landry of louisiana. the chair: the gentleman from louisiana, mr. landry and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from louisiana. mr. landry: mr. chairman, this is a bipartisan amendment offered in cooperation with my good friend, the gentleman from louisiana, mr. richmond. as he said earlier, the citizens of louisiana invepted offshore exploration and been drilling off its coast since the mid-1940's, but for the first 60 years of drilling off the coast of louisiana our state and other gulf coast states had received no money not a dime from the revenue derived from these wells. starting in 2007, congress passed an act called the gulf of mexico energy security act. this act provided that a small portion of offshore revenues would finally start to trickle in to our gulf coast states. we continue to receive a small portion of those revenues through 2017 when at that time we will start to receive the 37.5% of the offshore revenue of each -- of those wells producing at that time. however, it included a cap w

and then in december of 1803, the united states would purchase louisiana. in fact, it would be general james preside over the transfer of that territory. and in march of 1804, captain amos stodard would go to st. louis and preside over the purchase of that territory. jefferson's empire of liberty was becoming a reality, becoming a reality. yet is it enough land for the 100th and 1,000th generation? jefferson still thinks so. we see that his secretary of war in the 1820s named james barber would comment that there would be enough land for 500 years. well, he didn't get it right either. in fact, we know that by 1890, the frontier vanishes. so what jefferson sees is that over the course of 100 years or so, americans had crossed the appalachian mountains, they had moved down the mississippi valley, they had begun trickling into east and west florida. am the louisiana purchase, and now all eyes would focus to the west. and to the south. of course, that would be texas. now, while the acquisition of louisiana does momentarily satisfy this desire for expansion, it

[cheers and applause] i want to talk about what we have done in louisiana.u the conservative principles that work. i will start with a lesson i learned from my father. mark twain said this better than me. it is amazing how much smarter your parents get the older you become. there were certain things my dad always told us when we were growing up. they would make us roll our eyes. there were certain things they said that he swore he would never say to your children. we have three beautiful kids and i find myself say more and more of those things to our little kids every day. when i was a young boy my dad would tell me, you better eat your vegetables because there are starving children in china. i never understood that. i said if the one my vegetables, we can mail them. everybody wins that way. another thing my dad would say is, some, if all of your friends jumped off of a bridge, would you? i had no idea what that meant. one thing my dad would tell us every day. he would say, sons, you should be so grateful that you live in america. [applause] he would say eve

almost all of louisiana.ouisiana will deal with the storm as the sun is setting into the evening hours. early overnight southern mississippi could get some of those storms including new orleans. an isolated tornado or two is not out of the question. the damaging wind with the storms. this is a march like weather pattern out there with thunderstorms and rain in the forecast. very little in the way of any snow. there's a little bit of wet, damp weather going through southern new england this morning but that will be gone for a mild afternoon. temperature 53 in new york city. that's a look at your national forecast. now here's a look at the weather outside your window. warm air out there today will be responsible for those thunderstorms. look at austin today. 76 degrees. then the front will go through and cool you off a little bit after those storms blow through. temperature even warm in miami today. high of 80. once again, it's a rain forecast. >> bill, thanks so much. coming up, a small step could mean big new

let's go back to the grand program and in louisiana south of louisiana, probably in the world when you combine port of south of louisiana and port of new orleans. is it your expectation that the jurisdictions that currently receive the bulk of the money pursue want to receiving the same or even more support under the new program? >> i think it's difficult to prejudge. i think what we intend is that we want to look at what the $35 billion we've already spent on homeland security and across the country and we have gaps and ensure where the money best would go. >> second, the threat has an identification of risk assessment has a large part in deviceing new formula and analysis will go into how much and who receives money under the new formula? >> yes. it is intended to be a risk-based, consequence-based evaluation. there will still be retained some base level of funding dependent on population. but we believe that in our vision for these grants is that we ought to be building and sustaining a national capacity for terrorism for national prevention and mitigation response. that's what we a

physical it the founding father's autograph collection at the louisiana state museum. and from pioneer heritage center, medical treatment and medicine during the civil war. shreveport, louisiana, next weekend on cspan2 and 3. next is a film produced in 1974 by the u.s. army. portions of the film were reported in the pentagon in the hall of heroes. the hall of heroes was dedicated in 1968 by president lyndon johnson and contains the names of the recipients of the medal of honor. the film aired as part of the big picture series on abc television from 1951 through 1975. the series focused on historic battles, figures and traditions in u.s. military history. >>> the long years stretched behind us into the past, forming corridors of time which echoed to the bugle's sound of valor. those years and that valor have been given tangible focus here in this quiet shrine of tribute, the hall of heroes. here on the inner ring of the pentagon, this space is dedicated to a nation's remembrance. not of events, but of deeds. deeds of americans in uniform who gave more than was asked, mo

