mr. secretary. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. secretary, thank you for joining us today on what really i think is one of the most important issues for our constituents. they understand that our fiscal house is not in order and they demand that it be put in order. just by way of clarification, i think it's also important to appreciate that the president is the one who holds the keys as to whether or not the government gets shut down. he has said that he won't sign something fill in the blank. whether or not this government gets shut down is squarely in the president's lap. you said just a moment ago that you thought it was appropriate for the market to decide which companies grow and succeed. many of us on our side of the aisle and many americans believe that this administration has grossly distorted the market and made it much more difficult for companies to be able to succeed in the way that the normal business processes work where the government isn't coming in to bail out their competitor or to change the playing field so i thi

mr. levin. welcome, secretary geithner. you have 5 minutes. your full written statement will be part of the record, but you may begin your testimony and welcome to the committee on ways and means. >> thank you, mr. chairman, kemp, ranking member levin and members of the committee, it's a pleasure to be you before to talk about the president's budget. the president's budget presents a comprehensive strategy to strengthen economic growth and expand exports with investments in education, innovation, and the nation's infrastructure. alongside these investments the budget presents a detailed, multiyear plan to cut spending and reduce deficits. our deficits are too high. they are unsustainable and left unaddressed, these deficits will hurt economic growth and make us weaker as a nation. we have to restore fiscal responsibility and go back to living within our means. the president's budget cuts the deficit he inherited in half as a share of the economy by the end of his first term. these cuts are phased over time so that we protect the recovery. in or

mr. secretary. >> thank you. mr. aiken. >> thank you, mr. secretary. i want to say i really respect her decisiveness. nobody can say you are free to rate it and make the tough decisions and certainly we need that kind of leadership. i don't always appreciate the communication strategy of letting us know. he said sometimes you don't know for six months before what we'll be in a conflict. sometimes we don't know whether a program is going or not and it's about a matter of terrorist though we find out. sometimes this committee would be helpful if you are connection medications and get some of us they had up as to what you think you were going because were trying to play as a team with you, particularly in that regard, i've shifted over and i'm now on the budget committee and try to help people to understand the difference in growth of entitlement and what is happening to the defense budget as a percent of gdp. as you know, the defense budget has very much going on since 1965 and entitlements and the 600% or 70% increase, but we need to make sure to make t

mr. secretary, i'm sorry i missed the last hour of testimony. mr. secretary, my colleague from san diego, you were answering her questions and talked about the defense budget and the total layouts and now this is at the lowest point since the 1990's. there is so little being spent on defense. if you don't give this a top line or ask for what it would cost to erase all risk, literally, or as much risk as possible, we have no baseline to cut defense from or add. the numbers we are using our lib numbers. if you were to take away 100% of risk using your own threat assessment tools and analysis, what would that funding be? what would you ask for? >> i have only half jokingly said in meetings in the department is if we had a $1 trillion budget, we would have on funded requirements. these services could come up with a list of things they really need. the budget that we have provided at $553 billion for fy 2012 mitigates risks to the extent that i think is reasonably possible. i think we are investing in new capabilities. there is $70 billion that the servic

mr. secretary, for sharing your views. as we discussed, the budget for 2012 will have to look at the continuing resolution for this year. having said that, at one point in time the president of the united states indicated that he was only advocating an extension of the tax relief for those people making less than $250,000. but in this agreement the president was not -- didn't ask for it, but did agree that it would be for everybody. having said that as understand the cost of the relief given is over a hundred billion dollars. now, the majority has a substantial number of cuts in spending, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it is not going to be ultimately a cost that we are going to have to pay. my question to you, has there been any comparisons between the cost of extending this relief to the economists. we should not expect economic growth. a negative impact of cutting programs which could cost an additional spending. has your office reviewed this? >> well, congressman, you are raising exactly the right point which i

mr. secretary. >> mr.ford. >> i want to continue this conversation on the corporate tax that as well. you mentioned early in her testimony in a conversation about territorial and you mentioned you are looking for those ideas on how we handled that and how do we reset criterion expectations on that. what country do you look at that is doing global taxation that you say it is a good model and how it is and transitional? is there another country out there that does global transaction well? >> excellent question but i don't see anything out there yet that we can said to our particular circumstances at a country. we are special in many ways. we want to keep it that way but anyway we are happy to talk to about that in more detail and we are going to look at alternatives out there. again we want like you will want we want to make sure we are not eroding the tax base of stance when we want to create more incentives to move that stuff outside the united states. >> is a general principle and following up on the comm

