mr. baker and certainly in rebecca brooks' case she could do my freeing land because they denied that e-mail or that the ever had one become more than one journalist and of what became of absolutely obvious they kept it in april of this year and i could go on and on. >> we get picture of your view and you are entitled to your view and the people entitled to your view that the question is does the basis of your understanding have an evidential foundation? >> ivies told by a former senior employee of the news international it would be wrong for me to announce his name because this is confidential but i would be happy to write it down to you, sir. >> you got it from the source and you can't go beyond it. >> i'm very confident i was told the truth. >> fair enough. the full idea was a very serious issue mr. max mosley. to refer to another piece in the daily mail which is a shivering title that hands down has shown no balance and another example of comment rightly or wrongly on the decision. >> one c

. >> reporter: mr. baker was elected to replace johnson who could not run gun. the county struggled in the initial months following the arrests but has made progress in moving the county away from a culture of corruption where federal agents say you had to pay to play in the political game. >> people doubted prince george's county could survive this and make people interested in coming here again. if you look at this year and what has happened, people are excited about the county. >> we should say that gentleman jack johnson served out his entire term. he did not resign from office. we'll hear from residents tonight at 6:00. reporting live, darcy spencer, news4. back to you. >> thanks so much. >>> stay with news4 and www.nbcwashington.com for continuing coverage of jack johnson's sentencing today. >>> we had a nasty little day out there. it was warm and balmy but rainy and messy. >> a case of the gloomies. >> talk about nasty wait until you see what we have in store for tomorrow. this is just really round one of the rain. we have seen a tenth to a quarter inch o

. >> reporter: mr. baker was elected to replace johnson. baker says that the county struggled in the initial months following the arrests but has made progress moving the county away from a culture of corruption where you had to pay to play in johnson's political game. >> people doubted whether prince george's county would survive this, whether in fact we could make people interested in coming to prince george's county again. if you look at this year, people are excited about the county. >> reporter: the county leaders are ready to put this chapter behind them. but the u.s. attorney indicated during that press conference that the corruption investigation continues here in prince george's. reporting live, darcy spencer, news4. back to you. >> thank you. >>> there is news tonight that the head of the federal aviation administration has resigned. he was arrested for drunk driving over the weekend. randy babbitt pulled over on saturday night after drive drooing the wrong way in fairfax. he submitted his resignation to the transportation secreta

mr. martin baker's. >> thank you, mr. speaker. yesterday's announcements about local television was good news for my constituency where channel seven, the sole survivor from the original, does the prime minister agree that local board casting, loca communities advances the pick a side he? would he find time to pay them a visit? >> i woul be guided to do tha i don't have any immediate plans to visit north lincolnshire but to support local television and i also thinknorth lincolnshire had some good news with the stevens plant going in, and i think that's excellent news for the whole region. >> mr. david plunkett's. >> mr. speaker, in the early new year the government intends to announce a wholesale revision to the national curriculum. can i put it to the prime ministers that it would b perverse am in fact it would be absurd to require those from abroad to settle in britain, to learn about our democracy, to take citizenship courses whilst withdrawing all the teaching of citizenship and democracy to our own children in our own school?

mr. martin baker's. >> thank you, mr. speaker. yesterday's announcements about local television was good news for my constituency where channel seven, the sole survivor from the original, does the prime minister agree that local board casting, local communities advances the pick a side he? would he find time to pay them a visit? >> i would be guided to do that. i don't have any immediate plans to visit north lincolnshire but to support local television and i also think north lincolnshire had some good news with the stevens plant going in, and i think that's excellent news for the whole region. >> mr. david plunkett's. >> mr. speaker, in the early new year the government intends to announce a wholesale revision to the national curriculum. can i put it to the prime ministers that it would be perverse am in fact it would be absurd to require those from abroad to settle in britain, to learn about our democracy, to take citizenship courses whilst withdrawing all the teaching of citizenship and democracy to our own children in our own s

