the chair: the clerk -- the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 199 printed in the congressional record offered by mr. poe of texas. the chair: the gentleman from texas, mr. poe, and a member opposed will each control -- >> i reserve a point of order on the gentleman's motion. the chair: five minutes. a point of worder -- order is reserve and the chair will recognize the gentleman from texas. mr. poe: i understand that point of order is reserved by the other side. this legislation, this amendment to the c.r. is very simple. arizona, the state of arizona has implemented laws in its state to protect the dignity and sovereignty of the state. the united states federal government in all of its awesome power has jumped in and sued the state of arizona at taxpayer expense, preventing them from enforcing the rule of law in their own state. the federal government doesn't enforce the rule of law on the borders. recently, the g.a.o. reported that only 44% of the border is secure that means somebody else controls the other 56% of t

the chair: on this vote the yeas are the 209, the nays 213. the amendment is not agreed to. the unfinished business is a request for a recorded vote on amendment 563 presented in the congressional record offered by the gentlelady from south dakota, mrs. noem, on which further proceedings were poppede but which the ayes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment nber 563 printed in the congressional record offered by ms. gnome of south dakota. the chair: -- ms. nome of kd. -- ms. nome of soutdakota. the chair: those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a two-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage othe house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the chair: on this vote the yeas are 25

at the end of the day, the f.c.c.'s rules simply maintain the status quo principles that most broadband providers already embrace. the rules preserve a number of existing business models for broadband providers to pursue as well as paving the way for new innovative offerings. contrary to the claims by opponents of the f.c.c., these high-level rules of the road do not allow the agency to micromanage broadband providers. they balance clarity with flexibility. and they don't require broadband providers to seek permission from the commission before deploying a network management practice. in fact, the rules specifically recognize the unique network management challenges across different platforms and afford broadband providers the latitude they need to manage their networks efficiently. some opponents of the f.c.c. argue that we don't need any rules in this area because any trust laws -- antitrust laws are sufficient. but antitrust remedies occur after harm occurs. these rules in contrast allow companies and innovators reg

in the first warning came the western edges of the city scouts were the first to hear the news.hin hours there is a traffic jam miles long of refugees fleeing from the german coast. the slaves have forced the complete evacuation of planters from the german coast. they were in control of about 30 miles of coast from what is now the plot was the airport and all of the white winters were fleeing in terror. the accounts we received were very as reported one correspondent. fear and panic and it was not possible to estimate the force of the brigham's. the white residents of new orleans were terrified because they too had heard the stories of haiti not as it eakin of liberty or is a testament to political ideals, but rather as a warning about what would happen if they lost control. because the slave rebels of haiti had defeated 80%. they killed 80% of the army's napoleon bonaparte one of the great generals of europe had sent to fight in france, sent france to fight them. just think about that one more time. slave rebels bringing to their knees the armies of one of the great generals of

the chair: the house is in the committee of the whole in the state of the union for further consideration of h.r. 1 which the clerk will report by title. the clerk: making appropriations for the department of defense and the other departments and agencies of the government for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2011, and for other purposes. the chair: when the committee of the whole rose earlier today, a request for a recorded vote on amendment number 11 printed in the congressional record offered by the gentleman from indiana, mr. pence, had been postponed and the bill had been read through page 359, line 22. pursuant to the order of the house of today, no further amendment may be offered except those specified in the previous order which is at the desk. for what purpose does the gentleman from alaska rise? mr. young: mr. speaker, the house is not in order and i do have an amendment at the desk entitled 533. the chair: the gentleman will suspend. the committee is not in order. will all members on both sides of the aisle please take your conversations to the cloakroom and off the floor?

i think you said that it's possible the there were the extension beyond the current in the of the program, so what kind of things to you look at to decide where to go from here? >> welcome the first of all, as we noted in our staements and our commentary, we are reviewing the program on a regular basis. we want to make sure it is working as intended and it's not having any adverse side effects. to answer your question more generally, the approach is more or less the same as we always used. how we make decisions about the federal fund rate? what we do is our best to create an outlook for the economy. to say where are things going, where output going, where is inflation going, and we ask ourselves given the level of the monetary compensation we have now is the economy on a trajectory that will give the best possible outcome in the medium term. if not, if inflation looks to below or the deflation is the or the output is low and unemployment is too high the would be a situation that requires stimulus. vice versa it becomes increasing problem of the economy is growing quickly that would be the

