to make standards of they're not even meeting and republicans of louisiana are fighting for the right to place a ten commandments monument on the grounds of the state capitol is that right about that separation of church and state and if you're a government worker you don't have a real job at least according to the g.o.p. why they insist on bashing the gov inside to deal with. you know our hall lawmakers are turning their backs on thomas jefferson news the state house in louisiana just passed a bill that calls for the can strike. of a six foot tall monument to the ten commandments we placed on the grounds of the state capitol democrat patrick williams introduced the bill calling it a context for acknowledging america's history there's other people see the monument as nothing more than a wrecking ball the wall separating church and state in america the legislation will now head to the louisiana senate and then governor jindal already said he plans to sign it the monument will be built using private donations it's likely that taxpayers will end up footing the bill for this religious sym

so from an economic aside, the gulf coast, coastal louisiana is very important.the we've had these challenges, historic challenges and we've been able to make progress in recent years, louisiana made unprecedented investment to restore the coastal wetlands and as a matter of fact the geological survey indicated that it appears we've created a price of the two square miles of land while the historical loss rate has been from 11 to 16 square miles on average of the last 80 years. in the last three years we have created up to 200 square miles so we are making progress. this oil spill cannot the worst place because the productivity of this ecosystem and a can of the worst time because we were rebounding with that reverse, we reversed a loss of the trend. it had been ongoing for decades. to give you a few statistics, 92% of the moderately short lines rehnquist louisianan and even today, 100% of the -- over 99% of the moderately come 81% of blight and about 96% of the very light short lines in coastal louisiana today. over 60% of the marine species diverge, the mammals

and mike is from louisiana, way down on the big foot where louisiana sticks out into the gulf of mexico. it's one of the gulf of mexico's largest otherwiser harvesting companies. are your oisters being served here tonight? so you will have a chance to taste his oysters when we are done here. i'm delighted that he's here. and you've already heard from dr. lubchenko. so there we are. let me turn to done boesch and say, ok, it's been a year since the oil spifment how do things look? when we saw the videos that brought back all the memories of how horrible everything looked a year ago, what's the state of the gulf right now from the position of an ocean nothing grapher? >> well, nature is a wonderful thing and it treated the oil in the organic substrait, a lot of it grew and devoured much of that oil. so as dr. lubchenko said earlier, it's no longer there. a number of issues that we need to resolve about linger effects and she also mentioned there's damage assessment, to very carefully quantify the impact. and there are lots of ongoing studies to see the degree to which those impacts are lo

welcome to louisiana.by the name of president obama, republicans are now the dominant political party. [cheers and applause] and we control seven of the eight statewide elected offices and a majority of both the state legislative houses. [applause] i guess i was not in the room at the time, but now i am the finance chairman. let me tell you all that if you did not already know it, louisiana, along with mississippi and kentucky, in state houses, and new jersey and virginia, a bellwether state for elections this year. we want to ask you to sow the seeds. make this a great election year so next year we will send a message that the nation must have a new president. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, i do not mean that we just need to change the policies. no, i mean the president himself needs to go. i mean him. god bless him. i wish him well, but he needs to go back and reorganize those communities. [laughter] [applause] if for no other reason, frankly, because of the people all around him. we remember it got a

so the o'reilly family has been in louisiana for centuries. in cuba, nobody remembers him but it was the street of calle oreilly, famous until the 50's for its banks and bookstores. it was one of the favorite streets of (inaudible) secretary of the spanish count of fernandino, my grandfather, another irish man feeling at home in havana. there, at the busy corner of calle street and oreilly was a cafe bakery owned by a catelan. it was described by many foreigners, in particular british and irish who lived in havana at the time, as one of the best order and most elegant cafes in the world. its large door led to a main floor with a fantastic stone floor. i saw it in the 50's, i was very little but i still was there in the 50's, and have a fountain that all that water really produce a refreshing sound that drown the patrons' loud conversations. but what made dominica famous, according to some foreigners and historians, was its ice cream of countless flavors and its famous fruit ices: guava and other flavors were served according to an irish travel

