uses it to pay wages except now we're talking about seven hundred forty million dollars because mr davis can be five hundred fifty pounds or . one of the military if they were freed the situation could still. palestinians fear that tell of of could again choose to withhold tax money like it did last month israelis argue they have every right to do so if they suspect the money could be used for buying weapons this salaries to the hamas terrorists are paid for the same bank account so i don't want to find these terrorist. palestinians insist the monies for ordinary working as it is. sore because of one month but on the other hand it's a punishment it's a collective punishment that would mainly weaken the moderate elements within the palestinian society and play to the hand of the extremists the relationship between hamas and fattah is a turbulent one but both groups are trying hard to work together ahead of september's planned declaration of statehood no doubt israel will be working even harder to thwart them should it feel its interests are threatened policy or r t. the big worry is one t

lawyers to find in the future and they're looking for a case it's called a but bizarrely in this case mr davis the court clerk decided to take a bit of poetic license in his head note while the case did not decide that corporations are persons in fact of anything or rejected the notion for the fifth time in as many years bancroft in his cliff notes version in his the his head no he wrote quote the defendant corporations are persons within the intent of the clause in section one of the fourteenth amendment because the united states which forbids a state to guide any person with it has jurisdiction equal protection end quote and with that simple headnotes something that isn't legally even binding bancroft in korea poor or not a judge i don't like that official slipped into the supreme court's record full constitutional rights personhood for corporations this despite the fact that the chief justice specifically said his court would not address the matter and despite the fact that every previous supreme court decision had explicitly denied those same rights to corporations and by the time bank joh

the honorable mr. davis and his wife, ms. olivia morgan. mrs. sarah blomenfield mrs.n guverman. mr. robert sparks and a guest. mr. a.j.baeon and his wife ms. kate field and her husband. the honorable norman mineta and his wife, mrs. veni mineta. and mr. jeremy alters and guest, mrs. liana geriol. mr. richard faunte and his wife, mrs. jenine faunte. mr. robert but -- bucini and his wife, mrs. elizabeth bucini. mr. haywood yan and his wife, mrs. yan. >> it's great. no better place. i was here years before at an architecture group. >> nuremberg? >> yes. >> the honorable john roberts, chief justice of the united states, and his wife, mrs. jane roberts. ms. darlene miller and her guest, ms. terry lee strauss. the honorable senator jeanne shaheen and her husband, mr. william shaheen. the honorable austin goolsby and his wife, mrs. robin goolsby. ms. lisa budmoon and her husband, mr. mark kastoler. mr. doug hickey and his wife, ms. dawn ross. ms. susan eisenhower and her guest, mr. bucky clarkson. the honorable senator daniel coates and his wife, mrs. marcia coates. the hono

wilson brought up earlier and mrs. davis, talking about the drawdown been determined by conditions on the ground, the movement towards the afghan security forces, the afghan national police, being able to take over security. my concern comes from the future of this operation and an economic level. the afghan security forces are taking over more geography, but are we creating a situation where we have created such a large afghan army that the afghan economy will not be able to support that? rystal balsas we will be drawing down, what is the dollar amount that the afghan economy will have to generate? how much of the u.s. support will still be there in a financial sense? >> that is something we're looking at in great detail now. when the insurgency and the level of threat is degraded, how big of an army and police force do you need? it may be smaller than what we have currently planned. they may be experiencing their own search now. maybe they will settle at a lower level. we are working hard with the afghan government on reve

mrs. davis. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and thank you both for being here. and elm -- and admiral mullen, i know you'll continue to give your extraordinary attention to the issues next months and i appreciate your leadership and service. we had a hearing yesterday and i think the comment was made that the numbers are probably less important than how our troops are utilized or which troops actually we would be -- would be leaving and certainly which troops would be staying. can you break that down a little bit more in terms of support troops, in terms of combat troops, in terms of training troops? and whether or not that decision has been made? i think just a follow-up question to that really is when we think about the afghan forces, how are they going to be sustained financially into the future? and how do we envision our help and support to them as we move forward? . .there is a lot of work going on on both sides to figure out what is sustainable and will be needed. including eight view -- a view that they will need more in 2013 and 2014. everyone recognize

