levin: thank you. i now yield two minutes to my friend, a most distinguished member of the ways and means committee for a long time, mr. charles range of new yor the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york voiced for two minutes. mr. rangel: thank you, mr. speaker. while i stand on this floor as an american and a person that loves this congress so much and i'm embarrassed also as a member that a president of e united states would have his domestic and foreign policy actually held hostage because with him and only him and no other president have we decided that we would almost put in jeopardy the faith and fiscal responsibility of this country paying its dels debts. you know, a lot of people have said that we got to a $14.4 trillion debt because we got drunk and spent money like a drunken say lore. if that is so -- sailor. if that is so the people have in "the hgover" certainly aren't the wealthy people in this country. and this decision was decided without any consideration of the people tt ar

jeffrey brown profiled levine last year. >> we sand? the rain in a long line, waiting at ford highland park. for work. you know what work is. if you're old enough to read this, you know what work is, although you may not do it. >> reporter: at 82, phillip levin is author of some 20 volumes of verse and one of the nation's most honored poets with a pulitzer and numerous other prizes, but he started life in detroit working in auto plants, sometimes waiting in line for a job as he describes in his poem "what work is." >> this is about waiting. shifting from one foot to another, feeling the light rain falling like mist into your hair blurring your vision until you think you see your own brother ahead of you maybe ten places. >> brown: so these feel familiar to you? levin joined me at the yancy richardson gallery in new york. he'd written an essay for an exhibition of photographs by andrew moore that capture a lost world of detroit. an old school, homes, and factories including ford's river rouge plant where levine himself once worked. >> wh

levin: thank you. i now yield two minutes to my friend, a most distinguished member of the ways and means committee for a long time, mr. charles range of new york. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york voiced for two minutes. mr. rangel: thank you, mr. speaker. while i stand on this floor as an american and a person that loves this congress so much and i'm embarrassed also as a member that a president of the united states would have his domestic and foreign policy actually held hostage because with him and only him and no other president have we decided that we would almost put in jeopardy the faith and fiscal responsibility of this country paying its dels debts. you know, a lot of people have said that we got to a $14.4 trillion debt because we got drunk and spent money like a drunken say lore. if that is so -- sailor. if that is so the people have in "the hangover" certainly aren't the wealthy people in this country. and this decision was decided without any consideration of the people

what are the secret adam levine talents? >> adam levine? i, you know, i was all in with music.> weird little party pieces? >> i can balance things on my nose pretty well. >> really? >> yeah. >> how big a thing can you balance on your nose? >> i can balance a lot of stuff on my nose. i can balance probably nothing in here. i don't know. >> well, i'm going to get something. >> i start looking and if i see something, on my chin, too. i can do guitars. quite amazing actually. >> well i like this theory. i think what we'll do is go to break and find something you can balance on your nose. >> i did it when i was about 7 years old. >> you are backtracking. >> i'll do it. i will do it right now. >> great. let's have a break and then we come back to adam levine the great nose balancer. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] more people are leaving bmw, mercedes, and lexus for audi than ever before. ♪ experience the summer of audi event and get over 130 channels of siriusxm satellite radio for three months at no charge. that's not going to satisfy you. come on. it's time for a better snack. try this.

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. >> pamela levin. there is about $300,000 in there. that could be used up quickly. the process to recover the money is extremely slow. as ed mentioned, we were in a deficit, we moved some money in over there. and then it is also restricted. the other thing is an issue on contractors. if we are using our own contract, if we make the arrangements for a contractor to make repairs, and we are doing is based on paying this out of our own funds, that contractor has to be complied with all of the city rules. we are willing to point people in the direction to become compliant, but that is also a slow process. the city has lots of rules.

levin: i understand that we are alternating. the presiding officer: that is correct. mr. levin: kweuld that after the senator from -- i would request that after the senator from kentucky, who is here to speak -- in that case, i believe i was here on the floor before the senator from kentucky, so i will proceed. madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from michigan. mr. levin: madam president, to say that the legislation before us is not ideal is truly an understatement. the notion that our deficit problem can be solved solely by cutting spending flies in the face of our experience when in fact unwise tax cuts for the wealthy and egregious tax loopholes are significant culprits in our fiscal crisis. i believe too many republicans are influenced by an ideology so extreme that it promised to wreak economic havoc if it did not get their way. no additional revenues became the battle cry, an approach that prevents the balanced deficit reduction that the american people rightly support. the result is that this legislation incorporates some policies that are profoundl

