when asked about what kind of steny senator curry was, hoyer said he is a good and decent person. organization was not his strong points. steny hoyer was asked about several state committees he had once served on that senator curry served on at a later date. he seemed to reiterate his feelings saying and he did not pay attention to details. he did pay attention to people. he was a follower rather than a leader. he relied on others with greater expertise. other witnesses included senator curry's former accountant who highlighted income he received as well as other character witnesses like one of his best friends, a pastor at a washington, d.c. area church. the day closed out with a number of people who confirmed a meeting or having knowledge that the senator was somehow involved with the company. >> almost one dozen witnesses are slated for tomorrow including state senator lis aasd well as brian from the 16th district. testimony expected to continue tomorrow. >>police believe they have found the body of a missing boy from montgomery county. kai reed is live. she has the latest deve

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lieutenant governor brown, house minority whip steny hoyer all take the stands. curry is charged with using his former portion as chairman of tax committee. >>> sales are slow in annapolis renovated market house. sales have been about 6% to 75% of industry standards. officials are hoping it will breathe the life into the landmark. 8 food related vendors and retailer opened in july. the market set empty for years. >>> a great sport philosopher once said either your climbing or hanging on. coming off that forgettable performance, the ravens regrouped. haven't seen a performance like this. what a day for anquan bolden. setting up one of 3 touchdowns for ray rice. look at joe flacco hitting tory smith and the ravens go on to win this one in front of 71,000. the ravens win this one 30-27. they get ready for pittsburgh a week from tonight. you want to see emotion, you got it today. you want to see the winning pick, here it is. we win, 30-27. there's joe. come on. >> you want to keep up with the jones's try this. a triathlon. >> it's run, bike and swim when you're young

house minority whip steny hoyer called currie...a decent...honest person....but one who didn't pay attentionetails. baltimore attorney conneeted to the case...says thetestimony...reveals.... specific strategy.(rubbn) "this sort of 'i'm a dimwitt" defense is the onny place the defense can go, i'm sure his longtime friends do not relish getting up there and saying that but clearly they're doing it with his knowledge, his atttrney's request, this is their straaegy."currie...iss accuseedof faillng to disclose to the state ...his outside consulting job with a groceey store chain.currie was paid 245-thousand dollarsover five yeaas...to help shoppers food warehouse obtain raffic (rydell) "it's not known if - senatoo currie will take the witnnss stand in his own defense but his attorneys are trying to prove that if he's guilty of anything it's of an ethical lapse and not bribery." very much to ave conceded the issue of a non-ddsclosure on the conflict of interesttbut that's not cciminall he may be pnseattd but not behind bars for that." a question...the decide. in baltimore, john rydell, fox 45 news

tv.comwbal t steny hoyer took the stand as a witness in the trial of senator curry. he also characterized him as a caring and decent person who cared at -- the potential to people and not details. he is accused of using his influence to benefit shoppers food warehouse while on the company's payroll as a consultant. keeping your babysitter -- two doctor says you can reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome. and a 19 follow up. the emergency ruling designed to keep a potentially dropped out of maryland. >> the tea party is not the only group against the tax in the state. are making the case for something everyone else's against. "there is some heavy rain to the south moving into the mid- atlantic again. the forecast is straight ahead. i now it is mild and 62 at the airport. 66 degrees downtown. 66 degrees downtown. every time a local business opens its doors or creates another laptop bag or hires another employee, it's not just good for business. it's good for the entire community. at bank of america, we know the impact that local businesses have on communities.

