economic model, but state-oriented i mean either state enterprises or state-supported enterprises or enterprises that enjoy favorable benefits from the state, you know, preferential banking and things of that nature. or immunity from anti-monopoly laws. there are a whole range of things that the oecd actually has categorized as being state supported measures, state-supported measures. i think the prospect of the state continuing to play a fairly substantial role in some countries is, is going to be there for a period of time. and i'm not sure there's much we can do to change that. i do think that what we can do and what we're trying to do now is to say, all right, if you want your companies, big companies to be owned by the state or partially owned by the state like some of the big chinese companies, then we can't go and tell you not to have state ownership of your companies. what we can encourage you to do is to make sure that the provisions of that state ownership and the benefits do not distort international competition or distort international trade. in other words, to have some

apologized for wrongly reporting that radiation levels at the top ten million times the norm in the state of the media it's about creation of emergency teams designed to. start debate show crosstalk today. discuss. awaken and what's the difference between humanitarian aid and western geopolitical interests that's next on our. came. along and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle libya within the great arab awakening a one off detour for the maintenance of western military and political intervention in the arab world when it comes to libya and the arab world what is the difference between humanitarian aid and western geopolitical interests. you can. discuss libya and the great arab awakening i'm joined by islam custom in the hague he is a strategic analyst at the hague center for strategic studies in cairo we crossed the editing should go fish or he is a visiting distinguished lecturer at the american university in cairo and in san francisco we have eric harris he is the founder and managing editor of antiwar dot com all right gentlemen this is cross talk you all have different points of

of course it would be about the united states let me do that let me. let me finish please this is about if we're speaking about interest then we must speak about european countries and interests not the united states the focus here on the united states i think is a bit misleading first of all france and the u.k. took the lead on libya not the u.s. the u.s. is still there is this moment why has it and in fact that involved obama once you handed all that as a quick just read the paper i just read the press so this is really not an american war that new possibilities mean the united states military you know you know like a well known internationally and shot we know of the french and the british where the leader is behind this operation not obama. now the obama administration so what i see here is madness friends with the rebels i think you have to stay out of order as if i can go to hell right now when you ask is a i want to go to i want to go to the i want to get this is a bowl in the ok all right eric finish your point this really goes to what i want t

state showed under funding the pension promises to the state and local government workers, do you distinguish between those three different types? >> guest: well i have written a lot about this providing that they are all overarching umbrella of the tensions is the promise is unsustainable. and it's called them options that were just not going to be able to pay. we have already seen in the private sector of the whole industries that have basically it bankruptcy because of the pension problem, whether the airline sector, the field sector or the office sector we have already seen what the implications of that can be. the stifel, california, a classic example. they have furloughs' now which people are forced not to go to work the was the government doesn't -- the state doesn't want people to accrue additional liabilities. and clearly, this obviously feeds into this federal level. so i do not distinguish, and in course with the numbers look like you can't look with the overarching liabilities are. the main thesis of the sort of thread running through these are promises that are simply not to be a

in state funding. as well as the proposal to eliminate redevelopment. briefly, we can talk about the timeline. i am happy to take any questions you might have. as you probably know, but state has an 18 month budget shortfall of $25.4 billion. the governor's budget proposal is $84.6 billion. it is a very significant question of total general spending. that is comprised of $8.2 billion in the current year. the governor has proposed $12.5 billion in spending reductions, $12 billion in revenue extensions. $2.8 billion in other solutions. those numbers add up to slightly more than $25.4 billion. he is funding a $1 billion general reserve for space. the impact of these proposals is still being determined as the budget itself is being negotiated. i have done my best to outline those for you here today. in the governor's proposal on revenue, he proposes extending certain tax increases if they include sales tax, which would generate $4.5 billion. . welf, which would increase [unintelligible] and eliminating ent

as president obama wraps up his speech in the united states on the topic of libya rebels in libya trying to push westward toward the capital tripoli there are conflicting reports just how far they've advanced claims of controlling colonel gadhafi hometown of syria have been dismissed by reports on the ground which say the city is still held by government forces who've been putting up heavy resistance . russia's foreign minister says the international coalition is taking part in the civil war in libya beyond the limits of what's been allowed for u.n. resolution sergey lavrov has also expressed concerns about the protection of civilians which was the reason for the sole goal of the mission agreed at the u.n. security council. russian authorities have arrested two suspects in connection with the general terrorist bombing at moscow's airport in which thirty seven died seventeen militants were also killed in a special operation by three different russian federal agencies in the southern republican. at the fukushima nuclear plant in northern japan are frantically trying to dispose of radioacti

