mr. nelson and ms. cirilo and know how dedicated both of them are to our neighborhoods and this issue around affordable quality housing. i have seen both of them work in our communities and how much respect both of them have, and also their analysis of the issues and how smart and creative they are around addressing many tough and difficult issues. today, i would like to support mr. nelson out of the committee, mainly because i know ms. cirilo is on the shelter monitoring committee, and i think it is important to have many voices that it to be on public bodies that do advocacy work and can help make change in our neighborhoods. but i really respect of applicants and want to thank you both for your service to district 6 and 2 san francisco. are there any other comments? supervisor farrell: i would just think everyone again for coming out. you took the words right out of my mouth. i think i was very impressed by what lj cirilo had to say, and mr. nelson as well. we are blessed with both of you as strong c

mr. nelson, the director of alcohol, tobacco and firearms. and that's a division of justice. he told us recently that when i first sent a letter to the justice department in january, i think january the 27th, he was in their office of one of the deputies or assistants within a day or two with all the documents we wanted and, and they said they would take care of it. well, we found out that we aren't getting those documents. we get some of them clandestinely. we've gotten some of them more recently when we put the heat on the justice department. but we're not getting everything that we know that, that exists and we aren't getting answers to questions otherwise. and there is stonewalling on the part of justice department on this although i got to say, there is a little more cooperation since they finally have awakenedded to the fact that if they want something out

mr. nelson: mr. president? mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from florida. mr. nelson: mr. president, i request consent to speak up to 20 minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. nelson: mr. president, the budget committee chairman, the senator from north dakota, has in fact laid out a budget, and what it does is it brings us on a serious road toward budget balance by utilizing real numbers, not sleight of hand numbers, not budget fakery numbers, not a budget as a political document but a budget as an economic document, and it nips, indeed it savages the annual deficit and the federal debt $4 trillion over ten years. this is real money, mr. president, and it is real money that is basically in balance between $2 trillion of spending cuts, which we've had all of those kind of talks going on down at the white house, and they seem to get to an agreement of $2 trillion of spending cuts. but when it comes to the revenue side, there seems to be an unwillingness to accept revenu

mr. nelson: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from florida is recognized. mr. nelson: i ask consent that the quorum call be lifted. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. nelson: mr. president, may i speak? the presiding officer: the gentleman is recognized. mr. nelson: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, we are here awaiting the action of the house of representatives. we don't know whether the house is going to pass the john boehner proposal. but regardless of what they do, we have the solution right underneath our noses. there have been discussions today. i've had a number of discussions with our colleagues. i've had a discussion first this morning with my colleague from florida and have had discussions with others. and it seems like to me that the obvious solution, since we are now at the 11th hour and getting close to the 59th minute of the 11th hour, is that you take elements of both the reid proposal, the mcconnell proposal and the boehner proposal. and so i would suggest that our leadership consider, regardless of what happens in the house, be

mr. nelson: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from floridament mr. nelson: madam president, i ask consent to lift the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. nelson: madam president, i understand i may be needed here for some administrative activities here in just a minu minute, so while i'm waiting on that, let me just say that with the last space shuttle launching on last friday -- and it was a beautiful, beautiful launch -- and, of course, the expertise of the finest launch team anywhere in the world was very evident. when they got down to t-minus 31 and they saw an indication on the -- on the controls that there had not been a retraction of one of the arms that's a servicing arm, but they were ready for that, and as it turned out, it was a faulty censor. and, of course, the way they check, they've got cameras all over the launch tower, and so they turned the cameras on and trained it over there and saw that arm, in fact, had retracted and pulled into its safe position. and so with only 53 seconds left in the launch window, the l