the gentleman from illinois, mr. davis is recognized for five minutes. mr. davis: thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank the witnesses for appearing and being here with us. dr. yasim, i'm not proud of it, but i have one of the largest single site incarceration places in america. something called cooke county jail, where more than 10,000 people are often confined there. of course 6% to 7% of those are -- 67% of those are african-americans who are there and they pretty much mirror the state prison system, which is much larger and that's something we'd like to shake a little bit if we could in illinois but it's tough. a recent study suggested that the largest number of individuals who convert to islam are african-americans. are you familiar with this study or this kind of information? and whether or not you think those individuals are doing so for personal development or for terrorism? >> i'm not familiar with that particular study. >> do you have an opinion relative to the conversion itself? >> the conversion to islam tends to be among african-americans, that's the case, but not

. >> thank you, mrs. davis? >> thank you, mr. chairman. and thank you both for being here and admiral mullen, i know you'll continue to give your extraordinary attention to the issues in the next few months, as you have in all of your tenure and i appreciate your leadership and your service. we had a hearing yesterday and i think the comment was made that it's -- the numbers are probably less important than how our troops are utilized or which troops actually we would be -- would be leaving and which certainly which troops would be staying. can you break that down in terms of support troops, in terms of combat troops, in terms of training troops and whether or not that decision has been made? i think just a follow-up question to that really is, when we think about the afghan forces, how are they going to be sustained financially into the future? and how do we envision our help and support to them as we move forward? >> with respect to the afghan security forces and the bill that's associated with that, i think president karzai and his peop

mr. davis: thank you, mr. chairman. i rise in strong opposition to the underlying bill, h.r. 2112, because of the deep cuts to the women, infants and children program. i've always been told that you can measure a greatness of a society by how well it streets its young, how well it -- it treats its young, how well it treats its old and how well it treats those who have difficulty caring for them selves. all of us know that there is no way that children, infants can adequately care for themselves. the w.i.c. program serves pregnant women through pregnancy up to six weeks after birth, or after pregnancy ends. breast feeding women up to the infant's first birthday and nonbreast feeding women up to six months after the birth of an infant or after the pregnancy ends. as well as infants up to their first birthday and children up to age 5. poverty and an identified medical nutritional risk are two eligibility requirements. nutritious foods, nutrition education and referrals to maternal and child health services are among the pr

mr. turpin. the colonel wears a full grain maine of hair -- mane. looks just like the jefferson davis statue they put up in raleigh, and only wants a bit of neatening up once a week. he waxes the tips of his moustache at home. they got the governor, and they got the numbers, says mr. mr. turpin. the way they got it fixed, it'll take a revolution to push 'em out. mr. turpin is thin on top, and hoch is carefully spreading what's left with his comb over the scalp. we must not bow to the tyranny of numbers, says the judge. what if tomorrow the blunt family decide to bring in 5,000 chinamen to bale their cotton? is should we then be ruled by chinamen? i think so. dorsey waves his hand for the judge to stop moving his jaw. humiliation, i tell you, the judge goes on. sold the mountain folk a bill of goods they bought the colored folks with whitemen's positions, and now he means to ruin this city. dorsey crosses to put a couple towels into the steamer. when the judge gets going like this, it's to wait him out. he's been known to jump to his feet and pace, so you have to be careful with the cu

