mr. mason? >> someone asked the question, how do you hold the democratic party accountable? the answer is simple. form and support your own institutions. again, form and support your own institutions. when there was no one speaking to the issue for black and brown vote black churches formed hbcus. out of hbcus. i'm an omega man. i see purple and gold sitting out on the table. i'm standing next to my delta sister, but i -- you must be an alpha. but we have a history of doing this. this is not new to us. but somehow we forgotten. we've forgotten how to take our political power and turn it into economic power that turns it into more political power that turns it into more economic power. we forgot how to support our institutions. but you know who hasn't? you know who we haven't learned from and they do this all the time? the pro-israel community. they are much smaller than us, but they have a much greater footprint. form and support your institutions. that's how you hold people accountable. power concedes nothing without demand. we demand nothing, we get nothing. >> we cannot c

mr. mason. >> i am just going to follow up on what my dear friend cindy said but first i want to clarify the record. as the congressman was reading my bio, i noticed the wrong bio was being read. i am a man of many political hats as some of my friends have said, but i would not be here were it not for a black minister who was the son of another black minister who were both elected officials. walter tucker iii empowered me as a 21-year-old to run his campaign for congress, and just a few months after he empowered me, we won that campaign for congress, so i have been in politics for about oh, lord, i don't want to say it. i have been in politics half my life. i started off running congressional campaigns, and i have never lost a campaign that i have actually managed, but interestingly enough at 21 a black minister empowered me and the black church was key to that election victory. it was critical to that election victory. when that african-american minister empowered me, i went to the ministers a

mr. mason. >> i am just going to follow up on what my dear friend cindy said but first i want to clarify the record. as the congressman was reading my bio, i noticed the wrong bio was being read. i am a man of many political hats as some of my friends have said, but i would not be here were it not for a black minister who was the son of another black minister who were both elected officials. walter tucker iii empowered me as a 21-year-old to run his campaign for congress, and just

happy birthday, mr. masonuse the past is just a good-bye ♪ ♪ teach your children well ♪ their father's hell did slowly go by ♪ ♪ and feed them on your dreams ♪ ♪ the one they pick's the one you'll know by ♪ ♪ don't you ever ask them why ♪ if they told you, you would cry ♪ ♪ so just look at them and sigh ♪ ♪ and know they love you ♪ ♪ and you of tender years ♪ can't know the fears ♪ that your elders grew by ♪ and so please help ♪ them with your youth ♪ they seek the truth ♪ before they can die ♪ teach your parents well ♪ their children's hell will slowly go by ♪ ♪ and feed them on your dreams ♪ ♪ the one they pick's the one you'll know by ♪ ♪ don't you ever ask them why ♪ if they told you, you would cry ♪ ♪ so just look at them and sigh ♪ ♪ and know they love you ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

happy birthday, mr. masone the past is just a good-bye ♪ ♪ teach your children well ♪ their father's hell did slowly go by ♪ ♪ and feed them on your dreams ♪ ♪ the one they pick's the one you'll know by ♪ ♪ don't you ever ask them why ♪ if they told you, you would cry ♪ ♪ so just look at them and sigh ♪ ♪ and know they love you ♪ ♪ and you of tender years ♪ can't know the fears ♪ that your elders grew by ♪ and so please help ♪ them with your youth ♪ they seek the truth ♪ before they can die ♪ teach your parents well ♪ their children's hell will slowly go by ♪ ♪ and feed them on your dreams ♪ ♪ the one they pick's the one you'll know by ♪ ♪ don't you ever ask them why ♪ if they told you, you would cry ♪ ♪ so just look at them and sigh ♪ ♪ and know they love you ♪ [ applause ] >> good stuff. >> how would you like having some legends here for your birthday. >> that's why i'm here. that's why i came. it's my present right there. doesn't get any better than that. >> honestly clearly a resurgence but that's my high

> let me read you something from a "new york times" editorial, written by david mason a mormon professor "i suspect that mr cal politician that should he occupy the office, he studiously avoid the appearance of being any bus a w.a.s.p. mormons are christian enough to know how to spitingly abuse their power. what is your reaction to that? >> let's be honest we have the first african-american sitting in the white house, and obama was a young man when the norman church that romney belongs to still would not allow black men toss bishops or pastors, as we would call it for most denominations' backgrounds. nobody wants to talk about it, but there's a lot of racial tension, just as the tea party and the religious right have lied about our president consistently using everything in the book except to come out and say what's bothering him, which is a black man sitting in the white house, which in their view belongs to white people in perpetuity, so in this confrontation between our first mormon president if he becomes president, and our first african-american president, you have a collision that i think is quietly

mr. romney in iowa. the subject was jobs and the economy of the economy. here's anthony mason. >> reporter: the war of words over the economy began when the president said this. >> we created 4.3 million jobs over the last 27 months over 800 just this year alone. the private sector is doing fine. >> he said the private sector is doing fine! is he really that out of touch? >> reporter: in fact, the president's numbers are accurate. while recent job growth has been weak, over the past 27 months the economy's added an average of 158,000 jobs each month-->'ra passable number, economists say, that at least keeps up with population growth. >> has there ever been an american president who is so far from reality as to believe in an america where 23 million american americans are out of work? >> reporter: here, romney is correct. more than 23 million americans are unemployed, can't get full-time work or have stopped looking. >> median income in america has dropped by 10% over the last four years. >> reporter: but here his math is off. according to the most recent government data we cou

mr. robert man sini is the ceo and we have with us the ceo of technologies and the senior research fellow at the center at george mason university. we want to welcome you here. it's the practice to swir you in. if you can stand up and raise your right hand. >> do you swear or affirm the testimony you give will you the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. everyone answered in the affirmative. you get five minutes more or less. keep it close if you can. you video the light system in front of you. we will go dowe

