mr. ron? >> beyond the need for a better risk-based approach to passenger and bag screening, i strongly recommend to create a better balance between the airport facility security and the passenger and bag screening operation. because right now we are spending most of our efforts on the front door when the backdoor is not secured at all. >> thank you. inspector parker? >> yes, sir, thank you. i'd like to see continued support for the canine programs because as stated before, amtrak is doing a lot and we definitely appreciate what congress has done for us to fund us. >> thank you. thank you all for being here. i appreciate it. it takes a lot of time, effort, and preparation of your testimony and for you being here today. we do appreciate it. and thank you. we wish you the best. our mutual goal on both sides of the aisle is to make this country as safe and security -- secure as possible. but at the same time, we need to make sure we're filling those gaps and asking the hard questions. that's what

mr. ronald blanka who was somehow able to make it onto a plane leading-edge to -- jfk san francisco with a stolen pass. general counsel of the office also raised concerns with the perimeter security of the nation's airports. in 2009 the find that tsa failed to implement a national strategy to address the perimeter security with only a small percentage of the reports completed joint vulnerability assessments. this again raises serious questions that have to be addressed. sessions do the kozinski valley which alleges it's probably important for us to take the time to understand what security functions with the transportation security administration is not directly responsible for and one of those is there not principally responsible for the perimeter security airports that is primarily responsible and airport operators to insure the operator is to hear the appropriate security plan that meets federal standards. as a set of the last hearing on the tsa the agency has a difficult and tosk and it's

mr. rafi ron at ben-gurion airport. you are recognized for five minutes. see. >> thank you mr.chairman and members of the committee for inviting me to testify today. i would like to draw the committee's attention to the three factors that i believe are playing a key role in many of the shortcomings and airport security. the first one is the imbalance that was created shortly after 9/11 when tsa had the overwhelming task of recruiting training and installing technology in airports around the country, something that is the backbone of tsa's operation and influence of security at the airports. at the same time the airport facility security has received much less attention, and not only a screening of passengers where most of the attention and the funding went into, but it was also executed by a tsa why the rest of it was left for the local authorities to take care of. something was relatively short and the standards for performance of the security task on the local level are not very clear and in many cases they did not even exist, and the point or the issue of perimeter security

. >> thank you, mr. ron. a little bit of explanation as we introduce mr. parker. you would be cures as to why we would want somebody from amtrak to be here at a hearing regarding airport security. one of the questions, i think that is a legitimate one that the committee would like to explore, while the t.s.a. has invested in whole body imaging and the like, many have come to the conclusion that dogs are the single best way to find explosive devices and i'd like ask to introduce into the record, there was a press conference by lieutenant general michael oats that said quote dogs are the best detectors, and this, i would point to this. i know all good americans get this magazine, airmen which is the united states air force in their may-june 2011 edition, it says there's no technology proven more effective in detection of the explosives than the k-9. there are questions are we investing enough in technology that we know works according to the pentagon having literally spent tens of billions of dollars so again without waxing on too much more we appreciate truly inspe

mr. camny ron says his former chief is innocent until proven guilty. >>> british actor hugh grant has wonal victory relating to the hacking case. today a judge that they must hand over information to him. the ruling comes after police told grant there bass evidence his voice mail may have been intersented -- there was evidence his voice mail may have been intercepted. >>> during testimony yesterday, rupert murdoch said there was no evidence that ever occurred about police officers and 911 victims' phone calls. >>> still to come -- the changes the rangers are about to make to their stadium. >>> and why the city is asking whether you will pay $80 each year in texas -- each year in taxes. >>> the city will ask voters to approve an $80 a year parcel tax. mayor quan said the measure would raise $11 million annually. the money would men pay for police officer, city workers and libraries. >>> the texas rangers are making safety changes to their ballpark following the death of a fan there earlier this month. ballpark officials plan to raise the railings to 42 inches. right now they are only at 26

when stacked against ron paul, mr. paul by 4 points. 41% to 37%. >>> time is 7:47. there are calls for an oregon congressman to resign after a california teenager accused him of an unwanted sexual encounter. the report that he was involved with the 18-year-old daughter of a friend and campaign donor in california. it reportedly happened during a visit over thanksgiving. according to the oregonen, the democratic representative said it was consensual. >>> a retired army general has died. he was one of president clinton's military advisers. he retired a stroke in 2004 and died yesterday from complications. he was 75 years old. >>> walter reed army medical center is preparing to close its doors. a farewell ceremony will be held on wednesday. the hospital will close down for good in mid-september. the facility is more than a century old and has served presidents and thousands of wounded troops. in 2007, the hospital was found to have substandard conditions and long waits. patients will sooning treated at a new hospital in b

