(laughter) then, ted nugent writes an op-ed. what's black and white and covered with the blood of small game? (laughter) plus, my guest is the president of americans for tax reform, grover norquist. i'm going to claim his as a dependent. (laughter) the supreme court ruled it's legal to sell silent video games to kids. get ready for grand theft tetris. (laughter) this is "the colbert report." captioning sponsored by comedy central ( theme song playing ) ( applause ) (cheers and applause) >> stephen: thank you very much. (crowd chanting "stephen") (cheers and applause) >> stephen: thank you! thank you so much. i had no idea that you guys could read cue cards. (laughter) welcome to the "report," good to have you with us, and thank you all for watching our last show before the earth swallows new york and drags it to hell. (laughter) because on friday the state legislature legalized gay marriage. now, i am not surprised governor cuomo signed the bill. it's all part of the cuomo sexual agenda. (laughter) but a new law goes into effect

(laughter) then, ted nugent writes an op-ed.what's black and white and covered with the blood of small game? (laughter) plus, my guest is the president of americans for tax reform, grover norquist. i'm going to claim his as a dependent. (laughter) the supreme court ruled it's legal to sell silent video games to kids. get ready for grand theft tetris. (laughter) this is "the colbert report." captioning sponsored by comedy central ( theme song playing ) ( applause ) (cheers and applause) >> stephen: thank you very much. (crowd chanting "stephen") (cheers and applause) >> stephen: thank you! thank you so much. i had no idea that you guys could read cue cards. (laughter) welcome to the "report," good to have you with us, and thank you all for watching our last show before the earth swallows new york and drags it to hell. (laughter) because on friday the state legislature legalized gay marriage. now, i am not surprised governor cuomo signed the bill. it's all part of the cuomo sexual agenda. (laughter) but a new law goes into effect

nugent: mr. speaker, i rise today in support of h.res. 320 and the underlying legislation 2219 which appropriates funds for the department of defense for fiscal year 2012. the rule is truly an open rule. one which provides for ample debate on the bill and gives members of both the minority and the majority the opportunity to participate in debates. any member can submit an amendment to h.r. 22 as long as it's germane in keeping with the rules of the house. as a member of the rules committee, i'm proud of the transparency, the openness and the free-flowing debate that we've seen thus far in the 112th congress, especially in the appropriation process. one way we can show our commitment to change, we promised the american people is by supporting open rules like this. the underlying bill keeps our promise to bring an end to wasteful pet projects in keeping with the house earmark ban, h.r. 2219 doesn't contain a single earmark. now as a father of three sons all currently serving the united states army

nugent: mr. speaker, just in response. the letter that we have from the congressional budget office of may 26 talks about c.b.o. estimates enacting the bill would reduce net direct spend ig by $725 million. -- spending by $725 million. i'm not sure if we have the same letter. but this is the letter i referred to, mr. speaker, and i suggest those on the other side of the aisle may look at the same letter. i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. mr. polis: to be clear the gentleman from florida refers to a letter regarding the initial bill. the manager's amendment actually changes the equation the gentleman indicated and renders that side letter inaccurate relating to the manager's amendment which if adopted under this rule will then be part of the bill. i would like to yield two minutes to the gentleman from new york, a member of the budget committee, mr. tonko. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york is recognized for two minutes. mr. tonko: thank you, mr. speaker

nugent: mr. speaker, the question before the house is, should the house now consider h.r. 316? while the resolution waives all points of order against consideration of the bill, the committee is not aware of any points of order. the waiver is prove latic in nature. the -- it would oppose both intergovernmental and private sector mandates. as defined by the unified mandates reform act on certain patent application. other entities would also be preempted from the courts to hear certain patent cases. however, the patten and trademark office, the congressional budget office estimates that the cost of complying with both mandates to state, local and tribal governments would fall far below the annual threshold established by the unfunded mandates reform act because the cost of complying with the mandates fall below the annual threshold. it is prophylactic in nature. i ask members to vote yes on the question of consideration and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman fr

nugent: i think what the american people are -- i will not yield. what the american people told us back in november is that we have got to get our house in order. we have got to get our spending under control. it's not about taxing us to death, it's not about overregulating us, it is about bringing common sense back into the federal government that has been sorely lacking. with that, i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from florida yields back his time. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from hawaii rise? ms. hirono: i move to strike the last word. the chair: the gentlelady is recognized for five minutes. ms. hirono: i am in support of the delauro amendment which allows us to debate this issue. these cuts to cftc indicate that the majority believes that cftc can carry out its duties with even less funding this year than they had last year or that their duties aren't of great importance to the american people to begin with. for those of us who may have forgotten, the financial crisis was a result of some very bad bets. be