i satisfied still had a war that's not against a new york rabbi yehuda levin outspoken rabbi had a lot to say about this week's of five point eight earthquake the rocket is cuts just listen to who he blamed for it yes this is a direct connection earthquakes and homosexuality it was in haiti and he's here in new york and washington d.c. will it pass congress actual legislation ordinances in new york in new york city and state will they open especially on sunday early if they pass on social marital . are is this for real here he's actually going to blame agave marriage for causing an earthquake apparently people are actually that insane now it's important to know about rabbi levin is his connection to the anti-gay group national organization for marriage or no to the group is fighting it throughout the u.s. to protect marriage as being between only one man and one woman now the good rabbi attended a non news conference earlier this year in albury new york the state lawmakers were debating the marriage equality bill so he's an ally back group and he also spoke at the event and that's why

levin: thank you. i now yield two minutes to my friend, a most distinguished member of the ways and means committee for a long time, mr. charles range of new york. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york voiced for two minutes. mr. rangel: thank you, mr. speaker. while i stand on this floor as an american and a person that loves this congress so much and i'm embarrassed also as a member that a president of the united states would have his domestic and foreign policy actually held hostage because with him and only him and no other president have we decided that we would almost put in jeopardy the faith and fiscal responsibility of this country paying its dels debts. you know, a lot of people have said that we got to a $14.4 trillion debt because we got drunk and spent money like a drunken say lore. if that is so -- sailor. if that is so the people have in "the hangover" certainly aren't the wealthy people in this country. and this decision was decided without any consideration of the people

brimstone yet it may well be on the way now i have to agree with our viewer there are those like rabbi levin seem to ascribe such power to gay people they create earthquakes storms whatever other natural disaster you can think of must be kind of nice now if my rantings tonight i would have more for you later in the week. all side of the republican push to try and defund planned parenthood this year we've also seen u.s. politicians launch an attack women's reproductive health funding internationally soon barack obama came into office he overturned the global gag rule which blocked international aid organizations that provide abortion related information and services in other countries a concern for lawmakers are working hard and without much media attention to put that gag order back in place just this summer the house foreign affairs committee voted to reinstate it and place it within the state department's budget for fiscal year two thousand and twelve to go through the senate and be firmly approved but if it does it could hurt millions of women worldwide but the thing is if you consider th

candidates are on the wrong side of history so tonight we award rabbi levin our tool time award for his very stupid and bigoted earthquake comment. ok time for happy hour this evening and joining me tonight as are two producer jenny churchill and derek thompson senior editor at the atlantic guys. so we just keep finding out wonderful little tidbits of information as people stormed off his compound in tripoli we saw the one guy with get off his hat with his massive gold chain that he dug up but there was also something else that would suck up that may reveal a bit of a love affair take a look. ok so we did a little bit creative editing they're going to admit but apparently they did find a scrapbook just full of pictures of condoleezza rice and to get up he's been known to say that he thinks he's a strong african woman and. this is a tidbit i did not want to find out about margaret offered i here's what i want i don't know want to know anything about his personal life i want to to capture him and i want to ask you just one question it's how do you spell your last name and that's it i want

senator levin introduced a bill last congress called the incorporation transparency and law enforcement assistance act. he said tuesday when he spoke he wished he had thought of the edgier name but it would require states to obtain a list of beneficial owners of each liability company that is formed under their laws and make sure that is up dated annually. and make that available to law enforcement upon the service of a subpoena or a summons. and if those beneficial owners were foreign persons, the formation agent here in the u.s. would have to supply the identity. those pieces of legislation are really important and to the extent that you you do advocacy on the hill we have -- hope that you will help us support those. >> thanks rebecca and thank you both. i think both both will turn it over to will turn it over to question-and-answer. i wanted to maybe start with a question for each of you. nick maybe we will start with you. much of this book, "treasure islands" talks about the enabling policy environment that allowed this offshore tax havens to flourish. i'm wondering if you could spe

senator levin had a bill called the stop tax haven abuse act that had much broader provision. they're trying to reintroduce this with this congress with some changes. it had some really important measures in it. it allowed treasury, for example, to prohibit banks that were that facilitating, foreign banks that were facilitating tax cheating, and it would allow treasury to keep them from doing business, um, in the u.s. it would give the irs some great enforcement tools like expanding their use of john doe summons which is when they go in and say, well, we know somebody's cheating, we just don't know his name. and it also has a really important expansion of the anti-money laundering rules. another provision that we'd really like to see is that it really increases the penalties on aiders and abettors. um, the big accounting firms, the big banks, the big law firms, a lot of them are participating in these deals. and the penalties they can face are fairly small. for an accounting firm it's $10,000 per violation. um, the irs was able to get hold of an internal memo at one of the big

