decades even are starting to resonate more and more we rockwell chairman of the losing about one mrs institute also author of the book the left the right and the state well it is d.-day in brussels belgium where greece will find out whether several rounds of cuts it's made and some of those financial hoops it jump through have been enough to be awarded an economic bailout seventeen euro zone members will decide if they'll hand over the one hundred thirty billion euro or one hundred seventy one billion dollars that greece needs to avoid default the greek prime minister lucas papademos along with greece's finance ministers are also in brussels for this meeting as art as is r t correspondent has our silly a who brings us a look at what's at stake. another crucial meeting is taking place in the brussels city as the eurozone finance ministers gather after their last meeting was was called for last wednesday to today the big topic is still nice as it has been for the past two weeks now and the big question is will the priest be able to secure them or hundred thirty billion euros of bailout from its

tomorrow is viewer feedback day also on the show tomorrow we have the rockwell chairman of the bond mrs institute so you won't want to miss that but for now from everyone here at capital account morning mr have a great day. splits within the ranks of syria's opposition fighters at first they claimed they were behind twin blasts in the country's largest city of aleppo which killed at least twenty eight people but another spokesman responsibility just. as police used tear gas to disperse crowds. to put more cash on hold. everybody. rushes public figures come together to ensure a fair and free presidential. election. to stay. back with another summary of those news stories in half an hour from now in the meantime the show takes a look at foreclosure settlements between u.s. states and the country's biggest banks and also whether the pentagon is leading a smear campaign against whistleblowers that's next on our. welcome to the lower show we'll get the real headlines with none of the mercy we're going live to washington d.c. now it's not going to take a look at the new foreclosure fraud settlement bet

tomorrow is viewer feedback day also on the show tomorrow we have the rockwell chairman of the bond mrs institute so you won't want to miss that but for now from everyone here at capital account and mr have a great day. all these top stories the u.n. and arab league plan to join forces to the bloodshed in syria as critics claim disinformation of the number of deaths is being used to play out of prop understanding of the situation. here is a minister's postpone a decision on a second financial bailout package for greece this by the coalition in athens closing a last minute deal on the sidelines and the stories he measured. going president hamid karzai lashes out after age children are killed in a nato air strike the u.n. confirms trying to eleven as the deadliest year for civilians since the start. that brings you up to date for now i'll be back with more headlines and around thirty minutes time but before that we have the iona show from washington d.c. don't go away. welcome to the lower show we'll get the real headlines with none of the mersey are going live in washington d.c. now it's not going

mrs institute and author of this book the left right and the state and it's such a big day it's really good to have you on the show lou and nice to see you as always thanks for being here good to be with you absolutely so let's talk about greece because it really seems like in the past we've seen these negotiations and maybe some political theater but it felt like political grandstanding and like this was going to get done but now you really have some material difference one being one that i referred to which is that one of the coalition party leaders is that he may not sign on to this so my question to you are we reaching the point where the economic realities of debt deflation and depression are reaching the point where politicians can no longer control their society as they become accustomed to doing in the west. well politicians of course shouldn't be controlling society but let's hope that greece and does does indeed default that's the best thing for the people of greece the people who hold the bonds of the mostly the big banks in western europe and some in the united states who h

decades even are starting to resonate more and more with iraq while chairman of the losing about one mrs institute also author of the book the left the right and the state. and of course one of ron paul's strongest and loudest messages is that antiwar message he wants to close more than nine hundred u.s. military bases around the world he wants to end the war in afghanistan and spend way less on this country's military some people have called him and the military but if you take a look at those who are actually serving in the military or who have served in the past they donate to ron paul's campaign more than any other candidate and his message of getting out of the wars seems to actually resonate most with those who really understand the consequences of wars and today hundreds of military veterans came out to show that support in a march called ron paul is the choice of the troops it kicks off at noon today at the washington monument and r.t. correspondent liz wahl was there and has more. his consistently strong antiwar message we don't need another war i understood and you make the point quite a