states. his claim was that the sentences was cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the eighth amendment. there's no right to a lawyer in federal court with habeas corpus if convicted in state court even if which was a capitol case. he lost. the judge rejected his claim. he then filed an appeal on his own to the federal court of appeals. someone within the 9th circuit. i don't know if it was staff attorneys or judges, but this is a case where the judges where he would be represented. i received a call saying will you represent pro bono and handle the claim that's cruel and unusual punishment. i've been involved representing others with similar claims, and i agreed to do so. i won in the ninth circuit two to one. they said that no one in the entire history of the united states had ever received a life sentence with regard to shoplifting until this. i lost 5-4 in the supreme court. the supreme court said states decide the appropriate punishment for crimes, and it wasn't cruel and unusual

aeration is based in kansas at pleasure continue advocating for their interests in wisconsin a state or a statement released by koch industries read for the left trying to intimidate the koch brothers to back off from their support for freedom and signaling to others that this is what happens if you oppose the administration and its allies we have no choice but to continue to fight we will not step back and all. on top of that americans for prosperity executive director of michigan scott said this was. so we fight these battles on taxes and regulations but really what we'd like to see is to take the unions out at the knees so they don't have the resources to fight these battles so to the koch brothers and their interest groups have any business getting involved in this was constantly a dispute if so what is here to speak to this issue phil kerpen ice president of policy at americans for prosperity phil welcome. great to have you here you know there's a kind of a joke it's gone viral around the internet today that there's a c.e.o. a tea party or any union guy sitting at a table with a

german state capitalism it's states state protected and we used to be state protected capitalism in countries like honduras you know literally banana republics where we grew the bananas were essentially the victims of america doing this. oh nothing i have to say is to exonerate the united states or companies based here of many wrongdoing they may have done but i think the reality is that the united states is relatively unique in the world in terms of practicing a fairly free wheeling form of capitalism where wherever selling a product at the lowest price gets the business most of the world there capitalist and sense that they're not the socialist but things are much more under government control corporations do what the government lets them do and part of the quid pro quo for that is that their governments protect the among these protections of course being terrorists and non-tariff barriers and the bad news is this can be a very potent competitive system when you have big business and big government pulling in harness together particularly against them. and against small business in the unit

most states, particularly rural states don't. we get saddled with a standard benefit package like massachusetts, that's why our employers will drop coverage. their premiums will skyrocket. if it doesn't give us relief from that and similar things, it really not much help. >> right. governor herbert? >> as i mentioned earlier, how flexible is flexible? there is not absolute flexibility. it is a maintenance of effort, still required the essential benefit package stays the same, the eligibility for medicare still is there. if we get the outcomes that we the federal government say to the state, then you have flexibility. and that really is not flexibility. >> governor patrick? >> i think from a policy point of view, congressman, the act is probably -- the bill is probably -- we're probably indifferent. because as i said we're so far down the path. and we have so much flexibility under our existing 1115 waiver, and there's plenty of flexibility in the act. >> so i want to go to another topic. there's some reports out in the last day o

states, huge underfunding of the pension promising state and local workers. do you distinguish between the three types that are worse than the others? >> guest: i've written a lot about this. i think the over arching is that the promises are unsustainable. in finance, it's out of money options, options not being able to be paid. we've seen in the private sector whole industries that have basically hit bankruptcy because of the pension problem whether it's the airline sector, steel sector, or the auto sector. we have seen the implications of that. at the state level, california, classic example, they have furloughs now where people are forced not to go to work because the state doesn't want to accrue additional liabilities. clearly, this obviously feeds up into the federal level, so i don't distinguish, and, of course, in terms of numbers and what it looks like, you can look at what the overall liabilities are. the main thesis of the thread running through all of this are promises that are not able to be paid. >> host: now, talking about promises not being abl

at the state level, a close look at how revenue is distributed at the regional and the state. in particular, some of the revenue is distributed on population and number of registered vehicles. we would like an expansion for daytime population. and road and transit usage. we would like to see support for high-speed rail funindding, new transportation revenue, and the prop. 1-a bond fund and infrastructure bond funds in 2008 and 2006. we would like to see them in a stable way, flowing to the project. central subway has 360 million for the funding plan. that is definitely at the high point of the legislative agenda. did you have a question? of course, advocating for funding for the approvement program so funding can be used for these projects. and local funds will be reimbursed. that is my presentation. i am glad to answer any questions for you about this agenda. i will turn the mike over. >> i just wanted to thank you and lombardo for the great work and the regional approach. there is a coalituion, the county coalition this came out of. what is this alliance? >> these are the co

