mr. roberts, and there were many things i was concerned about. one of them is that he had a meeting at noon and would return to san francisco and deliver the brees to maintaie, but he had to his office and deliver a new breeze. one of his statement stated that in order to comprehend the brief it was feigned. i took that to be that i am stupid or do not understand the breeandbrief, and i was insultey that. on the second page you have exhibited bias on ethnicity. give repeatedly referring to him as a well-known brand of she robbed the -- brand of cheap vodka. i am not a racist, and i do recall calling him mr. popov. i had to go to a liquor store. i did not even know what it was. i find it very unprofessional, and if this is the kind of attitude they are going to take in this neighborhood where we aren't now opposing something that is not right, then i do not trust them. we are very concerned, and the letter says the board of supervisors is prepared to look at clustering. three of them is unconscionable. it should never have been done in the history

mr. robert last week was honored with the mayor's award feature of the month as well. >> i just want to say thank you very much to my colleagues and also to families and in particular, my students. every single day, they teach me how to be of better teacher of them. thank you. >> i am sorry, but i have the privilege of he was one of the teachers on my list, 90 that were nominated for the mayor's teacher of the month award and we brought it down the 60 into 30. we went into 30 classrooms, and we finally chose 10 teachers out of the 90. going into his classroom was unbelievable, it made me feel like a 5-year-old again. when he talks about seamless thus, there was no disruption in his teaching because he was making sure that the kids knew he was present. every time there was a transition, it was signaled by a sound and there was singing in the classroom. everything was focused around the kids, and i had a chance to ask him what makes him happy about teaching, and for him it was all about making the kids had the opportunity to be kids and that childhood is extremely important. he wants to make

mr. roberts. you're a retired chicago police captain. you move to the suburbs for a better life for you and your family and your son billy fell into drugs. tell us what happened. >> shortly after we moved, billy had just graduated from grade school and started into high school and like a lot of kids in america, that's where they are going to be introduced to drugs and be tempted and to maybe drug experimentation and, unfortunately, billy making new friends in a new community it seemed like he got in with the wrong crowd. by and large, don, the drugs are out there and in a a lot of communities. i moved out to a beautiful suburb. i can see a farm from my back deck. a nice area. after 33 years in the streets of chicago as a police officer, i never expected to find heroin but why do i do what i do now? it's all over the counties, the counties of chicago and many of our major cities. >> the reason i say that is because most people when they say you think about drugs and you think about heroin. you think about rock stars or inner city urban ar

mr. roberts: mr. president, how much time do we have on the republican side? the presiding officer: 18 minutes, sir. mr. roberts: 18? the presiding officer: 18. mr. roberts: thank you. mr. president, i yield myself six minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. roberts: mr. president, i rise today in support of the cloture vote on the motion to proceed on the farm bill. let me point out what the distinguished chairwoman and the distinguished senator that has just spoken has already pointed out, and it bears repeating. i know it is somewhat repetitive if people have been paying attention to the remarks that we have had here prior to this vote, but this is a reform bill at a time in which reforms are demanded. it saves $23.6 billion in mandate -- mandatory spending, they are cuts, real deficit savings. it accomplishes this by reforming, reducing, and steamlining programs. we eliminate four commodity programs. these programs are very difficult to go through at the f.s.a. office, the farm serv

mr. roberts: this is a typical amendment. i rise in support of it and i yield back the balance of my time. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: senator inouye. mr. akaka: i call up my amendment and speak in favor of amendment 2696, a bipartisan amendment that senator thune and i are offering to the farm bill. ms. stabenow: mr. president? if i might take a moment, i believe we want to first dispose of the akaka amendment 2440. our ranking member has indicated no opposition, and so at this point i would ask that we proceed unless there is a reason reason -- okay. on behalf of senator akaka i call up amendment 2440 and ask that we proceed with a voice vote. the presiding officer: without objection, the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from hawaii, mr. akaka, proposes amendment numbered 2440. ms. stabenow: i ask that we proceed with a voice vote, mr. president. the presiding officer: if there is no further debate on the amendment, all those in favor say aye. all those opposed, no. the ayes appear to have it. t

