mrs. stevens. or their children or their grandchildren who found the cabin to be in need of impro improveme improvement. and so in 1999, senator stevens resolved that he would do some kind of a renovation to the cabin which he jokingly called the chalet. he was a friend of a gentleman whose name is bill allen, a self-made entrepreneur who by 1999 had become quite wealthy and he was the ceo of an oil field services and construction company. he was a fishing buddy from time to time of senator stevens, as well. he was conversant with the construction industry to some degree and heat was available i anchorage alaska in terms ofs. senator stevens and he met in 1999 in the company of a gentleman whose name was rocky williams who was a veco employee, the name of bill allen's corporation. senator stevens told him that he wanted to do a renovation to the so-called chalet. he wanted allen's assistance in identifying a remodeling contractor who might do the bulk of the work, and he was interested in having bil

mr. steven lord is director for homeland security at the u.s. government accountability office, our wing, if you will. and rear admiral zukunft. and i might mention without a doubt, the best jewel ever given to homeland security, in my opinion, and in the ranking member's opinion. pursuant to the rules of this committee, would you all please rise to take the ohs? raise your right hands. do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you're to be give will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? let the record indicate -- please have a seat -- all witnesses answered in the affirmative. now my predecessor, whose face and portrait is up there, mr. towns, began a tradition of explaining the obvious. but he did it every time, and i appreciated it. your entire opening statements will be placed in the order. in front of you you have a countdown clock. and like so many things that you look at, you say does it really matter? the answer is please summarize if you run out of time. we'd like to get through all of you and get you out of

mrs. stevens. had rocky williams testified as a government witness as the plan was originally, that is what he would have testified to. >> would that have made a difference of the trial? >> first of all, i believe that that anticipated testimony from rocky williams directly corroborated senator stevens the facts. i believe that it may very well have affected the outcome of the trial. >> senator, this is a serious allegation. did you provide a report that the subjects of your investigation before was finalized in order to allow them to do any rebuttal on that? >> judge sullivan in november of last year ordered that our report be made available to the subjects of our investigation, and it was. i beg your pardon, senator. in that order last year he expressly provided the opportunity for each of them to submit comments and objections. >> and did they -- >> a couple day, a couple did not. subsequently dashed. >> did that anyway change your comment -- your report? >> it did not. >> thank you. >> i should

mr. stevens has. >> we wish him the best. >>> beginning tomorrow, mountain view-based google, will begin merging it collects about you. it will customize its advertising base on habits while using google, gmail, blogger. you can limit what the company collects about you. go to the account settings menu of your google account, click the services section, and pause, edit or remove all web history. privacy experts suggest logging out of google account before using the company's products. and switch between browsers. >>> if you heard of trafracking you probably heard about the controversy. it's a technique that's raised serious concern all over the country. tonight, nbc bay area's investigative unit uncovered that fracking is going on right here in california. stephen stock found out state regulators aren't doing anything about it. are they, stephen? >> reporter: that's right, jessica. fracking has been going on for deca decades. but it's not gas that companies in california are after. it's oil. steve craig and his partner remoo removed to the remote side of monterey county for its beauty 30

mr. stevens case happens as a matter of course. >> mr. schuelke i agree with you that the attorney general is entitled to credit for after-the-fact raising this issue with the court in seeking the dismissal of the charges. unfortunately the damage to senator stevens and to the adversarial system of justice has already been done and there's nothing the attorney general or anyone else could do to undo it. and so, let me just ask you in conclusion since time is short here, in those instances where the character and integrity and professional responsibility of a prosecutor did do not seem to overcome their desire to win at any cost, is there anything that congress can or should do or is there any further action you would recommend that we take in order to make sure that abuses like this do not occur? because i worry that when they do sometimes occur, and i agree with you that in the main prosecutors are honorable people who perform their responsibilities with integrity, but in those instances where they do not and where the intentionally withh

mr. steven whitesell. the regional director for the park service and the department of interior. that was pure luck. from the u.s. air force. the ektive director of the eisenhower memorial commission. the president of the national monuments foundation. and mr. bruce cole, who is the past chairman of the national endowment for the humanities. and we barely got you in dl.

