sam simpson. mother 32 years ago. back in the 1990s, simpson was arrested for battery twice. both times he served probation. that was enough to get turned down for child care licensing, but the state reconsidered because simpson's mother wanted to hand down the family business to her son. so florida said as long as he stayed out of trouble, he could run the center. he has had a clean record since, and we thought he might be a good example of someone who put his mistakes long behind him. so i went back to talk with him. the visit went fine. >> we have to go do early child care training. >> reporter: until this. i wanted to ask you if you yourself had a criminal history? >> no, i do not. >> reporter: you do not. >> no. >> reporter: you've never pleaded guilty to any crime. >> no. >> reporter: nothing? then what is this? >> that loobks like a photograph of me when i was wrongfully accused of battery. >> reporter: wrongfully accused. >> mm-hmm. >> reporter: i told simpson we were with "dateline" and s

the problem with bowles simpson and he said parenthetically i love alan bowles and simpson -- you have heard this song before, haven't you? >> yes, the music. >> rose: i loverer and alan simpson, the problem is, it didn't tackle healthcare entitlements those are the drivers of our debt, i don't want to sign an agreement i know ducedoesn't picks the problem. >> he made that point crystal clear during our discussions. we cut medicare and medicated, medicaid by about $485 billion over ten years with the hopes that that would slow the rate of growth of medicare to gdp plus one. and then we said gosh if that doesn't work if that is not a deep enough cut then what we have to do is take more drastic steps and one of those drastic steps would include a consideration of a premium support plan like paul recommended or other options but we have to slow the rate of growth to gdp plus one, paul would rather have us go to something like his premium support plan from day one. >> rose: could you support a premium support plan? >> only, only if by making the appropriate cuts now we couldn't slow the ra

simpson-bowles is silent on those. alice rivlin and i had an amendment to this, to complete the package to have fundamental healthcare entitlement will reform. that was rejected by the elected democrats and as a result it wasn't passed. i didn't think this fixes the problem. simpson-bowles has a lot of good things to it and i put a lot of in our budget. but it doesn't fix the problem. i want to fix the problem. i want to stop this debt crisis. i want to stop medicare from going bankrupt and compromising the security of many seniors. >> a lot of people are saying that your plan would hurt the seniors. kaiser permanente, 70% of americans are satisfied with medicare and satisfied with what they get out of medicare. what do you say to them? it sounds like what you're trying to do is not what america wants. >> actually, if they look at the details, i would argue it is. because they would prefer our plan versus the president's plan. >> why is that? >> because the president's plan which is in law takes half a trillion dollars

the cuts that simpson boles did. >> those exact cuts? >> yes, because they had $1 trillion in discretionary spending. we have adopted knows again in our budget. beyond that, there's $300 billion in what is nonhealth mandatory spending this includes things like ag subsidies and things like that we are going to instruct the committees to come up with that amount of savings as well, as the president does in his budget, and he identifies some things, so yes, we have cuts what we also have is cuts to a lot of the tax loopholes and eliminate those, eliminate the oil and gas subsidies and ask millionaires and others to go back to paying the same rate they were in the -- >> i was going to say. that's where i'm -- i have also been confused about the democratic budget proposal, you hear rhetorically secretary geithner talks about how he believes in lowering rates and branding the tax base and that was close to what the agreement could have been had a grand bargain been struck and the president came out and said we are going to tax reform, here are

or simpson-bowles as it was proposed? >> at the time? >> well. >> rose: have you learned anything new that changes your ideas about what you recommended at the time? >> i haven't learned anything new, because i said the minute the groups, the interest groups in america dig in to this 67 page report and see the specifics of what we say, we will be savaged, and they laughed at first and now they are not laughing, so they are getting more savage, in other words, how can you do this? how can you do this to seniors? how can you do this to veterans? let me tell you, sheer a quick one for you, i am a veteran, i served at the end of the army of occupation. get this. this is less than two minutes, already 2.2 million military retirees, i finally found one the other day i have been looking for i said general where were you on active duty and he said i was never really on active duty, i was in the national guard and the reserves, okay, he is a quote military retiree. they have their own healthcare plan, it is called tricare, the pre