mr. victor nelson. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is victor nelson and a live at the altamont hotel. i am a social worker by profession, holding a master's degree in social work from the san francisco state university in the concentration of social development. i have over 14 years of combined service working in some capacity as a social services agent within the community of san francisco. my first experience working with adults in sro's came when i was working with low-income students at city college of san francisco in the elps second chance program. through this experience, i worked with formally incarcerated adults to help the matriculate through the process. during this time, what we did to accomplish this task was we used encouragement and remedial training. i have also served on the ops board of directors. i have served or worked with a large number of populations and various social service organizations within the city of san francisco, including the black coalition on aids, the homeless advocacy project, aids housin

mr. nelson: mr. president, while the distinguished senator from michigan is here on the floor, who is one of the best legal minds in the senate, i wanted to engage him to further take us through the delay tactics that are presently now underway. given the fact that we have a solution right underneath our noses, a solution that is so close between the two opposite sides that all we'd have to do is to have a majority vote or all we'd have to do is to have a few republican senators. but we are engaged in this stalling tactic that is literally going to take us all night. and i would like to ask the distinguished senator from michigan, given the rules, given the fact that a filibuster is now underway, what can the minority here in the senate hope to achieve since we are so close to agreement? mr. levin: the reason that people filibuster is to try to defeat a measure and stalling, delaying a vote here is much worse than just defeating a measure. it is defeating the american economy. it will be putting the

mr. nelson: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator florida. mr. nelson: mr. president, i ask consent that the quorum call be lifted. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. nelson: mr. president, may i speak as if in morning business? the presiding officer: without objection. mr. nelson: mr. president, yesterday the space shuttle "atlantis" came back and in that early morning darkness with these xenon illuminating that three manufacture mile long run way at the kennedy space station, where a century ago a set of grand parents of mine had homesteaded under the homestead act, worked the land for the required four years and i have a copy of the deed signed by woodrow wilson in 1917 to my grandparents, and, you know, over three-quarters of a century later that thought was not lost on me when we went in that early morning darkness to the launch pad that my grandparents would have never, never, ever believed that so many years later that a grandson was going to literally leave the face of

mr. nelson: i ask consent the quorum call be lifted. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. nelson: madam president, i know we have a vote that's coming up momentarily. i just wanted to say that i wish that those folks that are huddling up down at the white house every day now don't miss this opportunity for a grand bargain to do something serious about deficit reduction. that's why i'm concerned about senator mcconnell's proposal, that it would take us off that track, and when they look at that real opportunity for for $4 trillion of deficit reduction, they ought to look at the budget committee of the senate's proposal, $4 trillion, $2 trilli on of which over ten years comes out of the $14 trillion of the tax expenditures or tax preferences that special interests have, and you would only have to take from 9% to 17% of all that $14 trillion of tax preferences in order to produce the $2 trillion of revenue over ten years. and i have just put in a joint ways and means finance committee a meeting, i have just put that issue to the panel of experts as to what they would recommend

mr. nelson's tour bus. you want to bet that vending machine in the border patrol break room was subsequently relieved of all its cool ranch dore retoes. anyway, willie paid a $500 fine and court costs. but the judge is not at all stoked. she just rejected the plea deal. now the case is back in limbo. the judge told the "new york times" she this the prosecutor is giving willie special treatment because he's a fan. and it is true, the prosecutor did once joke about lowering the charges if willie came and sang "blue eyes crying in the rain" in court. the judge apparently was not amused. but let's have a little perspective here, people. it was three ounces of pot on willie nelson's tour bus. i mean, am i the only one who has assumed that on a willie nelson tour bus the bus pulls a flatbed trailer behind it covered with an entire acre of marijuana tended by chief, chong and snoop dawg? three ounces? willie nelson's own braids weigh more than that. the judge wants to make a point about not giving famous people sp