(laughter) >> stephen: he's hovering about five or six depending on whether ted nugent jumps in. ♪ .> stephen: he is the only candidate whose health plan covers cat scratch fever. the problem is as a mormon, romney's not allowed to have alcohol, caffeine or charisma. (laughter) romney couldn't even keep the attention of the cameraman. there's mitt making his announcement that he's running-- and we've lost the cameraman. okay, i know it's-- white and it's large. he wants the other white thing. pan down, there we go, oh, we've lost him again. come on, he's going to be president, pan down there you go, there it is. okay. now zoom in, zoom in on mitt and we've lost him again. okay, come on, come on, focus, there it is. now grab the lens, twist it, zoom in on the guy who's talking, zoom n let's see the face of the next president of the united states. you can do it. come on, wake up, there we go. there's the man. there's mitt. all right now just focus on the-- okay, we've lost-- we've lost-- (cheers and applause) >> stephen: okay. he found something more interesting. if i were mitt romney

nugent, is recognized. mr. nugent: mr. speaker, i support the rule and the underlying legislation and i encourage my colleagues to support it as well. i know that since i've come to the house i've gotten up here and talked time and time again about our government's core mission. there's no doubt there's nothing more central to the purpose of government than to provide for our nation's defenses. it's in the preamble of the constitution, provide for the common defense. it's in the oath we took when we swore -- when we're sworn into office to defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies, foreign and domestic. h.r. 2219 fulfills our constitutional duty to provide for our nation's defense. additionally h. house res. 320 ensures it will review the legislation completely in an open and transparent manner that all american people deserve to see. with that i yield back the balance of my time and i move the previous question on the resolution. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his

in the the end, shred nugent won based on technical merits, and his areaness.it has been awesome. it continues to be. it's the most exciting thing you can do with hot pants on. >> the 18 winners over the regional competitions will compete in chicago in july for the coveted title of's air guitar champion and a shot at the world championship in finland. to watch more video from the air guitar contest, go to ktvu. com and click on the slide show's tab. >>> we hear from the giants as they beat the endians in a strong defensive showing. "sports wrap" is next. . s. today is a kfc day. today tastes so good. i know you're worried about making your savings last and having enough income when you retire. that's why i'm here -- to help come up with a plan and get you on the right path. i have more than a thousand fidelity experts working with me so that i can work one-on-one with you. it's your green line. but i'll be there every step of the way. call or come in and talk with us today. . >> >> good evening, everyone, welcome to the saturday night edition of sportswrap. we

second day of the forum with a keynote addresses after a meeting on thursday we trim it better than nugent's house and surprised that the growth of trade between the two countries although that couldn't hide an absence of three long awaited deal over a gas supply contracts from space is now expected to be signed later in the year before the deadlock of the crisis is the result in the meantime both leaders will be doing their best to persuade delegates to invest in emerging powers so far this year russia has been a stay of the capital outflow something all these companies here i can to reverse. russia's major financial corporation systemic is set for energetic expansion the company is planning to spend five billion dollars to buy businesses ranging from agriculture to chemicals the c.e.o. says seven mikhail sherman outlines the cornerstones of their strategy of special strategy very simple we have to return the cost of equities the course we have to which now are too small to two percent so that's the primary kind of expecting though we have to do whatever it takes in terms of for investing i

authority and it's not being able to put down rising so i don't think it's will be similar in any way to nugent or egyptians scenarios about what will happen that over time the opposition i think it will have to galvanize itself if it would have any chances for success and come up with a clear plan for a political handover for power and for a kind of a better political future for syria and if it's managed this way i think it's true can only be a very promising thing for syria and for the region because syria plays a very important role regionally but isn't syria made up with a very complicated fabric of communities and people is there really a coherent opposition. well that's precisely what i mean at the moment because i think it's by the fire to represented by the fact that the opposition hasn't managed to organize itself into a clear. organized force on the ground that can mount a more serious or stage if you like demonstration on the scale that we saw in cairo saw they will have to find a way if you like or a clear political platform to move them beyond just wanting to get rid of the current