mr. davis is recognized for 5 minutes. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman., for being here. >> thank you, sir. >> i've listened intently to your testimony. of course, i grew up in the mississippi delta. >> did you really? >> on the other side of the river near greenville, mississippi, just a few miles. as dick gregory knows in chicago we fondly say that the only place where you will find more african-americans from mississippi is in mississippi. >> amen. >> and so we have a tremendous relationship with the state itself and we watch there closely what takes place and what goes on. i know that we're talking about the worse environmental disaster in the history of our country. but as you indicated in your testimony, it also has massive economic impact, particularly, in the fishing and tourism industries. and i want to focus a little bit there. according to the noaa, the total amount of shrimp caught commercially in the gulf decreased 27% from 2009 to 2010. the amount of shrimp caught commercially in mississippi was down 60% last year from the year before. could

mr. davis is recognized for 5 minutes. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. thank you, governor, for being here. >> thank you, sir. >> i've listened intently to your testimony. of course, i grew up in the mississippi delta. >> did you really? >> on the other side of the river near greenville, mississippi, just a few miles. as dick gregory knows in chicago we fondly say that the only place where you will find more african-americans from mississippi is in mississippi. >> amen. >> and so we have a tremendous relationship with the state itself and we watch there closely what takes place and what goes on. i know that we're talking about the worse environmental disaster in the history of our country. but as you indicated in your testimony, it also has massive economic impact, particularly, in the fishing and tourism industries. and i want to focus a little bit there. according to the noaa, the total amount of shrimp caught commercially in the gulf decreased 27% from 2009 to 2010. the amount of shrimp caught commercially in mississippi was down 60% last year from th

the gentleman from illinois mr. davis is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you mr.reen and i want to thank the witnesses for appearing here and being with us. >> doctor, you seem not proud of it, but i have one of the largest site incarceration places in america, something called cook county jail, where more than 10,000 people are often confined, and of course six to 7% of those are african-americans who are there and pretty much mirror the state prison system, which is much larger and that's something we would like to shape a little bit if we could in illinois, but it's tough. a recent study suggests that that the largest number of individuals who convert to islam are african-americans. are you familiar with this study or this kind of information? and whether or not you think those individuals are doing so for personal development or terrorism. >> i'm not familiar with that particular study. >> do you have an opinion a relative to the conversion itself? >> the conversion to islam tends to be among african-americans, that's the case, but not in terms of terrorists t

mrs. davis: while letting speculators run loose. by cutting 44% from the if the's budget request for the -- for the president's budget request for the cftc that we've been talking about, we're saying it's ok, it's just ok to have fewer and less qualified regulators to protect us from market abuses. to protect our constituents from market abuses. haven't we learned any lessons? speculation on wall street has caused massive harm on main street. not sufficiently funding the cftc will hamper our efforts to recover from the recession and hinder middle class prosperity. commodity futures and option markets are complicated systems, we know that. they require a complicated skill set to understand. and some of the smartest people are engaged in doing this. but this bill ensures that the playing field is tilted toward those who are in favor of the same risky practices that led to the financial crisis. so without full funding, the cftc will have 159 fewer full time employees and an inability to procure the technology needed to properly regulat

and mrs. davis. talking about the drawingdown being determined by conditions on the ground, the movement towards the afghan security forces, the afghan national police, being able to table over security. my concern comes from the future of this operation at an economic level. the afghan security forces are taking over more geography, but are we creating a situation where we have created such a large army that the afghan economy can't support that. i think we have to look at this, if the crystal ball says we'll be drawing down to a condition sort of like what we have in iraq right now, by 2014, what is the dollar amount that the afghan government, afghan economy is going to have to generate? and how much of the u.s. support is still going to be there in a financial sense? >> that is something we are looking at in great detail right now. one question is, once the insurgency is degraded, the level of threat is degraded, how big army and police force do you really need? it may well be smaller than what w

