pro-american states aligned with it the states that were not aligned with the united states were contained constrained relatively weak saddam hussein's iraq was in a box the islamic republic of iran was relatively weak hamas and hezbollah had not been legitimate elect coralie in their respective arenas the consolation for the power in the middle east for the united states was very much in america's favor back in two thousand and three on the eve of the invasion today clearly that is not the case unfortunately the united states is actually on the run we have actually been kicked out of iraq it's not just that we are on our troops we have been kicked out of the country which is really a very profound development for the united states i mean if i go to you in tel aviv it's quite interesting here is that we what kind of legitimacy does the iraqi government have because we're on the one hand we have really been quite american has been quite constraining keeping troops there which they'd like to do the iraqi government saying no but they don't want them to leave completely so is that the role of

states say we don't want to be a right to work state.ces like texas or florida or virginia or oklahoma, they are going to be more competitive and with the tax policy and regulatory policy and legal policiless that's how you make america competitive. get the federal government out of the one size fits all. even for things we think we would like. some states out there say we don't want that and people can vote with their feet and that's why poom move to texas now. we made it a very, very good place for business men and women put their capitol and know they will have a return on their investment. >> governor, as the governor of texas and expenses for health care and medicaid as relate to illegal immigration costs our state billions of dollars. should the federal government be required to reipburse. >> we send a bill every year and i am sure the governor did the same in arkansas. but yet to be paid. the real issue is border security. we have to deal with the issues is because of the abject failure of the federal government to defend and sche

every state has one. there are issues in the state.t gets involved whether it is clean air or clean water or if it is on our international border and we need to deal with other nations. it is more on a case by case basis. what we can't have at the current department of epa, they have become a government to themselves almost. and they are changing the course of history every day. >> i agree with you about the aggressivness -- the overaggressivness of the epa. you said on a case by case basis, you don't mean you would pass a law for every instance of a coal plant in ohio's pollution coming into pennsylvania, and then something else from one state to another, do you? >> that's right. >> is that what you intend? >> legislation is one thing. negotiation is another. i think a lot of these issues can be negotiated. if the two states that you mentioned, the two states can get together. >> but you cannot just negotiate without a legal foundation, and there by compel both sides to participate. you can't do that. so what is the -- if they won't n

states.he citizens and remind my friends that the 10th amendment talks about the states and citizens and not just moving power, for example from washington d.c. to richard or washington d.c. to tallahassee or washington d.c. to oklahoma city, it's moving power back and i tell every group of citizens i talk to, if we shrink the washington bureaucrats we have to grow local citizenship so would i advocate states consider a pell grant for k through 12. so that you actually, every parent has the right to choose where their grant goes and return power to the parents rather than to the government. >> mr. speaker, you've proposed not just impeaching judges who issue rulings to deem unconstitutional, but advocating abolishing entire appellate courts. if president obama were to, in the signature health care law would that be an appropriate application of your plan? >> first of all, the president couldn't do it. the president would have to have the support of the house and senate to do it. and i've ment

in the state of california or another state. our general impression is that most of those sellers, even up to $30 million in sales, have a very tiny margin. what they are making from that is significantly less than what they are large retail competitors can be. one example, our estimate is in that $30 million number, we believe that would be the amount of sales on amazon since the beginning of this hearing today. >> on the small business administration number, we need to debunk that right from the start. it has absolutely nothing to do with the conversation today, which is about the burden on small businesses for collecting sales clack. -- collecting sales tax. mr. cohen's company has told wall street that they have something like over 25 million sellers. that is the world wide number. that is probably about 10 million domestically. we have analyzed it as just over 5 million sellers. only 1% of those sellers sell more than $150,000. >> what is the percentage of your cellars are small businesses as compared to larger retailers? >

every state has one. there are issues in the state. think on a case by case basis, the federal government gets involved whether it is clean air or clean water or if it is on our international border and we need to deal with other nations. it is more on a case by case basis. what we can't have at the current department of epa, they have become a government to themselves almost. and they are changing the course of history every day. >> i agree with you about the aggressivness -- the overaggressivness of the epa. you said on a case by case basis, you don't mean you would pass a law for every instance of a coal plant in ohio's pollution coming into pennsylvania, and then something else from one state to another, do you? >> that's right. >> is that what you intend? >> legislation is one thing. negotiation is another. i think a lot of these issues can be negotiated. if the two states that you mentioned, the two states can get together. >> but you cannot just negotiate without a legal foundation, and there by compel both sides to participate.

