lahood will be here as many hours, days and weeks as mr. michael needs him and i hope you would agree with that. ray lahood is a republican but a bipartisan american who wants to get things done for our country and create those jobs of which you speak which all of us want to do. we have a jobs bill by the way that you have not brought to the floor. what is one aspect of it? infrastructu infrastructure, investing in infrastructure. that has languished for five mont months, not brought to the floor by the majority leader who has the authority to do so and i have been urging him to do so. if he wants to comment on what i said, i will yield. >> absolutely, mr. speaker. i join the gentleman in thinking secretary lahood is a feign gentleman. but all i can say is actions speak louder than words and whether we're bringing the whole bill up for a vote i would ask how many members on his side have sponsored 2tha bill? i think there is certainly many elements of that bill that we can all agree on. in fact, we have voted on four separate elements, beg

lahood. he is the director of a nonprofit, nongovernment agency that is working in egypt. as a way to remind you what the "new york times" wrote about on january the 28th, building tensions between the u.s. and egypt flashed in the open when cairo confirmed that it had barred at least a half dozen americans from leaving the country and the obama administration threatening explicitly to withhold annual aid to the egyptian military. ray lahood, who was on capitol hill discussing the transportation department budget, was asked about all this and the status of his son, sam. questions from senator conrad of north dakota and jeff sessions of alabama. >> i want to welcome everyone to the senate budget committee this morning. our hearing today will focus on the president's transportation budget requests. our witness is the secretary of transportation, ray lahood. this is secretary lahood's third appearance before the budget committee. we're delighted that he could be with us this morning. before we b

ray lahood was a leader on your side of the aisle. ray lahood served together for a long time. i don't know if you've seen his quote, i think it bears consideration of your side of the aisle from a republican, from middle america, peoria, who, your leader, your minority leader, bob michael, had as his chief of staff. here's what he said about the infrastructure bill that was marked up. this is the most partisan transportation bill that i have ever seen. and it is also the most anti-safety bill i have ever seen. this is a direct quote from ray lahood, republican, former member of this house for many years and former chief of staff to the minority leader bob michael. it hollows out our number one priority, which is safety. and ray lahood went on to say this. frankly it hollows out the guts of the transportation efforts we have been about for the last three years. it's the worst transportation bill i've ever seen during my 35 years of public service. ray lahood, politico, february 3,ust a few days ago, actually, that's today. he said it today. in realtime. this is real, breaking n

secretary, i want to note my thoughts are with your son sam lahood. most of us, i think, know that sam is one of the 16 american nongovernmental organizational workers currently banned from leaving egypt. sam is with the international republican institute. one of my constituents, stacy hog from fargo is also among those barred from leaving. stacy is with the national democratic institute. they were created to foster democratic institution arnz the world. the fact that egypt has taken this action is beyond the pale. it is completely unacceptable. these young people are doing important work, work that is supported directly by the congress of the united states to support constitutional governments, to support democracy. there could be no higher calling. and for the egyptian government, egyptian authorities to trump up these really farcicable charges, i was on the phone with stacy the day before yesterday just after they received the formal charges. they are farcical. i urge the egyptian leaders to drop them against stacy and sam and all of their colleagu

among them, sam lahood, the son of u.s. transportation secretary, ray lahood.epartment calling it troubling and working to learn more from the egyptian government. meanwhile, violent outbursts continue in egypt across the country there, more than 70% killed in a riot at a soccer game about a week ago and now the u.s. is threatening to cut off more than a billion dollars in aid, bringing us information and his expertise on that region, dr. walid phares, fox news middle east and terrorism analyst and author of "the struggle for freedom in the middle east" thank you for being here. >> thank you, harris. >> harris: and the men in egypt. what did they do wrong? >> harris, this is a very troubling story, talking about an event that never happened 30 years ago, for 30 years, some of the ngo he is, national republican institute and democratic national snult and human rights, international based have been operating in egypt for years, and iri basically led by mr. lahood was founded in 2005 in egypt and never before it happened and even during the the year after the coll

sam lahood the son of transportation secretary ray lahood is among those charged and could face up to 5 years in prison in egypt. he and the other americans are staying at the embassy in cairo. i will be talking with an expert about what should happen to bring sam lahood and the others home if that is even possible right now. let's go to iran and the show down with iran and the nuclear program. more war games rattling the u.s. and allies. the revel laugs nature reguard in two-days of military exercises. weeks ago iran's navy had war games. the strategic oil shipping at this tehran repeatedly threatened in response to sanctions. growing concern that israel is getting ready to launch a unilateral air strike against iranian nuclear facilities. president po bobama introduced on abc news. >> i don't think israel has made a decision on what they need to do. they like us believe that iran has to stand out on its nuclear weapons program. until they do i think israel rightly is going to be very concerned and we are as well. >>> let's get more from fox news national correspondent steve santoni