mr. davis is recognized for 5 minutes. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. thank you, governor, for being here. >> thank you, sir. >> i've listened intently to your testimony. of course, i grew up in the mississippi delta. >> did you really? >> on the other side of the river near greenville, mississippi, just a few miles. as dick gregory knows in chicago we fondly say that the only place where you will find more african-americans from mississippi is in mississippi. >> amen. >> and so we have a tremendous relationship with the state itself and we watch there closely what takes place and what goes on. i know that we're talking about the worse environmental disaster in the history of our country. but as you indicated in your testimony, it also has massive economic impact, particularly, in the fishing and tourism industries. and i want to focus a little bit there. according to the noaa, the total amount of shrimp caught commercially in the gulf decreased 27% from 2009 to 2010. the amount of shrimp caught commercially in mississippi was down 60% last year from th

mr. chairman, i rise in opposition to this amendment. the davisacon act is a simple concept and it's a fair concept. what it does is protect the government as well as the workers in carrying out the policy of paying decent wages for government contracts. i noticed that the previous speaker was really concerned about the possibility that davis-bacon would raise the cost of the performance of these contractors, but it only requires that prevailing wages in the area where the contract is going to be performed is maintained. for example, if in some of our urban areas where labor costs are very, very high and the prevailing wages are there, the standard of living and the wage payment for that area would be consistent. if it was in a lower wage area, then davis-bacon wages would be the wages that were paid in that market. so basically just allows the workers to be paid at a rate consistent with where the project is being conducted. the act requires that every construction contract with the federal government participates in with in excess of $2,000 has

. >> william davis. >> mr. ambassador, i'm will davis with the office here in washington. thank you for your time today. you're a former local politician so from that perspective i'd be curious to see what you have to say to our friends in europe when they have to tackle the political buss saw of lowering the agriculture subsidy. we've been mixing met tores for a long time, and seeing that's the major hang up it appears, what new can we bring to the table to help them realize the challenges of their situation presenting in the global trading system? >> wul, one, and this may be some fusion, will, of your observation and mr. richter's that no industry is probably as protected that local politicians are more attuned to than agriculture. the example i give is whether you were an elected member of the united states congress or a parliamentary body in asia, africa, not every elected official is blessed to say i have i want or boeing -- intel or boeing or texas instrument in my backyard. every one has a farmer. they look at our farm support policies, but broadly the argument we

i don't know another member of congress that's lived under davis-bacon. i have. mr. king: i've lived underneath it for more than 30 years. i received davis-bacon wages when i was working for other contractors and paid a lot of davis-bacon wages as an owner-operator of a construction company i operated over 28 years. i can tell you that the federal government interfering with a contractual relationship between an employer and employee is the wrong thing to do. it does drive up the cost. the gentleman's opening remarks were spot-on. my own construction records show the costs go up between 8% and 35%, hardly insignificant. and it scrambles the relationship between employers and employees who are always jockeying for the highest paid federally designated scale. i've seen wages change from double to just going across the road because the federal government has designated a different wage scale for one division rather than another. we know this is union scale. nobody said that. this is government imposed union scale. and i'm not going to stand here to protect and defend tho

mr. neugebauer, was to designate the facility of the united states postal service located at 5014 gary avenue in lubbock, texas, as the sergeant chris davis post office. the bill is co-sponsored by the entire texas delegation, and, mr. speaker, i'm proud to be an original co-sponsor myself. mr. speaker, it's altogether fitting and proper that we name this post office in lubbock for army sergeant davis to honor a true american hero and his service to our country. sergeant davis was born on october 25, 1971, in lubbock, and according to his sister, margaret, he was always helping people and serving even from a young age. she recalled he was always helping and serving and always thinking of himself. that was chris. with his passion for service, chris joined the army in 1999 and was eventually assigned to the 69th armor regiment, third infantry division based out of fort bening, georgia. while deployed in iraq sergeant davis was tragically killed on june 23, 2007, when his unit was attacked by insurgents by an i.e.d. and small arms fire. he was -- he left his wife and two children behind. it's an honor to pay tribute to fellow texans who made