mr. nelson. >> were their representatives at the department of justice?>> joe hooley. -- of justice was informed that the guns were walking? >> i don't think he was very but he was there. >> did anyone express concern in this meeting that the number of weapons appearing in mexico or the number of weapons brought by the straw purchasers seemed to be too high? >> yes, someone on the of the end of the in the video because we had a videoconference, i believe it was somebody in the dallas field division who voiced that concern and there was some discussion. >> and we also have a memo that says we have to slow this down basically at the same time. so at a thousand it was too many. let me ask the two defenders of this program -- and by sorry but that does appear how your role today has been. did it ever occur that either one of you after mr. leadmon's march 1044 that you could let some of these block and intertek others meaning, quite frankly, when somebody had already bought 100 of them and transported them they were not going to sell to somebody different. you

mr. nelson: madam president? the presiding officer: the the senator from nebraska. mr. nelson: madam president, i rise today to speak about legislation that i i believe is very important legislation for the future of health care, fairness -- of health care fairness in our country. yesterday i introduced the savings through eligibility fairness act, which addresses medicaid fairness and debt reduction. my friend and colleague from wyoming, the ranking member of the "help" committee, senator enzi, has a shared interest in this issue, and i commend and appreciate his offering of similar legislation and offer to continue to work with him to deal and find solutions to this issue. medicaid is an important safety net for nebraska's and our country's most vulnerable families, and i'm committed to making sure that they'll continue receiving health care coverage. but, unfortunately, the health care reform law passed last year would inadder have at any timely make some middle-class americans eligible for medicaid who should not be eligible for medicaid. my bill changes the law to e

mr. nelson: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from florida. mr. elson: madam president, i know the senator from massachusetts has time and i just wanted to take this time while he is coming into the chamber to say that the drumbeat -- you can almost hear the background very foreboding music as we are counting down the days, and here we are in a situation in which we cannot get a certain group of people over in the house of representatives to be willing to sit down and, as the good book says, to come let us reason together. and if we're going to govern in country, we have to come and reason together. people of good will who will respect each other's point of view to hammer out a final agreement in order to start bringing this country into balance. and it's sad that it is taking this long and this much of a difficult, torturous process. madam president, on a much happier note, at a subsequent time, i want to share with the senate the wonderful heritage that we have in this country not from the english but from the spanish, and we are about to celebra

mr. nelson know about this? >> about the investigation?> yes. >> i briefed him -- >> when did he know about it? when you started it come on you can see their? >> i'm not sure when he was aware of the investigation. >> or did you make aware of this investigation? >> when the investigation first initiated and i believe in november we sent -- we sent a briefing of the first part of december. >> to whom? >> to my supervisor. >> mr. mcmahon, what did you do? >> when i was briefed on the investigation i passed up the chain. this was an investigation. we had pretty early on what the title "operation fast and furious" came on with a large amount of people who are buying guns in the short amount of time and having recovered in mexico. but we had was purchased in the u.s., recoveries in mexico. we didn't have what was in between and that's what the agents in phoenix are trying to prove. >> so you all thought this was a great idea? this particular investigation of finding gunstock in mexico. >> we didn't have an investigation. we had a group of indiv

mr. nelson. >> were their representatives at the department of justice?>> joe hooley. -- of justice was informed that the guns were walking? >> i don't think he was very but he was there. >> did anyone express concern in this meeting that the number of weapons appearing in mexico or the number of weapons brought by the straw purchasers seemed to be too high? >> yes, someone on the of the end of the in the video because we had a videoconference, i believe it was somebody in the dallas field division who voiced that concern and there was some discussion. >> and we also have a memo that says we have to slow this down basically at the same time. so at a thousand it was too many. let me ask the two defenders of this program -- and by sorry but that does appear how your role today has been. did it ever occur that either one of you after mr. leadmon's march 1044 that you could let some of these block and intertek others meaning, quite frankly, when somebody had already bought 100 of them and transported them they were not going to sell to somebody different. you

