mr. frank's amendment. i worked with mr. language of this amendment and with the ranking member in hopes of fashioning this in a manner that responded to the rank the members' concerns, and i believe that it does. i think that he is brought before us here a very important concept that needs to be addressed and needs our attention. mr. franks' doesn't bring forth the merit study it's not deployment, it's not even alternative to the current system we're doing it is a pursuit of knowledge. it's a research project looking at technical risks, gaps and constraints for the space-based interceptor system and the ranking member is concerned of the merit study or moving forward with the development or deployment so we can have an understanding of what the technology would be if a nation pursued this and part of what we have to do every day when we look at these issues is not just decide what we are going to do but also analyze what others are doing or what others have done to get the baseline knowledge of what are the technical gaps co

mr. franks for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, i know there's a lot of emotional aspects of this debate. when this was being debated last year, one the things i felt was left out quite often was the central issue here. does the policy of "don't ask, don't tell" does it increase or decrease the capability of our military? does it tend in favor of our national security? that should have been the central question. from my perspective, those best able to speak to that issue were those commanders that actually have to fight and win our wars. they only ask us for one thing. they ask us for the time to study this and give us the report. unfortunately, those who control the congress last year were not willing to give them that time. mr. hunter's amendment would at least try to give them some even retroactive capability to speak to the issue. and in the final analysis, it seems to me that their voices should be heard. and if, indeed, the majority is correct here that their voices are all going to be in favor of this, then there's

mr. franks recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, i want to point out i don't think this is changing the rules, as it were. because the entire debate in the senate was predicated on the importance of nuclear modernization on the part of the united states. this was not an ancillary issue, this was a central consideration. and i believe that mr. kyl and others were concerned primarily at some of the disadvantaging that this might offer to us in new s.t.a.r.t. simply because strategic weapons were the primary weapons included in s.t.a.r.t. tactical weapons were not addressed. we were certainly at an extreme disadvantage in tactical weapons with the russians. it's also true that our nuclear umbrella has to reach in more places and in a broader sense than the russians do. mr. chairman, i think that the senators on the republican side believe that it was important to have this nuclear mod -- modernization. the president gave his promise. i think for the sake of national security, we should maintain that. i should point out one mo

mr. franks: madam speaker, what he said and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. without objection, the previous question is ordered on the motion to recommit. the question is on the motion. all those in favor say aye. those opposed say no. the noes have it. the motion is not agreed to. ms. speier: madam speaker, i request a record vote. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from california requests a recorded vote. a recorded vote is requested. those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a lord -- recorded vote is ordered. members will recs will record t by electronic device. excuse me. pursuant to clause 9 of rule 20, the chair will reduce to five minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote on the question opassage. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedgs f

mr. franks is recognized for his question. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, general holder for being here. sir, money is indeed the lifeblood of terrorism. without funding, terrorism would be nearly impossible. the 2008 holy land foundation case was the largest terrorism finance case in u.s. history, as you well know. according to the volumes of case history and evidence available on the web site of the federal court of the northern district of texas, hundreds of u.s.-based persons or entities are listed as unindicted co-conspirators who allegedly funneled millions of dollars to the designated terrorist organization hamas under the guise of funding a muslim charity. sources have told us that the case was the product of 19 years of investigations consuming thousands of hours, thousands of man hours, and manpower and millions of dollars. the department of justice has signaled it will not further prosecute this case, despite the voluminous evidence that the unindicted co-conspirators are financing terror from within the united states. chairman smith o

mr. franks is recognized for his question. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, general holder for being here. sir, money is indeed the lifeblood of terrorism. without funding, terrorism would be nearly impossible. the 2008 holy land foundation case was the largest terrorism finance case in u.s. history, as you well know. according to the volumes of case history and evidence available on the web site of the federal court of the northern district of texas, hundreds of u.s.-based persons or entities are listed as unindicted co-conspirators who allegedly funneled millions of dollars to the designated terrorist organization hamas under the guise of funding a muslim charity. sources have told us that the case was the product of 19 years of instigations consuming thousands of hours, thousands of man hours, and manpower and miions of dollars. the department of justiceas signaled it will not further prosecute thiscase, despite the voluminous evidence that the unindicted co-conspirators are financing terror from within the united states. chairman smith of this

mr. franks for minor counterdevelopment. by mr. lanborn for sustainment technologies. by mr.shilling for munitions and weapons manufacturing. an amendment by mr. johnson for vaccine development. an amendment by mr. hunter for helicopter brownout mitigation. an amendment by mr. hunter for deoxygenation. i can't say it. systems. an amendment by mr. ryan for 3-d design and manufacturing. an amendment by mr. bartlett for aircraft command and control systems. and an amendment by mr. bartlett for corps of engineers capabilities. >> without objection, reading of the amendment will be dispensed with suspect there any discussion on the gentleman's amendment? if not, the question is on adoption of the amendment offered by mr. thornberry. so many as are in favor will say yea. any opposed will say no. the yeas have it. and the amendment is agreed to. gentlemen, mr. thornberry is recognized for the -- for n-block amendment. >> mr. chairman, i ask unanimous consent to call up a final n-block of policy amendments that have been worked and approved by the minority side comprised of following

