why should it be different state to state to state? what is it? do we want to protect the above-ground resources and not have open pits? well, under this bill, if you have an open pit, it's on a flyway, migratory bird land there and die quickly. the federal government can't do anything about it. and that state allows open pits, can't do anything about that. that's up to that state and that's a fact. a number of states allow open pits. we should have a regulatory regime where the federal government, on its lands, which belong to all the people of the united states, sets a reasonable floor for regulations. if a state like maryland wants to go above good solid regulation, well, then good. but if someone is a bad actor and they want to drag it down, they want to have open pits, they don't want to test the casing, they don't want to do other things that are absolutely essential to protect resources, then they can do that. on federal lands? you know, it's bad enough they're allowing people to do it on private lands. do it on their state lands. these are

i think we're going to have to work nationally and state by state. it's going to be a challenge. we have to keep working, and we're going to win. >> one of the two women who started it all in the state of hawai'i. anina bahr. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> more on the same-sex marriage story and the ongoing battles going on in courthouses around the country. this is "inside story." report. guilty of a violent crime... >> desperate people do desperate things... >> but when is it too much time? >> i heard the word life, but i didn't understand that meant i was gonna die in prison... >> could a landmark ruling give him a second chance? >> my day will come... >> a controversial special report... >> i was completely re-traumatized by the fear of this offender... >> locked up for life america tonight 9 eastern, tonight, on al jazeera america. determining using some sort of subjective interpretation of their policy as to whether or not your particular report was actually abusive, because if it doesn't contain language that specifically threatens you directly or is targeted t

state standards and they do vary from state to state for income eligibility medicaid eligibility the different health insurance companies that participate each state and the different plans i mean they really do vary tremendously from state to state thus the states would have borne most of the burden in terms of programming and computer and stuff like that for building the exchanges. but republican run states. we're not going to cooperate tea party republicans convinced thirty six states to not set up their own exchanges and because so many republican governors said no to helping their own states is sabotaging obamacare in their minds was more important in helping their people get health care. so when fox republicans talk about how a site is not working out health care dot gov is not working and you hear that on fox news they're not complaining they're bragging. ironically obamacare is working pretty well in the states the set up their own exchanges i did three hours on the radio today and open the lines and said you know call up and tell me the experience everybody from a blue state

power states help other states the non-nuclear weapon states to develop their peaceful use of nuclear energy well that part of the nonproliferation treaty has been abandoned and it's there that the united states. leads a kind of a campaign to prevent iran the peaceful use of nuclear energy which is what is supposedly the nonproliferation treaty and little about georgia saying if i go back to majeed in tampa is that you know the international community the term international community is george is applying it here is really the washington consensus isn't it. i think that's a great point that. i think we're raising i think it's again depends on the context that we're using and we have to define and really know to be able to build up upon our arguments i think i think the international community from the western perspective the finishing of it is really different from let's say from. you can say from the more developing or while noble country is the definition of the international community again what i'm saying that is there from the western perspective i think the international communi

power states help other states that non-nuclear weapon states to develop their peaceful use of nuclear energy well that part of the nonproliferation treaty has been abandoned and it's there that the united states. leads a kind of a campaign to prevent iran the peaceful use of nuclear energy which is supposedly nonproliferation treaty and little about georgia saying if i go back to majeed in tampa is that you know the international community the term international community is george is applying it here is really the washington consensus isn't it . i think that's a great point i think. i think we're raising i think it's again depends on the context that we're using and we have to define it to really know to be able to build up with upon our arguments i think i think the international community from the western perspective the phoenician of it is really different from let's say from. you can say from the more developing or while noble country is the definition of the international community again what i'm saying that is there from the western perspective i think the international communi

republicans in state after state after state after state are increasingly openly and overtly admitting that the more people vote, the more that is a problem for them. but tomorrow is election day in mostly low-profile races across the country, americans have been turning out to vote early already, are planning on voting tomorrow. in states where republicans are in control, voting has mostly gotten harder over the past few years. in the texas election tomorrow in dallas county alone, one out of every four voters has had to file a legal affidavit in order to try to get their vote counted because of these new laws, one in four! in texas, even the state government admits that something like 700,000 people in the state are legal voters but do not have the i.d. that you need to be able to show to be able to vote in that state now. of those 700,000 people, we learned today the total number who have been issued free i.d.s by the state of texas so they can get their vote cast and counted. out of 700,000 people who need these i.d.s to be able to vote, do you know how many people have got their i