mr. roberts, with starting to take oxycodone or take pills. it goes from prescription pills because they are too expensive for them and go to heroin because heroin is cheaper and start shooting it. once you start to shoot heroin your body needs that. they are hooked and they are going to have an issue the rest of their lives. at the beginning of this show we said either you're going to end up dead or in jail most times. >> that's true. the problem is that there's a lot of drugs out there. not all them -- in fact, i don't bee so min the gateway theoryut i do believe one gateway drug is the painkiller, prescription painkillers. they are oate bad drugs. you don't use a prescription and use them there in case you need them. our kids are getting them and you're corct. they want more and try it again. her building a dependency and a tolerance for the opiate based drug but when they find they can i don't heroin and it's much cheaper. 10 dollars a bag. here in chicago a kid can drive into the west side of chicago and buy a bag of heroin for $10 and th

mr. roberts: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from kansas. mr. roberts: i tries speak in opposition to my friend and colleague's amendment, the battle cry for conservation compliance requirements to be attached to crop insurance seems strangely to assume that conservation compliance is somehow eliminated in commodity programs in this new bill. this is not true. conservation compliance is attached to the new farm revenue program in title 1 of the bill. conservation compliance is also attached to the marketing loan program. to duplicate the same requirements in crop insurance is wasteful of government resources, taxpayer dollars, will cause a lot more paperwork. when your farmers find out that you're wasting taxpayer dollars and are in charge of a duplicative effort and making them fill out more paperwork, you will have to hide in your office four weeks. don't hide in your office for four weeks. vote "no." nor senator amensenatora senato! the presiding officer: the question is on the am

mr. roberts, with -- starting to take pills.s from prescription pills because the prescription pills become too expensive for them. so guy that to heroin. once you start to use heroin, it's not just addictive and you want that high. your body needs that. so they're hooked. they're going to have an issue for the rest of their lives. at the beginning of this show, as we said, either you're going to ends up dead or in jail most times. >> it's true. the problem is that there's a lot of drugs out there. not all of them are -- in fact, i don't believe so much in the get gateway theory. one gateway drug is the painkiller, prescription painkiller. kids can get those in most of the medicine cabinets in our country. mom and dad -- i mean, you got a prescription, you don't use them all, you leave them there in case you need them. our kids are going in and getting them. you're exactly correct. they go out and want more. they try it again. they're already building a dependency and tolerance for the opiate-based drug. when they find it, they

mr. roberts, i do not have any indication she does not intend to appear. i am just relating what i know. >> i did not get any indication to that effect. >> commissioners, views on whether we should subpoena on the 29th, or whether we should await resolution of the objections prior to doing so? >> the information we have is that the attorney for those witnesses is not available until sometime in july. >> he did not express that? >> he did express that to me. he is not available the last week in june and the first week in july. >> i think that is in this -- is ms. haynes's unavailability as well, or her counsel. chairperson hur: in light of that, i think we should withhold issuing a subpoena for ms. madison, as of now. unless there are dissenting views, i do not feel particularly strongly about it. does that address all of the objections to the mayor's fact witness list? i am sorry. we did not address ms. williams. i think, with ms. williams, because the issues are similar -- it is a shirker declaration. we could go through it, if the parties wanted to. or i

mr. robert as you will recall, was quite visible in his resistance to mr.ma's criticism of the citizens united. despite their differences, mr. roberts proved he was capable, to go to the constitution itself and and to a decision, i think this will make a tremendous decision in winning barack obama re-election and gives him a kind of confidence in a win beneath his wings. >> jared, mitt romney's only response to the health care ruling was to become a font of misinformation saying it would add trillions to the deficit, but have you ever seen a presidential candidate treat his very own legacy with such contempt? he implemented the mandate in massachusetts. but now, expects us to believe that he hates the very idea. >> quite mind blowing. back to the discussion you were just having, why i think this may be pivotal, the fact remains that we have 50 million people uninsured this this country. twice that compared to any other advanced economies. and president obama has a plan that was supported by a democratically elected government and by the highest court in thd

mr. roberts and his supreme court.

