one is ed markey of massachusetts.e joined some victims families outside of the capitol building to talk about changes he would like to see including making sure car companies report when their vehicles have been used in accidents, part of a fatality on the highways. senators like ed markey want that revealed more quickly. and senator mar -- markey slammed gm for not revealing the problem earlier. >> that's right. $2. that's how little this ignition switch could have cost to repair. just $2. $2 that could have saved the priceless lives of 18-year-old natasha waggle, 16-year-old amber marie rose, 19-year-old sarah troutwine, and the lives of so many others, but that was a -- apparently $2 too much for general motors. >> we're talking about ignition switches that would cause the ignition to go off. victims families say they want a lot more. they want to see these cars off of the roads. sherry still expects her son do come home. >> i'm still waiting for him to knock at the door. >> reporter: but michael sharky is never co

what is senator markey thinking? >> reporter: i don't know what he's thinking and i would love to know what he's thinking. there's a few issues. you've been touching on this, megan and you're completely right about this. when the government gets involved there's no criteria here in the bill. what's the template. what's the, you go down and check the boxes what counts as hate speech and who makes those determinations. as you say it's this group that nobody heard of buried inside the federal government. markey and his defenders will say it has to align with the first amendment. who will hold that agency accountable if abuses occur because we've seen, quite frankly, megan, some abuses recently from unaccountable federal agency doing things to target americans who say and act in certain ways that may be politically inconvenient for certain people. we've just seen this movie with the irs. so expanding the potential targeting and, again, we don't know the exact nature of this is questionable to say the very least. >> what

mark kirk voted for waxman markey in the house. then comes citizens united. name one who will come to the floor right now and admit that climate change is a real problem and that harbin pollution is anything worth doing about. that is a real problem. that is hitting our farms, our families, our forests, our shorelines, our fishermen. the fact that we have a party that is in complete denial of that subject and that it comes complete in the wake of citizens united. if you can't put those dots together, then you really can't although a story very well and that is really what is going on. >> we don't mean any of you here. [laughter] >> thank you. morning, shawhis mccutcheon spoke about the supreme court's decision in his favor. issuehink this is an about independent, private people exercising free speech. all americans are entitled to free speech. this is a first amendment guaranteed under the constitution. >> the supreme court agreed with the. if you sit back and say i want to be politically involved as if i am a person of great means and i have all these candid

fred --ve to say and my my friend ed markey, i never, ever witnessed a tribute like i have heard today. [applause] jill and i are honored to be asked back and let me just say survivors, my god, you have survived and you have soared. it was worth it. i mean it sincerely, just to hear you speak. you are truly, truly inspiring. i never heard anything so beautiful as what all of you just said. i really mean it. [applause] you are really good. i'm serious. it's absolutely remarkable. menino, you mayor always speak well. there is not a single person in here whose heart you did not speak to. they understood every single word you said. [applause] you have been my friend for a long time. your heart is as big as this city. it's an honor to be with you. [applause] tom, the boston athletic association, first of all, thank you for having jill and me. what an incredible job you have with the one organization. this is an important day, an important day for the survivors, but i think you bostonians don't understand it's an important day for the nation. it's an port and day for america and the families

senator markey of massachusetts who had a very long meeting, apparently, with bill ackman even whilestituents were waiting outside to talk to him about other things. it just makes you wonder if you can buy access like bill ackman has. and here's carl can along with george -- icon along with george soros, he opportunity even drink the shakes. is it best to stay away from this, david? >> balls and strikes are called properly by the federal enforcement agencies. they're not going to be influenced too much by a congressional inquiry. and i think people should take a careful look and make sure they're making a good judgment, but i don't think the existence of an ftc investigation should get stockholders to shy away from herbalife. >> first, this is going to be a are volatile stock. you've got these titans sort of pushing back and forth. you know, what's the metaphor where you've got a bunch of buffalo, the little guy wants to stay out of the way because he or she -- liz: stampede. >> -- is going to get trampled. you know, diversified portfolio, low cost index fund. liz: good advice. larry