. >> pamela levin. there is about $300,000 in there. that could be used up quickly. the process to recover the money is extremely slow. as ed mentioned, we were in a deficit, we moved some money in over there. and then it is also restricted. the other thing is an issue on contractors. if we are using our own contract, if we make the arrangements for a contractor to make repairs, and we are doing is based on paying this out of our own funds, that contractor has to be complied with all of the city rules. we are willing to point people in the direction to become compliant, but that is also a slow process. the city has lots of rules. it does not make it very easy. commissioner walker: and the definition of life and safety is well established. as i understand, it would need to be a directive from the director. >> it means that some of his life is in danger or peril. loss of heat would be like the safety. -- life safety. >> members of the commission, good morning. chief housing inspector. does the commission wants an overview on the history of emergency orders and repairs?

is a situation of the dean of ski fishbone is trying to change levine in his work as a breeding young imo sturgeon include her in captivity and then returning them to the walls so this is all they keep the food for the fish it looks like. lovely stuff. combination all insects alone the. lawyer and some tiny crustaceans i mean very delicious we understood. but doesn't. the fish in these tanks are only a few months old but a food grown kalu good can live as long as a human way up to a time. easy fifteen boy about two thousand of these babies version in here and you can see the pretty lively. now there anyway about thirty to forty grams across the perfect science to give them the real shots it's available in the river i think i can probably safely say that this may be the only time in my life i'm ever going to see a fish vacuum cleaner and this is what is transporting our kaluga and our sturgeon into the fact that we can then release it into the river later. it's like a quick definitely a means we've reached our quota this time to try things the opposite so i'm riding in style here as we

august nineteenth nineteen ninety one must go he levin am i cried halt armored personnel carriers heading for the city center demonstrators climb one of them chanting no to fascism. hundreds of people gather womanish square in central moscow they are ready to oppose the so-called state committee on the state of emergency people who met each other back then drink to still keep in touch and remember those events. hello hello hello brothers and seen in a hundred years when my parents woke me up in the morning to tell me that a coup was underway i was actively involved in a youth democratic movement so i said if no one i know was arrested right away if this is no call at all yes there were tanks but people were blocking them off what kind of coup is it if tanks can be stopped short in their tracks. a small radio set as one of the most treasured mementos from those days people used it to listen to the few independent stations that was still on that. one report said the air force refused to side with the coup our court. into another a military garrison in st petersburg also refused to back it i

the really smart people who run the charter schools such as dave levin who started kip, he is the guy who told me that kip isn't the solution. he walked me around and said this is great but if we don't ask everything else you can tear up every union contract in the world he said in that would only be the beginning. >> host: okay. you have a great deal of faith in testing and accountability and data. have you ever looked at the nclb test that are used not only in the state but other states? these are tests of basic skills in the billions that are now being spent for test prep are teaching kids how to take tests more than they are teaching -- that is why we have a very high remediation rate. in new york city 75% of the kids to graduate new york schools after those years of test prep 75% go do a community college and have to be remediated in reading and math. >> guest: i think you mixed up two concepts. use that i have a great deal of faith in testing and accountability. >> host: that is what these remedies rely on is the belief that the data themselves are accurate and they are not. >>

and senator carl levin said he would send the committee's findings to the department of justice. a lot of legal issues. >> tom: as you said susie, a lot of late action in goldman. here's a look-- down $5.25 or almost 5% to $106.51. really happened in the last five minutes of trading. a new low for goldman. let's take a look now at other stocks in tonight's "market focus." stocks started the week in the green, but only barely, despite decent early buying. the dow industrials continue to see these wide intraday swings. at its best level today, the dow was up more than 200 points. the index hit its low for the day just before the close, eking out just a small gain. financial stocks saw the worst of the selling, led again by bank of america. b. of a. shares fell almost 8%. some experts point out bank of america has become a favorite for high-frequency traders thanks to its low price and large number of shares available to be traded. j.p. morgan fell almost 3%, and insurance giant travelers fell 1%. telecom and technology stocks were the leaders today, hewlett- packard saw some buying

reaching eighty three million dollars and mark levin saw that i have seen that appalls wraps up but they state for us. certainly as the day was the day that way investors sort of celebrated. the consolation of one of the bigger risks on the market that being there is going to technical default so this is behind us the markets now looking for a new reality but the new reality looking very much a lot like an old one you know the debt issues are still with us meaning once and euro zone in the united states in particular so the main drag of the market now i think is their market worries market jitters about the pace of us economy expansion whether it's going to be very little. as in the second quarter or it's going to accelerate. over also scarred giant ask the vassall twenty five percent more cars and the first seven months of the year with a total of three hundred forty two thousand of the units but for the most recent month that was a sharp slowdown as the government ended its cash for clunkers program after us plans to produce around seven hundred thousand it will see. and that's all the