republicans in state after state after state after state are increasingly openly and overtly admitting that the more people vote, the more that is a problem for them. but tomorrow is election day in mostly low-profile races across the country, americans have been turning out to vote early already, are planning on voting tomorrow. in states where republicans are in control, voting has mostly gotten harder over the past few years. in the texas election tomorrow in dallas county alone, one out of every four voters has had to file a legal affidavit in order to try to get their vote counted because of these new laws, one in four! in texas, even the state government admits that something like 700,000 people in the state are legal voters but do not have the i.d. that you need to be able to show to be able to vote in that state now. of those 700,000 people, we learned today the total number who have been issued free i.d.s by the state of texas so they can get their vote cast and counted. out of 700,000 people who need these i.d.s to be able to vote, do you know how many people have got their i

the states that have a state exchange, the states that are doing the medicaid expansion, there's a prettyiagram of the states and they're pretty strong correlation with those states and efforts to do really aggressive and targeted outreach. going out looking at snape the beneficiary rolls. looking at people are getting other types of state or local benefits. you do the crosswalk. you know who these people are. you know whether the. you know what income is. you know they're okay getting government benefits. so will you reach out to them and say we've got something we think you might be interested in, medicaid, it's not a surprise a comeback in pretty large numbers and say yes, we are interested. will those numbers be sustained? will this for to one or -- know. i think what we'll see is medicaid enrollment that we've seen spiking will go down and exchange numbers will go up. but in all i think what we're seeing is the numbers according to the states we've talked to, which is pretty much everybody, it's largely consistent, largely in line with what their projections were at the onset. and so

state and see which ones do. -- ffm states. spent as we going to last 10 minutes or so, i would like to ask you to pull out the blue evaluation forms and fill them out as we get to these last few questions. i would like to ask you to ask your question. >> hi. i've got to question. the first one is just about the enrollment data that's been released in terms of young people, so maybe sara and mila you guys can answer this. is that data on target as far? does it represent a lot of work left to be done, or is a good sign? and then secondly, how is that data in forming study specifically for reaching out to that group? mila, you were talking about data is simple to adjust outreach strategy. what is the data telling you this far in terms of what's working and what needs to be done? either going to be specific things to sort of try to bring in those procrastinators that it been talked about? >> just in terms of the data that's coming in, i think this week we saw in states that are going to own marketplaces that are reporting it, sign

maine is a state hurting because of the poor direction our current governor has led the state. thousands of people in maine are not going to get covered because of a veto that the governor put forth. and the fact of the matter is, it would save maine over $600,000 by that expansion of medicaid here for voters, i mean constituents in main. jobs and the economy is very important. yes, we do have down employment rate, it's been going down. but it doesn't mean people are not getting jobs. it means they're not collecting unemployment. so we have a lot of issues here in maine that we need to focus on, and that's why i decided for governor. it concerns me the direction we're being led by the current administration and i look forward to talking to the voters about the issues. >> when you said that you were hearing that your sexual orientation was becoming an issue, not by your choice but that other people were starting to talk about it because were you running for governor, do you know that that was being done by people who were trying to use it against you? people trying to say it was

from the power plants operating in their state. last month epa posted on our website a document setting out a number of key questions to guide the discussion that we will be having as we get ready to craft a proposal. there are two questions that will be fundamental to that proposal and good to keep in mind for today. they are, first, what should epa consider in setting standards and goals for states to reduce carbon pollution associated with fossil fuels by power plants? second, because the guidelines could include a framework in which states could design plans to show how they will meet the goal, what should that framework the? we know many states already have programs that reduce carbon pollution from the power sector. their leadership shows that opportunities for election may range from actions taken at the power plants themselves to other programs like energy efficiency in our homes and businesses and removal of energy requirements. these other programs can directly affect electricity generation attic power plants which in tur