>> well, many states have turned the corner. 22 state are right-to-work states.ve already made those kinds of decisions. it's got an lot of national attention because of the fiscal plight of the states and in addition to spending cuts these are part of the things that some governors in wisconsin and indianapolis and ohio are taking a look at to try to control their long-term pension and benefit costs. it's a state-by-state issue. we've made the decision in virginia. i think it's right for our state. >> woodruff: governor bob mcdonald of virginia, thank you so much. >> lehrer: this is pledge week on public television. we'll be back shortly with a look at the high-level resignations at npr. this break allowsour public >> brown: finally tonight, npr's c.e.o. departs amid a growing storm. >> from "npr news" in washington, i'm craig wyndham. the president and c.e.o. of npr, viivian schiller has abruptly resigned today..." >> brown: news of vivian schiller's departure followed yesterday's release of this hidden-camera video. it showed npr fundraising executive ron schi

some states it's higher than that and in some states is lower. do the governors have a task force on this issue? and if so, what discussion has been about where the states are to see these began adopting a? again we will start with governor barbour and go right down the line. >> i do notice the time on governor patrick's list. i realize to to all that makes me better. >> at blease dewaal can joke about it. it's a good thing. >> i can't imagine mississippi opting out of medicaid. we are a poor state. it's an important program. we just want to run it better. we want to run it better for taxpayers and for our beneficiaries. we can control the cost much, much better if and when the federal government would give us more flexibility or just make it where we didn't have to ask for permission to governor herbert was talking about for eight months to do something very commonsensical. we could come and it is in your budget interest, too. so i am -- i am not an opt out at and i just being forthright about it. >> governor patrick? >> as i said in my opening

in the united states. because we understand that nonstationary sources are the problems. automobiles, trucks, trains it caused a significant part of pollution especially particulate pollution and one of the programs that has been very successful i think, in the epa has been the tour program, the diesel emissions reduction act and senator feinstein and senator boxer and myself and others have been very supportive of that program because it is moving -- removing old engines, old diesel engines from the inventory and replacing them with clean diesel which has a significant effect on particulate pollution. and we know that his approach and that works and there are a lot of things we do in government that don't work. so a lot of us were concerned when you've zeroed out the tour program so i just want to bring that certainly to your attention. my home state of california as you mentioned we have our own environmental laws and i would say in almost every case, every case, we meet or exceed federal standards. we h

the current unrest the united states isn't about the merits of democracy democracy is alive alive and well it's really about sort of spending and fiscal responsibility as relates to government this may be the issue of the decade in the united states to be perfectly honest with you democrats love to blame folks like george w. bush but in reality this situation dates back to over a generation when the johnson and frankly both coreys are culpable we're running a federal deficit of one point five trillion and national debt nearing fifteen trillion everybody knows we need to cut back but nobody wants to step forward to make the difficult cuts with that said if america wants to remain the world's economic leader it must draw a line in the sand right now and that's what we're saying with scott walker in wisconsin and case i can ohio ok steve i'm going to you a lot of people say a skeptic would say is that the banks can be bailed out wall street can be bailed out. big pharma big big everything can be you know protected but when it comes to the middle class who protects them. and that's exactl

we are gathered to hear the state of the state address by his excellency, the governor of alabama, robert bentley. [applause] i present to the governor. [applause] >> good to see you. lieutenant governor, speaker, president pro tem, distinguished guests, my fellow public servants and my fellow alabama a great privilege that i join you hear in this chamber to mark another milestone in our state's history. i am humbled tonight to be addressing this joint session as your governor. as i deliver my first stage of the state address, i do so with humility as a public servant, one who has been called to a great task. i thank you for sharing this moment with me tonight. as public servants, we are called to put others ahead of ourselves. i do not think you will find anyone with a bigger hearts and desire to serve others ban your first lady and my sweet wife, diane. [applause] i would also like to thank members of my cabinet who are here with me tonight. thank you for serving and joining me in meeting the challenges that lie ahead. chief justice, distinguished members of the alabama supreme court, t

you see there conservative state lawmakers clearly have a problem with abortion clinics in the state so few months back they voted to implement regulations requiring the state's abortion clinics to be run like hospitals rather than the way they're currently run which is like a typical physician's office bill caused an uproar from pro women's rights supporters because it posed a serious threat to the twenty some abortion clinics in the state who offer first trimester abortions and obviously it was really just a way to shut these clinics down and it had nothing to do with health standards because you see at least seventeen of these clinics potentially potentially could afford to upgrade their offices to hospital standards thus forcing so many of them to close but the g.o.p. decided that that move a couple months ago still wasn't strong enough so they now put any mergence in tag on the bill making this one of the state's legislature's top priorities over any other issues like i don't know the budget or education now keep in mind when a bill has this emergency label on it the state has t

