mr. miller: how much time do i have remaining? the chair: one minute. mr. miller: one of the changes that does president sound like it does much but it does when you change the word from may to shall. it not only can this fsoc overturn a rule when they think it might affect the safety and soundness of the system, they have to overturn it. they have to overturn it if they think it will put a specific bank out of business. that's not a small change or a high standard, but a very low standard and one that cripples the bill. i yield the balance of my time to mr. frank. mr. frank: if someone had put countrywide out of business we would have been in good shape. a later amendment will require the consumer bureau to submit this kind of information to the financial stability council. so it is not reciprocal. if the consumer bureau has a rule or regulation and has to give this information to the council, but no one else does. one more example how the consumer bureau is not their favorite. the speaker pro tempore: the the gentleman's time has expired. the question is o

mrs. miller: mr. chairman, i would simply observe that for the most part the reason that folks -- property owners get national flood insurance is because the federal government holds a gun to their heads and says that you cannot get a federally-backed mortgage unless you buy national flood insurance through the national flood insurance program. so i don't think we have to spend millions and millions of dollars to convince them to do something that in my mind i've questioned whether it's even constitutional that we are forcing people to do this kind of a thing. but i certainly don't think we need to spend millions of dollars to notify them on something that we are mandating for them and certainly if you live in a flood prone area you probably know it. and i just don't think -- with everything going on in the nation, i just can't believe we're wasting money like this and i would certainly urge my constituents to support this amendment and i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentlelady yi

mr. miller or mr. andrews, what would be a remedy for an american worker if and when their rights are violated? >> if this was not the law, i would say the theory would be if they can prove the case, which means there retaliated against for their legal union activities, there is the possibility of back pay. members have five legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. dreier: mr. speaker, about a minute and a half after 3:00 p.m. on july 28, 2011. at this moment we begin the debate on one of the most crucial items that we have had or will have before us. since 1962 on 75 different occasions the united states congress has chosen to increase the debt ceiling to ensure that we paid our past obligations. it's been done 75 times whout ever having any strings atatched whatsoever. -- attached whatsoever. last november there was a very strong message sent by the american people to this institution. mr. speaker, could i ask that the house be in o

mr. miller: mr. speaker, i request the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. all those in favor of taking this vote by the yeas and nays will rise and remain standing until counted. a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, further proceedings on this question will be postponed. the chair lays before the house a message. the clerk: to the congress of the united states, pursuant to the international emergency economic powers act, i hereby report that i have issued an executive order declaring a national emergency with respect to the unusual and extraordinary threat that significant transnational criminal organizations pose to national security, foreign policy and economy of the united states. organized crime is no longer a local or regional problem, it has become a danger to international stability, significant transnational criminal organizations have become increasingly sfiftcailted and dangerous to the united states -- sophisticated and dangerou

mr. miller band -- milliband. >> in other news, thousands of protestants in northern ireland have been taking part in traditional marches and its tightened it sectarian tension. parades' come after a night of violence in the capital -- the parades come after a night of violence in the capital of belfast. julian assange, the founder of the website wikileaks, has begun an appeal against extradition. he denies wrongdoing and says the case against him was politically motivated after is website published tens of thousands of leaked american e- mails and cables. hundreds -- of 100 people died when the boat overturned -- over 100 people died when a boat riverrned on the volga on sunday. questions about the stability of spain and italy drove shares even lower. after the second day of talks, finance ministers still have to reach agreement over a second bailout for greece. from brussels, matthew price reports. >> europe's debt crisis spread to the third-biggest economy in the euro zone, italy. the interest rates have been rising sharply. let's hope we do not end up like agrees, this man said. spain fac

the clerk: amendment number 20 printed in house report 112-138 offered by mrs. miller of michigan. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a two-minute vote. [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 proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the chair: the yeas are 186 -- the chair: on this vote, the yeas are 186, the nays are 238. the amendment is not agreed to. the unfinished business is the request for a recorded vote on amendment number 23 printed in house report 112-138 by the gentleman from virginia, mr. scott, on which further proceedings were postponed and the ayes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk: amendment number 23, printed in house report number 112-

