so it's heading to a logjam. the political aspect is look, the country is just beginning to get to this story and what they see is republicans in congress focusing on something other than the economy and having a big fight about doums. the white house is perfectly comfortable with that frame. similarly, house republicans say there say border patrol agent dead, their family is not satisfied. there is a foundation now supporting him. we're going to lean on the family and the inquiry. >> are any republicans concerned at all that this is taking the message off the economy and toward something in a bit of left field? >> i would say that the answer to that can partially be found in the scheduling of the vote next week. it may help wednesday or thursday. i think all of us agree there will be something else mildly interesting coming down next week. the health care decision from the supreme court and it will be bookended by the decision on the arizona immigration law. it will be in the context of a lot of other news which

basically there is a logjam in the atmosphere.ucky for us, there is nothing going on, so the same weather pattern will stick around for four or five days. we are going to stay under that area of high pressure for awhile. 79 degrees at the airport right now with just a few clouds hanging around. the east wind will help keep the temperature slightly below average. the average height is 83. today we only hit 80, and we will be in that neighborhood tomorrow. we will crews back into the upper 50's and low 60's by tomorrow morning. you can keep the air conditioning often open the windows tonight. sunset is at 8:35. the matt birk -- the weather map will look the same all the way through the weekend. overall, it will be a nice day. sunrise tomorrow morning at 5:39. it might be little choppy tomorrow, the high tide at fort mchenry is at 4:46 in the morning. if you are going to the beach this weekend, you picked a good one. with the wind coming off the water, it will be a little cooler there. a nice weekend at all the del mar beaches and fo

in the early hours of the morning, four or five buses are logjamed. the other thing i want to address is housing. many people touched on topics today. homelessness, housing for the work force. many of my friends and colleagues work here but find it hard to live here. there are two proposals coming before the board that could change that. i asked the you consider the deal as a pathway to housing obligation that could create more supportable and affordable housing in san francisco. the plan that they have proposed is not their full obligation. i urge you to reject 65 million and push for more in the housing trust fund. in a district that has a lot -- highest amount of renters, the last thing we need are condos priced at $2.4 million. the average household would need to earn $1.6 million to afford the lowest priced condo in this development. my friends who are bartenders, waitresses, cooks in restaurants, they need housing for their work force. i would ask the members of the board of supervisors and the mayor to look at these proposals and do what is bes

franklin roosevelt tried to pack the supreme court to break the logjam. as he understood it. logjam isn't a defect, it's an american achievement to slow things down. >> the first time in my memory, correct me if i am wrong, the health care bill, the first time not a single republican signed on. franklin roosevelt and lyndon johnson were able to work with congress. they cut deals. they knew the power of compromise and strong principal. they advanced a vision for this country. with all due respect to tim pawlenty, the idea that barack obama sounds like an arsonist. is like romney saying, a vote for president obama would be unpatriotic. to me, that's language that this country doesn't need. >> i think the argument -- >> i think matt's right. we ought to come forward and both sides, and the president should have a mea culpa. we have gotten into a place that was very different from where the campaign wanted to be in 2008. we got to back away from that. otherwise, we're not going to be able to confront this pretty serious challenge at a time when we could do it. if there's someone

. >> what needs to be done to break the logjam? >> again, that briefing yesterday. we are live once again on capitol hill. attorney general holder and house oversight and government reform committee chair darrell issa are expected here on the hill in this contempt hearing. neither party is in the room just yet. we understand ranking member elijah cummings is there along with a number of attorneys on the panel. >> again, as we're waiting for this house oversight and government reform committee hearing to get under way, we are just receiving this news from the associated press, that the justice department is saying that president obama has exerted executive privilege over those fast and furious documents that are in question that were the subject of a meeting yesterday between committee chair darrell issa and attorney general eric holder. those two did meet yesterday for about 20 minutes. afterwards, congressman issa held a briefing that lasted just a few minutes for reporters. >> i guess i want to thank you all for coming. we've had about a 20-minute meeting with the