mr. steven senate a minimum wants it off the table for juveniles under the age of 14. and the court seemed to be struggling with a number of scenarios. it explored them. they didn't struggle. first of all there didn't seem to be a lot of interest in a categorical ban for juveniles under the age of 18. when they started quizzing about the age, justice alito said, well, what is the age... where do you draw the line for the constitutional purposes? and mr. stevenson would say under 14. the lawyers for arkansas and alabama said, well, maybe 12. >> ifill: is the argument that younger children or younger teenagers shouldn't be held as accountable as older ones? >> mr. stevenson would say based on the court's earlier decisions in this area that the deficits juveniles have in judgment and maturity are not crime-specific. it doesn't matter if it's murder or a non-murder crime. those characteristics apply to all juveniles under the age of 18. he said you cannot equate kids with adults. >> ifill: we're talking once again about justice kennedy as being the pivot point but not just

mrs. madison, steven decatur and several other guests. ornamental palmettes were gilded as were the other greecian-inspired accents. here's the design latrobe came up with with, the palmettes. the walls were papered and, perhaps, brushed over with a light coat of fleck coach paint and the wood work was -- george bridgeport of philadelphia was employed to paint the ceiling and wood work. he was known for his subtlety in application. this box is actually mrs. madison's tea box. it was given by her to mrs. latrobe, so it's one of the only other things besides the bgilbet stewart that survives at the white house. this wallpaper was most likely to wallpaper used in the elliptical salon. when we come back to the painting again, you'll see this is actually used as historical reference. there's an inscription here from mrs. madison to mrs. latrobe. they'd known each other since infancy. mrs. madison was known to have spent most of her time working on her own parlor chamber than any other room in the house. also known as the antechamber where the

mrs. madison, steven decatur and several other guests. ornamental palmettes were gilded as were the other grecian-inspired accents. here this is a design that latrobe came up with the palmettes. and here it is coming straight out of an antiquity from one of the -- this is the arapacus augusta e in rome. the walls were papered and, perhaps, brushed over with a light coat of fleck coach paint and the woodwork was white shadowed to suggest masonry. george bridgeport of philadelphia was employed to paint the ceiling and the woodwork. he was known for his subtlety in application. this box is actually mrs. madison's tea box. it was given by her to mrs. latrobe, so it's one of the only other things besides the gilbert stuart that survives at the white house. it's on exhibit right now. what we've come to figure out from this is that this wallpaper was most likely the wallpaper that was used in the elliptical salon. when we come back to the painting again, you'll see this is actually used as historical reference. there's an inscription here from m

mr. stevens and mr. gingrey. does anybody want to comment? >> it's the advanced system threat, he's got it right. somebody targetting any of you. if we know the folks you run around with, we can crash defeat e-mail that looks pretty realistic, point you to one of these web sites that establishes a tunnel, it drops a remote access tools and now you log in with remote access from work or from home or whatever you're doing this is a hacker doing remote access to you now the server and once they are on the control the pc, the network and so on and the intellectual property theft is becoming a significant. it is probably the number-one thing i did all of us when we go back we talked about the baht net and the ns but that isn't what we deal with, we are dealing with a kind of our point, right, we are ahead of the discussions here, things we have been dealing with in the past and the things we deal with now are probably things we would be testifying about five years from now so that is an issue. >> the advanced threat these are remarkably sophistica

mr. steven chu the energy secretary. he asked mr. chu to grade himself on the way he, chu, has handled gas prices. >> in controlling the cost of gasoline at the pump do you give yourself an a-minimum us? >> the tools we have at our disposal are limited, but i would say i would give myself a little higher, in that since i became secretary of energy i've been doing everything i can to get long-term solutions. megyn: and it did not stop there. next hour the angry exchange over electric vehicles, and the reaction to secretary chu's report card remarks. another fox news alert now on major new research coming to light. a new survey of hundreds of american businesses finds employer confidence in providing healthcare coverage for workers is at its lowest point ever. that comes five days before the supreme court takes up the president's healthcare law. shannon bream live from washington on how the supreme court hearing is shaping up, shannon. >> reporter: well, megyn, despite those numbers you mentioned from business owners people who actuall