pages and another report produced by the senate permanent investigations committee under senators levin and coburn who are recently that lays out in great detail exactly how the process of deregulation the encouraging it wildly leveraged speculation the lack of regulatory authority agreements between wall street and the government that no bankers would be prosecuted it's a sorie story and it really goes back to nineteen ninety nine when the gramm leach wifely act in the united states repealed glass steagall and created this speculation the engine too big to fail banks that are right now once again teetering on the edge of complete disintegration there's a bill in the united states house of representatives h.r. fourteen eighty nine that would simply reinstate plastique will and other members of congress are saying that in addition to that we should repeal this bill nonsense and go back to the kind of emergency measures that franklin roosevelt talking one nine hundred thirty three when he first came into office without some radical change in policy like that. this system this transatlanti

levin from michigan. the gentleman from michigan. mr. camp: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. camp: mr. speaker, if the congress does not act and act now, america will default and that would wreak havoc on our economy and make it harder for americans to find and keep a job in an already weak economy. default cannot be an option and i am pleased that the bill before us ensures that will not occur. ealth of this just as the fault would have threatened the health of this country so would increase in taxes. raising tinacrxetasxe os.n famid job creators and hinder investments increase the cost o ofing business and result incre even less hiring of and fewer jobs. that's the wrong d we are struggling with anng wit unemployment rate of 9.2% and 14 million americans looking for work.rk. the good news is the legislatioz before us recognizes these basic facts it avoids the default and the government pays our bills and does not increase taxes ando the deficit reduction could pave the way f

levin: mr. camp, i think it takes unanimous consent to do that. i'm sorry, mr. camp. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. the gentleman from michigan. mr. camp: thank you, mr. speaker. as a member of the national commission on fiscal responsibility, our debt commission, we received testimony from experts in economic policy research. and they said that when debt loads of a country reach above or at 90% of their economy or g.d.p. that results in the reduction in economic growth in that country by about one percentage point. and using the administration's economic model, that one percentage point increase in our g.d.p. or decrease in our g.d.p. costs about one million jobs. that's why this debate is so important. it is so important to get us on a path to fiscal responsibility. to begin to bring down our national debt. the plan before us today does that. it does that with spending reductions. it does it with the sort of structural reforms in terms of spending caps that are there. it also does it with an automatic reduction in spending. if for some reaso

congressman sander levin says about the move it turns the clock back fifty years at a time when unemployment is at its store highs since the great depression i call it the republican great depression not only does governor of snyder's bill amount to nothing less than a war against poor people he also fails to realize the pain out unemployment benefits helps to boost economic activity and get people back to work this is just heartless it's bad economic policy. but i get it the other snyder has to take money out of someplace like poor people's pockets in order to pay for his two hundred million dollars bad big corporations and their fact can't c.e.o.'s so let's see the effect of these republican economic policies in our little city here in the studio democracy this is our back to democracy bill we've been here before and there's basically two competing theories of economics that are being played out the democrats are playing demand side which is how economics of work for six thousand years the republicans are playing supply side which is how economic support for the last thirty years which is

expectations it will take a year for lebanon exports to return to the global markets on monday a former top levin official said the country could restart oil production within months market watchers claim their renewed supplies could ease the bullish sentiment on the market but a lot of them want to thank you from platt says libyan production wants off said growing global demand for oil. i believe in production the outrageous the return of oil is roughly in the range of four give or take a million barrels per day so in the biggest scheme of things it doesn't change things much but it has added to the bullish sentiment so by definition as that production comes back some of that bullishness course way from the marketplace but please note that international prices have really been over one hundred dollars so from our fundamental point of view in terms of the man the man of oil continues to grow so the basis for the market collapse are not really there and if the central banks flood the market will liquidity then we're in another environment. that scramble to get access to libya's oil has kicked off

