lobiondo of new jersey. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 455 the gentleman from new jersey, mr. lobiondo, and the gentleman from washington, mr. larsen, each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from new jersey. mr. lobiondo: i urge all members to support the en bloc amendment and reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from washington. mr. larsen: thank you, mr. chairman. i rise in support of mr. lobiondo's manager's amendment and en bloc amendments. it provides helpful clerical and text changes. in particular the provision that deprants the coast guard discretionary authority to help ensure that mariners are not left on the dock because of administrative back logs within the coast guard preventing the timely issuance of new certificates. i also support the amended version of the piracy sub hsu presentation act of 2011 and expect it will help strengthen our efforts abroad to address the growing threat piracy poses to maritime commerce. in regards to additiona

(laughter) ladies and gentlemen, i give you former new jersey governor, new jersey senator, and goldman sachs c.e.o. jon corzine! >> we need to have regulators who are pro-active in overseeing a system. so that they can make judgments before the fact instead of after the fact. we need to make sure that we have systematic oversight of the derivatives market. there would have been pushback but that's when strong regulation has to be in place. (laughter) >> jon: i'm not sparkly handing, i'm drying my manicure. that's former wall street c.e.o. turned politician jontor sine calling fur tougher financial regulations to prevent the catastrophic 2008 financial firm meltdowns that destroyed our economy. but, of course, politician jon corzine lost the 2009 gubernatorial race in new jersey to 2016 presidential winner chris christie. (laughter) lucky for corzine, he still had that wall street c.e.o. thing to fall back on. >> m.f. global, a financial firm run by former new jersey governor jon corzine, has filed for bankruptcy. (laughter) >> jon: hello graduate school! well, the 2008 financial crisis

down at our local casino in order to pay for new sports venues. >> a lot of what has prompted new jersey'sttempt to legalize sports betting is the new tax revenue where bets could be placed at casinos and horse racing tracks. meanwhile, a day at races has changed in many day, golden gate fields has seen the effects off track betting has had on attendance. >> it's significant. well less than half of the money wagered runs through our paramutual system at golden gate is coming from places not here. >> reporter: taking it one step further, if california racetracks could one day take bets on professional sports teams will the time ever come we see gameday bets taken on the arenas. it already happens in entrepreneured a somer arenas and but they need to have it around sports. >> i never thought we'd see the day in a supermarket alley and see 32 different typings of water. and teams are sporting names proudly on their league and premier leg nfl is named for a corporate sponsor. >> there's more money bet on other sports probably than horse racing. it would be helpful that way. you have the lobby

in an effort to save money two new jersey towns are merging. it's a move that may be tried in other parts of the country. fox's laura ingall has the story. reporter: it's the first significant consolidation in the state of new jersey in 60 years. >> it's an idea whose time has come. reporter: advocates for the princeton merger say combining services like trash collection and police departments is expected to save at least $3.2 million a year overall which will trickle down to a significant savings for locals. other states are keeping a close eye on the move. you have pennsylvania with 2,500 municipalities. they've already reached out to citizen groups. florida, new york states. new york state you have governor kumho when he was attorney general, he pushed -- governor cuomo when he was attorney general, he pushed through legislation so the people have power to consequence date. they have thousands of taxing districts up there. reporter: some local officials say a one size if it's all solution may not work for other towns considering consolidatio

