mr. cooper? >> all right, thank you very much for taking the time. i spoke previously about making sure that citizens have the right to appeal, and my strong feeling is without notification, we are denied that right. no need to rehash my previous comments, but i can talk a little about some of the differences in my case to the previous case. i am a recent homeowner in the richmond district, and i currently live at 156 27th avenue. this equipment is being installed right in front of my house. the poll where it is being installed previously had no equipment. it was a small, simple light post. in our case, which is a little different, i think based on the permits i have reviewed there is a battery backup supply at one another pole across the street, which means additional overhead wiring between the poles. my understanding, and i am no expert on this, but it is one of those larger, 350-pound backup battery poles on a post across the street. we have that as well. other things, i would urge the board to review how these things are constructed. it has the

mr. cooper. mr. cooper votes yes. mr. connolly? >> aye. >> mr. connolly votes yes. mr. quigley votes yes. mr. davis. mr. davis votes yes. mr. bilbray. mr. welch. mr. yarmouth. miss spear votes yes. >> the clerk will report. >> on that vote, mr. chairman, there were 22 noes, 15 yeses. >> the amendment is not agreed to. the chair would recognize the gentle lady for california for a question. >> mr. chairman, thank you. i would like to have clarification on what the new provision that provides that a member of congress or member of the committee can be at depositions. does that mean participate in the depositions or be present to observe the depositions? >> that's a very -- will the gentle lady yield? that's an extremely good question. there has always been a right for members to attend depositions. the rules of the committee, which we'll be glad to furnish you, have a procedure whether they are staff or members alternating back and forth. we have -- because we are an investigative committee, we have a long set of procedures in which staff -- and i'll short cut it, we get

mr. cooper votes yes. mr. conley -- mr. quigley votes yes. mr. davis votes yes. mr. well much -- mr. murphy votes yes. ms. deer votes i. >> mr. chairman? >> yes. >> mr. chairman, i wish to be recorded as voting i. >> mr. conley votes i. >> the clerk will report the tally. >> on that vote, mr. mr. chairman, 20 no's, 14 i's. the amendment is not agreed to. is there any other amendments? >> i know if he'll be back in time, but i want to vote to a final inquiry. if he gets back, we'll get back to that. i have an inquiry on how you interpret the rules in the committee record. i know you mentioned things earlier, but i want to be clear. >> i don't mind the inquiry, but i want to get to the final vote, and we will not adjourn until after this is discussed. hearing no more amendments, the question now occurs on the committee resolution. all those this favor of adopting the resolution, say i -- all opposed? in the opinion of the chair, the i's have it, the resolution is agreed to. mr. ranking member is recognized for his inquiry. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. house rule 10 provide tha

mr. rantsi was cooperative in making these i think thats and understanding that there is a large learning curve after a liquor store to the market, he did make an effort and is continuing to make that effort according to the consultant. at this time he needs to follow through with the w.i.c. training to offer additional currencies for the customers, focus on updating and maintaining, merchandising, open up the security gates daily and remain committed to offering fresh produce and food offerings. the consultant also did recognize there are a number of challenges that were crime related -- vice president olague: you can finish because i know this is very much related to the hearing of a year ago. >> thank you. i'm almost done. over the past year there has been a number of issues on that block and crimes and drug related and violence related and the consultant noted that his location is clean, well lit, and he did install security cameras. we would like to see the police continue to or ratchet up their commitment to that area so that both his store and neighboring businesses and organizatio

cooperation. >> reporter: mr.ma praised china's announcement of $45 billion in export deals with boeing and other american companies and he all but begged for more. >> we want to sell you all kinds of stuff. ( laughter ) we want to sell you planes. we want to sell you cars. we want to sell you softwa. >> reporter: but there was little progress on their fundamental economic disagreements. >> there needs to be further adjustment in the exchange rate. >> reporter: despite that demand, president hu gave no indication that china plans to stop manipulating its currency, which gives china an unfair advantage by making chinese goods cheaper. president obama reiterated u.s. frustration. >> and there has been movement but it's not as fast as we want. >> reporter: late today, the mood of cooperation continued as president hu arrived at the white house for the ultimate honor: a state dinner. the president will continue to push china to change its economic policies but he seems to have accepted the fact that there's not a lot