mr. secretary. this hearing is now adjourned. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> treasury secretary tim geithner will return to capitol hill tomorrow. this time to the house budget committee to talk about the president's budget request and treasury department spending. you can watch it live at 2 p.m. on c-span3 and c-span.org. >> coming up on c-span2, health and human services secretary kathleen sebeilus -- >> it's a three-day presidential weekend on american history tv on c-span3 live from the truman little white house in key west. what it's like to be related to an american president. we hear candid conversations with deuces sents of four u.s. presidents. live monday historians, friends, and associates on president kennedy on the place in history, the lessons, and their application today. we'll visit the smithsonian to learn the art and politics of preside

secretary gates and admiral mullen. appreciated. >> thain senator ayotte. senator akaka. >> thank you very much mr. irman and a low haas secretary gates and admiral mullen and secretary ayotte. i want to thank you 04 your leadership and service. secretary gates, if this is your final budget testimony before the committee i would like to say that i appreciate the excellent job that you have done leading on the military. i want to also thank the brave men and women of our armed forces and their families for their service. secretary gates and admiral mullen, i applaud the steps taken to care for our servicemembers mental well-being i believe taking care of those defending our nation is a responsibility and not a choice. i also believe that the healing process should also account for families as well. i am interested in hearing your thoughts on the progress the department is making and helping families as a whole as they work through the challenges of ptsd, tbi and other stress inducing situations for families? >> thank senator akaka and i know that you have focused on these issues and all of us greatly

mr. secretary. to follow mr.steve question, with the constitutional provision in the constitution with respect to the religious parties that it's possible to repeal the provision but haven't sufficiently -- a government that is sufficiently tolerant to satisfy you or satisfy the department that it will protect the interests of the egyptian people and our international interest or is it the administration position that that prohibition ought to remain as a part of the egyptian constitution? because it sounded as if you were not committed or the administration was not committed at least advocate for the preservation of that. >> but we are committed to advocating for the principle. i think that it would be a bit perilous for us to write the constitution in the context that we are doing. there may be other formulations with a principle, but i don't want any ambiguity about the importance of the principle. again, that's why in my conversation earlier, you know, i mentioned some cases where we have advocated very vigor

mr. secretary was good to see you again. ank you for your work with governor patrick and her secretary on education reform in massachusetts. a couple of things. i was happy to hear mayor swearingen had the same issues i had and mayor greg about the private sector. about the private sector. and we have tried to initiate a program similar to what developers do when they say we will build to suit. waiver program called train to suit and we think that is the way to go to try to fill some of these jobs in the new economy. but we talked about all of the various stakeholders including the private sector but what i don't hear a lot, as a sort of look at this kind of beat down on public and i'm sure those in wisconsin are suffering buyers remorse now, mayor barrett and read fully so. i am wondering how we get away from the notion that some parents have said it is in that daycare for kids. how do we involve the parents? one of the greatest stats i have ever heard is when parents read to kids that come into our public schools with a 10,

mr. secretary. >> thank you mr. ppear before you to discuss the president's defense budget. before i do, however, let me echo secretary gates comments about the real dangers inherent in failing to pass this year's budget. fiscal year 2011 continuing resolution is carried forward not only reduces the account by $23 billion, but declives us -- deprives us of supports the troops and their families. . . . in-house balance global risk first-rate mind organizations, smarter acquisition and prudent modernization. the army, for us, we'll cancel procurement the service of air missile and then on my website launch, but will continue production of the joint vehicle and spearheaded, the development of the windows family of armored vehicles. the navy will give up its second fleet headquarters, reduces manpower assured an increase of just a multiyear procurement for ships and aircraft, allowing it to continue to develop the next generation missile submarine and purchase 40 new fna teams and for littoral combat ships and another lp