and they have also rolled out supervisory and large institutions. mr. cordray, we look forward to hearing from you in greater detail about this ongoing work. recently you made comments about the role of the agency on reducing burden on rural banks and small community banks. this is an important issue to the bureau and my state of south dakota. i'm interested in hearing more about the bureau's plan to ensure that in future role making, the right balance is struck between consistent protections for consumers and regulations for small institutions. finally, i would like to hear about the progress in two areas, that the economy reviewed last fall. consumer protections for service members and for older americas. mr. cordray, although your staff is faced with a difficult task, i have confidence that you are all up to the challenge. i look forward to your testimony and working with you to enhance our consumer financial markets. i turn to ranking member mr. shelby for his comments. >> thank you, mr. chairman. today we will hear from mr. cordray, since the burea

joe joining us from new york is michael jacobsen, current executive director or the very institute of justice. and, mr. jacobsen, the very institute out with this new report about what really goes into the cost of prisons for states. can you tell us what is the headline from this report? >> well, i think the overall headline is that everyone sort of had a sense that prisons were expensive but they're more expensive than most people imagined just because there are so many costs. a lot of states, not every state. that support prisons that are outside the prison's budget. >> on average, i think i saw a figure in one of the stories that came out after your report did. the annual average taxpayer cost in states where you looked at the cost of prisons is about 31,000 to the taxpayer. does that surprise you? >> right. >> it didn't surprise me a lot. i've been looking in this field for a long time so i know it's expensive. $31,000 is an average figure. there's a great deal of state variation. you have states in the south like louisiana or kentucky that are, you know, if the area of half that cost. you will ha

build and transform the united states federal, state, local and private sector homeland security institution. mr. mclee in an is responsible for protection operations at 20 major field offices. 331 ports of entry. and over 70 locations with a staff of more than 28,000 employees and an operating budget of over $3.5 billion. rear admiral paul zukunft is responsible for developing national marine safety, security and environmental protection doctrine, policy and regulations as well as ensuring policy alignment through the federal government and with international maritime partners. he recently served as the federal on screen coordinator for the deep water who awater h incident in the gulf. he directed federal, state and local agency mies in their respe sefrts. fr. >> mr. steve caldwell recent reports covered issues related to protecting critical infrastructure, maritime transportation security act and court security exercises, maritime domain awareness, container security programs and risk management for critical structure, as well. the chair will recognize mr. heyman. >> thank you for allowing me

first, we have rick hess, director of education policy studies at the american enterprise institute. mr. hess is the author of the education column. and the executive director of education next and associated with a program on education policy and governance at harvard. next is mr. shnur. he's the cofounder of no leaders. no leaders for new schools. he's developed national educational policies on teacher and principal quality, after-school programs, charter schools and preschools. and i would now invite senator paul to introduce the next person. >> well, i'm pleased today to have pam here, a gifted and talented teacher and i think one of the great successes of our kentucky public education. and i really am glad that we were able to have this hearing to talk about the bill before it's final to get your input and to get your understanding and your input as to how we can change and make no child left behind less of a federal burden on teachers and principals and superintendents and all the educators. thank you for coming. >> thank you, senator paul. next, we have tom luna, the idaho superi

or possible threat from hezbollah, specifically are you reaching out at all to religious institutions? >> yes, mr. chairman. we share your concern about hezbollah. we are constantly monitoring their activities around the world. we're working very closely with the fbi and intel community in this regard.