we need to look to red states that are outperforming blue states, states that are cutting taxes, controlling spending, balancing budgets and creating jobs. the change we are looking for is not a speech with a lofty rhetoric. what we're looking for can be found in the record of governors like susanna martinez, rick scott, terry branstad. [applause] areervative governors who cutting taxes and controlling spending and investing in jobs. signed theanstad largest tax cut in iowa history. addedno wonder iowa has -- $7.3jobs and 7 billion in economic projects under his watch. [applause] i get up every day and go to don't,cause i know if i he will be there. kim.e will send he is a serious governor making a real difference. iowa's futuree -- is bright. he has assembled an incredible team. his strongest asset is here with us tonight. the lieutenant governor is part of that ramstad -- ramstad administration. [applause] she deserves our thanks. she is dedicated to this state. there are states like iowa that are succeeding. then there are states that are sinking. there are states that are in trouble, sta

it's going to take that to win this state on a state-wide race. the other thing, georgia is becoming progressively brown. that we are having african-american voters controlling much more of the electorate here and we have a growing, growing hispanic population that always tend to vote democrat in this state, on immigration issues, and a mound of others. and while we've yet to see the real policy positions, that will become a very interesting point to me. but what is happening on the other side of the aisle is even more interesting. you've got paul brown who is to the right, to the right, to the right of everybody else, really, in this race, and you've got people trying to catch up with him on issues. if paul brown faces a split primary, with some very strong candidates with national names like tom brown and phil gingrey, he could very well come out of this primary the leader, a very bruising primary. and i believe that michelle nunn becomes an increasingly available candidate in that situation. >> that paul brown, that is the dream candidate right

iran by the united states. the worsening economic situation inside iran means the country is finding other ways to make ends meet china has reportedly agreed to finance various projects by blocking twenty two billion euros of oil assets beijing and tehran deal in the law and not the dollar so the sanctions don't affect china's business with its third biggest crude oil supplier political analyst mohammad marandi says the u.s. agenda is splintering. this is one of many signs that the u.s. imposed sanctions is not working and it's beginning. to fall apart not that the united states wants this to happen the united states wants to make ordinary iranians suffer as much as possible they want to have a state the iranian economy and they've already succeeded in killing people because for example iran has had great difficulty importing medicines so the americans are definitely upset with this but as time goes on we are seeing increasingly countries moving away from the united states companies in nor in the united states

a failed state in iraq a failed state and afghanistan a failed they're all failed to see right there are. ok i see what i'm. getting out here charlie you want to jump in go ahead. syria is a failed state but can we also point out that you can't put all the blame on america you know let's not forget it's the people on the ground that are creating these failed states some of and i would disagree with him was that he was talking about as far a serious concern the problem with obama was he didn't engage early enough and obviously the longer it takes to engage the harder it is in the heart of the choices and eventually you do have to engage and that's the problem if mr obama hadn't gave himself about three years ago before i got into it when there was a political vacuum i think we'd have had a far better outcome than we have today but yes you're right nation building is not anyone's crossly right and i think as far as japan and germany and germany about the lies because i think everybody having heard it's ok joshua jump in because you know if i can go if i go to just go right now because

what he's done is run a campaign that acknowledges this is a blue state, a democratic state.ou guys would just generally rather vote for democrats. but here is why i'm the one republican you can feel okay voting for. in addition to that one of the dirty secrets of chris christie governorship, one of the reasons he's been able to get through democratic legislature is he's made deals, alliances with democratic bosses. a big boss, george norcross, there are potentially vulnerable state legislative in couple bandi -- incumbents and chris christie has touched them because he doesn't want to ruin that alliance. >> you pointed out he has run as a moderate far ahead of the polls of his challenger. out on the campaign trail with him, asked about his strategy. take a listen. >> governor, any concerns about tea party conservatives not being supportive of you as you reach out to democrats? >> i think what you're going to find with tomorrow night's results you don't have to worry about that. you appeal to everybody. we'll get huge republican support, 94, 95% at least. it hasn't affected u

