. >> a good example, osha. the head of osha under president clinton was fond of holding up a chart showing that workplace injuries stopped since osha began and then somebody charted it before osha and found it was dropping at the same rate, the slope of the line is the same. things get better because of free markets. >> right, and they create more wealth and make it possible for us to opt for safer workplace environments. most workplace injuries are caused by people getting in traffic fatalities on the highways or another worker punches you in the face. it's not what most people think, you're sitting there and your leg is caught in the grinder and sausage is made out of some guy's leg, not what most are caused by. >> i'm glad it hear that, because i like sausage. and fdr's new deal. caused the depression some people think that, he had the programs and lifted us up. >> i don't blame them for thinking that, the propaganda shoved down their throats 24 hours a day. present company excepted. henry morgan thal said i

c-span: you say that osha, the occupational safety and health administration, has had no impact? >> guest: no impact. c-span: how do you know? >> guest: people argue that, and you can argue it either way, but a brookings study, for example -- there was a wonderful book called "rights at work" that came out a couple of years ago by brookings, and what you do is you compare accident rates and death rates, and the accident rates and the death rates are somewhat different than they were 20 years ago. one's up a little and one's down a little, but basically the numbers are the same. c-span: who wrote the occupational health and safety act? >> guest: congress wrote the act. c-span: what party or what politician, what side? >> guest: much of the federal regulation came out of the great society, including worker safety laws, and there is a story about worker safety laws which i'm not sure is in the book or not actually. it was at one point. but most people, most americans -- and i would argue very strongly in favor of worker safely laws. all the sweat shops, the horrible child labor abus

. >> and head of osha under president clinton, held up a chart, injuries had dropped since osha beginthen somebody charted for osha and it was dropping at the same rate. slope of the line is the same. things get better because of free market. >> they create more wealth and possible to optfor safer workplace environment. most workplace injuries are caused by getting traffic fatalities on the highways, it's not what most people think. you are sitting there and your leg gets caught in a grinder. >> john: let's move on to another myth. the newer deal. it solved the great depression, most people think that. we had a depression, fdr spent all this on the program and lifted us out. >> it's the propaganda that is shoved down their throats 24 hours a day. the answer to this, is look to the one oen people. henry morgenthal said in 1939, showing unemployment at about 20%, said, well we've done everything that the experts told us to do. >> john: we have spent more money than ever before and it does not work. >> it turns out that we still get double-digit unemployment in the '30s. we have a lot of

cal-osha found four violations during an inspection in 2007 including failure to guard machinery and properly service and maintain equipment. macro paid a total of $2100 as part of the settlement. the state has no record of workers being injured at the plastics plant. >>> let's check in with lisa amin gulezian who spent the evening with neighbors who were very near the plant. lisa? >> carolyn, right now we are in the bedford hills subdivision which is less than a mile from macro plastics, and also at this moment there is no smoke in the air which means residents can open their windows, but things could change just like that. >> it was so thick. the sun looked like the moon. it was so much thick, black smoke up there. >> it was a toxic smoke plume. witnesses say it shot up nearly a mile into the dark sky above macro plastics. and then the phone started ringing. the city sent out a reverse 9-1-1 call advising residents who lived within a mile of the plastic company to shelter in place. >> i will be staying indoors too because i can smell some of the smoke. they said to stay indoors. >>

pg and every, and cal-osha are investigating what happened. construction on this spot may be put on hold until those investigations are finished, but again, we're trying to reach those project spokespersons to get an update. live in san francisco, allie rasmus, ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> this morning, the investigation continues into a triple homicide into the city of richmond. three people were shot and killed inside a unit at the triangle court public housing complex. 36-year-old michael anderson who lived at the home is among those killed. 19-year-old dante deloney, and a 28-year-old man from san leandro has also been killed. >> the investigation reveals that people inside the house were all involved in interactions, and that led to an argument, and gunfire. >> police say a possible motive could be robbery. investigators confirm, they have questioned one person of interest. they say they found several guns inside the home, possibly used in that shootout. after a quiet few months, there have been six homicides in richmond in the past week. th

