and that leaves michigan. oh, michigan. michigan, my nominee for incapable of being embarrassed. move over, florida. michigan has a bill on the way with the republican sponsor who is quite unembarrassed by the attention now or his failure to pass the same kind of bill last year. quote, the bill got no traction last year. there were people convinced romney was going to win and that might take electoral votes from him. but now, now that romney lost, now maybe even rick snyder, the governor is warming up to the idea this week and saying so publicly. governor snyder saying it is fair to change the rules since the election is not for a few more years yet. we started this week with six states on the map where republicans were talking about changing the rules to elect the president so you could use the gerrymandered congressional maps to make the presidential election go the way the house vote went this year where democrats got more votes but republicans still held the office. we started with a map of six. two of those states have now put the idea in the deepest part of the deep freeze

the gentleman from michigan, mr. camp, and the gentleman from michigan, mr. levin, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from michigan, mrs. miller, and the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. brady, each will control 10 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from michigan. mr. levin: mr. speaker, i ask -- the speaker pro tempore: the house is not in order. mr. levin: i want the chairman to be heard. the house is not in order. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is correct. the house is not in order. please remove all conversations off the floor to the cloakroom. please remove all conversations from the floor. the gentleman is recognized. mr. camp: i thank the gentleman from michigan. mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and to include extraneous material on h.r. 325. the speaker pro tempore: hearing no objection, so ordered. mr. camp: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized.

let's reinvent michigan and god bless michigan and all of this. thank you so much. [cheers and applause] 's >> deval patrick delivers this commonwealth address. and as direct attacks that invest in education, innovation and infrastructure. he lays out his budget plan to cut sales tax and increase income tax to pay for his transportation plan and education improvements. this is 35 minute. [applause] be my thank you during lunch. thank you, everyone. thank you. [applause] thank you. thank you area match. thank you area match. [applause] thank you. my friends, thank you so much. to lieutenant governor murray, fellow constitutional officers and members of the governor's counsel, madam president and members of the senate, mr. speaker, members of the house to members of the honorable court and congressional delegation county municipal and other elected officials, members of the cabinet and administration, reverend clergy and most especially, fellow citizens of massachusetts. good evening and happy new year. please join me in welcoming our extraordinary first lady, diane p

a professor of biomedical engineering at the university of michigan.g found his way to my lab and i was just received a big research grant from darpa. i didn't know him well. he basically wouldn't leave. he wouldn't allow me to tell him no. and he kept saying -- i'm your guy, darrell. after a while, he just basically wore me down and i made a decision kind of on the spot, this guy has the spark. with that little opening, i was able to convince him that this was a good opportunity and actually it worked out really well. we had a number of crazy ideas that we would try. and they would always sort of end up in some type of a public indication. the newest idea we had was to come up with the $100 spike. the idea was can you take all the equipment that we had, that cost darrell like $40,000, and reduce it down to the most simplest thing that you could actually record a neuron for under $100. >> to really unlock the secrets of the brain, requires a state-of-the-art technology. there's a certain cost associated with that. they made the first one out of wood an

michigan motto means "if you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you." a peninsula is a body of land surrounded on three sides by water. and michigan has an extensive coastline. there are the four great lakes. they're michigan, huron, erie, and superior. >> and it's right there on the flag, the latin for "if you seek a pleasant peninsula, look around you." you'll also find lots of water. michigan has more coastline than any state but alaska. >> this is actually how the missionaries and the fur trappers that settled the land first got there. >> that's one of them on the shore in the center of the flag. although he's holding a gun, he's waving. a peaceful gesture, you might say. but then there's this word. >> tuebor means "i will defend" and dates back to 1835, when tensions rose so high between the neighboring states, michigan and ohio, that they almost went to war. >> there's more latin across the top. you'll recognize "e pluribus unum" -- one from many, a salute to the diversity that helps make this country great. oh, almost forgot. move over, diagon al

welcome to michigan. thank you are sharing your story. thank you. [applause] say great success. another great successes or summer youth initiative in terms of putting young people to work in some of our most challenge communities. this lacerated over 750 k. and in terms of that, it's been wonderful, it's about public-private partnerships. many community organizations participate in this want to recognize one of the people. i could have done many, but in terms of that person, i ask anton stinson-winters to stand up. you are right over there, too. [applause] there he is. [applause] so anton stinson-winters is actually very shy person from one of his soul. but i appreciate you standing up because he is a success story. and thomas in the east side of the story, going to macomb community college, but you didn't ask about bowling and it went through this program you great exposure to many other wonderful things in and thomas now to the point resupplied for position with the dnr and the can another opportunity t