. >> what has been henry -- his reason for not doing that russian markey has the opportunity to use his to do this. it is not up question of will cool skills. a question it is not of his political skills. what does he have the authority to do? rex i think he is waiting for action. hand going to use his exciton immigration. he has been allowing speaker manner to act. if the republicans do not act and enact immigration reform, they will be held accountable. this is about the future of their party disappearing. they are anti-immigrant, anti-women. the president, politically he believes that congress needs to act and he is waiting on congress. that is fine. you also need to act right now. this government should be able to work on a parallel strategy just like we as advocates are working. >> what is he doing that he is not doing while he is waiting on congress to do what it ought to do? rex the first thing is to extend the protection to new arrivals program for the people who are here. as long as the government as analyzing these cases on a case-by-case basis, legally, this administration ca

she votes with markey.he is the third senator from massachusetts. >> smart line and real hardball by mark sununu. we'll see if that one works. i think it's going to be a close race up there. brown shales shaheen but only by half a dozen points. >> welcome back to "hardball." republicans are fighting back against one of the democrats' perceived advantages politically, support among women voter ps president obama had an 11-point lead over mitt romney in 2012 and their last 2012 election autopsy -- that was a bad word -- republicans called it an imperative fact to reverse that. now they say they have a plan. the national committee plans a new initiative. 14 and 14 to recruit and train rim under age 40 in the final 14 weeks of the campaign. they are encouraging campaigns to include their wooifs and daughters in campaign ads, have women at their events and build a facebook like internal database of women willing to campaign on their behalf. they say attacks like this on president obama last week are unfair. >> t

but senator ed markey of massachusetts had some very harsh words. >> i am he very troubled you are notg to commit the ending this culture of secrecy at general motor. >> i didn't say that. >> yes, you have. and i know this. i have tried year after year for more than ten years to have legislation passed that would require the disclosure of all of this information. and it was the automobile industry that killed my legislation year after year. and this is the moment now for you to say more than that you're sorry. >> strong words from senator markey. barra has been ceo for three months. gm has been protected after their bankruptcy back in 2009. now back to the search for flight 370. the area of the search closer to the australian coast, as we get closer to when the pings from those black boxes are expected to go silent. our own will ripley is joining us from perth, australia, the staging point for the search area. first of all, will, what's the explanation? why did they again decide to move the entire search zone? originally in the southern indian ocean and is then up north about 700 miles

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short sellers with herbalife meetings senator markey.icole petallides on floor of a tough day. herbalife sinking as we head into the close. what else. >> some constituents they were complaining losing money distributing the products. the market sold off on heavy volume. nasdaq down 1.3%. dow down 13points. what does monday bring? david: not all financial stocks. jpmorgan taking it on the chin of. [closing bell ringing] nicole, quickly. >> a lot earnings next week with the banks. david: it will be a busy week. liz: bells ringing and breaking news on herbalife. herbalife is telling fox business the company, is unaware of formal or informal criminal probe into the company. it has received no, no subpoena, unlike the civil ftc issue that happened in, i guess about mid-march. so fox business is learning from the company itself, they know of no investigation by the department of justice or the fbi. david: meanwhile, look what happened in the markets. another down day. they hope people would go in do bargain hunting. didn't happen. maybe happen

and number three, support the measure that centaur markey and i have proposed that would improve theystem of safety accountability going forward. >> and as she said yesterday, she tried to avoidancing any direct questions especially whether she would agrees with those proposals and whether there would or would not be a compensation fund for victims. del? >> thank you very much >> president obama is traveling to michigan today. he is expected to continue to call for a national higher minimum wage. he wants to hourly rate to $10.10. he a has already signed tan executive order that pays newly hired federal contractors that amount. >>> secretary of state kerry canceled his trip to the middle east today. nick schifrin the palestinian president making this move presumably after israel failed to release prisoners. what does that mean? >> i think this is something that the majority of people here want. they don't trust the peace process, and instead they much prefer palestinians going out on their own, ignoring israel, or u.s. opposition and trying to find support as the state of palestine i