mr. chief justice. ron davis from winston-salem, north carolina. one of the things our firm has grappled with is social media. it impacts ethical obligations that we have. its impact client confidentiality issues. i figure if we are grappling with those kind of issues, it is probably more acute in the court system. i was just curious how the supreme court has dealt with this phenomenon. i had this image of one of your clerks tweeting from the supreme court about what is going on. it is it -- is it on a justice by justice basis where had you enacted certain policies? >> i sit down with the incoming clerks at the beginning of the year as soon as we get back and go through a number of things they have to be aware of and that is one of them. i tell them they obviously should not be tweeting about what they are doing or whether they have websites or whatever. a lot of this is an advert in. they think they're working really hard this week and getting ready -- so many people can look at what they are saying and put two and two together and figure out what

mr. chairman. i was appointed to the committee last year. i have been asked by our new chairman davis to make a report on four important items that are before your committee and that have been reviewed by the citizens of 53 committee. those items are items 5, 7 -- 5, 6, and 7. but i will make my comments quickly on five, six, and seven to say the cac voted 7-2 to recommend your committee approved a fiscal year 2011-2012 clean air program projects. we did set for our workers to reasons without approval of the tdm management public proprietorship, which is referred to under item eight as the shuttle program. primarily for procedural reasons. we wanted to consider the funding at the same time that we've reviewed the sar. it was discussed separately on our agenda, as it is yours. during our conversation, two members opposed. the item with regard to the shuttle, public-private partnership, was ultimately passed and is before you today in this agenda item. item six on your agenda is the allocation of $25 million in prop k funds. the the cac reviewed and recommended this allocation with the

mrs. smith. she's's senior advisor to mayor gavin newsom. david onick. malik senfero. director of bay view safe haven. children youth and families. cheryl davis. momagic. last but not least, we have jenay. >> we have tyre and then we have cheryl. john. i have a question for you. i hear there's a summer school safety plan that started in may 2007. >> they were 4 partners that collaborates on looking at summer school sites. the 4 were the mtap with muni, the youth services with san francisco police department and the security guards through the san francisco unified school district and d.c. yf. we rolled out responsibilities and it was within the scope of work we were doing and to form what that looked like. they are going to be the primary lead but have support of m tap to deal with interventions outside the perimeter the school. and the police department was a supportive roll if it escalated. previous to this, there had been incidences almost riots at different schools. lots of arrests and last year there were minimal, if none. >> this was last summer? this was the first time you had this in place. >> what did you do? were the teams on the campuses whe

mr. wilson brought up earlier, and ms. davis talking about the drawdown being determined by conditions on the ground, the movement towards the afghan security forces, the afghan national police being able to take over security. my concern comes from the future of this operation at an economic level. the afghan security forces are taking over more geography, but are we creating a situation where we created such a large army that the afghan economy will not be able to support that, and i think we have to if the crystal ball says we're drawing down to a condition like in iraq right now by 2014, what is the dollar amount that the afghan government, the afghan economy is going to have to generate and how much of the u.s. support is still going to be there in a financial sense? >> that is something we are looking at in great detail right now. one question is once the insurgency is degraded, the level of threat is degraded, how big an army and police force do you need? it may well be smaller than we what we have planned. maybe they wil

davis to make sure it is done correctly. i would like to see the motion that is made. as i think the same rule applies tune, mr. duffy -- applies to you, mr. duffy. >> the you have something to add? >> i would say insulation was required, and it was inspected. there was also something asking debt

davis to make sure it is done correctly. i would like to see the motion that is made. as i think the same rule applies tune, mr. duffy -- applies to you, mr. duffy. >> the you havesomething to add? >> i would say insulation was required, and it was inspected. there was also something asking debt they check the approved plans, so that will be dealt with in the next few days, and i can add to that complaint to make sure there was insulation put in. when he was talking about extra insulation, i think he was talking about the rules level. i can certainly add that to the complaint we got a couple days ago. you can rest assured there was insulation required. that is something you can rest assured will be looked into. >> the problem is these plans are not very extensive. they are extremely simple. thermal insulation is not going to give you much acoustic value. >> it would not be required by what i know of. >> can i suppose something? i propose we continue this for one week. the time to do this is now before the elevator is in. if they want to put in insulation now, now is the time to do this relatively inexpensive op