mr miller i don't want to. be in the u.k. i mean there's all these criminal investigations one of the editors ended up as the press sky number one prosecutor david cameron and big scandal around that i mean it's actually shaking the government and you know if you're going to be arrested tomorrow the guard. you know that which is probably what provoked shutting down the newspaper. there's an extension from this scandal in the u.k. these hacking these phones to the wall street journal if the article that you wrote i read today is accurate you told us about this well you know rupert murdoch you know every every corporate mogul wants to will for his empire and the wall street journal is that for rupert murdoch he's got all of the screaming tabloids he's got is the ideological television station and it's all pretty lowbrow stuff but then of the times alone and. in the u.s. you know he and i and i mean really globally the wall street journal is it the paper of record for really the global financial sector and so he acquired this in

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mrs. miller: mr. speaker, for the last 2 1/2 years, president obama and his allies in congress here have been on a spending spree which has led to deficits of $1.4 trillion and a national debt that exceeds $14 trillion. the republicans have drawn a line in the sand and said enough. we've changed the culture here in washington from how much more are we going to spend to how much we're going to cut. we passed a responsible budget which focuses on getting economic growth going and on new jobs, a budget that would put us on a path to prosperity and also to fiscal sanity. and today's anemic jobs report with unemployment rising again, now to 9.2%, shows we have so much more to do. and the idea of job-killing tax increases is absolutely a nonstarter. i'm proud that our republican negotiators that have been in negotiations with the president and the democratic leadership are standing strong over increasing the debt limit with a strong focus on jobs. and i hope that the president and the democrats will finally

mr. miller: thank you, mr. chair. this amendment is similar to others we have heard today. this amendment would reduce the fossil energy research account by $24,018,000 and put as much of that money as i will allow into the energy efficiency and renewable energy research, development, demonstration and deployment. the bill now is $5.9 billion less than the administration's request and more than $1 billion less than last year's funding but fossil energy is a demraring exception to the austerity visited upon every other kind of energy research. the fossil energy program gets an increase at $24 million above what the administration requested and $32 million more than last year's levels. this amendment would reduce that account, fossil energy, to the level the administration's account request and put as much money back into energy efficiency and renewable energy research. which now gets a $31 billion -- million cut or more than 25%. more than 1/4. mr. chairman, i agree that we need to be doing fossil energy research, it is more than 70% of our energy now, it will be the bulk of

was famous for slime and people up against walls and yelling at him like like the head of the fed mr miller president obama likes to be the adult in chief so i don't think we're going to see any l.b.j. tactics and i also don't think the president wants the country to get to a point where they're picking and choosing what programs are going to be funded and what programs are there was a bipartisan policy center report that show you know the inlays and outlays money coming in money coming out over august you know there is money coming in and you could keep funding parts of the federal government but you then you get into this horribly toxic debate ok what is funded what is not in not is just as much of a nightmare but he's going you know when these when these talks broke down the democrats were agreeing to fifteen percent tax increases eighty five percent spending cuts and then they put it they try to put on the table well let's take it on the two percent tax increases actually cutting tax loopholes by doing away with the private jet. benefit and at that point eric cantor freaks out runs out

mr. miller say that came from my client.egardless of where it came from, i am interested to hear what the rest of the story is. >> you two can get together. let me take a quick break. we will continue with these. i have panelists you never heard from. i want to hear more from stacy and lis wooel. >> people have no reservation or hesitation about walking up to an individual, pulling a gun, a knife or any other type of weapon. because they disagree with them hurt them or kill them best that i think i can do legally is a cooling off period. at the conclusion of that cooling off period release the names. [ bird chirping ] ♪ [ doug ] i got to figure this out. ♪ [ dr. ling ] i want to spend more time with my patients. [ im ] i need to build a new app for the sales team in beijing. [ mrs. davis ] i need to make science as exciting as a video game. ♪ [ jim ] i need to push out a software upgrade. [ dr. ling ] review ms. cooper's histy. [ doug ] i need to cut i.t. costs. [ mrs. davis ] i need to find a way to break through. [ jim ] i