among the 19 americans to be tried is sam lahood, the son of transportation secretary, ray lahood. their alleged crime? working in egypt without a license and receiving foreign funds, which they've been doing for years with no problem. lahood works at the national republican institute, which does pro-democracy work, funded by congress. today, the institute said the prosecution is, a politically motivated effort to squash egypt's growing civil society. the ruling military council that took over after president hosni mubarak was ousted last year has repeatedly accused, quote, foreign hands of meddling. just before new year, 17 nongovernmental organizations, including i.r.i., were raided. then, two weeks ago, lahood and five other americans were banned from leaving egypt. >> we do not believe there's any basis for the investigation. the raids on the sites that the ngos operate out of. the seizure of their equipment. >> reporter: the military council is facing growing and often violent calls for it to hand over power to a civilian government. the deaths of 74 at a soccer game on thursd

ray lahood, is an employee. >> are you concerned about your urture safety? >> reporter: reached today by phone, sam lahood declined to comment, but he and at least four of his colleagues have been eanned from leaving the country. charles dunne is the middle east director at freedom house, a pro-democracy group whose employees have also been targeted. >> i mean this is a thin veneer of a legal investigation over what is really a political smear campaign. can'torter: he says if civil organizations like his can't operate freely, it calls into question the future of democracy in egypt. >> i'm very worried about the future of the country when they are shutting down egyptian and american n.g.o.s that are involved, after all, in trying to dot very things that the military says it wants to do. >> this is a totally judicial issue. >> reporter: today egypt's foreign minister tried to distance his government from the investigation, saying it was the judicial authority and not military leaders who pursued the case. steven cook with the council on foreign relations says

>>shepard: ngo's is nongovernment organizations and one is run by ray lahood's son, sam lahood who isre stucky. what do we know about his democracy group? >>reporter: they say they are doing nothing wrong and they have been there working on trying to establish democracy in egypt and the international republican institute, the group sam lahood works for note there have been corruption in egyptian courts and "the continued assault on american, german and egyptian civil society is not a legitimate view additional process but a politically motivated effort to squash egypt's growing civil society orchestrated through the courts in part by my mubarak and holdovers." clearly a tense situation. >>shepard: one more tense situation. mike from the washington, dc bureau and our senior judicial analyst, judge napolitano is here. our main guy on this sort of issue. what do you do now? >>judge napolitano: not much. you can only hope that hillary clinton and her team can negotiate a deal for the release of these people as she and her team did for three american students a few weeks ago. >>shepard: sh

one of them is the son of ray lahood, president obama's transportation secretary. sam lahood heads the egypt office for the international republican institute and is now forbidden to leave cairo. were you surprised when you saw your name on the list? >> i was surprised. so was my wife. >> reporter: other americans like charles dunne were safely at home in washington, d.c. when the charges were announced. as a director of the pro-democracy group freedom house, dunne was cited for operating in the country without a license. the egyptian government is accusing you and others of fomenting this unrest plaguing egypt. >> right. of course, we're doing nothing of the kind. this is completely trumped up political charges. >> reporter: if convicted, the americans could face up to five years in prison. and today white house press secretary jay carney indicated that $1.5 billion in u.s. foreign aid to egypt could now be in jeopardy. >> we have made clear both in our public statements and private communications how seriously we take this and that these actions could have conseq

i would like to compliment secretary lahood for his efforts in the state of michigan. he has been very proactive and good talking about developing a regional transit authority in southeastern michigan that we're now asking state legislation to move forward on that. because detroit and metro detroit has been lacking in that for decades. so there's an opportunity to partner on that. what i would also say is, again, i would make the approach that there are better ways to do things than we currently do things with the prescriptive measures that you can find in some of the highway bills, though. compared to giving us more flexibility. we still have multiple situations where we may be making a great investment in a rest stop that we don't really need as opposed to a bridge. and the ability to have flexibility in making those decisions would be helpful to