or possible threat from hezbollah, specifically are you reaching out at all to religious institutions? >> yes, mr. chairman. we share your concern about hezbollah. we are constantly monitoring their activities around the world. we're working very closely with the fbi and intel community in this regard. and, in addition, we are reaching out to particularly jewish -- the jewish community across the country who have been the intended targets in the past. we have just this past week convened a very large conference call with leaders of the jewish community from around the country and we remain in constant touch with them. right now we have no specific or credible threat against any organization or target in the united states. but this is certainly a situation that bears watching. >> thank you, secretary. you referenced this in your opening statement, but the changing in the grant system, which basically taking, i guess, it's 16 former programs and merging them into 1, it's a national preparedness grant program. now, in going through the budget justification documents, it appears to only mention state

joining us now is washington post columnist, msnbc contributor and senior fellow at the brookings institute, mr. e.j. dien who writes about religion and politics with alarming a lackry ty. did you happen -- did you happen to see any of that santorum exchange? i wanted to leave the show with it tonight because i didn't feel like it was -- it was made widely available today, maybe because nothing rick santorum ask does is seen as being that newsworthy. i thought it was newsworthy. did you see it as something that would be important? >> yeah, i think that you put that together with obama's speech today and santorum's funny because there are times when he has used this christian scripture in the same way that obama did in a case to make for why we must do things for the poor. yet i find among a lot of republicans they can't ever extend that to health care them can't say, wait a minute, making sure that everybody can afford their medicine, that is kind of out of the beatitudes. i thought the president's speech today was important. people will say is it a political speech? of course it is a political

mr. chairman, we saw how well this well-defined philosophy worked during the bush years with the collapse of our total financial institutions and our economy. mr. chairman, it's ironic that 25 energy and subcommittee and joint hearings, the nine bills that originated from this subcommittee to went to pass the house last year, the only, the only piece of legislation that actually became law was the pipeline safety reauthorization bill, which expanded regulation in order to address public safety. in fact, the pipeline safety bill enjoyed unanimous support from this committee, and so it would appear that my republican colleagues are not always opposed to federal regulation and oversight, especially when their districts are directly affected. so, mr. chairman, today we are here on another proverbial fishing expedition by the majority party. again to try to sidestep federal regulations and oversights in order to help industry get what they want and the american public be damned in the process. i'm not sure if the majority's going with something to show transcanada they are working r feverishly on their behalf for more campaign c

mr. bishop, that institutions have always had the authority to do institutionally approved equivalency. it isn't something that we needed the federal government to give us. as a former assistant dean, i did that all the time. approved institutionally equivalence to courses. so we've always had that approval. we didn't need the federal government to write it into rules and regulations. madam chairman, i now would like to yield two minutes to the distinguished gentleman from indiana, mr. rokita. the chair: the gentleman from indiana is recognized for two minutes. . mr. rokita: i thank the gentlewoman from nbling north carolina for yielding me the time. not just the time but her continued leadership on the floor of this house and in the halls of congress. it's steady. it's dignified, it's common sense and certainly a great reflection of the people she represents. i rise this afternoon to give my strong support to this measure. during this time of economic uncertainty and high unemployment, it is more important than ever, madam chair, to make sure the federal government does not stand in th

during this recess, since all senators are known or ri jealously regarding their institutional prerogatives. after that, mr. chairman, i'd as soon get onto the next panel. >> i thank the lady. i will note we took all senators who asked to be here. with that we recognize gentleman from tennessee. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and thank you, senator, for being here. hearing, i'm going to yield my time back to the chairman issa. >> you mentioned earlier teddy roosevelt's famous appointments. those were specifically when the congress went gavel to gavel. th anticipated historic change of sessions. did the president have that option in this case or could he have had that option to do it on january 3rd? wasn't there, in fact, a moment between sessions? >> i don't regard there to have been an opportunity for him to issue an actual recess appointment. but i should point out that that hypothetical does get at a different set of facts. that deals with what you might call an intersession recess appointment. >> isn't that one in which the court has spoken frf that is one a court has spoken youing to th spoke. >> that is