senator ted stevens. mr. shul can i filed his report with the court on november 14th, 2011. by court order, it was made publicly available two weeks ago on march 15th accompanied by the submission of the six prosecutors who were the subjects of his investigation. mr. schuelke has worked in private practice income washington, d.c. since 1979 when he starred his own law firm. before that, he served for four years in the army's judge advocate general's court. three years as a military judge, seven years ars assistant u.s. attorney for the district of columbia three years executive assistant u.s. attorney. mr. schuelke, please go ahead, sir. >> thank you, sir. chairman leahy, senator grassley, senator feinstein is, senator cornyn, good morning. i appear this morning at your invitation to address whatever questions you might have concerning our report to judge sullivan on the subject of our investigation conducted pursuant to judge sullivan's order of april 7, 2009. we were ordered to investigate and to prosecute such criminal contempt proceedings as may be appropriate against wi

mr. schulke recommended against contempt charges because prosecutors did not disobey a clear and required under law.view of docket and proceedings in the stevens case, mr. schulke concludes no such order existed in this case. whether the court accepted the repeated representations of the subject prosecutors that they were familiar with their discovery obligations were complying with those obligations and were proceeding in good faith. my question to you is, does it concern you that the only reason these prosecutors escaped criminal charges is that the didn't file an order specifically telling the orders that they should follow the law? >> i think we have to take into account a variety of things. when i was made aware of the issues that led to the inquiry that judge sullivan ordered, i made sure -- i ordered that the case be dismissed. i also ordered an office of professional report be done as an internal justice department which has now been completed, it is now in its final stages of being worked through. >> will it be made public, mr. attorney general? >> i'm hoping we can. there are privacy interests that we have to deal with. but my hope i

withstanding that the public should labor under the notion that what happened in the stevens case happens as a matter of course. >> mr. schuelke, i agree with you that the attorney general is entitled to credit for after the fact raising this issue with the court and seeking the dismissal of the charges. unfortunately, the damage to senator stevens and to the adversarial system of justice had already been done and there's nothing that the attorney general or anyone else could do to undo it. and so i know you -- let me just ask in conclusion, since time is short here. in those instances where the character and integrity and professional responsibility of a prosecutor do not seem to overcome their desire to win at any cost, is there anything that congress can or should do? or is there any further action that you would recommend that we take in order to make sure that abuses like this do not occur? because i worry when they do sometimes occur -- i agree with you that in the main prosecutors are honorable people who perform their responsibilities with integrity. but in those instances where they do not and where they int

mr. steven sadler, the transportation security administration. mr. steven lord is the director for homeland security of the u.s. government accountability office. rear admiral is the u.s. coast guard and the assistant commandant a former marine safety security and storage shed. -- stewardship. pursuant to the rules of this committee, would you all please rise to take the oath? raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear the testimony you're about to be -- about to give is the truth and nothing but the truth? but the record indicate that all witnesses answered in the affirmative. face is upsor's there. he began a tradition of explaining the obvious. he did it every time and i appreciated it. your entire opening statements will be placed in the record. in front of you, you have the countdown clock. like so many things that you looked at, doesn't really matter? the answer is please summarize if you run out of time. we would like to get through all of you and get you added. any time if -- out of here in a timely fashion. you have five minutes. >> good af

mr. steven sadler, the transportation security administration. mr. steven lord is the director for homeland security of the u.s. government accountability office. rear admiral is the u.s. coast guard and the assistant commandant a former marine safety security and stewardship. pursuant to the rules of this committee, would you all please rise to take the oath? raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear the testimony you're about to give is the truth and nothing but the truth? let the record indicate that all witnesses answered in the affirmative. my predecessor's face is up there. he began a tradition of explaining the obvious. he did it every time and i appreciated it. your entire opening statements will be placed in the record. in front of you, you have the countdown clock. like so many things that you looked at, doesn't really matter? the answer is please summarize if you run out of time. we would like to get through all of you out of here in a timely fashion. you have five minutes. >> good afternoon. thank you for the opportunity to testify toda