one person is the son of transportation secretary ray lahood. sam lahood works for a nonprofit that promotes democracy abroad. egyptian officials say the accused used foreign funds to fuel unrest and upraising. the state department spokesperson says officials are trying to understand the charges issuing this statement. "we are deeply concerned by these reports and are seeking clarification from the government of egypt but washington is already threatening action. they want to hold back the $1.5 billion promised to egypt this year. >> they will have to be back home soon. otherwise this is going to be transformed into a long term crisis between washington and cairo and i don't think it's in the interest, neither of the government in egypt nor our administration for this crisis to last more than three to four weeks of. >> reporter: egypt's foreign minister said his government cannot interfere in the work of the judiciary. >> the idea is that this is happening after the elections, after the muslim brotherhood took off parliament. so the military cou

among the 19 americans to be tried is sam lahood, the son of transportation secretary ray lahood. their alleged crime? working in egypt without a license and receiving foreign funds, which they've been doing for years with no problem. lahood works at the international republican institute, which does pro-democracy work funded by congress. the institute said the prosecution is "a politically motivated effort to squash egypt's growing civil society." the ruling military council that took over after president hosni mubarak was ousted last year has repeatedly accused "foreign hands of meddling." just before new year 17 non-governmental organizations including iri were raided. then two weeks ago lahood and five other americans were banned from leaving egypt. >> we do not believe there is any basis for these investigations, these raids on the sites that the ngos operate out of. the seizure of their equipment. >> reporter: the military council is facing growing and often violent calls to hand over power faster to a civilian government. the deaths of 74 at a soccer game on thursday sparke

secretary lahood. >> good morning. >> also i want to express my concern for your son. sounds like you got a pretty capable individuals going over there to resolve the situation. >> thank you. >> until that time, certainly your son and your family are in our thoughts. >> thank you very much. >> congratulations on your bridge, by the way. >> well, i was just going to thank you for that. thank you for your help in kind of breaking the logjam. hopefully we can get that done in the house. >> absolutely. i'll start out with the example of infrastructure. i certainly understand government is the only entity that really can provide certain types of infrastructure. the question is who should pay for the infrastructure? should itting the federal government? should it be the state and local gofl governments? that is largely funded by the state of minnesota and wisconsin. so they have skin in the game. and when we talk about subsidizing whether it's high speed rail versus highways, what the senator just said is if we do it right. i think that's the main question. first of all in,

one is sam lahood, the son of u.s. secretary of transportation ray lahood.be on trial for banned illegal activity and illegally receiving foreign funds. >>> according to officials the utah governor was put on lockdown and moved by security. police arrested a 52-year-old man they got a tip was sending text messages threatening the governor's life. >>> as the economy improves the price of cars expected to jump. the national automobile association predicts the cost of a new car will rise 6% to $30,000. used car prices are expected to jump just about 1%. >>> 8 sailors discharged after assaulting one of their own. a navy spokesman says the victim was choked until he blacked out and it it has been caught on video. peter doocy is live with that story. >> there was wrestling, punching, choking and horsing arounded a and the sailor being initiated on january 17th in the berthing area went to the ship's doctor with minor injuries and that is how the captain found out. the captain then launched an investigation and ended up discharging 8 soldiers who admitted to partic

and former transportation secretary ray lahood called hr-7 the most transparent transportation bill i have ever seen, and i further quote him, he said, it is the worst transportation bill i have ever seen during 35 years of public service. it came out of the transportation committee and so in and of itself defeating them doesn't make a bill bipartisan. -- asked and not only worked in good faith on this bill, thaw i have -- but they have put their d differences aside. -- and the 1998 reauthorization bill, and yet it is suffering a bad faith in the years of -- >> and the announcement of the house voting on a collective piece of legislation, and divided into three separate parts, and the sus pex of the rules a and here is the representative from utah. >> i enjoyed watching "money ball ball" and reading the book as well. they talked about field of averages and in the book, billy bean says that the talentf of avoiding failure is not a great trait, and in fact, the easiest way for someone to avoid a mistake is to be too slow to get to the ball. with all due respect this administration and m

. >> reporter: and sam lahood, son of ray lahood, transportation secretary, is one of those being prosecutede international public institute or iri, has been at work, and said corruption in the the egyptian court and continued assault on american, german and egyptian civil society is not a legitimate judicial process, it's a politically motivated effort to squash egypt's growing civil owe site group and orchestrated through the court in part by the mubarak holdover. that refers to the judges who served under long time egyptian dictator mubarak. and the they've had a problem dealing with its own people. in cairo, the fifth day in a he row clashes between police and protesters, and police threw rocks-- people threw rocks while people fired tear gas in response. and out on the campaign trail, newt gingrich compared the prosecution in egypt to a foreign policy disaster for a previous democrat in the white house. >> this remind me exactly of jimmy carter and the iranian hostage and you have the obama iranian hostage crisis to resemble the carter hostage crisis. >> and the u.s. officials continue