state law prevails. >> medical malpractice is the state. you don't want federal law to supersede state this. >> i didn't think you did. from the conversation we're having here, you think you have any additional cost of the 42017? are you aware you have no additional cost before the year 2017? >> that's why i said when i was trying to say what the costs were, they are so backloaded. >> to anticipate in the future you have more or fewer for people with u.s. governor? >> advises that the economy we've got now, we're going to have more -- >> it is that your policy to reduce the number of poor people in your state? >> the policy of our state is to grow the economy enough more people working. >> that should be the resume. >> of course you endeavor to have fewer poor people that would make more successful governor may be the candidate for higher office. if you had fewer poor people, winter medicaid costs go down? >> we have 60,000 employees may first three years. people when asked about an medicaid costs costs were better. >> after 2017 u.s. fewer

and the state insurance. we need to think carefully about the profound devastation that medicaid would have on working families in the state health agencies that serve them. i've been here for a long time and its almost every year we see another proposal by the republicans to dismantle medicaid. they don't like medicaid. i know that. but the bottom line is medicaid has been a much-needed lifeline for the 6 million people enrolled in the program during this recession, many of whom did lose health insurance. i have one minute left, mr. chairman. i'd like to yield that to the gentlewoman from wisconsin. >> thank you, mr. chairman. radio across the country and particularly my home state of wisconsin, we are seeing the effects of unfortunate attacks as some of our nation's governors on the values we hold dear. i'm sorry that wisconsin's governor, scott walker declined the majority's invitation to be on the panel today. governors watsonville would not only strip away workers rights, it would also got the medicaid p

it's the good the bad of the very very ugly first the good wisconsin state assembly democrats since state republicans have acquired a court order and blocking public access to the capitol building and madison democratic lawmakers are moving their desks outside in freezing temperatures in order to meet with their constituents at least one party in wisconsin is listening to people who drop the bad republican lawmakers in ohio who are trying to pass the most restrictive abortion one in the nation the law would outlaw abortion want to harpy just detected but in their efforts to pass the bill republicans call for the testimony of a fetus so yesterday an alter cell was piped to the committee hearing take a look. at standing room only and hearing room one sixteen to see this a sonogram perform don't have a robonaut might images of her fifteen week old fetus broadcast on a large screen its heartbeat the little flashing dot course this is nothing more than a publicity stunt by radicals who want to roll back the rights one hundred and the very very ugly glass back on his radio show today back said

discuss the state of democracy in the us i'm joined by steve lesser in new york he's a columnist for democrats for progress dot com also in new york we have niles standage a journalist and author of redemption song an irish reporter inside the obama campaign and in washington we cross to florida o'connell he's chairman of civic form pac and another member of our cross talk team yelena hunger all right gentlemen all three of you have been on cross talk before so you know how it works for and i want to go to you and inside a little bit about collective bargaining in the united states democracy are the founding fathers a little worried right now as they see what's coming out of ohio and out of wisconsin the current resting i had states isn't about the merits of democracy democracy is live alive and well it's really about sort of spending and fiscal responsibility as a relates to government this may be the issue of the decade in the united states to be perfectly honest with you democrats love to blame folks like george w. bush i don't reality the situation dates back to over a generation

>> the medicaid program is a federal/state partnership, and it looks different in states around the country. the program already has an enormous flexibility in the affordable care act, more significant flexibility designing benefit packages, designing for some of the upper income beneficiaries, cost sharing, making sure that optional services in some states are part of the package and in other states they're not. there is a wide variety of program design. we are working actively. the nation has a host of brand new governors, and we're working actively with each of those states to not only give them a snapshot of what their program looks like but also of the strategies that have been committed in other parts of the country that have been very effective delivering care. >> thank you, the gentleman's time has expired. >> thank you. i would point out to the ranking member of the full committee that the democrats had entire year to come up with their appropriations. it is only because they failed to do their work that we're doing this right now. let me direct your attention -- >> the house passe