mr. secretary, thank you. thank you for your letter yesterday in which you announced your support for a federal uniform standard. you know that unfortunately throughout our country there are family law courts where a judge will use the time away that someone has been deployed or even the threat of deployment as a sole factor for determining custody, resulting in our men and women being honored for their service actually being disadvantaged for their service. this house has passed this in legislative form five times, once as part of a stand-alone bill. your letter indicates that you'll be assigning your staff with the responsibility to negotiate language that can ultimately be enacted in legislation to provide that protection. this battle has been going on for five years now. this does not just affect our service members currently in custody battles. we are not asking them for being at an advantage, but it also affects our service members that had the stress of the concern that they could be subject to a custod

mr. secretary. i'll try to get all my comments and questions out. all bottled up because as i said before you got here, i spent 10 years as a public school teacher before being elected to this office. i think, negotiating local contracts, but the idea that i think teachers would welcome change and concepts and ideas that would be there. i think the problem is that administrators are spending way too much time trying to keep their head above water, with -- i'm from taylor, michigan. we only have one district in our community, but our community is seeing a drop in the population of about 30,000 over the last three sentences. so we know kind of going through the histories, again, a lot of our residents have moved out and because of the education system within our community, and it's something we've been working on. my predecessors spent a lot of their time saying it's not our fault, go over and see the school district. we have tried to embrace a a little more. a few weeks back we had our first ever wor

mr. secretary, could you call the consent calendar? >> the next item would be the consent calendar. if you would allow me to briefly read the items, and if any commissioner wishes to remove an item, they can do so. all matters listed hereunder constitute a consent calendar considered to be retained by the sentences the public utilities commission and will be acted upon by a single vote of the commission. b, accept work performed by cmc construction for water fund racked -- replacement contract. approve modification #1, or reconciling the final contract amount for materials is increasing the contract amount by $90 and of the rise final payment. >> does any commissioner was to remove any item from the consent calendar? >> move it. >> second. >> all those in favor? >> opposed? >ok, the item passes. i do have to say that is probably the record for the lowest cost of contract amendment that we have ever process. >> [inaudible] >> but you have to do something to close it out anyway. thank you. >> the next item is to provide feedback during the presentation and discussion of some system im

mr. secretary. >> thank you, mr. chairman.the services have already taken irreversible steps to live within the confines of the current cr. steps ultimately make us less effective at what we're supposed to do for the nation. the navy did not procure government-furnace equipment for a destroyer. all the services are now prohibited from issuing contracts for construction projects. i urge you to pass the fiscal year 2011 defense bill immediately. even at a reduced top one, it will provide us the tools we need to accomplish the bulk of the missions we have been assigned. accomplishing those missions and into the future demands support for the president's fiscal year 2012 proposal. this budget, combined with the efficiencies in the effort he led, providing for our troops families helps balance global risk and streamlined organization, smarter acquisition, and improve modernization. the army, for instance, will cancel procurement of a surface- to-air missile. but it will continue production of the joint light technical vehicle and s

mr. chairman, madam secretary, mr. leiter. thank you for being here. as new member of the committee, let me just ask if you would quickly help me sharpen my understanding of what we define and designate as being terrorism or acts of terror. >> congressman, there are numerous definitions. national counterterrorism center uses one of those, which is premeditated politically motivate violence by a nonstate actor. the key piece there, ally the key piece that it comes down to is politically motivated violence. >> madam secretary, i'm interested a concerned about the impact of illegal narcotics on life in our country. and indeed throughout the world. we know that afghanistan supplies 90% of the opium trade. there's also questions about its relationship to fund the taliban and the relationship with al qaeda. could you tell me what our goals are there from a dhs standpoint? what are we attempting to do in that region? >> well, congressman, i think a better person to address that question to would be the secretary of defense. but, what our goal is at dhs, worki

mr. chairman? >> senator hatch? >> madam secretary, a number of people will have questions they'll submit in writing and i would hope you would send them back to us. >> certainly. >> we'll try to leave the record open here for a week for our members to file any additional questions they might have. and madam secretary, thank you very much for your time. you've been very generous with your time. we appreciate your service. >> sure. thank you.?