mr. obama is focusing on the economy and cooperation. >> reporter: now that president obama has laid out his agenda -- >> we can't win the future with a government of the past. >> reporter: -- he is taking his message on the road. today, i will visit a renewable energy company in wisconsin to continue promoting investments in research, innovation and education. >> we know what it takes to compete for the jobs and industries of our times. we need to outinnovate, outeducate and outbuild the rest of the world. >> reporter: while job creation dominated the state of the union, of the president also outlined ideas for reining in debt including a freeze on federal spending. >> every day families sacrifice to live within their means. they deserve a government that does the same. [ applause ] >> reporter: that drew applause from both democrats and republicans, many of whom sat together to honor the tucson shooting victims and their colleague, gabrielle giffords. her husband watched the speech by her bedside. congress' unified front may not last long. a battle over the budget is already brewing. r

president obama and china's president hu shook hands and promised greater cooperation between the world's superpower and its rising rival. mr. obama told mr. hu he thinks about china's currency is unvalued, which hurts american exports. but before the summit signed $30 million worth of export deals, mostly airplanes, and president hu said american corporations would have greater access to the chinese huge markets. >>> it was a volatile holiday-shortened week on wall street, the markets hitting fresh multi-year highs on tuesday. followed by the s&p 500 and the nasdaq's worst day in more than two months on weakness in the chipmakers. two changes at the top of the technology world. a shake-up at search giant google. its co-founder larry page to become ceo, while current ceo eric schmidt will become executive chairman. the company also beat earnings expectations for the latest quarter. apple's ceo steve jobs also announcing he is taking a medical leave for the second time in two years. jobs has a rare form of pancreatic cancer. chief operating officer kim cook will take the reins in jobs' absence. apple also made nunes on earni

mr. obama says he will also speak about reducing the national debt and cooperating with republicans during the primetime address. abc-7 will drawft the -- broadcast the speech on tuesday, and it will be streamed live on abc-7 news abc7news.com. >> in a straw poll, ex-massachusetts governor rom rom mitt romney took 37%, tim pawlenty came in third, and in fourth place, ex-alaska governor sarah palin received 7%. it does show the sentiments of states most active republican voters. >> up next, feeling a lot like spring. leigh glaser coming up to tell you more about that. >> mike: we're down to the final four in the thankful -- nfl playoffs. as we look for the final two combatatatatatatatatatatatatatat >> alan: in san francisco road crews plan to close a sex of the great highway again on monday. city crews will relocate sections of the road between lincoln way, and will also trim vegetation phenomenon the -- from the immediatans. the road will be closed for one week. leigh glaser here. we're having a pretty good streak going. >> leigh: a lot of people at the peach. temperatures across the bay a

but granular to control google each with cooperation really in states but that cooperation now is not close it's what's got. mr linden now who say many thanks for your thoughts that has gotten less and found of executive intelligence review magazine speaking to us there about what's happening in egypt at the moment many thanks. now three million are frustrated ukrainians living in the capital care are looking for just one a man the mysteries surrounding their missing meth exam trick near the child of a very deep in this is absence from public life and is a sick month even the prime minister is demanded to know his whereabouts are he is an idiot a chef investigates the disappearance of the fizzy cheap. many if agree that over the past six months ukraine's capital has become a better place to live but locals are bewildered as to who should take the credit as the man in charge of the city has gone missing. the mayor. definitely. in five years as city's top dog and each and maybe it's he has been a journalist delight from singing at a press conference. taking a dive in front of cameras to prove he was mentally san

mr. obama says it is important to work with the chinese, not against them. >> there are some times when cooperation between china needs to demonstrate as simple truth. a global economy nations including our own will be more prosperous and more secure when we work together. >> they're also keeping at pact to help finance a worldwide launch of nuclear programs. happening are around the world of paris is said attacks have killed 18 people and wounded at 104. the attacker triggered a social bested year of a convoy. a man also pushed his vehicle into a security station and triggered exit explosion. it was on the pilgrimage. in hong kong at 40 is say that they have made the largest cocaine bust and they found 606 lbs. a hidden inside a wooden planks of the ship. it was as true value of $260 million. the shipment comes in from south america. in australia to play at that opera house all you have to do is i have a youtube account and detection of talent. kimberly has more details. >> they have put all of their audition tapes online all the hopes of becoming part of this of the orchestra. let us take a look