ray lahood was a leader on your side of the aisle. ray lahood served together for a long time. i don't know if you've seen his quote, i think it bears consideration of your side of the aisle from a republican, from middle america, peoria, who, your leader, your minority leader, bob michael, had as his chief of staff. here's what he said about the infrastructure bill that was marked up. this is the most partisan transportation bill that i have ever seen. and it is also the most anti-safety bill i have ever seen. this is a direct quote from ray lahood, republican, former member of this house for many years and former chief of staff to the minority leader bob michael. it hollows out our number one priority, which is safety. and ray lahood went on to say this. frankly it hollows out the guts of the transportation efforts we have been about for the last three years. it's the worst transportation bill i've ever seen during my 35 years of public service. ray lahood, politico, february 3, just a few days ago, actually, that's today. he said it today. in realtime. this is real, breaking

and ray lahood went on to say this. frankly it hollows t the guts of the transportation efforts we have been about for the last three years. it's the worst transportation bill i've ever seen during my 35 years of public service. ray lahood, politico, february 3, just a few days ago, actually, that's today. he said it today. in realtime. this is real, breaking news from the majority leader. the worst transportation bill he has seen in 35 years. that does not, i tell my friend, bode well for bipartisan cooperation on a piece of legislation. that nobody in the committee had read. so i ask my friend, do we expect to bring that bill up under those conditions in the near term? i yield to my friend. mr. cantor: i thank the gentleman, mr. speak. first of all, we expect to vote on the bill the week of the 13th. i think there will be adequate time f members to review the bill and the text to the gentleman's concern about mr. rahall's inquiry last night in committee. that's why we're allowing for the time so members can review ch

and 19 american pro democracy workers including the son of transportation secretary ray lahood wouldtrial. this as syria sinks deeper into civil war, and bashar assad, and the opposition strong hold. matt come minsky joins us with more. and is it fair to call them hostages? they can't leave the country. sure, they're held under trance parens ly-- there's a bigger picture here, the middle of a mess have i transition and they have to write the constituon, still and the military has to blame them for the problem they're having and a lot of nationalists going back to nasser. >> this is not having that the muslim brotherhood is doing. >> no. >> this is the military government that's doing this, a government that's gotten billions in aid. >> right, the state department is putting out that it may not be the military government that's doing it. >> and who doing it. the military who is a former mubarak associate is the one who apparently has been driving this. and that's part of the problem. and it's not clear, who's responsible for grabbing these people and who we should be negotiating this,

lahood met with the workers there, discussing the obama policies on rail development. >>> and being called a middle class scholarship. the idea to cut tuition for students by two thirds. ken pritchett live at uc berkeley tonight, with why cutting college students a break may not be so easy. >> reporter: well as the name implies, the proposed legislation is aimed at the middle class students hearing, if they qualify they could save 8000 a year off their tuition. and the csu students could save half of it. >> reporter: it could pass for a hospital, but in the class, the students who could benefit from the proposed legislation are here because they are middle class. >> i get like multiple student loans so it would really help out. >> right now i am receiving funds from the government on the gi bill. and as soon as those go away, i'll be left with a little bit of a gap to fill. >> reporter: much of the rising cost of tuition for lower income students has been absorbed by increased financial aid. >> this middle class family grant is really meant to -- meet the needs of those who don't qualify f

i thank you and yield back. >> i thank the gentleman and of course, ray lahood has been a friend of ours for a long time and shows the value of the value of the education that you get here in congress when you move to the cabinet. i want to thank the witnesses. i think that it underscored some of the differences that we have and some of the places that we come together, and as we mentioned in the opening remarks, there is an opportunity that we can come to agreement and in streamlining and consolidating the programs as the president suggested to work better and match up the needs of employers with the output, if you will, of schools. the testimony also underscored some fundamental differences. sometimes it is bickering that we get engaged in here, and that is really unfortunate, and sometimes it is fundamental differences in what we think is best for the american people, and best for the economy and the best way to go to get the americans back to works and that debate will continue, and you been helpful in our consideration of those things, and again, i want to thank the witnesses, and t

