when i take a look at all of the compass its that he served in in the state of new jersey, i am just in awe. counting democratic chairman, executive of the prudential insurance company, vice president of urban brder systems and educator for new york public school districts, a former national president of the ymca, chairman of the world refugee and rehabilitation committee. it goes on and on and on. and he brought with him to congress the same attitude, the same commitment to service. and since his service in congress, of course, he left us as chair of th congressional black caucus foundation. he served as the chair of the congressional black caucus. immediately to my being elected to this congressional black caucus, and i learned a lot from his service about how to chair the congressional black caucus. don payne was known for several things, but certainly known and respected for his commitment to education, closing the achievement gap, making sure that we expand opportunities for the least of these with pell grants, making sure that he reduced the interest rates on loans, stanford loa

now, what happened in new jersey is that the legislatures -- legislators in the state of new jersey took this principle of no taxation without representation seriously. and took it to its furthest extremes. in 1776, the continental congress asked each state to write its own constitution. and when the state of new jersey was writing its first constitution, when it devised the provision regarding suffrage, it semple lsimply talt it in gender-neutral terms. it said all inhabitants who are worth 50 pounds proclamation money are vitaled vitaled to v. now, this gender neutral language is not in itself significant. if you look at the early state constitutions, more than half of them do not limit voting to men. what was different in new jersey is that in 1790 and in 1797, state legislators clarified the meaning of this provision, and they passed election statutes in which they referred to voters using the pronoun "he" and "she." so new jersey actually extended the franchise to all adult members of society who met the property qualification for voting. and that meant free blacks as well as white

new jersey rep donald payne died tuesday at the age of 77. the first african-american elected to congress from new jersey, he was born and raised in the cigna work. but his influence after 40 years in public service spread to northern ireland and somalia. he was co-chairman of the congressional malaria caucus. on tuesday, members of resolution in his honor and came to the house floor to pay tribute to their friend and colleague. mr. smith: it is with deep sorrow that i inform the house that our dear friend and kohl leg, don payne, has passed. he had colon cancer. in a few moments a privileged resolution will be offered on the floor that recognizes and honors his extraordinary man who dedicated his entire life to public service. a man who made a significant difference in the lives of many in his district, in our state, in the nation, and in the world. elected in 1988 after first serving as a councilman and he section county free holder, this high school teacher coach turned politician went on to be the first african-american to ever serve in c

lee, new jersey.ross the george washington bridge in the hudson river from new york city. and it's time to talk about this school and what we are doing here this morning. it's been a highly regarded school for a long time. >> great school. >> in the top 100 for years, dipped a little bit in test scores a few years ago, brought in new administrators, new people, got a new message. you'll meet some of them right here. ft. lee, new jersey, the first town you hit when you cross over the hudson river from new york city on the george washington bridge and home to a big brick building on a hill that is ft. lee high school. >> it's always been a school that has had successes. we've maintain status in the state of new jersey in the top 100. >> a strong tradition, but when the principal arrived in 2010, she found a school that slipped from its standards. the state labeling it a school in need of improvement. >> we had a significant percentage of the population that were struggling to meet the benchmark expectat

only one of them got across the river just north of new jersey, just north of trenton, new jersey. and washington led that force into the storm attacking the hegss. the hegss had expected them to come. they had spies of their own. but t

to right the ship and sold a new and occasionally unpopular message to the school. >> fort lee, new jerseytown you hit when you cross over the hudson river from new york city on the george washington bridge. and home to a big brick building on a hill that is fort lee high school. >> it's always been a school that's had successes. we maintain status in the state of new jersey, top 100. >> reporter: a strong tradition but when principal church arrived in 2010 she found a school that had slipped from its standards. the state labeling it a school in need of improvement. >> we had a significant percentage of the population that was struggling to meet the benchmark expectations that are required, so it showed us that we had two levels of fort lee high school. >> we needed to do a better job on our end to make sure every kid was receiving what he or she needs. >> reporter: with the support of the assistant superintendent of fort lee and as of last fall the interim superintendent they told the teachers they had to do better. feathers ruffled, nontenured teachers and supervisors were laid off but t