and we look forward to continuing and close cooperation, mr.t. >> [speaking foreign language] >> thank you so much, mr. hilary clinton, secretary of state of the united states. >> [speaking foreign-language] >> i want to say on behalf of the government of colombia, and especially on behalf of president santos, public to express our thanks to you, mrs. clinton, and to president obama to the solidarity of your government and to your people. to the people of colombia, on occasion of the recent floods in the recent mining tragedy, which cost 21 lives and left several injured in the area in our country. >> [speaking foreign language] >> and our broad ranging discussions today, we have agreed to work together, to defend fundamental rights of humankind. the human rights that affect all of us, in particular, labor groups, indigenous groups, women's groups, and others. and we have also agreed to continue to work to cooperate with all countries, to combat organized crime, in particular, transnational crime, which includes drug-trafficking, which attacks

mr. schmidt were not cooperated in the final analysis. >> you understand the reason this even has come upr. schmidt is weeded basic investigatory work. and when we did basic investigatory work, we found that senator grassley had a lot of questions about mr. schmidt when he was inspector general dod. and i'm not saying whether senator grassley was right or wrong. i'm saying this very troubling that he would not be aware of those questions before paying someone the amount of $450,000 a year to do work for the federal government. general fields, that is what i'm getting at. this audit agency is careful about who they hire and whether or not there is any appearance of a problem. i'm not saying the problems and the fact you didn't even notice there might be one that's what i'm trying to bring to your attention. did he ever go to afghanistan? >> not under the contract involving sigar to my knowledge. >> said the pay for him to chew claim his market value, $45,000 a month did not evolve in a high risk other than colin louis freeh's office? >> potentially, correct as far as i know, senator. >> le

cooperative process with uta. commissioner hwang: up the alternative potential resolution offered by mr. rabbitt was to push part of the fans back that would not have an impact on the level of the baseball field -- the fence back that would not have an impact on the level of the baseball field. is that a consideration that is part of this other comprehensive look? >> it could be. i do think there are, at either end of that retaining wall -- there are areas where there is a flat space between the interior place where conceivably you could widen the sidewalk. there would still be pinched points in between there. the question is whether you could widen the prospective and what the impact on the landscaping would be. this is a photograph at the western and of the encroachment. as you can see, the retaining wall zags away. there is a relatively flat area. there is also some material landscaping. would you want to widen the sidewalk at the sufferance of that landscaping? this is the same drawing from a moment ago. this is the outfield fence, the edge of the left field fence. it starts to job o

mr. obama is focusing on the economy and cooperation. >>> reporter: now that president obama has laid out his agenda -- >> we can't win the future with a government of the past. >> reporter: -- he is taking his message on the road. today, he will visit a renewable energy company in wisconsin to continue promoting investments in research, innovation and education. >> we know what it takes to compete for the jobs and industries of our time. we need to outinnovate, outeducate and outbuild the rest of the world. >> reporter: while job creation dominated last night's state of the union, the president also outlined ideas for reining in debt including a freeze on some federal spending. >> every day families sacrifice to live within their means. they deserve a government that does the same. >> reporter: that drew applause from both democrats and republicans, many of whom sat together to honor the tucson shooting victims and their colleague gabrielle giffords. the unity may not last long. a battle over the budget is already brewing. republicans want less spending and more cuts. >> the president an

cooperate with us on doing ology -- all of it. achieving these things should be an end into itself. it cannot be con mr. conrad:-- contingent where one side agrees to energy cooperation when the other cripples the question. where one side agrees to fight terror and other has timelines and preordained withdrawal dates. in other words, a bargain where the parties have no intention of working to the at all. too often, this is the approach the party has taken over the last two years. take health care. for more than a year, we offered to work with the white house and democrats on a bill to incorporate the best thinking on both sides. they refused every step of the way, and in the end, they got the bill they wanted, a massive government-driven system creating an unknowable number of new bureaucratic entities and two massive new government entitlements which is already leading people to lose the care they like, which nearly two-thirds of doctors surveyed leads to worse care, and causing already struggling businesses to struggle more with a mountain, a mountain of new mandates and fees. it's only after this disa