ron paul shower stall." (laughter and applause) so naturally i was psyched when mr. cain agreed to come on my show.n is going to be my guest on thursday, july 28. write that on your ipad in ink! (laughter) well, i hope you wrote that on your ipad in erasable ink because yesterday herman cain canceled on me. (boos) it's the second time cain has canceled. and i... (laughter). i can't keep doing this. (laughter) herman cain, i am not some pizza crust you can just leave on your plate and move on to a hotter slice. (laughter) you know what, herman? you can't cancel on me because i'm canceling you! (cheers and applause) i think you should know i'm seeing someone else thursday night. (laughter) republican presidential candidate buddy romer. all right this is not just some rebound, either. i really like buddy romer. is that him? good, good because i like him. he's a former congressman and a one-term governor of louisiana. that's right, herman, buddy's actually held elective office. (laughter) so it's over herman. did herman call? no? fine, good. because buddy r roemer is my guy now. and i know i said herma

mr. lee: i have a friend named ron mcmill lynn, lives in my hometown of alpine, utah, and he's the author of a number of books dealing with business negotiation, dealing with trying to figure out how you can get to compromise. the presiding officer: the time has expired. mr. paul: can we have an extension of two minutes to finish our thoughts? mr. durbin: i don't object as long as this side i given an additional two minutes. mr. paul: thank you. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. lee: and in that series of books, the crucial conversation line of books, one of the things he encourages people to do is to find whatever common ground they can reach. i think there is common ground among the american people generally that we should balance our budget. not everyone agrees about how we balance the budget, what should be cut, but they do agree that we should balance it. that being the case, that's where we ought to focus our efforts, is on amending our law of laws, that 224-yr-old document that has fostered the development of the greatest civilization the world has ever known. change it

mr. lee: i have a friend named ron mcmill lynn, lives in my hometown of alpine, utah, and he's the author of a number of books dealing with business negotiation, dealing with trying to figure out how you can get to compromise. the presiding officer: the time has expired. mr. paul: can we have an extension of two minutes to finish our thoughts? mr. durbin: i don't object as long as this side is given an additional two minutes. mr. paul: thank you. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. lee: and in that series of books, the crucial conversation line of books, one of the things he encourages people to do is to find whatever common ground they can reach. i think there is common ground among the american people generally that we should balance our budget. not everyone agrees about how we balance the budget, what should be cut, but they do agree that we should balance it. that being the case, that's where we ought to focus our efforts, is on amending our law of laws, that 224-year-old document that has fostered the development of the greatest civilization the world has ever known. change

mr. lee: i have a friend named ron mcmill lynn, lives in my hometown of alpine, utah, and he's the author of a number of books dealing with business negotiation, dealing with trying to figure out how you can get to compromise. the presiding officer: the time has expired. mr. paul: can we have an extension of two minutes to finish our thoughts? mr. durbin: i don't object as long as this side is given an additional two minutes. mr. paul: thank you. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. lee: and in that series of books, the crucial conversations he encourages people to do is to find whatever common ground they can reach. i think there is common ground among the american people geney that we should balance our budget. not everyone agrees about how we balance the budget, what should be cut, b they do agree that we should balance it. that being the case, that's where we oht to focus our efforts, is on amending our law of laws, that 224-year-old document that has fostered the development of the greatest civilization the world has ever known. change it again to improve it, to restrict con

mr. lee: i have a friend named ron mcmill lynn, lives in my hometown of alpine, utah, and he's the author of a number of books dealing with business negotiation, dealing with trying to figure out how you c get to compromise. the presiding officer: the time has expired. mr. paul: can we have an extension of two minutes to finish our thoughts? mr. durbin: i don't object as long as this side is given an additional two minutes. mr. paul: thank you. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. lee: and in that series of books, the crucial conveation line of books, one of the things he encourages people to do is to find whatever common ground they can reach. i think there is common ground among the american people generally that we should balance our budget. not everyone agrees about how we balance the budget, what should be cut, but they do agree that we should balance it. that being the case, that's where we ought to focus our efforts, is on amending our law of laws, that 224-year-old document that has fostered the development of the greatest civilization the world has ever known. change it