mr. miller. guest: i would say this. all of the proposals put on the table that have not yet been acted upon, and i think that is important, goes around the idea of sustaining these programs going forward and making sure that everyone who is due their benefits today who is a senior, over 55 years old, would receive all of their benefits. i know that there is a lot of political rhetoric around this. i know this tends to be an easy talking point, an easy point to demagogue, but the reality is no one is talking about taking away benefits of people that our senior citizens receiving them now. host: here is a tweet. guest: taxes are an element. what we saw it as we did a jobs summit yesterday that ran the gamut from having a chat in malta, but co-chairman of the president's job counts -- jeff immelt, the co-chairman of the president's job council, in our roundtable of 1400 businesses around the country. taxes are important. the price of gas is an important element. these are all the things that are important to small business

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mr. miller: mr. speaker, members of the house, very shortly the united states congress is likely to consider three ill conceived and ill-timed trade agreements that will do nothing to create jobs in this country. one of these agreements is with the nation of colombia. one of our most important responsibilities as elected officials is to promote and protect american jobs and american values. we do this by ensuring that those who receive trade preferences respect essential democratic rights. these are important rights. the rights to speak out and protest, the rights to organize unions and bargain collectively and the right for citizens to improve their economic condition without reprisals. unfortunately, we see what happens when union members in colombia tried to exercise their rights. death squads are unleashed. union leaders are gunned down in broad daylight. this isn't yesterday's news. the intimidation of violence continue this day. there have been 17 confirmed killings of unionists in colombia thi

mr. miller, i know that she's alive out there.o everything you can do to bring her back. >> do you worry that a case like this and people's at tuld toward is is going to make your job all the harder, it's going to make people -- >> right now we're basically getting zero donations because we're in the toughest economic time in basically my lifetime for sure. >> do you think you will sue? >> you know what? i spent all day with my attorney today. and my attorney of course was on the phone with a law firm out of florida. it cost money and it cost time. and that's one of the things we don't have -- we don't have enough of either. but i think i have to look at every one of our options. and i think i have to make some type of attempt. if i don't make an attempt and i sit back, i'm letting down our donors. i'm letting down our future phone calls for the families that are going to be calling us. and you know what? i can't take it just sitting down. if it gets to the point where it looks like this is really going to be a struggle, it's goin

mr. miller, could you talk about what you saw, from japan i think one of the criticisms i have heard is there's not enough information and so when you get to make any specific recommendation like eight hours or 72 hours -- could you give a little more detail about what you saw so far into fukushima to know about that. mr. chairman, when used the word appropriate of that rulemaking, i or what fuming is appropriate to do a rulemaking or to adapt it. could you just clarify that? >> with regard to the station blackouts, the insights we got from saturday we didn't really need more information as we go on to craft our insights into our recommendation. first, you had a very extended station blackouts at fukushima that went on for a matter of days. i station blackouts was caused by an external offense, earthquake followed by a tsunami. so you had a natural disaster that affected multiple units and put the multiple units in a station blackouts for an extended period of time. and the united states, one reformulated the station blackouts roll, that going in assumption is that you would give power back, ei

mr. miller i would have been a lot better off. put it that way. >>reporter: weiss says he knew his money was gone in october of 2009 when miller sent him an e-mail saying that he took weiss money out of desperation. only intending to keep it for a week. apology aren't enough wrote miller. weiss took his paperwork to the district attorney. others started showing up. what do you think you lost. >> myself personally and famil family? millions. spol lots of money. >>reporter: photographer doug was another of the 175 investors. he says miller children went to expensive private schools. at the expense of his own kids. >> their college fund was torn up. you know. all the money we had put aside for the college fund is gone. >>reporter: today miller attorney said carl miller is going to do everything reasonable within his power to make things right. >> too little too late. >>reporter: deputy da prosecuting the case says there isn't any money left. a lot of it spent on the house and a lavish lifestyle. >> it's hard. it's different when you lose money in the

