mr. smith: mr. speaker, we're prepared to close so we preserve. the chair: the gentlewoman from oregon is recognized. ms. bonamici: in 2010, the appropriation act required the e.p.a. to perform a study on the relationship between hydraulic fracturing and ground water contamination. the final report is currently expected to be released in 2016. e.p.a.'s preposed study plan was approved by the e.p.a. science advisory board. the science advisory board determined that e.p.a.'s approach was generally appropriate and comprehensive. further, the science advisory board recommended that some analysis of risk be considered in the study, but a full risk assessment could add another five years to seven years of the release date. it mischaracterized the e.p.a. study plan as flawed for failing to include a comprehensive risk assessment. that position is not consistent with the conclusions of the highly qualified scientists, researchers and industry representatives who are members of the e.p.a.'s independent scien

to break the hold of the filibuster, that stalling technique we remember from jimmy stewart in "mr. smith goes to washington." the president said enough is enough and abc news chief white house correspondent jonathan karl now tells us what began happening right away. >> reporter: for more than a century, the filibuster, immortalized in the movie "mr. smith goes to washington" has empowered the minority party in the senate to bring everything to a halt just by talking. >> i can hold this floor almost unless doomsday. in other words, i've got a piece to speak. >> reporter: it's a tactic republicans are using more than ever. from rand paul who tried to block the president's pick to run the cia to ted cruz who talked nearly 22 hours straight against obama care. republicans are now blocking dozens of president obama's nominees. but today in a controversial and historic move, referred to as the nuclear option, democrats changed the rules, ending the filibuster when it comes to most presidential nominees. minutes later they moved forward on one obama nominee who had been blocked for almost six m

mid-market area for a long time and that's leading and -- luggage store gallery, i want to recognize mr. smith and jessica from counter paul. it's so fun to be able to kind of switch roles as our arts community grows. i remember going to the intersection of the arts and now they are here a block away at 5 m and dr. cohen is now the director of yerba buena center for the arts. that is community begins to evolve, we are here growing the job sector here in mid-market. in 2011 when the mayor held a press conference across the street, we had the highest vacancy commercial rate in the city. what we are seeing now at mid-market is that everyone wants to be here now. of course what that means that everyone wants to be here, what does that mean for the arts community that has always been here. this is going to keep artist and the artist organization here. it was great to work with the california community loan funds and the office of economic development to make this a reality. over the past couple of year with hard work and procuring money and property owners we were able to procure these sites to ens

any last words for him, mr. smith?he support.eciate everyone should get the facts and make your own decisions. we can have an honest debate about how to improve things, and what is in the law and what is not. go two healthcare.gov, find out your options, how much health care is going to cost, keep the conversation going, and hopefully these 50 million uninsured americans out there will get coverage for the first time ever. is cofoundermith of young invincibles. thank you for being on "washington journal." coming up next, representative jeff denham, a republican from california. immigration is the topic. we will return shortly. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] ♪ for nsais a tough time where everybody says what are you doing or why are you doing it. here is what we do. when we get together we do not -- well, a be a couple of times say it, but we actually is much more important for this country that we defend this nation and take the beatings

. >> good afternoon mr. smith. >> good afternoon board members. i apologize that i blurted out the comment. i'm going to quote two people that's in history. relative to what is going on with many mpa, the budget, and the especially the expenditure. one is the spending money mta, like drunken sailors. it is a cliche but it's true. the second one is more refined quote by shakespeare who said, this is for the sound and pure signifying nothing which goes on at all of your meetings that i attend. i'm glad to try to support you, but i can't. and 10.6 ats $505,000 of a budget of 9.15 million, that goes up to $7.5 million. you avoided this. we brought it up many times. the machines can be extracted in china town are buried underground like many projects around the world, saving anywhere from 21 to $79 million on that 10.6. i don't know if item 12 is allowed to be mentioned. >> this is 10.6. >> thank you. >> next speaker on 10.6. >> joe karlson. >> mr. chairman and members of the board. i'm not necessarily against this increase you're being asked to suppor

. >> thank you, mr. smith. directors, any questions or discussion on this? >> move the item. >> second. >> i have a motion and a second. all in favor, aye. ayes have it, motion passes. >> motion approving new notification requirements for operational local neighborhood and white management products proposing the installation of new parking meters. you have one member of the public who may still be here who wishes to address you. >> do we have a staff presentation on this? >> we can provide one if you like. >> has everyone read this fully? do you need a staff presentation? can we please hear from the public. >> martin mcintire. >> martin mcintire, i guess i'm representing the public. >> you are. >> i was the founder of the coalition for san francisco neighborhoods, second neighborhood of park association of richmond, et cetera. i was the past president of the university association and our association fought against parking meeters being put on golden gate avenue across from our homes by sf park. you probably should need going back to the beginning of this se

mid-market area for a long time and that's leading and -- luggage store gallery, i want to recognize mr. smithnd jessica from counter paul. it's so fun to be able to kind of switch roles as our arts community grows. i remember going to the intersection of the arts and now they are here a block away at 5 m and dr. cohen is now the director of yerba buena center for the arts. that is community begins to evolve, we are here growing the job sector here in mid-market. in 2011 when the