every state has one. there are issues in the state. i think on a case by case basis, the federal government gets involved whether it is clean air or clean water or if it is on our international border and we need to deal with other nations. it is more on a case by case basis. what we can't have at the current department of epa, they have become a government to themselves almost. and they are changing the course of history every day. >> i agree with you about the aggressivness -- the overaggressivness of the epa. you said on a case by case basis, you don't mean you would pass a law for every instance of a coal plant in ohio's pollution coming into pennsylvania, and then something else from one state to another, do you? >> that's right. >> is that what you intend? >> legislation is one thing. negotiation is another. i think a lot of these issues can be negotiated. if the two states that you mentioned, the two states can get together. >> but you cannot just negotiate without a legal foundation, and there by compel both sides to participat

[applause] our state government is smaller. our state government is more efficient. our state government is focused on the future. arizona is poised to move into our second century with the creation of a new model to advance our economy. they arizona commerce authorities a public-private entity focused solely on quality job retention and recruitment. meanwhile, education in arizona is being transformed. is a transformation supported by education and business leaders all across america. it called arizona ready, we are engaging families across the state to take charge of their families education expect more from their public schools. these reform initiatives include adoption of higher academic standards and the elimination of teacher tenure. they include employment policies that prohibit giving retention priorities to teachers based on seniority and we are ensuring arizona has a state-of-the-art educational data system so teachers have real-time information that can be used to improve instruction, so that they can be held accountable for their results. now, fixing what

state of washington, any other state couldn't require amazon or an out-of-state seller to collect the same sales tax. they had a reason for doing so and it was a good reason. they said it was so complicated to do it that it put a burden on interstate commerce. but at the same time the supreme court invited the united states congress to fix the problem. and by fixing the problem, that means the congress could act in order to create a fair way for states to require retailers who are out of state to collect the same sales tax that retailers on main street collect. over that 20 years, the online sales tax loophole got to be a big loophole. it subsidizes some businesses at the expense of others. as i said earlier, prefers some taxpayers at the expense of others. last week the hudson institute, a generally conservative organization, released a new report that explains how the subsidizing of out-of-state sellers works and how the federal government, those of us in washington, are keeping states from closing this loophole. they conclude, hudson does, that this online sales tax loophole is dis

not turn up at the state legislature today, they fled the state. joining us now is a democratic wisconsin state senator. he joins us now from a reportedly secure but alas undisclosed location. >> this is systemically dismantling some of the best parts about the state of wisconsin. the republican employees, they plow our roads and clean our streets. there are teachers and prison guards. they are the people who run our great state parks. and you're saying to them what you do doesn't really matter. not only do we want you to pay your fair share which they're more than willing to do, we want to bust your union. and that tears at the very fabric of the state of wisconsin. >> last night in the blink of an eye republicans in the wisconsin senate wiped away most union rights from most of the state's public employees. today republicans in the state assembly did the same over the loud and vocal protests of those who gathered outside the chamber as well as the democratic representatives inside the chamber. republican govern oor scott walr pledged to sign it i

that's the state level. the federal level we must continue to fight to ensure that these brave public servants have the resources necessary to safely perform their jobs. that's because so many give the ultimate sacrifice. the last ten years, 47 law enforcement officials representing 35 ohio agencies were killed while on duty. 47 law enforcement officials were killed while on duty just in a decade. according to the f.b.i., 48 law enforcement officials across the country were feloniously killed in the line of duty in 2009. more than 57,000 law enforcement officials were assaulted while performing their duties. this past week -- this past may during national police week i attended a police officer memorial service in huntington park in cleveland. i met sarah windfield of mayoriesfield. her husband was a deputy in the sheriff's department in a north central ohio community when he was shot and killed while on duty. but in her grief the widow with two young sons to care for has become an advocate ensuring those wh

about the state budget process. one of the things i teach them and as a understand it, al smith also reformed how budgeting is done in new york. prior to him, the budgeting wasn't done very well and the budget may have been put forth by the legislature and now we have a very strong executive being put forth by the governor and that's another legacy that exists to this day for al smith. in my opinion that's one of his real strong contributions to the whole structure of government in upstate new york. wonder if you would comment on that. >> yeah, prior to smith, budgeting was done by the legislature. they would get together you all the estimates of what it would take to run government. very inefficient. you had executive agencies reporting to the legislature to say this is what i need whereas they technically reported to the governor. smith used to joke about it and say when the initial been bill was presented it was then added to by the legislature so that the original budget bill could then be almost unrecognizable.