[laughter] [applause] senator al simpson. [cheers and applause] >> well, this is, this is beyond repair here. [laughter] several people have come up to me and said, al, let me tell you a new story. i said, go ahead, i'm wired. [laughter] oh, jeez, all right, i'll save it for later. [laughter] anyway, now, if i started around this room, there are some wonderful people here that -- and i'm not going to do that. haven't had a drink, will a little later. [laughter] but i have to say don hardy took this over, and what he really forgot to say is when he was 17, he borrowed a car. i think it was a rental from webster chevrolet and drove it to seattle. [laughter] the not a rental, it was called stolen. [laughter] and he came to me and said i've heard you were a mess, what about me? i said, you're a mess, so come on in here. you're a very salvageable human being. [laughter] so we were linked at the hip way back, way back there. [laughter] that's a true story. of -- but he's done a beautiful job. it's a great book. i read it as a proof

steve simpson. living it up at our expense. >> this is steve simpson. this is his yacht. the same year he bought his yacht, simpson failed to pay his property taxes. his taxes were so late, they put a lien on his house. he said paying his taxes was "not in the budget." but buying a yacht was? and as public safety commissioner, he took a pay raise, while cutting the state highway patrol budget. steve simpson. living it up at our expense. >> obviously this has a lot of negativity in it, as you can see. you know, in 18 years of doing this, the reason i want to show this, for a couple of reasons. we have never had an opponent that had this many negatives on him. i have never seen this. it was like going into the campaign office every day and opening up a folder, saying, okay, what do we want to use today? and it just kept going. now, what happens is, these commercials were based on information that we had put together at the beginning of the campaign. so, they were sent to the pollster, which the proces

but no, the way she did it, she pretended she always liked simps simpson-bowl simpson-bowles. >> as tot was in simpson-bowles, as i said, i felt fully ready to vote for that myself. >> there's a reason for all the stuttering and stammering there. by the way, she still voted against the bill based on simpson-bowles yesterday. >>> sand box politics continue and one man who knows the sandbox so well he's leaving washington at the end of his term because of it is the senate budget committee chairman, kent conrad of north dakota. i spoke to him earlier and i asked him if paul ryan's budget was dead on arrival in the senate. >> the budget that has passed the house is not a governing document, it's a political document and an ideological document. you know, it's a very curious thing because what it says is even though we have massive deficits and debt, the first thing we're going to do is cut taxes further on the wealthiest among us. not only extend permanently all the tax cuts from the bush administration, but add $200 billion more in tax cuts directed at the very wealthiest among us. that's

i travel with the chairman and mike simpson and others. i would just amazed at the work by thousands and thousands of phds on behalf of the american people. but we want to make sure that jobs that are created stay here. and there's a lot of work we have to do. we have to change some of the statutory language, i think, to require that if we're going to tax someone who's working every day in my district or someone else's district and invest it in very smart people come up and they're going to go out in the commercial market and make a lot of money. that's great. we want that. but we want the jobs that emanate from that to at least be somewhere in the domestic united states and one of our 50 states, you know, so that the whole country benefits from this. so rather it's mris or lacic eye surgery or gps, all is at the base of government funded research. and we have to figure out a way to make sure that the jobs that emanate from that help us reinvigorate our manufacturing base. i'd be interested in you taking a look at the legislation. it's not

-liz jackson-simpson and i am the -- my name is liz jackson- simpson. i has been in the social justice field for over 30 years. i have been blessed to lead a number of citywide national initiatives to support use development and workforce activities. -- youth development and workforce activities. those are some handouts for a number of initiatives i have been able to serve. many of them exist today. one of those initiatives is what is called jobs for youth. it was a large city-wide private sector-public sector initiative that helped place over 1500 young people in private-sector employment opportunities and courted over 60 community-based organizations. city college, private industry council, and the top 30 corporations in the city all contributed to it. it was a private sector funded initiatives. today, it is known as match bridge. it has won national acclaim. it led to the next initiative, the youth opportunity grant. this initiative was led by the department of labour. got to infuse -- thought to infuse resources into amenities. there is a flyer ther