mr. secretary. i would like to switch subject to a different area and that is to talk about unemployment insurance. could you tell us who pays unemployment insurance taxes? >> as you bet, businesses pay the unemployment insurance taxes. >> as an economist, you can get a more complex answer than that. >> ultimately comes out of someone's pocket. >> some people would say -- >> have you ever been an employer and pay these taxes? i have. i have written the checks every quarter. >> i have been in the public sector all my life. but i have helped manage substantial organizations of people. the administration's budget page 184 describes your unemployment proposal offering relief through 2013. tax hikes to only $67 billion over the next decade. if you were an employer, as i was, paying those checks and was looking at long-term capital investment forecast try to decide whether to hire or not hire, would you think that getting $9,000 in relief now in exchange for $67,000 tax tab in the future through increased

mr. secretary, doug. [applause] >> good morning. thank you all for coming. great to be with you, mr. secretary. what we are going to do is go for about 30 minutes. i am going to ask questions and we will collect cards from people in the audience who have asked a question. we will get to as many as we can. let's begin with america's outdoors. what is it and what is it going to tell us about the obama administration's du of conservation? -- view of concentration? -- of conservation? >> one of the first bills in this congress was the 2009 omnibus. it created 1,000 miles of scenic rivers. that was the down payment. moving forward, we have been doing a lot of things in the everglades and the -- in the foothills and areas in canada. we needed to go out and understand the reality of the american public and what they saw as consummation. the listening sessions were led by people all over the country listening to people all over the united states. given the reality of today in 2010, 2011, what should we be doing for conservation? it is different from when teddy roosevelt declared large parts o

mr. secretary. get concerned about, and i know a lot of my colleagues are talking about the muslim brotherhood, ect., however, if, in fact we seem to heavy hand it, sometimes it's like the kid, the child, you know, you say don't date this person, and they date the person just to spite you at times, and i want to make sure we're not getting 1350 that scenario. you know, i have tremendous faith in the egyptian people. they want freedom. they want to make sure they have democracy which they have been denied for 30 years. that being said, the, you know, what you don't want to happen is that it be a vacuum so that someone like the brotherhood steps up and what concerns me is with the opposition and i don't know who or what leaders can evolve or will evolve because it seems their leader left, and when you begin these negotiations and conversations, you know, there has to be someone that's talking. i was just wondering whether this question was asked yesterday. who are the leaders we can expect to emerge?

mr. secretary general, do you consider to establish your own investigation into the situation in libya in the cas? will you investigate? >> again, i will have to wait until the human rights council will discuss this method on friday. the inquiry commission, on their agenda. i will see after all of this the discussions. thank you. >> would you ask muammar gaddafi to step down? >> all of these issues will have to see the development of the situation. the community has spoken strongly. all let these things need to be determined by the people of libya for their future. we are continuously in closely following the situation. thank you. >> the secretary general from about 3:30 eastern this afternoon at the united nations. about 20 minutes ago at the white house president obama condemned the violence in libya and said he is sending hillary clinton to geneva for international talks aimed at stopping the bloodshed. we will show you the president's comments just ahead of our prime time programming before 8:00 eastern here on c-span. we will keep you posted on the exact time. at 6:00 this evening we

mr. secretary. and i wanted to start. what we're going to do is go for about half an hour, i'm going to ask questions and then we're going to be collecting the cards for 15 minutes from people jurenledists. we will try to get to as many as we can. but let's begin with the great outdoors. what is is it and how did it get put together and what is it going to tell us about president obama's view of conservation? >> well, doug, what we have done over the past few years is work with the president on the agenda and we already have things i am proud of. the passage and signature of one of the first bills in this congress was the 2009 omnibus lands bill which created 2 million acres of wilderness and 2,000 miles of scene i can river and three new national parks. that was the down payment. from that we have been doing a lot of things from the every glades to the conservation area in kansas. but it was our view that if we were going to have a sustained conservation agenda, we needed to go out and tons american public and so the ame