that intimately involves the states. the process requires the ratification of that amendment by the states. i have been always a supporter that we need a uniformed law on values -- excuse me that undergird our country. that's why i feel strongly and promoted the federal marriage amendment and. we can't have 50 definitions

wouldn't that lead to people -- states asking -- states offering to -- what's the word? deregulate so that the companies would come there? >> right. i think on the second question you have to have a floor. you cannot, you know, you're not going to incentivize behavior that's going to end up damaging, you know, the nation even if it's damaging just one state. you have to have a floor on it, craft it in such a way that you're not violating federal environmental protection laws, ect.. >> state has their own regulations. >> they do -- >> [inaudible] >> you can do stuff like accelerating permit -- eliminating layers of bureaucracy not relateed to protecting natural resources of a state, too. you have to craft it in a way to protect those. >> the answer is yes, and -- as to entrepreneurism, yes, we have to teach that, teach people the ability to invent and create. this is the world we're in. the and part is it's not just about being an entrepreneur. what we have to create is an entrepreneurial mind set everywhere so the idea that kids still have very much have -- we have a nie

tax in the state of mississippi. in wisconsin, a bill was put in last week to make birth certificates free if you need one for voting. he has 20 co-sponsors, only one of them a republican. mostly wisconsin republicans say the same things republicans everywhere say about the new laws that make it harder to vote. they want to protect the integrity of elections for people like 84-year-old ruth al frank, even if they protect her right out of the process. ruth al frank was born paralyzed on one side of her body. with her age and disability, she could get an exception from the new law if she claims to be indefinitely confined. she could still vote for free. she does not want to use the indefinitely confined exemption because she is able to shuffle off to meetings at the town hall where she serves on the town board. she gets around well enough. no way is miss ruth going to claim she's indefinitely confined. she says, quote, that would be lying. and lying would be wrong. so sleep better, wisconsin. your elections are safe fr

in the state of california or another state. our general impression is that most of those sellers, even up to $30 million in sales, have a very tiny margin. what they are making from that is significantly less than what they are large retail competitors can be. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] the chair recognizes the gentleman from minnesota, mr. kline. mr. kline: thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, i rise in support of h.r. 3094, the work force democracy and fairness act and yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. clines: thank you, mr. chairman. the -- mr. kline: thank you, mr. chairman. across the country, the american people are asking, how can we get this economy moving again, what will it take to finally put people back to work? and washington is responding with a number of answers. some think we should support more spending, more taxes and more regulations. in essence they're askin

[applause] our state government is smaller. our state government is more efficient. our state government is focused on the future. arizona is poised to move into our second century with but the creation of a new model to advance our economy, the arizona commerce authorities have public private entity focused solely on quality job retention and recruitment. meanwhile, education in arizona is being transformed. is a transformation supported by education and business leaders all across america. .. >> life is about choices. doing the right thing almost always is doing the hard thing. choosing what is tough over what is tempting choosing the truthful. speaking about choices, before the 1984 election, president reagan said, and i quote, "the choices this year are not just between two different personalities or to political parties. there between two distribution and -- vision to the future in too fundamentally different ways of governing. terror of pessimism and laments in of hope, confidence and growth. " it seems to me there are still two very different visions of the fu

states senate. i was the leader on pro-life issues and profamily issues and i fought those issues and endured tough debates and won. i went out and fought on national security issues, conservative things like putting sanctions on iran and, again, the consistent track record of being there when good times and bad, and i think you heard the difference, you're not going to hear them talk about all the positions i took and flip-flopped on, i was there, i led, and i won. and if you're looking for someone who can be a consistent conservative, and there is others on this platform, but it can lead the fight, win the issues and, plus, win in states that are important for us to win elections like pennsylvania. >> all right, let's talk more about the debate last night. let's bring in cnn deputy political director paul steinhauser in des moines and ron brownstein from washington. good to see both of you, gentlemen. clearly, romney and gingrich are the targets since they're the front-runners. did either one of t