mr. miller and the democrats wouldn't remember this would give you an opportunity to be able to offer an open rule for the first time on a non-appropriations bill, so i hope that -- >> are you offering -- >> this would have been the opportunity if you offered an open rule. >> thanks for that fought. very helpful. let me just say that are there any amendments to the rule? if not occurs on the motion of the gentleman to read those in favor, aye, the clerk will call the roll. >> [roll call] [roll call] >> we will report the total >> 70 yeas, three nays. >> this will be managed by mr. stoch the gentleman from north charleston. >> and mr. mcgovern for the minority. let me just explain as we discussed when we were together earlier we had the report from the congressional budget office and everyone knows when you're dealing with a magnitude trillions of dollars of spending and the quest to ensure that we comply with the pledge we are working on right now so we are going to recess this evening and hoped to reconvene tomorrow. actually we will adjourn we've taken the testimony already come and we

mr. campbell. ms. miller, did you want to add anything to that? >> briefly, through the chair, the plan was that the sfpuc would approve the term sheet, and we would hear on friday any of the changes or comments that they had. since that did not occur, i want to briefly say that that may change my recommendation to you. a number of questions they had related -- i think mike did a good job of summarizing this. the related mainly to risk and what the risk was to the city, so there are some specific questions that the sfpuc is bringing back to them. hopefully, they will be able to meet in august. if that does not occur, we might want to consider meeting with them in a joint meeting in september. the only thing i have been at is if you want to fall -- hear the full presentation, mike is perfectly willing to give it to you. it could be that because the puc did not approve the term sheet, we may be continue each day until such time as they do approve it. given that, i would like to hear your comments or questions. supervisor campos: colleagues, if i may

mrs. miller: mr. speaker, i'm going to tell a story that happened this past week which i think is a vivid display of the human spirit and heroism as well. there's a fellow named michael trapp who had a lucky week. he was flying his cessna airplane from new york to wisconsin and unfortunately had engine problems. the radio traffic -- air traffic control tower lost contact with him and he crashed his airplane in lake huron. i represent a district in michigan. this fellow crashed his airplane -- i would say fortunate crashed his airplane right at the tip of the thumb here. so the coast compared was having a full search and rescue. the marine division is out looking for him. a day went by. the night went by. couldn't find this fellow. some very, very good friends of mine, dean and diane pettiprin while boating in their boat and diane sees a fellow waving his sock in the middle of lake huron and they saved that man's life. and i just think with everything happening in washington here this week, it's good f

mr. miller: we've heard the same arguments about this we heard a century ago, a century ago, when theodore roosevelt pushed for pure food law the meat packers said, do you want government to take away your right to buy meat? do you want government to take away your freedom to buy beef from diseased animals or spoiled beef and the american people said, yeah, that's exactly what we want. we want to know what we're getting. and americans want to know what they're getting in financial products too. do they want to lose the freedom to get a subprime loan when they qualified for a prime loan? yes, they do. do they want to have a credit card to note what they're getting on the credit card? yes, they do. they want to know that there's somebody with their interests at heart who is reading all that fine print that the banks -- banks' lawyers wrote to be good for the banks, profitable for the banks and let the consumer have no idea what's in that little print in the legalese. yes, they want someone, a strong agency, reading that fine print with their interest at heart in saying, no, you can't do that

mr. miller, recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. one of the lessons i took from the financial crisis when the folks in the financial sector that everything is under control, there's nothing to worry about, but they have a desperate look in their eyes. i worry. i think maybe they knew something they are not telling. what really happened in september of '08 described in the press as interbank lending freezing up, in fairness to the press it's pretty hard to explain it any more deeply than that. but in that part of the shadow banking system that hardly any american is anything but couldn't hardly anyone in congress knows anything about him and those who know something about it don't know very much, was the repo markets. and as much money and was moving around every night in the repo markets, as there was in bank deposits. bear stearns was getting $70 billion in repo markets lending every night. and what they were doing with that money was making longer-term loans, and using their short-term borrowing for longer-term loans is not a form

mr. miller: in this bill the house republicans are undermining the clean water act, they're creating and gutting the endangered species act and that's not all. this legislation makes it harder for our states and cities to improve our crumb bebling water and wastewater systems through the state clean water and drinking water revolving funds. the legislation blocks the environmental protection agency from protecting us from mercury and soot and power plant pollution. under this bill the e.p.a. would hardly be allowed to do anything about dangerous pollution that threatens our public health. the legislation blocks the new vehicle standards that will save consumers at the gas pump and would reduce the amount of oil that we import as a nation. and if that wasn't bad enough, the bill decides to prohibit the state of california from setting its own clean vehicle standards. the legislation also includes an extinction writer, one of the most aggressive threats to the endangered species act in my career here that would freeze all of the efforts to protect the imperiled species across the country.

