they're here to perform the song "jardin du luxembourg" from their album "acoustic sessions." ♪ in a terrible breeze put on your new pants and move out to france all the skeletons ♪ ♪ in your closet are rummaging through your clothes looking through your ♪ ♪ shoeboxes and pockets gum wrappers and dumb love notes ♪ ♪ people say your brain is like cream cheese cheese ♪ ♪ it takes the shape of anything you please ♪ ♪ the dust from the trails under your fingernails the leaves in the luxembourg garden ♪ ♪ are showing their true colors they're blushing they're begging your pardon ♪ ♪ because time's a jealous lover ♪ ♪ i recall the first time that you passed me by and i saw and i saw ♪ ♪ my demise my demise in your stained glass eyes ♪ ♪ ♪ the dust from the trails under your fingernails the leaves in the luxembourg garden ♪ ♪ are showing their true colors they're blushing they're begging your pardon ♪ ♪ because time's a jealous lover ♪ ♪ canary singing through the calico teeth teeth ♪ ♪ everything's exactly what it seems ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you so much. >> jimmy: the

ambassadorship in luxembourg, i worked on a senate campaign. that was a marvelous 14. % -- 14% victory. "politico" name did is one of the top 10 in the nation. that was a marvelous opportunity to get that and do what i do best, which is when races for the republican party and for the gop candidates out there. it is fundraising, it is political savvy, and it is also management skills. you have to be a good ceo in order to run the republican national committee. i have had great experience with that with a business background. i am not daughter of a small business owner. i have worked in the business field before entering politics. you have to be a good ceo and put in the kinds of checks and balances and ethical leadership for the people they work in with and for you. they are only as good as the top leadership. ceo skills are very important in this race and i think i have a number of skills in that regard, also. it's fundraising, it is political savvy, it is management skills, and it is communication. in the next election cycle, we're going to ha

with germany and luxembourg and holland and a few countries possibly france as well but there is an optimal. can work together for the north and south of europe to be stuck inside a monetary union is never ever going to work but nobody inside these institutions wants to face up to the e.c.b. buying up its debt and now with this with this half agreement in brussels that the stability fund should start doing the same thing you know you begin to ask yourself a year or eighteen months down the track will the european central bank itself actually be. a liquid functioning organization all we are doing here we're reinforcing failure decision is quite extraordinary i mean it's rather like boarding the titanic after it hit the iceberg it is the most incredible decision look what you've got here behind this whole european project where we talk about the union itself although we talk about the current say we have a political class who want this you know even countries like switzerland who very sensibly have stayed outside the union who have the. free trade agreements with it even in those countries a

ambassadorship in luxembourg, i signed on to chair roadway blunt's senate campaign and that was a marvelous4-point margin victory. kind of unheard of in a state like missouri. "politico" named us as one of the top 10 in the nations, along with some democrat rations in there, too. that was a marvelous opportunity for me to get back in and do what do i best which is win races for the republican party and for the g.o.p. candidates out there. so it's fundraising. it's political savvy. it's also management skills. you have to be a good crowe in order -- in order to run the national republican kevment i've had great experience doing that. i come from a business background. i'm the daughter of a small business owners out there, i have worked in the business field before entering politics and you've got to be a good c.e.o. you have to put in the kinds of checks and balances, transparency, ethical leadership, the people that work with and for you are only as good as the very top leadership. i think c.o.e. skills are very important in this race and i think i've got a number of great skills in that re

check here in our area we're taking in luxembourg and ahead and some christmas trees were jury legally dumped, other not. >> you are looking at poker and walnut creek it's a street that appears to be live with brushes as far as i can see. but they're not brushes, at least not the ones close to the curb. christmas trees coming as christmas trees. member for you think they're illegally dumped there were not, homeowners were asked to place them there several days ago. the problem, the company that allows them to place and there was the very same company that tried to pick them up. get this? for only two blocks. but it is met, you will see the approach road, he lives and approved, he has tried to get them to figure out the trees to no avail. sonoma the trees just said. all i tried to call them to suit the prom was the buzz from hold that up front. ossify the other residents of different strains have the same issue trees spread out and got backed up. the next time is scheduled pick-up is that together we to the tree first. this is the case of people behaving nicely by following the rules by