go to logjamer, the raising rapids. a lot of history. you go with your friends.e got a new outfit to go to kennywood every year. >> we're going to have to get new outfits and go to kennywood, because they have a brand-new ride called the black widow and i will wear a new outfit and watch you gladly from the ground. this thing is this giant round contraption that seats 40 people, and swings back and forth like a pendulum, and also spins. at its peak, it goes 146 feet in the air at a 120-degree angle and goes nearly 70 miles per hour. >> whoa! >> now i see what it looks like. >> why are they calling it the black widow? >> i think because it will kill you. >> let's just take this show to kennywood. there's a magic carpet, there's a pirate ship. you remember the laser loop. the pit fall, i think they took that out. arrow 360, they don't have the steel phantom anymore. then phantom's revenge. the express. >> and seven hours later, steven is still listening -- >> kangaroo, swing, paratroopers. old mill. >> the euro cup's 2012 is under way. so european soccer teams are

passage of the reform legislation, we got some good progress, and we still need to wade through the logjam. and that creates all kinds of problems as people go in and try and do copy patents and try and get a piece of what everybody is doing, it's a real complicated issue. we also need to crack down, and i use those words strongly. an ip theft, piracy, rogue websites, we need to fully fund, as we get it back thousands of times over, the enforcement of ip protection and whie need to it now. economic incentives are equally important. and innovative ideas, there's little hope of reaching consumers and bettering our lives if we -- if investment is punished, if it is demonized as is being done maybe even today on television, or stolen, america will lose its talent, it's capital, it's ideas and it's jobs to our economic competitors. and you know, what's just as vital as success is failure. it's our greatest teacher. after all and go find the private investments in the private equity firms and they will most likely invest in someone who has had a failure and has come away from that failure much s

so that whole logjam is going to break up there that's been warming up in the midwest will get a chance to visit us here in baltimore. the chances will jump now over the next 24 hours. today will be relatively cool because of the fog and showers. 60 in parkton, 61 in jaretsvill. then again rain showers become more likely the further we go into the morning and afternoon hours. maybe a peek of sunshine coming through. if you take the boat out, waves one foot. the next high tide is at 6:46 this morning. seven-day forecast backed up like this. -- stacked up like this. here comes the heat. wednesday is the first day of summer. i suppose that's appropriate. 94 on thursday with a heat index in the upper 90's and scattered thunderstorms as we head into the weekend. >> in "consumer alert" some of the expense of summer camps might be tax ductible. the i.r.s. reports people that quarterfinal for the credit can claim a day camp or at home babysitter. overnight camps do not qualify. >> you can soon see a vending machine serving up pizza. that's right, pizza invented -- the kiosk was invented in euro

open at olympic club and a logjam of players are tied at the st. jude's in memphis.mes fem two strokes back. one of three players tied for the lead is john merrick, merrick saves par and shot a 69. he is tied atop the with nick o'hern and davis love. 30 players are within five strokes of the lead. >>> a major on the women's tour the lpga championship in new york. the leader is gee, four under par and one shot in front of webb. >>> after getting blown out by florida state, the stanford baseball team had a bayday to long about it. game 2 of the super regional in tallahassee was rained out. oh, the color and pageantry that is soccer's european championship, germany against portugal in group b playing in ukraine. one goal was the difference in this game germany held on for the 1-0 win. >>> also in group, but the trademark orange of the netherlands. the dutch are upset 1-0. the ball right through the legs ever goalkeeper, and that will do it for this saturday night edition of sportswrap. we'll see you again tomorrow at 5:00. >> thank you, joe. >>> want to give you another

vision and convinces people he has whatever it takes, if there is anything you can do, to break the logjam of congress, that's the man who will win this election. right now neither of them can do this. >> mitt romney's body language perhaps emboldened by a month of pretty good news for him as president obama's slightly hit the skids in terms of his own successful path to re-election. we've watched him today. watch a bit of this. looks like he's got his gander up as we would say back home in britain. >> when i was governor,chw schwarzenegger, fellow republican, came to my state. me was trying to poach jobs from my state to go to california. had a picture of him in a t-shirt flexing his muscles. said, come to california. what am i to do? i put billboards up in his state. it had me in a t-shirt flexing my muscles. it said smaller muscles but much lower tax, come to massachusetts. >> i laughed at that. because to see him in such a relaxed way. very controlled, very safe. only talking to certain media. now you're beginning to see a slightly more confident mitt romney. dare i say human. >> i don