to do the right thing again by supporting the legislation that senator markey and i have introduced. this legislation is critically important to the future. it can't correct the past. but it can make sure that accidents are reported, that defects are made known to the national highway transportation safety administration, and that there are not only incentives for reporting but there is increased accountability for failing to do so. and to require nhtsa to establish a publicly accessible, searchable database that will allow drivers and consumer safety advocates to connect the dots and companies that are unwilling to connect those dots will be brought to justice, will be required to recall these vehicles, and to find out about defective models in time to save lives. miss barra has not yet committed to supporting this bill. it's he responsibility, in my view -- it's her responsibility, in my view, to do so. it's the responsibility of g.m. to take this action now. she and g.m. have the opportunity to change corporate culture, not only in that company but in others, by setting a model, l

markey, senator markey, a great leader on this, says will you support just making transparent the report to the company that there's a problem with the car? put it out there. oh, no, you can't come you can't answer that either. so then my question in march 2005 gm people said it costs too much to fix these cars. the codeword quote none of the solutions represent an acceptable business case. that was a public document. gm gave that document over. all, you can even talk to that big you don't know anything about anything. and, madam chairman was not to comment on ask unanimous consent to place in the record more pictures of mary theresa car, and what kind of a death follows that kind of crash. you can see from the. so without objection i'll put that in. now, it's my understanding you are recalling many of your cars now, not all of them. you're giving -- by the people want to they can say please pay for a loaner, correct? >> that's correct. >> that is the right thing to do. but do you support a law that would see recall cars like yours can no longer be rented or loaned? do you support a law

democratic senator edward markey of massachusetts spoke out alongside victims' relatives tuesday. >> we now know that the difference between this switch and one that would have worked properly was life or death. >> barra told a house subcommittee tuesday she didn't know why it took her company more than ten years to recall 2.6 million cars. those vehicles have faulty ignition switches that could suddenly shut down car engines, disabling power steering, power bags, seat belts, and air bags. she placed greater transparency going forward. >> if we know there is a defelt on our vehicles, we do not look at the costs associated with it. we look at the speed with which we can issue. >> david friedmann will also testify again today. he's already told lawmakers nhtsa didn't launch an investigation earlier because gm failed to disclose the fact that they failed to cover the specifications. gm says it will start replacing defective switches in cars next week. now, because of gm's bankruptcy filing, it could be legally shielded from having to compensate victims of these crashes, but in a sign th

senator ed markey. >> we now know the difference between this switch and one that would have worked was the difference between life and death. >> reporter: we also now know at least 17 employees, including digiorgio and executives like lori queen were very aware of inadvertent ignition offs in 2005. no recall came until nine years later. barra claimed ignorance, blaming the old gm. >> you don't know anything about anything. >> reporter: senator barbara boxer. >> you have been involved in this since you became ceo. have you not looked into this? >> reporter: barra who said an internal investigation would take up to 60 days was also asked repeatedly if gm deceived the government in 2009 by taking a bailout without revealing ignition problems. the bailout gave them immunity from accident claims. senator marko rubio. >> can you tell us weather general motors intentionally mislead its customers and federal regulators when someone decided not to fix the faulty ignition switch? >> i don't know. that's why we're doing the investigation. >> reporter: the cars are safe as long as a driver uses th

senator ed markey: >> we now know that the difference between this switch and one that would have worked was the difference between life and death. >> reporter: we also now know at least 17 g.m. employees, including digirogio, and the executive in charge of small cars at g.m., lori queen, were on an e-mail that said g.m. was "very aware of an issue with inadvertent ignition offs in 2005." no recall came until nine years later. barra today pleaded ignorance, blaming the old g.m. >> you don't know anything about anything. >> reporter: senator barbara boxer: >> you have been involved in this since you became c.e.o. have you not looked into this? >> reporter: bara who said an internal investigation would take up to 60 days, was also asked repeatedly if g.m. deceived the government in 2009 by take a bailout without revealing ignition problems. the bailout gave them immunity from accident claims. senator marco rubio: >> can you tell us whether g.m. intentionally misled the government and federal regulators when they failed to disclose or fixing the faulty ignition switch. >> i don't know. that