we fought that in louisiana and as a congressman. i am not against unions, but i am against a monopoly or a dictatorship. they should be a player. they should be respected. unions should join with me. let's create jobs. these are not union jobs. these are american jobs. if the union can organize them, fine, but they have to do it fairly and squarely. let me say this. as an independent, a former democrat and a former republican, a successful businessman, and an american citizen i like a nation where unions can exist, be strong, be heard, and be loud, but they ought not be given or guaranteed. they have to compete. on the automobile industry, i was in japan once with the governor of mississippi and bill clinton, and we ask the head of toyota, what was the problem with it right? was it the unions? he said "no, it is management." be fair. we can blame the unions, but management runs the company. if they do not have the guts or the brains to think and behalf of their company, shame on them. host: we have about one minute, but if you look

i give you this warning, texas, oklahoma, louisiana, vote no. but if you come from any other part of the united states, i don't know what you're thinking. >> gentleman -- >> this oil is not going to the united states. it's going to other countries in the world. >> gentleman's time has expired. before i recognize mr. scalise, i'm going to ask my friend from massachusetts a question. when -- and we all know it's -- you were an entrepreneur as a young man. you were selling ice cream at red sox fenway park? >> that is true. >> did you only sell it to people that only said i will sell it to people who will only eat it in front of me? did you have an eat in my presence to buy the ice cream? >> you had to eat it within red sox nation. >> did he sell it to yankee fans? that what's i want to know. >> i just want -- >> did he sell it to yankee fans? >> that's true. if he had restrictions on who he sold it -- >> let me say this. there was no world ice cream cocktail. i was afraid of mr. softy. i was afraid of some of the other competitors, but they were ri

we want people to enjoy seafood from the gulf of mexico, from louisiana. >> especially from louisiana. >> the giveaway at the navy yard is from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. again with the purchase of red beans and rice or gumbo, a free sandwich. thank you. through the magic of twig, this is what cory has baked. we'll be back with news to go before you go right after this. look it there. good stuff on the way. >>> 6:54. quiet this morning but snow is on the way. by midday it will be snowing north and west, upper 30s. we'll be seeing snow for the drive home. winter weather advisories go in effect later this morning. surfaces stay mainly wet. >>> top of the morning to you. wednesday, february 8. here's a check of the news before you go. d.c. mayor vincent gray delivered a state of the city address last night. he says the district is in better financial shape than any state but fiscal discipline is needed to maintain that status. >>> the prince george's county county council has approved a 5 cent plastic bag tasks. the goal is to cut down on trash and raise money. >>> alexander ovechkin scored

in rural louisiana halfway between new orleans and baton riej is the second largest prison in the state, elaine hunt correctional center. the facility is relatively new, it opened in 1979. the look anything but modern. armed officers on horseback. work crews farming the land and no air conditioning. in the next hour meet some of the men doing time, including a former nfl player and two aspiring boxers that win the opportunity to compete against a rival prison. >> this is the entrance. this all male facility houses more than 2100 inmates. >> every monday and tuesday reception process will start about 5:30 in the morning. inmates come from various parish prisons and other doc facilities and all pool here. >> the men arriving today have been convicted of a wide range of crimes, everything from marijuana possession to murder. >> three kidnapping aggravated burglary. >> we have a lot of inmates come up and said i didn't do it they got me wrong. we're not here to judge. we're just here to make sure you serve your sentence out. >> new inmates are given a white jumpsuit, lined up single file fo

[cheers and applause] i want to talk about what we have done in louisiana.to show you the conservative principles that work. i will start with a lesson i learned from my father. mark twain said this better than me. it is amazing how much smarter your parents get the older you become. there were certain things my dad always told us when we were growing up. they would make us roll our eyes. there were certain things they said that he swore he would never say to your children. we have three beautiful kids and i find myself say more and more of those things to our little kids every day. when i was a young boy my dad would tell me, you better eat your vegetables because there are starving children in china. i never understood that. i said if the one my vegetables, we can mail them. everybody wins that way. another thing my dad would say is, some, if all of your friends jumped off of a bridge, would you? i had no idea what that meant. one thing my dad would tell us every day. he would say, sons, you should be so grateful that you live in america. [applause] he wou