mr. skbroens, from the public religion research institute. >> we're based here in washington, d.c. >> how are you funded? >> we're funded mostly by foundation report. the fo the core foundation is our larnlelarn largest supporter. >> what is your goal? >> how religion is influencing american values and influencing, particularly this year, the 2012 election campaign and politics in general. >> and if you were to write a press release about the recent study you did, what would you write? >> well, i would say that it's very interesting this year. we're looking at a lot of changes that i can talk about more over time and we're going into the election with some kind of stable coalitions that have been on the ground for the last few election cycles and look to be pretty stable going in and, of course, we've had religion playing an interesting role in the republican primary so far. >> what percentage of americans consider themselves to be christian? >> that's a good question. about three-fourths of the country is -- >> so about 75%. >> half of them are christians and a quarter of them are latino

mr. speaker, we are trying to change this institution so it can actually live up to what the people are expecting, and for us to be able to abide by their trust. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman for that comment. i the american people don't think we are accomplishing that objective you want to accomplish by virtue of their response to the polls about what they think of the job that we have done over the last year. let me say in addition to that the bills i was referring to, my friend, yes, while i was majority leader, we had the house and senate, i said 30 years, the 12 years that your party had the chairmanship, transportation committee, we passed bills on a bipartisan basis and with respect to transparency, as the gentleman knows on earmarks, you quadrupled the number of earmarks under your leadership. not your personal leadership but under republican control of the house of representatives, quadrupled the number of earmarks. when we came in what we did was said they all had to be online. members had to put them on their website. and committees had to identify where those came from. personally

mr. obama yesterday says religious institutions can opt out of a federal requirement that employers provide free birthly control. pelosi, herself a practicing catholic, threw her support behind the compromise. she said the decision by at the present time illustrates his leadership and commitment to women's health. california senator dianne feinstein said today in san diego she regrets that president obama changed his stance but she said she also understands that he had no option but to change course. senator feinstein told a meeting of the california democratic party that affordable healthcare and protecting a woman's right to choose are among the party's priorities. >>> it is an emotional story of survival. a dog near death at the oakland animal services is making quite a come-back. noel walker talked to the family who nursed van winkle back to health. a warning, some of the video might be upsetting. >> reporter: the care-free cocker spaniel this family has been fostering is going up for adoption. van winkle is special. his big paws match a big heart with a capacity to love people despite

mr. obama's contraception rules forszed religious institution to vid it to their employees despite their religious beliefs. something mr. gingrich has brought up repeatedly. >> i don't care what deal he tries to cut. this is a man who is deeply committed, if he wins re-election, he will wage war on the catholic church the morning after he's re-elected. we cannot trust him. we should -- we know who he really is and we should make sure the country knows who he really is. >> that kind of rhetoric does not mean mr. gingrich or any other republican candidate is fighting to ban birth control. they're not. still, democrat nancy pelosi is holding an unofficial hearing on women's reproductive rights today starring the georgetown university law student who was barred from testifying at last week's republican-led hearing on reproductive rights and religious liberty. so i end with where i began, birth control. a political football in 2012? talk about question for you today. should contraception be a campaign issue? facebook.com/carolcnn. i'll read your comments later this hour. >> thank you, carol. >

to my mind, it's not it's a good idea or bad, it's where it gets instituted that makes a difference. mr. seaton has ideas, mr. grier has ideas. they all sound good. i'm afraid once we make them universal -- while i would probably vote for mr. grier or mr. luna to be superintendent, i don't want them to be the national superintendent of schools. so it is a big difference. how much is it federal. i think for the most part -- and this is a philosophical point. the farther we get away from the local school, the worse it gets. and the farther we get way from local government to national government, the worse the oversight gets. i don't know that we can judge who a good teacher is. i would have to know more. i would have to sit in her class and i would have to look at that. i would have to maybe judge on how well her studen at i don't know here whether she is a good teacher or not. in columbia, kentucky is different from memphis is different from houston. so my argument for it is to keep in mind that there is a philosophical question here on local versus federal. and i think we're coming toge