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nelson mandela. happy birthday, mr. president.s always, keep the faith. >> for more information on the show visit tavis smiley at pbs.org. >> join me next time for george wallace, popular comedian. that is next time. >> every community has martin luther king boulevard. it is the cornerstone we all know. it is not just a street or a boulevard but a place for wal- mart to band together with your community to make everyday better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley with every question and every answer. nationwide is proud to join in removing obstacles to economic empowerment one at a time. nationwide is on your side. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ ♪ >> coleman barks grew up in tennessee, lives in georgia, a poet best known for his translations of the 13th century sufi mystic rumi, whose poems about love and devotion are some of the most widely read in the united states. >> today, like every other day, we wake up emp and frightened. don't open the door to the study and begin

senator nelson? >> mr.chairman, when you see oil floating on the surface, and you see it approaching a pass like pensacola pass, and then because the on rushing tide you see that oil come on in to pensacola bay or whatever bay, pudido bay, some of it we wanted to move it out to another bay. i can't tell you what an awful sight it is. like some of the sights that you don't like to look at, that's what it looks like, and then once it reaches a destination either on the ocean floor or on the beach or all gathered up around the marsh grasses, then it just makes it even look all the worse and it wrecks havoc. had wrecks havoc on the environment and on the economy. i'll never forget with all the problems we've had in the gulf claims facility of getting them to try to help out people, what about the little lady that had the advertising business in destin? now, her business was a little advertisement single owner small business, but she was advertising to go to this restaurant, that restaurant, this tourist destina

mr. nelson know about this? >> about the investigation?s. >> i briefed him -- >> when did he know about it? when you started it come on you can see their? >> i'm not sure when he was aware of the investigation. >> or did you make aware of this investigation? >> when the investigation first initiated and i believe in november we sent -- we sent a briefing of the first part of december. >> to whom? >> to my supervisor. >> mr. mcmahon, what did you do? >> when i was briefed on the investigation i passed up the chain. this was an investigation. we had pretty early on what the title "operation fast and furious" came on with a large amount of people who are buying guns in the short amount of time and having recovered in mexico. but we had was purchased in the u.s., recoveries in mexico. we didn't have what was in between and that's what the agents in phoenix are trying to prove. >> so you all thought this was a great idea? this particular investigation of finding gunstock in mexico. >> we didn't have an investigation. we had a group of individua

tomorrow is international nelson mandela day happy birthday, mr. mandela.hat is the broadcast this sunday night. we're always online at abcnews.com. start your morning with "good morning america," first thing tomorrow. and diane sawyer is right back here at the desk tomorrow night. for all of us at abc news, thanks for watching. good night. >> amateur video shedding new light on the officer-involved shooting. good evening, i am allen wong. san francisco police said amateur video of a gun. the police found themselves controlling an angry crowd claiming that police had shot an unarmed man from behind. john, this video is playing a key role? >> it is, allen. police say the suspect shot at them first. witnesses claim that the man did not have a gun at all. investigators claim they found the gun they were looking for. >> they tried to control the situation and someone recorded video and

. >> senator nelson, you're next. >> mr. lang, thank you for recalling that the semiconductor industry is so important. and you remember about 20 years ago when all that business was about to go offshore. and when the united states decided that it was going to stop that trend, it put together a consortium called sem tech and the proof is in the pudding, what you just told us. so congratulations. i wanted to ask mr. duke, in your testimony, you said in our view thebowl-simpson tax proposal represented a very good start, because it endorsed these 3com opponents of reform. there's a version of that that is circulating right now, which is the gang of six. and it basically gives huge deficit reduction, back to the committee's jurisdiction. the biggest deficit reduction would come back to this committee. tax reform, what you all have testified to. health reform, and set up. now a big part of that tax reform is taking all of these tax preferences otherwise known as tax expenditures, and getting rid of a lot of them. and instead, ta