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mr. robert mancini is the ceo and director of ormen technologies. we want to come you all here. that's the practice of this committee to swear you all in. if you could just stand up and raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? let the record show that everyone answered in the affirmative. and we will move down the line. you all know how this works. you get five minutes, more or less, keep it close there if you can. you've got the light system there in front of you. you can see. >> good morning, mr. chairman, ranking members and distinguished members. you've already introduced myself. let me introduce nrg. we're a fortune 300 company with 25,000 megawatts of coal, gas, wind and solar generation. it's nuch to power more than 20 million homes. we also serve more than 2 million customers in several northeastern states. important to our discussion today is nrg is not a racte-basd utility. our shareholders bear 100% of the risk which is in stark contrast to rate-based ut

mr. roberts proposes amendment numbered 2389. mr. reid: i ask for the yeas and nays on that amendment, madam president. the presiding officer: is there is a sufficient second? there appears to be. the yeas and nays are ordered. mr. reid: i have a second-degree amendment at the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from nevada, mr. reid, proposes amendment numbered 2390 to amendment number 2389. mr. reid: i have a motion to recommit the bill with instructions that also is at the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from nevada, mr. reid, moves to recommit s. 3240 to the senate committee on agriculture, nutrition and forestry with instructions to report back forthwith an amendment numbered 2391. mr. reid: i ask for the yeas and nays on this motion. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the yeas and nays are ordered. mr. reid: i now call amendment number 23 -- looks like an 8 to me -- 82 -- 92. looked like an 8 but it's a 9. nu

and they did not seriously -- mrs. robert kennedy talked about this in 1967 when i worked for him. it was not helping people to get on their own 2 feet. and that was a problem. but that is not with the clinton bill did. it just said to people, go get a job. it was a kick in the pants bill. on top of that, you don't have a legal right to get it anymore and you have a time limit of only five years. in those first four years, yes, people went to work, but what nobody talks about is that 40% of the people who le welfare, even between 1996 and 2000, ended up with no welfare and no job. it was not so marvelous even then. but there was that increase. that increase went from 49% of the single moms on welfare who had been on welfare to 64%. it is now going back down to 54%. it started going in the other direction in the year 2000. so we have been seeing for some time that the thing was not working properly, that it was not really helping enough people and it was really hurting some people. then comes the recession and we definitely -- if we needed proved, people say to me, it turns out you

mr. roberts. we are ready for you. >> my name is eugene popok president hwang: -- eugene popok. i started the project three years ago and what i wanted to say, the city licensed and approved that i can run it efficiently. i have a lot of experience and from my experience in dealing with people and helping them, you saw people come in and they will cry and have you sang able -- i was able to sleep for the first time in 20 years and able to eat a hamburger. i have been able to do this or that. it means a lot. i am passionate about what i do. just like stephen said, he does not represent the whole community. i have done the outreach even after the hearing. some of the neighbors that were opposed changed their minds and support us with letters and further and went out to find why are here to speak later on. i think, in fact i know i have not had thany incidents. i have met and the spoken with john avalos and he supports the project. captain mahoney, we did a walk- through. one of the representatives were there with us and she saw the whole thing. there are a lot of people in the nei

mr. robert johnson, ceo of sky angel, us, llc. thank you for being here. we appreciate reading through your testimony and look forward to your comments. just for all the panelists, if you haven't used these microphones, you really need to get pretty close to them, make sure the light's on. >> chairman walden, ranking member eshoo and members of the subcommittee on communications and technology, it is my pleasure to have this opportunity to testify at your hearing today on the future of video and thank you for inviting me to participate. my name is rob johnson. i'm one of the founders of sky angel and its chief executive officer. sky angel was founded for the purpose of providing american families with a high quality and affordable video distribution service in their homes that would offer exclusively family-friendly programming. today offers more than 80 channels that are live linear programming networks, many of which are familiar in american households such as the hallmark channel, fox news, the nfl channel, bloomberg and the weather channel, to name a f