mr. miller. >> thank you. could you have your, mr. bernanke. enjoyed your testimony. i've agreed stability in the market place is having impact on the recovery. you also see people are not consuming because of the wealth of loss and housing sector and i think you're absolutely correct in that. that there's a lack of confidence in housing market today. mortgage refinance is have continued to fall as you said. mortgage brokerages is continue to decrease and applications continue to default. in california, -- recently set a positive impact on the marketplace, yet at the same time now we're going to decrease those low limits in those high-cost areas which any other side will have a hugely negative impact on those markets, and the loans that are being made in those workplaces right now seem to be some of the best producing loans that they're making. this is without a doubt freddie and fannie as they currently exist have to go away. there has to be a viable replacement for them to say which is going to get rid of them without having a viable alternative is unrealistic. it's

mr. miller, i'll conclude with you. interestingly, and i have a quote here from the director of natural resources defense council, "if the industry can meet high standards of environmental performance for extracting and delivering the fuel, we are looking here at very good news for america's economy and industrial competitiveness, the environment, and our nation's energy security." can i industry meet those high standards that will lead to the good news that mr. cav knew says in his quote? >> thank you very much for the question. we certainly believe we can. we have a long history of developing these industry standards and best practices. they're widely used throughout the country, not only in the state regulations, but also federal regulations many times over, and we have a large community of experts that develop these documents, as i mentioned in my testimony. so we feel that the strong foundation of technical work provides the blueprint we're all looking for. >> thank you very much. my time's up. i yield to the ranki

mr. miller. >> thank you. it is good to have you here. i enjoyed your testimony. i agree the instability will have a tremendous impact on the recovery. historic lay everything has been led by the housing industry, and i think you are correct, but there is a lack of confidence in a housing market today. your mortgage prices continued to decrease. in my state, california, it has recently had a positive impact, yet we are going to increase those high costs, which is going to have a hugely negative impact on the markets, and the loans continue to be some of the best producing loans they are making. fannie and freddie have to go away, but there has to be a viable replacement for them. to say we are just going to get rid of them without an alternative is on realistic, but at the same time, the housing action needs to be taken place at this time. a need for a viable secondary marketplace has to be established. we must allow the private sector to stand up. you believe now was the time for major reforms to the housing market is? >> this was the main piece of unfinished bus

mr. miller: we've heard the same arguments about this we heard a century ago, a century ago, when theodore roosevelt pushed for pure food law the meat packers said, do you want government to take away your right to buy meat? do you want government to take away your freedoto buy beef from diseased animals or spoiled beef and the american people said, yeah, that's exactly what we want. we want to know what we're getting. and americans want to know what they're getting in financial products too. do they want to lose the freedom to get a subprime loan when they qualified for a prime loan? yes, they do. do they want to have a credit card to note what they're getting on the credit card? yes, they do. they want to know that there's somebody with their interests at heart who is reading all that fine print that the banks -- banks' lawyers wrote to be good for the banks, profitable for the banks and let the consumer have no idea what's in that little print in the legalese. yes, they want someone, a strong agency, reading that fine print with their interest at heart in saying, no, you can't do that.