mr. secretary. [applause] [speaking chinese] >> governors, ladies and gentlemen, dear friends. it gives me great pleasure to attend the winter conference of the national governors' association in the inauguration of the chinese governors forum. [speaking chinese] [speaking chinese] >> i am from hunan province in the central part of china. as one of the cold as provinces, it was among the first chinese provinces to interact with the united states. over 100 years ago, a nonprofit organization affiliated with yale university established a school in the capital city of hunan province. the school has developed into a school of medicine, a renowned institution of higher learning in the province. more than 70 years ago, during the second world war, a general headed the american flying tigers to talk about -- to fight against the japanese invaders. they made important contributions to chinese war of aggression against japanese, and it will always be remembered by the chinese people. on memorial museum was built for the future generations. in september 2010, within 300 chinese and ameri

mr. king: i think it's a bit unclear. we don't know how the secretary of health and human services. will respond. ms. delauro: reclaiming my time. mr. an truse: it's not unclear at all. what would happen under the gentleman's amendment is the prescription drug price of the senior would go up dramatically and they'd have to pay the spire cost of that prescription until they hit the, i think, the $5,100 limit. the effect of this, this is substantive legislation. it will raise prescription drug costs for america's neediest seniors. i thank the gentlelady for the time. ms. delauro: i would like to yield time to the gentleman from california, mr. garamendi. mr. garamendi: i thank the yealt from connecticut and mr. speaker, when you take a look at what is happening here, the effort to repeal, to kill, to stop the affordable health care act is an assault on the american public. it's an assault on the american public. and it would turn back to the insurance industry their opportunity to deny benefits, to deny coverage. it's hard to understand how in this period of time when we should be talk

mr. secretary? [applause] >> my book a couple of aggressive operations to be part of the combat operations also talks about the bravery and dedication, the ninth division concentrated on and obtaining results. logistics' and administration and tactics so the ratio of the input to the of plan were measurable or quantifiable and we use those to measure how effective we would be. the war in vietnam was always about land and people. the north vietnamese and all of their papers say we want to have land. the government of if and south vietnam wanted people to maintain sovereignty. if that was the case, there was the focus of the north vietnamese the primary focus was on the delta up. that is a flat bit of land where we were covered with rice and water everywhere you could not walk 400 yards and inundated completely. 1965 the government said things are going bad in the delta up. we one to an american unit there. that was approved by the government and said we have to stipulations. you have to locate the un

mr. secretary, and thank you for the opportunity to discuss our work is such a broad audience today. as the secretary said i'm a principal engineer in the nasa engineering and safety center. i work out of langley research center in hampton, virginia, about four hours southeast of here. principle and jeers are multidisciplined engineers and providproject management for multidisciplined tasks in our organizations. it like to start the presentation with a summary of our outcome. the bottom line is that nasa analysis and testing did not find evidence that malfunctioned in the electronic throttle control costs large unintended acceleration's by described by consumer reports. and now i'd like to discuss how we arrived atur conclusions. deception i will provide a backup on a messaging and safety center. background and goals of the study. the approach of the study, our technical evaluation strategy. i'll give you a subset of finding and observations from our final report, and then wrap it up with an executive summary. the nasa enduring and safety center was established in 2003 in response to

mr. chairman, madam secretary, mr. leiter. thank you for being here. as new member of the committee, let me just ask if you would quickly help me sharpen my understanding of what we define and designate as being terrorism or acts of terror. >> congressman, there are numerous definitions. national counterterrorism center uses one of those, which is premeditated politically motivated violence by a nonstate actor. the key piece there, really the key piece that it comes down to is politically motivated violence. >> madam secretary, i'm interested and concerned about the impact of illegal narcotics on life in our country. and indeed throughout the world. we know that afghanistan supplies 90% of the opium trade. there's also questions about its relationship to fund the taliban and the relationship with al qaeda. could you tell me what our goals are there from a dhs standpoint? what are we attempting to do in that region? >> well, congressman, i think a better person to address that question to would be the secretary of defense. but, what our goal is at dhs,

mr. pacheco, if you could call the roll, please? secretary pacheco: the motion is from commissioner peterson. on that motion, commissioner fung, president goh, vice president garcia, commissioner hwang is absent. the 45-day suspension is upheld. deputy city attorney: we will move on to item seven. mr. pacheco, if you could call the item, please? secretary pacheco: item number seven, pei xia fung, doing business as variety convenience store, 1546 market street, appealing a 25-day suspension of the tobacco products sales establishment permit imposed on december 8, 2010. deputy city attorney: you have seven minutes. please speaking to the microphone. >> my name is pei xia fung. 25 days is too long. i did not check the ied region -- did not check the id. i know what i did is wrong. the worker was taking the sun to the doctor. then the young girl came to the store and bought the cigarettes. i forgot to check the i.d. one week. now, when i see a young girl or a young boy, i checked the ied -- the id. i remember. deputy city attorney: dr. ojo. dr. o