mr. franks recognized for five minutes. >> mr. chairman. we find ourselves in an unfortunate element of debate simply because the line between strategic weapons and tactical weapons is beginning to blur a little bit if you are germany or someone like that. if you are surrounded by russian tactical weapons that have the capability to decimate your country, all of a sudden the distinction between a strategic nature or technical nature sort of doesn't matter that much to you. one of the great weaknesses of the new s.t.a.r.t. treaty is it separated for those two weapons to the extent where america has the obvious advantage. most would agree related to the strategic weapons. we made the treaty based on those alone. we are in the process of building down significantly and we left what must be a 10-1 disadvantage with the russians on tactical weapons. out of the equations and at some point we have to debate that or enter -- whether it is the treaty or part of the administration. that is going to leave us at a strategic disadvantage in the debate i

mr. franks is recognized for his question. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, general holder for being here. sir, money is indeed the lifeblood of terrorism. without funding, terrorism would be nearly impossible. the 2008 holy land foundation case was the largest terrorism finance case in u.s. history, as you well know. according to the volumes of case history and evidence available on the web site of the federal court of the northern district of texas, hundreds of u.s.-based persons or entities are listed as unindicted co-conspirators who allegedly funneled millions of dollars to the designated terrorist organization hamas under the guise of funding a muslim charity. sources have told us that the case was the product of 19 years of investigations consuming thousands of hours, thousands of man hours, and manpower and millions of dollars. the department of justice has signaled it will not further prosecute this case, despite the voluminous evidence that the unindicted co-conspirators are financing terror from within the united states. chairman smith o

mr. franks, who is the chairman of the constitutional subcommittee of the judiciary committee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from arizo is recognized for two minutes. mr. franks: i thank the gentleman. madam speaker, it is said that a government is what it spends. this bill is really about whether the role of america's government is to fund a practice that takes the lives of over one million unborn american babies every year. despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of americans, even some of those who consider themselves pro-choice, strongly object to their taxpayer dollars being used to pay for abortions. in 1973, madam speaker, the united states supreme court said the unborn child was not a person under the constitution. and we have since witnessed the tragic deaths of over 50 million innocent little baby boys and girls who dd without the protection we in this chamber should have give them. some of this was carried out with taxpayer dollars before the hyde amement and other such laws were in place. and taxpayer funding of abortion could recommence in the futu

mr. franks for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, i know there's a lot of emotional aspects of this debate. when this was being debated last year, one the things i felt was left out quite often was the central issue here. does the policy of "don't ask, don't tell" does it increase or decrease the capability of our military? does it tend in favor of our national security? that should have been the central question. from my perspective, those best able to speak to that issue were those commanders that actually have to fight and win our wars. they only ask us for one thing. they ask us for the time to study this and give us the report. unfortunately, those who control the congress last year were not willing to give them that time. mr. hunter's amendment would at least try to give them some even retroactive capability to speak to the issue. and in the final analysis, it seems to me that their voices should be heard. and if, indeed, the majority is correct here that their voices are all going to be in favor of this, then there's

mr. franks, who is the chairman of the constitutional subcommittee of the judiciary committee.he speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from arizona is recognized for two minutes. mr. franks: i thank the gentleman. madam speaker, it is said that a government is what it spends. this bill is really about whether the role of america's government is to fund a practice that takes the lives of over one million unborn american babies every year. despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of americans, even some of those who consider themselves pro-choice, strongly object to their taxpayer dollars being used to pay for abortions. in 1973, madam speaker, the united states supreme court said the unborn child was not a person under the constitution. and we have since witnessed the tragic deaths of over 50 million innocent little baby boys and girls who died without the protection we in this chamber should have give them. some of this was carried out with taxpayer dollars before the hyde amendment and other such laws were in place. and taxpayer funding of abortion could recommence in the

mr. franks from arizona. the chair: the gentleman from arizona is recognized for 1 1/2 minutes. mr. franks: i would seek to put this in some kind of perspective. ever since mankind took umh arms, there has been an offensive weapon met with a defensive weapon. the spear brought the shield, the artillery brought the armed battle tank and we face the world's most dangerous weapons in the form of intercontinental ballistic missiles and could kill hundreds of thousands of people in a city or over our nation continent, a blast could perhaps overtime destroying our electric infrastructure kill tens of millions of people. and the only system that we have to defend ourselves against that type of weapon is our ground-based mid-course defense system and this amendment seeks to cut this another $100 million on top of the cuts that the administration has constantly done throughout its tenure. i would suggest to you that is the height of irresponsibility. when two amplese hit two buildings, it cost this economy $2 trillion. this is not the way to have priorities. our primary duty is to protect the