you, the united states, are the big satan in iran's eyes.ou think this is bad for us and israel, imagine what this will be for the united states. and so, mr. speaker, i would like to focus just a little bit on the chart that senator kirk put together, because i think it speaks very eloquently of why the p-5 plus 1 deal was very, very bad and why the prime minister netanyahu was rightly concerned about not only the national security of the jewish state of israel and the national security of the united states and freedom-loving people around the world. let's look at this document that was put together by senator kirk. they would get in cash $60 billion. some of the literature i read said up to $50 billion would be free and available to iran. at minimum they would have act stose $3 billion in cash. this is an actor, the state of iran, which was found illegally

one of the closest allies of the united states and we've seen. actually forgave the usa for turning its back on more bartok but in the long and the long run a new thought that todt the support of the army so it had a safety net it had an insurance policy in both egypt and. was that was one of the major reasons that actually the obama pulled the rug from under their feet. off mubarak knowing fully well that supporting this and portent pivotal point where the actually win over the conflict win over the support of the people to the army which actually took over power and diffused to relinquish power it was only after protests further yeah we did. that but we had to think that talks more about indecision and the lack of strategery even understanding what's going on on the ground and how would you how would you look at how the western powers particularly the united states has dealt with events in the greater middle east over the last two years because you know we can look at each individual country in their specifics there but the bomber administratio

the states that have a state exchange, the states that are doing the medicaid expansion, it is a kind event diagram. a strong correlation. diagram. looking at snape the beneficiary roles. beneficiary you know who these people are and their income. you know they are ok getting government benefits. and say weut to them have some you might be interested in -- medicaid, and is not a surprise they come back to large numbers as that we are interested. who will those numbers be sustained? no. what we will see if the medicaid enrollment that would've seen spiking will go down and exchange numbers will go up. in all, what we are seeing are the numbers according to the states will talk to which is pretty much everybody, it is largely consistent in line with what their projections were at the onset. and so what states are really qualityt is a constant improvement process. as they are building systems and interfacing, they are testing and fixing and patching. sometimes they have to go back and resort to mitigation strategies. sometimes they have to go back and do things with paper. paper enrollme

state and see which ones do. -- ffm states. spent as we going to last 10 minutes or so, i would like to ask you to pull out the blue evaluation forms and fill them out as we get to these last few questions. i would like to ask you to ask your question. >> hi. i've got to question. the first one is just about the enrollment data that's been released in terms of young people, so maybe sara and mila you guys can answer this. is that data on target as far? does it represent a lot of work left to be done, or is a good sign? and then secondly, how is that data in forming study specifically for reaching out to that group? mila, you were talking about data is simple to adjust outreach strategy. what is the data telling you this far in terms of what's working and what needs to be done? either going to be specific things to sort of try to bring in those procrastinators that it been talked about? >> just in terms of the data that's coming in, i think this week we saw in states that are going to own marketplaces that are reporting it, sign

the united states the united states as a vietnam war and done it they had to get up the ad and shut the gold window to continue to vietnam or for other ten years or so and thousands of u.s. troops dead needlessly every war in history. as never being fought on a cash basis if the government's fukuda cut castrations they couldn't exist now let me ask you very much in question which is that the criticism from let's say the russell brand of the world is that the current system of g.d.p. is that it encourages quote unquote infinite growth and you can't have infinite growth in a society in a world like planet earth that is fine at resources wouldn't be so that if i'm russell brand or i'm an ecologist or i'm george moby and who's an ecological here are you ok for the people of course as i say i know a lot doesn't yeah george monbiot he's a he's a writer for the guardian is there true that one of the greatest allies these ecologists and people on checks and balances on corporations isn't is the truth that they would be the loudest most vocal advocates of gold and gold standard they should b

that's the good news here is that we have flexibility within states where states can apply their ownexperience to this challenge. carbon from power plants is a significant cause of climate change, but it's the pollution coming from power plants, the soot and smog and coal ash, the air toxins like mercury and other poisens causes significant impact on the health of americans all -- almost all across the country, and so what the sierra club -- we send out hundreds of volunteers and our members to the listening sessions in dallas, in philadelphia, san fransisco, chicago, this morning in washington, d.c., but we are encouraging is for policymakers at the epa and throughout the obama administration to recognize that we have economic alternatives. we can take dirty coal offline and use energy more efficiently, invest significantly in solar and wind and begin to displace pollution from coal plants with clean home grown renewable energy resources. >> host: c-span will be covering that listening session here in washington. go to c-span.org if you're interested. michael brun, e executive direc