going over in new jersey, and you? >> i'm disturbed by eric holder's interest in this because eric holder sort of as anyone would represent, the pre-9/11 thought to terrorism and this can be handled in the criminal justice system and wanted to try terrorists in lower manhattan and that's disturbing. >> it's a jurisdictional process thing, you don't have the right to go over to new jersey without telling them you're looking at muslims in new jersey if you're the n.y.p.d.? >> i see no evidence that any laws were broken here. >> go ahead, dan. >> i don't think that eric holder's problem was going to new jersey, it was the nature of the surveillance within the five boroughs of manhattan. there were some of us here on 9/11, right? and the 9/11 commission made clear one of the breakdowns was in intelligence and not catching them. and in the work of that, new york police department put together one of the strongest intelligence agencies in the united states and has done a good job of preventing it from happening here, the sor

the star ledger in new jersey saying he was a champion of education, and the de facto ambassador to africanews conference, the president had this to say. >> i want to publicly express condolences to the family of donald payne. congressman from new jersey. a wonderful man, did great work both domestically and internationally. he was a friend o

the right to have police act in new jersey or anywhere else without telling new jersey or anywhere else. >> a lot of the world trade center terrorists went back and forth to new jersey. >> and republicans rejoice. another proved case of voter fraud as a man gets his dog a ballot. only one problem. the man is a republican whose wife works for the republican senate candidate, the senate candidate whose big issue was--voter fraud. you said it, buddy woof. all that and more now on "countdown." >> who let the dogs out, woof, woof. >> good evening, this is friday march 2, 250 days until the 2012 presidential election. only rarely have republican politicians had the courage to stand up to rush llimbaugh even temporarily. some did and others when he said that he hoped the new president would fail. as limbaugh continues to pile on in a brutal assault against a law school student the president has demanded that he and some have called it absurd. the speaker of the house called the words inappropriate. it is the strongest blow back from his own side in limbaugh's 20-odd years of public notoriety.

when i take a look at all of the compass its that he served in in the state of new jersey, i am just in awe. counting democratic chairman, executive of the prudential insurance company, vice president of urban broader systems and educator for new york public school districts, a former national president of the ymca, chairman of the world refugee and rehabilitation committee. it goes on and on and on. and he brought with him to congress the same attitude, the same commitment to service. and since his service in congress, of course, he left us as chair of the congressional black caucus foundation. he served as the chair of the congressional black caucus. immediately to my being elected to this congressional black caucus, and i learned a lot from his service about how to chair the congressional black caucus. don payne was known for several things, but certainly known and respected for his commitment to education, closing the achievement gap, making sure that we expand opportunities for the least of these with pell grants, making sure that he reduced the interest rates on loans, stanford

they go from new jersey here. >> why zone he have the jersey people do it? >> there is only one nypd and they send their agents overseas, and they have decided to take it upon themselves. >> do you think the governor of new jersey would want to know there are new york cops in the jurisdiction? >> i am happy a year and a half ago the new york police department broke up the terror cell they found in denver, co, the brothers came from brooklyn and they tracked them down and broke them up before they blew up the subway. >> and denver police did the arrest. >> but, why, why, why --. >> why they are going to another jurisdiction? >> how do you know they did? >> there is a special investigations unit in the nypd and they would be kicked up from there and thinkinged up from there. we do not have any clue but we are speculating but we are safe because of the good work the men and women do, that holder would besmirch their reputations. >> wait a second. how about governor christie? he is sitting there, too. he said he didn't know anything. is that enough? >> you do no

we did that in new jersey. vehicle registration know that in new jersey we register our cars every year and pay a fee and we got them to take a dollar of that fee and put it aside into a trust fund and we use that trust fund money to help support, educate and outreach services. the most requested service in the state of new jersey by people of all ages from children through 99 year old people was case management. someone to help them negotiate and navigate the system and somebody with sufficient training to be able to understand the subtle differences between people with brain injury. if you see someone who has had a severe brain injury and they're in a wheelchair, you say they have physical impacts for it. so often for people with brain injury, they don't look any different than you and i do. they have the problems of dysfunction. they have the problem of impulseivity. aggressiveness. they have impaired processes that lead to social problems. one of the things that states are very concerned about is a lot of i

