kingston of georgia, two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from georgia is recognized for two minutes. mr. kingston: i thank the gentleman for yielding and i want to say that i do understand that we're here largely because there was not a budget this year and we were unable to move bills under regular order and because of that here we have something that was published, as i understand it, last night at midnight and the list itself came out at 9:00 a.m. and as a member of the committee, i'm not sure what all these things are doing. i see that we are increasing the ag market and healthy food initiative, excuse me, it's not an increase, it's a brand new program. i'm ranking member of the ag committee, i don't know exactly what that is. i think that might be something that has been voted on but we have not had it through the committee. now, i understand a lot of these other things are old items that have gone through the committee, but that one is one that has not. the broadband, there's a $30 million increa

>>kingston: most experts realize that that what japan needs is to consolidate their farmers. too many lilliputian plots that are not efficient, not competitive, so if you want to improve efficiency and revitalize the japanese agricultural sector, you need to promote consolidation, large-scale farms, which would bring down price of production, and make j agric products cheaper at home, but also perhaps competitive in export markets. >>reporter: experts say the quasi-governmental agri-cooperatives, known as ja, have blocked effortsto weed out part-timers, and have vested interests in supporting many small farms. >>honma: for ja, the matter is numbers, rather than agricultural strengthening. so they maintain membership, five million, to maintain numbers is first priority for them. >>reporter: even rice dealers like tetsu nakajima say japan's agricultural policy is killing farming... >>nakajima: the govt should stop protecting agriculture - lots of farmers think so, too. you just don't hear it on the news. >>reporter: analysts say protectionism is a relic of a distant era of food

. >> john kingston of platts energy estimates oil would have to double in price from $90 to $180 for gas to reach $5 a gallon. do you feel oil prices are headed significantly higher from here? >> i don't see them significantly higher. i think there's enough capacity on the sidelines held by opec that would be brought on the market to prevent it from a really serious rise in price. >> reporter: and recent history has shown rising prices reach a resistance point. >> if prices hit a certain level, people are going to say enough is enough, and they will change their patterns. >> reporter: when gas cracked $4 a gallon two years ago, demand dropped noticeably, and so did the price. analysts expect another surge would cause a similar reaction, and the economy is still just too fragile. harry. >> smith: anthony mason, thank you. an update now on a story we've been following for more than two years. the battle of wanat in eastern afghanistan. in that long war, few battles have been as bloody. >> we're taking fire. >> smith: 49 u.s. soldiers held off hundreds of taliban fighters who tried to o

." >>> wikileaks alleges that the mayor of kingston collaborated for years with an indicted gangster. the cable said he did this in return for lucrative government contracts. >>> the former argentine military leader jorge videla has been sentenced to life in prison for crimes against humanity. a court found him guilty of murdering dissidents during the country's military rule between 1976-1983. the general has been accused of being the main architect of what has become known as argentina's dirty war. that and many other stories are to be found on the bbc website. >>> south korea plans to begin its biggest ever winter live fire exercises it shortly, held that a sensitive time as tension has increased since the north attacked south korea's island. earlier, i spoke with our correspondent in seoul about what might happen next. >> today's firepower displayed is the largest to ever be held for the south. it sounds dramatic, but it is more of a media event involving 800 soldiers at a live firing range 30 kilometers south of the border with the north. it is meant to show the range of weaponry

kingston incoming as the better informed. i was even surprised by some things.re's not much more than that. just that his cell phone always rings at 10 when he has got to take his pills. >> hiv-positive and reliant on pills. that is something researchers here at the institute are looking to eradicate. for years, they have worked on finding a vaccine for the virus. but despite the work of some of the best researchers in the field, it has proved elusive. few expect a breakthrough anytime soon. >> originally, people hoped we would be able to develop a vaccine very quickly. but it is very frustrating that after so many years, none of the work done in the leading labs have come up with the result. >> but there have been great advances in the treatment of hiv-infected people. a week ago, he came for a blood test. today, he gets the results. it is good news. his boat -- his white blood cell count is high. live with hiv has changed. visible symptoms of the virus are practically a thing of the past. >> for example, a hollowness in the face, thin arms and face, and gettin