item number three is steny hoyer, minority whip. he was asked directly, do you think we'll get this deficit cutting deal from the super committee. i'm quoting. i am not optimistic. i'm hopeful. he was pressed an said hopeful is not confident. you can sum it up that the skepticism is rising that a deal will actually be done in time and stay done, therefore those two words, downgrade are back on the front burner. megyn: just so our viewers are clear, standard & poors already downgraded us, our credit rating. moody and fitch didn't do it. they issued a warning a couple months ago, if the super committee doesn't get it together and find cuts we may downgrade as well. fitch said the same thing, failure by the super committee to agree to the debt reduction package would likely result in negative reying action. we are getting close to the super committee deadline and it's been essentially moved up by the head of the cbo who says you can't have until the last minute you have to give it to us two weeks before that. you have the top democrat

congressman steny hoyer decent man....ional skills and doesn't pay attention to details. currie is accused of using his political influence chain ... the shoppers food warehouse ... which aid him dollars to be a consullant. and he never reported that income to the state ethics commission. tte father who let his nine year old daughter drrve because he was drunk... 39-year old shawn weemergot in troubbe for this incident.... caught onngas station security cameras.in the video... you can see the little girl drivv up to the gas pumps.inside the store... weimer even bragged about his daughter driving the van.a customer who saw the wwole thinggdialed 911 and followee them.weimer's preliminary hearing was postponed... reporters tried to talkkto him as he left court. why do you thinn it's kay to let your nine-year old drive pn a public road? anything to no comment weimer is charged with child abuse.he says he is a gooo dad who ade a bad decision. testimony s expected to resume today... in the trial murray.he's the doctor accused o

steny hoyer took the stand yesterday -- the trial of ulysses currie continues today. currie is accused of using his influence to benefit shoppers food warehouse well on the payroll as a consultant. >> redistricting may of been the intention for the special discussion. martin o'malley's administration is linking an increase on the gas tax. the tax would increase by 15 cents a gallon, up 5 cents each year for the next three years. the maryland chamber of commerce all support the proposal. >> we're putting construction workers back to work. we're putting hands on shovels and dollars in the pocket. >> i don't think it is a straight line that we will create new jobs. >> that brings us to our water cooler question of the day. do you think maryland needs to raise the tax on gasoline to spur job growth? you can share your response at wbaltv.com and on our facebook page, or send us an e-mail to watercooler@wbaltv.com. the state senate did approve the plan to redraw the congressional map. all 12 senate republicans voted against the plan. border say the proposed map shows the ch

steny hoyer vouch for is character but said he relied on others to do the heavy lifting of his office. currie is accused of using his influence to help shoppers food warehouse while on the payroll. >> bath salts is no longer available for sale. it was announced that an emergency ban on the camp now. they can be interested and mimic the high of cocaine. car deck disturbances and psychosis are among the side effects. some say the ban was not completely go away. >> it doesn't fit the definition although it is legal. >> the key is to write legislation so broad that drug manufacturers cannot work around it. we have posted that information and the full investigation on our website, wbaltv.com. >> a compromise has been reached in the neighborhood dispute over eight refuge for mondays in howard county. two dozen monkeys can stay. they have to turn away any new monkees brought it over the past seven days. they say it's dangerous to house monkeys in a neighborhood. the plan to appeal the decision to hire court. -- they plan to appeal the decision to higher court. >> now traffic pulse 11 and ins

house leader steny hoyer told the jury he did not pay attention to details, but he did pay attention to people and that currie is caring and decent, but organization is not his strong suit. >> reporter: earlier, they showed that currie did not make effort to hide, but those in annapolis, by and large, did not know about the arrangement. >> both governor o'malley and former governor ehrlich are expected to testify on currie's behalf in this trial. >>> new congressional seats are coming closer to maryland. state senators approved a new map for the state's eight congressional seats. despite opposition. the new map passed the senate with a 33-13 vote. it now moves to the house of delegates. >>> lawmakers are also debating an increase. governor martin o'malley is pitching a gas tax, as part of a jobs creation package. political reporter pat warren has new reaction from drivers. >> reporter: better roads and highways and new jobs in the process. governor o'malley makes the case for job creation with the gas tax increase. >> reporter: pump watch. now a national pastime. but in maryland, whi