which taken to hospital >>a deal has been reached and finding the university of notre dame paying osha and the death of a football team videographer declan sullivan died last fall when a hydraulic lift he was using toppled over and high wind and the and as occupational safety and health administration initially find the school more than $72,000 today notre dame agreed to pay $42,000 and launch a national campaign on unsafe use of scissor lifts the national weather service had issued a wind advisory on the day that he died gusts had reached 53 mi. per hour >>a man with ties to chicago is it to appear in court today charged with boarding planes with other people's tickets on june 24th blush a day and we beallotted day no alive today nearly bh and nigerian man boarded a virgin american flight to los angeles >>he was apprehended after passengers reported his odd behavior >>he had a bad boy in press and a proper and improper id >>he was stopped at the gate he has a house in willowbrook and does business here in chicago >>illinois no longer has the death penalty the state's ban on capital pu

that is what we do, looking at the science, whether it is the expert agencies at the fda, fcc, nyosh, osha, they constantly reviewed the literature on the subject. that is what we have to look at as an industry. supervisor avalos: thank you very much. other members of the public, please come forward. >> good morning. we represent a variety of retailers that operate within the state. including walgreen's, best buy, 7/11. the exposures from this are unnecessary and misleading. placing the onus for compliance on retailers, forcing them to display materials and informational posters as well as providing customers with informational fact sheets that will be developed by the department. we believe that this responsibility is misplaced. small convenience stores, neighborhood stores, pharmacies, this ordinance applies that they are selling a dangerous product when they are not. this also creates potential liability for large and small retailers alike. many of the products sold in this retail environment have a variety of disclosures in the user's guide. in our environment, if we were mandated to p

they have to have the 10-hour osha construction training. as a security personnel, i would not think about that. it is not my field. so we are forced to decide, i'd do we bear the burden of the cost for the osha training, which can start at $100, and when most of our candidates, they have been unemployed. they can barely pay their cellphones. let alone $100 to take a class. they do not have the money. do we bear that cost or do we have to screen foreign increase number of people to make sure that we have people that have that training so that we can send them to a job site and compete for those contracts that are there? those are a couple of examples of the regulatory challenges that we face. the understanding what regulations that are applicable to your firm and industry are and finding the time and resources. outside of payroll, the majority of my time is spent on insurance, which is required, on unemployment, and on accounting to make sure that we are compliant with the tax code. it is a necessary evil but it is making sure that you deal

york resident or harmfulness took to the streets of the big apple to gauge public opinion on more tax osha. would you be willing to pay more in taxes to save your government from bankruptcy this week let's talk about that you know definitely wouldn't pay more if i knew it was spending. billions rather spend it on defense. or education. so do you trust your government to spend it correctly i don't trust any of the parties in our country a little bit how much is a little better. a few percentage points more and that's about it that's about it since fifty percent of the american public does not pay a nickel i would have a problem i believe everybody even if it's a dollar fifty everybody should be in this shared sacrifice that all the plans on how much work you're actually if you know if i'm working hard and i make you my good my good share you know why do i want to get taken away from me when people who you know don't. you know you just spend a lot more money in taxes so that more people have more service says she'd you have to pay for people who aren't working as hard as you yeah yeah do you

cal osha has completed their investigation but has not released the findings. >>> time now 4:39. go back over to sal to get a look at traffic. good morning, sal. >>> good morning to you, pam. traffic is doing pretty well around the bay area. as a matter of fact we're off to -- pardon me, a nice start. there are no major problems this morning if you are driving on the nimitz freeway heading south looks pretty nice as you drive to fremont. also the morning commute looks good if you are driving on westbound bay bridge approach. it is a nice drive coming into san francisco lower deck they're clearing up some road work on the right hand lane. get on to the lower deck of the bay bridge watch for some lane closures. they might be picking them up soon. they're there so slow down through that area. and this morning's commute in san jose along northbound 280 looks very nice getting up to highway 17. at 4:40 let's go to steve. >>> thank you, sal. very good morning. well, last week i was telling you about hot temperatures 90s 100s and this week it will be very, very cool conditions. so from