suggest that poland is not quite satisfied with the report mr said that he believes the report is incomplete and that he will ask for more cooperation from russia in order to make sure that everything and every avenue of possibility has been explored and every reason every comment that the polish side had originally put to the interstate aviation committee is included. the investigation is incomplete the chicago convention gives us the right to settle on a joint conclusion and the opportunity to strive for the acceptance of our comments the convention guarantees us the opportunity for discussions to find a common ground and we plan to ask moscow for consultations that would lead to a joint report acceptable to both countries diplomacy and politics should not hamper the investigation of facts for us facts are the most important. to the report parts that are missing would not change what's already there are parties to fill in the blanks and then the picture of the tragedy will be full. of course opinions here in poland or ready divided something the polish prime minister's way of saying poland will not accept the findings of the inter

chevron, shell and exxon mobil and cooperation obviously from the department of the government , for mrbromwich and secretary salazar. widowed for range of inputs and plenty of opportunity on the scientific agencies, noah, coast guard, to ensure that what we say is grounded in good science and respectable technology. and i don't think so far. i must say we've become a little impatient, bob and i with the criticisms of our confidence or criticism of our commissioner, which maybe was okay to raise six months ago. but the proof is here. is there something wrong or if there are people who have objections to the findings are think they are wrong, we would be very happy to debate on that point. but it seems to me now a little churlish to refer back to them without power there related to the advocacy for their park from which no one seems to be doing. >> thank you. >> thank you, mr. chairman. john amend, the offshore policies is based on some similar assumptions as i understand it. one was the blowout preventer's actually work. that was an assumption. the assumption was the industry have the a

[speaking in native tongue] >> we look forward to continuing in close cooperation, mr. vice president. [speaking in native tongue] [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: thank you so much, hillary clinton. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: >> translator: i want to say on behalf of the government of colombia and very especially on behalf of president santos, i would like to express our thanks to you, mrs. clinton, anti-president obama for the solitary of your government and your people, to the people of colombia on the occasion of the recent floods and in particular the recent mining tragedy which has caused 21 lives and left several injured in our country. [speaking in native tongue] [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: and in our broad reaching discussion today, we have agreed among other things to work together to defend fundamental rights of humankind. the human rights that affect all of us, in particular, labor groups, indigenous groups, women's groups and others. [speaking in native tongue] [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: and we have a

mr. president, we can't reach the level of bipartisan cooperation we need in this body if we prevent substantive debate and cut off the rights of the minority. but neither can we make necessary progress if members of the senate continue to be able to use technical loopholes and procedural gymnastics to hijack the senate literally for days and sometimes for weeks rat a time. and that's why today's debate, so ably led by my colleagues from across the country, is more than just an he i esoteric one t the senate's rules. it is a critical turning point. and it is why again today i am introducing a resolution that i believe can help reduce the opportunity for gridlock while also encurlinging both sides to work together on the most important issues we face. i developed this proposal after listening to and with experts on? the procedure from both sides of the aisle including norm ornstein of the conservative american enterprise institute. in a nutshell, i proposed that by eliminating unnecessary opportunities for delay without making changes that would jam through legislation at the expense of the minor

integrated into regional structures i told mr president that we are happy to see again you stand as a guest participating in the work of the shanghai cooperation organization we invite afghanistan to join other regional structures. but to some extent as much as have guinea stand his interests in any way the more intense our contacts are. the better it will be for afghanistan and for the russian federation and to everybody living in our region once again i would like to stress that this is the first officer visit by an afghan president to our country and this will this opens a new chapter in our relationship by welcome to my colleague mr karzai here in moscow in the kremlin. money team. of vision who made a video of a. ball to chicago for a war on. drugs. but it is that wall of gun will. have to have all this time on those two. is obvious what we're supposed went along. is an english translation and. i think he's transmitting a link i'll say a speak in english find. the spirit of money to him. mr president. i'm very grateful to.

mr. hu jintao's message. to our second session on the strategic forum on u.s.-china clean cooperationration cohosted by the china institute of innovation and development strategy and the brookings institution. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: in washington, d.c. i would like to express congratulations to all the participants to the forum from china and the united states. and also i would like to give my sincere greetings to the friends from both countries who have carried the ballot relationship. in 2009, the first session of the strategic forum on u.s.-china clean energy cooperation was successfully held in beijing, which provided a platform for men and women from both countries. to promote cooperation in involvement and energy. i believe the second session of the forum will continue to promote our two countries cooperation on clean energy and sustainable development. this forum will certainly play a very important role in this area. china and the united states are both energy producers and energy consumers. in our cooperation on clean energy and environments we have great

