mr. thomas. i know you have talked about the impact in your home state of florida, but you are already seeing. i had the privilege of going in a helicopter over the miami region, and it is just -- when you see how much is there it takes your breath away. i wonder if you could talk about how local communities in the state of florida are joining together to address the growing impact of climate change, and to many of these local actions have bipartisan support? let me just ask mr. thomas. i only have 58 seconds left. >> senator, particularly in the south florida area, miami area, six counties have basically come together specifically to work on an adaptation measures dealing with the problems already being phased. as i indicated, salt water intrusion, the drainage systems, how to, in fact, deal with today's problems. average sea level rise about 8 inches has a significant impact. you are talking about areas that up because of their level above sea level but because of the terrain and the subsurface

mr. thomas and kathleen was here from the former small business commission and shell had a great impact on the clement street area several years ago wherever i lacking walk there i think of shell i want to be addressed to the memoriam. i have several items on june 19th to just a minute a better understanding of the awe depictions e definitions of the recycling centers on that meeting 80 on june 19th we heard from long term recircles and they raised concerns on the evictions of recycling centers in our grocery store parking lots and even though hearing hearing was spurred by the upcoming recycling centers at church and martha street and the abrupt announcement of the north beach recycling center since the closer of the 45ish9 from golden gate park 5 other recycling places where the northern half of san francisco at the safest way and the outer richmond it was a shock to me i'd been in close krablth contact with safest way and was very insured it was not going to close and it was clear by the testimony of the department of the environment state and nation that we will not be able to reach ou

mr. thomas. >> excuse me, senator. [inaudible conversations] >> allow -- allow him to answer the question he has been asked. >> as i indicated to senator boxer, clearly south florida particularly is dealing today with sea level rise as it impacts of salt water intrusion in coastal areas, a drainage systems that are critical to the overall well-being of many of the coastal communities in south florida. so today's sea level rise is, indeed, an issue in our state. just as it is in a number of other states. >> thank you. i know the technological change can occur. the obsolete delivery of milk. the fact that there were not more milkman was an absence of jobs created to revolutionize the way in which that industry operated from the beginning of time, and we have to embrace that it is obvious. >> senator. >> first of all, we keep talking about the clean air act amendments. i want everyone to no, not only did i vote for them, but i was an original cosponsor, and they worked. that was dealing with real pollutants, never meant t

mr. thomas, again, thank you for all your work on the last couple years to move us to where we are today. >> thank you, [speaker not understood]. good morning, supervisors. my name is cheryl thomas with lower polk cbd. [speaker not understood] and supervisor david chiu as well. so, i'll try to be brief in my presentation, which is quite lengthy, 20 pages, goes into a lot of detail we just spoke about. first of all as david was saying earlier, we'd like to focus on a little detail, the unique character of the neighborhood. this is a neighborhood that has currently no open space, no green santa fetion. ~ space. we he don't have a center for recreation. [speaker not understood]. proposed district everyone has a major thoroughfare. [speaker not understood]. a lot of proposed folks in the cbd [speaker not understood]. they are plagued by crime, prostitution, drug use, violence, et cetera. it's also truly a mixed use commercial residential neighborhood and also the edge of two different supervisorial districts some time don't get the full focus it should receive. short presentation. lower polk

mr. thomas spoke with kristin mcqueary, and he also took questions from the audience. this is about 45 minutes, next on booktv. [applause] >> thank you all for coming. about six weeks ago i received an e-mail in my in box asking io i would like to interview cal thomas, and, of course, i immediately said yes.iate in my 20s i disagreed with him very, very much, and of course d did. but i kept reading 1w4 wren you read cal, you find yourself thinking about something that he wrote. that is the imprint of a gifted thinker and writer. thinking about some things that he wrote. that is the imprint of a gifted thinker and writer. without further ado, cal thomas, your book, "what works," common sense for america focuses on years of tested programs, we don't need to reinvent the wheel, we don't need to reinvent economic stimulation and job growth. we know what works but instead we are stuck in groundhog day, the movie, where the same situation unfolds over and over. in all these years covering washington what would you say are a couple of issues or policies that are the most stuc

mr. riley and thomas would answer my question for the record. the record will be kept open for an additional two weeks for anybody who wishes to add material to the record. i will ask unanimous consent to of thea review investigations that were prompted by what is called climate-gate, but i contend it is more accurately called climate-gate gate. scandal was the phony scandal that was whipped up at the expense of a lot of scientific work that was then reviewed i think by six different authorities, including american investigators, independent investigators, university investigators, and a british investigators. every one of which gave a full, clean bill of health to the scie nce. so to, i think that needs to be part of the record if members are going to bring up so-called climate-gate. and then there has been some reference to the projections by the chamber of commerce as to what this proposed epa regulation might cost. some of our colleagues have left report.te that i think it is important for the hearing that we also include the "washington pos