cal osha investigating but is yet to release its findings. >>> a plane that took off from san francisco is finally reaching it's destination. it was diverted to chicago after a flight attendant found a sticker with a message. the plane was cleared and returned to germany. >>> and the crista fire started yesterday. it was downed by a power line. flames have now spread to 500 acres. the fire is 50% contained and full containment is expected tomorrow morning. >>> demonstrators gathered in california to rally for two cal graduates arrested in iran. shourde was freed last year on $500,000 bail. today she joined demonstrators in asking for iran to release her two friends. shourd also shared what the men are going through right now. >> there's two of them in the same sized cell that i was in. it's 10 feet by 14 feet. the lights are always on. so they have to sleep with something wrapped around their eyes. they only get to leave their cell 40 minutes a day where they are taken to a larger sell where they can return around in circles to exercise. >> reporter: shane's mother is from berkeley and

. >> let's talk about osha because recently the third circuit setback to the agency you are rules on cross ownership of these papers and tv stations based on some administrative concerns that the fcc hadn't given public enough time to comment. do you think the fcc stumbled of the ball on this? >> guest: according to the third circuit yes, we did. the concern was by the appellate court by publishing the outline of proposals in "the new york times" three weeks before a vote speed as you should have published them in "the wall street journal." >> guest: i don't think you would've gotten any revenue. by the way, so, that was not adequate public notice, for notice and comment purposes here that's probably the right decision. i did think the record contains substantial information that allowed us to go forward with a bow, which is one reason i voted for what i think is a very unique, mild, almost pathetic relaxation of the newspaper broadcast ownership and. the third circuit itself and another decision pretty much gave the fcc the green light to go forward with an elimination of that ban.

cal-osha is launching an investigation into the fire. cbs 5 has learned that inspectors cited the company macro plastics four times in 2007 for safety violations. the company reached a settlement for those violations. >>> also this evening, a heartbreaking story of a man who was only trying to serve his community when he fell victim to its darker side. a 29-year-old good samaritan is on life support tonight after being shot while delivering meals to the homeless. mark sayre is in oakland with what happened to the man known by many as brother john. mark. >> reporter: allen, one of the witness to all of this was homeless man that brother john was actually helping. and that man told us today that the bullet that hit brother john could have hit and killed him or brother john's entire family. >> when i came out i started talking to them right here, gave them fish and french fries. >> reporter: william holloway says the man he had come to know as brother john had just stopped by with a hot meal when somebody drove by in a van and opened fire.

so we're forced to decide, well, do we bear the burden of the cost for osha training, and when we look at most of our candidates for jobs, they've been unemployed. they can barely keep their cell phones on, let alone $100 to take a class. they don't have the money, so do we bear that cost, or do we have to screen for an increased number of people to make sure we have the number of people that have that training so that we can send them to a job site so we can compete for those contracts that are now starting to flow through? so those are just a couple of examples of the regulatory challenges we face, but what's most important as a small business owner is understand what the regulations that are applicable to your firm and industry are and finding the time and resources. because outside of payroll, the majority of my time and resources are spent on insurance, which is required, on unemployment and on accountants to make sure that we are compliant with the tax codes. so it's a necessary evil, but just making sure that you deal with it is important. >> well, thank you. it is certainly, as

osha city beaches, four stars. infill ocean city should have received 5 stars. >> we do think there is an error. and city is listed as having four stars -- ocean city is listed as having four stars. we think it's a tough five stars to correct for a closer look at this report, it goes over all 70 beaches over the state. we have a link on our website, wbaltv.com. lowell melser, wbal-tv 11 news. >> now traffic pulse 11 and insta-weather plus together. >> good morning. kim dacey checking on your morning commute. one problem spot to mention. that is in the city. a brush fire in the city at franklin and wheeler avenue. we're looking good on the major roadways. 59 on the j.f.x. 63 on the topside of the beltway. we're looking good there as well. this is the west side of the beltway. looking good in the inner and outer loops. moving just find and without delay. 95 at the fort mchenry toll plaza, southbound traffic is little heavier but no delays. things are moving just fine in both direction. in delaware, the toll plaza if