pumped out late to petrify nearby car their poor picture into bottles setting them off fire brian levin the tanks the conspirators already blazing loss than. the three men memorialized here had become martyrs for the democratic cause in fact expected assault on the white house never materialized but even before the violence which happened just mere few soldiers were being orders. my colleagues and i already saw that the coup was leading so after i got the orders to attack the white house and it ran into a more we inanimate he decided we wouldn't do it you know. as the plotters admitted the bloodshed destroyed. the oldest cooper to come close to succeeding but in the end it went the way of yeltsin and democracy tom bottom party. is less than twenty four hours before the serious international air show closes in the moscow region but the actions showing no sign of winning are russia's newest fighter jet still classified t fifty prototype as the main headliner of the event but his first public display it's made another dramatic entrance on saturday thousands of spectators looking up and on

and from europe he has ordered his central bank to repatriate a levin billion dollars and gold reserves but to give you a sense of logistically what this means that's two hundred an illegal. then tons so why and what could this mean for other countries to tell us from buenos aires its author and researcher adrian soule buttin thank you so much for being with us so there are always lot of different explanations have been given a sense this news when it was announced about why chavez wants his ball back what do you think is the foremost reason well there are two basic reasons one of them is financial he obviously wants to protect the financial assets of his own country so he is repatriating these two hundred eleven metric tons of gold which sounds like a lot but since gold is heavy it's a relatively small volume and he is asking the united states. to give it back to him but there is another level of this needs to be interpreted and it's a political in a way after seeing the way that the needle countries for example are grabbing the assets of other countries we're seeing it in libya we rea

levin: i understand that we are alternating. the presiding officer: that is correct. mr. levin: kweuld that after the senator from -- i would request that after the senator from kentucky, who is here to speak -- in that case, i believe i was here on the floor before the senator from kentucky, so i will proceed. madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from michigan. mr. levin: madam president, to say that the legislation before us is not ideal is truly an understatement. the notion that our deficit problem can be solved solely by cutting spending flies in the face of our experience when in fact unwise tax cuts for the wealthy and egregious tax loopholes are significant culprits in our fiscal crisis. i believe too many republicans are influenced by an ideology so extreme that it promised to wreak economic havoc if it did not get their way. no additional revenues became the battle cry, an approach that prevents the balanced deficit reduction that the american people rightly support. the result is that this legislation incorporates some policies that are profoundl

be that there's an element of fear involved here too this is another one of the things the robber levine mentioned is that not only do we live in a society these days where we are constantly under some sort of surveillance and you can always be monitored or attached to your cell phone where anybody can figure out where you were at any given time but we also have a prison system. i guess you could say a criminal justice system that really does like to lock people out of people scared to go out and protest. absolutely the surveillance is one aspect of it the private prisons i mean it's big business in america private prisons make so much money off getting people in jail so that's one of the things that is definitely discouraging people from being politically active but look a revolution is not something that simple if revolutions were simple we wouldn't have this discussion at all you know we wouldn't have any problems in our political spectrum we have huge problems because the establishment the elites the people who are corporatists they find ways to intimidate the public they find ways t

that have been supported in the past by democrats and republicans, things that are supported by carl levin. the only thing keeping us back is our politics. the only thing preventing these bills from being passed is the refusal of some folks in congress to put country at a party. -- country ahead of party. some in congress would rather see their opponents lose than see america when. w in and that has to stop. it has to stop. we are supposed to be on the same team. especially when we are going through tough times. we cannot afford to play games. not right now. not when the stakes are so high for our economiy. if you agree with me, it does not matter if you're a democrat or republican or independent, you got to let congress know. you've got to tell them that you have had enough of the theatrics, you've had enough of the politics, stop sending out press releases, start passing some bills that we all know will help our economy right now. that is what they need to do. they need to hear from you right now. [applause] let me be specific -- i will give you some examples -- you've got to tell them t

things that are supported by carl levin. the only thing keeping us back is our politics.s from being passed is the -- the refusal of some folks in congress to put country ahead of party. there are some in congress right now who would rather see their opponents lose than see america win, and that has to stop. it's got to stop. we're supposed to all be on the same team, especially when we're going through tough times. we can't afford to play games,

britain also in america this is the great debate the cradle to grave society is unsustainable low -- levin'sk says, liberty, tyranny. >> same is true of my grandparents they didn't go to college but they got good jobs. they worked for the state department and had health care. that was a different economy. you do need an a college education. >> sean: there's education available for anybody this country that wants it. the same in england. what has happened we have conditioned people to look to the government to be their and for every problem they have and take zero responsibility. >> we are building an entitlement nation by the day because of our government and administration in power now they are building the average american to be more dependent daily. finding a job, buying food, going to school. they are building us to be more dependent on the government than we ever have before. that is coming to a head. >> sean: half the country in america does not pay federal income taxes. does not contribute a penny to federal income tax. hang on. 15% of americans are on food stamps, just shy of 50 mill