mr. thomas "omaha beach." >> when we went in, the beach , the deadaken forsaken.ped in our shoulders. we waited in. the group of soldiers on the beach on the landing had to reach. they were the ones who went in first. they went to watery graves, sinking beneath the waves. read from thered, dead. .ead from the dying those who made the land were not .ble to stand they rose screaming in pain. no --advantage was on the was on the hell. they murdered our men at well. the rain of death from the cliffs never stopped, but we just kept coming in from the sea, wave after wave, as far as you could see. sheer courage and determination, not believing they were done, dictated the victory that day. others in the future will say, when they stand on that mighty height and look down on that thin strip of beach, they'll say, i don't see how they ever did it. they fought for every inch of it, up the sides of that fortified wall, over the tops of those cliffs so tall. beach.ver forget that men, iner forget the the ships, in the air and on the land, and in the water. they lie now benea

mr. thomas farley, and in the conflict of interest fuel that lack of confidence? >> i look at statistics such as the one that i believe you cited , senator, that two-thirds of americans head equities in their account not too long ago and maybe a decade ago. now is half. participation the equities markets is that a 16 year low. i look at that empirical data and the anecdotal data. i am sure you, like i, have conversations about the equity markets with your friends and family. i grew up down the road, and when i go back home inevitably people ask me what is going on. tell me about these high-frequency traders, and they're is a sense, you know, unfortunate but they're is a sense that, boy, we do not have as much confidence in the markets as we once had which is why we as the new york stock exchange from the moment ice agreed to acquire the new york stock exchange has been standing for what we can do to increase confidence, simplify the markets because as simple as you can make the market, to inspire confidence you want to make the market as simple as you possibly can

thomas. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i was in port in galveston, texas on september 11, 2001, and then the three years following that as we scrambled to figure out what it meant to secure our ports. from my perspective, it's clear we've achieved a lot. i think one the first things we did, mr. caldwell mentioned the strategies. we recognized in order to build a secure port we had to build regi regimes, we had to do it locally, nationally and internationally. we had to build awareness so we could figure out what was going on and pick anomalies. we need the capability to respond to the anomalies. if you look at the three building blocks and compare them to where they were in september 11, 2001 to where we are today, it's clear there are progresses. there are clear metrics with each of those. with regard to the regimes, thank you to the congress for the maritime transportation security act and the safe port act. it was the impetus for the international regime, as well as regimes that have now been implemented as far down as

mr. thomas who worked for ronald reagan, ronald reagan. and there they sat, and there they spoke and there they said very clearly wake up, republicans, this is a serious matter. and now today a bipartisan group of former treasury secretaries released a report showing that the u.s. economy is already feeling the negative financial impacts of climate change. these respected leaders say climate change is real, and we must act. so why would we want to short circuit a critical review process when approval of the keystone tar sands pipeline would be a major step in the wrong direction? the equivalent of 300,000 cars added back on our roads when we struggled so hard to clean up carbon pollution. now another concern that remains to be addressed is the keystone pipeline's impact on national security. i met with a former seal team six leader and he was involved in assessment of the keystone tar sands pipeline impact on becoming -- on that pipeline becoming a high-profile target vulnerable to attack. and they concluded it absolutely was a high-profil

mr. thomas homan is the associate director for removal operations for u.s. customs enforcement and the department of homeland security. he has direct oversight of critical ice programs and operations to identify and arrest and attain and remove illegal aliens from the united states. he is a 30 year veteran of a law enforcement and has 27 years of immigration enforcement with a bachelors degree in law enforcement. he began his career as a police officer. mr. ronald vitiello is the deputy chief of the u.s. a border patrol. officer,ief operating he is responsible for daily operations of the border patrol and routinely reports to and assist the chief border patrol in planning and directing enforcement and operations. deputy chief vitiello entered the border patrol in 1985 at the laredo station where he also served as a supervisory board agent and has been with border patrol cents. mr. chris crane serves as the president of the national immigration and customs 8 ofrcement counsel 11 federal employees. he has worked as an agent for the u.s. immigration and customs