investigations are currently under way to address that question by pgd, the fire department and cal-osha, and until they're completed, this construction project has been put on hold. on the 100 block of freemont, a big gig has been halted. earlier today, crews were working on relocating underground utilities for the transit center. but at 12:30 this afternoon, a subconsultant for the company m squared hit a high voltage wire, the sparks causing third degree burns to his hands and face. >> they were trying to clear some facilities out. >> pg & e says because construction on the terminal is a multi-year multi-phased project, it won't shut off power to the line because it will impact too many customers. >> it hurts, it just hurts. >> reporter: these veterans of the construction business walked by the site to find out what happened and were devastated to hear one of their own had been injured. >> i'm a pile driver and as a pile driver, you know, you don't know what's under ground and it's always a risk. >> reporter: pg & e says the subcontractor have detailed maps of what lies under ground a

cal osha is reviewing the death of a 78-year-old worker.agency is also investigating the death of a farm worker in imperial county back in april. the other workers include a police officer, and a grader. >>> the mid-coast is in the middle of a heat wave. this after enduring an unusually wet and cold winter. some scientists believe it's all connected to global warming. >> reporter: pretty chilly for a bay area beach day today, but cool relief for visitors such as the ones we found from brooklyn. >> i just spoke to my mom she said it's 111 degrees out there. >> i usually don't freak out. the armaggedon or anything. >> reporter: a heat index of 131 degrees and it's not over. but remember the brutal winter there just a few months ago. scientists say we're witnessing climate change. >> the heat is more extreme. the cold is much more extreme, and the duration is longer. >> reporter: global rainfall is becoming more intense. worsening floods prevent soils from soaking up water and turn into more intense heat and longer drought. effects we're seein

. >>> cal osha is investigating about whether employees followed safety regulations when that massivee erupted fairfield. the smoke hey not have been -- may not have been as harmful as originally feared. the plastic did not contain color even or nitrogen that can contain talksics compounds. >> i got a little dizzy and my chest was like congested. >> reporter: they say the appear -- they say the fire appears to have been caused by an employee. >>> k tv u has been telling you about sudden oak death ever since it was first found here almost 20 years ago. tonight, the latest strategy to try and find that disease. >> reporter: crews are cutting down trees to save oak trees in the santa cruz mountains. they are chopping down 250 bay trees at skyline ridge to slow down sudden oak death, a disease that has killed thousands of oaks. >> they are very important. they add so much to the am byians here. unfortunately we have had to get rid of a few trees because they have been buying. >> reporter: they say bay trees collect the spores of sudden oak death but wind spreads it. >> the research has sh

cal osha is reviewing the death of a 78-year-old worker.the agency is also investigating the death of a farm worker in imperial county back in april. the other workers include a police officer, and a grader. >>> the mid-coast is in the middle of a heat wave. this after enduring an unusually wet and cold winter. some scientists believe it's all connected to global warming. >> reporter: pretty chilly for a bay area beach day today, but cool relief for visitors such as the ones we found from brooklyn. >> i just spoke to my mom she said it's 111 degrees out there. >> i usually don't freak out. the armaggedon or anything. >> reporter: a heat index of 131 degrees and it's not over. but remember the brutal winter there just a few months ago. scientists say we're witnessing climate change. >> the heat is more extreme. the cold is much more extreme, and the duration is longer. >> reporter: global rainfall is becoming more intense. worsening floods prevent soils from soaking up water and turn into more intense heat and longer drought. effects we're s