. >> reporter: from new jersey to arizona. tennessee. >> we're about to go find out what our objective is. >> reporter: it's opening day. broadcast live from new hampshire. but this is no ordinary sport. america's future is on the line. it's a robotic competition that brings 50,000 high school students into stadiums across the country. they call it an olympics of the mind. the purpose is to inspire kids to take challenging math and science classes to prepare them for the high-tech jobs of the future. it's what american public schools often fail to do. >> we've basically had a 19th century model of education that is not preparing enough young people to be successful in the 21st century of global economy. it's amazing to me that at a time of high unemployment rates we actually have over 2 million unfilled high wage, high skilled jobs. >> reporter: 2 million jobs right now that are -- >> unfilled, high wage, high skilled jobs because we haven't produced what we need to do. >> the work has to be done, so we send the work to people

lauderdale, florida, to newark, new jersey. but the plane couldn't land at newark after the airport lost critical navigation equipment. the pilots low on fuel diverted to hartford airport 100 miles away. jetblue says that airport was overwhelmed with two dozen other diverted flights. inside the plane snacks and water ran out, toilets backed up. >> i had a paraplegic onboard that needs to come off, i have a diabetic on here that's got an issue, i just got a get help. i don't care, take us anywhere. >> reporter: the nightmare experienced before during another storm in 2007 which helped convince the government to ban long tarmac delays. lisa stark, abc news, reagan national airport. >>> this morning a million and a and a half are still without pour after the storm. the governor says the damage in new jersey could be worse than after hurricane irene. 60 extra utility crews from southern states are on the way there and with down power lines and dark streets halloween trick or treating had to be postponed or even canceled for many ch

if i could make a point here about new jersey. you say we are in new jersey. new jersey. >> c'mon! point and say she a democratic governor, democratic advisory. bernie madoff is a republican and so is john gotti. >> greg: wait. he is actually making a good point. it's a point he didn't mean to make. the o.w.s. only protests the greedy rich, which is republicans, and it happened in occupy wall street. more important why doesn't the guy take the money he took and spend it on personal grooming? he sleeps in a public library. >> dana: he looks like king in deck of cards. king of hearts. >> eric: turn this to the cbo report. yesterday afternoon we found the cbo rescored the stimulus package. they came out and said that the number of jobs they created or saved, $700,000. not the original 2 million. look at -- take a look at who the obama administration tapped to help them figure out the stimulus. watch. >> jobs, corzine was in the forefront. he worked with me to develop the recovery act and one of the best partnersvy in the white house. we work together. >> barack obama and i were litera

then buried the state behind -- >> bob: he buried the state of new jersey?is is important. before he left when he lost, before he left he signed an agreement with the union saying that they would never lose collective bargaining. >> bob: good. >> eric: if they got rid of the collective bargaining, the numbers would spike. christie broke that agreement and went to bat for them. >> greg: what i love most about the story, joe biden called corzine the smartest guy he knows. which is a grea not a great endorsement. that's jeffrey dahmer calling you a great cook. i don't understand economic for i read the story on sine zune. took an hour to read it. he commingleed funds. that is violation, i don't know, he has to go to jail, right? i don't know enough about this. >> eric: he would go to jail if -- right now i have friends on the board of the company, full disclosure, right now it look like he may have done it solo. if the board said don't do it and he did it, then he may have. >> andrea: i agree with the way that m.f. global went down, though. he took risky bets,

>> new jersey medical center dentistry and medicine in new jersey. >> bill: what town. >> newark, newsey. >> bill: newark, new jersey. >> there has been a result of culture warriors looking into this case. >> bill: excellent. >> that is the attorney for these nurses, 126 the 16 are -- >> bill: alliance defense fund in arizona. >> they went to federal court today to try to get an injunction to stop two more nurses have having to be a part of abortions tomorrow morning. >> on the schedule tomorrow morning. >> it was stopped. the hospital now has come agreement. >> bill: who signed the order. >> the hospital. >> bill: the hospital caved? so alliance defense fund went in to get an order to block the hospital from forcing the two nurses to assist in an abortion and the hospital caved? >> yeah. >> because of you guys? >> ostensibly. >> gresham was pretty good at interviewing her. >> you are pretty frightening duo. trust me ladies and gentlemen, you don't want to mess with them. that's excellent. so you think that the hospital, if they did, this they are going to cave. they don't want to go