on a local issue, i know you've worked with new corps which built a plant in south louisiana. they are currently pending a permit from the epa. that one permit alone would equate to 700 plus jobs. i want to know could you give me a status of that perm. do you have any time line of when that permit could be approved because about 750 jobs are waiting on it. >> i believe we approved the permit but there was litigation filed. i believe that's correct, mr. scalise but i'll check on it. we issued the permit last -- >> there was one permit but another permit waiting on now. >> i will check on that. >> i think there's another one they are waiting on right now that would be a second part of their expansion which that alone would be over 700 jobs. if you could give me a time line of what the likelihood of approval would be. my time is running short. finally on refineries are you planning on regulating greenhouse gases at refineries? >> there are no current rules under development on that issue. we have said in the past as part of our overall greenhouse gas strategy our first source is

tex texas, oklahoma, louisiana, vote no. if you come from any other part of the united states, i do noent he what you're thinking. this oil is not going to the united states. it's going to other countries in the world. >> the gentleman's time has expired. before i recognize you, i'm going to take the chair's prerogative and ask my friend from massachusetts a question. when we all know you were an entrepreneur as a young man and you were selling ice cream at red sox fenway park. isn't that correct? >> this is true. >> did you only sell ice cream to people that said i will eat i right in front of you right now? or did you let them do whatever they want to with the ice cream? >> no. i actually -- >> did you have an eat in my presence ice cream? >> i had an eat in the united states rule. no. you had to eat it within red sox nation. >> did he sell it to yafrpg yes fans is wh -- yankee fans? >> i just wanted to know. did he have restrictions on who he sold it to? >> let me say this. there was no world ice cream cartel. i was afrai

. >> in rural louisiana, halfway between new orleans and baton rouge, is the second largest prison in the state, the elayn hunt correctional center. although the facility is relatively new, it opened in 1979, the look is anything but modern. armed officers on horseback, work crews farming the land, and no air conditioning. in the next hour you will meet some of the men doing time including a former nfl player and two aspiring boxers who win the opportunity to compete against a rival prison. >> a mile and a half from the banks of the mississippi river, what appears to be a toll booth is the entrance to the elayn hunt correctional center. this all-male facility houses more than 2100 inmates. >> every monday and tuesday the reception process will start at about 5:30 in the morning. the inmates will come from the various parish prisons and other doc facilities and they will all pool here. >> the men arriving today have been convicted of a wide range of crimes, everything from marijuana possession to murder. >> i'm here for one count of rape, three kidnappings, and aggravated burglary. >>

you know, a congressman from louisiana used to joke about louisiana, he used to say half my people are underwater, the other half are under indictment at any given moment in time. [laughter] but the problem was as long as people thought who you knew was more important than what you knew, they didn't want to invest in our state. we had a comprehensive ethics session, we went from 44th worst to number one in the entire country. [cheers and applause] went from the bottom five on the better government association's integrity index to the top five, but we didn't stop there. we had a second special session to cut taxes. in the our first year, not only did we constitute the largest income tax cut in our state's history, we got rid of taxes for companies on debt, on new quilt, on utilities. for me, it's pretty simple. i've got two philosophies when it comes to taxes. number one, if you want to encourage an activity, don't tax it. if you want to discourage an activity, tax it. it's pretty simple. [applause] my second philosophy was even simpler than the first. i made a promise to the people of

with the help of some louisiana friends. among them master oyster shuckers, storman norman connelly and yule smith, louisiana seafood promotion. welcome to all of. >> did you thank you. >> great to have you here. have you great looking oysters here. tell us, is the louisiana seafood industry recovered now from the oil spill? >> the biggest challenge we still have is perception issues away from the coast. people from the gulf coast understand the amount of testing and seafood, it is safe across the entire gulf of mexico. at that mess -- message around the country, that's why we are doing shows like this, working with our chefs and shuckers spreading the good news about the -- our louisiana and gulf seafood. the challenge is the same, perception issues are the same whether you are a shrimper or crawfisher, oysterman, crabber, fisherman. we are here to help get that message out. >> okay. that's all safe. >> absolutely. it is the most tested seafood in the world. >> okay. we want now -- storman norman. hollywood down there? >> y