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. >> in washington for us now is our correspondent, steve kingston. often these kinds of treaties go through on the not. this one was much more difficult. >> it became very political. the republican leadership were opposed to aspects of the treaty itself. they felt that the preamble of it mentioned america's missile defense plans for eastern europe, which they felt was a concession to russia. they felt that russia was trying to link missile defense on the american side. republicans were not happy with that. they were not happy, either, with the timeframe in which this was being pushed through congress before the numbers change at the end of the year. republicans will have many more people in congress from january. for the time being, democrats are in charge of both houses of congress, and republican leadership would have preferred to wait. they would have been in a stronger position to debate this as of january, but in the end, it did go through. 71 votes in favor. 26 votes against. >> that new congress that you mentioned has had two substantial victo

kingston of georgia, two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from georgia is recognized for two minutes. mr. kingston: i thank the gentleman for yielding and i want to say that i do understand that we're here largely because there was not a budget this year and we were unable to move bills under regular order and because of that here we have something that was published, as i understand it, last night at midnight and the list itself came out at 9:00 a.m. and as a member of the committee, i'm not sure what all these things are doing. i see that we are increasing the ag market and healthy food initiative, excuse me, it's not an increase, it's a brand new program. i'm ranking member of the ag committee, i don't know exactly what that is. i think that might be something that has been voted on but we have not had it through the committee. now, i understand a lot of these other things are old items that have gone through the committee, but that one is one that has not. the broadband, there's a $30 million increa

kingston of georgia, two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from georgia is recognized for two minutes. mr. kingston: i thank the gentleman for yielding and i want to say that i do understand that we're here largely because there was not a budget this year and we were unable to move bills under regular order and because of that here we have something that was published, as i understand it, last night at midnight and the list itself came out at 9:00 a.m. and as a member of the committee, i'm not sure what all these things are doing. i see that we are increasing the ag market and healthy food initiative, excuse me, it's not an increase, it's a brand new program. i'm ranking member of the ag committee, i don't know exactly what that is. i think that might be something that has been voted on but we have not had it through the committee. now, i understand a lot of these other things are old items that have gone through the committee, but that one is one that has not. the broadband, there's a $30 million increa

at kingston in upper canada, he lodged with a mrs. elizabeth robinson. "they are a yankee family and have relatives in the british and american navy." another reported that a canadian soldier shot an american riffleman and then ran up to plunder his corpse when, "he discovered it was his own brother." but then this canadian soldier coldly remarked, "it served him right for fighting for the rebels when his family fought for king george." this is the war of 1812, not the revolution, but for this man as for so many, they regard this as a continuation of the revolution, that the revolution is not over for these people. dunlap concluded said "such is a variance of political ranking that is overcomes nature." we think we have just one civil war from the 1860s which is a much bigger and bloodier affair than the war of 1812. we need, i think, if we can recall the war of 1812 as a civil war and if we recall just how unstable the american union and republic was in the generation after the revolution. there was just a feeling of many people, the united states inclu

kingston incoming as the better informed. i was even surprised by some things.'s not much more than that. just that his cell phone always rings at 10 when he has got to take his pills. >> hiv-positive and reliant on pills. that is something researchers here at the institute are looking to e on finding a vaccine for the virus. but despite the work of some of the best researchers in the field, it has proved elusive. few expect a breakthrough anytime soon. >> originally, people hoped we would be able to develop a vaccine very quickly. but it is very frustrating that after so many years, none of the work done in the leading labs have come up with the result. >> but there have been great advances in the treatment of hiv-infected people. a week ago, he came for a blood test. today, he gets the results. it is good news. his boat -- his white blood cell count is high. live with hiv has changed. visible symptoms of the virus are practically a thing of the past. >> for example, a hollowness in the face, thin arms and face, and getting in belly, you see that a lot less the

kingston. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from georgia is recognized for three minutes. mr. kingston: i thank the gentleman for yielding and i agree, we have a genuine problem today with kids who were brought here as young children by their parents illegally. in fact, in my area, some of these kids were 3 and 4 years old and they're far more american than georgians culturally than they are whatever native country their parents came from. there's a problem here. but i got to say, this is not the solution. this is politics. in fact, under the name of this phony compassionate bill, what we're doing is a disservice to these children. this is a lame duck session. the democrats have been in charge of the house and the senate and the white house now for nearly two years. their brand of politics was squarely denounced and rejected five weeks ago and this is one of those things. this is a hairy -- harry reid deal. he promised to do it so now he's doing it. if you really were concerned, if there was real compassion, you know would you not be doing it this hour, switched in between a m