. >> sandra and erica ramos from milford, new jersey.went as a popcorn machine and justin bieber himself. >> that's adorable. >> so you're together. >> they're together. >> oh, the popcorn and -- >> thank you so much. who is next? >> hop folly. it is darn cute. love it. >> we have to ask her about this. >> i'm up. we've got to show mr. elephant. can we show him? you might have to lift him up. can you? we have to show the elephant. oh, my goodness. how did you come up with the idea? >> river up there is a fan and our family is a circus. >> great imagination. who is last coming out? >> i don't know. i don't have another card. >> i think it's just dancing girls. they're from new orleans. in new orleans you've got to make it into the party somehow. >> who came in third? >> third might have to be al. >> so strategically place. >> does matt get second? >> be happy with what you've got. don't complain. it's not nice. >> second place, the fairies are in second. >> in a perfect world they would get first place because it's the most adorable, but

. >> december 7th, 1971, a cold and rainy night in a quiet, new jersey suburb. >> i was assigned to a radio with another officer. we got sent up to hillside avenue because the neighbors had seen this man and woman around the property. drama teachers of an afterschool drama group that the list girl belonged to. we asked them what they were doing. they said they were worried and they left because it was a family illness out of state. we were told it was six to eight weeks since they were heard from. >> charles haller, then a patrolman, assigned to the uniform division of the westfield police department. >> it was after 6:00 at night. it was still fairly light out. we could see by looking at the property from the street that they had been gone quite a while because there were periodic newspapers that were still in the driveway that hadn't been picked up. >> for the past month, neighbors noticed lights on inside the house. now, they were flickering on and off and some were burning out completely. >> we went up to the house, went around the house, the doors were locked. we go up on the fro

new jersey, idaho and colorado are simply inexplicable. in 2008 jesse watters confronted jon corzine then the govern of new jersey. >> we want to know if you support jessica's law 25 year minimum child rapist. >> we have one of the toughest laws in new jersey and we are the ones that started this movement and i support those laws. >> you guys have 25 mandatory minimum for child rapists? >> we have what megan's law, which actually started this whole movement. so i don't know how it matches up exactly with that but we have one of the strongest set of laws in the country. >> i'm not sure finance f. it's the mandatory minimum though sir with all due respect. >> that, i can't tell you because i wasn't prepared for the question today. >> bill: corzine simply was prepared, period. he did nothing, nothing to get jessica's law passed. now that chris christie is in charge of new jersey, we hope that situation will change. there should be no second chances for child rapists and no quarter for people who do not act aggressively against them. joining u

you may not believe this, but i think florida is a pretty big state, new jersey, -- new jersey, not as big. but you can have a distance of 100 miles, you can have a distance of 100 miles from some of our towns to the nearest d.p.s. office. now, why does that -- why would that be important? you don't have a texas driver's license, that tells you you have to get someone to drive you to the d.p.s. station. then you're going to be in the same line, maybe they're queue it a little differently but i'll tell you now, the texas experience is no different than most states where you stand in line for ined or nant amounts of time, we're talking about the elderly, about those who have some sort of physical handicap, they can still vote because they're so proud of the right to vote that they've been exercising for 60-plus years. i yield to the gentlewoman. ms. wasserman schultz: in some states, it's equally as bad, it's certainly bad enough in texas that they're not putting more funding in to make sure people have more access to get photo i.d.'s but in some states, because of budget cuts, they're s

mf global holdings, a brokerage run by former new jersey governor and goldman sachs chief jon corzineled for bankruptcy, crippled by big bets made on european debt. "the new york times" reports mf global is also being investigated for hundreds of millions in customer money gone missing. financials were hit hard, morgan stanley fell almost 9%, jpmorgan chase, which has $1.2 billion in claims against mf global, also fell. also the dollar shot up to a three-month high after japan intervened to curb its currency appreciation. that set energy and natural resource shares sharply lower. alcoa dropped 7%. freeport copper and gold lost almost 6. on all that news, wall street's so-called fear index jumped 22%. still, it was hard to say good-bye to october. both the dow and the s&p started the month at year lows. yesterday the dow closed october up more than 1,000 points. its best month in nine years. it was the s&p's best month in almost 20 years. in earnings, allstate posted a sharp profit drop losing more than $1 million loss on natural disasters. elsewhere a trade group reported consumer spe