. >>> cal osha is investigating about whether employees followed safety regulations when that massive fire erupted fairfield. the smoke hey not have been -- may not have been as harmful as originally feared. the plastic did not contain color even or nitrogen that can contain talksics compounds. >> i got a little dizzy and my chest was like congested. >> reporter: they say the appear -- they say the fire appears to have been caused by an employee. >>> k tv u has been telling you about sudden oak death ever since it was first found here almost 20 years ago. tonight, the latest strategy to try and find that disease. >> reporter: crews are cutting down trees to save oak trees in the santa cruz mountains. they are chopping down 250 bay trees at skyline ridge to slow down sudden oak death, a disease that has killed thousands of oaks. >> they are very important. they add so much to the am byians here. unfortunately we have had to get rid of a few trees because they have been buying. >> reporter: they say bay trees collect the spores of sudden oak death but wind spreads rese there are no -- 1

cal-osha said it's launching an investigation into the fire and cbs 5 has learned that inspectors cited the company which is macro plastics four times in 2007 for safety violations. the company reached a settlement for those. >>> three people from the east bay tonight are being credited with running into a burning home to pull a man to safety. neighbors noticed smoke coming from the house on arthur road yesterday afternoon and they had only minutes to act. ann notarangelo tells us now it was a rescue almost didn't happen. >> reporter: dana, this was a heroic team effort. everyone played their part perfectly. and in the end, it was two grown men and a teenager who saved a man's life. >> she said there is a fire so i just ran out right away. >> i see the window break out and then smoke comes flying up and my first reaction was to come over and, you know, help. >> there were flames going over the top of the roof. there was smoke coming out of any opportunity it had. >> reporter: while most people thought the house was empty, fred knew if the truck was in the front yard his neighbor was ins

november did violate a california law saying that medical procedures are with the state buried california oshae that the masses and six alarm fire investigation >>> two men that were arrested for the shooting of a 11 year-old girl will not be charged because there is not enough evidence the two were arrested after the 11 year-old girl was struck by a stray bullet that came through the window and came into her room entering her chest and exiting her back. >> i heard boom and then i fell testing that i ran into the hallway to my uncle and told him i was shot i help the people that shot me dakota jail >> we also spoke to linda's father he is helping lead police what will find a who was involved with the shooting >> the kron 4 news will continue shortly after this is break it is a very foggy morning and will be a long one temperature now 52 and going up to 73 later on this afternoon in oakland we will be right back is that really looking shot some morning fog as you head out the door this morning we are expecting that coastal flaw moving back by in in noontime and mostly sunny conditions. then ove

cal osha by the way has finished its investigation but they have not told us their findings. >>> calns wants all of you drivers to move over. cal trans is launching a new public safety campaign today following the deaths of three cal trans workers in less than two months. the latest happened just a couple weeks ago in san diego. 52-year-old richard gonzalez was cleaning up trash along the connector ramp when he was hit by a car. the cal trans new campaign is encouraging drivers to follow the state's move over layoff. it requires all drivers to slow down and then move out of the lane. it happens to be next to where any cal trans workers are working. >>> 6:37 is the time right now. let's check back in with sal. what are you keeping an eye on, sal? >>> well, we're starting off looking at the san mateo bridge, pam. and looking at all the bay area bridges. they look pretty good right now. you can see the traffic is moving nicely although it's overcast and going to be driving into some wet roads, some wet weather in san mateo county this morning. also parts of santa clara and san francisco

i have the list that osha at the end. philadelphia 4582 houses. he likes round number three called 4600. and that day to get folded into the first census. this is obsessive. now, he also in the 1790s while he is the editor of new york city's first daily newspaper, gets the yellow fever. there was this major health public crisis. philadelphia in 1793, population was literally decimated. 5000 people died in a couple of months. in 1795, when webster is in new york there's another outbreak of yellow fever. he is terrified. but what does he do? he starts to collect data. in his paper he writes the world's first scientific survey. he says the survey out, it's in the paper and it's an announcement to physicians in new haven and norfolk across the country, and then he writes what he calls a brief history of epidemic diseases. he finishes that book and art-house. a brief for webster is 700 page. he's an obsessive. and william osler who was a well-known physician and johns hopkins said this is one the best works on medicine by a layman. basically and not du