kingston was snow on 80. winter storm warning is still in effect, snow levels getting down.the morning hours will bring the heaviest rain, by the storm the storm passes two-3 ft. of snow above 7,000 ft., certainly a lot of snow. what the satellite, radar as that cold front sweeps down leaving us with clear conditions in our area. clearing out today, tomorrow, a lot sunshine. it looks like the next chance moving into the picture will happen on new year's day. 2011 will bring with it another shot of showers. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. erica >>. high wind advisor has been cancelled for the dunbarton bridge. still affect westbound 80. you are seeing more cars on the route that we saw 10 minutes ago. metering lights are off, not much in the way of delays. high wind advisory still in effect, camera and shaking around a little bit. those hands on the wheel. >> 7 tell west indies bound that camera is really shaking this morning it has not cost anything in the way of accidents. be extra cautious. other than that, traffic is moving at the limit. such a bad 101, no ad

you have kingston who is a -- adorable chihuahua. >> this is david a 4 1/2-month-old adorable kittenork and do need homes. >> and very well behaved right here on set. we want to get to our viewer questions. first to skype and elizabeth in georgia has this question. >> good morning. my dog and i have quite a job to visit my family for the holidays. so we wondering if you had any tips or advice to help make our holiday travel safer and less stressful for both of us. >> very good question, elizabeth. a couple of things preliminarily. call ahead and make sure it's going to be okay with everybody at your destination to bring the dog along. you want to make sure there's not going to be anyone there with allergies an also if there's going to be restrictions where your dog will be able to eat and sleep, you need to know that in advance and have the dog checked out quickly with the veterinarian to get a clean bill of health before you go. finally, gear can you take to make the trip easier. take a big blanket or you can go to the pet store and buy these big covers for your seats. cover the sea

so they told us, and kingston and i conferred, and we said that this was about as far as we could go. we made a strong pitch to him like it was so important. we told him how well the program had run in the past, how we had done everything to make sure that somebody who walked down the street of downtown manhattan and got lung cancer was a smoker all year -- they had all these misconceptions -- would not be included in the bill, and he said ok, but he said his staff needed to negotiate a few issues, and those issues ended up being very large. his staff and my staff and kirsten's staff went back to my office, and i state. we were there until about 1:00 a.m. and it looked like the deal was falling apart. we were discussing early this morning about what we should do. what is the best way of trying to get everybody in the senate tuesday, and we also have to worry about the house going home. the speaker had told us several times that if we did not get it done today, they were leaving. so i called up and said, "let's do one more shock." we discussed our strategy, and then we went over to sen

also assisted by a very able counsel, alan baron, mark, harry des moines and kingston kunar.eflection of several things not the least of which the caliber of men and women who were nominated for the federal bench the vast majority of which occlude themselves with great distinction and not given cause for their removal from office. i think it's also a tribute to the confirmation process that is a good job in putting out those who are not suitable for the bench. and i also think it's a reflection of how infrequently the house believes this extraordinary remedy is required. i won't spend much time this morning in discussing the standard for impeachment, the high crimes and misdemeanors. there will be time for that later. more than that, i think the members of this committee understand that standard better than i or anyone else could articulate. but i will share at least in my view one of the formulations i think the house and senate have arrived on in considering judicial impeachments. and that is that a judge has committed a serious violation of the public trust. that in the ph

[applause] >> thank you, kingston. there is one person you did not thank -- yourself.] she did an amazing job. she never gave up in the darkest of days and was indomitable. some of the senators said, " we'll stop her from bothering me?" i said, "no." what a great victory for a new legislature. is that not fabulous? [applause] for someone this new to do so much so soon is utterly amazing. when other group that was not thank -- that is the people behind us. i think we will all agree that we were the players who moved deep pieces on the chess table, but they were the ones who stood behind us to hold up that table. without up -- without them there would not be as many gains. they never gave up. their love of country and their fellow first responders was unlimited. the mettle of them is amazing. we sat in a room and told them we might have to compromise. i was sure they would yell and scream. john feal showed the mettle of a man. john, you are amazing. [applause] everybody else who was here. today is an amazing day. it is a great day, of course, for those who are built. now

kingston: most states in our country have a balanced budget amendment that keeps them from going in the red. there's another thing we could do, though, that would be to modernize the gramm-ruddman-hollings act which called for deficit reduction targets. i think it would be better to have a spending cap tied into g.d.p. tied into 18% which would give congress year after year a target and if we failed to meet that target it would have an automatic trigger so that we could get in the right level of spending because we do not want to have the same problems as greece, ireland, and spain. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? without objection. >> as chair of the asian american conference i urge support of the dream act. it would support students in our country. mr. honda: students have overcome numerous barriers in their lives and are on track to finish college. these students already contribute to our country and we owe them a chance at the dream -- the american dream. we must act and we must make the dream act a reality f