mr. steven schooner we mentioned on this program. it's been mentioned by others. something called the davis-bacon act. if you had to boil it down in english, what is it? >> it's on government construction -- guest: the government is perceived to pay construction workers significantly more, another way is this is a classic pro union and protects the workers from being taken advantage of or being exploited. >> so you can put it into play november -- guest: come down to the depression. the law was actually passed in 1931. so first of all, we go through the depression. people are out of work. one of the things is local contractors are losing out on work. they pay fair weights that are going to to have -- so the local economy is losing jobs to people who are being brought from for substandard wages. so the thought was to pay the prevailing local wage rate. what happened over time was they ended up distinguishing between union shops and what we think of as open-shop contractors. the prevailing wage rate today is basically a moniker for the union wage rates, not the mark

stevens. we had a disturbing hearing with mr. holder last week in which we talked about the department of justice employees who apparently are still prosecuting at the department of justice even after the report was leased and the attorney general himself excused it on the part of the misconduct of the prosecutors. so i want to know if there are people still at the fbi -- i think there were just two agents that were accused of being involved in it. so i'd like to know your opinion of that as well. so i thank you for all that you're doing in the other areas that the senator mentioned, but especially knowing the role of the fbi now and international intelligence and law enforcement. so that expansion has been on your watch, and i appreciate that you have been able to handle it and work with the intelligence agencies so well. thank you. >> director mueller, please proceed. >> thank you, madam chairwoman. let me also join others on the committee in congratulating you on the tenure. far longer than mine, i might add. also let me thank

so says not only steven roach, but mr. rutledge. >> i'll say i don't see a hard landing, but what do i know. things can change very quickly. a lot of this data is coming from official sources. what i would say is that this area has not been acting that well. there are some stand-out names by caterpillar that do look good. but in the main, i don't want to have a portfolio that's heavily overweight things like iron ore or industrial machinery. i don't see the excitement happening there. and there are areas that are acting really well. technology, health care. way not he can if a size what's working and let people that want to have a tougher time worry about how to figure out china. >> and what zach always says about hard landing, there is no hard landing, who says it's coming in for a landing, it's still flying high. i agree with that. i certainly think the united states would love to have the sort of growth that china has right now. and to josh's point i think you wait until after we get pmi and so forth. until you get, eve

stevens. we had a disturbing hearing with mr. volcker last week in which we talked at the department of justice and please -- employees who are still prosecuting at the department of justice even after the report was released and the attorney general himself dismissed the case against senator stevens because of the misconduct on the part of the prosecutors. so i will want to know if there are people still at the fbi. i think there were just to agents that were accused of being involved, so i would like to know your opinion of that as well. so i think you for all that you are doing in the other areas senator mikulski mentioned the especially knowing the role of the fbi now and international intelligence and law enforcement so that expansion has been on your watch and i appreciate that you have been able to handle live and work with the intelligence agency so well. thank you. >> directors mueller, please proceed. >> thank you, madame chair. but major and others on the committee on congratulating you on the tenure, far longer than m

mr. byung, district four, the store manager of the sunset district good will, martin lamb, in district 5, rodney chen, district 6, steven, the leader of aspire, district 7, a longtime democratic activist, district 8, the founding executive director of the chinatown community development center gordon chen, strychnine shirley chen, district 10, a community leader and visitation valley, and last but not least, the business woman and president of an iron works co., florence kong. could you join me in thanking all of their leadership? [applause] the last thing i want to say is we have been celebrating our heritage for 163 years, and i look forward to another 163 years of celebration. thank you very much for being here. >> supervisor chiu, thank you very much. this is the seventh year that san francisco has held an official celebration for asian americans. the plans are the culminated efforts of the members of the mayor's asian-pacific american heritage celebration committee. please welcome me and joining claudine cheng for her remarks on this year's celebration. >> thank you, everyone, for joining us for our celebration thi