i would like to call on edward markey for massachusetts. >> thank you so much. all of you for being here today, especially the families who have traveled so far and with such heavy hearts. this is a 2007 chevy cobalt .gnition switch thatwas the same design showed off vehicle airbags and killed innocent victims. we now know the difference between this switch and one that would have worked properly was life or death. do you know the other difference? two dollars. that is how little this ignition repaircould have cost to , just two dollars. two dollars that could have ofed the priceless lives 18-year-old natasha weigel, 19-year-old sarah, and the others. os0o many that was apparently two dollars too much for general motors, two dollars are too much to ask when a saturn ion stalled in 2003 and found the ignition switch had been worn out by a heavy key ring. act whenrs too much to gm received more and more reports of cars and engines inning off by themselves 2004 with 2005, in 2006. -- chevrolet after cobalt crashes involving airbags that did not a ploy in 2007. gm's

by stopping the data, they are stopping progress in congress and senator markey and i have a bill ino allocate $10 million to the stern of disease control for gun safety research. >> dr. rosenberg you are an nra member, i know you like to shoot -- i should say we invited the nra to participate in this discussion and they did not respond. what can research on gun violence do for us? >> well, i think we have two really tough problems to solve. one is, as you mentioned that 30,000 people a year are killed by guns, so you want to prevent some of those deaths, especially suicides, and many, many of those deaths that are very preventable, but we have another problem at the same time, and that is that our gun rights are threatened. the rights of legitimate gun owners are under threat. and what we have got to do is find a way both to reduce fire arm injuries and deaths and to protect the rights of legitimate gun owners. if we only wanted to do one of those, we probably wouldn't need research. if all you wanted to do was protect the rights of legitimate gun owners, then don't allow any discus

to support legislation that senator markey and i have proposed that would require better reporting and fuller disclosure through a database by the federal government itself. because the story here is not only about g.m.'s concealment of these defects prior to now, for over 10 years, but also about the regulatory failure of the federal government to better protect citizens against these kinds of defects. so there is a lot here but g.m. right now is failing to sufficiently warn and provide parts to sufficiently repair these vehicles. >> well, senator, if it's the case that mary barra and general motors are not issuing a park it order, and she should and the government believes they should, because these cars really are too dangerous, can the department of justice not compel general motors to issue that order to save citizens' lives? >> well, i've urged the department of justice to take whatever action it can do. it may not have direct control over the national highway traffic safety administration, which is an independent agency, but i believe the federal government has a responsibility

senator edward markey noted compensation could have been avoided if gm thanld situation earlier. >> the difference between this switch and one that would have worked was a difference between life and death. and do you mo the other difference that it would -- know the other difference? that it would only cost $2 to repair, $2. and it was apparently $2 too much. >> the question of money was a big one for mary bar rarvetiona, some lawmakers -- 2009 government bailout. >> in 29, the federal government owned 60% of the company because taxpayers bailed the company out. so gm knew of this issue in some capacity ten years ago. they changed the part but didn't tell anyone. through all of this gm was unable to determine that they should pull 2.2 million vehicles off the road. you said it yourself yesterday, ms. barra, gm has a culture based on cost not safety. >> on the issue of safety senator boxer is now sponsoring a bill barring recalled vehicles from rental fleets. >> do you support a law that senator mccaskell and senator sheurm and others have proposed that if cps i shouldn't be leased or l

the government did not let that happen so markey ought to ask the auto task force of obama about whyou decide this culture had to be saved? >> i am looking at it from the communication single. right now the company is clearly in a quagmire. all eyes on gm to the extent congress looks at them what does the future hold? how will they deal with the reputation in to ensure potential customers a investors? melissa: how to recover from that e-mail? to make it is just fact from other testimony that will cover all. from the communications perspective they need to think about safety and. >> i have looked at their communication they have lawyers fingerprints all over them. i find them not reprehensible but they are not consistent with the image they tried to portray. melissa: isn't that always the problem that the lawyers hold you back from excepting play because they don't want you to read reliability. listening yesterday it sells accius trying not to give away too much for what they will say later at the expense she is holding things back. >> lawyers may like that. i don't. i understand what