yet twelve states but most states reject this i mean it's. what part of redemption don't you believe them i'm not saying i don't believe in it i believe in the absolute as governor scott. well i think that he thinks that criminals need to pay for the crimes they commit but isn't it also isn't violent criminals need to pay for a longer period of time than not restart an awful story about somebody go bust a personal of a job and the five years and be. so it's ok what he's doing is he's adding five years to the penalty so he doesn't actually believe in the rule of law and justice he's saying that whatever the courts decide whatever the judges whatever the juries decide it's constitutional bodies that the you know the founders put into place in the constitution the fifth sixth seventh and eighth amendments to the constitution screw that i'm going to add five years he's not the only difference now. and learn we talk about the other well he's the most recent one to do this and i think that the i think that frankly the reason is the same most of the

at the state level, however, there are 22 states where the republicans have the governorship and both houses of the legislature and 11 states where the democrats have the governorship and both houses of the legislature. in 11 states, and this will continue for 12 years, with redistricting, the 22 republican-controlled state will tend to become more republican with a stronger redistricting. the others will become more democratic. 12 years from now, you have states like illinois which has already raised the income tax as soon as they got in, conn., another democratic state, raise the income tax, california is trying to raise the income tax. that is 8 2/3 requirement to raise taxes. in the 22 republican controlled states from wisconsin to ohio to michigan to texas to florida, georgia, maine, you are seeing a move in the other direction toward less regulation, lower taxes, less spending, fewer powers for the union bosses to take money from government workers through dues. the country will move in two very different direction state- by-state. 12 years from now, you will see interesting div

possible justification for the united states or even the e.u. to get involved in libya there's just nothing in their charters or just there's nothing that would justify this it's an civil war in a different country in which the details are very murky which could america be a hop skip and a jump away from another war the white house is now saying it will wait for the when to lead the way in dealing with libya but with the habit of getting need deep into other nations affairs will america be able to resist the temptation this could be a rerun of iraq this is a rerun of humanitarian. and very very dangerous. for the west despite warning signs flashing some experts believe history is about to repeat itself iraq and afghanistan they warn suck the us much further into war then first anticipated the definition of insanity is doing the same thing twice and expecting different results well in the case of the united states it would be doing the same thing dozens and dozens of times in trying to get different results in the united states. hasn't won a war

in states around the country. the program already has enormous plex about -- flexibility, and the affordable care act gives even more flexibility. designing benefit packages, designing for some of the upper income beneficiaries, cost sharing, making sure that optional services in some states are part of the package, this other states they are not. so there's a wide variety of program designs. some are entirely in managed care, others are not. we are working actively, as you know, the nation has a host of brand new governors and working actively with each of those states to not only give them a snapshot of what their program looks like, but also the strategies that have been implemented in other parts of the country that have been very effective in delivering care and saving cost. >> thank you, the gentleman's time has expired, and we'll yield five minutes to the vice chairman of the committee, dr. burgess. >> thank you, mr. chairmanment chairmanment -- mr. chairman. the democrats did have an entire year with which

>> what do the states do? if they have $175 billion in the hole right now and then they're going to have to come up with another $120 billion. this is the worst situation since the depression. nobody wants to hurt anybody. people got health care before. they had to go to emergency rooms but they got it. i'm not saying that that's what we should return to but we could have come up with a bill that would much more economic sense, would work better, would have both republicans and democrats together. that was an arrogance of power that they had that they just put this through this way. now look i don't like finding fault with my democrat friends. i don't like finding fault with the president. i don't even like finding fault with secretary sebelius but to be honest with you what she said is, if you read through the language and you read what she said you're still going to have to meet all the onerous provisions of this bill. you can't do it. that's the problem. >> woodruff: coming through loud and clear, senator o

crowley the state department spokesman was actually asked whether the u.s. had ruled out the idea of arming rebel libyan forces and he said no that's not off the table because at this point quite frankly nothing is off the table all options are still have to be there but my question is who exactly what we are right i mean it's not like there is a unified opposition group here no options are off the table or all options are on the table is like saying we don't know that's what they really say we don't know what we're doing yet maybe you'd be a little bit better in. more convincing and transparent they said that might not be big with the international community or the american people so they don't say that but frankly as i said before this is got to be handled very carefully because we're seeing u.s. policy collapse u.s. policy has been shaking hands with tyrants in order to protect oil that policy is falling apart on the other hand the us had for at least the last twenty years i could argue for the last sixty five years a nother policy and that was to breed f

stories treated so as bradley manning just getting what he deserves and what about the now former state department official who criticized the pentagon over many streetman we're going to hack into the issue in just a bit. and the u.s. is arguing that a cia operative accused of shooting true pakistanis should receive diplomatic immunity and now it's up to a pakistani courts to decide so what can the case of raymond davis tell us about the tangled u.s. pakistan web. and it's more money more problems right where the government seems to think that cutting spending will pull the country out of debt but will it really work for the spending money to make less problems. good evening it's monday march fourteenth eight pm here in washington d.c. i'm lucy catherine up in you're watching our team now a new development in the ongoing crisis in japan as a third explosion rocked the quake stricken fukushima nuclear power complex but the latest blast centered around the number two reactor but no immediate word of the extent of the damages we did know that the japanese nuclear safety agency confirms tha