cal osha has completed its investigation but has not released the finding. >>> time now 5:37. cal trans wants you to remember to move over. cal trans is launching a new public safety campaign today following the deaths of three cal trans workers in less than two months. the latest one happened just a couple weeks ago in san diego. 52-year-old richard gonzalez cleaning up trash along a connector ramp when he was hit by a car. the cal trans new campaign is encouraging all drivers follow the state's move over law. it requires drivers to slow down and move out of the lane that's right next to where any cal trans workers are working. >>> time now 5:37. go back to sal to check in on the commute. sal. >> all right. this morning we have that mist and that drizzle that's going to make it tough for driving in parts of san francisco, the golden gate bridge. we look at a live picture here. it is going to be a little bit slow as you head down to the toll plaza and get onto doyle drive and also parts of southern marin in some areas. not here though. here it looks nice. but when you get to s

because of osha's opportunism he would've done after 1933. he certainly wouldn't have risked, taken all the risks he did in order to wipe out so much of european jewry. that was something that came from him. there is no example of any nazi ever suffering any career setback by not being utterly fanatical and genocidal towards the jews. he was the worst of all the nazis, and so it doesn't imply opportunism. this implies a lifelong hatred. where it comes from i think as i say, just reading literature when he was a teenager and in the trenches and any immediate afterward. the gentleman in the back there. >> thank you for sharing so much of her knowledge with us this evening. by question is not about what you know but about what you wish you knew. as you speak without historians, what might be the holy grail for the things you still don't know about world war ii, about nazis, et cetera that you hope at some point to find a mistake now we know the instrument? >> very good question. i think one of the classic mistress is of course -- i was on the fi

as a security provider -- 10- hour osha training. as a security provider, we have to decide if we bear the burden of the cost which can start at $100. when we look at our candidates, they have been unemployed and can barely keep their cell phone on the. they cannot pay $40 for their phone and led a long $100 for the class. do we bear that cost or do we screen for people to make sure we have people that have the training to compete with those contracts. those are a few of the regulatory challenges that we face. what is most important is understanding the regulation applicable to your firm and industry and finding the time and resources. outside of payroll, the majority of my time and resources are spent on insurance, which is required, unemployment, and on accountants to make sure we are compliant with the tax code. it is a necessary evil, but it is making sure you do what is important. >> as the survey showed, regulation, there are certainly some good, important regulations, but there is pretty strong sentiment that suggests there's

boats, big on health care reform or some other big matters, on what to do about epa regulation over osha drilling. a lot of this stuff comes and go so quickly that they don't hear the other side, they don't feel pressure from the other side. and they do have to raise money, and they live within this system where every day they are going out, doing fundraisers, lobbyists are at the fundraisers giving them money. these are the people they talk to, they listen to. it's almost an and ecological problem as much as one of laws and legal decisions. so it's really, the key take away here is for anything to change for there to be a constitutional amendment, any laws passed or even a cultural shift that will cause of candidates to be less able to take money. there has to be a shift in outlook sentiment. you have to be -- you can't stop it all. it has to be kind of shameful. if an umpire left a baseball game and then there was a story the next day saying that they had taken money from one side, from one set of players, if he was wrong or not, legally people would say we don't want him coming back a

bureau is included on the list now of agencies that must follow sbrifa in in addition to the epa and osha. it's a very important requirement for the bureau to follow in order to get small business input up front. however, the panel process is not a perfect mechanism, and it's not necessarily enough to insure an independent check on the bureau's activity that affects small businesses. so this committee's role is incredibly important in if overseeing the bureau's work and its implementation. just to mention a few of the concerns we have about how this process could play out, first, the bureau itself is responsible for threshold determination, that a proposed regulation is expected to impact a substantial number of small entities, and the terms senate and substantial are, basically, subtle to the cfpb's discretion to define. pardon me. second, the bureau does not have to adopt the panel's recommendations which are advisory and need only supply a reasoned explanation for adopting or rejecting them. third, sbrefa covers only the rule-making process, and i think you heard the first witness desc