mr. franks. the chair: the gentleman from arizona is recognized for two minutes. mr. franks: well, i thank the gentleman. madam chair, all of us are grateful to the men and women who put themselves at harm's way between the benevolent and the innocent for the sake of this country. we need to remind ourselves, they don't fight because they hate the enemy or hate what's in front of them. they fight because they love what's behind them. they love us, they love our country, they love the cause of freedom and they love their families. they love their families more than anything, madam chair, and they want to make sure that their children have the very best future that they can give them. and, madam chair, this amendment that i'm so thankful for mr. hunter bringing forth would allow parents an extra option for their children, especially when they're special needs children. in the midst of all the travel that the armed services people have to take, they need this option, madam chair. i think it's unbelievable we wouldn't support them. fundamentally one of two people will choo

mr. frank is vice president for government studies here at heritage.he oversees or reshoot capitol hill and the executive branch. he served as heritage director of congressional relations as well as having served for director to medication for former house minority leader dick armey. he also served in the office of national drug control policy and of the legislative counsel for then represented william dannemeyer california for returning here to heritage to work in his current capacity. he's a native of new york graduate appeal, earning his jd from georgetown. reassuring me in welcoming my colleague, mike frank. [applause] >> well, i will introduce tasting panel from the podium, but we will all be seated and make it a little less formal. first of all, welcome to heritage and welcome to this event. a preview of president obama strip to ireland, great britain and poland. we are honored today to have three very same diplomats, to ambassadors and the british embassy to give us a preview of what to expect in some of -- discuss some of the challenges in each

mr. chairman frank for the record, i apologize to the witness, dr. warren, for the rude and disrespectful behavior of the chair. snarky comments about a senate race in the questioning of your veracity about you being totally truthful means to me that this is about impugning you because people are afraid of you and your ability to communicate in very clear terms the threat to our consumers, the threat to our constituents, and possibly very effective ways to combat them. i think in one respect, i congratulate you for installing such fear in the committee on the majority side, and in some spots aspects of that business community, because they understand how effective you are in getting the message out to the american people that there are better ways to do this. that being said, one of the major questions being asked here is whether there is a need for your agency and the agency did in the light that there are seven agencies with authority in this area. they have been around for some time. during the time of the seven agencies, have financial products w

senator frank and come senator colburn, thank you both for holding this hearing. >> thank you, again, mr. sherman for holding this coming and i really want to express my pleasure with working with my -- the ranking member of the committee, senator coburn, thank you for your friendship and for working on these critical issues. before we turn to the business of today's hearing i want to take a moment to explain what i think the subcommittee is about and where we are headed. to me, the subcommittee is about addressing a fundamental shift that we have seen the past 40 or 50 years and who has our information and what they are doing with it. when i was growing up when people talked about attacking the privacy, they talked about protecting it from the government. they talked about unreasonable search and seizure, about keeping the government out of our families, out of our bedrooms, they talked about is the government trying to keep tabs on the books i read and the rallies i attend? we still have to protect ourselves from the government abuse and that is a big part of the digital privacy de dat

this one was pulled together by frank fong at the board of appeals in honor of mr. cornfield who have been transferred to the city attorney's office to work on seismic safety standards in the city, or something along those lines. so he will no longer be representing the building department at the board of appeals. we did have staff defect from the friends meeting come to our perception. their names will not be mentioned here. [laughter] i did also attend, along with commissioner miguel and director ram, the supervisors hearing on historic preservation. i did stay till the very end, i think the second to the last speaker. i did offer some suggestions directly to the supervisor. i will be following up with that myself. lastly, in the business section

mr. trent franks, when he asked to a "dallas morning news" article which quotes mr. jacks saying there was no political pactors involved in that decision. well, i have a copy of that article as well. and i also have a copy of mr. jacks' pleadings where he did a very nice job of setting out that there was a strong case. in essence, a prima facie case of people who wanted their names eliminated as co-conspirators in the pleading. and he also filed a pleading with the fifth circuit court of appeals. now, i know as a former judge and chief justice, lawyers are not supposed to file pleadings and try to persuade based on fact that they believe or know not to be true. it's called fraud upon the court. and there's punitive actions that lie in that case. but the information that u.s. attorney jacks provided to the district court and to the fifth circuit court of appeals seems to be very authentic and very well done. obviously a very capable lawyer. there are no punitive actions that can be taken for misleading a newspaper. and on the other hand, perhaps he doesn't know what w

frank and i think you for holding this hearing. i think it's extremely important, and i would want to some budget matters now but i appreciate -- >> please do that. thank you mr. chairman. cementer blumenthal? >> thank you, senator frank and for your leadership and again, senator leahy for your championing many of the privacy issues over decades literally and provide a model of that kind of leadership for us. and i want to thank the witnesses for being here also apple and google and the consultants that we have in this profoundly important hearing, and what ever the kind of challenging questions we may ask i would hope that we are all on the same side of this cause because right now what we face in my view is literally a wild west so far as the internet is concerned. we can debate the legal nice and technicalities of the ftc statute that prohibits unfair and deceptive practices don't provide the kind of targeted enforcement opportunity that i think is absolutely necessary, and i know the department of justice is going to be seeking additional authority which is absolutely necessary in this one area pertains to young people, children, which we haven't discusse