mr. secretary. this hearing is now adjourned. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> next, "washington journal." at 10:00 a.m., jim jordan on the strength of the republican study committee and how it can influence decisions on spending issues. the white house budget director will testify after that on the 2012 budget request. donald rumsfeld was the youngest and oldest person to serve as u.s. defense secretary. if you had >> proximity to a president "automatically have an obligation to tell him the true that what you really believe. people who don't have proximity and only go in and see him occasionally simply don't want to do it. >> tonight he will discuss his philosophy of presidential staff leadership, the process of writing his memoirs, and address some of the book's critical and positive reviews. >> coming up next, it is "washington journal."

secretary of state clinton has said we respect mr. wisner. he's not speaking for the administration. what is the u.s. position about what mubarak should do now? >> the u.s. position is crystal clear. beginning with the fact that ambassador wisner, a distingu h distinguished diplomat was speaking for himself about the constitutional process. the fact is that egypt has a lot of options with respect to the constitutional process. i spoke with general suleiman yesterday. i spoke with amir mousser today. there is an enormous diplomatic effort in place. i credit the administration with a remarkable outreach effort. on super bowl day maybe it's not inappropriate to use the term, the flooding of the zone that's taking place with the germans, with the french, with the british, with many other players, the turks. there are a huge number of people trying to move this in the right direction now. i think mr. wisner's comments don't reflect where the administration has been from day one. that was not the message that he was asked to deliver or did deliver

mr. chairman, madam secretary, mr. leiter. thank you for being here. as new member of the committee, let me just ask if you would quickly help me sharpen my understanding of what we define and designate as being terrorism or acts of terror. >> congressman, there are numerous definitions. national counterterrorism center uses one of those, which is premeditated politically motivated violence by a nonstate actor. the key piece there, really the key piece that it comes down to is politically motivated violence. >> madam secretary, i'm interested and concerned about the impact of illegal narcotics on life in our country. and indeed throughout the world. we know that afghanistan supplies 90% of the opium trade. there's also questions about its relationship to fund the taliban and the relationship with al qaeda. could you tell me what our goals are there from a dhs standpoint? what are we attempting to do in that region? >> well, congressman, i think a better person to address that question to would be the secretary of defense. but, what our goal is at dhs,

mr. secretary, i would hope dhaka surge force you believe it should be looked at as would be the surge force should be the 378 and not the current level so that it would be the additional 70 viewed as the surge and not the current level, which i believe you spoke as a surge force. >> the budget we submit it would accommodate the additional growth. >> all right, that's reassuring. finally, i totally agree on the need for an object and honest view about the cost. i think that is essentially and that's where you pointed to rightly so. but i would just reiterate my hope that when you meet with your colleagues at the nato ministerial that you would drive home the fact that there is going to be an ongoing need whether it is a 305,000 or whether or not it is a 378,000 that there really needs to be a sharing of the burden among the nato allies we cannot carry the 12 billion alone i agree, but just it's been kind of spotty in terms of the nato support on the trainer's site not nearly still what we'd hoped for, but you are properly given some good agreed this to those that have come through. >> a lot

mr. secretary. the store i want to ask you about is the story on the day of 9/11. you had been rescuing people and you had been at the pentagon until 11:00 at night. she asked you if you had called your wife. do you remember this? >> i do. when you say i was resting people, i was out there for very short time. i helped out briefly and got right back to my office. i don't know what time it was. 11:00 at night. we had had a tough day and the country had had a tough day, hundreds and hundreds and thousands of people had been killed, the building was smoking and burning, and they were still pulling people out of the charred remains of that area where the american airlines plane hit our building. i had gone back to the office and we were trying to sort through. i wanted to keep the building open. i did not want the terrace to shut us down, and we were trying to see if that would be possible. at some moment she looked at me and said, have you called mrs. r? i just said no, and she blurted out you s.o.b. it was a stunner. i probably said you have a point. i have talked to