mr. speaker, renewing our commitment to cooperation with other nations, the united nations and other international institutions. smart security would build on the new start treaty ratified last month and move us more aggressively towards the goal of eliminating all nuclear weapons. it would rearrange our budget priorities so we're no longer throwing billions of dollars at weapons systems designed for a different era and instead invest in human capital around the world. that means addressing root causes of instability and violent conflict by increasing development aid and debt relief to poor countries. we would be supporting programs that promote sustainable development, that promote democracy building, human rights education, a strong civil society, generate equality education for women and girls and much, much more. the quadrennial of diplomacy and development review recently completed at the state department reaffirms the principles underlying smart security, calling for civilian power to lead the way in resolving conflict and reducing threats around the world. with diplomacy and development, mu

cooperation and civic engagement today's summit will exceed our expectations. today's summit will serve as a model for other cities across america. thank you for this opportunity, mr. newsom and latoya cantrell to congratulate daniel homsey of the neighborhood services for leading today's great event and for launching of the neighborhood empowerment net work website empower sf. org. the best of luck, speaker of the house, nancy pelosi. [applause]. >> just amazing that young lady started as an intern in our office 3 years ago and came in and said, i want to make a difference. we should applaud her success it's just amazing. [applause] i would like to introduce your mayor gavin c. newsom. >> thank you very much for coming out. big round of applause for daniel homsey and his hard work bringing this together getting all the staff and volunteers the mayor's office of neighborhood services and other departmenting that are here we are very thankful. daniel has been talking about this for what seems a millennium. you imagine being the mayor's office of neighborhood services how demanding that job is. the calls you get for service. we got the liaisons to the districts and

your spirit of cooperation is greatly appreciated, and i'd like to recognize mr. mcgovern. >> i think the only concern about this hearing that we've had is the fact that mr. sessions technically was a nonmember presiding over the proceedings here, and i guess that's to me is the question. is that okay? >> we will -- if that needs to be addressed in this rule, it will be addressed. >> well, the votes on the floor, yes? >> that will be addressed obviously. >> all right. >> all right. >> you know, we really do want to cooperate here. >> i can tell that. i very much appreciate it. i can't imagine any other support of cooperation here than what you've provided. >> we feel we are on shaky ground simply because i did not understand he had to go before the house of representatives or get this thing ratified by the house, and i think that puts a different light on it. you can go on with the hearing and leave that decision up to you. >> thank you very much, and out of respect -- >> [inaudible] >> i very much appreciate that, and your position is you want to cooperate, and i

us in places like iran to get more russian cooperation with afghanistan things like that are they going to wise up and help us a little bit iraq iran what mr no spin zone dizzy ron have to deal with monday's deadly bombing in moscow russia a key u.s. ally in the afghan war has remained a key player in the transshipment of goods to the war torn region a fact mr o'reilly neglected to mention. in his view russia is bad because they don't automatically support the u.s. in all of our foreign policy decisions so he's trying to use this manipulate this to anger his viewers to get them upset with russia other u.s. commentators didn't bother clarifying their facts they've recently taken their attacks into the heart of russia to transportation hubs and cultural centers in moscow and elsewhere c.n.n. may not know that terrorist attacks in the heart of russia date back to nine hundred ninety nine but a series of apartment bombings took place in moscow preempting the second chechen war one of many reasons moscow was warning the u.s. about threats of islamic terrorists before nine eleven if this in fact was following monday's attack us media outlets fli

mr. lynch lays out and that we have crippled al qaeda's global capabilities and that's been thanks to a great deal of intelligence sharing and closer cooperation with foreign intelligence agencies and foreign law enforcement agencies as well. but i think we also have to ask, "yes, of course, we're safer but at what cost?" i think the american people have come to accept more infringements on their civil liberties, with the erosion of privacy and fourth amendment rights. we also have to look at the financial costs of both sort of the war in iraq and afghanistan that cost more than one trillion dollars total. and even if you exclude war spending, since 9-11, the u.s. defense budget has actually doubled in real terms. and also, uh, just looking in terms of how we brought our own moral, ah, standards into a greater scrutiny, uh, with things such as abu ghraib, the cia black, uh, black sites, guantanamo bay and other sort of deprivations of due process. so i do think that we are safer in real terms, but again, we sure must ask, "what has this, what has this increased safety cost to our liberties and too, the financial costs?" >> what do you attribut