this one was pulled together by frank fong at the board of appeals in honor of mr. cornfield who have been transferred to the city attorney's office to work on seismic safety standards in the city, or something along those lines. so he will no longer be representing the building department at the board of appeals. we did have staff defect from the friends meeting come to our perception. their names will not be mentioned here. [laughter] i did also attend, along with commissioner miguel and director ram, the supervisors hearing on historic preservation. i did stay till the very end, i think the second to the last speaker. i did offer some suggestions directly to the supervisor. i will be following up with that myself. lastly, in the business section, there was mention of a study that was done which places san francisco in the top five cities top five cities of opportunity. if you go to the website, it is www.puc.gov, i think. there is an extensive amount of information at their, i think. that people analyzed to see why the san francisco is redid so high. i think a lo

frank mallicoat. it is 6:30. >> we have dubbed him mr. friday because he always delivers. >> i like mr. sunshine!> that's a lot of pressure. [ laughter ] >> we are starting out with low clouds and fog around the bay area but by the afternoon, it looks like here comes that sunshine again. 73 degrees in san jose. 74 in concord. 60s inside the bay. the weekend could be a whole different story. we'll talk more about that in a moment. right now let's check the traffic with elizabeth. >> all right. thank you, lawrence. chopper 5 continues to fly. they are over the peninsula or head offing southbound actually on 101 over by oyster point. we are still following this injury crash. it's on southbound 101 right there as you approach sfo so i in chopper is going to try to head down towards the scene if fog doesn't get in the way but yeah, injury crash sounds like a couple lanes blocked and traffic is beginning to stack up a bit in the southbound lanes. we'll have more details on that coming up. back to you guys. >>> thank you. 6:31 your time. >>> this morning a bay area man is in stable condition after a fre

frank mallicoat. traffic and weather downstairs to mr. lawrence karnow. >> we're all waiting for more sunshine but we have continued showers around the bay area this morning. hi-def doppler picking up on that. most of that beginning to slide eastward just east of the livermore valley now towards san jose. and some along the coastline. we have a couple near san francisco. it will be winding down. sunshine is coming our way. we'll tell you when in a few minutes. first elizabeth has traffic. >> we are going life towards the golden gate bridge. they should be doing the lane change here any minute traffic light on the golden gate bridge. wind advisory on some of our bridges. plus we have the amgen tour. road closures from livermore towards san jose. we'll give you a breakdown of all of it coming up. back to you. >> thank you. >>> morning we are getting a look at the mother of arnold schwarzenegger's love child and a home he bought for her. we have learned that schwarzenegger's mistress didn't tell him about the baby right away. and in the stud

mr. chairman i'm going to ask the transitional council for the interview her. sure and i also frank you and the russians today channel as well as all the russian people and the russian government for russia's position we very much appreciate your position and we are hopeful that we will be able to have a constructive dialogue with the gadhafi regime to stop the bloodshed and implement the revolutions aspirations for gadhafi and his sons to leave the political arena in libya thank you. but i kill innocent here i was a call this of course and that's never answered. mom a song from the skull still with me i think of it every day. i steal the flashlight from the memories and. sell my soul a long time i'm just here trying to help. i was ashamed. i was ashamed that i'd been wounded i was ashamed that i hadn't been a hero why i got marmite oh my legs i'm alive. but in the mind. what i want to be out of knowledge so far forward to this. that i'll believe what i was going on once or i think. that i was a good soldier. but namo soldier on the other side and i think i'm just it's good. when. y

mr. chairman. >> thank you. senator frank anden? -- senator franken? >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, mr. secretary. the house passed a bill for processing offshore drilling permit approvals. after that, the permit would be deemed automatically approved. so, it seems like this is a bad policy on a number of rounds. first and foremost, i think the number-one lesson from the gulf oil spill, that you cannot assume there are adequate safety measures are in place. can you also -- if you cannot get it done in 60 days, i guess i instead of being automatically approved, you just say no. that is probably also a bad idea. can you talk about your agency's ability to ensure safety in offshore drilling operations? >> i think it would pull up the rug from what we're trying to do here, which is to have safe oil and gas drilling in america's oceans. we are in the position where it would not work. i think it would be good for director bromwich to talk about the process. >> i agree with the secretary and with you, senator. it would be a bad idea to of arbitrary time limit within which you would have to app

it is critical that the cfpb be implemented and set forth in the dodd-frank act. thank you mr. chairman, and i yield back. >> i thank the ranking member. but members will have seven days for material for the record. and. all witnesses will be sworn in before they testify and if you stand and raise your right hand and repeat after me. the you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you're about to give will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? the record will indicate the witness answered in the affirmative. our first panel of the sole witness is mazie elizabeth warren who serves as the assistant to the president and special lead advisor to the secretary treasury for the consumer financial protection bureau at the u.s. department of treasury and so we have a system of rights and with one minute remaining you will get the yellow light and five minutes to your opening statement or summarize your opening statement and we move forward with questions thereafter. you are recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, ranking member quickly and ranking member of the subc