>>pam: a woman claiming to be kidnapped and louisiana was found in the san francisco.e said that her kidnapper catook her from the laundromat, and she's being treated at a hospital. taken from a laundromat in louisiana, and a security guard pieced together the story in san francisco. >>pam: michelle le the family believes that she is still alive. even after a weekend of 450 volunteers looking through rural areas. court has rejected a class- wal-mart employees. the paid promoted. cashier/greeter in pittsburgh and she also had difficulty having a smile on her face. >> me and my co-workers are angered. federal court in san francisco accusing the retailer of discriminating paying them less than men promotions. a few years million women that work for walmart's in the u.s.. since >> the latest, top to bottom ramirez. let me show you that grant lotus-ret giovanni ramirez. dimaggio on their merits will state the nexspend the next 10 months in jail. ramirez and does remain at the main suspect in that assault. on monday, the parole hearing in los angeles was found that he violat

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different from louisiana because we are 100 miles away.uote vessels of opportunity of those are people who rated their boats to, to put them out of session for picket lines to try to stop the oil south of the barrier islands, in the same. so we had actually a five layered defense. we found out weeks into that the coast guard had no way of managing that. they had approved the plan. they had no way of managing that. we literally sent people to wal-mart to buy radios. we had a situation where our air national guard, starting 4:00 every morning, flew infrared photography of the whole sound and south of the sound to find the oil. the coast guard had no way to tell the vessels of opportunity where to go. we had to set up a whole communication system, and command-and-control system, which we did not do for weeks because we thought the coast guard knew more about this than we did. but it turned out that we had to set up the comedic haitian system. we had to set up the command-and-control system. and frankly, they were cooperative when it got to it

a senator from louisiana who frequented the d.c. madam won his last election in a landslide victory. it is possible right now because americans have got more and more used the sex scandals involving their politicians. ultimately we argue that is a good thing because it will enable us to stop eventually talking and obsessing about the sex lives of presidents and politicians and start focusing on what really matters. >> what makes it look so bad is not just the things and washington. when you have somebody that hypocritical getting caught up in of sexual escapades, it just makes it even worse. >> well, instead of talking about this before we get to phone calls, and our lines are already busy for you, let's just give one for instance. what is your favorite story? >> my favorite chapter turned out to be the eleanor roosevelt and franklin roosevelt chapter. it was complicated. he had his girlfriend living in a bedroom next to him. she had her girlfriend nexto

so from an economic aside, the gulf coast, coastal louisiana is very important. the we've had these challenges, historic challenges and we've been able to make progress in recent years, louisiana made unprecedented investment to restore the coastal wetlands and as a matter of fact the geological survey indicated that it appears we've created a price of the two square miles of land while the historical loss rate has been from 11 to 16 square miles on average of the last 80 years. in the last three years we have created up to 200 square miles so we are making progress. this oil spill cannot the worst place because the productivity of this ecosystem and a can of the worst time because we were rebounding with that reverse, we reversed a loss of the trend. it had been ongoing for decades. to give you a few statistics, 92% of the moderately short lines rehnquist louisianan and even today, 100% of the -- over 99% of the moderately come 81% of blight and about 96% of the very light short lines in coastal louisiana today. over 60% of the marine species diverge, the mammal

maybe it is what we see in louisiana.e survived the regulations that this president is putting on you in the oil and gas industry. they are trying now to talk about where we are in pennsylvania. we have something in common. we are drilling a lot of gas in pennsylvania these days. we have found the second largest reserves of natural gas in the world underneath pennsylvania. yeah. we are drilling thousands of wells, mostly gas wells, but also utica shale, which is oil wells. we are doing it in people's back yards. what we are drilling for in pennsylvania, pennsylvania has the second largest world population and a cut. we have people throughout pennsylvania. we are drilling in people's backyards, ladies and gentlemen. we have a president who is allowing it right now, but we cannot fill thousands of miles away from everybody in alaska. that is too dangerous, but we can drill in the back yard. that is just sick ideology. that is trying to drive an ideological agenda and in makessense for the health and safety of people. we hav

he came all the way from louisiana to be here today. [applause] one question, how did you survive? >> god. god. god. death row is a place that brings out the truest human being in you. it makes you realize you can't take nothing for granted. you need to love every moment of each day and praise and thank god for each moment you have out here. for the system to do what it did to me -- i was the only child from my mother. i was a father too. the system didn't see none of that. it did not see me not having a criminal record. it's hard to accept. it's hard to keep on continuing to accept a prosecutor or somebody that wants to sentence swub to death with a system that's corrupt as ours. all right. [applause] >> i want to take this opportunity to thank the sponsors who have made the summit possible. the law firm of brown and furtel and my good friend, dave young, thank you. the criminal trial lawyers association. we'll hear from their incoming president in a few minutes. and also stuart hanlon as well as the bar association of san francisco. so let's have a round of applause for our spons