. >> the chair recognizes mr. baker of illinois for five minutes. >> thank you, none of chairman and ms. volante. can you talk a little bit about the key lime and if you rmo? promulgated by the regulators -- do they have the potential to drive more business to fha at the exclusion of the private market or will it -- will the private market be able to increase in this area? >> so i think as we have discussed on some prior occasions, the? rmo still in the multiple federal agents he's looking out what it will be. you know, one of the aspects that was in the proposed? rmo was higher retention levels for loans with higher down payment for my sake turn that that will drive more business to the fha. obviously we don't know what the rule is going to be, so we don't know what the ultimate impact will be. but you know, we are concerned and are monitoring not as we are a part of the discussion on-q rn. >> would there be anything that would ensure that the private market will have access? or is it just because of the way they are d

mr. jack baker and we put up a new pole in the center and two weeks later they, the state roads took themp truck. >> what was their response? you reached out to them saying what are you doing with this flag i want it put back up. what was their response? >> we called and asked what was going on, my husband and they said it was trespassing and we could be arrested and he had a lost complaints which was proven untrue, the only complain was from the landscape crew who takes care of the circle and when a politician was involved they said it was because of a dry was trucked but when we installed the new pole the tree was already cut prior to the installation of the through pole and, then, since i guess we have gotten publicity from a letter i wrote to the editor of the local pain and they have since said that it is because it is a safety issue because we don't have road control, and we don't wear orange vests when we go to clean it up. >> so what are they saying? >> i think that an easy resolution could have been made to let the american flag fly free. that is what it is for. >> this does not

mr fries. now there was some debate going on among viewers about part of my december fifth interview with economist dean baker first i want to show you part of our conversation it was about what's going on with democracy in the west in the midst of this tech knockers sea and parts of europe. they were given very very little choice so i can certainly understand the resentment there but it did happen through a democratic process what about a u.s. congress said hey we're in tough financial times alan greenspan needs to replace the president or you know be the leader governor or the people we elected so they were people that the people we selected they were people that people in italy worked out so it was done through a democratic process not the way i'd like to see it but it was people were democratically elected made this decision. now our viewers expressed opinions both about dean baker as e.u. as well as my response to it apocalyptic a one wrote sorry dean baker but you failed democracy one o one don't spout nonsense about parliamentary democracy where exactly it's like ministers must be elected representativ

mr. von spakovsky was just questioning. >> the numbers that we have are fully defensible. they have been supported not only by our own studies but dozens of other studies, including studies by former secretary of state baker former president jimmy carter. there's no question that we have... our studies have been defended, we've defended our studies specifically against the claims made by mr. von spakovsky the fact is, the numbers are real and these numbers represent real people. they represent real voters. certainly you can always pull out anecdotal evidence and we certainly don't believe that voter fraud should ever be tolerated. but in terms of order of magnitude and what we're really talking about here, we're really talking about laws that really don't implicate or change or affect any of the examples even given by mr. spakovsky here or in most other cases. and these laws aren't going to solve the problem. >> ifill: mr. von spakovsky, i do want to ask you about some of the solution which is have been presented. the attorney general has talked about automatic voter registration. some states have said we should roll back early voting and take that out of the because that is creating a bigger problem. one

mr. rob mackie is president and ceo of the american bakers' association, has served on the food industry coalition or hours of service regulation, so worked directly with the issue in front of us. we have mr. frank miller, director of logistics at babcock and moore in mulberry, florida, and has worked on transportation irk shoes for over 20 years. we have with us, also, mr. henry jasmine. he was vice president and general counsel for advocates for highway safety and dr. jesse david, economist with 15 years of experience in regulatory policy. all witnesses are sworn in, so if you'll just, please, stand and raise your right hands. do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth, and if you do, just nod in the affirmative. let the record show that everyone answer inside the affirm ty, and we're going to start with mr. nagel. you guys know the rules, you get five minutes, and stay as close to that as you can. and then we'll get to our questions once we've heard from all six of you. mr. nagel. >> good morning, mr

mr. robb mackie, president and ceo of the american bakers association has served on the food industry coalitionr hours of service regulation to work directly with the issue in front of us. mr. frank miller, director logistics that babcock and more coming home furniture company headquartered in mulberry, florida and a search on transportation issues for over 20 years. we have also mr. henry jansy, vice president and jennifer advocates for highway and not a safe tea. and dr. jesse david, an economist and senior vice president at economics or 15 years of experience in regulatory policy evaluations pursuant to the subcommittee all witnesses are sworn in. so please stand and raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. let the record show that everyone answered in the affirmative and we are going to start with mr. nagle and then we'll move down the line. you guys are the rules. you get five minutes. stay as close to that as you can then we'll get to our questions once we have heard from al