frank mallicoat. it is 4:30. you know the guy to the right of me here, mr. congeniality, mr. lawrence, we love him a little more today. >> do we? [ laughter ] >> i'm happy because elizabeth happy because we have a little sunshine. >> we are going to have -- but there is a little fog out there. don't want to bring us down this early in the morning but there is some fog out there this morning. couple of clouds but hey, it's not going to rain today. we are going to see sunshine and warmer temperatures around the bay area. how about 76 degrees in concord. >> whoo! >> let's go there. >> 75 in san jose. you have 68 in oakland. and 66 degrees in san francisco. more on that forecast coming up in just a minute. elizabeth has traffic. >> road trip to concord! >>> we have overnight roadwork eastbound 4 at loveridge ongoing roadwork eastbound. new roadwork east- and westbound 92 at hesperian delays until 5:00 but the san mateo bridge itself looks great. more traffic coming up. >>> oakland police still on the scene of an overnight shooting in the fruitvale area. police shot two suspects a

mr. sessions: 71%. i don't think it's -- do you think perhaps some of us here in washington are overafraid of being frank and truthful with our constituents about the challenges america faces? mr. coburn: well, i would answer through the president that i think we're perplexed. we see, we know intellectually that there is a big problem and we have this challenge of do i go down this path to do the best thing for our country or do i go down this path to do the best thing for me? i look at politics different than most of our colleagues. to the senator from alabama, i would say i don't really care whether i'm here or not. i care about whether america is here or not. but our point ought to be is how do we secure the vote and how do we establish trust with the american people? if my colleague would go with me -- and i know he knows this -- look at the confidence of the people in this country and the congress. why is there a lack of confidence? you know, why is it that 80% of the people in the united states don't have any confidence in congress? i can tell you why. it's because we have built trust and credibili

frank. >> thank you, mr. speaker. we're considering a bill a similar provision this week, that would set a limit for processing offshore drilling permit approvals, after that the permit would be deemed automatically approved. to me, this seems like a bad policy on a number of grounds. first and foremost, it completely egg fores, i think, the number one lesson from the gulf oil spill, you can't assume that drilling operations have adequate safety measures in place. can you also if you can't get it done in 60 days, i guess instead of being approved, you just say no. can you talk about the ability to ensure safety of offshore drilling operations? >> i think what it would do is basically pull out the rug from what it is we are trying to do here and that is to have safe development of oil and gas in america's oceans and you can't do that when you are essentially in a position where you are forced to approve in a 60-daytime frame. i think it would be good for the director to talk about the permit process so we understand th

to get that you should cooperate with us or you should be frank about it we move on and i think those questions. to my friend and colleague mr mammals and i hope they will answer those questions and we were able to work out a model for a copper ration on a missile defense and you know otherwise we'll have to seek measures and we don't want to do that for us you know when you're down or we'll have to quickly develop power in the city strike potential can for our you know arsenal and this is a very bad scenario this is the kind of scene aereo that will send bad as to the cold war era and i told my colleagues you know those. he cheated in twenty twenty after it got passed through all the fourth pieces of the plan will be this. plan we just put in you might see what possible it's not going to be you making those decisions and not. you know but we pretty much there are all these littles who will be making those decisions and most probably in the. russian leader with those machines will make all these moves iterations and so we need to consider right now in what we will hand over in this trial of the machines the next generations

mr. renacci. >> thank you for being here. i want to focus on the composition of your board of directors and under dodd-frank the new composition includes the director of the cfpb being one of the members on your board. coming from the private sector and the business sector and sitting on many boards i was always concerned and the setup of all boards i was always concerned about direct or indirect conflict of interest. knowing that you are going to have to work on a regular basis, one of the individuals which would be the director of the cfpb i am concerned there would be a conflict of interest especially when it comes to your seat on the financial -- because as we know right now, f dot can review the rule but it takes two thirds to do that. i know my colleague mr. duffy introduced some legislation last week or the week before to talk a little bit about this. when you have to work with your board on a regular basis and then you go over to fsoc and you take seven of ten to box a rule by one of the directors who sits on your board and that person also has a vote out of ten and you would have a vote out of ten, you start to limit

frank act. thank you, mr. chairman, and i yield back. >> i thank the ranking member. members have seven days to submit material to the record. it is pursuant to committee rules, all witnesses are sworn before they testify, and if you'll stand and raise your right hand and repeat after me. do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing be the truth? the record will indicate the witness answered in the atirmtive. our first panel, sole witness on the first panel is ms. elizabeth warren serving as the assistant to the president and special adviser to the secretary of treasury for the consumer financial protection bureau at the u.s. department of treasury. ms. warren, you are accustomed to testifying before congress, and so we have a system of lights, and with one minute, you get the yellow light and have five minutes to summarize your opening statement, and we move forward with questions thereafter. you are recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, chairman mchenry, ranking member quigley. thank you for