eddie markey has a good bill that he wrote with dick blumenthal, i believe. that when there's a complaint about some car that's sent to gm, they ought to make it transparent, right now they keep it secret. she still opposes all the manufacturers oppose a bill that i wrote that would say you can no longer lease out a car or loan a car out that's under recall. there are many things that we can do. but i have to say this, and i think that chairman mccaskell brawli brought it out. in the private sector, these trial lawyers that dug in and found out the truth. they ought to be praised. lawyers are vilified so much. that lawyer on his own dime found out what went wrong. and there will be justice in the it courts and we will do our best do change the laws. >> senator barbara boxer, very good of you to be here, thank you. >> turning now to day 26 of the search for that missing malaysian airliner and still no sign of the plane. malaysian police say a criminal investigation is now focusinging on the pilot and co-pilot of the aircraft. many passengers are cleared of any

career i've been part of or witnessed some incredible tributes, but i have to say in my friend he had markey jill and i -- [ applause ] jill and i are honored to be asked back and let me say to those, quote, survivors, my god you have survived and you have soared. it was worth -- it is worth it. i mean this sincerely, just to hear each of you speak. you are truly, truly inspiring. i've never heard anything so beautiful as what all of you just said. i really mean that. [ applause ] you're dangerous, young man. you are really good. i'm serious, it's just absolutely remarkable. governor, mayor welsh and mayor menino, you always speak well and tommy, i can tell you one thing, there's not a single person in here whose heart you did not speak to. they understood every single word you said. every single word that you said. [ applause ] >> you've been my friend for a long time and they reason they heard is is your heart is as big as this city, it's an honor to be with you. [ applause ] >> tom, boston athletic association, what -- first of all, thank you for having jill and me, but what an incredible

that he says is a ponzi scheme, he has put out big news conferences and now talked to senator ed markeyget him to and suddenly now he's paying to put out a movie. >> yeah. well, listen, i don't think -- depends on how you call -- listen, documentaries often have points of view. let's give him his due here. when michael moore does a documentary, it has a point of view. bill ackman's point of view is that this company is a scam. i've just never heard of it, but what do i know? i'm just a simple country reporter, but i am so broken up that i can't spend my friday -- liz: you weren't invited. >> they sent it to other -- liz: not even charlie gasparino plus one? >> no. liz: in new york it's always plus one. you're not even one. >> i'm a zero to them. they sent it to somebody else here at fox, and i've asked them, i've e-mailed the flak at rubenstein, but i will say this, because i know howard really well. take bill actman out of it, they're acting incredibly unprofessional. they should just call we back, you know what i'm saying? i've been dealing with howard rubenstein my entire life. his s

. >> let me ask you finally, i'd ask both of you to support the legislation that senator markey and i have introduced. are you willing to do so? >> senator, i'm very open to working with yourself and senator markey on how to make sure that we can best move forward and how we can improve and open further discussion on your legislation. >> sir, if i may, and, my response is a little more complicated and i will apologize in advance. i'm sure you appreciate as an inspector general my is my presumption is more transparency is almost always better than less. by virtue of the fact that serve as d.o.t. inspector general, by statute and by executive order i serve on the recovery accountability and transparency board, the government accountability and transparency board, so transparency is literally our middle name. however i am fully cognizant factors, the considerations on the other side regarding confidential business information and so forth. >> thank you. thank you very much. >> senator klobuchar. >> thank you very much, madam chair. mr. friedman, maybe you heard earlier about the case of