mr. secretary. thank you all for being here. [applause] >> this event was hosted by the national constitution center in philadelphia. to find out more visit constitution center.org. now d.k.r. crosswell recalls life of american general walter bedell smith. he served in the military for more than four years and played a significant part in the alex strategy in world war ii. d.k.r. crosswell discusses his book at the annual association of the u.s. army meeting held at the washington convention center. >> why would somebody in their right mind, that might be a stretch, spent 25 years of their life setting a staff officer? a man past middle age, wrinkled, intelligent, old, with eyes like a codfish. but at the same time unresponsive, cool, calm and as composed as a concrete post. thank you with a heart without charm or the friendly german minus bows, passions or a sense of humor, happily never reproduce and to finally go to hell. there is no doubt who the template for patents description, and that was walter bedell smith. the quintes

secretary housh: mr. president, i do not believe we have any closed session items, so if you want, we can take them off of the calendar and move directly to item 20. president: we will take that off of the calendar and move to any new business. is there any? commissionercaen: i have none. president: then do what you're a motion to adjourn? this motion -- this meeting is adjourned -- do i have a motion to adjourn? this meeting is adjourned.

mr. chairman, again, for this very timely hearing. secretary napolitano, in your testimony, you went to great lengths to describe the evolving threat on the homeland relative to home grown terrorists. law enforcement agencies have also talked about neo-nazis, environmental extremists and anti tax groups as more previous lants than al qaeda-inspired terrorist organizations. have you all looked at this to see if that in fact is the truth? >> representative thompson, not in that sense. i mean,e don't have like a score card. the plain fact of the matter is is that from a law enforcement, terrorist prevention perspective, we have to prepare law enforcement and communities for both types of acts. >> mr. leit, given what has occurred in the last two years here in this country, have you been able to analyze what that threat looks like? >> congressman, by law, the national counterterrorism center only looks at international terrorism, so my analysts do not look at some of the groups that you described in your question to the secretary. >> but you do com

mr. chairman. that's a former secretary of defense named dick cheney. the marine corps expeditionary fighting vehicle would provide almost as much savings, between $8 billion and $9 billion over the next decade. the president's proposed budget pulls the plug on the system which is more than 14 years behind schedule and has also experienced major cost overruns. according to the task force, on a unified security budget, the e.f.v. breaks down on average every eight hours and has trouble steering in water. shouldn't we be worried about an amphibious vehicle that doesn't steer well in watt her would you spend billions of dollars on a family car that breaks down every eight hours and doesn't steer well? and besides, even if the e.f.v. ran like a dream, when was the last time we needed to launch an attack by sea? once again, we're developing weapons for enis -- enemies that no longer exist. with spending cut fever having hit capitol hill, you would think these wasteful systems would be among the very first on the chopping block. but naturally, my colleagues o

mr. secretary another question from a student. this time from the university of north carolina at chapel hill. >> this is rick. i had a question about investment into the future. i was wondering how the government planned on doing that without investing more into education considering the rapid rate of minority rates growing in the united states over the next 50 years. >> i think you made the right point. which is part of what's important how we grow, how fair we are as a country, how much opportunity to create is the quality of education that we give our citizens. and we think it's fundamentally important to make sure we are making smart investments in support of reform to improve the quality of public education. we want to see more americans not just graduate high school, but complete college, community college or four year college. so that we have an economy more equipped to meet the much more challenging demands of competition in this global economy. >> and you are dealing, again, a political argument here. republicans who bel

mr. chairman. any chance you will reconsider leaving secretary gates? >> no, sir. >> i didn't think so but i just can't thank you enough for what you have done for the country and admiral mullen. i just want to say something about this administration here. i know we have our differences but when it comes to iraq and afghanistan i think the policies you have created and the policies the president has supported have been very sound and we are about to reap the benefits of operations that have been tough, difficult, sometimes mismanage but that's the nature of war and we are very close in iraq. i just want to build on what senator reed said. i would like for you to put in writing to me and senator leahy what you said about this account. let's give a real-world example.