could, further about the symbolic power of doma in your lives to any of the three witnesses, ron, andrew or susan. mr. so'oto. -- mr. soto. >> senator, i'm glad to be able to respond to that. i was a teacher and principal, as i told you, for 35 years. every day of my career i led my students in the pledge of allegiance, and that pledge of allegiance ends with liberty and justice for all. for 35 years every day when it came to those words i stood in front of my students with a blank face but inside i knew it was not true. i knew as a history teacher that it had not been true for blacks, it had not been true for women, it had not been true for mixed race couples, and i knew that it was not true then for same-gender couples. and i had to stand before them and say that. and i also had every day of my career until the very end when i finally got the courage to admit who i was to always use the pronoun i to my students when they asked me questions that probed into my personal life. i was going on vacation. i did this. i could not say we because the next question was, well, who is the other person, and i kn

ron christie joins me this morning. tara, i want to start with you. one report described this as mr. compromise as mr. my way or the highway. now we are hearing from luke and hearing about the boehner bill and saying from the speaker this morning to his people, get your tail in line. get behind this. now is it mr. my way or the highway to his own people? >> i think john boehner is being my way or the highway to his own people. as we have seen, he is having a difficult time getting consensus and support within his own party. he is determined to advance a bill he cannot get through his own party. i think what needs to happen is seven out of ten americans said this in the latest pew poll. they want to see compromise. the democrats have shown a willingness, too much of a willingness to compromise and try to build consensus to save our country from worsening the economic crisis that we are already in. >> ron, what is your opinion? we are talking about the left and the right and we are losing out with the compromise. to come up with a draft to agree on and get behind. >> good morning, thomas. the art of the

mr. chairman. i want to join chairman ron and and madame secretary to the panel and the other witnesses we are going to hear from impleader, and i want to commend you want to initiatives you have undertaken to help implement the affordable care at. one hour of rules, guidelines that you recently released to govern the exchanges which will open the door to millions more americans being able to get affordable health care in the united states of america. the other that received less attention is your recently announced initiative to improve the coordination of care for individuals who are both on medicaid and medicare called the dual eligibles, and as you pointed out, using some of the innovative approaches in the affordable care act we can within prove the quality-of-care and save money through some of the changes you are proposing their. those are important parts of the affordable care act that together others will strengthen healthcare protections for the american people and putting provisions that have already taken into effect including making sure that insurance companies can no longer discrimina

mr. bush did not win the presidential nomination. he did when the vice-presidential nomination on the ticket with ron reagan, she decided she was going to continue following up in this area because it was a very solid project and one that would benefit the country. with their own money she hired two people to help her develop this as an area of expertise. she had breakfast where she invited experts to the vice president's residence. she spoke and read. she read extensively. during her time as wife of the vice-president she was involved in 537 literacy events. i can't completely tell you that this is accurate, but my account of the bush library of for literacy speeches during the vice-president seat was 225 which is a fair amount of speaking about the topic. i want to apologize. i have been ignoring passing around photos. i will pull these up. mrs. bush. i'm just going to pass them around. i'm going to invite you to have all looked at them as things move along. thank you. and one of the photos you will see is mrs. bush reading to young children, which she did many times. coming a little bit on the heels of learning all about this was

the first witness we'll hear from is ron wallen, a resident of indio, california, married tom, his partner of 55 years in june of 2008. mr. wallen, please go ahead, sir. i should note for all witnesses, your whole statement will be placed in the record, and wops you have the transscript, you get a copy of the transcript, and if you find -- i should have added this line or that line, you'll have a chance to do that. we want a complete as record as we have, but please go ahead, mr. wallen. >> i thank the chairman and members of the senate judiciary committee for inviting me to testify at this important hearing today. i want to especially thank my senators, senator feinstein for introducing the respect for marriage act. i'm honored and appreciate the opportunity to tell my story. i'm ron wallen, 77 years old, and i live in california. four months ago, tom, my husband and partner of 58 years, died of leukemia. tom and i first met back in 1953 when tom was 23 and i was 19, and from the first day, we enjoyed a sense of togetherness that never weakened in both good times and bad. tom suffered a heart attack in 1998. we changed