mrs. miller: mr. speaker, after years of growing government and increasing spending beyond all reason, it is now long past time to bring fiscal sanity to washington and to put america on a path to prosperity. and today, mr. speaker, our national debt has increased and it's exceeded now $14 trillion and our debt has increased by almost $4 trillion which is more than $120 billion a month in new debt just since president obama has been in office. $120 billion each and every month with this new president. government has grown so large that it now spends nearly 25% of our annual economic output. a level not seen since world war ii. that's crowded out of course private sector growth and new jobs and opportunities that americans need and are demanding. this plan puts forward real cuts to spending, no smoke, no mirrors. it enforces discipline with real caps on spending and a balanced budget amendment. and it gives the president the increase in the debt ceiling that he is seeking if the balanced budget amendme

mr. miller band -- mr. miliband. >> he said he was excluded from the "formal" process, but that does not answer the question. last friday, he revealed that since taking office he has met with representatives of news international and news corp. including james murdoch and rebekah brooks on more than 20 occasions. can he assure the house that the bid was not raised in any of those meetings or with those organizations? can he say whether at any time he discuss the bid with a counter secretary or any of his officials and discussed with the culture secretary? now let me talk about andy coulson. i was not given specific information that would lead me to change my mind. mr. speaker, the country has a right to expect that the prime minister would have made every effort to uncover information about him to protect herself and his office. the prime minister and those around him made every effort not to hear the facts about mr. coulson. in the last week, we have become aware of five opportunities for the prime ministe

mr. miller: we've heard the same arguments about this we heard a century ago, a century ago, when theodore roosevelt pushed for pure food law the meat packers said, do you want government to take away your right to buy meat? do you want government to take away your freedom to buy beef from diseased animals or spoiled beef and the american people said, yeah, that's exactly what we want. we want to know what we're getting. and americans want to know what they're getting in financial products too. do they want to lose the freedom to get a subprime loan when they qualified for a prime loan? yes, they do. do they want to have a credit card to note what they're getting on the credit card? yes, they do. they want to know that there's somebody with their interests at heart who is reading all that fine print that the banks -- banks' lawyers wrote to be good for the banks, profitable for the banks and let the consumer have no idea what's in that little print in the legalese. yes, they want someone, a strong agency, reading that fine print with their interest at heart in saying, no, you can't do that

mr. miller has been active in this for many years. >> it is the attorneys general who are left at the table and who are having say in the final decision. >> there are seven or eight attorneys general who are involved. >> no one from the outside can force you to come to a decision. >> that is correct. >> and that includes the cfpb. >> no one can force the attorney general to do anything. >> i did an awful lot of different corporate business transactions. would you ordinarily reach out to people who may not be participants for their expertise or their input our advice? >> i was typically dealing with parties in negotiated arrangements. i don't have a lot of experience dealing with these global policy matters. >> i would like to ask ms. williams. is it ordinary for people to reach out to you or for you to reach out to other people who have knowledge in an area that you do not? >> my experience is in the interagency process with the banking agencies. i do not know if that parallels the experience of having 50 attorneys generals in a negotiating group. within the occ we reach out to experts with

mr. campbell? >> yes, with the s.f. p.u.c., miss miller is quite right, there's a $500,000 not to exceed contract the p.u.c. has with power, with $390,000 remaining on it. as miss miller notes, every dollar that we can husband will be available for outreach and marketing and potential appropriations that might be needed. so there is a very strong interest in keeping consultant costs down to what actually lines up with what we need. on that point, one of the bits of direction we also heard an item similar to this, an item that was related to the extension of the contract, it's now been extended for another 12 months that was approved by my commission last week, last tuesday.

i appreciate miss miller for the work you have done. i wanted to appreciate mr. patterson, i know that you are not actually in my district. this is a huge issue. i hope that we will be able to see you on the mental health board as well. to have a motion? we can do that without opposition. madam clerk, please call item number 3. >> resolution declaring the intention of the board of supervisors chu have a property- based improvement district. >> the sponsor of that legislation is on the committee so i will turn it over to supervisor elsbernd. >> this is pretty self- explanatory. should the board passes resolution, this will allow the business community to decide whether or not they would like to pursue a community benefit district. this will unable the vote to happen. this is a self-determination act. the residences, the business owners. they will make the decision and then this simply opens the door. we have a few great business owners from the west portal. matt rodgers, in particular, has really pushed this issue. if you would like to have the opportunity to give