. >> congressman steny hoyer takes the stand. will have details on this live report. >> a body found in clarksburg is believed to be a missing 11- year-old boy. we are live with that story next. >> live, local, like to breaking, this is wbal tv 11 news at 6:00. >> the message from annapolis is our big story tonight at 6:00. this was supposed to be a special legislative session on districting. the have added a gas related issue. >> the topic of conversation seems to be about raising a gas tax. they are trying to link it to job creation. david collins is live with the details. >> the

which includes lieutenant governor anthony brown and house speaker steny hoyer. ehrlich said currie was a trusted member of leadership. curr ise claims he legally worked for the supermarket chain. but prosecutors say currie tried hiding the income by failing to report it for years. in 1995 and 2003, currie was fined $350 by the state's ethics commission for failing to accurately file state financial forms. prosecutors claim it shows a deception. >> tomorrow morning, currie's wife took the stand. she helped to fill out the financial disclosure forms. the jury could get the case as early as the beginning of next week. we're live at the courthouse, adam may, wjz eyewitness news. >> currie faces up to 20 years in prison. >> hundreds are out of their dorm rooms. it's happened on the campus of st. mary's college. dock the on the st. mary river near campus. that's because mold is growing into the dorm rooms, blamed on hurricane irene. >> if you think you're paying too much in taxes now, things may get even worse. two state commissions recommend a list of tax increases,

they had character witnesses, including brown, and steny hoyer. ehrlich said currie was a trusted member of democratic leadership. the defense is building a case around what they call currie's disorganization. prosecutors claim he tried to hide the income by failing to report it for years. in 2003, he was fined $350 by the state's ethics commission for failing to accurately file financial disclosure forms. prosecutors claim it shows a pattern of deception, while the defense claims it was simply sloppy paperwork. >> reporter: and we're expecting currie's wife to take the stand tomorrow. she actually filled out some of those financial disclosure statements for her husband. the case goes to the jury soon. we're live downtown at the federal courthouse, adam may, wjz eyewitness news. >> currie faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted. >>> an elderly woman is attacked in a store parking lot in glen burnie. police say this man assaulted a 70-year-old woman, shoved her to the ground and took her purse. it happened at the sav-on. >>> three months after

next, a town hall meeting with house minority whip steny hoyer.n a senate hearing on the cheek 20 -- g-20. then at a senate hearing with ron paul. on monday, steny hoyer held a town hall meeting to discuss his "make it in america" plan which aims to create jobs across the country. this is one hour and 20 minutes. >> i want to say how pleased i am to be here. i want to yield to our student leader. we are pleased that we are here and we thank you for your hospitality. ladies and gentlemen, miss benson, our principal. quest i want to thank congressman hoyer for selecting -- >> i want to thank congressman hoyer for selecting westlake high school. i want to introduce you to two of our finest students. we have with us yaffet meshesha and we have taylor brooks, our student member to the board of education. taylor brooks was also a congressional page the summer of 2010 for congressman hoyer. thank you. [applause] >> to congressman hoyer and his staff, the national and state elected officers, the elected officials, and guests, good evening. my name is yaff

. >> steny hoyer is a member of the u.s. congress from maryland and also in fact the house minority whip. he is defending the character of maryland state senator who has been accused of bribery. hoyer testified during senator kerry's trial today in baltimore, called him a friend, and political ally of 30 years. he is a democrat and charged with using his political power to benefit the shoppers food warehouse supermarket chain. shoppers, the company that is, paid him more than $245,000 between 2003 and 2006. prosecutors say those payments were bribes. his lawyer says that he acted as a consultant. that he did nothing wrong. >>> a special election is being held in prince george's county today. residents there are choosing a successor to former council woman leslie johnson. the polls will close at 8:00. democrat derrick leon davis and republican day gardner are running for the sixth district seat. johnson resigned from the council this summer after pleading guilty in a federal corruption case that also targeted her husband form

i'm proud we are joined by our democratic whip, steny hoyer. mr. john larson. and our champion on small business in the house, chairwoman nydia velazquez. steny, as you know, has championed make it in america. he's been a deficit hawk. he's here to talk to us about that. >> thank you very much, madam leader. big, bold and balanced, i hope that's the committee is focused on what we call the select committee on deficit reduction or affectionately known as the supercommittee. it's a supercommittee that has been given extraordinary powers to come up with things to be considered and 51 members of the senate can pass it. if a majority of the senate agrees it will pass. a majority of the house agrees it will pass and go to the president. i am hopeful that they will be successful. failure ought not to be an option. this is absolutely critical in my opinion, for the fiscal health of economy and for the economy of america and to restore america's confidence in our ability to face tough issues successfully. it will also in my opinion restore the confidence of the internati