jack simpson. three days before the ship went doubt he wrote a two-page letter to his mother elizabeth in belfast. >> dear mother, i traveled from liverpool. >> his family has a copy of the letter but three don't have the original. it went on sale in new york this month and was expected to be snapped up by a titanic enthusiast this america. but a mystery buyer stepped in. now the family has been told the letter is going back to belfast to be put on public display. >> when i got the phone call i had to sit down very quickly. it i was just that i was so delighted, slightly light-headed and had to ask the person to repeat the news several times to make sure that i heard him correctly. >> last night he shared the good news with the belfast titanic society. there are plenty of copies of the letter but now members of the family are looking forward to seek the original including me. dr. simpson was my great grandfather's cousin. but who actually bought the letter remains another titanic mystery. mark simp

simpson? mr. simpson, no. mr. campbell. >> no. >> mr. campbell, no. >> mr.calvert? no. mr. van hollen, no. mr. dogget, aye. mcmccallum, aye. mr. yarmith, aye. mr. honda? aye. mr. ryan of ohio. ms. wasserman shultz. aye. ms. moore? ms. moore? aye. ms. caster, aye. mr. schuler, aye. ms. bass? ms. bass, aye. mr. chairman? >> no. >> mr. woodall. >> no. >> are there any other members who wish to vote or change their vote? hearing none, let the clerk show the report. mr. chairman, on that vote the ayes are 14 and the nos are 18. >> the amendment is not agreed to. that was tier one. all right. now we are into tier two. these amendments are 15-minute amendments. so the author will get 7 1/2. can we do halves now? we can't do halves. that's right, we'll split it the other way then. going to mr. honda for the purpose of offering an amendment. let's do 15 on mr. hondas, then we'll talk. >> agreed. >> do you want to call your amendment up, mike? >> thank you very much. i have an amendment at the table. >> an amendment by mr. honda relating to education. >> what are we doing? six? seven

debating even beyond the simpson bowels approach. that commission and other informed discussions tend to take a page from the reagan era of reforms of 1986. people forget that ronald regan improved increases of taxes of some size i think three times during his administration after the initial big reductions in tax rates. in '86 exemptions and credits were in many instances reduced, in some cases they were ended. the result in revenue increases said it would produce lower marginal income tax rates consistent with a net increase in revenues making a contribution toward reducing the budget deficit. so simplification and revenue enhancing may in concept both be possible in one fell swoop. the complimentary approach simpson bowels is taking with respect to the corporate income tax. now all that seems to me part of a constructive debate. it's perhaps politically possible in time but i don't want to stop there. my plea is for greater boldness. we do need tax reform. we need to think hard about how to rely more on consumption-based taxes, av

the other thing i would say is i want to get you quickly on this, luke, which is simpson-bowles, thebrought up for a vote. 38 people, 38 members of the house, that's out of 435, voted for it. what is the scuttlebutt on capitol hill about that. does that mean that super commit es and bipartisan reduction panels don't work? >> it's an amazing, i think -- if you want to think about this, it's literal sense, chris, look at what we saw all summer between barack obama and john boehner, trying to work toward this bargain. this vote shows that a grand bargain looks to be impossible to pass through the house. nancy pelosi said earlier she would accepted the original simpson-bowles provision, that's not what was on the floor last time. there was tinkering to it. there is less in tax revenue but all that being said you only have 38 votes on something which is the most bipartisan of these bills, it shows where we are as a country and how divided we are, chris. >> here to talk about that and a bunch of other things representative shore from pennsylvania who can characterize the democratic argumen