. >> medicaid expansion meets a red state, blue state divide. we are have a lot on our meendz at the start of this saturday morning, thinking about what it could possibly take to convince red state governors and politicians to back off and deal with a crucial component of president obama's health care law, the expansion of educate. we find ourselves with who will win the big outstanding state wide election yet to be determined from tuesday night a. key state wide office in virginia. the same office that gave rise to ken cuccinelli. the race is close. it seems there are thousands of ballots that went uncounted on election night. we will film you in on the latest on that. we are wondering if history will, indeed, repeat itself with chris christie playing that role. i have thoughts about that. it involves explaining to you what something called a he cume is. you might want to stick around for that. our friend mellissa harris-perry is taking her dedication will pay off. that is ahead. >>> but first, president obama is waking up in miami, florida tod

16th state in the nation to recognize equal rights for all married couples in that state. the two parties are moving in two completely different directions on this issue of policy. it's not being reported that way. it's not being talked about that way in the belt way press. but that is the way it's going. governor quinn, thank you very much for being with us tonight. >> thank you very much, rachel. >> why did you decide to champion civil unions a couple of years ago and why did you decide to make it such a priority to pursue equal marriage rights in illinois? >> it's ironic today as the 150th anniversary of the gettysberg address. i was at his tomb this morning, and at the presidential library where we heard the gettysberg address. it said at beginning, we're a nation conceived in -- liberty and equality, that's what marriage equality is all about. we'll be the 16th state and i hope we can spread the movement all across the other 34 states in the union. >> when you look at the future of this issue, particularly in your state, now that you're going to have this change in th

the people in that state of the state rights the idea that the state legislatures would send someone who would advocate on behalf of that state for example stopping cars passing laws that have a negative impact on the state for example the medicaid expansion which will bankrupt states not this year not next summer so basically you're saying that the message of the politicians in the state in the state legislature is more important than that of the voters not matter. of what i'd like to get your take on this that's why we're this seems to me. well i hate to tell you but i understand what chris is trying to say here and that is that there is a certain place in the constitutional order for the states and i think also to this now may i just talk about ninth amendment precedes the tenth amendment and the ninth amendment says all powers not delegated are delegated to the people and the tenth amendment says those that are not delegated to the people or delegated to the states this argument that this is a tenth amendment issue is absurd on its face because of the ninth amendment i didn't say

the state has not done that in 36 years. ken cuccinelli and the republican party losing the virginia governorship last night just broke the mold, historically. and when you look at the data about who actually turned out in virginia, this is a much more worrying story for republicans in general than it is for just this one losing candidate in this one losing rate last night. republicans like to think they have sort of a structural advantage in a state like virginia because it votes for its officials in the off-off election like the one in 2009. when you vote in other years that means you get fewer people turning out to vote. and when fewer people turn out to vote, the electorate turns out to be republican, and that of course is good for republican candidates. so look at these numbers in virginia, the last time virginia elected a governor, it was 2009. this was the electorate that turned out that year. republicans, 37%, democrats, 33. so that was the off-year election, the last time they elected the governor where they had an

nation the european community the united states barack obama who broke the news about the existence of this i do not listen to this really iran violated international law so many times iran was declared in breach of the n.p.t. there are still remaining questions but the fact that there are questions doesn't mean that they are in violation i think you cannot claim that simply because there are some questions unanswered that they are there being viable in violation of the treaty and in fact they have been on a. run for evil corporations with their organization as far as i know it is not over this is not true while the chiefs even even muhammad the bar the former chief who is very mild towards iran have said repeatedly that iran is not fulfilling the n.p.t. let me switch gears a little bit one of the most quoted phrases in geopolitics these days is the one attributed to mahmoud ahmadinejad about supposedly why being israel of the map and we know that that's phrase was taken out of context he was mistranslated and yet it is these really officials that quote him a lot more often than any on