now, why did he exclude these saves in louisiana? because they were the only slaves he could have freed on january the 1st, 1863. the union controlled southern louisiana and new orleans. the union controlled eastern virginia. now, on january the 1st, he could have freed these slaves. all he could do was just not specifically exclude them. instead of freeing them, abraham lincoln unfortunately on january the 1st said i'm not talking about you. this document, you are the same as you were as though this document never existed. so, we have about 100,000 slaves in southern illinois -- southern louisiana, sorry about that, and 80,000 or so in eastern virginia, having some 275,000 slaves in tennessee who were not touched by. all across the south i give an estimate of approximately 55,000 slaves that were kept in slavery by the emancipation proclamation. >> your take. >> lincoln had constitutional constraints in issuing the proclamation. he couldn't touch enslaved people in those areas that were under union control because the constitution d

the gentleman from louisiana. mr. scalise: can i inquire on the balance of the time, mr. chairman? the chair: the gentleman has 1 3/4 minutes remaining. mr. scalise: i yield 45 seconds to the gentleman from texas, mr. olson. the chair: the gentleman from texas is recognized for 45 seconds. mr. olson: mr. chairman, i rise in support of the amendment introduced by my friend and colleague on the energy and commerce committee. the gentleman from louisiana. in april of 2011 the deepwater horizon rig exploded, killing 11 workers. and starting the worst oil spill in u.s. history. while the whole nation suffered, the five gulf states were particularly hard hit. each of our five states suffered different damages. a moratorium was ordered that sent u.s. jobs overseas with the rigs that went overseas. tourism on some of our most pristine beaches was lost. the fishing industries were unable to bring their catches home. the water restore act will not replace the lives lost, it will ensure that the five states most impacted by

one of the lawsuits involves rhode island and the other involves louisiana. in the louisiana case, i want to discuss the results because the results have indeed been remarkable. more voters were registered in the first month after the

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shreveport, louisiana, this weekend on c-span2 and 3. >>> there are millions of these americans who are willing to sacrifice for change, but they want to do it without being threatened. and they want to do it peacefully. they are the non-violent majority, black and white, who are for change without violence. these are the people whose voice i want to be. >> as candidates campaign for president this year, we look back at 14 men who ran for the office and lost. go to our website c-span.org/thecontenders to see video of the contenders who had a lasting impact. >> can you remember in the depression, those of you who are my age, when times are really hard and we left the doors unlocked? now we have the most violent crime-ridden society in the industrialized world. now, i can't live with that. can you live with that? >> c-span.org/thecontenders. >>> this is c-span 3 be politics and public affairs programming throughout the week, and every weekend 48 hours of people and events telling the american story on american history tv. get our schedules and see past programs at our websites. and you ca

>> yes, louisiana started prior to the october primary, we have on a smartphone on, where you can now pull up your individual information, how you are registered and brings you to your precinct by a gps map and that is important, and pulls up to review from the comfort of your home, so you can get familiar with it. we are not certain we are the first state that has done it. but we have it available. it's been out -- i got a text myself. we receives hundreds of texts from them directly to us and gave them the -- i found texting to be effective on election day for those people out moving around. >> for those that could not hear, great success in mississippi in using texting before and on election day of course i think that there are a number of states that are stepping into that technology. thank you. others? secretary? >> thank you. one of the south dakota has a number of the where do i vote widgets so people can find out where to vote on their primary and election day and something that i wanted to do since taking office and we have been testing it on a number of communities is for th

doyle. >> i agree with everything my friend from louisiana said. we know the pipe is sitting on the property and they want it use it in the pipeline. they're a private company and they can buy wherever they want. but that type comes from askedt applicant if there was any of the steel source from india. they told us no. i mean, i'm just saying, hey, let's just all be straight with. they have every right to use that pipe. i know they don't want it to sit there and rust, but i'm just saying at some point let's stop making claims about this project that aren't true. i'm going to support the project when it's done the right way, and i wish there were u.s. steel in the project, but let's not make people think this is the greatest thing since apple pie and ice cream. >> i'm going to reclaim my time for the last minute and 15, and let me just reassert, there is no leapfrogging here, that we're only here today because the president denied the permit under his authority. he killed the project just like the sierra club and the nrdc asked him to do. when they

louisiana has had that for about eight or nine years, never challenged. but i think the secret to our success from the challenge is we do not turn you away if you do not have a picture i.d. we allow you to sign an affidavit at the point of voting. the commissioner verifies certain pertinent information, date of birth and mother's maiden name and the like to verify who you are. you sign an affidavit and don't turn you away. that is maybe the secret of getting around some of the court challenges you have. >> thank you. i want to remind folks that nass.org, our association website, has a tremendous amount of information and online tools and gadgets and widgets and all of that. so that's something to always use as a background reference. but also the nass directory of the 2012 presidential primary and caucuses, the calendar. tomorrow is big, but it's just the beginning, in fact. so please make use of that, and if you're talking to reporters or media who have kind of broader interests, be sure to reference them to the nass site and to that report. lieutenant-g