mr. cordray, do you know of any financial institutions that you can recall that have been well capitalized, well managed, well regulated and has failed? >> i think that only happens, senator, when there is some extreme dislocation at large. >> that would be very unusual, would it not? >> i would say the great depression and the recession of '07/'08. that may have happened to some banks that did not deserve. t. >> "the washington post" reported a community groups to subsidize mortgages for first time hold buyers resulted in mortgages that many buyers could not afford. i know they meant well but the article nound found that nearly one in five borrowersin the d.c. program are behind in their mortgages. are you looking into this particular program? because i'm not saying it's a busive but maybe it lack of, i don't know how you define all that but lack of judgment because you want to help people but sometimes if one out of five failing they've got to be reviewed. is that part of your deal or is that not in your purview? >> that's the first time the program you mentioned has come to our attentio

i believe that this institution is as great as it has ever been. and mr. speaker, i announce it from here, because between the rules committee upstairs where you serve with me, mr. chairman, protem, and the house floor, this is where the people of california sent me to represent them. now, as we look at the challenges that lie ahead, they are very, very great. i deliberated over this decision, and i have to say that three years ago i contemplated leaving at the end of that congress, but ultimately made a decision that i wanted to continue to serve through this term. i wanted to do so in hopes that we would win the majority with a goal of pursuing the 4.0 platform that i had always run on, and that being the pursuit of a free economy, limited government, a strong national defense and personal freedom. and mr. speaker, i wanted to work with not just my republican colleagues, but my democratic colleagues as well, working in a bipartisan way to accomplish a number of things. first, it was absolutely essential that we do everything to end the course that we had

thanks for watching captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- supervisor chiu: please call the roll. >> roll-ca[roll-call] mr. president, there is a quorum. supervisor chiu: ladies and gentlemen, please join me in the pledge of allegiance. >> [inaudible] to the public for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. supervisor chiu: madam clerk, are there any communications? >> no. supervisor chiu: please read the it -- the event agenda. items one through 17. >> it will be decided upon with a single roll call vote. supervisor chiu: would anyone like to sever these items? >> items 1 through 17, supervisor:? aye -- supervisor cohen? aye. [takes roll call vote] there are 11 ayes. supervisor chiu: item number 18, please. >> item number 18. $75,009,139 of 2008 clean and safe park bond sale proceeds to fund the improvement and construction at various recreation and park facilities, including $61,185,271 in the recreation and park department commission for fy2011-2012. supervisor chiu: this ordinance is passed. item number 19. >> item number 19. ordinance appropriating $4,4

mr. speaker, institutions across the country are facing an impossible choice. do they continue in their mission to provide for their employees or do they violate their conscience? when the affordable care act passed, there was no thought in the minds of many catholics that the law would eventually force them into such a terrible choice. in fact, my former colleague from pennsylvania, kathy call kemper, recently came out and said, quote, i would never have voted for the final version of the bill if i expected the obama administration to force catholic hospitals and catholic come ledges and universities to pay for contraception. end quote. i might add this rule that we are going will go into effect on august 12 includes not only contraceptives but drugs like plan b sells sterilization services. catholic and other religious organizations that have cared for the sake and -- sick and educate the americans of all religions since the founding of our republic and they have done this because their conscience compels them to show their love to all mankind. never before h

have catholic institutions provide healthcare insurance for their employees including access to birth control. joining us to discuss both issues is the white house chief of staff jack lew. mr. lew, welcome to "fox news sunday." >> good to be here with you, chris. thanks. >> chris: before we get to the new budget and i promise we will i want to clear up

mrs. michelle obama. [ playing "hail to the chief" ] [ applause ] [ applause ] >> please remain standing -- please remain standing for the presentation of the colors by the smithsonian institution'sffice of protection services honor guard and the national anthem performed by miss denise grant. ♪ ♪ o say, can you see by the dawn's early light ♪ ♪ what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? ♪ ♪ whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight ♪ ♪ o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? ♪ ♪ and the rockets' red glare the bombs bursting in air ♪ ♪ gave proof through the night that our flag was still there ♪ ♪ oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave ♪ ♪ o'er the land of the free ♪ ♪ and the home of the brave? ♪ [ applause ] >> please join me in welcoming from the everson church in harlem, the everson baptist chump in harlem, the reverend, calvin butz iii. [ applause ] >> i'm delighted to have been given this opportunity to say a word of inspiration concerning the national museum of african-american history and culture. african-american, what is africa to me, copper son or scarlet seed, jungle track, strong, bronze men. women fro