hello and welcome to worlds apart the recent rapprochement between iran and the united states may potentially put to rest one of the most toxic and it is in more than geopolitics a possibility that would arguably benefit many peace loving nations. but not israel a country that seems to be increasingly cost of a living under what it calls an existential threat why is the spectral war sweeter than big chance of peace while to discuss that i'm now joined by ronen bergman an israeli investigative journalist mr bergman thank you very much for your time thank you for inviting me there is a very old ancient jewish proverb about a bad peace being better than a good war but it seems that for israel the state of best peace has become so familiar so confortable that these really leader should simply contest for to lose iran as an anime they seem to be very bad on keeping the. animosity going why is that. every time it is released invited to be interviewed good outside of israel it is usually assumed as if he is representing the stance of the country's government so let me start and say i'm not represent

that is a state of denial. so why do i feel compelled to write to this? the save as many other books somebody has to put out a correct narrative. when i was ambassador at one time with ed is not to harm but to correct the course i should have that right. point taylor how those groups would work together for much longer for them people understand. this book "magnificent delusions" pakistan, the united states, and an epic history of misunderstanding" is meant to again to set the record right. for all their mistakes no free pass to the americans in the tent through the cynicism but nothing is manufactured sometimes people ask me what would set things right? the narrative change it is not backward because of denying ferrites pakistan has missed out opportunities >> host: then asks the question in the narrative is just a clear it doesn't matter what the u.s. does it will live give ben with its policy supporting some terrorist groups in and will continue to do so confusion with the u.s. be better off ignoring pakistan rather the end work with a country that is

but in these nine states, they're saying, states' rights.aying because they have anti-gay laws at the state levels, they will not process service members' applications equally. they are defying federal law so they can keep discriminating against some members of the national guard, against the wishes of the u.s. military. tonight, secretary of defense chuck hagel, just moments ago, actually, a few blocks from here, he has just given a rather remarkable and confrontational speech at a dinner for the anti-defamation league here in new york, calling out nine states that are defying the defense department and defying federal law in order to keep discriminating. texas, apparently, was the first state to announce that they were going to do this, but now it is nine states altogether and the secretary says that among these nine states, there are 114 army national guard and air national guard bases that are refusing equal treatment to military same-sex couples. and here is secretary of defense, chuck hagel, speaking just moments ago. >> when the supre

so, this is a state of denial. and you as asked at the outset y did i feel compelled to write this book? it's the same reason that i was compelled to write my earlier book. somebody has to put up a with historical correct narrative. the previous but had the pakistan army at one time protested. and when i was the ambassador at one time copies of the book were so duly highlighted saying he's critical of the pakistan military. i'm not criticizing to harm. i'm trying to criticize to correct the course. as a citizen i should have that right. the first book pointed out how pakistan's military had worked together for much longer than people understand and believe and realized. this book magnificent delusions pakistan, the united states and an epic history of misunderstanding is set again to set the record right. i have no -- i don't get any free pass to the americans or all of their mistakes, both in the mistakes that were made in an attempt to be made for pakistan and for the cynicism of individuals. but again, they have

leading our state governments.nd take a larger presence. those are some of the takeaways that we mention airbus greater detail. lou: the book is entitled and intimited. and i love that title, by the way. are you going to run for prident in 2016? >> i am up for governor neet year. we will focus on that. many of the key battleground states in america, 2010 were ultimately states for democrats control everything. its chief executive and legislative branch. flipped all those things. wisconsin and nine neighboring states. that was the key to our success. the reason i say we should focus on 141st is a beacon of the house republicans, elect particularly with the failures of obamacare, electroform-mded people and then after we do that we can put a new chief executive in nationally will help us lead the cause, but we have to do it focusing on 141st. lou: do you believe the party is ready for 2014? is there this time a ground operation? is there this time may national strategy, one that is specific with tactics seeking a rea