some have claimed that jack kingston is the cleanest of the three.has picked up some key endorsements. that is going to be a close one. he has had some momentum moving forward as they have made this decision. the energy and commerce committee from michigan. some conservatives endorsed joe. they feel he is the more conservative member. joe barton would need a waiver, because he is the ranking member or chairman for six years. the rule says in order to continue on as the top republican on any committee, you will need a waiver. he is likely to get that. a pretty good campaign and kept his name in the mix. a couple of candidates, fred upton should be next in the energy and commerce chairman. host: a lot on our plates. guest: absolutely. host: let's get to your calls on the republicans and the president reaching a compromise. here is another headline. first call, houston, texas, and democrats line. caller: good morning. i am just livid. let me tell you why. president obama seems to have no fight for backbone whatsoever. have the republicans taking over th

i know a lot of people got behind jack kingston from georgia, one of the appropriators for a very long time. while he is more conservative for some areas, all of these people are still appropriators by the end of the day. everyone on the above reasons committee will have to revamp how they do business. host: thank you for joining us this morning. guest: thank you. host: back to your phone calls -- democrats only. is president obama alienating you? the topic of a paul west analysis piece on the moves president obama made of lead. woodland hills, california. tony, go ahead. caller: president obama did not alienate made. he only extended the tax cuts for two years. he did not extend them permanently and i think he did what he had to do. host: what about the estate tax? the headline is that democrats to draw the line at the state tax after obama is the deal -- obama's deal. they do not like that the rate will be at 35% instead of 55% and the exemption will be up to $5 million. caller: well, i think he could have gone higher as far as the tax rate. i think it used to be higher than that bef

i guess that's running straight at your back to his old ways and kingston marco. >> you like to drop like to talk to in the years. i will say one more time, you heard it the second week in december 2010, he's living the way he wants to live. supposedly rainier's juggling people in another room door if you're on the kids here, he's gonna go back to living what made him comfortable and great. at this stage of life and of the key was to be 70 doing this, you want to be great again. >> to you know when the media will refocus as money goes in the first day. if it becomes so without first woman, all the media. speaking of these have a date since? >> i think he has only after shows the the public that will be huge. >> and think he's smart enough, his son ahmad farouk riley. >> we will start to later. we overbought.we'll be right ba. welcome back. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. we are starting to see their chars taper off this morning partly sunny conditions expected for tomorrow. rate in the wet weather, a chance of rain moving in midweek. all the details of what you can expec

i was very disappointing -- disappointed that john boehner did not pick somebody like kingston, those other kinds of candidates that will sell in georgia and i think across the country. in my opinion, i think bloomberg is a fine man. susan, he is not a big enough tax cut and a spending cut or, somebody like jim demint and the lombard, as you know, he does not have that reputation. judy bloomberg, as you know, he does not have a reputation. host: jersey city, new jersey. you are watching from across the river. caller: bloomberg is the best man for a better job. the tea party people should learn from him. should listen to him. this gentleman who just called, already made a judgment. bloomberg digging if he could fit into the tea party, if the tea party could fit into bloomberg, he would be a tremendous force. the tea partiers could benefit from health care reform just passed by democrats. i am a democrat, never voted otherwise. i would step out and i would vote for bloomberg. but again, the tea party is an interesting force but they need to learn. they needed to let go of some of the ha

kingston: before i yield to my friend from iowa, i would like to follow up what the gentleman from colorado said. sometimes we are unaware and this administration seems oblivious how serious a nuclear -- what a serious danger to the peace of the entire human family that would represent. but let's consider that for a moment. the ahmadinejad government, the government of the muscleas and ahmadinejad there have through their brazen, open statements have condemned israel, the united states and threatend both of our countries in ferms wanting to see israel wiped off the united states and united states ended as a world power and brought to our knees. it's hard to even repeat some of the things that this iranian administration has said about america. and it's very clear what their intent is. and there are two elements to every threat, mr. speaker, when it comes to national security. one is the intent of a potential enemy and the second one is the capacity of that enemy to carry through with their threats. and if we have not understood by now the intent of jihad, the intent of state sponsors of ter

kingston: i thank the gentleman for yielding. first of all i want to associate myself with the previous speaker, my friend from pennsylvania. i, too, support a consumption tax, a fair tax, tax simplification, in whatever form. i hope we can come together to work on tax reform and tax simplification in the year ahead. today, though, we are doing a show and politics. we are passing -- we are voting on a bill which the speaker knows there aren't the votes to pass. she furthermore knows that if it did pass the senate is not going to pass it. today is all about political show. it's about more class warfare. it's interesting that the speaker would choose this route because november 2 i believe that brand of politics was squarely rejected by the voters all across america. we also know that the economic policies of the speaker and the president have failed. when the stimulus bill was passed, unemployment was about 7.6%. we were told this would keep it from going to 8%. but here we are now with unemployment at nearly 10%. 15 million peopl