william ditto, director of the new jersey tbi division, new jersey department of health. dr. flaura winston, children's hospital of philadelphia and dr. mark ashley, president centre for neuro skills. we ask that you summarize your opening statements in five minutes and dr. stickland, you're recognized at this time for five minutes to make your opening statement. >> chairman, members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today on the department of health and human services traumatic brain injury program. i'm dr. bonnie strickland, director of the division of services for children with special health care needs at the health resources and services administration department of health and human services. our colleagues appreciate your interest in our work and welcomes this opportunity to discuss our tbi program with you and to provide some highlights of other hhs activities. congress is charged us with implementing a grant program to improve access to rehabilitation and other services. the responsibility in the areas of research and the cdc has responsibi

not just to the voters of new jersey, but also, also to the teachers? >> well, because you keep saying it over and over again. and they'll mischaracterize you and mischaracterize me. when i talk to working teachers around the state. and i say i'd like to pay you more for your excellence. i'd like to make sure that we don't guarantee somebody a job after three years and one day even if they're not performing.

we see it in my state of new jersey, 246 gun murders in 2010. 12% more than the previous year. we have had layoffs galore and from cities that maintain their -- their police force structure. and so -- when i look at things -- that -- that we're doing, i worry about -- what it is that we can do to -- to, from your department, from what can we do to help these communities, state budget cuts have caused other cities in new jersey to close their police forces at alarming rates. a third of the police force in camden. over 100 -- terminations of in. december, i wrote asking if you wouldvi resources, could provide federal resources to assist our ailing cities. and i am pleased -- general, to department of justice budget it planning other steps that we can use to help protect new jersey from violent crime? >> well, we are certainly making sure that in terms of cops grants we do the best that we can there. i think we have a substantial amount of money in the budget. i note that, i spoke to the mayor of camden, at a reception, saw her. we have certainly, with regard to camden, in 2011, m

in new york looks like new jersey. close to new jersey, not surprising. but there's a considerable ramp up as a result of implementing obama care. same story for texas. you're looking for how big the difference between the blue and black line. florida, texas, oklahoma, nevada, kansas and so on. for most states the ramp up due to obama care is quite substantial. here's a summary of the ten-year cost. this is cumulative spending increase over ten years for the same states. so the first column is again the baseline. so add up the spending if spending per year were flat that's the first column. and the spending without obama care in dollars billions of dollars -- i'm sorry, this must be millions of dollars. that's a mistake. that should be millions of dollars. it is billions. it's cumulative over ten years, which is why it's a big number. the bold color shows the increase from the freeze baseline. if current law would continue, obama care would not implement it, you'd have a consider ramp up in cost over the freeze baseline. the freeze baseline is artificial

they didn't want the change in indiana or new jersey. >> they were dragged kick scream the changes are come that's because new lawmakers are come nothing the office. >> what wisconsin is going through with the recall of the gov and everything is focused on public sector unions. who is going to win. >> ultimately who is going to lose is the taxpayers. >> really? >> if we are concentrating on the symptoms, we talk about governments raise too much money and we give them too much in taxes and they give unions gold-plated benefits. it is the ability to raise revenues and spend them and then unions will not be a problem. >> focus not so much on the relationship with unions but focus on the tax situation and local governments are taking from taxpayers. >> i absolutely agree that part of this is a tax side of it. >>> and this is an amazing thing in california. where governor jerry brown said i want to raise taxes in the state. it is a high tax rate . i am going to introduce 401 public sector workers. and they will not let it go through because of the 401 k. >> kick last word. >> and ultimately