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mr. hemingway? >> that is a linda miller question. >> that is a tricky question. pound ended up being institutionalized for mental illness over a political issue and hemingway was part of a group of writers who tried to defend pound and get him out of the hospital. i think hemingway saw him as a literary mentor and all that groups of the innovative things pound had done in his poetry and that was the real connection more to art than a deep personal relationship. >> list -- let's listen to mario hemingway. it will air on friday night. she is talking about the suicide of ernest hemingway and the family as a whole. >> my grandfather killed himself because he couldn't write anymore. for him the pain of that was too great. he couldn't handle not being clear with clarity. i don't believe suicide is an answer for anything and i feel sad for those in families such as mine to have had to deal with that because it is not an option in my mind. i think any time parent commits suicide there is a sense of abandonment. i don't care how old you are. there is a sense of why did yo

mr. chair, we have three ayes and one no. >> the motion passes. madam clerk can you call item number five? >> item number five, executive officer's report. >> ms. miller? >> i have no report, thank you. >> but, i'm sorry, i do want to introduce -- i'm going to have jason interview our new intern. i just wanted to get the opportunity to introduce our intern for the summer. last summer, she had different tasks to do. she is currently going to u.c. davis and is looking to do green type work in her future. i just wanted to welcome her do our internship program. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> colleagues, any questions? is there any public comment on this item? any money -- body wanting to speak? public comment is closed. madam, can you call item number six. it's within the jurisdiction of the commissioner. seeing none public bhick comment is closed. item seven? >> item number seven, future agenda items." >> colleagues any member of the public that would like to speak? seeing none, public comment was closed. >> just a quick question in terms oaf the join meeting with the -- of the joint meeting with the p.u.c., do you need specific dates for us. >> i

. >> susan and miller are the authors of upheaval of charleston. booktv spoke with mr.ams and mr. hoffias when we went to south carolina on our recent cities tour. >> august 31st, 1886 was the largest earthquake ever to hit the east coast of the united states. there were three epicenters. they were all within 10 or 15 miles of charleston, south carolina. but the earthquake was felt all over the east coast. there was panic in new york city. in chicago, in detroit. richmond had a riot because all the prisoners at the state penitentiary demanded to be released and the story went out that there was a riot that had gone on. and there was guns trying to put down what they thought was an uprising all through the southeast and even down to cuba they were seeing flashes of light that came from the earthquake and glasses were shaking off of the shelves. so it was huge. >> and, in fact, it caused a lot of havoc in the area around charleston that was not known outside of charleston at night. it's an interesting time for the earthquake to hit because the city and the world is sort o

mr. carson, it's a classic bit he did. are you a hamptons kind of guy, millerim. if you are asking me on friday afternoon if i'm going to get in that death match traffic to play croquet with sean colmes, no, i have got some paint to ogul. >> bill: you live in affluent place in southern california where a lot of people are very similar to the people that watters talked to. do you mingle freely with them? how do you see the very wealthy? >> i dig the really wealthy. but i dig poor people, too. i dig people in the middle. i dig people and then i don't like some people. and i don't judge it on the what they earn. >> bill: so people who like people are the luckiest people in the world? >> you are going to make me cry. you are going to make me cry. listen, what i don't dig is polo. what -- it's like miniature golf meets the kentucky derby. what's happening there? >> bill: wind millwright in the middle horses get smacked right into it big dinosaur at the end. >> what about jesse standing next to nacho. was there a discrepancy in physical appearance there that guy's na

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mr. hemmingway? thank you. >> thanks very much. that's a linda milleruestion. >> well, i think that that's a tricky question. because pound, as you know, ended up being institutionalized for supposed mental illness, but it was a controversial political issue. and hemmingway was a part of a group of writers, including archbald mcleish and others who tried to defend pound and get him out of the hospital. but i think hemmingway saw pound as a literary mentor and all of that group saw the innovative things that pound had done in his poetry and that was the real connection there, i think, more through art than through a deep personal relationship. >> well, let's listen in to marielle hemmingway who talked to us on calm rasm the entire interview will air on friday night. but here's a bit of her talking about the suicides of ernest hemmingway and in the family as a whole. >> my grandfather killed himself because he couldn't write any more and for him, the pain of that was too great. he couldn't handle it. he couldn't handle not being clear. i don't believe sui