from clover del tule luxembourg. from here in san rafael to san rosa. >> is surely it makes a lot of sense. it would be a shame to see the station and see it was so right by. >> think you jackie. this is the big hub for buses and everything. >> federal judges issuing the ruling for gay rights activist was stayed in employes the long- term health care. state employees can sue for discrimination over the federal government exclusion of the same poses from long-term health coverage. >> 90 budget cuts in university of california's means students have to find another place to get an education. the president addressed the university in san diego yesterday, they said they have to find a way to deal with a $1 billion budget gap next year among the issues facing you see reductions in state funding, higher salaries, pension contributions. he warned state universities may have to turn away 30,000 qualified students and ordered to trim expenses. >> investigation into how and why some middle school students and ingested some rat

ann wagner is former ambassador to luxembourg and as you also heard has been meeting with michael steele. she garnered 28 votes in the last round and there was one right in candidate that was not allowed. caller: i want to thank michael steele for his service to the republican party. i think he did a pretty good job, except for one thing. we had a governor that was running, previous governor that was running in maryland, bob ehrlich, which he was the lieutenant governor. i think michael steele was the lieutenant governor under him. in the election, actually before the election, before the primary, money was given to bob ehrlich, and it was before the primary. from what i am understand, bob ehrlich was not even on the ballot yet. so we were a little bit upset about that. i think that anybody who gets in there should think about that. anybody who runs in the primary should have an equal chance in the republican party and all states, no money should be given to any candidate before the primary, only after the primary. >> we have cameras inside and outside the hall and there appears to be an

ann wagner is a former chairman of the missouri republican party and was an ambassador to luxembourg under george w. bush. host: she was also our "newsmakers" guest this past weekend. if people are interested in getting an idea of who she is, they can go to our web site c- span.org -- website, c-span.org. sorry i interrupted you. guest: it would be wide open, no obvious choice. gentry collins seems to have said that members want a fellow voting member. it seems like that would exclude cino because she is not. wagner, anuzis, and priebus are all running very viable campaign. chairman steele -- i guess anything could happen, but it does seem like popular sentiment is against him returning as chairman. host: rnc sees deep red for 2012 budget. what will you be watching for in the debate? guest: i want to see how he answers questions about the money that was spent, possibly in the wrong places. we do not know the candidates a very well. i have never seen priebus in an open forum. he was not at the one that was held earlier. i am curious to see how he holds against some of the questions th

for our family and friends and people across the city and across the country and people in china, luxembourgon't know that is that it's all some. and unlike the national media we are calling ourselves and it just showed me that there is this first, there is substantive per trail, a lot of shouting against muslims but there is no substance. when you talk about people blocking the mosque for whatever reason people don't even know who they are just going back to that poll and what we are trying to do in this project isn't trying to preach, we were not trying to respond to any controversy or anything. i know ground zero was going on as we were doing it. is we talked about it but this wasn't a response to it. we wanted to show people what muslims were like and we talked about the positive things and - things, we talked about that. we talked unfortunately nothing to do with islam but with some cultures interracial marriage. we talked about muslims working in liquor stores and alcohol and we talked about what it's like for them. >> [inaudible] >> both, both. and for his gambling and it's a clear an

ruth farkass who gave $300 to the nixon campaign in explicit exchange for an ambassadorship to luxembourg or the tapes that revealed john connolly shipped down dairy farmers for $600,000 in contributions in exchange for raising price support to the detriment of children who needed milk around the country. these incidents eroded public confidence not only in the nixon administration but this the entire system and in response pursuant to the general welfare clause of the u.s. constitution, congress passed sweeping election reforms, including the presidential checkoff system. now, i would not argue that this system is perfect at this time. i think it does need reform. but i think mere elimination without a committee process is a huge mistake. i would hope that the committee could convene, that we could sort through what are the problems with this current system, how do we fix them, work in a bipartisan way to create the fixes and then come to this house for the solution. i yield back and urge opposition to this bill. the chair: the gentleman from illinois. mr. roskam: i yield four minutes to