i would yield to the gentleman from louisiana dr. cassidy and then to doctor murphy. >> very shortly. i also agree, mr. doyle, if we're being misled, we should know that. i did speak to the pipe conference in baton rouge which you referenced, they said 36% of the pipe stockpiled is not used in the project they will lose the market. they will lay people off. there is a supply chain aspect to this we cannot ignore. >> reclaiming my time and yield to the -- i need to yield to the other

heaviest rains in louisiana.retty big squalor line along the louisiana and texas coast right now. a little bit of snow right now associated with that part of the storm down to the texas panhandle and parts of oklahoma and texas. snow becomes a bigger part of the storm as it gets hold air and approaches the mid-atlantic region. snow is not the biggest deal for our specific region in baltimore. let's look at the sun we have ows right now. 40 at the airport. inner harbor 44. humidity 65%. dry atmosphere 35%. east wind at 7 miles per hour. and the temperatures, well, we are rolling along. it will be above one of these normal days. just like yesterday. we were in the mid 50's. 42 at salisbury. 47 at edgewood, elk ton, parkton. frederick jumped to 43 sm 4 -- 4 . nice conditions today. you notice this cool front out to the northwest. this is element one in this next storm system coming through. and then the set-up. this storm moves into that colder air once it approaches that mid-atlantic region. a couple caveats here.

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the louisiana purchase doubled the size of the united states.entually, the area would make up all or part of 15 new states, including kansas. >> kansas is a flag meant to represent "manifest destiny." there are three separate images of people on the flag, all moving westward. >> manifest destiny was the belief that the american expansion across the continent was both inevitable and justifiable. >> in the foreground, you see a farmer plowing his land. just beyond the farmer, you see a wagon train, also heading west. in the background, you see native americans hunting bison. there's also a steamboat on the kansas river, meant to represent commerce. life for the pioneers was not easy, and the state motto is "ad astra per aspera," which means "to the stars through difficulties," which is certainly a reference to how hard it was to settle the land. >> within the state seal, 34 stars represent kansas' place as our 34th state. >> above that state seal, there is a blue-and-gold band meant to reference the french and the louisiana purchase. >> and at the

. >> the gentlemen from louisiana is recognized for five minutes. >> that, mr. chairman. let's go back to the grant program and in louisiana, especially in south luouisiana with the largest port system in the world when you combine the port of south louisiana and the port of plaquemines, is it your understanding that those departments that receive if bulk of the money would receive the same or more support under the program? >> i think it's difficult to rejudge, what we intend is is that we want to look at the $35 billion that we spent to ho homeland security grants, where that has put us, so we can look across states and regions across the country and identify where we have gaps and critical truck customer that needs hardening. >> second, the

the gentleman from louisiana. mr. boustany: thank you, madam speaker. i want to thank the gentlewoman for raising the concern about ensuring that tanif recipients have adequate access to their benefit, this bill requires states to block access in casinos, liquor stores and strip clubs. however we know some grocery stores and convenience stores may sell groceries and alcohol and in some states have gambling machines as well. this allows states to make exceptions for these stores so they don't have to block access in a grocery store. there are provisions made in this. i thank the gentlewoman for raising this issue, but i'm glad that we can ep sure the integrity of this program. i would submit the most important thing we can do is ensure the integrity of the program so it's there for the children and families that need it. . we want to ensure that there is not an overt abuse of these funds in strip clubs, casinos, and liquor stores. while allowing for reasonable exspecials -- exceptions. also the gentlelady and the ranki

shreveport, louisiana. author gary joiner on the union army failure in louisiana. the red river campaign of 1864. then a look at the over 200,000 books housed at the lsu archives. then a walking tour of shreveport with neil johnson. then sunday at 5:00 p.m., from barksdale air force base. a history. then visit the founding fathers autograph collection. then from the pioneer heritage center, medical treatment during the war. shreveport, louisiana. this weekend on c-span. >>> and now environmental protection agency administrator lisa jackson on the president's 2013 budget request. this hearing is a little more than three hours. >> i like to call today's hearing to order. this is a hearing on the fy 2013 budget request for epa, we only have one witness today. and that is the honorable lisa jackson, who is the administrator of epa, and ms. bennett is there to provide additional information if she is needed, which she probably won't. we are delighted to have you here as well, i'm recognize myself for three minut