mr. speaker. we began this session with a debate on contraception. it seems to pit the availability and access to care, which i believe is a fundamental right, versus legislative behavior of religious institutions. it seems a detractable dilemma that we face but that is not so. mr. speaker, look to hawaii. since the 1970's, hawaii has led the way in terms of medical plans and medical provisions. we have prepaid health care assistance and, of course, as you can imagine we've had this debate. we had this debate in 1999, and the way the state resolved it and i was there was there was the religious exemption given for religious organizations broadly defined but the employee is also entitled to buy coverage from the insurer at no extra cost. what does this mean? this means that maybe an additional $2 or $3 but the reality of it is mr. speaker, they didn't pay anything. it ensures coverage because they knew it was in the best interest and guess what, many of the religious organizations did not opt out. so don't speculate. see the reality. look at hawaii. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the time of the the gentlelady has expired. for what purpose does -- the time of the gentlelady has

. >> do you have any enemies in the institution, in the cell block, mr. bullock? would make up about you. >> well, i don't know, people like gamblers? >> well, i am trying to help you with your defense. if you provide names that may not be credible and if you choose not the provide those names, that is up to you. >> how can i defend myself when you say there is a weapon involved, but i don't know what the weapon is. >> i showed it to you. >> now you tell me what it is, but in the report, it don't say nothing what the weapon is. >> anything else that you wanted to say today? >> yeah, you ain't got no evidence. how can you put a padlock with me. >> let me assure you, that there were multiple witnesses to the incident. >> how do i know they are credible? >> that is my responsibility to determine if they are credible and just as i am to determine your credibility. you have been given every opportunity to present a defense, and -- >> i gave you a defense. >> no, your defense was that you didn't have anything to do with this. that is what you told me. >> you guys have t

institute. we sponsor them, because we are looking for the next m. c. hammer. [laughter] mr.u are indeed blessed. you have attracted a crowd like know whether inside city hall. people from the national level are here. i should probably go on with a program that martha has put together. i should identify some of them with your permission, because when you speak you should know who is here to listen. because when you're born to make a pitch for high-speed rail -- [laughter] you start with the minority leader, nancy pelosi and paul pelosi, who is here. [applause] my colleague and seatmate from the legislature, all of my votes were cast by advice seatmate, congress woman jackie spear. [applause] i will have to pay for that one much later on, but i have the microphone. and [laughter] mr. mayor, there are some of your mayor colleagues that are here, and i have been told -- i saw two of them last night. the president of the u.s. conference of mayors, the organization that you're very much a part of nationwide, the most powerful voice for local government in america, that is the pres

institutions. >> gentleman from california. >> i yield two minutes to the gentleman from california. >> okay, to the gentleman from new jersey mrholt. >> gentleman from new jersey is recognized for two minutes. >> i thank my friend from california. here, i join the new jersey president's council that represents all of the institutions of higher education in new jersey. join in support of this legislation. as well as the american council on education, which represents 1600 college presidents around the country, in support of this bill. clearly there have been abuses in some businesses and some institutions. and those abuses have to be addressed. but, this legislation, i think, makes sure that we go about it in the right way. i would like to quote one of my constituents, she writes, quote, unlike many nations elsewhere in the world the united states has nurtured a vigorous respect for higher education, under such a system america higher education has flourished. but if recent trends continue, they seek to substitute their own judgments about what mission and institution should pursue and how that institution can best achieve that