markey: madam president, i am proud to stand here today to support raising the minimum wage. no person should work full-time and not earn enough to be above the poverty level. the poverty level in the united states in 2014 is about $23,000 for a family of four. today if someone works for the minimum wage for 40 hours a week, they are still in poverty and no one should work 40 hours a week and be give an salary that does not lift them and their families up out of poverty. that is just absolutely wrong. and millions of people in our country have been trying to climb into the middle class but no matter how hard they work, they are stuck in the same place. in america today nearly half of those who grow up in families in the bottom fifth of income earners will stay there as adults. tiges of millions of americans -- tenses of millions of americans can never get off the ground. that is unacceptable. it is immoral and that needs to change. raising the minimum wage is a first step to fight income inequality in our country. we must help restore the dignity and the value of work and hel

two other congressmen, markey and scott, left the house to serve in the senate.he point is, all these legislative chairmanships want to bail. in the senate, the story is the same. the body is losing more than 23 teams of legislative experience, 142 years of know-how. seven senators are retiring or resigning, in the case of coburn, who will leave before the second term is up. a quarter of the senate committees are losing their chairman. five committee chairs or ranking members are calling it quits. michigan's carl levin is leaving after six terms. jay rockefeller, out after five. iowa's tom harken, also leaving. south dakota's tim johnson, putting down the banking committee's powerful gavel. georgia's chambliss is also stepping down. with three members resigning the seats already and the death of new jersey's frank lautenberg, means the senate is experiencing its largest turnover in 40 years. only 28 members of the current senate were in office before 2000, and that includes dan coates who served in the '80s and '90s, and then returned to the senate after the 2010

senators richard blumenthal and ed markey's bill would require lawmakers to submit accident reports to nhtsa, when they learn of a fatality, and it would require the agency to make the information available to the public. congressman henry waxman wants every car sold in the u.s. to come with a $3 fee that would fund nhtsa's operations and increase the civil penalties the agency can levy, up to $200 million. well, joining me now, democratic senator claire mccaskill of missouri, who will chair this morning's hearing. senator, i assume you watched the house yesterday, looked at mary barra's testimony. i assume you still have questions unanswered. what's the biggest one in your mind? >> there's a number of them. the notion that there's an old gm and a new gm. it's important in the hearing to actually understand that what had happened at gm since the bankruptcy in terms of this issue, they had one of their lead engineers lie under oath last april and was confronted with the clear evidence that there had been a cover-up, and he had lied. he is still working there today. it took them almost a

senator markey of massachusetts spoke out alongside victims' relatives tuesday. >> we now know that theifference between this switch and one that would have worked properly was life or death. >> reporter: barra told a house subcommittee tuesday she didn't know why it took her company more than 10 years to recall 2.6 million cars. those vehicles have faulty ignition switches that could suddenly shut down car engines disabling power steering, power brakes, seatbelts and airbags. members of congress questioned whether gm declined to fix the problem because it would have cost too much money. a report shows the replacement part was 57 cents. >> if we know there is a defect on our vehicles we do not look at the costs associated with it. we look at the speed in which we can fix the issue. >> reporter: the acting administrator of the national highway traffic safety administration david friedman will also be back here on capitol hill to testify. he has already told lawmakers nhtsa didn't launch an investigation earlier because gm failed to disclose the switches didn't meet the company's own spec

ed markey, democratic senator from the state of massachusetts.ood friend doris kearns goodwin is a long time bostonian, a resident here, and, of course, presidential historian. and ed davis is with us. he was the boston police commissioner at the time of the bombing. i'm also joined by an audience today that includes some terrific folks, first responders who did heroic work at the scene of the attacks as well as john tlumacki, a photographer who captured one of the most famous images of the day. thank you all for being here, thank you for your work, for your service that day and on all the days you provide your service, and we're going to talk about understanding one year later. before we do that though, i want to bring in our harry smith whos had this report on how boston is still trying to come to terms with the events of a year ago. >> reporter: you can tell a lot by the looks on people's faces. the wounds are not healed, not yet. at the boston public library, there's an exhibit of mementos from the miakeshift memorials that appeared after the

i'm sure you know that on the senate side, senators markey and blumenthal introduced a bill to give nhtsas of insurance claims made against them and lawsuits about fatal crashes in which they were a defendant. would you support a bill like that? what's the congressional action that should be taken here? >> well, let's look at that, but in the first case that i mentioned, that happened in 2005. the second case happened in 2009. there was plenty of time, and nhtsa, nhtsa commissioned the study on that first accident. i was reviewing their data where it said the airbag did not deploy and the ignition key was in the accessory position, so nhtsa actually had that information in 2006 from a 2005 accident. plenty of time to react to help prevent the accidents that occurred in 2009 and 2010. if nhtsa is not going to take the action when they have the information in front of them, it's hard to see how additional laws will help. perhaps we need a different acting administrator in nhtsa. >> congressman burgess, thank you so much. and we're looking at a live picture of the senate hearing room and saw