frank. in a home we'll hear more about the talks but first our state department correspondent has more details on mrsclinton's interview. >> well, hillary clinton's comments were in fact made about a month ago but they were published today in the "atlantic monthly" and she seems to suggest very strongly china may be trying to put an end to clamp down on human rights activists, authors even and said that's not sustainable. she said china's attempt to stop the course of history was a fool's air and. it is an interesting comment and must have cause someday tension in the high-level talks that chinese and american officials were having in washington but this administration now seems to have decided that the issue of human rights is one that needs to be discussed in the open, and that is in stark contrast to how they approached the issue of china's human rights at the very beginning of the administration where their criticism was more muted and something they raised more in private and mostly an issue that they tried to work on by not necessarily talking to the chinese government but talking to human righ

frank mallicoat. time now is 4:30 on what i guess is going to be a beautiful day. >> looking forward to it. we need that verified by mr. lawrence karnow. >> i'll put my stamp on it. it should be a good day but we are seeing patchy fog. >> oh, lawrence. >> just a one little wrinkle. but we have a lot of sunshine. 60s in san francisco, 80s inland. it's going to be better over the next couple of days. first let's check traffic with elizabeth. >> you have had a pretty nice gig lately. lots of sunshine. all right. let's go out towards eastbound 4. ongoing roadwork and all lanes are completely shut down at loveridge for ongoing construction. detour signs are in the place for the rest of the bay area. we'll check mass transit coming up. back to you. >>> u.s. officials haven't decideed whether they will release photos of osama bin laden after he was killed. >> yes. the graphic pictures show a gunshot wound in the head. this afternoon in washington, president obama will meet with the cabinet. joel brown on what they have learned about the raid that killed bin laden. >>> reporter: members of congress treated president obama to

frank act. what do you think of the repeal effort? should we go back to the system of regulation that existed before the financial crisis? >> mr. chairman, as i sit in my opening comment, i think it there is no alternative but to move forward with a dodd-frank statute as enacted. the idea that taxpayers continue to be on the hook in these moments of stress is one that is unacceptable, and i think the statute clearly puts an end to it and so we think that it's critical that in the kind of very as you discussed in your opening statement, orderly liquidation of 40, the resolution plans that need to be put forward to both the fed and the fdic that these are critical elements of making sure that we in the the two big to fail and that we make certain that the tax payers are not any longer on the hook. >> mr. chairman, it was clear, painfully clear in retrospect the regulatory system that was existing during the crisis was insufficient. there's been a long and process about how to reform the regulation. i would reiterate what mr. wolin said about the importance of addressing too big to fail. chairman bair also mentioned this. the rate

frank act. what do you think of the repeal effort? should we go back to the system of regulation that existed before the financial crisis? >> mr. chairman, as i sit in my opening comment, i think it there is no alternative but to move forward with a dodd-frank statute as enacted. the idea that taxpayers continue to be on the hook in these moments of stress is one that is unacceptable, and i think the statute clearly puts an end to it and so we think that it's critical that in the kind of very as you discussed in your opening statement, orderly liquidation of 40, the resolution plans that need to be put forward to both the fed and the fdic that these are critical elements of making sure that we in the the two big to fail and that we make certain that the tax payers are not any longer on the hook. >> mr. chairman, it was clear, painfully clear in retrospect the regulatory system that was existing during the crisis was insufficient. there's been a long and process about how to reform the regulation. i would reiterate what mr. wolin said about the importance of addressing too big to fail. chairman bair also mentioned this. the rate

frank act. what do you think of the repeal effort? should we go back to the system of regulation that existed before the financial crisis? >> mr. chairman, as i sit in my opening comment, i think it there is no alternative but to move forward with a dodd-frank statute as enacted. the idea that taxpayers continue to be on the hook in these moments of stress is one that is unacceptable, and i think the statute clearly puts an end to it and so we think that it's critical that in the kind of very as you discussed in your opening statement, orderly liquidation of 40, the resolution plans that need to be put forward to both the fed and the fdic that these are critical elements of making sure that we in the the two big to fail and that we make certain that the tax payers are not any longer on the hook. >> mr. chairman, it was clear, painfully clear in retrospect the regulatory system that was existing during the crisis was insufficient. there's been a long and process about how to reform the regulation. i would reiterate what mr. wolin said about the importance of addressing too big to fail. chairman bair also mentioned this. the rate

frank in sponsoring h.r.-1 93 with regards to their particular case. mr. elias if he would proceed. congressman smith and distinguish memories of the subcommittee, my name is michael eliza and i would like to thank you for all your opportunities to share with you my personal experience involving international child abduction. i would like to first extend my deepest sympathies to the people of japan affected by the devastation of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters. i am a former sergeant of the states marine corps from august 2003, november 2007. i've currently a chef in a state of new jersey. while stationed in japan in 2004-2005, i met my wife. and shortly thereafter i was stationed in camp lejeune, north carolina. she contacted me and inform me that she was pregnant. in september 2005, she relocated to the united states, and that october 18, 2005, we were married in new jersey. our first child, jade was born on january 5, 2006, at the naval hospital in camp lejeune. in march of 2007, i was deployed to iraq. on august 2, 2007, while i was serving my country, my son micha