detroit michigan.he city that is doing perfectly fine and needs absolutely no free outside help regarding the infrastructure. al will explain. >> government spending is out of control. take the hard hit city of detroit. they are trying trying to builda billion dollar bridge to canada even though they have the ambassador bridge. fortunately detroiters of all walks are taking a stand. soccer moms. >> detroit does not need another bridge. >> tea partyers. >> it's not just detroit it's michigan tasms. >> even the black panthers. we don't need a new bridge. we need to spend money on feeding the needy. no second bridge period. we don't need it, we don't want it. >> mo bridges, mo problems, am i right? no. canada is acting like it makes fiscal sense for the u.s. >> the old bridge won't last forever. we don't know how long it's going to last. two million u.s. jobs alone depend on the trade that that bridge carries. >> but you realize this is not the time for american taxpayers to be forced to pay for a new bri

gentleman from michigan, mr. camp. >> i yield three minutes to the distinguished chairman of the oversight committee, the gentleman from california, mr. issa. >> the gentleman is recognized for 3 minutes. >> mr. speaker, i would like to be speaking for this bill, but i cannot. in the 12 years, almost to the day, that i have served with in this body, i have voted for every tax cut, every tax cut. i remember many of my colleagues, many of them friends, who each time we vote for them said, where is the pay-for? mr. speaker, there is $4 trillion of new debt and deficit, and there is now pay- for, and there is no anticipation of a pay-for. to say two months ago a new congress will do what we are not doing today is something i cannot bring myself to do. i would like to vote for this because i want americans to have lower taxes, but the other day in conference one of my colleagues pointed out that if in fact you are spending the money, you are taxing our future generation. we are taxing $1.20 trillion next year. we are

unions not giving up the fight in michigan.abors groups say they can push a recall vote to get republican governor rick snyder out of the governor's mansion. ticked off over the new right to work law. gary, they tried a similar stunt in wisconsin and it didn't work. could this? >> i suppose it could, but i've got to tell you he's reading from the prayer book of all governors. look, if you're a right to work state you're going to have better job growth, your wages are going to be better, i know that sounds weird, but it's true when you factor in cost of living. so this is the same thing that most governors really want is a right to work state. >> neil: charles? >> listen, michigan specifically detroit, a vast wasteland right now in so many different ways in part because unions ran the state into the ground. 47% of adult illiteracy, it's really sad. this is a crazy thing. unions are essentially saying, we don't care about the general populous, it's just all about us and it's going to back fire, i really think they're going to hav

the gentleman from michigan. mr. levin: i yield two minutes to the ranking member of the budget committee, mr. van hollen. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. van hollen: look, this resolution contains some good news but lots of bad news for the american people. the good news is that our congressional republican colleagues have finally recognized that america must pay its bills and meet its financial obligations without condition. the bad news is they only want to do that for three months. just read the title. to ensure the complete and timely pame of the obligations of the united states government, until may 19. now if it's a good idea to maintain the obligations of the u.s. government between now and may 19, it sure is a good idea to make sure we meet the obligations of the united states government beyond that by setting up what amounts to another fiscal cliff, all our republican colleagues are doing is prolonging economic uncertainty. for the last two years, we have heard from our republican

well, meantime unions and not giving a buzzer and fight in michigan. we are hearing their is a push to recall those for governor rick snyder over his signing of the ght to work. get them out of there. risk -- wisconsin went to five ringing a bell. our union battle segmenn. public picies. go ahead. make this date. how likely do you think that is. >> i don't think is likely. it already tried twice and fail to get the signatures to get it on the ballot. if they learned anything, anything in all from wisconsin, they know this is going to fail. it tried recalls. they tried to go after the lawmakers in indiana in the past tried to work in that state. guess what, republicans, both houses, increased margins. if they want to try it, let them flush down the toilet been given members more reasoned dissent and a choice to forget about it neil: it's a lot harder michigan . any eligible voter can get the signatures on. a lot stickier and tougher to do so in michigan. let's say they try. you think their failure >> well, if history is a lesson, it loos like they'r

