the united states. clearly we will be focusing on the passing of nelson mandela throughout the morning. give us a sense of the coverage you have for the jobs report. >> we will be talking to michelle meyer of bank of linkingmerrill lynch, housing and construction jobs into the labor economy. the basic idea of the labor -- they have to come back to 2014 after the holiday and that important congressional election. days a job stay -- jobs before chairman yellen takes over. >> thank you so much. the u.k. prime minister pledges millions of pounds to help startups grow. ♪ >> welcome back. the british prime minister has been in tech city today. millions of pounds have been heading into startups, helping them grow over the past few years. the number of digital companies in london has almost doubled in 2009. his tech city

there is room for all the legislations. >> richard haas. >> it's so interesting that he not only helpedntarily. that was his other great contribution to south africa and as a demonstration to the contnecon continent and the world. his commitment to democracy. >> coming up on "morning joe," rick warren joins us for faith on fridays. former secretary of state. first bill is tracking the winter forecast. >> heading east and a new for the west coast moves in this evening. winter storm warnings that go from texas into areas of eastern new york and this new winter storm into the west that dumps heavy storm into the mountains of california. west tennessee is where people are losing power at this hour. you can see the radar is not pretty. travel is not recommended in oklahoma, arkansas and northeast texas. at least the east coast will deal with rain. former secretary of state colin powell with his thoughts on the passing of nelson mandela. [ lane ] do you ever feel like you're growing old waiting for your wrinkle cream to work? clinically proven neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair. it targets fine

richard haas us with the council of foreign relations.n policy begins at home." >> we have much more on jobs. we are going to be discussing companies, including apple versus samsung. >> good morning. it is jobs day. i am tom keene. with me is scarlet fu and alix steel. i am really looking at wages this morning. i want to see the wage dynamic. scarlet fu is looking maybe to build up the wage in bitcoins. >> a lot of people are wondering if it is in a bubble. alan greenspan believes so. to give mywant opinion. >> of course not. outlawed trading in the currency. bank of america initiated coverage with a target of $1300. matt dowd, political analyst, is with fast as guest host for the hour can you say this is something that washington needs to get up to speed on really quickly. >> i do not have concerns because i think -- that coin is the canary in the coal mine for what we will face in the next 10 years, cyber currency. there are lots of questions about whether or not there are algorithms and it can last over the course of the long haul, cyb

haas.he speaker pro tempore: pursuant to section 6-b of house resolution 438, the house stands adjourned until 11:00 a.m. on thursday, december 19, 2013. >> no legislative business today and for the several weeks as members are away for their holiday break. we are expecting sessions to occur every three days until in a german resolution is agreed to. live coverage when they come back on c-span. the senate also in session this afternoon, starting at 3:00 eastern. at five: 30, lawmakers will consider nominations and votes after that. you can see live coverage of the senate on c-span 2. we will have more live coverage this afternoon on c-span. we will hear from general motors chair and ceo daniel ackerson. he is speaking about the progress of the company and its investment plan, as well as the state of the auto industry. that will be live at 1:00 p.m. eastern. >> i wish you both a very happy christmas and a bright and prosperous new year. is a pleasure to meet you mr. santa claus and to have y

a lot of that haas to do with the political risk we see in the middle east.re's a hunt now between the united states and iran. as that risk dissipates, the price of energy comes down in line with the supply that we see coming on to the u.s. but where it gets interesting is where most of that house hoed hold share is spent on energy. >> that was ross westgate. meanwhile, 2013 has been a mixed year for nigeria. oil revenues took the hit while the president faces criticism for his response to 4 1/2 year insurgency funding. on the economic front, it was a slightly better story. steve caught up with the nation's finance minister who said nigeria is growing fast, but not quite fast enough. >> well, nigeria is already one of the fastest growing countries in the world. we just saw third quarter gdp growth at 0.8%. and we expect to end the year at about 6.75%. the imf is forecasting higher growth rates. but we think we need to grow faster. in order to make appreciable inroad into eradicating poverty, the world is setting itself a target to eradicate positive by 2013.

when you lose a first-round quarterback and have a red-shirt freshman come in and do what he haas done, obviously, several talented, talented player on the team, in fact, most of the times they look like a pro team, but this is a two-sport star who brings his talent level, tremendous amount of enthusiasm, energy, leadership. plays baseball as well. you watched, weeks ago, they had a huge game in clemson. here is this red-shirt freshman standing in the hallway, giving everybody fives and telling them we're ready to go. one of the younger guys on the team, but the lyeader of the team. this would have been heartbreaking for them. >> do you think that this is absolved, do you think this will affect any voting for the heisman or not? >> it's going to be interesting. i would hope it does not. i would hope it does not. obvio obviously, the season is not over. we have a couple more championship games coming up this weekend. he's clearly one of the front runners for the heisman trophy, if not the front runner. i would hope that now that the legal proceedings have played out, there are no charge