mr. brady: the bill has come due. since world war ii, because congress held the puffers strings we ran the numbers. democrats have ron up 90% of the debt that is held by the public. 90% of the debt that we owe to foreign countries, and foreign countries you and me have been run up by one side of the aisle. woun't it be great if the democrats joined us, but the won't. republicans will take responsibity for their mess. we are going to make sure this country pays its bills, but we are going to make sure we start cutting up the credit cards and change the financial behavior of this country and actually give our kids and grandkids a future that they can cnt on, that they can afford, a country that is much stronger than the one we are facing today if we don't address this health problem. you can't cut soon enough or deep enough for me. but the budget control act starts us on the right step. it cuts $2.7 trillion in two steps. we cut more than we allow to be borrowed and make sure there are no tax increases on our children, on our small businesses, on your families. we make sure there is finally a real straight up and down

mr. brady: the bill has come due. since world war ii, because congress held the puffers strings we ran the numbers. democrats have ron up 90% of the debt that is held by the public. 90% of the debt that we owe to foreign countries, and foreign countries you and me have been run up by one side of the aisle. wouldn't it be great if the democrats joined us, but they won't. republicans will take responsibility for their mess. we are going to make sure this country pays its bills, but we are going to make sure we start cutting up the credit cards and change the financial behavior of this country and actually give our kids and grandkids a future that they can count on, that they can afford, a country that is much stronger than the one we are facing today if we don't address this health problem. you can't cut soon enough or deep enough for me. but the budget control act starts us on the right step. it cuts $2.7 trillion in two steps. we cut more than we allow to be borrowed and make sure there are no tax increases on our children, on our small businesses, on your families. we make sure there is finally a real straight up an

mr. brady: the bill has come due. since world war ii, because congress held the puffers strings we ran the numbers. democrats have ron up 90% of the debt that is held by the public. 90% of the debt that we owe to foreign countries, and foreign countries you and me have been run up by one side of the aisle. wouldn't it be great if the democrats joined us, but they won't. republicans will take responsibility for their mess. we are going to make sure this country pays its bills, but we are going to make sure we start cutting up the credit cards and change the financial behavior of this country and actually give our kids and grandkids a future that they can count on, that they can afford, a country that is much stronger than the one we are facing today if we don't address this health problem. you can't cut soon enough or deep enough for me. but the budget control act starts us on the right step. it cuts $2.7 trillion in two steps. we cut more than we allow to be borrowed and make sure there are no tax increases on our children, on our small businesses, on your families. we make sure there is finally a real straight up an

mr. brady: the bill has come due. since world war ii, because congress held the puffers strings we ran the numbers. democrats have ron up 90% of the debt that is held by the public. 90% of the debt that we owe to foreign countries, and foreign countries you and me have been run up by one side of the aisle. wouldn't it be great if the democrats joined us, but they won't. republicans will take responsibility for their mess. we are going to make sure this country pays its bills, but we are going to make sure we start cutting up the credit cards and change the financial behavior of this country and actually give our kids and grandkids a future that they can count on, that they can afford, a country that is much stronger than the one we are facing today if we don't address this health problem. you can't cut soon enough or deep enough for me. but the budget control act starts us on the right step. it cuts $2.7 trillion in two steps. we cut more than we allow to be borrowed and make sure there are no tax increases on our children, on our small businesses, on your families. we make sure there is finally a real straight up an

mr. speaker, -- politics make it harder to reach a deal? >> as we wait for the white house briefing to start, we'll have more about the debt talks. first i wanted you to know that texas representative ron paul says he will retire from congress when his term runs out in 2012 and will focus on his campaign for president. the 75-year-old republican says he has been criticized in the past for running for congress and the presidency at the same time. so representative paul, serving out his term through december. then focusing on his campaign for president. that in the associated press. president obama has scheduled another meeting this afternoon with congressional leaders for talks about the federal budget and raising the debt ceiling. that is happening at 3:45 eastern time. probably hear about that during the white house briefing shortly. we expect the briefing to begin momentarily. until then, u.s. chamber of commerce senior vice president william miller talked about the debt talks on this morning's "washington journal.". >> host: bill miller, our guest for the u.s. senior chamber of commerce. to talk about the group, the president meets with the two sides again today, 3:45 p.m. eastern t