it is awesome to be in louisiana. bomblet what i considered to be one of the really great governors, a dear friend of mine, a republican leader, bob jindal. everywhere you look in the state, and you see the evidence of his leadership. this guy is a real competitor, he is a winner. body, i want to leave you with one thing here. leave our football players alone across the border. give me some professional courtesy here. do not take them all. on a serious note, governor jindal is showing folks that conservative principles are not just sensible, but they are truly compassionate, surely affected. flying into new orleans this morning, one cannot help to reflect, and we were just looking out the window as we were coming in and thinking about the destruction that visited the city when hurricane katrina came through. just this amazing story of the human spirit, has given this town back its vitality and its feeling. this place is the writing again. there has been a lot of talk in this town and across the country about the gover

iraq is a petrostate, 90% of the gdp is from hollywood louisiana isn't a petrostate. it really isn't and what people working in the industry told me in the end, you know what? we could do without this work. it's not safe. we don't like to. it's dangerous. give us something else to do. we can't do -- we can't organize for a year in the gulf. it's hard to argue for the alternatives here. we can work on it but we need your help so you folks who work with greenpeace and you folks who work for centers of biodiversity and you folks live in california, vermont and dc you guys have to fight so that we can have alternative energy jobs, wind, solar, the hardest cut oil workers started saying this to me by this time. they're ready but they need our help and the one year anniversary is the time. it is the opportunity. this is the time when the world is focusing on this issue again, when public attention is gripped again and when we can actually organize to see change put into place. so thank you very much for listening. obviously, there's a great deal more about this written in t

as a member of the bicentennial commission i would like to welcome everyone to new orleans and to louisiana and we are going to be wishing a happy birthday next year. [applause] thank you. >> at this time i would like to open the conference with a little prayer and i would like you to all pleased about your hands and pray with me. lord god, we come to you to join this national crisis of faith, a crisis that puts men against the brothers, fathers against their sons and mothers against their daughters. this crisis has roots growing out of instability, pride. routes that have shamefully

bernard parish in the state of louisiana. mr. bill williams, commissioner of the gulf county district b state of florida. mr. frank rusco is the director of energy and science issues and the government accountability office. mr. cory kief is president of offshore -- and mr. michael bromwich is and very welcomed director of ocean energy management regulation and enforcement, previously referred to as mms but now reformed. with that, as you saw on the first panel i'd ask all the witnesses to rise and take the oath. do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? let the record reflect that all witnesses answered in the affirmative. gentlemen the first panel is 1. you are 5. i will ask you to please, summarize your opening statements and stay within the 5 minutes for each other's and our side. i apologize the first panel for going long but it set up questions for the second panel. >> thank you, mr. chairman, committee members, ranking member cummin

we have 7500 miles of coastline in louisiana. if you go in age out every bay and around every lake, only lookout 400 miles were oiled. now, you can get to them with a camera, so you saw a lot of it down at grand isle and -- >> but the fresh water was not welcomed by the oysters? >> no, 50% of the oysters died, three year classes of product that died. this year, with the floods, we're down another 50% or about 25% of the traditional production which is about 250 million in shell oysters a year. we're the big gorilla of oyster production in the gulf as a whole. 500 million pounds a year. >> it will take you a couple years if you have to wait for the oysters to grow up, you have a couple years before you're back to full steam? >> two to four years back to better before. we were knocked down no cay tree that, -- cay katrina and knocked down with the great floods. this year, we're beginning to see, and i know this is not talking abouted flues, but there's straws breaking people's backs this time. it's a challenge. >> i think that we h

this was death row in louisiana. you have three televisions on the wall, you were in your cell 23 hours per day, you get out for the shower or exercise, -- >> let me interrupt you to make this clear. you are completely alone, and the televisions are outside of the cell, or multiple inmates can be watching them? and they all may be on different channels? and you have to hear this even if you are not watching television? >> this is crazy. you have sought -- you have for televisions and four different channels, 15 people tried to talk at the same time. i was there was a mentally disturbed people and they actually had to have shot to calm them down, whatever kinds of drugs that they give them to calm them down. you have to deal with all of this insanity. sometimes they would spread them with pepper spray to get them to take the shots. these kinds of situations, you could not get around and you could not deal with. by the same token, you say, why is that man on the death row with mental problems, you have to feed him medi