mrs. porter for the kennedy center teaching award, the award given in the name of broadway icon steven sontimewed him tape of donna porter and d.j. batiste, it brought tears. why did that make you emotional? >> well, you watched -- you watched in action what a teacher can do. look at the pride on his face. that joy. i don't think i've ever been that happy in my life. >> greatest accomplishment of my life. >> reporter: this young man -- >> he's going to do great things. >> reporter: when porter teaches, she told us she is reading her students, watching for who needs help and who's behind. with affection, she calls them lumps of coal and believes that every one of them, just like d.j., could be her next gem. wyatt andrews, cbs news, mississippi. >> congratulations to her. >>> coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," the latest on sergeant robert bales who's expected to be charged with murdering 17 afghans today. plus an in-depth look at what killed whitney houston. that's the "cbs morning news." killed whitney houston. ,,,, >> a car slammed into >>

mr. waxman. that concludes the opening statement. as i said earlier we only have one with us today, and that's the honorable steven chu, secretary of energy. so mr. secretary, you're recognized for five minutes for an opening statement. >> thank you. chairman whitfield, ranking member rush, chairman upton, ranking member waxman, members of the committee. thank you for the opportunity to discuss the department of energy's fy '13 budget request. to promote economic growth and security, president obama called for an all of the above strategy that developed every source of american energy. the american -- the president wants to fuel our economy with domestic energy resources will increase our ability to compete in the clean energy race. the departments fy '13 budget request of 27.2 billion guided by the president -- >> excuse me for interrupting. mr. bush said he could not hear you. is your microphone on? >> i'm wondering actually, i'm have difficulty hearing you as well. if the person in charge of the audio and visual can crank it up a bit. [inaudible] >> that seems to be better. >> thank you. >> to promote economic growth and strengthen sec

mr. secretary. i appreciate your time today. >> the testimony before a house energy subcommittee with mike pompeo top steven chu. one bit of news that the energy secretary does not currently own a car. this is "washington today" on c-span radio. all of our event coverage available on our website at c-span.org. click on the video library. with more than 46 million recipients, the food stamp has become one of the government's biggest benefit programs and one of the biggest targets for those who think the federal government isn't doing enough to prevent fraud. today a hearing in washington in which lawmakers complained that some retailers are illegally dealing with the benefits. the house before the committee posting a slick video on its website that's trying to gather recent news reports about exactly what is happening. representative day jar lay is a republican everyone testimony as he questioned phyllis fong and kenyan faulkner, the pennsylvania inspector general before a house committee on food stamp fraud. >> miss fong, if we're going to try to do the very best whether it's 1% it, a half a percent, we need to

steven anthony jones and gregry wallace. it's interesting that gregory wallace, an african american man, was supposed to play mr. oge, an excentric neisei who likes literature. i thought it would be an interesting thing to do. but after a while we did a reading and we realized as good an actor as gregory is, it was pushing his limits for him to play a japanese american character in the late 40's. >> i imagine him as being much older. >> in the course of writing the play and using various actors, he became younger. this chinese actor is more like a character in his mid to late 30's, excentric, a career bachelor who is into russian literature and who fashions himself kind of patterned after the japanese artists of the 30's and 40's. he has round sort of glasses and a braid. but getting back to the question of creating characters, for example african american characters, i'm also caution -- i had written another play called johann that was about an african american gi and a japanese wife that got married in post war japan. i wrote that play 20 years ago. i wouldn't do it for about 8 years or so because i just didn'

steven white sell? and the department of interior. i hope i did not mispronounce that. retired general from the u.s. air force mr. howard ziger mark who is the director of the national sifk arts society. >> we barely got you in there. once again, the same rules will apply. your written testimony will appearnentety in the

mr. cameron. the queen taking in the prolonged display of affection and loyalty here at westminster hall. ♪ ♪ >> lorch gray chamberlain steps forward to escort her majesty into saint stevens up to the left. the queen to going to meet some members of parliamentary staff and thanks them for work and service. >> we're leaving this recorded service to take you bay to the cato