haas the reality in connecticut. we have high, high, and low, low.ny cases they are ab adjoining zip codes. so we needed to do something about that. we needed to hold ourselves as governmental entities accountable for what we were doing on a state level, on a local jurisdictional level, both on by the leaders of political leaders of noneducation government as well as by the leaders of the education government that economists in the state of connecticut. and in to that, we have moved rather rapidly. i have to also say at the outset i'm eni have use of teachers. their ability to impact on an intergenerational basis young people in the families of those young people ultimately will raise is an unbelievable gift many have accepted as their calling. and although we may not none ever us are perfect. the reality is that the state of connecticut is filled with teachers who are working very, very hard to get it right. and a point of fact, are demonstrating a willingness to change that method of pretty legally and -- excuse me, accept change and support change

haas, clerk. the speaker: for what purpose does the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. neal, rise? mr. neal: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that the gentlewoman from the commonwealth of massachusetts, the honorable katherine m. clerk, be permitted to take the oath of office today. her certificate of election is in front of you. there is no contest and there is no question that's been raised with regard to her election. the speaker: without objection. will representative-elect clark and the members of the massachusetts delegation present themselves in the well of the house and will all members rise? and will the member-elect please raise your right hand. do you solemnly support that you'll support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that you will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that you take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which you are about to enter, so help you god? ms. clarke: i do. the s

. >> y se va a poner peor, para que sepa, esto fue hace 33 años en acapulco >> no te haas el bobo, >>a que siempre me ocultaba la verdad?0 >> un pequeño detalle de mucho cariño >> usted es el famoso piero >> no te hubieras molestado >> me toca darte tu regalo >> eso se merece un aplauso, ¿no? >> mami, mami, mami. ♪ ♪ >> y fabiola para tu información, mi querido tacher cumplió 18 añitos >> ya alcanza el timbre >> mentir para vivir >> esta noche a las 7, 6 centro por univisión >> pero esto no termina acá, porque ahora es cuando el amor con el caldo pen por siempre mi amor isabel le pidió la verdad a arturo por su relación con sonia para poder amarlo sin mentiras >> y sonia regresa al lado de aranza >> no te adelantes >> tienen un plan diablico >> ellas 2 son diabólicas >> si >> exactamente >> es el momento de volver a verla en por siempre mi amor >> vamos a verla >> francisca, dale >> ella lo tenía muy bien planeado, pensó que acercándose a mi hija y metiendose a mi casa que podía volver a fijarme en ella. >> la gente te dijo eso porque es una mentira. >> yo no sé porque dijeron esas co

intelligence declassified some more documents specifically showing how the nsa first authorized these haasof data was in an effort to hunt down al qaeda terrorists. of course, nsa is not the only thing on his plate. as soon as he gets back he faces significant challenges. one of them is to try to come to some terms over the debt ceiling once again, deja vu all over again. the president said he won't negotiate over raising the country's debt ceiling. the republicans say that's a no go for them. so it could be deja vu all over again as soon as he comes back. >> so peter just so people don't think this is some great boone doingal for you, it's a little after 8:00 a.m. and you've been up working for many hours already. thank you for your efforts. >> the buffet is terrific. >> all right. thanks peter. we'll see you again. >>> in a last ditch effort to get people spending money in their stores, major retail chains are extending holiday hours. with four shopping days to go till christmas, what's it like in the stores and shops? we're going back to julia bagg from wtvj in miami joining us from the

finally, the haas point on u.s. policy. the last point on u.s. policy.and, again, i would highlight, and i think elliot may disagree with me, many in the room, but i would highlight over the last ten years aye seen a remarkable -- i've seen a remarkable continuity the in term os -- in terms of the the broad policy in the region. i think what's changed quite a lot is the overall strategic context. and elliot has talked about this. you know, from 1933 til 2003 it was quite easier to define and discern what was the relationship. and i'll quibble with sort of the title even of this session because it's technically not an alliance. we have alliances with european partners. israel is a major non-nato ally. saudi arabia has been a marriage of interests at certain points. oil was at the core. oil and security was at the core of that bargain. but for decades the u.s. viewed saudi arabia as an important partner to check soviet inflewses. for decades saudi arabia viewed the u.s. as a country when it faced challenges from nasser, and then post-1979 to contain the ir

haas, clerk. the speaker: for what purpose does the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. neal, rise? mr. neal: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that the gentlewoman from the commonwealth of massachusetts, the honorable katherine m. clerk, be permitted to take the oath of office today. her certificate of election is in front of you. there is no contest and there is no question that's been raised with regard to her election. the speaker: without objection. will representative-elect clark and the members of the massachusetts delegation present themselves in the well of the house and will all members rise? and will the member-elect please raise your right hand. do you solemnly support that you'll support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that you will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that you take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which you are about to enter, so help you god? ms. clarke: i do. the s

haas.aker pro tempore: pursuant to clause 4 of rule 1, the following enrolled bill was signed by the speaker pro tem denham on monday, december 9, 2013. the clerk: h.r. 3626. a bill to extend the undetectable firearms act of 1988 for 10 years. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to clause of rule 20, the chair will postpone further proceedings today on motions to suspend the rules on which a recorded vote or the yeas and nays are ordered or on which the vote occurs objection under clause 6 of rule 20. record votes on postponed questions will be taken later. for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i move to suspend the rules and pass h.r. 3521, the department of veterans' affairs major medical facility lease authorization act of 2013, with an amendment. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 3521, a bill to authorize department of veterans' affairs major medical facility leases and for other purposes. the