the state, even a state as powerful as california because you have to balance our budget in the have no resources to be able to do it. but states do compete against one another all the time. whatever way we can, and the only way that we can often compete is by throwing tax incentives at businesses. and so luring businesses, and you're moving them around from one state to another. every governor call we are constantly competing with one another to set that run from you guys. there is a magazine that facilitates this cult site selection magazine. >> to doing? >> i did. you are does moving the jobs around from wednesday to another. when the real competition is overseas. so what do we do as a nation to be able to crack the code to keep jobs here when the movement of jobs and capital, as we have seen so readily flows to places not just that have the cheapest labor, green bell was an example of where they have the cheapest labor, but also where there is an offer of a partnership on behalf of other government. i will send a quick story in and put it back to you. i was in march in china. i a

that population size varied from state to state, so a formula was worked out that gave states more electoral votes if they had more population. so montana, with its population of almost a million, gets three electoral votes, while california's population of 37 million entitles it to 55 electoral votes. still with me? okay, now listen to this. you'd think that if half the people in a state vote for one candidate and half vote for the other, then the electoral votes would be allocated accordingly. not so. only two states -- nebraska and maine -- allocate their electoral votes according to the popular vote. instead, most states are winner takes all. >> the winner-takes-all concept means that each state gives all of its electoral votes based on the popular vote in that state, so if candidate "a" wins the majority of the popular votes, he or she gets all of that state's electoral votes. >> but listen to this. let's say candidate "a" wins every popular vote in colorado. its population is just over 5 million. candidate "b" wins all the popular votes in new mexico and nebraska. their combined popula

it will not be going into state's ensuing states for what they have the right to do. -- and suing statesr what they have the sovereign right to do. [applause] >> [inaudible] >> she asked a question of what i would do to get congress to work together and the president to work together. for 11 years i have been the governor of the seven most populous state. there is a substantial -- second most populous state. there is a substantial number of democrats in our legislative body. i have experience getting men and women who do not always see eye to eye -- and you have got to be engaged. i mean, you have to be involved in the process on a regular basis. of the six balanced budget i have signed, i know for a fact that there was not the time that myself, physically, or staff was not in meetings as we were going through the appropriations process. [laughter] there are two things you will not see me doing. you will not see me playing golf on sunday morning and you will not see me on a 19 day holiday in hawaii. [applause] >> i am confused. when obama became president, it seems to me he acquired quit

to our state.w would you as pt bring back the many, many businesses that have gone overseas from the seed bed for them in our country? how would you do that? >> i think what i began to describe earlier is the key step. you have 100% expensing so manufacturing firms limitly can write off all their investment in one year. you have a 12.5 corporate tax rate. in addition, you have a retrained workforce because of new model of unemployment compensation combined with training. i would replace the environmental protection agency with a environmental solutions agency that has to apply economic rationale to its decisions. you create a 21st century food and drug administration whose job is to go from the laboratory to the patient as rapidly as possible, not as slowly as possible. and you design a new model of occupational safety and health which starts with performance and basically says if you don't have any problems nobody's going to visit you. which means you automatically eliminate most of the bureaucrat

>> we have 50 epa's every state has them. there are issues across the state.case by case basis federal government gets involved weather clean air or clean products or whether it's the border. more on a case by case basis but what we can't have the current department of epa they have essentially become a government to themselves almost. they are changing the course of history every day. >> i certainly agree with you about the over aggressiveness of the epa but as a practical matter you said on a case by case basis you don't mean you would pass a law for every instance of a coal plant in ohio coming to pennsylvania and something else from one state to another, do you? >> legislation is one thing negotiation is another. a lot of these things can be negotiated. the two states you mentioned the two states can get together. >> you cannot just negotiate without a legal foundation and compel both sides to do that. if they don't negotiate then what? >> you are making a very good point. when we send the power and authority back to the states that's the place to begin. t

you need to know this several republican controlled state legislatures across the nation have now passed restrictive new laws aimed at limiting the number of people who can vote next year whether it's you new voter id laws and you hurdles to register voters or getting rid of early voting republican fix is already in on the two thousand and twelve election and while all of this has been going on or republicans have been disenfranchising voters and mass this guy rick perry hasn't said a word heck even past his own strict new voter id law down in texas the brennan center for justice estimates the five million eligible voters will be knocked off the voting rolls across america thanks to these new right wing anti voter laws and rick perry doesn't care to rick perry these voter was are just fine no problem it's the name of the game so then why is rick perry suing the state of virginia now. you see rick perry just like newt gingrich didn't get enough eligible signatures to have his name put on the ballot in virginia for the republican primary he needed ten thousand and actually got more than th

