. >> why aren't the merits of this case controlled by romer? after the proposition was passed in california, same-sex couples had the right to marry. the proposition takes it away. isn't it exactly what the proposition in colorado did? >> your honor, in romer, the court was dealing with a sweeping new -- law that placed on differentiated girtin's and disqualifications on homosexuals -- >> if you take away a bunch of rights it is bad, but if you take away one right, it is ok? >> your honor, it is not a question of taking them away. it thus a. -- >> this rate -- it same-sex couples had the right to marry before the passage of proposition 8. >> your honor, the california supreme court affirmed that they did, yes, and the people with california disagreed with that and the people of california reversed it. >> how is that different from what happened in colorado? a few local communities decided they wanted to extend preferred status to individuals, homosexuals, gays, lesbians, etc., and the voters of colorado passed a provision saying you cannot do t

you do not have to go any further damage the romer case says to go. it's just taking away the constitutional right of individuals who are homosexuals because of their classification that as homosexuals violates the united states constitution even under a rational basis. i would say, if i get a chance to do so, this is the clearest case. in addition to that answer which i submit, how far do we have to go? the additional answer with respect to the crawford case is a separate thing because crawford was saying is, yes, citizens can change a non- constitutionally required remedies for constitutional violations. that is different than this. the crawford case, in my judgment, has nothing to do with this case. i would be happy to put the crawford case against romer, loving, and texas. it cannot possibly, but it does corporate decisions. one additional lancer, and i think it is important since i slipped into mentioning the lawrence case is that the united states supreme court has determined that that intimate sexual conduct between persons of the same sex is c

you do not have to go any further damage the romer case says to go. it's just taking away the constitutional right of individuals who are homosexuals because of their classification that as homosexuals violates the united states constitution even under a rational basis. i would say, if i get a chance to do so, this is the clearest case. in addition to that answer which i submit, how far do we have to go? the additional answer with respect to the crawford case is separate thing because crawford was saying is, yes, citizens can change a non- constitutionally required remedies for constitutional violations. that is different than this. therawford ce, in my judgment, has nothing to do with this case. i would be happy to put the crawford case against romer, loving, and texas. it cannot possibly, but it does corporate decisions. one additional lancer, and i think it is important since i slipped into mentioning the lawrence case is that the united states supreme court has determined that that intimate sexual conduct between persons of the same sex is constit

. >> why aren't the merits of this case controlled by romer? after the proposition was passed in california, same-sex couples had the right to marry. the proposition takes it away. isn't it exactly what the proposition in colorado did? >> your honor, in romer, the court was dealing with a sweeping new -- law that placed on differentiated girtin's and disqualifications on homosexuals -- >> if you take away a bunch of rights it is bad, but if you take away one right, it is ok? >> your honor, it is not a question of taking them away. it thus a. -- >> this rate -- it same-sex couples had the right to marry before the passage of proposition 8. >> your honor, the california supreme court affirmed that they did, yes, and the people with california disagreed with that and the people of california reversed it. >> how is that different from what happened in colorado? a few local communities decided they wanted to extend preferred status to individuals, homosexuals, gays, lesbians, etc., and the voters of colorado passed a provision saying you cannot do t

. >> why aren't the merits of this case controlled by romer?he proposition was passed in california, same-sex couples had the right to marry. the proposition takes it away. isn't it exactly what the proposition in colorado did? >> your honor, in romer, the court was dealing with a sweeping new -- law that placed on differentiated girtin's and disqualifications on homosexuals -- >> if you take away a bunch of rights it is bad, but if you take away one right, it is ok? >> your honor, it is not a question of taking them away. it thus a. -- >> this rate -- it same-sex couples had the right to marry before the passage of proposition 8. >> your honor, the california supreme court affirmed that they did, yes, and the people with california disagreed with that and the people of california reversed it. >> how is that different from what happened in colorado? a few local communities decided they wanted to extend preferred status to individuals, homosexuals, gays, lesbians, etc., and the voters of colorado passed a provision saying you cannot do that, you

a leader in that statistical revision by the way it is christina romer. she has never been a tea party year. ier. the older statistics were biased as the only included a few commodities series. today, we measure more widely. when we had just the statistics to take account of that, the pre-fed period looks more stable. we don't see any improvement even though today the economy is much better diversified and muslim -- much less agricultural barrett we should expect to improve stability even if the fed had no effect for the fed has done worse than have no effect. the fed had naturally more stable economy to deal with the matter is watch, the economy has been less stable because they have tried to do too much with monetary policy. fine-tuning has turned out to be destabilizing in practice. we can try measuring stability by looking at the frequency and length of recessions. if you look at the old free sessions using the new statistics as christina romer reported in 1999, the average length of recessions is one month longer in the post-world war two era than be