a happy birthday to nelson mandela he's ninety three years old today we are joined from new york by going freeman a strong promoter of mandela day a great singer too we found out mr freeman what exactly is the mission. i'm sorry but it is to buy you can't get nelson mandela who let's just bring in the guy that played him once in a movie and all americans will be fooled right. i mean. i know you are a voter like they said if you don't think i'm getting the birthday they got the word this morning and i'm going off the street who happens to be black yeah that would pretty much suck but let's give them a little bit of credit is terrible c.n.n. is i mean mandela did play i mean morgan freeman played mandela in the movie he is i think on the other yeah you know that's pretty shocking god you definitely should just bring in morgan freeman had it for a little funny no you can't you know it's my appreciate my humor and doing it all without any you know what while not smiling and pretending as if it's serious i you know i think the next step is to interview the avatars from taiwanese animation. humans altogether well this has been made before any of you guys have seen dinn

mr curry served five governors as commonwealth of banks. he served as chairman of the conference of state bank supervisors from 2000 to 2001. senator ben nelson will introduce roy woodall. >> good morning, mr. chairman and ranking member shelby and members of the committee. thank you for conducting this hearing today and for giving me the opportunity to offer a few comments on an outstanding nominee, roy woodall. nominated to the member of the financial stability oversight council. when he asked me to be with him today to introduce him i said i would be honored to introduce him because we go back a ways. i first got to know him in the year the sound of music won academy award for best picture and the first tv episode of star trek was broadcast. in a what it cost to send a letter first-class than? $0.05. that might seem like 100 years ago. not quite but it was. 45 years ago. i first met roy woodall in 1966 when he was appointed commissioner of the kentucky insurance environment. i was working in the nebraska department of insurance at the time. over these years i've followed his career closely. we kept in touch and have many common friends. as

nelson mandela's political service. the former president has not been seen in public since he fell ill earlier this year. mr. mandela has been receiving medical care at home since being hospitalized suffering from respiratory disease. while the quietly celebrated at home, school children continued to sing in assemblies across the country in the hope of setting a new world record for the number of people singing to one individual at the same time. >> happy birthday. >> bbc news, johannesburg. >> this is "a new state." . as the phone hacking crisis escalates, rupert murdoch and his son james prepare to face questions from the u.k. parliamentary committee. europe's officials have met representatives from the libyan government at a secret location to demand colonel gaddafi step down. hillary clinton is on a two day trip to india. it is her second visit to delhi as u.s. secretary of state. she hopes to strengthen the political and economic relationship between india and the united states. i am joined by the director of strategic studies at the center for strategic research. why is the u.s. relationship with india

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mr. chairman. >> thank you. next is senator nelson. >> we are not going to lose another planet in the solar system. we are going to go to one of those planets in the solar system. we are going to go to mars. i hope we pass these trade agreements instead of waiting around until we go to mars. mr. chairman, i support these agreements. i want to say something positive about it. florida has now become the gateway to latin america for so much about our trade. the economic activity that would occur in our state and in the nation as a result of colombia and panama -- these trade agreements are significantly salutary. it is interesting that this caribbean agreement with equal the amount of economic activity to the united states of all of the past nine trade agreements. it looks like we are going in the right direction. my one little concern is that in the taa, we take care of farmers, which we should. but we should be taking care of the fishermen and the shrimpers just like we take care of the farmers because of agriculture commodities. that

mr. curry served five massachusetts governors as the commonwealth commissioner of banks. he also served as the chairman of the conference of state bank supervisors from 2000 to 2001. senator ben nelsonl now introduce him. >> good morning mr. chairman and ranking member shelby and members of the committee. thank you for conducting this hearing today and for giving me the opportunity to offer a few comments on an outstanding nominee, roy woodall. has been nominated to be a member of the financial stability oversight council. when roy asked me to be here with him today to introduce him, i said i would be honored to do so because roy and i go back a ways and then some. in fact i first got to know roy and the years of the sound of music when the academy award for best picture and the first tv episode of "star trek" was broadcast. you know how much it cost to send a letter back then? 5 cents. it was 45 years ago. you see i met roy in 1966 when he was at 20 commissioner of the kentucky insurance department and i was working in the nebraska department of insurance at the time. over these years i have followed his career closely and we have kept in touch and we have many common friends. as w