country and you can necessarily be responsible for what a speaker says on the stage or you know ted nugent says something crazy if you're going to be enemies of god or anything you can challenge you know it's different had you didn't preface it with what he did he said where they travel you want to take pay attention where they're traveling if you're going to listen to people that went over there when they could be even bigger of really not in terms so so if i go to france i was in a somebody that's objectionable you want to put me in prison i don't i don't want to put anyone in prison i don't think you say automatically put them in prison but you know what if you go to yemen that shows you know on where a lot we i do think the f.b.i. should be maybe paying a little closer attention to i think it's not a hit with orders from the seekers when he's wrong and i. was wrong on this and he was also wrong when he voted against the patriot act which protects our civil liberties this is a problem rand paul is generally very concerned it's odd because to protect our civil which is my taken away you

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news judgment and the way it's exercised, why fox news goes wall to wall on obama but not after ted nugentersation among equals. >> that's not what jon stewart said. he said he was so badly edited, he looked like a woman on the verge of a nervous break down. >> the daily show edits interviews and fox by putting the complete 24 minutes or whatever it was online, we all got to see and make our own judgment. you'd agree? we have a rare moment. that means it's time for me to get a break. up next, countdown is back on the air. can keith olbermann lure the liberals to al gore's network? ♪ well, you know i love it too ♪ ♪ you love money ♪ well, you know i love it too ♪ ♪ i work so hard at my job ♪ and then i bring it home to you ♪ ♪ i love money in my pocket >>> it was hard to miss the fact that keith olbermann returned to television this week thanked to a high profile publicity campaign for his debut on current tv and hard to miss the fact that countdown looked pretty much the same as on msnbc until their bitter breakup. and as he that clear, he's still a man with a mission. >> this is to be a n

nugent: thank you, mr. speaker. i'd also like to thank my friend and fellow rules committee member, mr. scott, for the opportunity to support this rule. mr. speaker, while we're fighting the wars on two fronts, iraq and afghanistan, our troops is already spent very thin. the president announced the u.s. military forces to join with our nato allies to commence operations in libya. the president did this only without congressional authorization but without even consulting congress on the matter. for the first time since the operation, it was under u.s. command. before shifting the ongoing operations to nato on march 30. to this day the president still hasn't come to congress to ask for formal approval. when president bush committed our military operations in libya, he said we were talking about days, not months. today, we're talking about months, not days. mr. speaker, president obama has put us in a trip bag with our nato allies. he knew he was committing our nato allieses to missions that would be unpopular, unjfble

nugent. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida is recognized for five minutes. mr. nugent: thank you, mr. speaker. i also thank my friend, my fellow floridian and rules member, mr. webster, for the opportunity to speak, in support of this rule and also support of the underlying legislation, h.r. 2055. which appropriates funds for military construction and our nation's veterans. mr. speaker, florida's fifth congressional district which i represent is home to over 116,000 veterans, one of the highest veteran populations of any district in america. the funds we are talking about here today have a direct effect on the lives, on the men and women who proudly served our nation in uniform. this bill provides for full funding for the v.a. and health and education benefits. it also funds vocational rehabilitation training for those troops who come home for more with service connected disabilities. thanks to programs like vet success, these veterans can work with job counselors to develop skills necessary to find meaningful civilian employment. these programs also help connec

nugent. the speaker: the gentleman from florida is recognized for four minutes. mr. nugent: mr. speaker, i'd like to thank my friend first of all from new york, mr. reid, and all -- reed, and also a rules committee member i serve with for the opportunity to support this rule and support the underlying legislation, h.r. 2017, which appropriates funds for our nation's homeland security operations for 2012. just a comment, i thought that's what you were you were -- what we were here to talk about. so we're going to go back on track in regards to where we should be. as a member of the rules committee i'm proud of this rule. it is the first open rule in four years, mr. speaker. and that's because of you. it's a continuation of our promise to the american people that we're committed to bringing openness and free-flowing debate to this chamber as a service to the american public. it's just like the rules that keep our promises to the american people, so does the underlying legislation, it keeps our promise to reduce spending, to narrow the size and scope of the federal government, it a