mr. thomas hoeman is the executive associate director for enforcement and removal operations for u.s. immigration and customs enforcement in the department of homeland security. in this role, he has direct oversight of critical ice programs and operations to identify, arrest, detain, and remove illegal aliens from the united states. mr. hoeman is a 30-year veteran of law enforcement and has 27 years of immigration enforcement experience with a bachelor's degree in criminal justice. he began his career as a police officer in new york. mr. ronald batello is the deputy chief of the u.s. border patrol. as the border patrol's chief operator officer, he is responsible for the daily operations of the border patrol and routinely reports to and assists the chief u.s. border patrol in planning and directing nationwide enforcement and administrative operations. he entered the border patrol in 1985 where he served as a supervisory border patrol agent and has been with border patrol since. chris crane currently serves as the president of the national immigration and customs enforcement council 118

mr. peter thomas, called "omaha beach." >> when we went in, the beach had been taken the living fought onorsaken we were dropped into water up to our shoulders we waded in -- a group of green soldiers onto that thin strip of beach so many had tried to reach. they were the ones who went in first among the machine gun fire and shell burst the went to watery graves sinking under the waves the water was red red from the dead red from the dying in agony crying those who made the land were not able to stand they fell on the sand writhing in pain screaming for help in vain. every advantage was on the hill they murdered our men at will the rain of death from the cliffs never stopped but we just kept coming in from the sea wave after wave, as far as you could see sheer courage and determination not believing they were done dictated the victory that day. others in the future will say when they stand on that mighty height and look down on that thin strip of beach they'll say, "i don't see how they ever did it." they fought for every inch of it up the sides of that fortified wall over the tops of tho

mr. miller. >> are we good? i'm a writer, not an artist. good morning. my name is lee thomas miller. i grew up on a small tobacco farm in kentucky. i started playing piano when i was 11. by the time i was 15 i was writing bad songs and playing them with my even worse band. but we were just kids, so the people cheered if only out of pity. i went to college to study music theory and composition and graduated with a bachelor's degree from eastern kentucky university. that simply meant i was now overqualified to play in the honky tonks. i was formally educated while writing country songs on the side. these are two very different things, according to my professors. my parents were thrilled when i finished college and mortified when i saved $1,000 and moved to nashville. for years i wrote songs, hundreds of songs. i played in bands and took temporary jobs to pay the bills when needed. i studied the songs i heard on the radio and began meeting and learning from the song writers who wrote them. on september then the real work started. 11 years from the day i moved to nashville it took 11 yea

mr. thomas murphy, director of compensation services. upon conclusion of the first panel, we will seat two subsequent panels which include for panel two ms. linda holiday, the assistant inspector general for audits and evaluations for the office of the inspector general's u.s. department of veterans affairs accompanied by ms. nora stokes, director of the benefits and inspections division. and mr. roman d around moan figuera, project manager with the inspections division. panel three will consist of mr. eric jenkins who is here in representation of the american ped ration of government -- federation of government employees and afge national va council. ms. deborah gipson is here today and she will be introduced shortly by our congressman o'rourke. mr. gerardo avila, national med-peb representative with the american legion, and mr. paul v.a. lair row, the assistant national legislative director with disabled american veterans, and mr. brendon gehrke, senior veteran associate with veterans of foreign wars of the united states. one final poi

mr. thomas murphy, director of compensation services. upon conclusion of the first panel we'll seat two subsequent panels which include for panel two, ms. linda holiday, the assistant inspector general for audits u. suchlt department of veteran's affairs accompanied by ms. nor ma stokes, director of the inspections division and mr. roman figuero with the inspection division. panel three with consist of mr. eric jenkins who is here with the national va council, ms. debra gibson is here and is an individual service and she'll be introduced shortly. mr. geraldo avela, with the american legion and mr. paul valero, and mr. one final point, all of the witnesses are present. i must advise pursuant to title 18 of the united states code section 1001, known as the false statement act, this is a crime to knowingly give false statements in federal jurisdiction including a congressional hearing. with that acknowledge, thank you all for being with us today. i yield to the ranking member ms. titus for her opening statement. >> thank you, mr. chairman.

homicide we have no enclosure i bring the names of the people thomas hannibal and andrew and jason thomas and mr. hunter and marcus hunter are all the men that walked up that day and the perpetrators of killing my son ways they couldn't get the people they wanted they turned the guns on my 17 year-old he was die to grate i'm still in pain. what do i do i need some closer i have none this is my therapy to come here instead of sitting at the doctors officer or sitting in front of a thooefrt to hear my time is up are i want those people that killed my son in jail i want them in jail so i can go and show them the love i was going to give to my son i want to talk to them and tell them that. i want it done this is not just other family members that i carry with me everyday. of those other mothers in i can stand here and do this imagine excuse me. those are the pictures that i took down to city hall and stand on the stairs and watch the mothers and say can you carry my sons picture i say yes give it to me if we can't stand together i can help you i am helping myself. something needs to be done. i'm sta