nelson mandela. ♪ happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday ♪ >> children across the country simultaneously sang a special version of "hani birthday" -- happy birthday" in his honor. mrndela is receiving around-the-clock care for a respiratory infection. these latest pictures show him spending the day surrounded by his family in his rural hometown. now, in 375 days from now, the party will officially be under way in london as the 2012 olympic games kick off. all over the world, athletes are training for their chance to make the team and hopefully top the podium. as part of our olympic dream series, the bbc's matthew pinsen has the story of one 19-year-old from trinidad has w.h.o. has overcome crying and poverty to for see his ambitions. >> every morning and every evening from now until 2012, you will find jay doing this -- jay-hu is a 400-meter hurdler, one of the best young athletes trinidad and tobago has produced. and he only has one thing on his mind -- >> just thinking about the olympics alone, it's amazing what comes to my hefment i'm not happy with just making it final. i want to get them out. >> the people who knew gordon best say he was born special. that's

mr. sinatra. tony bennett. liza minnelli. >> it seems like everyone has sung the songs of jimmy webb. >> linda ronstadt, way lon nelson, kristianer. a few big names in there. >> and he had a few big songs in there, songs that dominated the charts back then and are considered classics today. ♪ didn't we >> do you remember first song you wrote? here's how precocious jimmy webb was. his first song, which he wrote when he was 12... ♪ it's someone else i've known it all the time ♪ >> was later recorded by art garfunkel. ♪ webb wrote that song growing up in oklahoma. his father was baptist preacher. jimmy played piano in church. when he was 18, his family moved to southern california. a year later his mother died and his father decided to return to the midwest. but as he told an audience at new york university, jimmy informed his dad he wasn't going back. >> he had $44 in his pocket and he said, i can't believe you're doing this to me, son, and he handed me all his monoand got in the car and drove off. >> young jimmy made the rounds of the l.a. music industry. his sheet music shoved in a paper bag. his first sale to motown records wa

inouye, landrieu, murray, reed of rhode island, nelson of nebraska, pryor, tester, leahy, kirk, hutchison, mcconnell, murkowski, blunt, hoeven, coats, cochran. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: first of all, i want to express my appreciation to the chairman of the committee, the ranking member of the committee, subcommittee, for the work they did on this bill. it took a little longer than we wanted but we got it done and they have been excellent managers of this most important piece of legislation. it's our first appropriation bill. senator mcconnell and i want to do other appropriation bills. it would be a new day here to get these bills rather than having some big omnibus bill. so this is a step in the right direction. again, i express my appreciation to the two managers of this legislation. as indicated, there will be no roll call votes today. more roll call votes today. tomorrow i'm going to move to proceed to the bill that we call the cut, cap bill received from the house today. under the rules of the senate, a cloture vote on the motion to proceed to the bill will occur on saturday. i expect a

mr. hall. the president's white and the occasion. >> i'm told the last three speakers here have been the pope, her majesty the queen and nelson mandela bar or the beginning of a very funny joke. [laughter] >> the president's speech touched on the intervention in libya. >> at the outset of the crackdown in libya to say that none of this was our business. the nation's sovereignty is more important than the smaller civilians within its borders. that carries weight with some. but we are different. >> we embrace a broad responsibility. >> on to the british and american experience of immigration and diversity. we can see what was possible, she said. >> it's possible for the sons and daughters of the former colonies to sit here as members of this great parliament, and for the grandson of the kenyan who served as a crook in the british army to stand before you as president of the united states. [applause] >> and the commons and the words were on their best behavior again this time for this man, the chief reached 90 on june 10th. without a doubt the serving a royal councils in british history talking to people and a few thousand official visi