most states the united states don't have a corporate charter provision in their state laws that would allow these kind of companies to even come into existence and and you know be recognized by the state as a legal entity and be appropriately taxed and regulated and all the things that are necessary for a company to exist you write about b. corporations and we only have four states and so so far. so what is a big corporation why only four states and how many states even allow things like just basic genuine worker owned and run cooperatives i don't know the answer to last question but i do know that people have wrinkles in the law where you can change the corporate charter and do it as a business or as a nice and find democratic participation democratic control and there are ways to develop within the law legal structure and in some states change the co-op laws but so a big cars got example we have it here and just over here in maryland sen jamie raskin was behind doing that very bright young senator it's a very simple idea if you are a corporate chief or you're on the board your legal

he real state of the union essays on united states the angry american our commentary on social rage. hobbies, travel in the form of ussr, the mideast and europe. paul, jeffrey sarrabin. >> the statistics that i gave from this quite remarkable 5,500 were recapped. do you believe that the historical account as given by at least two of the gospel writers of the christmas the angels announcing to mary. >> no, i'm not a theologian. >> do you think it's not treating as historical jesus' true history? >> well, i'm a histo historian t know how much historical evidence there is for this. we don't know the historical evidence his yuns go by. >> well,, the row monocatholic church council said you don't have to accept it in it full littoral teerality. >> sure i do. these statistics are from your article. it's on the question of is religion very important to you. 60% of americans say religion is very important to them. 30% that of the irish, 30%, 27% of italians, 20% of germans, and 10% of french say that religion is very important to them. does that kiss appoint disappoi? >> it's welsh. in the n

it is valley state's prison within a prison. while ad seg houses those on temporary lockdown, the other side of the building known as the security housing unit or shu is for serious offenders who are considered a more permanent problem. >> i was set up. i was set up. that's what i was. inmates were afraid of me and they put a shank under my mattress. >> they think i'm a threat to the institution. >> inmates in the shu are kept in their cells almost 23 hours a day. they are allowed out for only three showers a week and ten hours in the recreation yard. life in ad seg or shu isn't just a more intense experience for the inmate. correctional officers like diane vasquez are under the pressure of dealing with a different brand of criminal. >> working here in ad seg shu is very challenging. you deal with a lot of physical abuse, mental abuse, emotional abuse. it just depends on how much you let it affect you. you hear yelling. you hear cursing. you hear banging, kicking on the doors. this is how it is 24/7. at nighttime they don't slee

as a united states senate -- that as a united states citizen inside the united states you have inalienable rights protected by the u.s. constitution. our constitution says all crimes, prosecution thereof, shall be pursuant to a grand jury indictment. there is no exception in the constitution for that. the constitution grants a united states citizen a trial in the state in which the crime was committed, i think clearly envisioning civilian trial. we as americans have a right to a speedy trial, not indefinite detention. we as americans have a right to a jury of our peers, which i would argue is enlisted or addition not enlisted or military personnel sitting in a jury. you cannot search our businesses or place of business or our homes without probable cause under the bill of rights that -- that you can not be deprived of your freedom or your property without due process of law and that i would say is not indefinite detention. that all due process guarantees under law are granted to you by the 14th amendment. and i would actually argue that no statute and no senate and no house can take these

>> more states at play. because every president travels to virginia, it's ten minutes from the oval office. >> there are a lot of republicans -- >> i'm saying that president obama could be ahead by 20 points in virginia and he would still go to virginia because it's nearby him and presidents want to get out of washington. virginia's the closest place they can go, and maryland, of course. >> the criticism, being given by republicans now is the president's spending too much time on the road campaigning. tonight he's at three top dollar fund-raisers here in new york, after spending the day in pennsylvania which as you said promoting an extension of the payroll tax cut. is the trip to new york being paid for with public funds or is that -- >> everything -- when we -- when this president travels for political events like the campaign events he has in new york, those are paid for appropriately out of dnc or campaign funds. i mean, this -- but the trip he made to januarystscranton, penn prior to new york was an off