sam lahood heads the egypt office for the international republican institute. he is among 43 people accused in an investigation of the funding of pro-democracy groups. >> these americans have done absolutely nothing wrong. they do what american and international workers do in various parts of the world which is to support democratic development and civil society. >> the u.s. is warning egypt's military government that the billion and a half dollars it had earmarked for egypt could be withheld if the investigation isn't quickly resolved. >>> 4:36 now. here's a look at some of the other things making news this morning. more gruesome details emerging about the deaths of two young boys in washington state. they were killed in a house fire. authorities say their fire josh powell had been planning to set the fire for some time. smoke inhalation was the primary cause of death for powell and his two sons but investigators say the boys also suffered severe chopping to their heads and their necks. powell is also a person of interest in the disappearance of his wife susan

the defendants include sam lahood. if that name sounds familiar, it's because he is the son of our transportation secretary, ray lahood. ben wedeman is live in cairo. ben, there has been lots of posturing before with people who are detained, even high-level people who are detained, but there seems to be a different essence here, that there is really some fear. in fact, mr. lahood isn't feared for his safety. he fears for his future. >> reporter: yes. in fact, sam lahood who runs the international republican institute is one of several americans who have taken refuge in the u.s. embassy here in cairo, ashleigh. i got off the phone with one of those americans involved in the case, and he says their lawyers are flabbergasted, that they've been shown no documents. all their attempts to meet with justice ministry officials here in cairo have come to not, that they haven't been, for instance, served any legal documents in this case. one of the lawyers apparently saying that it's not lawyers they need in this case, it's diplo

ray lahood was a leader on your side of the aisle. ray lahood served together for a long time.w if you've seen his quote, i think it bears consideration of your side of the aisle from a republican, from middle america, peoria, who, your leader, your minority leader, bob michael, had as his chief of staff. here's what he said about the infrastructure bill that was marked up. this is the most partisan transportation bill that i have ever seen. and it is also the most anti-safety ll i have ever seen. this is a direct quote from ray lahood, republican, former member of this house for many years and former chief of staff to the minority leader bob michael. it hollows out our number one priority, which is safety. and ray lahood went on to say this. frankly it hollows out the guts of the transportation efforts we have been about for the last three years. it's the worst transportation bill i've ever seen during my 35 years of public service. ray lahood, politico, february 3, just a few days ago, actually, that's today. he said it today. in realtime. this is real, breaking news from the

american mentioned 36 year-old sam lahood son of transportation secretary ray lahood from illinois leadsof national republican institute banned from leaving egypt. going into tuesday's republican primary caucus three struggling candidates fighting to stop frontrunner momentum reporting from washington on the latest in the presidential race. >> this tuesday is not super tuesday but for the candidates and the republican race is significant. three more contests target front runner mitt romney. conservative support of one with ron paul hopes to snag a strong wind on tuesday and slow momentum of mitt romney >> a candidate running not seen by the media as the prohibitive favorite. who is the worst possible person in this field to put on the most fundamental issue of the campaign >> rick santorum hit mitt romney on health care and newt gingrich pilot also >> look what he did in massachusetts basically accommodative liberal democrats and looking at mitt romney care next to obama care >> caucuses in missouri and nonbinding primary no delegates at stake just bragging rights comes in on a winning s

the man behind the push is transportation secretary ray lahood. mr.you for joining us. >> good morning. >> is this becoming a sensitive marquis issue of what you want to communicate. >> well, safety is our number one priority in all forms of transportation. we know that, because everybody has a blackberry, everybody has a cell phone and we think we can use them everywhere we're at, that many, many people when they get behind the wheel of a car have a cell phone up to their ear or think they can text and drive, it's very dangerous. the statistics prove that with over 3,000 deaths. that's 10% of the deaths on our highways in america. and that's way too many. people have to change their very dangerous behavior and take personal responsibility to put these devices away while they're driving. >> personal responsibility means this is voluntary? >> it is voluntary because we want to really put out there the idea that even though a number of states have passed laws against distracted driving, that it's up to people to really decide if they want to be safe dri

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one of those americans is sam lahood, son of transportation secretary ray lahood. the americans do work for nonprofit organizations whose mission is to promote democracy. the obama administration has warned egypt, a trial there could jeopardize the $1.5 billion america sends to egypt in aid and will this year. >>> and back here at home of course it is the day after the super bowl, super bowl xlv, officially the single most watched tv program in tv history. and a big win for the new york giants. but it wasn't just the action on the field that caused fireworks today. one super bowl ad set off some political fireworks as well. and a new abc news poll gives president obama something to cheer about, as abc's jake tapper explains. >> reporter: the ad from chrysler ran during halftime of the super bowl and featured clint eastwood talking about how it was also halftime in america. >> the people of detroit know a little something about this. they almost lost everything. but, we all pulled together. now motor city is fighting again. it's halftime, america, and our second hal