that was this big event in michigan.ichigan is one of the most heavily unionized states in the country. in the waning days of 2012, republicans controlled michigan legislature and passed a law to make it a right to work state. business groups were strongly in favor of it. labor unions strongly opposed -- this is what we have seen in the past couple of years. some of the most contentious issues have been business and labor issues, whether it is right to work. also collective bargaining for state employees in wisconsin and indiana and ohio. business and labor has been the dominant story line struck the midwest. host: 8 tweet says it is bad in michigan. we do not even have art class. let us take a listen to the governor of michigan. this is rick snyder did in his state of the state address. [video clip] >> i wish washington d.c. would follow the model we are creating about the basis of what we are doing here. if you talked washington d.c., tell them to look to michigan -- if you talk to someone from washington d.c., tell th

the housing market also has come back some in michigan. steel plants and other places, michigan is also diversifying and is bringing in high-tech, various types of services, health care and education and so on. places like the university of michigan ann arbor are a tremendous research for entrepreneurs, people trying to draw up new high-tech businesses. so this is a good sign to see that america still has a powerful industrial base, but it is diversifying into a wide range of new types of industries. so it is a large and complex economy. i don't know if you want to talk about the broader economy or not, but we can come back to it if you like. we have been seeing some improvement in the labor market. it is still not where we would like to be. growth has been moderate. there are some positive signs to look at. one of the key positives is housing. as you know, house prices fell about 30% and the amount of construction fell extraordinarily over this recession. now for the first time since 2007 or 2006, we see increases in production. rising ho

the gentleman from michigan, mr. camp, the gentleman from michigan, mr. levin, each will control 30 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from michigan, mr. camp. mr. camp: i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on h.r. 8 and i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. camp: i rise today to urge what a colleague from georgia called a legacy vote, making permanent the tax cuts republicans enacted back in 2001 and 2003. i couldn't agree more. and let me say why. because we're making permanent tax policies republicans originally crafted. now back then, despite having the majority in the house, a majority in the senate and a republican in the white house, those policies were only temporary. that's because democrats refused to join republicans in providing tax relief for working families. after more than a decade of criticizing these tax cuts, democrats are finally joining with republic cast in

blumenauer from michigan. mr. blumenauer: i appreciate the gentleman's courtesy and the gentleman misses the point. mr. holt pointed out that being able to process this ground-based information is important to be able to fully utilize the information from the pole a ar satellite. the last congress behaved recklessly in terms of jeopardizing the flow of this information. it was not treated appropriately in terms of the budget. i think that this is an opportunity to accelerate in a small way something that is an emergency. tell the people who have been faced with the chain of natural disasters and storms where we have been able to refine our predictions. we can't stop the weather, but we can save lives and this will get us back on track a little bit. i cannot imagine a more misguided offset, if anything, we should be ack set rating this -- accelerating this work more. i strongly urge its rejection. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from georgia. th

this week i'm voting michigan as my number 1 team. win at minnesota and that very impressive second half in the loss at ohio state. they're playing better than everybody. they're at full strength as opposed to duke. indiana had a tough loss at home. kansas unimpressive. michigan is number 1. >> a young team with a higher ceiling. now, let's talk about another matchup that we saw earlier on cbs. kansas at texas and sheldon mcclelland with a floater here. seth, take a look at this action. >> this is an unfortunate turnover. maybe your thoughts. feeding ben mcelmore. kansas very fortunate to win. kansas got it done at the foul line. they're having some issues with elijah johnson at the point. he was 1 for 11. teams are slowing them down. they've been in the 60s for three straight games. so a win is a win. but they have to play at kansas state tuesday that will be tough. >> mcelmore had 16 in the game. other action that we need to update you on. arizona with ease. 71-54 over the sun devils. the florida gators are really playing well for b

the guns have to be made in michigan for gun laws to apply.ns support the bill and say it will help the state economy, and also send a message to the federal government, but democrats worry it could be unconstitutional and result in a lawsuit, like it has in other states, with similar laws. michigan's gop governor rick snyder told them they should focus on the economy and mental health issues instead. joining me from lansing, michigan, republican senator mick jones, welcome. >> good morning. >> good morning and thank you for being here. no federal gun laws have even been passed so pardon the pun, aren't you kind of jumping the gun? >> not really. you know, there's much talk about blocking all semiautomatic guns and michigan has a rich hunting heritage, we hunt deer with semiautomatic rifles, we hunt ducks, rabbits and turkeys with semiautomatic shotguns and we believe -- >> ar-15 s though? come on. >> ar-15 hunt things like coyotes. >> but they're not normally used. >> you know, many people use them to defend their selves, their homes and you