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then buried the state behind -- >> bob: he buried the state of new jersey?: this is important. before he left when he lost, before he left he signed an agreement with the union saying that they would never lose collective bargaining. >> bob: good. >> eric: if they got rid of the collective bargaining, the numbers would spike. christie broke that agreement and went to bat for them. >> greg: what i love most about the story, joe biden called corzine the smartest guy he knows. which is a grea not a great endorsement. that's jeffrey dahmer calling you a great cook. i don't understand economic for i read the story on sine zune. took an hour to read it. he commingleed funds. that is violation, i don't know, he has to go to jail, right? i don't know enough about this. >> eric: he would go to jail if -- right now i have friends on the board of the company, full disclosure, right now it look like he may have done it solo. if the board said don't do it and he did it, then he may have. >> andrea: i agree with the way that m.f. global went down, though. he took risky be

the boeing 767 had taken off from the airport in new jersey, new jersey, -- newark, new jersey headed to warsaw, poland. 231 people on board. four hours into that flight the passengers say the pilot came on the speaker to tell them about a problem. the landing gear would not come down. that video shows the plane moments before it landed. you can see the wheels are still up there. the pilot had circled the airport for about an hour dumping fuel and then he plane down right on its belly. you can see it touching down tail first there some passengers say they were pretty stressed by the whole thing. understandably so. a few of them overheard saying their final farewells. another view as it came in for that landing. you can't see them here but we're told two f-16's escorted the jet. in shot off sparks as it scraped along the runway. crews had sprayed fire retardant foam on the runway and the jet came to a safe spot. passengers all evacuated and incredibly nobody was hurt. chief fox report chief correspondent jonathan hunt is with us tonight. what a feat for that pilot. >> it was. imagine y

the mere negligence was sufficient to bring action against the state of new jersey. slide 24 is the one i want to highlight. it is a very interesting statement by the sec and the strongest statement that have made about what they view, as far as written controls and training. what they said was the state was aware of the underfunding of pensions but due to a lack of procedures, the state made material misrepresentations. the sec, for the first time saying, the failure to have written controls, the failure to have training, was actually the cause of misleading disclosure. the sec, as we discussed, does not have direct jurisdiction over issuers. they are seeking it. they are using enforcement actions to make the strongest statement they care about what they think should be imposed upon you. once again, britain controls and disclosure training. -- written controls and disclosure training. why you want to do both of these written controls and disclosure training? within the rigid controls and training, there is a greater likelihood that there will not be an omission when

a brawl breaks out in a new jersey restaurant. see how one guy gets the upper hand by pulling a machete. a new york man wants his wedding photographs retaken. the twist? the couple is now divorced. hear about the crazy lawsuit that made the "countdown." >>> a blonde, a tanning bed and a prank that are livening up the internet. wait until you see her revenge. >> her prank was so much better than his one. >>> fire up your jet pack. we'll go to the place where the future is now. and, an 86-year-old 86s her car in a pool. >> mary kept her wits and came up for air. now see where she lands on today's rtm "countdown." >> it's friday, and that means we're bringing you the top 20 videos of the day. >> counting down the best videos and stories. >> of all the videos we've been finding, only 20 make the list. >>> the friday "rtm" "countdown," the best of the best. >> there are 20 and that's where we start with, number 20 and steven's got it for us. >> fast food places are a bad place to hang out late at night, am i right? let's go to surveilla