we have a logjam on the passage of the transportation bill. that would create thousands upon thousands of jobs. we should not how this kind of log jam on a bill that plans to rebuild this country's infrastructure and putting others back to work. we have a crumbling infrastructure. are we all americans working for the betterment of this country? if we are, then congress needs to have that same reflection of who we are and let us rise above to pass legislation that will help you and many other americans. host: donald from tennessee, welcome. caller: good morning. i remember you from the municipal courts in houston. i like to you ran your court there. that is for another time. guest: i have fans on both sides of that. caller: on immigration -- raise your hand if you know everybody knows it water heater block in the middle of the night. first thing you do -- just shut off the water. wait for the plumber to get there. that is not the time to think about putting in a color 12-inch shower and changing of the kitchen faucet. talking about changing all

neudecker says the end of collective bargaining with the teachers union helped break what she calls a logjam>> we've asked ourselves how can we make changes to use our resources better, our money, our time, our people. >> brown: neudecker says the new rules allowed the district to save money. negotiating a new health care contract, for example and dropping 15 teachers from a staff of 60, even while paying the remaining 45 $14,000 more a year. most important, she says, is the schools new ability to change the work day for teachers having take on four 90 minute blocks rather than three. >> we discovered, if you will, that we could create some efficiencies by changing the way we assign teacher class loads. >> brown: which you couldn't do that under the collective bargaining? >> we would have had to negotiate that change, that's correct. so we would not have been able to move forward with this plan without an agreement from the union, that's true. >> brown: which would have been hard. the teachers union argues that governor walkers cuts to education are leading to fewer teachers, longer hours an

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that stalemate still exists and i don't see that logjam being cleared at this summit. >> no.ith you. this is the focus now. as we sort of pick apart the meeting and try to figure what's the solution coming out of the meeting which probably won't get. maybe next week the focus turns back to the united states. of course, we are wrapping up the quarter. first half of the year. the end of the week, major averagers are poised for worst performances since the third quarter of last year. that is something i'm working on. our observation today. 4:00 show. just feels like there are more head winds ahead. >> very interesting you point that out. because the trading pattern for this year has been very similar to last year. they sold them off in may. we went into the summertime, had a very volatile period. let's all remember what happened in the month of august last year. consecutive 4%. the debt deal that never happened. now the result of that failure that of a debt deal means the fiscal cliff looms. we could get more volatility this summer as well. >> that will be about the election, lo

that said, i had to come up with a way to kind of do what i believe for the city to break out of the logjamn or springfield's dysfunction. >> you were able to get a balanced budget which i guess have you to do, but you got that done with a 50-0 vote, and you made some difficult cuts that i think, maybe surprising to some, maybe not to others, but are we seeing now in light of the walker election a -- a fundamental change about pension reform? >> no. part of it as you describe is cuts. i think we've made a lot of reforms. by way of example, we're going to save $20 million in our health care because we now have the largest most comprehensive integrated wellness plan. we'll make sure that people take care of their health. that's a reform. not a cut. >> this is a financial center of the world, not just of the united states. >> correct. >> do you think that we can remain competitive and that you can continue to be a financial center, even grow in your -- >> city of chicago? >> the city of chicago, absolutely. we have a diverse economy. we lead in risk management. we lead in insurance. we lead in

year but still while they are talking about it there's not a lot of movement of how to break the logjamast the partisanship in order to reach agreement. the to do items that the president has laid out have gone nowhere up here in capitol hill. when you talk about the clean energy investment that's on the president's to-do list, as an example house republicans unveiled a proposal of a package of bills not having to do with clean energy, if you will, but actually having to do with producing more domestic oil. so that's where their focus is. so the battle lines remain the same. we have to hear what the president says and we'll be looking for reaction right after that. >> you'll get a lot of reaction. jessica yellin is in the briefing room getting ready for this briefing. jessica it's supposed to start about now. they haven't given us a two-minute warning yet? >> no, no two-minute warning. he should be coming out any moment. my guidance -- they haven't put out his remarks yet. he'll be here shortly. my guidance is when he does come out he'll speak for less than ten minutes, and, you know, h

had the dream act passed in the session before, and 55 senators, we did not get enough to break the logjam. what are these children to do? and the deportation process, it is cruel. it separates families. it since the two countries they have never been. the president made it very clear to they came through no fault of their own. the criteria and since that the record is clear, therefore, the way it is framed, major incidents, criminal incidences, those individuals will not be eligible to i think it's the right thing to do. i have cases in my office right as we speak that involve teenagers, high school, college, that were moving toward deportation proceedings. we have saved youngsters who were in college and were destined and were ready to be deported. they were to be picked up. now they will be stayed, and they will have the privilege of renewing that. and i think that's a good process. but we would like to permit process to all those critics, we would like a permanent process. if congress develops a permanent process, i'm ready to do so if they already do so. >> host: let's look at the new