simpson. mr. simpson? no. mr. campbell? mr. campbell, no. mr. calvert? no. mr. aiken? mr. aiken, no. mr. cole? mr. cole, no. mr. price. mr. price, no. mr. mcclintock. mr. mcclintock no. mr. chaffetz? mr. setsman? mr. setsman, no. mr. lankford. ms. black? ms. black, no. mr. ribbal? mr. ribbal, no. mr. florez? mr. florez, no. mr. mulvaney? mr. mulvaney, no. mr. huescamp? no. mr. young? mr. young, no. mr. amarsh? mr. amarsh, no. mr. akita? mr. akita, no. mr. guinta? mr. guinta, no. mr. woodall? mr. woodall, no. mr. van hollen -- >> yes. >> mr. van hollen -- aye. ms. schwartz? ms. schwartz, aye. mr. kaptur? aye? mr. bloomen nour, aye. mr. mccullum, mr. yarmouth. mr. pascrell? mr. honda? mr. honda, aye. mr. ryan of ohio. mr. ryan, aye. ms. wasserman schultz? ms. wasserman schultz, aye. ms. moore? ms. moore, aye. mr. caster? mr. caster, aye. mr. schueler? mr. schueler, aye. ms. bass. ms. bass, aye. ms. bonamici? ms. bonamici, aye. mr. chairman? >> no. >> mr. chairman, no. mr. garrett? mr. garrett, no. >> are there any other members looking to vote tore change their vote? if not,

jackson- simpson as well. your reputation precedes you, and i think we would all be fortunate to have you sir. >> thank you. we had a number of illiterate applicants. i agree about the residency issue. i was impressed with your credentials, but it is really hard when you had qualified san francisco residents to tell them that we are going to appoint someone from outside the city, but i hope one day you are living in the city. that would be terrific. i agree that list -- liz jackson-simpson -- terrific. i support her as well. winnie yu and sheryl davis. i think matthew poland was very strong, and i support his appointment. supervisor kim: ok, i think we have consensus around ms. liz jackson-smith, ms. winnie yu, and ms. sheryl davis. we have one additional seat, and we have reticulate three different names. supervisor farrell both spoke of doug parrish and erris edgerly, and his book of matthew:. >> i thought mr. parish was very strong, and i would be happy to support him as well. either mr. poland or mr. paris

please welcome, jessica simpson.cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: i feel nervous about asking, but are you pregnant? >> yeah, slightly. i feel like i have a bowling ball sitting on high hoo-ha. it's intense. >> jimmy: you might have a couple bowling balls there. >> everybody's saying that to me. apparently i have a lot of fluid, so whenever my water breaks, it will be like a fire hydrant. let's hope it doesn't happen tonight. >> jimmy: let's hope it does happen tonight! i would be honored to deliver your child on television. [cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: who did this to you? >> a guy named eric johnson. >> jimmy: this is your boyfriend? >> fiance. feels like my husband already. we're just doing it a little bit backwards. but, yeah, we met at my house, actually. >> jimmy: what? >> it's one of those stories. he came with one of my friends to my house. >> jimmy: at a party? >> we were watching march madness or something. and he came over, and he sat on my stairwell and talked and i haven't let him leave. >> jimmy: so y

simpson? >> no. >> mr. simpson, no. mr. campbell? >> no. >> mr. campbell, no. >> mr. calvert. >> no. >> mr. calvert, no. mr. akin. mr. cole. >> no. >> mr. cole, no. mr. price. >> no. >> mr. price, no. mr. mcclintock. >> no. >> mr. mcclintock, no. mr. stutzman. >> no. >> mr. stutzman, no. mr. lankford. >> no. >> ms. black. >> no. >> mr. ribble, pass. mr. flores. >> no. >> mr. flores, no. mr. mulvaney. >> no. >> mr. mulvaney, no. mr. heulskamp. >> no. >> no, mr. young. >> no. >> fl young, no. mr. akita. >> no. >> mr. akita, no. mr. again ta. >> no. >> mr. genta, no. mr. woodall. >> no. >> mr. woodall, no. mr. akin. >> no. >> mr. akin, no. mr. van hollen. >> yes. >> mr. van hollen, aye. ms. schwartz. >> aye. >> ms. schwartz, aye. ms. kaptur. >> aye. >> ms. kaptur, aye. mr. blumenauer, aye. ms. mccole m, aye. mr. yarmouth, aye. mr. pakkarel, aye. mr. hahn donda, aye. ms. moore, aye. mr. schuler, aye. ms. bass, aye. ms. bonamici, ay. mr. chairman. >> no. >> mr. chairman, no. mr. ribble. >> aye. >> mr. ribble, aye. >> are there any other members looking to vote or to change