i represent the entire state of louisiana. i have been elected by 1 million people populating my district. it comprises the 12 parishes of southeastern louisiana. i want to ask yourself the same question our patriarch asked 30 years ago. as he entered the campaign, he asked if you were better off now than you were four years ago. now i am going to ask you this question. what are you going to do about it? that is the question on everyone's mind as we move towards the selection of a party candidate who will carry the message to lead our party to victory in 2012. the president has mired the nation in monumental bureaucracy. the use of a shadow government, those are issues -- the czar issues. what we have is public policy and rising from a bunch of leftist halcks. keep experiencing deja vu and feeling like it is 1979 again. i keep waiting to hear from the president on his crisis of confidence speech. he will blame it on us as citizens. our country is plagued by problems including high levels of unemployment, inflation, interest ra

a woman claims claims to be kidnapped from louisiana and found in san francisco. a security guard discovered the woman at levi plaza. police say she claims he took her from monroe, louisiana, drove her to san francisco and dumped her out of the car. he says the woman was hysterical and confused. the victim suffered minor injuries and now being treated that hospital. >>> the family of michelle le says they have mixed emotions about this weekend's search effort. 450 volunteers fanned out over the east bay. they were looking for any sign of the missing student. police officials were called into collect a few of the items but the family doesn't believe anything of significance was found. >> i would love to find evidence that would lead us to her. i am glad we didn't find her. only thing people are expecting is a deceased body. we will search all of hayward. keep, you know, blooming out till we find her. it's hard not to think negatively. people say maybe she was dumped and things like that. at the same time, you know, she is not found yet, they haven't found her. i wo

. >> before writing the book you want to louisiana and did a lot of research. what reception did you get there? what obstacles did you find? well -- it depends on which decade you are talking about. i did research, actually starting in from the time i was very small. and we went back every summer even though i was born here in berkeley, as a matter of fact we went back every summer to louisiana and i was always interested and did a lot of -- um -- both formal and informal research. starting in the 50's and the 60's. and i will tell you that when i first startd that research and a lot of the research i did in that time period was i was largely unaided by any official source. i would go to the courthouse and i would ask for records. they would not give them to me. it was just -- it was very clearly -- it was very clear they were not going to give them to me. >> what records were you asking for? >> i was looking for land records. i was looking for records of the fredues. the concept was there were black fredues and white fredues and there was not an acceptance of

i don't want edwin edwards louisiana as barack obama's america. went to jail and if it gets to the national situation the fbi would be in on the racket instead of throwing people in jail. we can't afford that. we know what it was like. so i would tell you there's an alternative that is called the republican party. we will hear from speakers who are running for president. they will have many different ideas. you will like some better than others and i may like some different from you but understand this, all of them are better than the alternatives. [applause] all of them are more committed to freedom. all of them are more committed to the people, not the government. when we turn our country around to the unelected bureaucrats in washington who get their positions and their powers for voting on a labor union who gets lots of money in the democratic party its scheme over for the country. all of the republicans will oppose this. so you and i may be to disagree who the best candidate is. you and i need like different candidates, you and i may to disli

different from louisiana because we are 100 miles away. we recruited 1100 quote vessels of opportunity of those are people who rated their boats to, to put them out of session for picket lines to try to stop the oil south of the barrier islands, in the same. so we had actually a five layered defense. we found out weeks into that the coast guard had no way of managing that. they had approved the plan. they had no way of managing that. we literally sent people to wal-mart to buy radios. we had a situation where our air national guard, starting 4:00 every morning, flew infrared photography of the whole sound and south of the sound to find the oil. the coast guard had no way to tell the vessels of opportunity where to go. we had to set up a whole communication system, and command-and-control system, which we did not do for weeks because we thought the coast guard knew more about this than we did. but it turned out that we had to set up the comedic haitian system. we had to set up the command-and-control system. and frankly, they were cooperati

i was raised in rural louisiana.nstilled in me a strong work ethic -- my parents instilled in me a strong work ethic and a mentality of individual responsibility which lead me to believe that anyone can accomplish the american dream. i began working again in the construction business, running a small business with my brother, who is here, a staunch republican. i brought my family up in the same great community in which i was raised. i served the great -- the people of the great state of louisiana as a member of congress. my parents' generation left this world a better place, yet i cannot say the same will be true for the world we are leaving for the generations that follow us. our current governmental policies have created much uncertainty for the future of america. today, as the massive debt burdens our nation and it continues to mount, we are watching the american dream vanish before our very eyes. our economy remains stagnant, because we are placing too much trust and power in the government, and not enough trust