[applause] >> thank you, kingston. there is one person you did not thank -- yourself.an amazing job. she never gave up in the darkest of days and was indomitable. some of the senators said, " we'll stop her from bothering me?" i said, "no." what a great victory for a new legislature. is that not fabulous? [applause] for someone this new to do so much so soon is utterly amazing. when other group that was not thank -- that is the people behind us. i think we will all agree that we were the players who moved deep pieces on the chess table, but they were the ones who stood behind us to hold up that table. without up -- without them there would not be as manyains. they never gave up. their love of coury and their fellow first responders was unlimited. the mettle of them is amazing. we sat in a room and told them we might have to compromise. i was sure they would yell a scream. john feal showed the mettle of a man. john, you are amazing. [applause] everybody else who was here. today is anmazing day. it is a great day, of course, for those who are built. now at least we know

. >> first up, patty from kingston, washington has a question about bonds. >> subonds are in the toiletndividual bonds, those bondswill have maturity date. don't worr about the value going down when they mature. if they're good bonds, you'll get your money back. what you really need to be careful about now isnvesting in bond funds. don't buy bond funds, especially long-term bond funds at this point in time because bond funds do not have a maturity date. as interest rates go up, the value of bonds go down, which is why this woman's bonds are in the toilet. if you don't want bonds, look into dividend paying stocks, exchange traded funds but be careful and diversify. >> we've got derek from iowa. woo! go iowa! question about investing now. >> we saved a little bit of extra money and wonder where is he best place to put it, whether down on our house, put it in the stock exchange or roth ira. >> you would only want to pay down the mortgage on your home if you know without a shadow of a doubt you'll keep your home for the rest of your life. if you're going to sell your home in five or ten yea

as their kingston, the cochair of the strength of socialn security campaign an tens organization representing tens of millions of senior citizens quotes, extending and expanding to making work pay tax credit io far superior to the payroll tax cut for most americans.s making work pay tax credit istr, more similar, fair distribution, poses netsw administration courc and includes the 6 billion public-sector employees who will receive nothing from the payroll tax cut.doesn't r and unit doesn't run the risk of undermining social security's i financing and americans, et that cetera. issue so it addresses that issue as i well. third,a this amendment addresses another issue that i know a lote of people in this country of gi concern about and that is the underlying bill by inserting for the 2009 estate tax rate for twl years. mr. president, let's be clear. the estate tax only applies to the top three tenths of 1%. is what we are doing now is not exptions, lowering estate tax and raisingy exemptions which only be.nefit the very, very wealthy people in brging this u country. what we are doing now is bri

kingston: i thank the gentleman for yielding. first of all i want to associate myself with the previous spear, my friend from pennsylvania. i, too, support a consumption tax, a fair tax, tax simplification, in whatever form. i hope we can come together to work on tax reform and tax simplification in the year ahead. today, though, we are doing a show and politics. we are passing- we are voting on a bill which the speaker knows there aren't the votes to pass. she furthermore knows that if it did pass the senate is not going to pass it. today is all about political show. it's about more class warfare. it's interesting that the speaker would choose this route because november 2 i believe that brand of politics was squarely rejected by the voters all across america. we also know that the economic policies of the speaker and the president have failed. when the stimulus bill was passed, unemployment was about 7.6%. we were told this would keep it from going to 8%. but here we are now with unemployment at nearly 10%. 15illion people out

a lot of people got behind jack kingston from georgia who has been an appropriate for a long time. he is more conservative in some areas. they are appropriated at the end of the day. every one of these has to revamp how they do business. >> host: thank you for joining us this morning. >> congress should take time to continue the agreement on tax cuts the package should be signed into law. the president cited support from a number of economists for the agreement and focused on a meeting with the president of poland. >> we announced this agreement over the last couple days economy, looked at what would be the result of getting this agreement through congress and it is worth noting the majority upwardly revised their forecasts, and noted as a consequence of this agreement expected more job growth in 2011/2012 as originally anticipated. it is important for congress to examine the agreement and look at the facts and have a for a debate and get this done. the american people are watching and expecting action on our part. >> washington journal talk to ottawa's democratic senator about the