of course it would be about the united states would be to. try to let me finish please this is about if we're speaking about interest then we must speak about european countries and their interests not the united states the focus here own do not in states i think is a good misleading person france and the u.k. took the lead on libya not the u.s. they used the u.s. and still this woman why has it and in fact. one so handed all that as a quick just read the paper i just read the press so this is really not an american lord of. the united states military you know you know like a we're going to try and shock we know of the french and the british where the leader is behind this operation not obama. not the one administration so what i fear is on the fringe liberals like you have to stay out of order as if i got it right now when you ask is of i want to go to i want to go to the i want us is a bull in the ok all right eric finish your point is silly or something and i want to see a sharp the us ok the us is a bull in a china shop you do not pass th

in unionized states we can point to unionized states where they are doing very well in the current crisis. we can point to states without collective bargaining where they're collapsing. the key here is that the unions give us the ability to adjust to this in a fair and equitable way going forward. as one nurse's aide in wisconsin put it, government jobs are the jobs my children might want some day. unions are a vital part of ensuring that there are decent jobs and that they attract the best to teach our children to fight fires, to provide security in our cities. these aren't trivial issues. the data does show, in fact, that there is no relation between the worst collapses in the states today and whether or not they're unionized. unions are part of the solution getting out of this not part of the problem. >> brown: very brief last word. >> a dozen states do not have unions in the public sector including very well run states like virginia. i think unions often stand in the way of reform. we don't need them in the public sector. >> brown: all right. we promised to continue this debate. chris

the state of wyoming. it is a great program. >> mr. latourette. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i'm all that stands between you and freedom. i will attempt to be -- 0. >> another miracle. >> mr. moran states -- >> i am glad the distinguished ranking member is still here. i do not like -- i let him make -- call h.r. 1 a dump truck. i do not think it was. it was a majority party that did not produce a budget, no appropriations bills of any significance, and then in regular order. in h.r. 1 i think you saw pent- up frustration. we had more votes in h.r. 1 then we had in the entire year of 2010. last year, nancy pelosi was speaker of the house. and we did not have any open rules. i do not want to embarrass mr. lummis, but she did not know what an open role was. i think it is a sin that someone who has been here for two years did not know what an open rule was. a lot of things got piled onto h.r. 1, but it was quite true years of frustration on both sides of the aisle. if it was a dump truck, it was the decision by

states senate in 2012. an overwhelming majority of conservatives, tea-loving supporters, and how about a united states president that gets what the american people want in 2012? [applause] >> and that will include -- [crowd members chanting] >> and this is what we call political theater. as soon as our theater is over, we will continue. that's ok. they just brought the buses in from madison, wisconsin. don't worry anything about it. we'll go back and enjoy the rest of our time together. thank you so much. thank you for your warmth, thank you for your love, and thank you for your welcome. get ready. we're seeing this kind of a response, because the left knows we're coming, and we're serious about 2012. we're serious. bring it on. we're ready for you. we're getting the party off to the right foot, and they know it, because they know new hampshire is not about to let go of these liberty-loving games that we made. if you know the left has targeted new hampshire as one of their first four states that they planne

he was born in the united states in order to have his name placed on the state's presidential presidential ballot georgia is the latest state to end internews birth or legislation and even mainstream republicans like mike huckabee seem to be jumping on board the birth there bandwagon check out this interview from earlier this week don't you think we deserve to know more about this man i would love to know more but i know it's troubling or not but one thing that i do know is his having grown up in kenya his view of the brits for example very different than the average american when he gave us back to when spiritual yeah great insults of the british but then if you think about it his perspective as growing up in any with the kenyan father and grandfather their view of the mountain our revolution in kenya is very different than ours because i think probably grew up hearing in the british were a bunch of imperialists who persecuted our ground about it. course has been widely reported that president obama was another born nor did he grow up in kenya and huckabee confuse the situation even more