mr. speaker, there was an effort that was brought forward here in congress by archer davis, bobby scott in another initiative to open this up under pigford 2. there's also an initiative in the united states senate. one of the people that introduced stand-alone legislation to open up pigford 2 was barack obama himself as a united states senator in the year 2007. and the bill that he introduced was s. 1989. that legislation didn't go anywhere. it didn't have a single co-sponsor by my recollection but it put the marker down. there was a very -- i'll say a very urban senator from chicago who's opening up a second round of pigford when -- in illinois, the state that he represented, and truly he represented all of illinois as the united states senator. there were only 78 black farmers in the whole state. the payout was 100 to 153 people and that's a little snap shot of illinois itself. without breaking this down county by county and looking to see surely -- i mean, it is certain that there were more claims paid out in pigford than there were black farmers in illinois. and probably -- i'll say it

davis-bacon prohibition needs to be taken out. with that, i yield back. the chair: the gentleman continues to reserve. the gentleman from texas. mr. culberson: mr. chairman, i reserve my time. the chair: the gentleman continues to reserve. the gentleman from georgia. does the gentleman from georgia have additional speakers? mr. bishop: we have no further speakers. mr. culberson: mr. chairman, i want to say briefly, one of the reasons we're trying to move expeditiously on this is we want to make schauer our men and women in uniform have everything they need as soon as possible. we want to make sure we get it -- that we get it done in an expeditious fashion. i reserve my time. the chair: does the gentleman from georgia continue to reserve or yield back? mr. bishop: we're prepared to yield back. the chair: the gentleman from georgia yields back. the gentleman from texas. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. culberson: the chair: the gentleman has yielded back. do you yield back your time? mr. culberson: mr. speaker, i would like to -- we are waiting for an amendment to be completed drafting but it's important i think to re-emphasize -- the c

mr. benoit matched a description of a suspect. we spoke with his attorney a short time ago, and he says the police never told him that he matched a description, and his girlfriend, erica davis, and according to benoit, police pointed guns at both of them. >> thank you, brian. >>> president obama talks about jobs training next hour in virginia. and secretary of state hillary clinton expected to discuss the libyan conflict this afternoon. >>> and president obama welcomes national college football champs auburn university, the tigers. >>> protecting future generations of athletes, the nfl and ncaa now asking states to make laws designed to prevent and properly treat concussions in young athletes. they say legislation should be modeled after a law in washington state named after a youth football player who almost died, says kids must be removed from a game if suspected of a concussion, and only a licensed health care professional can clear that kid to resume. >>> and coming up, the prime suspect in the disappearance of natalie holloway goes to court on a separate charge. it could reduce his potential sentence from 35 years to just three years. a live report from lima explains w

davis-bacon prohibition needs to be taken out. with that, i yield back. the chair: the gentleman continues to reserve. the gentleman from texas. mr. culberson: mr. chairman, i reserve my time. the chair: the gentleman continues to reserve. the gentleman from georgia. does the gentleman from georgia have additional speakers? mr. bishop: we have no further speakers. mr. culberson: mr. chairman, i want to say briefly, one of the reasons we're trying to move expeditiously on this is we want to make schauer our men and women in uniform have everything they need as soon as possible. we want to make sure we get it -- that we get it done in an expeditious fashion. i reserve my time. the chair: does the gentleman from georgia continue to reserve or yield back? mr. bishop: we're prepared to yield back. the chair: the gentleman from georgia yields back. the gentleman from texas. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. culberson: the chair: the gentleman has yielded back. do you yield back your time? mr. culberson: mr. speaker, i would like to -- we are waiting for an amendment to be completed drafting but it's important i think to re-emphasize -- the c