the gentleman from michigan. mr. levin: i yield two minutes to the ranking member of the budget committee, mr. van hollen. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is rognized. mr. van hollen: look, this resolution contains some good news but lots of bad news for the american people. thgood news is that our congressional republican colleagues havfinally recognized that america must pay its bills and meet its financial obligations without condition. the bad news is they only want to do that for three months. just read the title. to ensure the complete and timely pame of the obligations of the united states government, until may 19. now if it's a good idea to maintain the obligations of the s. government between now and may 19, it sure is a good idea to make sure we meet the obligations of the united states government beyond that by setting up what amounts to another fiscal cliff, all our republican colleagues are doing is prolonging economic uncertainty. for the last two years, we have heard from our republican colleagu

michigan and north carolina. michigan 123 teens this year. they did not fare any better.outh carolina -- ace sanders. you know you have skills if you are playing college football and your first name and is ace. south carolina -- first quarter. devon gardner. cut to the chase. 16 seconds left. ellington in for the touchdown. south carolina comes back to beat michigan, 33-28. of course, this year it is the bowl game down in south carolina. there was a time when it was the day in football. now it is now a the. >> we will be back with the seven-day forecast. stay with us. >> here is a look at what we're working in -- working on for 11 news tonight's. a party gets out of hand. what sparked several calls to the police. plus, couples took the plunge on new year's day. those stories, plus the latest on the fiscal cliff and how it on the fiscal cliff and how it chances are, you're not made of money, so don't overpay for motorcycle insurance. geico, see how much you could save. >> tina, i got up this morning, and i was thinking -- you know, i got up this morning, and i was thinking

steve spurrier's gamecocks taking on michigan in the outback bowl. vincent smith, takes the handoff. blown up by clownie. clownie. the gamecocks, they would be in business. the next michigan drive after that unbelievable lick right there. third and 13 for big blue. michigan up one after a missed two-point conversion. 1:23 left to go in the fourth. fourth and three for the gamecocks. connor shaw to sanders. that would be first down for south carolina. second and ten. dylan thompson, to bruce ellington. gamecocks, they go on to get the win in this one, 33-28. that would be your final. >>> and that will do it for your espn news upda. until next time, i'm cole wright. >> until next time. there's always next year for michigan. >> what a hit. man. >> so blue. yeah. that was intense. my head hurt after that. >>> all right. we can't forget the bcs bowls. >> the pasadena, the 99th granddaddy of them all, and wisconsin, losing their third-straight rose bowl. the cardinal won 20-15. >>> meantime in miami, it wasn't even close. florida state dominating northern

fed chief ben bernanke he's at the university of michigan taking questions this hour. we are keeping a close eye on an event. this is an event that really could move markets tomorrow. set the whole futures up. and we're going to update you throughout the hour on anything he says that could affect your investments. sandra: plus big news in the tech world. we have got reports that dell is in talks to go private, and that's sending shares way up today, up more than 12 bucks. the iphone keeps losing market share and iphone part manufacturers they are losing orders. is it time for tim cook to lose his job? we've got an analyst who covers both of those companies, david coming up. david: also toyota driving past gm taking the title for the world's top selling automaker. we will go live to the detroit auto show to hear from toyota u.s. president about what new cars are hitting the road. wait till you see the new mercedes by the way. but first we will tell you what drove the markets today with today's data down load. stocks struggling for direction today. the dow crossing the u

and we could also see 6 to 12 in northwestern michigan and also northeastern michigan as well. on the thumb there. we are looking at this cold air to hold strong for several more days. nine below right now in minneapolis. work in wind on top of that, it feels like 22 below in minneapolis. feels like ten below in chicago right now. and high temperatures today don't look all that impressive. the cold air just sits across the northern plains moving into the western great lakes. and then this will continue to surge eastward as we head into tomorrow. temperatures today in boston, only 28 degrees. 25 in new york city. but ironically in southern california yesterday, we tied and even broke record high temperatures with highs yesterday in the lower 80s. so big swing in temperatures all across the country. mara? >> thanks so much. >>> straight ahead, we'll take you to israel where benjamin netanyahu is hoping to be re-elected prime minister today. >>> plus a woman fainteds and falls. the dramatic rescue when "first look" returns in just three minutes. ♪ [ male announcer ] how do you tur