to fall apart not that the united states wants this to happen the united states wants to me horrid mary iranians suffer as much as possible they want to have a state the iranian economy they've already succeeded in killing people because for example iran has had great difficulty importing medicines so the americans are definitely upset with us but as time goes on we are seeing increasingly countries moving away from the united states companies in nor in the united states and even individuals who are investing in iran without taking the sanctions regime into consideration a quick look now at some other news from around the world international peace talks on syria have stalled after the main western backed opposition group said it won't attend unless president assad agrees to step down the syrian national coalition is also refusing to sit alongside key regional power players iran which is a strong ally of damascus the united states banks the s.n.c. while russia has been trying to convince all sides negotiate at the proposed conference in geneva. violence is moderate the local election in

at being successful and i stated that if i did run i would run under one premise and i believe i could win on this alone in light of the way things are today in the united states i would run it and give the american people the opportunity to make history and to elect the first president since george washington who does not belong to a political party imagine that we've had only one president who is. through the political day and i believe the public sentiment today that a candidate could literally win a lot because people are so sick and tired of the way the these two parties have governed and the way that they've ran our government into the ground and what we stand for today so not belonging to either of the main parties there are gangs as you call them is clearly a major hand account for people because he who gave them money to finance or campaign for instance would you be able to raise money if you were a republican or democrat well that's the difficult thing because they've created this system that's based completely on the concept of bribery now if you do that in the private secto

about 25 states have elected to do medicaid expansion, including many republican states. but obviously wisconsin was not one of those very and so what we are trying to do is we are working, we will work with the state of wisconsin, with the medicaid office to identify those individuals and make sure they are aware of what is available on the exchange. there is a cost to that, so you get into the issues of subsidy and this sort of thing, but we will try to work with the state doubt these people, at least identify what is available to them. >> what sort of means? earlier, you asked sort of questions about how do you target young people? how do you target these 92,000 people, and what is the state's role? >> obviously, the state knows who these individuals are, so they will be able to send them information. what we are doing is asking wisconsin to give us a plan on how they can do that. it is a shared responsibility. we will try to help. >> i would have to say as commentary before the exchange opened, a letter went out from the state, and you were mentioning that the state i

[applause] state senator maureen kelly. state senator peggy gilmour. state senator betty lasky. [applause] formerlso acknowledge --ate president gave nixon xon and doug holing worth who is here with us tonight. [applause] to introduce the current minority leader, sylvia larsen from concorde. please give her a round of applause. [applause] >> thanks. thank you. thank you. it is wonderful to see all of you. here and all for being for everything you do each and every day. last year senate democrats were votes away from taking the majority. 609 votes made- the difference. the change we want to see in the senate is sitting in this room. in the chairs to your left and .ight bring just one more person to the polls next year will create a democratic senate. we need your help, folks. let's make it happen. [applause] we need a senate that will work with the speaker and work with hatsenr hats and -- instead of standing in the way. we need a senate that will move new hampshire forward, strengthen our schools, and expand access to a court -- access to affordable health care. there is so much

look to red states that are outperforming blue states. states that are cutting taxes, balancing, budgeting, creating jobs. what we are looking for can be found in the record of government. rick scott. terry brandstead. conservative governors that are controlling spending and investing in jobs. branstad signed the largest tax cut in iowa history. no wonder iowa has added 160,000 7.3 billion dollars in economic development projects under his watch. [applause] i get up every day and go to work. don't, kerry will be there. him. will send he is a serious governor making a real difference. assembled an incredible team. that is part of that administration. he deserves our thanks. they are dedicated to this state. there are states that are succeeding. and there are states that are sinking. states in trouble like california, illinois, california. [laughter] there are states that are on the rise. capital and personal income are fleeing those states. california and you rent a u-haul to move your costs twice as much because you cannot find a truck bi