so please mr levin saying as the minister of transport together with the minister of this whole affair is he to do a request to turn pows relevant procedures and cooperation of the federal security service to them to make sure you know gordon's for instance the security legislation that he used to make sure that all investigative action she should listen to the are taken and as far as the investigation is concerned. when it has tabulation investigation committee used. to carry out all required actions immediately on site in the food chain you know you look at the moment you. must. have ordered the maid the mayor of moscow and the governor of the moscow district movement to head to domodedovo. you could. and we need to make sure that all actions are carried out. through and wants to obtain as much information as possible and try to investigate the incident without delay. the conditions that the speech should be the best and of course from the security point of view and points of view of security in the airports and and on other transport obstacles and the need to pay very close attention to that complex because we have. a whole number of other. of laws con

that the world economic forum, the chamber of commerce and in cooperation with other organizations is at your disposal for this process. mr president, this section will be divided into two parts. first of all people and we will hear you speak to us and out line your current policy. in the second part, the tradition here at the davos we will have an open dialogue moderated by a member of the world economic forum foundation with a number of individuals from the audience. this dialog will be oriented around the priorities that you outlined during your press conference on monday. and the initiation for the g 20. once again, thank you for having replied so willingly to our invitation. it is a genuine pleasure to have you amongst us here today. mr president of the republic. [applause] >> translator: my friend professor schwab, thank you for having honored me by inviting me today. i honestly think you for giving such an internationally positive image of france. i indeed promised i would return. frankly this wasn't the most difficult promise i have had to keep. especially such exceptional weather as we are enjoying here today. bu

mr. hoyer: i appreciate the gentleman's comment and simply in closing, madam speaker, let me saythis. i hope we can cooperate, but we do have a divergence as my friend pointed out. that's the nature of what the house of representatives does, debates differentiate points of view. frankly, my experience as i have said is that when we diverged in a point of view in 1993, when my republican friends took the position that accommodating revenues to spending would, in fact, from their perspective, be a job killer,they talk a lot about job killing legislation. they all voted against that legislation in 1993. and in fact some of my colleagues on my side of the aisle lost their election because of voting for that piece of legislation. in fact, however, it helped create the most robust economy anybody in this chamber has experienced in their lifetime. it created over 22 million jobs as opposed to losing eight million jobs in the last administration under president bush so that there was a substantial difference which you can see, touch, and feel. and read about and know about. so i tell my friend, yes, there's a differ

to making this world, this cooperation possible and for the vision he has given his society and all of us. [applause] >> dr. henry kissinger, secretary gary locke, ambassador mr. muhtar kent, chair of the national committee on u.s.-china relations, ladies and gentlemen, give friends, -- dear friends, i wish to begin to thank the u.s. national committee on u.s.-china relations. i am delighted to have this opportunity to meet friends old and new, to renew friendship and plan for the future. i would like to extend a cordial greetings and best wishes to you and people from various sectors of the united states who have long supported the growth of china-u.s. relations. on this day 74 years ago, president franklin roosevelt made his inaugural speech. the road of enduring progress. he called on the american people, who were coming out of the depression, to unite as one and forge ahead along the road of enduring progress. today, the turbulence caused by the international financial crisis is receding. the world the economy is returning to growth. there still exists many uncertainties and destabilizating factors making recovery a torturous process. all the economies, i

cooperation with us. senator mccain. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i thank the witnesses for their attendance and being here this morning. one of the primary duties of this committee is to engage in oversight of department of defense spending and programs. and while i am unfailing in my support for aggressive oversight by this committee over major defense acquisition programs, and i acknowledge that it is the right and responsibility of the chairman to schedule hearings as he deems fit and appropriate to ensure that the committee exercise its oversight responsibilities effectively. i approach today's hearing with a fair bit of concern, and even a greater amount of skepticism that this hearing will be beneficial to our job of oversight. unfortunately, this hearing appears to be designed to produce little new information about the pending a ward of the air force's kc-x tanker competition. as we all know the competition for the air force's new aerial refueling tanker has been beset by problems and acquisition irregularities four years. after considerabl

cooperation. this is the second session. the first session, and i wish the second session to be a very successful conference. now, i would like -- chinese president mr hu jintao's message to the second session on a strategic forum, u.s.-china clean every -- clean energy cooperation july 16th 2011 and this is the message from president hu jintao. on the occasion of the second session of the strategic forum on u.s.-china clean energy cooperation coasted by the china institute of innovation and development strategy and the brookings institution in washington, d.c., i would like to express congratulations to all of the participants to the fore, through china and the united states and also, i would like to give my sincere greetings to the friends from both countries who have cared for the bilateral relationship between the two countries. ayaan 219, the first session of the strategic forum on the u.s.-china clean energy cooperation was successfully held in beijing, which provided a platform for men and women from both countries to promote cooperation in environment and energy. i believe the second session of the forum will continue to promote the two coun