experts people like stewart baker, the former general-- of the national security agency have said it will actually increase piracy and actually hurt our internet. >> let me ask mr. o'leary because the argument is that the legislation potentially fights the very way that the internetworks in a sense and has implications well beyond what it is you are trying to get. >> it's just absolutely not accurate. markham indicated that there are experts on his side of the argument that, there are experts on our side of the argument that would argue that is not accurate. i would just ask you to look at who is supporting this legislation. su have all of the major cable isps, the national cable telecommunications association, their membership, time warner cable, comcast, those are companies that put millions of dollars every year into their networks and they would not knowingly support a piece of legislation if they thought it was going to hurt those networks and hurt their investment. it's just not an accurate statement to say that this is somehow going to damage the internet this is an argument we've heard before. it's been around before and we believe it's wrong this time

mr. port will provide on-ramp for the crude in baker, montana, with contractual commitments to move 5,000 barrels at the start of operations for keystone xl and more expected later with the dramatic growth in bakken oil. without the keystone xl this american crude will be transported to refineries in ways that increase risks to the environment and to human health and safety. second, with or with out the keystone xl pipeline there will likely be no effect on production of oil sand from canada. the 30 point related to the second is that if the fiber-optic line is not built the united states may lose a chance to secure long term energy supply from our canadian allies. if the keystone xl pipeline is not built, canadian producers of oil stands will be forced to seek alternatives to american markets likely sending dramatically more crude to china. for those who think asian options for canadian crude are speculative and unrealistic, i would just make three quick observations. first, the northern gateway project which would move oil sands to british columbia for export is one option to move the c

mr. chairman, how should i feel? about sugar subsidies? and the chairman said it doesn't matter because if you support sugar subsidies, we are going to get you money from the confectioners and the bakers. and if you oppose sugar subsidies, we are going to get you money from the cane growers and weight growers. there are folks on every side of the issue, mr. speaker, in this town. and so whenever there is an issue that's a contentious issue, you can call in one side, you can call in the other, and you can hear both sides of the argument. folks who are experts, folks who have been working on these issues for decade after decade after decade. well, when the federal tax bill for america's businesses, mr. speaker, is $10 billion, $10 billion, it doesn't take much of an investment in lobby -- lobbying for special exemptions in the tax code to make that a let me go back and look at corporate income taxes over time. corporations don't pay taxes. corporations do not pay taxes. consumers pay taxes. if you go and you had -- i'm from atlanta, if you add a tax on a coca-cola company, what do you think is going to happen? they are going to raise the price of coca-cola. that's what happens every sin

baker, to see what they learn from the series. to retrieve the episodes, visit c-span.org/thecontenders. >> the house debate this two hours. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. camp: there are four important facts everyone should know about the middle class tax relief and job creation act. first, it will strengthen our economy and help get americans back to work by lowering the tax burden for middle-class families and job providers alike. second, it prevents massive cuts to doctors working in the medicare program to protect america's seniors and those with disabilities, providing more stability in the doctor payment schedule than there has been in a decade. third, it adopts a number of the president's legislative initiatives which represents the bipartisan cooperation americans are demanding. and fourth, it's fully paid for with spending cuts, not job-killing tax hikes. the c.b.o. tables show the bill is fully offset and saves about $1 billion. when you add in the floorns provisions, the savings are -- flood insurance provisions, the savings are closer to $6 billion. it would help the unemployed help and get a job. it helps seniors. it is bipartisan and it

mr. martin baker's. >> thank you, mr. speaker. yesterday's announcements about local television was good news for my constituency where channel seven, the sole survivor from the original, does the prime minister agree that local board casting, local communities advances the pick a side he? would he find time to pay them a visit? >> i would be guided to do that. i don't have any immediate plans to visit north lincolnshire but to support local television and i also think north lincolnshire had some good news with the stevens plant going in, and i think that's excellent news for the whole region. >> mr. david plunkett's. >> mr. speaker, in the early new year the government intends to announce a wholesale revision to the national curriculum. can i put it to the prime ministers that it would be perverse am in fact it would be absurd to require those from abroad to settle in britain, to learn about our democracy, to take citizenship courses whilst withdrawing all the teaching of citizenship and democracy to our own children in our own s