. ♪ you've been one of the big names on that markey before but to be "the big name, what's that like?ility to sell tickets. my name's up there on the marquee on broadway. i freak out a little bit. >> reporter: you freak out? yeah. reporter: the show's message could be that life can be good even if it doesn't always turn out exactly like you'd hoped. it's something idina menzel lives by. ♪ what might be >> reporter: she was raised in long island, new york, the daughter of a therapist and a pajama salesman. by 1996, that adorable kid had become a hot young singer on the verge of stardom. ♪ >> reporter: she'd won a coveted role in what would become the monster broadway hit "rent." ♪ take me for what i am >> reporter: cbs' "48 hours" followed her the last few days before the show opened and changed her life forever. >> opening hawaiian style. (laughter) ♪ 521,600 minutes >> reporter: it was here she met and fell for fellow cast member taye diggs. her character maureen would taunt him every night on broadway. and later in the movie version. you ended up mooning taye several times. >> yeah,

markey, a senator from the state of massachusetts, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i'm told s. 2223 is due for a second reading. is that right? the presiding officer: the clerk will read the title of the bill for a second time. the clerk: s. 2223, a bill to provide for an increase in the federal minimum wage, and so forth. mr. reid: mr. president, i would object to any proceedings with respect to this legislation at this time. the presiding officer: objection is heard. the bill will be placed on the calendar. mr. reid: i move to proceed to calendar number 345, s. 23199, paycheck fairness. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: motion to proceed to calendar number 345, s. 2199, a bill to amend the fair labor standards act of 1938, and so forth and for other purposes. mr. reid: mr. president, following leader remarks and those of senator mcconnell, the senate will -- the senate will be -- all time will be equally divided and

senators reed of rhode island -- reepped of rhode island, gillibrand, hagan, casey, markey and mikulski and we're just getting started. i might always say congressman dana issa is cosponsoring in in this house. i can't think of a better issue, to find cures for diseases and make sure our country continues to lead the world when it comes to biomedical research. i hope my colleagues will join me in cosponsoring this legislation and i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from california. mrs. boxer: i want to thank my colleague are from illinois for his leadership in making our people healthier than they couldwise would be. i remember talking about the battles we've had, making sure we crack down on the tobacco companies who told us for years, smoking was safe, take it, it will relax you and deny the science. we lived through those years, many years ago, worked with then-senator lautenberg and senator durbin led the charge in the house to stop smoking on airplanes. i remember coming home from these long trips and literally just reeking of cigarette smoke. i never smoked in m

rebroadcast of the program beginning at noon eastern with "meet the press care co-guests include ed markeyemocratic representative donna edwards, and the former boston police commissioner edward davis. at 1 p.m. it is "this week," with rand paul, deval patrick and ambassador to the united nations, samantha power. at 2:00, "fox news sunday," including tim scott, sheldon whitehouse, the ranking member on the ways and means committee sander levin and charles missed danny of louisiana. "state of the union" follows at 3 p.m., with the chairman of the democratic campaign committee and the chairman of the national republican congressional committee. "face the nation" from cbs with marsha blackburn at 4 p.m. with a elijah cummings of maryland. the sunday network tv talk shows are on c-span radio, brought to you as a public service by the networks and c-span. again, rebroadcast of the shows begins with "meet the press" at one em, "this week" at 2 p.m. " 3:00 with "fox news sunday," and "face the nation" at four :00 on cbs. across the country, listen on xm satellite radio channel 120 download our fr