that's happened in other states. frankly, it's happened in states which don't really permit a lot of public select are bargaining like texas, for example. >> tom: james, just less than a half minute left. the ohio unemployment rate where this collective bargaininging will be debated tomorrow, has clearly fallen over the past year. if it does away with collective bargaining rights for public employees, what do you think the unemployment rate will be in ohio a year from now? >> i don't think it's going to have a direct effect. the indirect effect it will have is that you weaken the poer with of the government unions, they've got less ability to press for higher taxes on private sector workers, private sector businesses. and keeping taxes low has a very good effect on businesses. >> tom: okay. we'll leave it there, james, we appreciate it. our guests james sherk with the heritage foundation and we've got bob bruno on the bottom there with the university of illinois out of chicago. >> susie: tom this is the second annive

lincoln chafee gives his state of the state address. and later, microsoft chairman bill gates talks about his foundation in his career. tomorrow, house homeland hearing chairman's examination -- examining radical islam in america with testimony on both sides of the issue. this is followed by the two men who related their personal accounts of family members involved with islamic radicals. >> potential republican presidential contenders have been making stops in key primary states. this weekend, on the road to the white house, michelle bachman in new hampshire at a fund-raiser. sunday at 6:00 27:30 p.m. >> first lady michelle obama and secretary of state hillary clinton hosted the international women of courage award ceremony at the state department. afterwards, at two award winners spoke to reporters. this is about 30 minutes. > >> good afternoon, and welcome. i am pleased to welcome you on the 100th anniversary of international women's day. secretary of state clinton has hosted the international woman of courage awards here at the depar

states senate in 2012, an overwhelming majority of t-loving supporters and how about a united states president that gets what the american people want in 2012? [applause] and that will include [chanting] >> and this is what we call stability. as soon as our political theater is over, we will resume. [chanting] >> that's ok. they just brought the buses in from madison, wisconsin. don't worry about it. we will enjoy the rest of our time together. thank you so much. thank you for your warmth. thank you for your love. thank you for your welcome. [applause] get ready, we are seeing this kind of response because the coming andwe are we're serious about 2012. we are serious. bring it on. we are ready for you. [applause] we are getting the party off on the right foot and they know it. they know new hampshire is not about to let go of the celebrity-loving gains we have made. the left has targeted new hampshire is one of their first four states that they plan to flip back into the progress of column. will you let it happen? absolutely not. because we are going to take our country back in 2012.

the state department is ramping up. the department will continue to have a large civilian mission in baghdad to meet the president's goal for an iraq that is sovereign combustible, and self- reliant. in support, the state department will train the iraqi police, operate 8 office of security cooperation to manage sales and train equipped the military and insure that ongoing reconstruction projects are properly transferred. the state department will employ 17,000 personnel. the cost will be in the range of $6.27 billion in fiscal year 2012 alone. the state department will rely on the contractors for services from food supplies to counter mortar and rocket fire. many have concerns about the ability to meet this daunting challenge and rightly so. the state department's mission is diplomacy, not combat. the commission stated that there is not enough evidence of a thorough, timely, and disciplined planning approach to the transition. commission maintains the state department is not ready. written testimony questions the state

>> in seven states, you can never vote again. most states, you cannot vote while you are on paper. because of the criminal background record checks that are now ubiquitous, incredibly, a, you have a hard time ending an apartment, getting a car loan, getting any kind of job. i'm a convicted felon, and it would not hire me and walmart. i could not work the cash register at burger king. most occupations and recessions are close to you because you are a convicted felon -- occupations and jobs. when you see homeless people outside, most of them have felony convictions, mostly bullshit felonies, the little felonies. that is why they cannot get jobs. that is why they are panhandling and sleeping in doorways. their numbers are just going to multiplied next year, the year after, 10 years from now. >> let me ask, would you agree there are significant areas for people who have criminal history records? >> i would agree. it is not just people who have felony convictions and going to prison, but i was struck this morning by the stories that amy told, and a gentleman who was a reporter in santa

illegal immigrants from violence torn arab countries fueling anti muslim sentiment in europe in the states taking them in germany's new interior minister has become the latest politician to enter the immigration debate he says islam doesn't belong in europe. up next our own sophie shevardnadze is joined by two leading world affairs academics to look at what the future holds for troubled libya and its neighbors and why foreign nations should stay away interviews coming up next. stephen cohen it's really good to have you back. on your who also good to see you again so stephen has come out with a new book called the victims return survivors of the gulag after star and that's coming out in london next week but we'll still need to talk about what's going on in the middle east because some shake news coming out and now it's being seriously discussed that u.n. and u.s. could intervene in libya. are we seeing a cause over iraq here i think it's very different than iraq i think iraq was a moment when the united states in the name of democracy formed democracy by bringing democracy at the tip of a b

state . that's. there is a story coming out of the united kingdom about a couple that was denied the right to be foster parents because of their anti almost sexual religious beliefs the couple had previously been foster parents and children back in the ninety's but in a two thousand and seven interview the social worker the couple eunice and i were in john's expressed strong views on homosexuality and give a social worker reservations about putting a child in their home a judge upheld that decision and ruled that the u.k. law preventing discrimination against gays trumps the couple's religious beliefs and the britain is a secular state not a theocracy as were the judges words so is this the right choice should religious beliefs play a factor in foster care homes i propose cameron chairman of the family research institute joins me now to talk about this issue dr cameron welcome back to the program well thank you shouldn't there be a separation of church and state when it comes to raising foster kids.