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mr. admiral thomas had a chance to do that. our to do list. >> chairman, i think i just echo some of the points that were made earlier, and emphasize in moving forward anything we need to do takes into consideration that dhs confronts a multitude of threats. to be cost effective and efficient we need to bear that in mind. i think the second point we've made earlier is that big picture security across all path ways to buy down risks don't want to encourage a balloon effect where we put all of our security wher security assets over here and the agile adversary circumvents that. so the picture has to be across all path ways. and then echoing mr. caldwell's point about the aging infrastructure and funding dhs with the president's budget. >> okay, admiral thomas, anything that we should be doing on the legislative side? >> thank you, chairman. i don't have much to add to what's been said. there may have been specifics that we identify as we continue to analyze the ports, but i think we have the right access through the staffs to get

please welcome thomas piketty. hey, mr. piketty, thanks for coming on. mr. piketty, bienvenue. king mayor of economics right now. you got this new book called capital in the 2 1st century. why are you crying-- trying to tear down the western economic system and replace it with socialist redistribution of wealth? >> i'm not trying to do that. >> your accent sounds like you are. (laughter) >> you know, you know, i have never had-- i am just trying to see how we can insurance that everyon everyone-- benefits from globalization. >> benefits how, like take my money and give it to a poor person. >> no, no. (laughter) >> how do we benefit everybody. >> we want all to have access to education, good paying jobs. right now it's minimum wage in countries lower than what it was in the 60s. and a century ago. maybe that is not the best we can do. i'm not saying you can multiply by three but just -- >> maybe we shouldn't say triple maybe we should just double it and work 30 hour workweeks like they do over in paris, right, then the farmers can bring their frakters in and stop the traffic and

mr edward harrison and today we're talking about the fifteen dollar minimum wage battle and how mr thomas piketty rock star economist of the moment fits into this old thing now the seattle city council apparently picked the wrong quote to usher in their new ordinance on the city's fifteen dollar minimum wage law of a documentary and the noted economist thomas piketty wrote in his landmark book capital in the twenty first century that the need to act on income inequality is profound as real wages for most u.s. workers have increased little if at all since the early one nine hundred seventy s. but wages for the top one percent of earners have risen one hundred sixty five percent and wages for the zero point one top top zero point one percent have risen three hundred sixty two percent now the only problem is the guardian points out is that paul krugman wrote those very words in a review of pickaninnies calderon the twenty first century in the new york review of books so edward high school kids looking for a summer job as a static because why go to college and get paid nothing when you can go

thomas. >> thank you, mr. chairman. you know, i was in port in galveston, texas, in 2001 and for the three years that followed as we scrambled to figure out what it meant to secure our ports, so from my perspective, it's clear that we've achieved a lot. but i think one of the first things we did, and mr. caldwell mentioned the strategies that were out there. we recognized that in order to build a secure port, we first had to build regimes. we had to do it locally, nationally and internationally. then we had to build awareness so we could figure out what was going on and be able to pick out anomalies. then we needed the capability to respond to those anomalies. if you look at those three building blocks and compare to where we were on september 11th, 2001, to where we are today, it's clear there's been progress and there are clear metrics within each of those. with regard to regime, certainly the -- thank you to the congress for the maritime transportation security act and the safe port act but that was the impetus for t

thomas. >> thank you, mr. chairman. you know, i was in port in galveston, texas, in 2001 and for the three years that followed as we scrambled to figure out what it meant to secure our ports, so from my perspective, it's clear that we've achieved a lot. but i think one of the first things we did, and mr. caldwell mentioned the strategies that were out there. we recognized that in order to build a secure port, we first had to build regimes. we had to do it locally, nationally and internationally. then we had to build awareness so we could figure out what was going on and be able to pick out anomalies. then we needed the capability to respond to those anomalies. if you look at those three building blocks and compare to where we were on september 11th 2001 to where we are today it's clear there's been progress and there are clear metrics within each of those. with regard to regime, certainly the -- thank you to the congress for the maritime transportation security act and the safe port act but that was the impetus for the

