so at this time, please give a great nass welcome to a great former nass member, congressman todd rokita. >> thank you, beth, i really appreciate that introduction. the reason i'm here, we did have some scheduling issues as many of you do as well. it's nothing new. i know what happens being a former nass president. i know what gets happened to you by leslie reynolds if you don't come at the appropriate time to do your duty. so i am here, really, because i absolutely love this organization. i'm still in love with it, even from the perch of my new public, elected responsibilities. some of you have, i got meet on the way in and rekindle some old friendships and i appreciate that very much. some of you asked me how i like my any job and robin carnahan even asked if she could kiss my ring. i'll hear about that later. and i said, you know, to robin and others, i said you know, the job of being an elected representative especially in our nation's capitol is a high honor and there's nothing like being an elected state-wide official. especially when are you the chief election officer. it's been t

but also the nass directory of the 2012 presidential primary and caucuses, the calendar. tomorrow is big, but it's just the beginning, in fact. so please make use of that, and if you're talking to reporters or media who have kind of broader interests, be sure to reference them to the nass site and to that report. lieutenant-governor, were you grabbing the mike there? >> thank you. on the secretary's point from louisiana i wanted to ask the question, do you require people to vote in person the first time after they register online? >> no, they vote by mail. the fact that they actually had to register before driver's license, you know, officer and then the picture is taken. then we get the signature and compare that signature because we vote by mail. that's how we verify, plus obviously allow voter registration challenges. >> as i said in our last meeting, we're trying to make the system honorable at each step. so i think we'll probably go closer to louisiana's advice first. >> one suggestion on that front. how we're designing our program is the only way you can register on

and it's the that we might put into motion around nass or individually around voter registration month and the idea that has come far voter registr. we want to know if any states have been thinking about this and people's opinions about whether this should be a parts of what we do as pporting voter month and a specific day? is there an update that would be important to hear general conversation? >> well, we have a resolution that says that september is national voter registration month. we originally had a day. the day kept changing. other things kept coming into conflict so we went with a month and it does year, it's every ye. september is national voter registration month. if you are looking for a day for 2012, i don't see how that is bad. >> are any states glued in, is this on your radars yet? please >> debra bowen, california, this may not a apply to everyone, we do drive through voter registration. so, if you have got an old bank that had drive through lanes and not using them or a restaurant, boards. the last time we can did it. we had bicycles, wheelchairs, skate boards, pedestr

. >> the nass business meeting. >> yes. >> thank you. and tomorrow morning we will be meeting from 9 ln 0 -- 9:00 to 10:00 by region and then we will have the nass business meeting as mentioned on issues and items presented by nass committees. thank you for your participation this afternoon. >> just a couple of moments left in the event. we are live now with the federal reserve chair ben bettrnanke th morning he is testifying on the u.s. economic outlook for this year, this committee is just getting under way. >>. >>> as the ranking member and we want to welcome the federal reserve chairman, ben bernanke back to this committee. this is the fourth time that you have testified before the committee and we are very, very pleased on have you again. and this is timely for your appearance because of the nature of the recovery. i will without objection insert the full remarks of senator conrad's opening statement, i'm going to turn to the ranking member for his statement before mine. senator sessions. >> all right. thank you, mr. chairman. i hop

the naz-- nasdaq rose 23 point, the dow and nass rose a fraction.some of the day's major stories. >> the criminal case linked to the suicide of a gay student got under way today, ray suarez has the story. >> suarez: this was the day for opening statements in the trial of dharun ravi. prosecutors went first in a courtroom in new brunswick, new jersey. >> this isn'tç about da run ravi having to like tyler clementi's sexual orientation, or having to like the nature of his private sexual activity. but it is about having the decency to respect it and to respect tyler's dignity andç privacy. >> in the fall of 2010 ravi shared a freshman dorm room with tyler clementi who he knew to be gay. ravi allegedly used a web cam to spy on one of clementi's physical encounters. prosecutors say he also posted about it on twitter and invited others to watch via video chat. on september 22nd clementi killed himself by jumping off new york's george washington bridge. the suicide sent result gers-- rutgers into mourning and set off a national debate about homophobia and

as you know, the rnc frequently has their former chair of the rules committee come address nass and he was unable to be here today. he asked that christopher adams fill in for him. mr. adams is the election attorney at the election law center. he was a former general council to the south carolina secretary of state and worked as an attorney in the voting section of the department of justice. recently he has served for as a counsel on four different presidential campaign on ballot issues. christopher can address some of the activities taking place in the states this year, please join me in welcoming christian adams. there are three things that i will characterize the 2012 election from my perspective that you probably haven't seen before from republicans. i think you're going to see it andic it's going the affect the work that you do during the elections. very briefly, the first one is that you will see an unprecedented social media outreach this year from the republican side that quite honestly was lacking in 2008. the pendulum swung and, well, the -- my counterpart's side was very goo

so at this time, please give a great nass welcome to a great former nass member tom rokita. [applause] >> thank you, beth. i really appreciate that -- that introduction. the reason i'm here -- we did have some scheduling issues as many of you do as well, nothing new. but i know what happens being a former nass president. i know what happens -- what gets done by leslie reynolds if you don't get done at the appropriate to get your duty. i absolutely love this horg i'm still in love with it, even from the perch of my new public -- elected responsibilities. some of you -- i got to meet on the way in and re-kindle some old friendships and i appreciate that very much. some of you asked me how i like my new job, and robin carnahan even asked if she could kiss my ring. [laughter] >> i'll hear about that later. and i said, you know, to robin and others, i said, you know, the job of being an elected representative especially in our nation's capital is certainly one of high honor. but -- and i say this back in the state too, there is nothing -- absolutely nothing like being an elected

rick santorum swept three gop no, ma'am nass last night. steve kroft will tell us how this story change the course of congressional votes. >> i'm erica hill. authorities believe chilling 911 tapes from a frantic social worker locked out of josh powell's home when he murdered his sonts. a showdown over whether they're hiding secrets. >> i'm gayle king. what in the middle are penguins doing in the middle of dubai. gloria estefan is here too. >> first as we do every morning we begin with a look at today's eye opener. your world in 90 seconds. >> conservative is alive and well in missouri and minnesota. >> rick santorum's three-state sweep jolts the gop race. >> i want to congratulate senator santorum. wish him the very best. >> even though there were three elections they didn't mean much because no delegates were awarded. >> it's a bigger waste of time than voting on "american idol." >> i smell gasoline and he won't let me in. >> 911 calls reveal the panic as josh powell torched his own home. >> he blew up the house and the kids. >> the kids a

the private companies, you know, they can offer rides to nass a but they can offer rides to anybody whois is not a nasa-owned rocket that just lives on a nasa launch pad. this is a private thing, like a taxicab that nasa can hail a ride, or boeing could say, if you're a space tourist and you want to go up, a private explorer and you want to go up. bill: how far away do you think the is. >> they have a pretty set program right now. they want design proposals in 2014, first launches by 2017. it's not that far off. bill: keep in mind we're hitching a ride with the russians for five years at a minimum since the shuttle was retired. >> you're learning how to talk in russian. bill: make sure you tip your guy on the way. thank you. martha: we are learning more about the rocky relationship between a former college hro lacrosse player. what one former roommate said she witnessed, coming up. martha: there was unexpected drama on "american idol." check this out. [laughter] >> medic please. >> oh. martha: i'm not sure what happened there. you see them all upstanding t