jack simpson. three days before the ship went down, and he wrote a two-page letter to his mother elizabeth. >> dear mother, i traveled to liverpool. >> his family has a copy of the letter, but they do not have the original. it was expected to be snapped up by a titanic enthusiast in america. a mystery buyers stepped in and now the family has been told letter is going back to belfast to be put on public display. >> when i took the phone call, i had to sit down. i was lightheaded. i had to ask the person to repeat the news several times. >> last night, he shared the good news with the belfast titanic society. [applause] >> this is the icing on the cake. this letter has been missing for a number of years. it is a very rare thing that is unique to belfast. >> the timing could hardly be better. the first titanic visitors center in belfast is opening at the end of this month. there are plenty of copies of the letter, but now members of the simpson family are looking forward to seeing the original, includ

simpson-bowles is an outline. it's an essay.t was never put into legislative form because you can't. okay? because, again -- >> principles. >> right. >> however, one of their general principles was about a $2 trillion tax increase over -- the only one thing they were clear about was they were raising taxes, 2, paul ryon says $2 trillion over the decade. the heritage foundation says $3 trillion. they were trying to stick a tax increase and pretend it was reform. they damaged tax reform. we'll get tax reform only when the american people are convinced. it doesn't hide it. that's why the pledge makes the reform in '86 possible, makes tax reform now possible. >> to be fair to simpson-bowles, it was tax reform and it raised more revenues. so let me ask you this. we are taxing now at 14% of gdp. >> thanks to the recession. >> we're spending 23% of gdp. are you telling me that you believe you can get -- you can close that gap entirely by cutting spending, that is by taking something on the range of 7% or 8% of gdp out of government spe

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say oh, i love simpson-bowles and they haven't read it.ad it there are things that i like and there are things i don't like. i would be willing to live with all of those things but there are other people in the world who would read it and say -- >> you can't go cherry picking. you can't pick the things you like and throw out the rest. >> i like simpson-bowles. i'm telling you simpson-bowles makes sense and at minimum is a good starting point. we had ed rendell on the show yesterday. we asked the question if it was an up or down vote on simpson-bowles in the country his answer was he thought it wouldn't pass. >> ed also said he loved it and loved simpson-bowles but he still wants to go back to the clinton era tax rate of 29% and it's 24. >> it's 28. >> it's 26. >> here we are. here we are all saying how much we love simpson-bowles. >> but the point is this. we, whoever gets elected you got to fight for america's competitiveness. overhauling the tax code is one way. putting in simpson-bowles is another. >> 26. >> 26. >> that's not high enoug

jack simpson. three days before the ship went down, he rode a two-page letter to his mother elizabeth back in belfast. >> dear mother -- >> his family has a copy of the letter, but they do not have the original. it went on sale in new york this month and was expected to be snapped up by a titanic enthusiast in america. but a mystery buyer stepped in, and now the family is told it is going back to belfast to be put in public display. >> when i got the phone call, i had to sit down very quickly. i was slightly lightheaded. i had to ask the person to repeat the news several times to make sure i had heard them correctly. last night, he shared the good news with the belfast titanic society. [applause] >> to get this is the icing on the cake. this letter has been missing for a number of years. it is a very rare thing that is unique to belfast. >> the timing could hardly be better. the first titanic visitors center in belfast is opening at the end of this month. they're plenty of copies of the letter, but

booktv attended a book party of the publication of "shooting from the lip" written by senator al simpson's chief of staff donald hardy. among those in presence, supreme court justice clarence thomas. this is about 45 minutes. >> well -- >> hi. we're coming to you. >> ideal it, what are you doing here? >> well, we're here to celebrate your book. >> ann, hi. [inaudible conversations] >> you're very dear to do this. it's not my book. it's the most heartbreaking -- have you met don, the author? >> you could still write one. >> oh, man. took him six years. >> after he'd done it -- >> jim billington's here. so is justice thomas. [inaudible conversations] [laughter] >> senator, how are you doing? >> jimmy -- [inaudible conversations] >> haven't got my good shoes on, but i'm here. >> where'd you come from? >> new york. it was a big delay. i spoke monday -- [inaudible conversations] anyway, you're dear to do this. >> no, listen -- [inaudible conversations] >> you look great. harry called and said, now, you picked up a little extra down there, did we get our 20%? but jesus -- [inaudible conversation