in fact the governor of new jersey read about it. he said we are essentially on the same team. how do we address this problem if you don't challenge with the democratic party is doing? half [applause] >> bill's book is on sale downstairs and brian's book will be on sale next year at a bookstore near you. [laughter] >> get mine on amazon. i don't know. [applause] >> this event was part of the 2011 brooklyn book festival. for more information, visit brooklynbookfestival.org. >>> when i started to sell my book every person i've worked with i had a rejection letter from, which was kind of cool so you go to a meeting and they're like we love your stuff. on was like what about this? [laughter] >>> i want to start by talking about why i wrote the book. and what i hope to accomplish with this book. i wrote the book because our party is certainly a crossroads and there is a division command going forward, i truly believe we have to unite as a matter of fact, i extended on one of my fox interviews today an invitation for karl rove and i to kiss and make up. we can go forward a united par

obama and the democrats are doing fine in new jersey.or pennsylvania and michigan. >> chris christie also in that poll, not running for president but his approval rating high in the state where he slashed a lot of programs. what do you think here? any indications what kind of impact he might have on the presidential race? >> he's certainly going to be in the veep stakes. one thing worth noting, the approval ratings have him well above 50%, it certainly didn't hurt him with all that presidential speculation from several weeks ago, boosted his standing probably with a lot of independent voters in that state. so it's never a bad thing to have people want you to take a job, even if you don't take it or run for it. >> let's go to new hampshire, a new bloomberg poll showing mitt romney ahead of the president by ten points. >> this is a significant development. new hampshire doesn't have a lot of electoral votes. but this is a state that barack obama carried by almost ten percentage points in 2008. now mitt romney is ahead of him 10 points. it'

attempts by fox news to reach him at his new jersey home have been unsuccessful. g mckelway, fox news. >> bret: president obama says cigarette companies are fighting new warning labels because they do not want to be honest about the witnesses of smoking. the president, former smoker made the video tied to the great american smoke-out. the labels approved last june are powerfully graphic. tobacco companies are suing saying they cross the line from warning to advocacy. >>> we will talk about the energy secretary's testimony on the solyndra affair when the fox all-stars join me after the break. ♪ [ male announcer ] each of these photos was taken by someone on the first morning of their retirement. it's the first of more than 6,000 sunrises the average retiree wl see. ♪ as we're living longer than ever before, prudential's challenge is to help everyone have the retirement income they'll ed to enjoy every one of their days. ♪ prudential. bring yr challenges. >>> are you aware of any contact by someone from the white house to anybody in the d.o.e.? did anybody bring that

diana from livingston, new jersey. caller: i think the fact of these job training programs are not matching us up with the skills the employers desire. i just finished a program to the department of health and human services. nobody is hiring us. nobody is giving us apprenticeships or internships. i will even work for free. they do not want eanyone. i am on job blogs. everybody is complaining about the same thing. just google "skills gap." i say, where's the on-the-job training? they should invest in their own businesses and train people on the job and give us that experience. i think that they are sitting back and there is no demand, so they are sitting back and waiting until they are being too picky. guest: she makes a great point. in another article that i wrote, i focused on some of these companies. one was siemens, the company has a big presence in the u.s. down in north carolina. out of frustration, not being able to fill some 3000 job openings. not just engineers but welders and technicians. they set up an appre

headed by john chorus line the former head of goldman sachs who then went on to be the governor of new jersey and was in line to replace timothy geithner at treasury now remember timothy geithner also committed a crime by failing to pay his taxes because he it was an accounting error he forgot for ten years and then went on to head the i.r.s. so who knows what will happen to john course line but apparently m.f. global commingled it's accounts yeah this is one of the worst things you can do is take your customers money and just slap it in with the fund with everyone else's money or even your own money and then when you again have losses them somehow only the customer experiences those losses but when you have gains you take all the gains so instead of just people called socializing the losses and capitalizing on the gains but it's beyond that is just outright co-mingling of funds putting a gun to people says and stealing their money i mean this is we're getting to the one nine hundred thirty s. where it's basically give us all your money and we're going to send you to get out and if you compla