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cooperation with us. senator mccain. >> thank you, mr. chairman.i appreciate the witnesses attendance here this morning. one of the duties of this committee is to conduct oversight of defense spending. in the knowledge that it is the right and responsibility of the chairman to schedule hearings as he deems fit and appropriate to ensure that the committee exercise its oversight responsibilities effectively, i approached today's hearing with a fair bit of concern and an even greater amount of skepticism that to this hearing will be beneficial to our job of oversight. this hearing appears to be designed to produce little new information about the pending award of the air force tanker competition. as we all know, the competition for the new aerial refueling tanker has been beset by problems for years. after considerable effort to ensure a competition process that is as error-free as possible, the air force inadvertently and incredibly send data related to the competition to each of the respective bettors that they should not having had -- bidders that

chevron, shell and exxon mobil and cooperation obviously from the department of the government , for mrbromwich and secretary salazar. widowed for range of inputs and plenty of opportunity on the scientific agencies, noah, coast guard, to ensure that what we say is grounded in good science and respectable technology. and i don't think so far. i must say we've become a little impatient, bob and i with the criticisms of our confidence or criticism of our commissioner, which maybe was okay to raise six months ago. but the proof is here. is there something wrong or if there are people who have objections to the findings are think they are wrong, we would be very happy to debate on that point. but it seems to me now a little churlish to refer back to them without power there related to the advocacy for their park from which no one seems to be doing. >> thank you. >> thank you, mr. chairman. john amend, the offshore policies is based on some similar assumptions as i understand it. one was the blowout preventer's actually work. that was an assumption. the assumption was the industry have the a

cooperation. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, mr. ambassador, for alerting us to the nature of the threat in the region and what must be done in order to reduce the risks. as you know, my recent trip to the region confirmed that some of your concerns, which is not only concerns of morocco and the region but the international community and we see the writing on the walls. what i would suggest is we open up some discussion for about 15 minutes and then we're going to have some closing remarks. i would be very grateful if you identify yourself just for the record, and keep your question very short periot. >> [inaudible] i would like to ask, regarding egypt, where there could be risks of more radical groups. have you see that current situation in egypt? how you see the events unfolding there? -- how do you see the events unfolding there? >> i think it is very difficult to say how it will unfold. i think that' i am not on the ground and have no information, so i cannot comment on that. i am sorry. >> i would just like to say that we are o

cooperation on issues like climate change and others. more worrisome were the challenges the chinese posed for the obama government. this is well-documented by my colleague mrlled these tests that were manifestations by china. it gave no ground on any of the chinese demands. it also found chinese assertive bs with the united states and neighboring countries over varying issues damaged china's efforts to portray a benign image in asia. these images become more active and working with the united states and encouraging our presence in the asia pacific. it was a decline in the position of the asia pacific and the rise in the position of the united states. meanwhile, the obama government made clear to the chinese government and to the world that the united states is prepared to undertake military measures needed to deal with the build up of chinese forces targeting americans and american interests in the asia-pacific. it also helped to move china to curve the prop propagation by warning that the united states viewed north korea ooze nuclear weapon development as a direct threat to the united states. over the past few months, china tried to ease differences with

cooperation as partners. and let us work with all other countries to build a harmonious world of lasting peace and common prosperity. thank you once again, mror your warm welcome. [applause] [applause] president obama: thank you. thank you. [applause] [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] ♪ ♪ ♪ >> and there you saw the welcoming ceremony earlier this morning at the white house for the president of china. here tonight in town for a state dinner, our live coverage here on c-span2. that's a look at the north lawn, the north portco of the white house. coming up we'll have a special program here on c-span2 talking about u.s.-china relations as we look at the first state dinner for a china leader in 13 years. president hu was here in 2006, but that just included a luncheon with toast. our coverage will continue. there was a joint news conference held today at the white house. let's show you that now. >> gentleman, the president of the united states, and the president of the people's republic of china. president obama: everybody please have a seat. good afternoon. it is my pleasure to welcome pres