mrs. brown? >> hi, my name is marzel brown and i work with central city collaborative. and today i'm here on the behalf of the bristol hotel. which is located on 56 mason. mike nolty has showed you the little map area of where we want to stay. it is very, very small as you can see this little section right here. that's what we need to keep in district six. so if you guys will help us out, and remap that, it will be a great deal to us and the tenants in the bristol hotel that we deal with on a daily basis. thank you again for your time and your preparations and you guys do a wonderful job. keep up the good work. >> thank you. >> following mrs. scott will be shelby, lisa shin, pierre and natalie brown. >> good morning task force. my name is lois scott, and i live by cathedral, i live on cathedral hill by st. mary's cathedral about two and a half blocks from the proposed hospital site. i'm on the board of the cathedral hill neighbors who were dispointed that our neighborhood who was going to be reunited in your quest and necessity to have the numbers come out was still split. i guess we joined russia hill as one of those neighborhoods that will be permane

mr. leigh, i said two and you said what about the other? oh, no, sorry. you took us back to ensuring we weren't satisfying -- ok. these are -- >> these are blocks between mason and powell, south of o'farrell street. so if we can look at the population of those three blocks. >> are those the blocks? >> yes. >> that is a population of 365 people. it would bring the deviation for district 6 to 1.13%. i'm sorry. and the deviation for district 3 to negative 4%. >> negative 4? >> negative 4%, correct. >> i will propose that we make that change. question? >> yes. >> so there was the issue raised of first the hotel. this will address that but am i correct this is larger than that? >> it does. it goes two blocks up to the northernmost of those three blocks to include the maria manor property we heard testimony about. >> is that another borough? >> yes, i believe so. >> i ask we take those in turn. >> let's separate please. the bristol hotel. so that population. >> that is the population of 116 people. it would bring the deviation for district 6 to -- >> 0.79% and deviation for district 3 to negative 3.66%. >> my apologies. the room has gotten cool now. >> yeah. >> th

mr. bernanke. doctor, you're recognized? >> chairman jordan, member of this committee, its's an honor to appear before you today to talk about the department of energy loan guarantee program. i'm a senior research fellow at george mason university where i study tax and budget issues. advocate for renewable energy are right to be out raged by the large amount of subsidies going to fossil fuels. yet, they're wrong to think that the answer is more subsidies for form of energy that they approve of. the department of energy's 1705 loan guarantee program is a corner stone of the department of energy and the u.s. energy dpt. two dwrounds. first, advocates that the energy companies do not have access to sufficient credit to support new projects. second, the dpt of energy argues that by investing in green technology, it would create up to 5 million green jobs. so how do these claim stand up to scrutiny? looking at the flow of 1705, loan program we find first that nearly 19% of a 1705 loans went to subsidized projects that were backed by large company such as energy or even the financial giant, goldman sachs. in practice, it is hard to argue that these companies would have had a hard time having access to capital to fund proje

mr. chairman, and thank you to our panel for being here today. i especially want to well -- welcome dr. hall from the great george mason university in month virginia, in my district, so we're delighted to have you here. maybe, dr. hall, i could given with you. i'm looking at the -- i'm listening to your testimony, and i can infer from what you're saying when you talked about how originally this process was established, the lockup, and the control of data and reporters waiting at their trusty typewriter to get it out. i think you were leading us to believe that technology maybe has passed us by and, um, i'm looking at -- just as legitimately, i think, ms. dalglish has warned us about, gee, even with the best of as well ass, government -- intentions, government insisting on government-controls computers compromises the first amendment rights of the fourth estate, government also has a legitimate concern, after all, you know, the media are profit-making entities. that have motives that go beyond just the first amendment sometimes. and i'm reading from the executive summary of the sandia report, and it says although dol op

mrs. flood remembers a childhood shut out of the first-class cars. she grew up in new jersey, but each summer she traveled to north carolina with her grandmother. and when the train reached the masonother, along with all the other black passengers were forced to get up and move into segregated train cars. that nullification allowed the shadow of jim crow to descend, as historian blair kelly to describe, in her text, "ride to ride" black women bore the brubt of train segregation, they were allowed neither the comfort nor ladies. kelly explains that the majority of state and federal court cases were brought by black little litigants against the railroad. and the most famous was ida b. wells, she went on to become a fearless journalist and an anti-lynching advocate. her activism began in 1883 when a train conductor forcibly ejected her from the ladies car even though she paid the first-class fare. she held her seat, braced her legs and bit the conductor. when she was rejected, she sued the chesapeake, ohio and southwestern railroads, she lost. black communities kept losing. in 1896, new orleansian plesy ferguson, handed down a 7-1 decision in that case, 116 years ago this week. the d

mr. chairman, and thank you tort panel today for being here. i want to especially welcome dr. hall from the great university george mason university in my district. delighted to have you here. maybe, dr. hall, i can begin with you. i'm looking at this -- listening to your testimony, and if i could confer from what you said, you talked about oh originally the process was established, the lockup, and the control of data, and reporters waiting at their trusty typewriter to get it out, i think you were leading us to believe that technology maybe has passed us by, and i'm looking at, just as a legitimately, i think, as warned about even with the best of intrengses, government insisting on transfer to all of their technology and their government controlled computers compromises the first amendment rights of the fourth estate. also have a legitimate concern? after all, you know, the media are profit making entities that have motives that go beyond just the first amendment sometime, and i'm reading from the executive summary of the report, and it says although dol operations and oba personnel are doing due diligence to monitor