encourage the process to come together as rapidly as possible because without it thomas everything else would be wasted. >> mr. secretary, thank you very much for your time. >> the british prime minister has been forced to apologize for hiring a man who was today found guilty for conspiring to hack the cell phones of famous people. of "newson was editor of the world" before he was david cameron's new chief. rebekah brooks was acquitted of similar charges. >> it started with the hacking of a murdered schoolgirls phone and it became a wider scandal about the power of the medium, it's cozy relations with senior politicians and even close to the news of the world, a paper that had been around for over 150 years. ended with differing endings. an extra ordinary apology from the man who once employed him as his chief spin her. >> i take full responsibility for employing in the colson. and that turned out not to be the case. i always said if they turned out to be wrong that i would make a full and frank apology. i do that today. i'm extremely sorry that i employed him. it was the wrong decision. >> david cameron must

we've spotted one of the men we've been trying to reach first in command thomas winkowski. >> hey mr.inkowski? what we're looking at is a case of officer involved shootings at the mexican line, and... >> okay. >> and we'd like to know why is it that rock-throwing justifies... >> give me your card and i'll.. >> why is it that rock-throwing justifies lethal force? >> give me your card and i'll do it. i'll have my public affairs.. >> literally for six months we've been asking michael and jenny both to speak to us. >> okay. >> and they haven't gotten back to us. >> okay. >> and we're on a deadline, today, which is why we're up here, and we're actually trying to get an answer from you today. >> he said he would pass it on to you guys and that we could get an interview... >> the answer is no we can't do this. we want to help you as best we can, but we can't do the interview. >> the public affairs officers promised to answer written questions instead, but by the time we went to air, had failed to respond. >> people are investigating a lot right now whether or not jose antonio was involved in

. >> thomas? >> mr. ambassador, this is thomas roberts.approach, anybody about maliki? >> no. i didn't say that maliki had to leave as prime minister. of all, he won the election. this, by the way, was the sixth election the iraqis had since liberation. it is a democratic government. which is rare in the region. they live under a executiconsti 'cha is a liberal constitution. >> can there be success if mr. maliki is there, mr. ambassador? can there be success if maliki is in power? >> there can be. >> how? >> as long as it is a broader, more politically responsive and representative government. i don't think we should take positions in trying to choose who is the leader. what we can do, as the president began to do on friday, is to say that there has to be a broader political base of operations for us to make the commitment to come in and help. >> but, mr. ambassador, we were there in '09 and se'10 and '111 and pushing maliki every step of the way. he always made the wrong choices. he was always exclusively a shiite first. how do we do that

mr. portnoy has a degree from university. our second witness is lee thomas songwriters association international. mr. miller said three-time grammy award nominee and his written country singing that has reached number one. he received his bachelor's degree in music theory and compensation from eastern kentucky university. our third witness is mr. david israelite president and chief executive and officer of national music publishing association where he protects and advances the interests of music publishers and songwriters in matters relating to domestic and global protection of copyright. mr. israelite received his b.a. in political science and medication from the william jewell college and got his j.d. from the university of missouri columbia law school. our fourth list this is mr. anil chief executive officer bmi also known as broadcast music. in his position mr. o'neal oversees all of bmi domestic and global business operations and directs the company strategic growth. mr. o'neal received his undergraduate degree in business administration from montclair

thomas. >> thank you mr. chairman. you know i was in galveston texas on september 11, 2001 and for the three years that all of this we scramble to figure out what it meant to secure our ports area from my perspective it's clear that we have achieved a lot but i think one of the first things we did and mr. caldwell mentioned the strategies we recognize in order to build a secure port we had to first build regimes and we had to do that locally. we had to do it nationally we had to do it internationally and we had to build awareness so we could figure out what was going on and be able to pick up on the anomalies and we needed the capability to respond to those anomalies. if you look at this rebuilding lots and compare them to where we were september 11, 2001 to where we are today there is clear there has been progress. with regard to regimes certainly thank you to the congress for the maritime transportation security act and the save toward act acts but that's for the international regime which is the international ship a

mr. president, and vice president, commissioners, my name is thomas simpson. and i run an arts organization at the african american art and culture complex. we focus mostly on adults, but sometimes we do community engagement projects with youths. this year, as a result of some research i found, in terms of the number of african american youth who are incarcerated we decided to do something focused on black kids. and connecting them with all of the black men, and for inspiration and up lift and some other things. and as part of my working on this project, and i have had some focus groups with some young black boys. and in one of these groups, something was said that startled me that may not startle everyone else but it did me that i like to share, we talked about education and relationships and gangs, and the police, and we began to talk about who we would like to have at a particular event. that is going to take place on august the 16th, and i thought, well we have to have something from the legal arena come and speak and be a part of the event. and one of the