frank, good morning. caller: my question to mr. rogin, 80% of the american problems deals with the palestinian issue.he terrorist issue stems basically from the fact that america [unintelligible] has been one-sided. [unintelligible] guest: i will assume that you are referring to foreign policy problems because they are not responsible for our education system. let's focus on foreign policy for a minute. the u.s. support of israel, a real and calculated set of policy decisions, has been in place for decades. place for decades. yet we have not had these severe problems in the region for that long. so there must be other causes. one of the rain -- one of the main reasons that al qaeda is fighting is because of our policies in terms of the occupation in iraq, in saudi arabia, afghanistan and pakistan. none of this is directly related to the palestinians. the wave of popular revolutions in the middle east is not about israel and the palestinians. that is not to say that people do not connect them in their speeches and rhetoric. that is not to say that u.s. policy does not pay a price for the support of is

frank mallicoat. >> time to pay your rent. i'm elizabeth wenger. sydnie is off fly fishing. >> we have your traffic and weather. mr.karnow mr. congeniality this week -- not! >> no. boy, not many friends this week. we have a lot of showers again showing up around the bay area. and boy, from you doing anything outside like fly fishing, a tough go as we have this line dropping in. this is all spreading south. we are not ending there. we have more rain on the way. we'll have more details in a moment. right now let's check traffic with gianna. >> thank you, lawrence. we head to marin county. we have had our eye on this trouble spot all morning long. northbound lanes open 101 at san antonio, no delays there. traffic looking good. clear across the golden gate bridge. we'll have a look at the altamont pass coming up. right now let's head back to the news desk. >> thank you, gianna. >>> hayward police are digging deeper trying to locate a missing student nurse. she disappeared last week in the east bay. kiet do is in hayward, where police are now asking for help from another police department. good morning, kiet. >> reporte

frank and sydnie. >> we hope that little dog confined his family. thanks, anne makovec in san francisco. >>> 6:58 your time. one last check of weather, mr.rnow enjoying a little cinco de mayo celebration. he has the hat on. hey, lawrence. >> hombres right down here in san jose, in emma prusch park this is where they will have the official cinco de mayo parade that coming a little later on this morning. 11:00 today if you want to enjoy that. by the way, got a trophy award here. this goes to edgar our photographer. there you go. thanks for helping with cinco de mayo today. don't mind that it says for the boys choir there on the bottom. hey, guys, today a lot of sunshine and some nice weather outside. you are going to see 70s inside the bay hot inland 80s and 90s, 60s at the coastline. all right. let's check on traffic with elizabeth. >> all right. thank you, lawrence. we are going quickly out towards chopper 5. live over the macarthur maze, everything looks good. at the bay bridge toll plaza the metering lights are on but our backup is not as bad as we typically see. it's onl

i look forward to productive discussion and senator frank and, senator coburn, i thank you both. >> thank you again, mr. chairman, for this opportunity i want to express my pleasure working with the ranking member of this committee, senator coburn. thank you for your friendship and for working on these critical issues. before we turn to the business of today's hearing, i want to take a moment to explain where it think this -- what if the subcommittee is about and where we are heading. the subcommittee is about addressing a fundamental shift that we have seen in the last 40 or 50 years in who has our information and what they are doing with it. when i was growing up and people talk about protecting privacy, they talk about protecting it from the government. they talked about are unreasonable searches and seizures and about keeping the government out of our families and bedrooms. they talked about the government trying to keep tabs on the books i read and the rallies i attend. we still have to protect ourselves from government abuses and that is a big part of the digital privacy debate. we also have rela

mr. paul yesterday off stage but online raised a million dollars during the proceedings, and former new mexico governor gary johnson. but the lesser-known candidate who scored big particularly in frank huns' focus group was the little known businessman, herman cain, godfathers pizza mogul. listen to this. >> i'm proud of the fact, quite frankly, that i haven't held public office before because i ask people, most of the people that are in elected office in washington, d.c., they have held public office before. how's that working for you? [laughter] we have a mess. >> reporter: and the unofficial polls are showing most folks who watched the debate agreed that he was a standout, obviously, gop voters were somewhat pleaded by him. jenna: in our unscientific poll, 49% of the 13,000 people who have voted so far say herman cain is the winner. it'll be interesting to see what happens. >> reporter: good night for him. jenna: yeah, very good night. carl, thank you so much. jon: let's talk more about that debate. which candidate seized the political spotlight? we'll bring in now billgy doe, editorial page editor of "the wall street journal." some interesting moments last night. you think that