now i'm more aligned with the keynesians, or i've seen more of the keynesian argument from christina romeruc berkeley to see this thing was so big, so deep that if you're going to give it a jolt you're going to give it a big jolt. well, the democrats got their jolt, and they did it their way. and i think if you want to look at it cynically or practically, the republicans are going to get their jolt and they're going to do it mostly their way. >> every month there's another set of statistics that come out on job numbers, hiring. it's dizzying. there was even some dispute this week about the accuracy of various sets of numbers. we seem to be stuck in neutral. >> i think that's probably where we are right now. >> and so the question is, i mean, what do we read from the latest numbers? is that dangerous to even do? because these things don't change in a month. >> well, i think that neutral is a little better than where we were a couple months ago. we started the year pretty strong and everybody was very optimistic and then we hit some period in the spring, april, may, june, things started to s

martha: you have the team, summers leaving now, orszag and romer, already gone, tim geithner is still in position there and austan goolsbee, also now on the teal and somebody will be replacing summers as well. is there anything you're reading in the tea leaves, steve, that indicates they're going in a different direction? >> i think they're going in a different tactical direction but the fundamental beliefs and the government's soft socialism, whatever you want to call it, remains in tact, they read the election returns, they're going to make tactical moves to try to get through the next two years, focus on regulation to do what congress won't do and try to resume after what they think will be a vicinitiry in 2012. so no, and i think the two biggest villains are still there, geithner, at treasury, as you mentioned, and ben bernanke at the federal reserve, both have made huge mistakes, but they're still in position. but it's normal, martha, after two years, to start to get a change in the economic team, whether it's working or not. martha: i mean, i guess occasionally it's something th

one of the people who testified was christina romer, and she testified that our economy endured shocks during this recession there were even greater than the economic shocks of the great depression. this committee has monitored the employment situation and track its rebound over the past two years. the joint economic committee issued over 40 reports. in 2010, consistent with its mission to monitor the unemployment situation of the country, the jec focused on job creation, holding hearings on problems in the labor market and solutions to spur employment. job creation was also the single focus of the jec annual report. while the economic shocks of the great recession will take time to heal, our economy has made progress in the past year. the policies that democrats and congress put into place over the last year, working. policies to matter. we passed the hire act, which has a payroll tax credit for businesses that hire unemployed workers, we passed legislation to promote hiring by small businesses, the engines of job growth in our economy, providing additional tax incentives to small bus

one of the people who testified was christina romer, and she testified that our economy endured shockscks of the great depression. this committee has monitored the employment situation and track its rebound over the past two years. the joint economic committee issued over 40 reports. in 2010, consistent with its mission to monitor the unemployment situation of the country, the jec focused on job creation, holding hearings on problems in the labor market and solutions to spur employment. job creation was also the single focus of the jec annual report. while the economic shocks of the great recession will take time to heal, our economy has made progress in the past year. the policies that democrats and congress put into place over the last year, working. policies to matter. we passed the hire act, which has a payroll tax credit for businesses that hire unemployed workers, we passed legislation to promote hiring by small businesses, the engines of job growth in our economy, providing additional tax incentives to small businesses, inserting a $30 billion access to credit loan program, and

the only potential problems but it is here romer park 101 at wilford 1030 this morning number two lane caltrans will keep the eye on this to see if it causes any delays. >> uc-berkeley students there said they are fed up with expensive tickets for breaking traffic clogs " riding their bikes. mr. to jackie cecil live at the campus. >> you would think uc- berkeley that would be the most that by friendly in the state. apparently that's not the case folks here walking a bike because uc-berkeley campus police are up bin enforcement of the by clause. but where you parked your bikes as well. a bike rack there they are passing out fines if you are to lock your bike up at places that are not designated. house staff, $220. for things like not obeying the traffic laws. not dismounting when you get on campus. they say they are up 40 percent over last year obviously students are extremely unhappy out here. >> of expected from driving my car to get a steep fine like that but a bicycle? >> the fine for talking yourself loan is only $155. obviously people are not happy we're talking about students str