we do know that senator ed markey, a democrat from new jersey, asked the ftc and fcc to look into businessherbalife has been accused of operating a pyramid scheme. .e saw shares selloff sharply again, this looks like an escalation of the probe, but the company themselves saying they have no knowledge of it whatsoever. >> thank you very much for that .pdate let's turn to media. cbs, abc, fox, and nbc are expected to raise about $9 million -- $9 billion from this ronts, where advertisers are able to purchase .pace in bulk but yahoo! and microsoft are shaking up the market with their original content. we are breaking it all down. upfronts -- it's here. let's talk about the numbers. cable versus network. >> the broadcast money they about $9they bring in billion, even though their ratings are much lower than they used to be, and certainly compared to cable. cable barely beats them -- $10 billion. cable beats them in money, but that's with all the channels .hat they have you see actually the chart up there -- it's now switched out. you can see how cable has just passed broadcast. look at that --

markey, assistant secretary for retirement health policy, u.s. department of trash ri. you are recognized for five minutes. >> mr. chairman, thank you, ranking member, i appreciate the opportunity to testify on the final regulations involving the shared responsibility provision and the information in the affordable care act. the employer responsibility precisions are contained in section 4980h of the internal revenue code, and time regulations under this were published in february -- excuse me -- and the information reporting provisions for employers and insurers are in section 50 # 66 and 6 # 055 of the code. final regulations relating to information reporting were published last month and will be yewsed to ad more the employer and responsibility shared provisions and premium tax credits. the time regulations provide employers with the guidance they need to comply with the employer responsibility provisions and provide flexible and practical means of doing so. before developing these issues, treasury issues, four successive notices describing potential approaches to im

senator markey and i have offered that legislation that would provide for better reporting by car companies, a stronger accountability system, and better disclosure through a database to consumers, so that they will know what the risks are before they take them and can make choices, informed choices, about what they drive and when. these steps are well-warranted by the past misconduct of genetically modifiedg.m.doing tg the trunnel, telling the truth to power and making sure that innocent consumers are protected against harms that may not be known to them. she has the opportunity to break with the past culture, a culture of deniability and of deception. deception is what happened at g.m. these ignition switches were known to be defective as recallly as 2001, year after year there were reliable and material facts that indicated to g.m. you had to responsibility to fix these vehicles and yet you took no action to repair them, to recall them, to inform consumers. and the fix was not a major, costly one. $2 per vehicle, easily done. and yet in 2005-2006, g.m. made a business decision that the p

you heard from senator blumenthal of connecticut and senator ed markey. also, calling on g.m.m until they are fixed, frankly. that is something that g.m. has not done yet. we had a chance to hear from the family members. people that had lost loved ones, some of them wearing t-shirts saying, protect our children and also holding pictures of the loved ones they lost. we do know up to this point that this ignition switch failure caused at least 31 frontal accidents and 13 deaths. that number could go up. i want you to take a listen to some sound from samantha denton, a 20-year-old from toms river, new jersey, who just spoke at this press conference about driving one of these cars that they believe had this ignition problem and how dramatic going through this experience twice for them was. listen. >> when my mother and i decided that this car was surely a death trap in the game of what if and what again, we are not ones that are willing to play anymore. driving this car was like playing a game of russian roulette with my safety and that of my friends. i can't begin to explain the

markey senior adviser to the assistant secretary for retirement health policy u.s. department of the treasury mr. avery, you're recognized for five minutes. >> mr. chairman, thank you. ranking member merck dermott members of the subcommittee i appreciate the opportunity to testify on the recently-issued final regulations regarding the employer-shared responsibility provisions and the information reporting provisions of the to affordable care act. the employer responsibility provisions are contained in section 4980h of the internal revenue code. final regulations under section 4980h were published in february. excuse me. .. to comply with the employer responsibility provisions and provide flexible and practical means of doing so. before developing the proposed regulations treasury issued for success of notices describing potential approaches to implementing the employer responsibility provisions and invited public comment on each. the comments and comments on the proposed regulations from a wide range of stakeholders were considered carefully in developing the final