and just recently, interior secretary ken salazar traveled down to delano, the home of historic 40 acresto christen it as a national historic landmark. the chavez family was there and i was fortunate enough to travel as a reporter to go cover this historic event. ♪ >> he put the weight of the farm workers' struggle on his shoulders. cesar chavez carried his nonviolent fight for civil rights to the small central valley town of delano. he fasted in 1968, and again in 1988, to strengthen the resolve of those who followed. and this was the bed that witnessed his weakest physical moments, but his strongest spiritually. >> this was '88, right, when he did this fast? >> today, interior secretary ken salazar toured the compound known as 40 acres. >> i am committed, dedicated, devoted and will not stop until we tell the story of all the people of america. including the stories of all of those people whose stories historically were swept under the rug. >> and with the power of the white house, secretary salazar officially dedicated 40 acres as a national historic landmark. >> this property is of n

i think ken salazar publicly said there is a new sheriff in town, and i will clean this up. obama care on the hill. the focus was not there. both republicans and democrats in the end of ministration have their fingerprints all over this. the american people need to know we will conduct a drilling in the united states and it will be responsibly done. we need to look at the environmental concerns. host: oklahoma, independent line. caller: i was a 40-year democrat. now i am an independent. president obama is regulating the oil and energy industry. the oil rigs in the gulf are leaving. he is regulating on land drilling to the point where private drillers are drilling in the united states. it is clean energy. i am concerned over the spent nuclear fuel storage of it. if we go more nuclear, we need more space. guest: the challenge is that storage is not my approach. people do not want a storage facility in certain areas. i think it has been tough as we can see trying to locate one in nevada. i think we know how to do it. we know how to do underground storage safely. that is an ongo

as soon as he came into office he instructed ken salazar to cancel 77 permits that had already been issued. let's look at the next number -- $1.83. that's the price gasoline was in our country the day before barack obama took office as president of the united states. my how times have changed. we can do a little bit better, don't you think? i think so too. [applause] 19-20. that's the number of metropolitan markets across the united states. boston, for example, where housing prices have fallen last quarter. so that's for 19-20 metropolitan markets. a price of housing has fallen. name one city in the united states, there is only one, where housing prices have fallen. washington, d.c., the boom where money never goes down. that big bubble. you're right. they think that hollywood is la-la land. i'm here to tell you, that's a different place. 8.9%. what's that? that is the lowest unemployment has been in the last 20 months. and that doesn't include the count of under-employment as well. these are not good figures. 6,000. what does that represent? that represents the number of pages of rules an

we also have here secretary of energy steven chu, secretary ken salazar of the interior department. [ cheers ] >> secretary -- agricultural secretary, tom vilsack. ray lahood, our transportation secretary. lisa jackson, our epa administrator. [ cheers ] nancy sutley, our counsel -- >> president obama doing some of the form malties there, introducing cabinet members and others. he's giving a speech at georgetown university on energy. what we're gonna do is head over to sal and hear a little bit more about the bay area traffic and go back to the president a little bit more -- president and listen in a little bit more. >>> in newsroom, we have people listening to -- in the newsroom, we have people listening to this. and they are getting the details for us. >>> there's no game at the coliseum. today's game is at at&t park. there's not a crowd at the toll plaza. northbound 101 coming up from 280, some slow traffic there. it's very heavy up to sunnyvale. 101 southbound from burlingame to about hillsdale. sanmateo is slow. look at 92, heading east, kind of -- kind of slow. let's go to steve.

>> secretary ken salazar, as i understand it, two deep water leases have been issued. there is an increase in production in the continental united states, as i mentioned before, because the shell gas actually has shell oil unit, and people are beginning to -- we see an increase in the recovery of that. >> are you encouraging domestic production to help lower the price of gasoline in the country? >> i think domestic production should be part of a coherent plan going forward in what we need to do with our transportation fuel. >> when is the president's plan to lower gas prices by this summer -- what is the president's plan right now to lower gas prices by this summer? >> first, domestic production itself does not turn on instantly. he even if you have a known reserve, producing more production from that reserve will actually take months to years. developing new reserves will take longer appeared >> so that should be reflected in price? >> that is true. if you know there are reserves coming on line, just as oil producing countries around the world are increasing productio

i think ken salazar publicly said there is a new sheriff in town, and i will clean this up. he was lobbying about obama care on the hill. the focus was not there. both republicans and democrats in the end of ministration have their fingerprints all over this. the american people need to know we will conduct a drilling in the united states and it will be responsibly done. we need to look at the environmental concerns. host: oklahoma, independent line. caller: i was a 40-year democrat. now i am an independent. president obama is regulating the oil and energy industry. the oil rigs in the gulf are leaving. he is regulating on land drilling to the point where private drillers are drilling in the united states. it is clean energy. i am concerned over the spent nuclear fuel storage of it. if we go more nuclear, we need more space. guest: the challenge is that storage is not my approach. people do not want a storage facility in certain areas. i think it has been tough as we can see trying to locate one in nevada. i think we know how to do it. we know how to do underground storage s

immediately after taking office, the secretary of interior, ken salazar, canceled 77 oil and gas leases in the state of utah. one year later the administration suspended 61 more leases, this time in montana. shortly after canceling the utah leases, secretary salazar extended the public comment period for new offshore drilling by another six months, dragging an already lengthy process out even further. then immediately after the gulf oil spill began last april, the administration imposed a six-month moratorium on offshore drilling in the gulf, even as it canceled energy exploration that was set to take place thousands of miles away from the spill in the gulf up in the arctic. two federal courts on three separate occasions have declared the moratorium in the gulf unjust. the administration has ignored them. it's kept the ban in place despite these rulings, forcing the drillers who have affected by it to relocate their rigs and thousands of good-paying jobs they supported have actually gone to other parts of the world. so if you're wondering where the jobs are, a good place to start is the

i think ken salazar publicly said there is a new sheriff in town, and i will clean this up. he was lobbying about obama care on the hill. the focus was not there. both republicans and democrats in the end of ministration have their fingerprints all over this. the american people need to know we will conduct a drilling in the united states and it will be responsibly done. we need to look at the environmental concerns. host: oklahoma, independent line. caller: i was a 40-year democrat. now i am an independent. president obama is record votes on postponed questions will be taken after 6:30 p.m. today. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida rise? >> mr. speaker, i move that the house suspend the rules and pass h.r. 793. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 793, a bill to designate the facility of the united states postal service located at 12781 sir francis drake boulevard in inverness, california, as the specialist jake robert velloza post office. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, t

it was greeted by the secretary of the interior, ken salazar, less than two months under the deep waterights and accident, to replace the former minerals management service. the mandate i received from president obama and secretary salazar was broad. it was ambitious, and it was urgent. to reform offshore energy, developments starting with the agency responsible for overseeing it. since that time, we have been working hard to make the changes that are necessary to restore the public's confidence that offshore oil and gas drilling and production can be and will be conducted safely and with appropriate protections for marine and coastal environments. my remarks today will address the changes that have occurred in our -- and are ongoing in the oversight of offshore oil and gas operations. there many operators and support committee is anxious to resume drilling activity as soon as possible. during the course of the past eight months, i have met with representatives of these companies, many of whom i see here today, individually and in groups. some of these companies seem to recognize that t