secretary housh: mr. president, i do not believe we have any closed session items, so if you want, we can take them off of the calendar and move directly to item 20. president: we will take that off of the calendar and move to any new business. is there any? commissionercaen: i have none. president: then do what you're a motion to adjourn? this motion -- this meeting is adjourned -- do i have a motion to adjourn? this meeting is adjourned. >> thanks for coming today. we are announcing are temporary homeowner's property tax reduction program. this is what most assessor's up and down the state are doing. homeowners are reliable -- of all property owners are eligible for a temporary, 1-year property-tax assessment reduction if they believe or if we believe dave -- the assess the value has fallen above their market value, which means that the value would be lower than the market value. in general, homeowners who are eligible, chances are, they purchased homes after 2003. we do get applicants who have owned ho

mr. secretary, i wish we had a lot more time to talk. thank you for coming in this morning. i should say all the proceeds from this book are going to go to families of those killed and wounded in recent wars. >> they are, indeed. >> thank you for coming in this morning. >> thank you. >>> let's go to sam with the weather. >> good morning, george. we're going to start with the southern plains and rockies snowstorm. anywhere from denver all the way towards dallas, we're going to see a hit of snow during the day today. later on today and this afternoon. that goes from greensville, huntsville, memphis. so it's another big southern snowmaker. 16 states in the rockies and the plains have a snow warning or advisory. and generally, air looking at about 2 to 4 in that direction. as far as the colder air to drop in -- wait. let me say it's milder in the northwest today. finally, we're getting rid of some of the brutal, kind of ugly conditions up there. you'll see sunshine. get to 47, 49 degrees. and there is a big chill, in some areas in the northeast, settling in. 34 degrees now. it's

mr. pacheco, could you call the roll, please? secretary note -- secretary pacheco: on the motion to overturn the department's recommendation and move it to 20 days. [roll call] it is a modified to 20 days. -- it is modified. gipp be to city attorney -- deputy city attorney: mr. pacheco, could you call the next item, please? secretary pacheco: item number nine, which is our last item, a appeal number10 10-142, jack's market, selling tobacco products to minors. deputy city attorney: you have -- minutes. >> 25 days. second, i would request to see a picture of the lady. he was working with us for five years, and he always asks for i.d., and i asked him why he did not, and he told me she'd look like he was over 21, and that is why he did not care to us for an id -- he told me she looked like she was over 21. he is a good worker. if you see my attachments in there, -- i also of a daughter. i do not want anyone to sell tobacco to her -- i also have a daughter. with the workers, i always remind them, even if they work with us for so long, i remind

mr. secretary. i understand you want to speak to secretary, predicted congress, but we are in the news business here. i am going to try again. what can you tell us, if anything, about your role in dealing with field marshal tantawi over the last many days? people are extremely curious because you may be the only person in the administration to our knowledge that has spoken to him. and believe it or not, this is a budget question. but it's still with the operational uncertainty that your troops face around the world, the middle east, a great uncertainty. it all comes together. what is in this budget that now deals with the middle east? what can you tell us about what you have been up to over the last many days? >> i would simply say the budget affects our operations and maintenance all over the world. and our activities. certainly the overseas contingency operations funds our efforts in iraq and afghanistan. but i will wait until wednesday to talk about egypt. >> one more budgetary question, please.

mr. secretary before the white house has hired jeremy bernard as the new social secretary. he's current lay senior adviser to the u.s. ambassador to france. bernard is not on the first man in his new job, he's also the first openly gay person to hold the position. >>> and finally, a thrilling overtime whip wasn't all they were talking about at the trailblazer victory over the nuggets. the star at halftime was from port land. he hit an amazing half-court shot into the net with just a one handed throw. the crowd went wild for collier who gets to take home a brand new car. jenna will do that on the plaza in just a few minutes. now back over to you. >> do you know why? because he didn't try so hard. these nba players spend so much time friing timing. maybe if they just didn't try so hard. why not? i'm just going to not try and see how many great things happen to me, too. >> you'll did come verbal half-court shots today. >> bill karins is here for our first check of the weather. >> we'll give you a decent day for yourayurhdrt. t's talkhebo tut forect because overnigh wnie had he