michigan versus purdue. number two ranked michigan caught 15 points from trey burke and they easily beat purdue 58-53. the wolverines are hoping to move up since top ranked duke lost. >>> now to the nba, rosen beat the buzzer. the raptors edged the atlanta magic 97-95. >>> at the australian open tennis, top ranked novak djokovic cruised to a win against spain's david ferrer. djokovic moves on to sunday's finals. >>> and a judge in new orleans says the city must scale back for that's called the super zone around the dome. >>> and a strange object was seen at the pga insurance open at torrey pines in southern california. was it a bird, a plane, superman? well, it was in fact a large superman image on a glider promoting a new golf shoe. "early today" sports brought to you by just for men auto stop. gray is over. >>> and a possibility of lance armstrong on "dancing with the stars"? plus, a teen vandalized a word war ii veteran's home. what happens next may surprise you as "early today" continues right after thes

when i went to michigan i was one of the first to this who was black who was in the ph.d. program because when i got there the head of graduate studies said to me he was surprised to see me. i found out what that meant. he told me, there was one time they came. he did not graduate. so i was sent there by my professors at howard who wanted me to work with a particular professor there. >> who are your parents? >> my parents were poor folk. my father left a surly. one of those lost, stolen, or straight man. my mother raised this cause been sometime in an orphanage when i was an infant. that's one of my earliest memories. a very extended family in which my generation was the first generation to ever go to college. my mother graduated from the eighth grade. al of a lot smarter than i am. if she could have she wanted to go as cool. very much one of us to get educated. >> when do you remember being interested in public policy in service and government? following the news. >> well, when i started during legal history at michigan and start reading all legal history stuff, i did a d

as we will be representing michigan tamara's inaugural parade.struggles are military families in door and the importance of making sure our government protect and serve as those who protect and serve us. as an attorney and a dean of one of the top law schools in the midwest, i run an institution that promote access to justice and six to train the next generation of leaders and public servants. early support from emily's list help me raise my voice and share my story. the staffer came to michigan looked me in the eye and said he knew i had what it took to win. thanks to her support i was able to earn more votes than any other democratic candidates in the state of michigan. electing pro-choice democratic women meet early support an early investment in young female candidates. a meat nurturing us, our careers, and strengthening our aby

of state john who used to he wants to do it there so to do republican lawmakers in the state of michigan the most shocking of all the latest endorser of this election rigging scheme is none other than the top republican party official himself r n c chair reince priebus in an interview with the milwaukee journal sentinel priebus i have to give something that a lot of states that have been consistently blue that are controlled red need to be looking at what all this adds up to is that is this republicans are really going to try to do this over the next two years the next four years really it's the next presidential election four years from now they really are going to try to rig the twenty sixteen election after all one of the choice they have they get ditched by trickle down economics which the american middle class now knows is just a scam that makes the rich richer and the poor poorer but since that would mean throwing away what george w. bush referred to as his base the billionaires you know that's not going to happen. republicans could just accept the issue of women's choices settled

i graduated and went to the university of michigan. >> law school? >> first the history department write got a ph.d. then i went law school. i wanted to do legal history. those days you had to get both degrees. you couldn't get them at the same time. now you can. i had to do one then the other. then . >> did you come north to graduate school on purpose? >> i came to howard, yes, i came on purpose. absolutely. >> why? >> i went to segregated schools in nashville growing up. pearl high was a segregated high from north high negroes as we were called in that day. i went howard and went when i went to michigan i was one of the first students who was black in the ph.d. program. when i got there. the head of graduate studies said to me, he was surprised to see me. i found out what they meant. he told me there was one time a negro came through here years ago. he didn't graduate. that's what he told me. [laughter] so i was there for the department. i was sent there by michael fess l howard who wanted know work with a particular professor there in the institut

the same governor who said he wasn't interested in passing right to work for less legislation in michigan last year and then within a month or so turned right around and passed the right to work for us law anyway. but at least for now it appears the republican election rigging effort is on the whole so now is the time for progressives to get active and push for a national popular vote to make sure republicans can't get away with these antics in the future go to national popular vote dot com to get involved. just. the. it's the good the bad in the very very potent tory asli ugly good patrice sufi seppi a south african mining billionaire announced earlier today that he will be giving half of his fortune including future earnings to charity worth around two point seven billion dollars what's up he said that he wanted to join the giving pledge which encourages the world's wealthiest to give at least half of their wealth to charity speaking about his donation most said he said that the money will be used to help the large portion of quote poor and disadvantaged and marginalised south africans.