seat belts, osha, the list goes on and on.gulations we did to help real america, why did it change? people say ronald reagan. it was before reagan. two supreme court decisions made all the difference. i call them the original citizens united. political speech was a first amendment right. and you could spend money and that was the equivalent of political speech. the disaster began there. in 1978, first national bank of boston said that corporations could spend money on politics, and it was their first amendment right. which is nonsense. corporations are not human beings. they are so less two jsoulless -- they are soulless machines, and they are destroying our country. it is time to fight back. since that decision, corporations have been taking over slowly. the way they took over is they bought almost all of our politicians. washington at this point is nearly hopeless. you look at the republicans, a wholly-owned subsidiary of america. -- corporate america. there is nothing that they actually care about. they do not have a single

poison control, aid to small ship yards, we have a lot of ship yards in my district, national parks, osha, occupational safety and health administration personnel cut, fema, with all the problems that we got all over the country now, floods and everything, fema's cut. they talk about border security. border protection and border security cuts. food inspections, that's just a small sample of what they had in that and then they're going to go after -- the next bill they have they're cutting medicare. all of those cuts -- and that's just the first $1 trillion. i yield to the gentleman. >> i was just going to say to my friend. over the course of the last 10 years, we know where the debt really came from. it wasn't in early childhood education, it wasn't in national parks, it was in two tax cuts, a couple of trillion dollars or more, it was in two wars, at least a couple trillion dollars. and it was in a crash on wall street, when people were laid off and had to have some kind of assistance. obviously you said arizona needed assistance, $6.4 billion an they still sold their capitol. mr. perlmu

whether it's the e.p.a., osha, the overtaxing, the 1099 tax form that we just got repealed, the small business administration says that businesses like my little pizzeria in moline spends twice as much per employee to comply for environmental regulations than bigger employees. we spend 10 times more employee on tax compliance than that of the large businesses. congress needs to provide an environment with some economic certainties. we can do this by stopping tax increases on our job creators. my home state of illinois, and quite frankly, president obama's state of illinois recently had the largest tax increase in the history of the state. it seems like every morning you open up the paper in illinois, another business is threatening to leave. we can do something about this. we can provide our job creators with the certainty that with the unemployment rate at 9.2% we don't need to add any more tax burden or further any more overregulation. with that i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from the district of columbi

and osha and nlrb who are bloated in their infrastructure and just stifling jobs in america. we have a lot of things we can do but first we have to get our spending under control. i urge my colleagues to vote for cut, cap and balance. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> request permission to address the house for one minute, mr. speaker. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from texas is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, i rise in opposition to the drastic cuts of social security and medicare and other crucial federal programs that the passage of the cut, cap and balance would force up on the american people. the cut, cap and balance act takes our nation closer to default by holding it hostage while congress passes a constitutional amendment to limit the total spending so to 18% of our gross domestic product. the last time federal spending was below 18% of the gross domestic product was 1966. mr. green: when the median age was

they came back with ame confirmation that dell was osha carrion didn't deal with medicare. dealt with with a tax cut ined t spending and lowered tax rates and raise the opportunity of the president didn't even let it come to the for fore the congress of the united states. he looked the other way. w it is time we look straight in each other's eyes and say theret are solutionshe out there the gd people with good will can find a way to do just what ronald reagan and tip o'neill did.'neil but i don't want to be a part it just may get worse. i want to be parted just making itma better. i hope those in the conferencetr tomorrow sit down with that type of attitude.reat e we don't create enemies and villains and don't make it worse but weai begin apart warm and a template when the next three to four weeks we can begin to amortize or debt over timeze oud reduce oureb deficit over time, raised expectations raise the expectations of the american people and cause