mr. roberts because now we know where we're going, and don't be surprised if it's not real loud or anything. there's determination in what's going to happen now, and it will be repealed regardless because it's a bad bill, and we can't afford it. not only that, i watched your companion television, number two, and the democrats were talking and they were totally stunned by what just happened and, believe me, they know they just committed political suicide. thank you very much. >> thank you. close to 90-degree day here in the nation's capital. you can see the crowds on the supreme court steps starting to thin a bit now that the decision is known, but still people watching the commentary by members of congress and others on this historic day. here comes the president. >>> good afternoon. earlier today the supreme court upheld the constitutionality of the affordable care act. the name of the health care reform we passed two years ago. in doing so, they've reaffirmed a fundamental principle that here in america, in the wealthiest nation on earth no illness or accident should lead to any family's

mr. roberts and his supreme court. he and four liberal justices upheld the the bill, the provision that said people have to get health care or pay a penalty. these five justices ruled it constitutional. pete williams is nbc justice correspondent, i want to ask you the big question of the day. chief justice roberts appointed by george bush, why did he do what he did today? >> we can't say that for sure. we can only look at his words. you have to go back to when the case was argued to say that while justice roberts did have some skepticism, there were questions that he might he support the law. a huge stunner in that sense because he in essence had signalled he might do it. i think you have to say this is really two decisions. first of all, the supreme court with justice roberts joining with the four conservatives agreed with one of the conservative criticisms of this law, that congress had no power, constitution remembers congress has to power quote to regulate commerce. the opponents said if you don't have insurance, t

mr. roberts: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from kansas. mr. roberts: mr. president, first of all, i want to thank the distinguished senator from michigan for her very kind remarks. this has been a team effort. she has been a leader, a very strong leader to fry to put -- y to put together a bill. i want to thank her for her very detailed summary, title by title, of the farm bill, something that a lot of us probably couldn't do. but, at any rate, she has done that, and it is for the record. it is in the "congressional record" fl i urge my colleagues to really take a look at what the distinguished chairman -- chairwoman, pardon me, has said today. because she has literally gone down every title in the farm bill. so if anybody has any question, it is right there. as she has indicated, if they have questions of either of under thus,please be in contactr of us or any of our very cable staff. i rise today in strong support of the agriculture reform and food act of 2012 rkt the farm bill. irm pleased to stand here with chairwoman stabenow who led this legislation

mr. chief justice john roberts. existence is the unpredicted, those moments a person does something that staggers the rest of us that is so phenomenal and blows us away. john roberts just performed one of those acts, he was judicious looking at the obama health care act from all angles, how from each perspective the act does or does not pass mustard with the constitution. he did so as he said today, looking for that angle from which the obama measure could be ruled to square with this country's organizing document, admitting to looking for it until he found it. so the big question, what pushed him, what made him look until he found the route to the obama health care act to constitutional acceptability, what was it that encouraged him, john roberts, to find the taxing authority, the provision he believed gave obama's act its okay by the constitution. well, my hunch knowing justice roberts and his wife just a bit, he wanted to do good and went looking for a way to do it consistent to hisç oath to respect the constitu

mr. roberts is in his conscious thought it would be immoral to not uphold this bill. would have been enough to kind of blow all of our minds, right? but he was the one who actually wrote the majority opinion. and not only that, he -- he felt that the government didn't really make its primary argument about the commerce clause adequately. so he went and tried to help them essentially write their paper for them. and came up with the tax clause. i mean, that -- he went the extra mile to make this happen. >> he did. and he said in the opinion, that's the supreme court's job. he quoted oliver wendell holmes. he said it's our job to find the constitutionality support for it, even if counsel does not make the right argument. >> right. he does not like the idea of universal health care. i don't think in the past he's cared much for çobama. president obama did not vote for him under the supreme court, and chief justice roberts messed up his oath of office on the opening day. but i just think, you know, this should just, this victory, i think, really should be a mandate for al

mr. roberts: mr. president, i intend to give my full opening comments in regards to the farm bill tomorrow, but i want to quickly say thank you to the chairwoman for helping to bring us to this point. thank you for your leadership. it's been truly a bipartisan effort. it's been a team effort. and i want to reiterate what the chairwoman has said. i want to tell our colleagues that this is a true reform bill. i can say that ten times over for emphasis, but it is a true reform bill. it also reduces and streamlines the department of agriculture programs. long overdue. we cut $23 billion in mandatory spending, and it was voluntarily, without any direction from the budget committee or anybody else. and it's real money. it's mandatory money. the super committee tried to work out a deal, and they weren't so super. they tried hard. i'm not trying to criticize. a tough deal. we're the only authorizing committee that i know of in the senate that has cole sraerl come forth -- come forth and said here real deficit