. >> louisiana governor bobby jindal is prepared to expose his political agenda, a budget $900 million in the red. in shreveport bossier now it's cloudy and 37 degrees. you're listening to shreveport bossier's news and weather station. >> this weekend, book tv and american history tv explore the history and literary culture of shreveport, louisiana. saturday starting at noon eastern on cspan2 on book tv. the red river campaign of 1864. and then a look at the over 200,000 books of the john smith museum. then a walking tour of shreveport and bossier city with neil johnson. and on american history tv on cspan3 at 5:00 p.m. eastern, from barks dale afc, a history of the b-52 bomber. also visit the founding fathers autograph collection and from is pioneer heritage center, medical treatment and medicine during the civil war. shreveport, louisiana, this weekend on cspan2 and cspan3. >>> there are millions of american who is want to sacrifice for change, but they want it to be nonthreatening. these are the people whose voice i want to be. >> as candidates campaign for president this year, we l

shreveport, louisiana. saturday starting at noon eastern on "book tv," from one damn blunder from beginning to end, the red river campaign from 1864 and the look at the over 200,000 books of the john nobel collection housed at the lsu shreveport archive. then a walking tour of shreveport with neil johnson. and on american history tv on c-span3, sunday at 5:00 p.m. eastern, from barksdale air force base, a look at the base's role on 9/11. plus a history of the b-52 bomber. also, visit the founding fathers autograph collection at the louisiana state exhibit museum. and from the pioneer heritage center, medical treatments and medicine during the civil war. shreveport, louisiana. next weekend on c-span2 and 3. >>> the entire globe, even as it trembles in passion with the birth of new nations and shrinks in the hand of a dispassionate science, is today the site of a momentous conflict. as each side attempts to prove to the world the superiority of its position, the conflict is fought with the words of diplomats,

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

. >>> louisiana governor bobby jindal is revealing his proposal for the fiscal budget. a budget of $900 million in the red. in shreveport, it is mostly cloudy and 37 degrees at the airport. 38 in menden. you are listening to shreveport radio. >> explore the history of she shreveport, louisiana. then gary joiner on his "one damn" book. then the book collection at the shreveport archives. then on american history tv on c-span 3, sunday at 5:00 p.m. from barksdale air force base. then a history of the b-52 bomber. then the autograph selection. then medical treatment and sa medicine in the civil war. this weekend on c-span 2 and c-span 3. >>> verging group chairman richard branson and the former president of switzerland testified before the british affairs committee on the international drug policy. both witnesses serve on the 19-person commission on global policy recommend that you treat drug abuse as a health issue and not a crime. this is about 50 minutes. >> could i call the committee to order and invite our two witnesses to come to the table? could i ask members of the

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for example, president kennedy carried those southern states of mississippi, alabama, louisiana i thinkose states in '64, i suppose. i know that. from what i've been told. but that didn't deter robert kennedy or burke marshall from really leading their responsibilities with respect to the law. and even before burke was confirmed, robert kennedy had taken personal interest in the first case that we had brought in louisiana, in east carroll parish, and got involved in the first, second, third day after he took office and was on the phone talking with people down in louisiana trying to help one sharecropper, one -- not a sharecropper. one farmer to get his cotton shipped. and when -- and he sent me down there to see that the gingers in east carroll parish would come before a federal judge and tell the federal judge in a hearing, but a hearing not before the public, but on the record, that, yes, they would gin the cotton. that was our first day. >> i told you we had too much to talk about and not enough time, so i'm going to abruptly change in the last minute and ask you why did you take th

book tv and american history tv explore the history and culture of louisiana. saturday starting at noon even on book tv on c-span 2. author gary joiner from one damn blunder great beginning to end and then a look at the over 200 thousand books of the books housed at the archives. and a walking tour with neil johnson and on american history tv on c-span tv, from barksdale air force base, a look at the base's role at 9/11 and visit the founding father's autograph collection and from the pioneer heritage center. medical treatment and medicine during the civil war. louisiana, this weekend on c-span 2 and 3. >>> the new america foundation recently hosted a discussion on the impact of negative political advertising on the 2012 elections. speakers look back in the history of negative ads, the number of ads being put out this year and how those ads effect people's views on politics. a poll showed that 50% of ad this is season are negative. up from just 6% four years ago. >> good afternoon. hello. welcome to our first 2012 event here at the new america foundation. i i'm

he came all the way from louisiana to be here today. [applause] one question, how did you survive?. 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 sponsors today .