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garrett of new jersey. the chair: pursuant to house registration lution 597, the gentleman from new jersey, mr. garrett, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. mr. garrett: i yield myself two minutes. last week, the republicans introdaused a budget that takes the first step toward avoiding the debt and decline the president and his fellow democrats have laid out for the american people. today we build off that work and offer a plan to further cut spending an balance the budget in just five years. >> the house is not in order. the chair: the gentleman is correct. the house is not in order. the members will clear the aisle. the gentleman is recognized. mr. garrett: with real spending cuts today and forceful spending cuts for tomorrow and common sense changes to strengthen our nation's safety nets, we can finally restore much-needed certainty into the economy and reopen america for business. to say that president obama an the senate democrats have failed to lead on the most predictable economic c

i know that's how it's done primarily in new jersey. and that our time for funding this is seed funding is over and it's time for those communities to take over. >> see, the reason i disagree and i really think it's important for us to restore the funds is because you're right that when new jersey had on its own, and you were the commissioner at the time, that we did a lot to fund the program and we did all the things that we were supposed to do. but the problem is other states were not doing it. and then it becomes an unfair advantage. in other words, we're closing our beaches when they should be closed. other states are not because they don't do the testing and the monitoring. and i really this that the program right now, we have a re-authorization bill to expand it to do a lot more things that are aren't being done now, tests for different chemicals and compounds that aren't looking for now. so my fear is that if we eliminate the federal dollars a lot of states won't do it. and we won't really know the whole idea is right to know. an

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but he will probably wrap it up june 5, when california votes and new jersey, new jersey is winner takeall. california by congressional district. nobody else has the resources to compete in a the congressional districts. he may fall a little short than the republicans have super delegates, it's unlikely that it would go to tampa unresolved. >> you think journalists are manufacturing or at least exaggerating the inability of the romney's to connect with voters on some kind of a transformative ways, by the way he looks, lacks any real full identity? do you get that from the press? the press is about 85% they voted for george mcgovern for president of the united states? [everyone talking at once] >> is that true now? >> oh, yes. it is. >> against obama? >> they're not voting sandusky [everyone talking at once] >> is the press in love with obama? >> yes. >> they are? >> no, they aren't. [everyone talking at once] >> actually, obama and romney are very similar personalities. they're both kind of buttoned up, what is it, side a or side b, right brain, left brain. they're left brain people. th

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understand that people from the new york police department were doing surveillance in the state of new jersey, across the river into our sovereignty. and last week the special agent in charge of the fbi newark office criticized the new york police department's surveillance of new jersey communities and universities saying, and i quote, it makes our job much, much harder. mr. director, how do you feel about that? >> let me start off by saying that we have a very good relationship with nypd, and the work that the nypd has done since september 11th to protect new york and the surrounding communities is first rate. and there has not been a successful attack on new york in large part attributable by the work that's been done by the new york police department along with the joint terrorism task force that's been ongoing for many years in new york and new jersey and elsewhere. often there are issues in how you go about doing your work that arises over a period of time where there are burps in the road in terms of cooperation. and my expectation is that whatever bumps in the road there have been in t

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, a public servant for the area of newark, new jersey. but i want you to know that donald payne's life and his legacy goes far beyond there. there was a friend of mine who said, i don't want to hang around the shores with the little boats. i want to go way out where the big ships go. donald payne went way out where the big ships go. and no where was his impact more meaningful than in the continent of africa. it was africa that just pulled his heart, pulled his whole being. and donald payne became the champion and the foremost advocate for the people of africa and the congress of the united states. what courage. i remember the time i was over in africa going to the congo, going to the real heart of the matter, going into kenya, and going into somalia, into yemen and there was donald payne with the courage at a very difficult time, at a challenging time when al shabab was in control of the situation in somalia and you hear in the news that there was a congressman who in harm's way trying to get on an airplane in somalia in a very hot moment

over the last eight to ten years, arizona, arkansas, california, connecticut, nebraska, nevada, new jersey, new mexico, rhode island and utah. this is "washington today" on c-span radio. >>> in some other news today, on wall street the dow closed up six. the final numbers, 13,239. nasdaq was up 23. s&p was up five. apple saying today it has no plans to bring its more than $60 billion in overseas cash back to the u.s. until congress changes tax laws. the company announced today it's going to begin paying a dividend to its shareholders and will buy back some stocks. moves that will require about $45 billion in cash over three years. but the company said it will rely exclusively on its domestic cash reserves. apple chief operating officer peter oppenheimer said in a conference call repay treeuating the cash from offshore would result in significant tax consequences under current u.s. law. >>> a new study by the center for public integrity ranking the states on the least most corruptible puts new jersey at the top. this is a state where in 2009 three mayors, two assembly men and five rabbis we