>> our guest on "newsmakers" this week is robert khuzami. mr. khuzami is the head of enforcement for the securities and exchange commission. thank you very much for being here this week. here. "the new york times" ackerman covers the f.c.c. for "the wall street journal" and dow jones news writers. thanks for being here. you. financial crisis have certainly, i understand the feelings given the breadth of the loss and the impact of the financial crisis on people's livelihood and on their savings and investments. but having said that, as you indicated, i think our performance has been very strong in this area over, i think, at last count, 102 entities and firms have been charged and most importantly, over 55 c.f.o.'s, c.e.o.'s and senior corporate executives for conduct across the mortgage-related areas from issuing companies like country wide and new century to those firms that issued c.d.o.'s with misleading statements such as goldman-sachs, j.p. morgan, citigroup to the mutual fund complexes that loaded their funds up with riskier mortgage asset

mr. robert gray shipley senior. mr. shipley was born in valley cruces, north carolina, on june 23, 1912. growing up on his parents' farm, his aat this tude for agriculture and ranching was evident from a young age. he put that skill to use working his way through college milking cows, judging livestock competitions, and maintaining records in virginia polytech nique institute's dairy department. he began teaching upon his graduation from virginia tech in 1933 and aside from the time he spent in the united states air force as a gunnery instructor on b-24 bombers, teaching agriculture in an innovative and hands-on manner is what he did for most of his professional life. in fact mr. shipley counts among his many students, my husband, tom. today if you take a trip down there, evidence of mr. shipley's involvement in the community is everywhere. he helped organize roy tauga -- wautaugahereford organization, he taught sheep shearing, meese he's a member of the north carolina state fair hall of fame, the western north carolina

katyal, who is now at georgetown law and in private practice, the former firm of chief justice john roberts. mral, thank you so much for joining us tonight, great to have you here. >> it's great to be here. >> most court watchers with less experience than you were expecting that if the liberal side won today it would be because justice kennedy swung to their side, that didn't happen, it was justice roberts who swung instead. do you think that was important, and should more people have seen it coming? >> yeah, i do think more people should have seen it coming, i think during his confirmation hearings to be chief justice he promised judicial restraint, judicial humility, trying to see things aaccurately and apolitical as possible and those that worked for him saw that in him and took a lot of heat, frankly, from the left when we id good things about him, and low and behold, i think that's what you have here. i don't want to say, you know, you could view this decision in lots of different ways, but the one really important thing about the decision is it's really an apolitical decision, i mean, the

roberts: thank you, general. general verrilli: thank you, mr. chief justice. ### >> of think the government rather unusual theory that something is ok when done ad hoc becomes preventive. let me just echo there is no interference with enforcement priorities by simply giving the federal government information on which to bring their enforcement priorities to bear. this is illustrated by the point the court made in the florence decision earlier this month is that sometimes you pond -- pull someone over for an innocuous infraction and they turn out to be a serious offender. if you prevent officers from communicating with the federal government, the federal government will not be able to identify the worst of the worst. look at the declaration of officer brett blidewell. he pulled someone over in a routine traffic stop and was shot by the individual. the individual was wanted for attempted murder and else eldora and was accused of illegal entry in the united states and was stopped on three previous occasions and his status was not verified. if it ha

he is served as fbi director robert muller's chief of staff. mr. waynestein got his law degree from the university of california at berkeley. mark rottenberg is the executive director of the electronity privacy information center, known as epic in washington, d.c. and is also an adjunct professor of law. he chairs the american par association's on privacy and information protection is a founding board member and former chair of public interest registry which manages the dot org domain. director of t he joined the staff of the aclu in 2002. before joining the staff, he served as a law clerk on the court of appeals on the second circuit. he is a dpraj watt of williams college, cambridge university and harvard law school, without objection, the witness's statement will be entered into the record in their entirety, i ask that you summarize your testimony in five minutes or less, and to help you stay within the time limit, there are the green, yellow and red lights before you. i now recognize mr. waynestein. in considering the faa's reauthorization, we