christine romer is gone, but people like david axelrod and others are still there. i would like to hear, mr. president, we have given you some advice and you have given -- gotten advice from the legislative branch that hadn't worked out too well. mr. president, you had said to the american people, elections have consequences and indeed, we are looking back on november 2 and seeing a net gain of republicans, net gain of 63 in the house of representatives and a net gain of six in the united states senate, republican members and something like 600 republican members in state legislatures across the country, 19 new republican governors. mr. president, indeed, elections have son he with senses, and it's -- consequences and time for you to get back to the middle and listen to the american people. if it's so partisan you can't listen to the minority party, listen to the american people, and they have spoken loud and clear and they are saying, it makes no sense to raise taxes on anybody, especially those who create the jobs. and you know, i had heard and have heard from our

one of the people who testified was christina romer.she said our economy endured shocks during the recession that were even greater than the economic shots of the great depression. this committee has closely monitored the employment situation and has attracted the rebound. over the past two years, a joint economic committee has held the key hearings and a shooter for 40 reports. in 2010, consistent with the mission to monitor the employment situation of the country, we focused on job creation holding hearings on problems in the labour market and solutions to spur job creation. job creation was the sole focus of the annual report. are mandated analysis of the economic reports that the president released earlier this year. the economic shocks of the great recession will take time to heal, our economy has made progress in the past year. the policies that democrats in congress quickly put into place over the last year are working. policies do matter. we passed the hire act which provides a tax benefit for hiring unemployed workers. we passe

one of the people who testified was christina romer, and she testified that our economy endured shockscks of the great depression. this committee has monitored the employment situation and track its rebound over the past two years. the joint economic committee issued over 40 reports. in 2010, consistent with its mission to monitor the unemployment situation of the country, the jec focused on job creation, holding hearings on problems in the labor market and solutions to spur employment. job creation was also the single focus of the jec annual report. while the economic shocks of the great recession will take time to heal, our economy has made progress in the past year. the policies that democrats and congress put into place over the last year, working. policies to matter. we passed the hire act, which has a payroll tax credit for businesses that hire unemployed workers, we passed legislation to promote hiring by small businesses, the engines of job growth in our economy, providing additional tax incentives to small businesses, inserting a $30 billion access to credit loan program, and

that is the romer case. "amendment two does more to repeal or defend these positions. it prohibits all legislative and judicial action at any level of state or local government designed to protect the name to class, because we shall refer to as "homosexual persons." and then in two was unprecedented. it was extraordinary. -- amendment two was unprecedented. standing in its own shoes with regards to the history behind it, it was unconstitutional. and would have been unconstitutional if it would have singled out and made a stranger to the lot in the class of persons. again, your honor, thank you for your indulgence. >> thank you to all of you for a fascinating argument. the court will stand journed. >> all rise. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite rp. 2010] >> tomorrow on "washington journal", robert nickels, president and ceo of the financial services forum, talks about the democrat's opposition to the textile. devon chaffee talks about efforts to in our funding it to bring gitmo prisoners. john gannon giv

one of the people who testified was christina romer testifying that our economy endured shocks during this recession that were even greater than the economic shocks of the great depression. this committee closely monitored the employment situation and tracked its rebound. over the past two years the joint academic committee held hearings and issued over 40 reports. in 2010, consistent with its mission to monitor the employment situation of the country, the jec focused on job creation holding hearings on problems in the labor market and solutions to spur employment. job creation was also the central focus of the jec annual report and mandateed announcement of the president released earlier this year. while the shocks of the great recession takes time the heal, our economy has made progress in the last year. the policy put in place over the last year are working. policies do matter. we passed the higher act -- hire act which provides a payroll tax credit for businesses that hire unemployed workers. we passed legislation to promote hiring by smaller businesses, the engines of job growth

systems and platforms that will preserve our nuclear delivery capability, such as the next-generation romeruclear submarine and it new air continental ballistic missile butil also with a strike aircrat and f naval forces required to control the pacific realm as economic growth in the military capabilities of china increase.e although the president hassu decided there is value in pursuing a disarmament agenda,et this country may determine in the coming years to place a greater reliance upon the role of strategic arms and we must remaingi committed to defensen modernization. our nation faces many challenges in the coming decades, some economic, some strategic. it would seem short-sighted to think that is north korea, iran and others were to acquire nuclear weaponsea capabilities e could draw our allison all downe to zero. so i will oppose this treaty. r i thank the chairman and ranking members of the foreign relations armed services and intelligence for the service that they have provided the service in renewing it. it is unfortunate that somethind as important as the senate consideration of