what's the logjam that needs to break?t an early resolution. the market's set up for positive surprises in terms of valuation. if president obama called for a closed door summit meeting with the congressional leaders and they managed to hammer something out, do i think it's likely, i don't. unfortunately i wish he would. i wish they would. then i think that would be the first step in clarifying things. once companies understand what their x taxes are going to be, once individuals understand what their taxes are going to be, i think it will make a big difference. is it going to solve all the problems? no, but i think companies might start hiring again. >> all right. so, then, if i got you correctly, what you're going to be doing is when the market runs up, you lighten up. when it runs down, you buy some dividend growers, is that basically it? >> that's the way it's supposed to work. >> i like it. and it works. and by the way, the dividend raisers have been separating themselves from the pack so, you know, you look at 3m and

carbon rules, a two-year suspension that could have broken the logjam in congress and given us the opportunityto address carbon issues aggressively and legislatively. but instead of supporting this approach, coal operators went for broke. they saw a fatter opportunity. when they demanded a complete repeal of all e.p.a. authority to address carbon emissions forever, they demanded all or nothing, they turned aside a compromise and in the end they got nothing. well, last year they ran exactly the same play, demanding all or nothing on the cross-state air pollution rule denying even a hint of legitimacy for the views of the other side and they lost again badly. so here we are with another all-or-nothing resolution, which is absolutely destined to fail, and we are arguing and months, weeks, years go by. this foolish action wastes time and money that could have been invested in the future of coal and instead with each bad vote that they get, the coal operators, they give away more of their leverage and they lock in their failure. this time the issue is whether to block on e.p.a. rule, as has been sa

passage of the reform legislation, we got some good progress, and we still need to work through the logjam of patents that are lining up now in the street. by the way, that creates all kinds of problems as people go in and try to copy patents and tried to get a piece of what everybody is doing. it is a real complicated issue. we also need to crack down -- and i used those words strongly -- on ip fast, piracy, wrote websites. we need to fully fund, because we get it back thousands of times over, the enforcement of i.p. protection, and we need to do it well. economic incentives are equally important. in innovative ideas, there is little hope of reaching consumers and bettering our lives if we can't create economic value. if success is punished, if it is demonized -- being then maybe even today on television -- or stellarone, america will lose its talent, its capital, its ideas, and its jobs to our economic competitors. and you know, what is just as vital than success is failure. felder is our greatest teacher. go find in the private investors and the private equity firms and they will most l

legislation, we got some good progress, but we still need to through -- we still need work to the logjams of patents that are lining up the street. that creates all kinds of problems as people go in and try to do copy patents and try and get a piece of what everybody is doing but it's a real complicated issue. we also need to crack down, and i use those words strongly, on ip theft, piracy, rogue websites. we need to fully fund, because we get back thousands of times over the enforcement of ip protection, and we need to do it now. economic incentives are equally important. in innovative ideas there's little hope of reaching consumers and bettering our lives if we can't create economic value. if success is punished, if it is demonized, that is, being done maybe even today on television, or stolen, america will lose its talent from its capital, its ideas, and its jobs to our economic competitors. and you know what's just as vital as success, is failure. it's our greatest teacher. after all, go find a private investors and the private equity firms, and they will most likely invest in somebody

it's what can happen when we break the logjam of partisanship and work together to get something done. and a tremendous amount of credit goes to the leadership of the senator from michigan. i feel very privileged to have worked with her and to work with her staff. they have been like musketeers every night, every morning, meeting. what can we do? how can we fix this? and it's worked. so after two and a half days and 73 amendments, i thank you all for your patience. if anybody did not get an amendment, i'm terribly sorry, i don't know how i missed you. consequently, on that side as well. let me just say again $23 billion provided in deficit reduction through reduced mandatory spending. the chairwoman is right, this is probably the only time on the senate floor that we'll actually have a reduction in federal spending, make our deficit contribution. this is a good bill. is it the best possible bill? no. it is the best bill possible. and we should move. and we should vote for it. and i urge you to vote for it. thank you very much. i yield back. the presiding officer: the majority leader.