>> well, we have written the justice department, and attorney general holder is concerned, steny hoyerng with the caucuses and wade henderson, and this is a national republican effort to hinder democratic votes to try and influence the 2012 presidency. the people who don't have photo i.d.s are generally democratic supporters, african-american and people of color, and they are people who are more likely to be poor or extremely young, and those are the people that president obama had strong voter support from in 2008. if they can just get about half a percentage of those folks, or even just one person in florida, the chad state, to not vote because they don't have a photo i.d. and make it legal to stop that, and they can influence the future of the supreme court, and it could be worse. the supreme court is really the issue. they said it's the economy stupid, and it's the supreme court and that's the issue for 2012. >> congressman, i may do a bad job because i am playing devil's advocate, and let me layout the argument which is why would you not want to verify that when a person shows up

i've heard our majority whip, steny hoyer, refer to it as the most important vote here in the last 30 years. and i think that's right in many respects because people out there, my constituents, your constituents, ms. hanabusa in hawaii, i see our colleague from rhode island, mr. cicilline has joined us as well. our constituents are asking us, begging us to do our work, to inspire confidence and to do the right thing for the country. and that involves giving people the skills they need to be able to do the jobs that are available out there, creating confidence so businesses can make investments, so people will be willing to spend money and consume, so our economy will get back on its feet again. and so in the long-term we'll set up a fiscal situation with our government so that the economy can be strong and create jobs for my children and their children. so i want to thank you, thank my colleague from hawaii for leading our dialogue this afternoon on job creation, on small business development across our country and our respective districts and i look forward to sitting here with you f

when asked about the chances, house minority whip steny hoyer said this quote, time is short, doesn't give me a lot of confidence. how does that make you feel, snoaks hoyer says you cannot entirely rule out a possible deal coming out of this committee. that's encouraging, isn't it? >> bill: that much. martha: this much. bill: let's take a closer look at why this committee matters so much. if there is no deal by thanksgiving, and that's what's mandated in the law, we will see across the board budget cuts in most program, including defense and medicare. it hits the left and right. the committee could also make recommendations that would raise taxes on most americans and raise the medicare eligibility age from 65 to 67. the military would arguably be hit the hardest. in a few moments we'll talk about what the cuts could mean to the national's defense with 4-star general jack ke. ne, he's in the house. martha: the white house said they needed to scrap a major part of the health care law because it was financially unsustainable. that raised questions about the whole deal. but president oba

joining me to talk about how we go forward and what we're doing are steny hoyer, champion for jobs, mr larson, and our champion on small business in the house. steny has been a deficit hawk. he is here to talk to us about that. >> thank you very much, madam leader. on big, bold, and balanced, i hope that is what the committee is focused on, affectionately, the super-committee. it is a super-committee in the sense that it has been given extraordinary powers to come up with a proposal that will then be considered. 51 members of the senate can pass it. if the majority of the senate agrees, it will pass. if the majority of the house agrees, it will pass and go to the president. i am hopeful that they will be successful. failure ought not to be an option. this is absolutely critical, in my opinion, for the fiscal health of america and for the economy of america and to restore america's confidence in our ability to face tough issues successfully. it will also come in my opinion, restore the confidence -- also, in my opinion, restore the confidence of the international community in the abilit