there's no institution left that can stand up to the president of the united states and his radical social transformative agenda would have no serious impediment from that point forward. thankfully, mr. speaker, the american bishops understood what was taking place when kathleen sebelius made the announcement, which was actually the order of the president of the united states, to compel real jus institutions, in particular catholic institutions, to fund, provide and pay for birth control pills, sterilization, abort fashtes -- abortifacients. that was a violation of the right to privacy, a violation of the right to conscience, which is guaranteed in the first amendment of the united states constitution, freedom of religion. but for the federal government and i should probably not use that term quite so benignly because this is for the president of the united states, to issue such an order, tells us how radical and aggressive his agenda is. maybe how out of touch he is with the faith community in america, but i compliment the american pish shops for taking such a bold stand, mr. speaker. and the stand needed to be taken. when you think of the martyrs of history, it's not a hard stand

institution. we have a long and treasured history, mr. speaker, of religious accommodation. when i chaired the equal employment opportunity commission, i recall the many cases in which we tried to err on the side of accommodation. but the accommodation must never be so broad as to trample on the rights of others, to accommodate the institution, which has no conscience and not accommodate the people, whose conscience is being trampled, of course, is precisely what the constitution does not allow. a broad accommodation to the church that would relieve it of offering a health care service that is essential would penalize the rights of thousands of non-catholics. so whatever the right of the church is, it does not have the right to trample on the rights of others. that's how accommodation works. the administration's own exemption is patterned on identical religious exemptions that have been tested in the courts. and found to be constitutional. i think the administration was looking at two things when it fashioned a very, very joan rouse exemption for the church in the health car

mr. cooper specifically said, just a few moments ago, the name is the institution. those are his words, virtually verbatim. "the name is the institution," and the witnesses at this trial, the witnesses that came forward and were willing to be cross-examined, and willing to testify under oath, not the law review articles and so forth that were put in by the proponents, but the witnesses that came forward in this case, and the plaintiffs, and other witnesses in this case, talked about what marriage meant to them, and what it means in this society, as an institution, not just what the supreme court said, but we had what the plaintiffs said, what the experts said, what the supreme court said, and what the district court found, and there's nothing that would suggest that children thrive in a better way in that environment. in fact, the plaintiff, the p propone proponent's experts mr. blankenhorn testified that the children in those relationships would be better off, that we would be a better country, we would be closer to the american ideal if same-sex marriage were perm

take to minimize the impact of regulations on these institutions without sacrificing protections for consumers? >> thank you for raising that issue, mr. chairman, many of the members have raised that with us. first of all, i have made a promise openly at this committee hearing when i was up on my nomination that we would work to reduce the burdens on community banks and credit unions who i firmly believe and i have said before and will continue to say had very little to do, nothing really to do with bringing on the financial crisis. and have a traditional model of doing business that is customer service oriented, is community oriented and is the kind of model that we want to encourage in this marketplace. i've told the community banks that i'll create a special advisory committee that will raise their concerns with us and to inform us how we are doing, i plan to do the same with the credit unions. we will be mindful of that in each rule making. the remittance rule which was mentioned earlier which we have finalized the beginnings of that rule has a further rule on whether we should set a threshold so that community banks below a thre

instead, the institution's health insurance providers would have to offer and pay for birth control. a solution mr. obama hopes works for everybody. >> religious liberty will be protected and a law that requires free preventive care will not dediscriminate against women. >> the decision settles debate inside the white house, with the president's closest advisers divided along gender lines. senior adviser and health secretary, kathleen, urged the president to expand contraceptive coverage for women. while joe biden and former white house chief of staff, bill daly, both catholics warned about the political fallout. even inviting cardinal designate, timothy dolan to the oval office to speak directly to the president. today in a statement, a cautious dolan called the president's announcement a first step in the right direction. planned parenthood president said the move will provide new access for millions of american women. >> women will be able to get birth control now for no expensive copay or deductible regardless of where they work. >> with this new compromise, the white house is hoping that both