the united states successfully pushed back. and we made it clear before, the committee does not have the authority under any entity, including the u.s. congress -- i know there is a concern about binding future congresses. a future congress can go ahead and amend the american disabilities act. it has once. is a greatee there desire to change the president's health care law. just one of 100 examples i could give. there's a lot of things that to a number ofdo hypothetically bizarre things. they could seek to ultimately sell the capital for scrap or disband -- the expressions of approval or disapproval are not in order of the committee. i'm trying to get to a point here. and despite faith, our challenges sometimes in the institution and american people, who would say, that is way off the face. in suggesting that whatever language is necessary, i don't think this congress itss to be bound itself in actions by what the previous congress decided as is evidenced by those who wanted to undermine the president's health care law. i prese

under state rather than federal law. the convention addresses private and governmental conduct without any limitations that would normally apply to federal regulation of private conduct like requirements of a connection to interstate commerce. congress has brought authority in the absence of this treaty to protect the rights of the disabled and used that authority there are limits in the system to help congress to go with respect to the regulation of matters normally addressed by state and local governments. because of a supreme court decision, 1920 decision missouri against holland congress is allowed to expand its normal legislative authority when it is passing legislation to implement a treaty. a concern has been raised that congress that any future time could use the disability convention if it is ratified as a basis for new legislation that would intrude in new ways on state and local authority beyond what congress could enact. the united states commitment to federalism depends on maintaining a national government o

also a divide between the united states and key other allies. kuwaitis are not happy, on one hand, france come out of all the countries, they are very critical of that situation and let's speak about the united states. we have a consensus? when the president wanted to ask congress about bombing syria, why not ask congas about engaging with the country with the regime that has been on our list for 30 years. so yes, there is no consensus neither here or overseas and the problem is to get whatever the agreement as and the problem is that they want to give up an agreement and use it against our allies. iraq, and syria, that is what the agreement is for, for them. lou: secretary kerry is in a difficult place. he is the front man for agreement and a strategy in which you use an agreement, effectively a treaty against our allies and a starting point for a true change of facts and events on the ground and this includes enormous acts of foreign policy stupidity. >> this is going to be one of the biggest strategic mistakes. after what was done in libya, a

what do all of those states have in common? those are all blue states, obama states t. question we're trying to get at here is when does this become a thing in red state america? one piece of news is jay nixon, the democratic governor of missouri, stayed with a conservative legislature. they refused the medicaid money, they refused to set up the health exchanges the lower,000 in massachusetts passed this gun nullification law. so the challenge in a red state like that for a gay marriage supporter leak jay mixon is to bring them along and, susan, again, we have been talking about the regional differences, missouri is emblem at ec of heavily influenced conservativism. at some point, that has to be compatible, the idea has to be compatible for this to be a reality in red state america. >> i think you have to look at different states, wyoming, montana where there is a strong leber taern tradition, accepting passing, enableing, liamizing gay marriage, much before you see those southern states and regionally border southern states, where there is a lot of religious conservati

they are only for other states. no for the united states. professor had it right. this is a treaty a treaty is a law. the emotional and political arguments that are in favor of the treaty no one can disagree with these arguments. but the question is, will the treaty actually have the legal effect that is being proffered by the proponent of the treaty? we don't hear citations to article in the treaty. we don't hear consideration of the report. the concluding observations by the committee on the right of persons with disability. we don't hear the kind of legal able -- analysis that would be appropriate for analyzing the legal impact of the treaty. i would submit the duty of the committee not to determine the policy issues and the emotional appeals, but to determine what the legal meaning of the treaty is and the legal application in the context both in international law and domestic law of the united states. one of the ways that the proponents misrepresent the nature of the treaty is on the definition of disability. proponents argue that the definition of disability

in our state.ners like brian and others in the state legislature, i am confident that we'll be able to do that. i had a conversation this morning with the senate president and congratulated him on his victory yesterday in district 3. and the victory of his candidates. as you all know, steve and i have had a good relationship over the last four years, i don't see any reason that that's going to change over the next four. we committed once again yesterday, today, rather, with each other to work together over the next number of years. and in fact we'll meet tomorrow in trenton to begin to lay out the agenda for the lame duck session and for the new session that will begin in january after the inauguration. so we're going to continue to work together. do the same things we've done before. it's produced a good result, that the people of new jersey seem pretty happy with. if that's the case, there's no reason to fix it if it's not broken. think the public came to that conclusion. and so it's my job now t