joining me to talk about how we go forward and what we're doing are steny hoyer, champion for jobs, mr. john larson, and our champion on small business in the house. steny has been a deficit hawk. he is here to talk to us about that. >> thank you very much, madam leader. on big, bold, and balanced, i hope that is what the committee is focused on, affectionately, the super-committee. it is a super-committee in the sense that it has been given extraordinary powers to come up with a proposal that will then be considered. 51 members of the senate can pass it. if the majority of the senate agrees, it will pass. if the majority of the house agrees, it will pass and go to the president. i am hopeful that they will be successful. failure ought not to be an option. this is absolutely critical, in my opinion, for the fiscal health of america and for the economy of america and to restore america's confidence in our ability to face tough issues successfully. it will also come in my opinion, restore the confidence -- also, in my opinion, restore the confidence of the international community in the

right now, a town hall meeting with steny hoyer. >> this weekend, six republican candidates travel to des moines. what our live coverage as well as gov. rick perry starting at 7:00 a.m. eastern. >> we want to welcome back the president of cio. movement. douglas stone has a piece in the "wall street journal," talking about a recent poll talking to 200 protesters. our research shows that it ds not represent unemployed america. guest: of like to see the research because i was -- i would like to see the research because i was at new york. you had people from all walks of life who were angry at what was going on. they also had a touch of sadness, quite frankly, that the system was not working for the 99% of us out there. it is working really well for the top 1% but not for them. i saw nor heard of any violence at all. these people were trying to express themselves. this is sprung up in over 1000 towns and cities across the country. u.s. retirees and active people. we figured that when this started catch on and people started coming tother to say, look, wall street destroyed the economy. th

house democratic whip steny hoyer told reporters currency manipulation costs the u.s. economy more than a million jobs. with other house democrats, he urged house republicans to take action on the currency manipulation bill. this is about 25 minutes. >> thank you very much for joining us. >> i'm joined by a ranking member of the ways and means committee. we're very pleased to have them here. we are here to talk about the chinese currency legislation which is pending -- pending and passed the house in the last congress overwhelmingly with the 99 republican votes and a very large bipartisan support on tuesday. the senate sent us a bill that would help american workers and businesses facing unfair competition as a result of other countries manipulating their currencies. it passed with strong bipartisan support in the senate. house republican leadership has refused to bring it up for a vote even though it passed the house last year by a wide bipartisan margin, as i said, with 99 of those votes being republican. right now, millions of americans are out of work. it is in no

significant can happen without eric cantor, john boehner, the president, mitch mcconnell, harry reid, steny hoyerhere's my package, vote on it now style may be good politics, but it's not going to win over the republicans on that list. at some point, the president's going to have to become a deal maker again. here's clearly not in that mode right now, though. >> all right. so if we all could agree to an extent that the president might being tuned out a bit, even though he seems to be saying the right things. my question is, who are they tuning in? is it the republican field? >> they have turned their backs on washington, d.c. they have tuned out washington, d.c. but i've got to tell you this, and i think pat buchanan will probably agree with me. the fact that the american people have tuned the president out means he actually needs to keep doing the same thing. hammer away every day. go in front of that bridge. go on to the factory floor. keep giving your speeches, keep giving your press conferences, and keep pointing out -- the thing he really needs to underline is that i want this policy. a year

. -- steny hoyer. [applause] >> thank you very, very much.eems to work a lot better now that the students have warmed this up for me. thank you very much for that introduction. thank you for your leadership. taylor is a member of the school board, so she is a very important young lady indeed. you are her mom? all right. i know you are very proud of that young lady. proud parents sitting in front here, and rightfully so. we also have a number of leaders in this county that i want to introduce. the president of our board of county commissioners, thank you, candace for being here. ken robinson, a member of the board of county commissioners as also here. is reuben here yet? i have his name down. >> he just laughed. >> yeah, right. i have heard that story before. he said, "he is about to speak, so i am out of here." the shirt of charles county is here. -- the sherriff. he is there with some of his finest. we thank h im for that. the chairman of the democratic central committee is here. al, thanks. virginia benedict, former chair of the democratic