mr. baer. >> thank you come honorable committee members for inviting me to testify today. chairman smith, thank you in particular for your support of eight s. res. 193 with congressman frank my children, both american citizens were kidnapped and are being held illegally today in egypt by egypt. meanwhile, the united states reports egypt by giving them billions of dollars of aid to the billion dollars in particular announced last week. this is wrong. by any definition when i call any aid in egypt to the united states until they recognize human rights, the spirit of their own revolution and in doing so returned my son's. norm and ramsey ten and eight were kidnapped in 2000 mine by their mother. in light of the conditions outlined in eight s. res. 193, i you've always assumed the parenting responsibilities for my boys. i woke up with them everyday, said them, clothed them, made sure they got to school or the appropriate activity, i scheduled for them and brought them to their plates and parties, i bade them, read to them and put them to bed. i changed jobs in order to simultaneously support my family financially and act as a single parent. before and after the divorce, i rem

mr. chairman. thank you, chairman king. thank you members of the committee for having this hearing. it is very important to have a frank discussion of this issue because it is one that risks american lives. let me first start out by saying that the chairman noted earlier i recently left a u.s. special operations command working at the pentagon and before that special operations forces in afghanistan and would like to think those colleagues have participated in the raid against osama bin laden, both for their bravery and patriotism. i had the pleasure of working with some of them and salute what they've done for the nation. let me begin by focusing on what i consider a very important question that the united states now faces. i come back to the pakistan and a second. but the questionnaires, now now that osama bin laden is dead, how will the nature of the threat emanating from pakistan to evolve clicks the threat to the u.s. homeland? this is again one that threatens american lives, so setting aside for the purpose of the series omegamon, somalia and other areas which are important, i will focus my comments on this. the

mr. chairman. thank you, charming caine. thank you vendors of the committee for having this hearing. it is very important i think to have a frank discussion of this issue because it is one that risks american lives. let me first start out by saying is the chairman noted earlier i recently left a u.s. special operations command working at the pentagon emanating from pakistan involved in the u.s. homeland. this is again so setting aside for the purposes of this hearing gehman, smalley and other areas are important. i will focus my comments on this. the way i see this trendy and we partied the movement in this direction is probably a slightly more decentralized diffuse threat this has enormous implications. there remains five tiers to monitor. one is central al qaeda that continues to exist in pakistan so we have questions certainly now about bin laden and his hideout, similar questions one can also ask about al qaeda's number two, possibly now number one. where is iman al zawahiri and how much knowledge as the havoc his whereabouts clicks we know historically targeted by the u.s. in pakistan in 2006 in january he was targeted by

mr. chairman. thank you, charming caine. thank you vendors of the committee for having this hearing. it is very important i think to have a frank discussion of this issue because it is one that risks american lives. let me first start out by saying is the chairman noted earlier i recently left a u.s. special operations command working at the pentagon emanating from pakistan involved in the u.s. homeland. this is again so setting aside for the purposes of this hearing gehman, smalley and other areas are important. i will focus my comments on this. the way i see this trendy and we partied the movement in this direction is probably a slightly more decentralized diffuse threat this has enormous implications. there remains five tiers to monitor. one is central al qaeda that continues to exist in pakistan so we have questions certainly now about bin laden and his hideout, similar questions one can also ask about al qaeda's number two, possibly now number one. where is iman al zawahiri and how much knowledge as the havoc his whereabouts clicks we know historically targeted by the u.s. in pakistan in 2006 in january he was targeted by

folks but it was painful getting their to be frank with you but at the end of the day we figured out and worked out better so i think the approach again mr. chairman there's going to be some work to do it that's why this hearing was good to hear from you. my son and ii like having him collect stamps because there's history behind each stand and last thursday went to the post office website, ordered some first edition stamps and they came on monday. when you think about that, that shows the efficiency you have to organize it, package it, put it in, deliver it and we got it, and that is just an amazing thing, stamped envelope on the can stand from here and a village in western alaska is amazing so i credit the post office. thank you mr. chairman for allowing me to say a few words. >> we look forward to working with you on these issues. one question and this will be for maybe mr. guffey and mr. strong to members were directly with postal customers every day as we all know? what do you think the postal service needs to do to reach out to customers with their individual customers or the biggest out there to attract new business? what do we ne

folks but it was painful getting their to be frank with you but at the end of the day we figured out and worked out better so i think the approach again mr. chairman there's going to be some work to do it that's why this hearing was good to hear from you. my son and ii like having him collect stamps because there's history behind each stand and last thursday went to the post office website, ordered some first edition stamps and they came on monday. when you think about that, that shows the efficiency you have to organize it, package it, put it in, deliver it and we got it, and that is just an amazing thing, stamped envelope on the can stand from here and a village in western alaska is amazing so i credit the post office. thank you mr. chairman for allowing me to say a few words. >> we look forward to working with you on these issues. one question and this will be for maybe mr. guffey and mr. strong to members were directly with postal customers every day as we all know? what do you think the postal service needs to do to reach out to customers with their individual customers or the biggest out there to attract new business? what do we ne