this us to do with the outgoing state budget. the state has to be able to issue bonds. the funds will be there, but the project may not be there in time. looking at a number of aspects, we're continuing to look at potential savings on bids, trying to manage the overall climate pretty well. reducing the overall projects, returning to the project. and inevitably, there is the restructuring of the financing plan. there is a potential swap that would replace some of our on programs state writ funds. commissioner campos: may i ask a follow-up? on page four of your report, you notice the mta has of financial mismanagement plan. when is that going to be executed by the ncaa? >> the program ends -- i believe it is in april. commissioner campos: ok. thank you. >> i might as well talk briefly about the authority's commitment to the project. $132 million is the current commitment. that is comprised of prop k funds, state traffic congestion relief funds. the prop k money is there. all that remains is the state funds that have not gone to the program. briefly, we have $19.7 million

state credit ratings reveal another aspect of state budget crisis. the five states that prohibit collected bargaining over retirement benefits has moody's highest credit rating. california an illinois, which allow collective bargaining over retirement benefits for public employees have the lowest credit rating among the 50 states. the next four lowest states also allow collective bargaining. illinoii'll in the -- illinois'e worst state of all. the illinois situation is so dire that for the last two years the state has had to borrow money just to make its pension contributions. and this year illinois had to pay a 2% higher interest rate just to borrow money to contribute to its pension program. now, this is madness and it cannot go on forever. 30 years ago the federal government moved away from an expensive, traditional pension plan. and setup a basic pension plan in combination with the 401(k) designed contribution plan. the system has worked well so far, although at some point we might need to reform federal pensions too. some forward-looking states

[applause] i will note from the great state of kansas, who served with distinction in the united states senate from 1978-1997 and who i now claim to be at least well grounded in tennessee, even though routed in kansas. we are very glad to have you here as well. one of the two u.s. ambassadors with us today is cran montgomery. [applause] who served after numerous years of direct service to senator baker as legislative counsel, served as the u.s. ambassador to oman from 1984- 1989. we thank you for your service. the other ambassador is ambassador howard h. baker jr. [applause] who, in addition to is a senatorial services and his service as president reagan's chief of staff was appointed by president george w. bush to serve as our ambassador to japan. he did so with distinction from 2001-2005. it was of this service of senator baker that inspired us to establish our ambassadorial lecture series at the center. two other people here today that i would like to mention and deserve a special thank you. susan and janon sitting at the head table with senator baker. [applause] they are natives of

apparently in his own state. you know, i learned a long time ago out here in washington that sometimes things don't change in washington, d.c., until they have to. i think we have to pick a fight. . if house republicans want to win this battle, we need to take a stand for the budget cuts and policy changes in enshrined in h.r. 1. defunding obamacare and defunding planned parnehood of america. it's time to take a stand for fiscal responsibility and reform. we have to say this far and no farther. for the sake of our children and grandchildren, we need to make a stand for the american people and make no mistake about it. if we make this fight, we can win this fight because the american people are on our side. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida. without objection, so ordered. mr. deutch: the party of no has officially become the party of no plan. every week under g.o.p. control has been another week with no plan to create jobs. this is not a game. in florida unemployment remains at 12%. people want t

in order to balance the state budget. prop 58 does not allow the state to issue debt in order to balance the budget. constitutional issues aside, it was made clear by the staff and the governor's office that even if those constitutional hurdles weren't there, they are philosophically opposed to issuing debt in order to balance the budget. those are the big issues thatsid the senate budget committees thamet, the language was introdd that goes along with the governor's proposal. i have passed around a summary that highlights the key components. just to hit the high points, what the bill basically does is is t makes good on a proposal to eliminate agencies by july 1. it also freezes activities after the signing of the bill. assuming that it goes through the legislature, it freezes redevelopment activity so that new commitments can't be made. it creates a successor entities that are designed to wind down the activities of redevelopment agencies that are already in place. what we have been working on a, it has been at our offi