. >> good afternoon mr. smith. >> good afternoon board members. i apologize that i blurted out the comment. i'm going to quote two people that's in history. relative to what is going on with many mpa, the budget, and the especially the expenditure. one is the spending money mta, like drunken sailors. it is a cliche but it's true. the second one is more refined quote by shakespeare who said, this is for the sound and pure signifying nothing which goes on at all of your meetings that i attend. i'm glad to try to support

mrs. smith, accepting on behalf of her husband, dean smith. mrs. gloria steinem. reverend c.t.ian. the honorable patricia wald. mrs. oprah winfrey. [ applause ] ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states and mrs. michelle obama. [ applause ] >> good morning. good morning, everybody. everybody, please have a seat. have a seat. well, on behalf of michelle and myself, welcome to the white house. this is one of my favorite events every year, especially it's special this year as i look at this extraordinary group of individuals and our opportunity to honor them with our nation's highest civilian honor, the presidential medal of freedom. and this year it's just a little more special because this marks the 50th anniversary of president kennedy establishing this award. we're honored, by the way, today, to have with us one of my favorite people ethyl kennedy and a pretty good basketball player, president kennedy's grandson jack. [ applause ] >>> now this medical has been bestowed on more than 500 deserving people. tonight i'm looking forward to joining some of these h

mr. smith. we're going to have comment -- public comment in a minute. at this point i'll ask kaiser to come up and thank you for being here and for your continuing to work with the city of san francisco in our service system. >> thank you very much farrel and mar. it's a privilege to be here. we're here to today to lend our support and to affirm our commitment to quality transparency and to price transparency. i am -- i'm the manager here in san francisco for kaiser foundation hospital and health plan and i'm accountable for the care delivered to a little of over $192,000 people. 3,000 healthy san francisco 192,000 people. 3,000 healthy san francisco healthy participant and $3,000 health members and for kaiser california we serve 55,000 city and county employees and a little over 2,000 in san francisco. we value our partner and our relationship with the city and county. and we look forward to collaborating on this effort. for many years, kaiser has been involved in sharing successful clinical practices, quality transparency. we know that by doing that,

mr. smith. we're going to have comment -- public comment in a minute. at this point i'll ask kaiser to come up and thank you for being here and for your continuing to work with the city of san francisco in our service system. >> thank you very much farrel and mar. it's a privilege to

that is mrs. smith, the president's sister getting into the front seat of that car. mrs. stephen smith, sargent shriver to the right. if i'm not mistaken. the husband of misses kennedy's sister. on the back you can see the attorney general. the left-hand side. mrs. kennedy, senator and ted kennedy on the left. the first limousine. rolling out on to pennsylvania avenue now. several members of the immediate family. >> that is pennsylvania avenue. in front of the white house. [inaudible conversations] ♪ ♪ >> i have something in this -- perhaps something additional may be said about the unbelievable crowds of people who pass through the rotunda of the capitol last night. as is usual there is little or no way to measure the edification to measure the identification of a president with the people, but perhaps there was in this capital city last night the closest that they have felt for him as evidenced in the thousands which formed an endless stream of humanity on the streets down below the capitol plaza. ground slowly up to the great doors, to the solemn and dimly lighted rotun

and mrs. smith. undercover spy, he was a spy fr israel.e produced more than a hundred film, he used to spy for bureau of scientific relations. israel shut down after american jonathan powell was convicted of spying are if israel in 1987 19. last night he admitted in living this double life, producing in hollywood, at one time he supported apartheid to buy nuclear triggers a south africa, today 68-year-old, who is a chairman of regency films is worth more than $4 billion, and apologize z for nothing. >> i should have said [ bleep ] , you know, what i did it for my country, and i'm proud of it. >> he produced filmsike pretty woman, fight club, l.a. confidential, and worked with stars like russell crow, ben affleck and b robert de niro. he was recruited by shimon peres in 1960s. the is closure that sydney pol polleck. he also allegedly spied for israel. >> sydney of my partner, in exports, and aerospace, we had to decide what he is willing what he is not, many things he said no, many thing he said yes. >> milchan made thousands in arms deals

it goes back to the days of mr smith goes to washington. it's something that people care about. let's talk about the court, the d.c. circuit court of appeals. second only to the supreme court because it rules on all sorts of federal regulations and agencies. it looks at important issues of government. chuck grassley wants to slash the seats that obama's nominees would fill. right now the political make up is half and half. >> there are 11 full-time positions and three availablingan sis for four of the eight folks, for democrat and republican. this assumes that they are all driven by ideology in making decisions on the law. the republican argument forgets the fact that there's something like five or six so-called senior judges, part-time judges coming from the judicial ball pen to decide case, the majority of those in this case happen to be republican judges. grassly makes the wonderful argument, i think highly dubious that you need not fill the availablingan sis because there's not enough work. it's less than an empierical assessment. i would argue, the skeptical journalist i am