this is what the simpson-bowles budget does and only the simpson-bowles budget. for those of my colleagues worried about certain pars of this, do not confuse the simpson-bowles report with the budget. a budget is just a framework. it instructs committees to come up with savings an the committees have the discretion to that -- to do that in the reports the simpson-bowles report is one way to do that but this is a guide for the committees of jurisdiction. that's what we must do tonight and do on a bipartisan basis. we must come together for the good of the country. we must put our nation first, we must celt partisanship aside. this is the only way that we can pass a budget in the house and the senate this year which we must have. it's easy to be critical, it's hard to perform. let's make it happen for america tonight. we have an opportunity within our hands to give the united states a budget. all of the other plans are purely partisan and they don't have a prayer. let's build a bring to the future, let's build a real budget that can pass both houses of congress. i

the power and destructive potential of a hurricane is measured on what's known as the saffir-simpson scale. the scale was introduced in 1973 by a construction engineer& called herbert saffir and robert simpson, then director of the us national hurricane center in miami, florida. it grades hurricanes in ascending order from one to five. a hurricane at the bottom of the scale will cause minor damage such as bringing down power lines or small light structures. however, a category five hurricane can generate winds exceeding 150 miles-an-hour and tidal storm surges up to 20 feet high. such a hurricane has the power to devastate cities, flood vast areas of land and kill thousands of people. thankfully a category five hurricane is a rare event. but when one does strike the result is truly terrifying. on august 23rd 1992 nearly one million people started fleeing inland from the east coast of south florida. a massive hurricane was just a few miles offshore, heading in from the north atlantic ocean via the bahamas. with meteorologists predicting it would make landfall as a category five hurric

simpson? mr. simpson, no. >> mr. campbell? no. mr. calvert? no. mr. akin? mr. cole? mr. cole, no. mr. price? is mr. price, no. mr. mcclintock. no. mr. chaffetz. mr. stetzman. no. mr. langford? mr. langford, no. ms. black? ms. black, no. mr. ribble, no. mr. flores, no. mr. mulvaney, no. mr. young, no. mr. woodall? no. mr. yhuelskamp, no. mr. van hollen, aye. ms. schwartz, aye. mr. doggett, aye. mr. blumenhauer, aye. ms. mccollum, aye. mr. honda, aye. mr. ryan of ohio, aye. ms. wasserman-shultz, aye. ms. moore? aye. ms. castor, aye ms. bass? ms. bass, aye. ms. bonamici? aye. mr. chairman? no. >> the clerk shall report. >> mr. chairman, on that vote, the ayes are 14, the nos are 20. >> nos have it, the amendment is not agreed to. >> do you have an amendment at the desk. >> the clerk will report on the status -- >> the midwest working together. an amendment offered by ms. mccollum related to women's health. >> thank you. women deserved access to affordable health care. unfortunately before the women health care act, women were not guaranteed access. a woman was dpe nighed health care

and i think simpsons-- the. >> the union republicans have done more on this than democrats. >> i wanto make a point on thelma and louise. >> i wish the last seen was the first scene. and horrible, horrible. >> two hours of-- >> and we do have an election and we're going to be fighting this out in the election and i tell you, i don't put any credence in the budget proposals now, we'll have an election about the budget and then decide. >> and the doctor raises a good view. ronald reagan was famous for saying, i'd rather have 80% after loaf than no loaf at all. and he was willing to negotiate and do whatever he can to move the ball ford and some republicans say we're going to wait this out and we think in november we have a good shot of winning the senate, maybe the white house and we'll be in the driver's seat, but you might not be. >> absolutely, you're 100% right, you may not be. and i echo with charlie said. >> in that as well. and it gets back to the ronald reagan. a certain type of leadership, i think, is needed. there's no political will out here, the tip o'neil. he was willing to

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