cooperation between the u.s. and china in the global recovery from the 2008 financial crisis. the chinese president has introduced by former secretary of state henry kissinger. this is half an hour. pplause] >> mr president, distinguished guests, before i say anything else, let me congratulate president hu jintao on his successful summit in washington, which i'm sure will be marked as a turning point that starts the cooperative dimension in dealing with the important issues that are before us. when we finished the communique announcing my secretisit, he turned to me and said this will shape the world, and it did. the opening of relations between china and the united states after so many years of separation did change the world. since then, eight american presidents, for generations of chinese leaders have worked on this relationship. and when i think of the chne leaders from which chairmen mao who unified the country to with deng xioaping who started an opening to the who implemented one of those concepts in difficult periods and then to president hu jintao, who developed and built on the achievement of its predecessors and came to a situation that both inside china and all the relations of chi

mr. hoyer: i appreciate the gentleman's comment and simply in closing, madam speaker, let me say this. i hope we can cooperate, but we do have a divergence as my friend pointed out. that's the nature of what the house of representatives does, debates differentiate points of view. frankly, my experience as i have said is that when we diverged in a point of view in 1993, when my republican friends took the position that accommodating revenues to spending would, in fact, from their perspective, be a job killer, they talk a lot about job killing legislation. they all voted against that legislation in 1993. and in fact some of my colleagues on my side of the aisle lost their election because of voting for that piece of legislation. in fact, however, it helped create the most robust economy anybody in this chamber has experienced in their lifetime. it created over 22 million jobs as opposed to losing eight million jobs in the last administration under president bush so that there was a substantial difference which you can see, touch, and feel. and read about and know about. so i tell my friend, yes, there's a diffe

mr. chairman. i appreciate her initial outline of the five areas for improvement i think there's ample ground for bipartisan cooperationon some of those. certainly with regard to the 1099 fix. we did bring that forward last july on a suspension. i supported it unfortunately. it did die with insufficient support from the other side of the aisle. we are glad to see that now there is support for the. i know that was an issue of how to pay for. with regard to elements of bill that could be conceived as destroying jobs, i think that's a critical piece to fix. the present is on board fixing that. i have consisted competition across state lines, and hopeful their mighty opportunity to work together with regard to that, i understand having heard why this is coming so quickly, i think there was a commitment made they should happen soon up on the start of the new congress. maybe that's a week or two weeks or three weeks. it's probably not a month or two months or three months, but it's sometime soon. i'm glad we're able to receive a preliminary congressional budget office score. there's a bit of a leap of trust you when you're t

mr. speaker, it is deeply disappointing that following last week's near universal call for unity and cooperation, we saw the calls to lower the temperature of political discourse and move to working together to solving america's pressing issues, the new republican majority is moving full steam ahead with an attempt to repeal the anordable care act. the health care -- affordable care act. the health care law will not be perfect. that prospect will certainly be open to debate and suggestions on how it might be improved might also be open to debate. instead of working together and building on the work that's been done and progress made, we find ourselves here today debating and voting on a bill which while it may pass the house most certainly will never become law nor should it. some call it political catharsis, some pure theater, plain and simple, let's be clear. the positive impact of the existing health care lee form law is having on millions of residents and families in all of our districts is very real. and the the common sense consumer protection are popular. this misguided legislation will s

cooperation on issues like climate change and others. more worrisome were the challenges the administration opposed and this has been well-documented by my colleague mr. warsaw about the maritime areas around the periphery of china, and u.s. intervention in the south china sea and other issues. the obama government reacted coldly and firmly to what secretary of state clinton called these tests that were manifestations of new assertiveness by china. it gave no ground on any of the chinese demands and also found chinese assertiveness with the united states and neighboring asian countries over various issues damaged china's efforts to portray a benign image in asia. these asian governments became more active in working more closely with the united states in an encouraging and active u.s. presence in the asia-pacific. the overall effect was a decline in china's position in the asia-pacific and rise in the position of the united states. meanwhile the obama government made clear to the chinese government and to the world that the united states is prepared to undertake military measures needed to deal with the buildup of chinese forces targeting americans a