and mrs. smith, one of hollywoods directors says he lived a double life as a spy. he is reportedly worth more than $4 billion. chances are you have seen a few of his movies like "heat," and "devils advocate." an areospace executive was arrested that worked for his company. now just that, he claims he was a big time arms dealer brokering dealing worth hundreds of millions of dollars. milchan says it it was hard to overcome his image. we're live in los angeles, william, how did he get involved in all of this? >> he was recruited as a spy to help set up the country's nuclear program. but he also loved film, so what a great cover story. he could travel the world, scouting locations, looking for investors and contracts. he is anni israeli jew that cam to america and produced bill films. at the same time he was helping obtain materials for nuclear testing in south africa, and the commissions he made made him rich. a double life for which he has no apologies. >> translator: i should have said [ bleep ] you know what? i did it for my country and i'm proud of it. >> forbes

i want you to forget mr. smith goes to washington. more like ms.mith, and she has a message for washington. chair of the college republican national committee. a very good to have you. >> thank you so much. that's beyond. neil: did i get that about right? is that a growing mood among young americans? >> i believe so. i think that they are looking at the cost of the plans, looking at the other personal costs that they have in their lives, student loans, personal debt. they're looking at these plans, the 200 percent increase in premiums in some cases and saying it is not worth it. neil: even for a lot to have no insurance now, they obviously blindness seems to be affordable policies. it is not worth the effort. >> that is going to enter into all of the cost calculations. and what we are seeing a particular is that smaller schools are getting hit with the planning cancellation for young people. so these plans are getting canceled as a result of them being basic plans under the obamacare system. they cancel out these plans, and so now these scenes that

mr. arturo sandoval. ms. smith accepting on behalf of her husband, mr. dean smith. ms. gloria steinem. [applause] reverend c.t. vivian. the honorable patricia wald. ms. oprah winfrey. [applause] ♪ ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states and mrs. michelle obama. ♪ [applause] >> good morning. good morning, everybody. [applause] everybody, please have a seat. have a seat. , on behalf of michelle and myself, welcome to the white house. this is one of my favorite events every year. special this year as i look at this extraordinary and our individuals opportunity to honor them with our nation's highest civilian honor. the presidential medal of freedom. it is just a little more special. this marks the 50th anniversary of president kennedy establishing this award. today to have with us one of my favorite people, ethel kennedy. and a pretty good basketball player, president kennedy's grandson jack. [applause] this metal has been bestowed on more than 500 is irving people. tonight, i am looking forward to joining some of these honorees as well as members of the kennedy family as

when you had ted cruise doing his sudo filibuster, and mr. smithashington, all of the great moments there. so that's gone. but the sad thing is that by doing away with the super majority on these nom additions, you do away with any possibility of bilateral or bipartisan comedy there where people get together and they say okay, some republicans, some democrats, both vote to approve a particular nominee. now you'll never get that. >> to that point, the phrase nuclear option suggests war. >> you thought washington was broken before, wait until you see this now. >> you will have unilateral government. whatever chamber or party runs the chamber, that simple majority will be able to dictate what is happening. you cannot diminish the fact that what it does is abolish any chance of bipartisan. any chance of the two parties working together to get anything done. >> senator harry reid came out with a litany of rational. he said the nominees on average took 100 days longer to get through than president bushes. he started by saying gridlock. this is their idea

and several other blockbuster projects - two of the movies with brad fit, "fight club" and "mr and mrs smith", he's a major player in hollywood, but was also a spy, working for israel. he's telling a story saying he worked on clan dest in operations for the government in the midst of his hollywood career, he said he purchased technology needed to operate nuclear weapons. no other journalist knows arnon milchan's double life better than ann louise bardach, she revealed his life as a spy 13 years ago in the "the los angeles times." she joins us from santa barba. how was he a big figure for the hollywood studios and spying for israel? >> well, he does them both very well. he does them with a great deal of charm, a kind of boyish almost gamine-like charm and a great deal of determination. when the charm does not work out he knows how to get his way. arnon milchan began his career in the 1950s. he gravitated to a restaurant in tel aviv where interesting people were, and found his politic political n. >> che. these were all men who would become figures in israel. that became his groove. to this da

don't do this, mr. smith. i certainly had no idea he was about to pull a gun. >> without warning smith reaches into his satchel and pulls out a revolver. >> he pulled it out. i saw the barrel. i immediately started backing up as quickly as i could to create some distance and to get my gun out. >> corporal mecham backs up and stumbles to the ground. >> when he was yelling at me to roll over, my blood went cold. that's when i knew i didn't have any time left. i had to go for my gun right then. >> lying flat on his back, mecham quickly pulls out his gun. >> he fired the first shot, and i can still to this day, i can see the muzzle flash. i can smell the smoke. i can hear the boom. i can hear it all. >> but mecham is not hit and begins firing back. >> i know all total i hit him five times. i don't know how many bullets him him at that moment when he was standing over me and how many may have struck as he was running away. >> as corporal mecham unloads, daniel smith runs for cover in a ditch. >> i kept shooting. as

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