for the turks, the saudis and the americans.or the three of you who live in the neighborhood of iran, can you afford to live in the shadow of a nuclear iran using this particular regime? >> our position is very clear. it is the strike of every sovereign nation to the technology to use it for peaceful purposes. but when it comes to nuclear weapons we don't want nuclear weapons in our region and it is very important for the countries to sign up to the npt, the non-proliferation treaty, and also follow the obligations of that treaty. in our region we have countries which are suspected to have nuclear weapons. do you it we would pay against which would deal with the nuclear weapons. >> iran signed in 1968 and there is a history of the clandestine activities. can you call someone from saudi arabia, before it to live in the shadow of the nuclear iran and in this particular regime pursue certain policies of the government? >> one of the ironies of course is that signing the npt in 1968 iran also presented to the united nations in 1974

the first was the invention of the personal computer. the second was the invention of the internet. he is not just theorizing, he is a venture capitalist, and he writes checks to support his position. he wrote a check for $250 million. to support his social funds. you're seeing the emergence of the social as the next big thing. i think if anything, it will make it a footnote. what does it mean? coming back to the prediction about 2011, it means whole business on the internet, hall networks are becoming social. and of them are allowing us to be let alone. the very nature of the internet is becoming social. that is why facebook is valued at $50 billion. that is why they are terrified of facebook. it is shifting from a platform of data to a platform for people. the social is going to be huge in 2011. linkedin will go public, facebook might, zynga will probably go public. you are seeing the emergence of more and more social businesses, everything from these location services like foursquare and gowalla. to the onese lia talked about. every new business is social. everything is predicate

at the same time, the government's mission matters and the successful reform will ensure the get the pensions the firm through the years of service. all we need is the political will to get it done. i look forward to hearing from our witnesses on this matter and the discussions of the next possible steps. thank you. i yield back. >> thank you, mr. quigley. you have been wonderful to work with. and we certainly appreciate that. this certainly isn't a shirts versus skins or republican versus democrat issue. i think trying to get to the understanding of the death of the problem is certainly behooves both parties and the american people and they have a right to know. i want to begin before we introduce the panel we have the mission statement of the oversight committee and at the chairman's request i would like to read that for all that are here today. we exist to secure to fundamental principles. first, americans have the right to know that the money washington takes from them is well spent. second, americans deserve an efficient and effective government that works for them. our duty on

the meltdown on the, on the past administration. a lot of folks wanted me to -- and i just said, look, you know, i think it's more important for the committee, for this ju committee to be focusing on how we get out of this mess rather than spending the resources of our committee looking backwards trying to figure out how we got into it. r that doesn't mean, and i didn'to mean at that point that it was not an important undertaking toe look retroactively at it. but we were, we were trying to focus more attention on how to move forward, and i'm glad we did. but now we can take a look back to the extent that the report contradicts anything we did in dodd-frank, i think it's worthwhile for us to do that. to the extent that it reaffirms some of the things we did in dodd-frank, i think that's important. but what's most important is we need to try to avoid this kind of economic meltdown in the future, and i heard one of the opening statements over there saying we go through these cycles periodically, the cycles are inevitable. they may be i

at the history of the presidential residence and take you through the, the west wing, all the laws, and lincoln bedroom and focuses on the presidents and first families who have most influence how it looks today, airing in high-definition and updated with interviews with president obama and the first lady and comments from georgia and laura bush" the white house, side america's most famous home." >> several companies that have contracts and afghanistan say security and illiteracy are the top two challenges facing contractors. next come officials look at these issues at a commission on wartime contract theory. this is about two hours. >> this is a joint statement on behalf of my co-chair and my fellow commissioners. some of us could not be here today. other commissioners at the dais are here. today's hearing is a continuation of our january 24 session on recurring problems and afghanistan -- in afghan construction. we were looking into the planning, management, execution, accountability, and sustainability of contract construction programs and afghanistan. there are literally thousands o

the history -- the various wars. the proliferation of weapons, the extent of the corruption. i think unfortunately, your country has suffered a lot worse. i think it is hard to see those, those kinds of problems being mirrored in egypt. >> to you in the front. >> would you give us the benefit of your name. >> anita. i'm egyptian. i'm answering that statement. i think -- has it is premature to worry about -- about replacement of -- of -- you know regime, like saying we need to put something in place is basically fear mongering. the democracy never came to any country overnight. you could even look at great democracies like the u.k. and france and america. it took years. i fully expect that with any protests or any revolution, egypt is going to go through a lot of problems and upheaval for months, for years perhaps. people saying, particularly our government, the n.d.p. saying if you don't find a replacement we're going to go the same way as iraq or something is fear mongering. we need to go for it. >> my name is ramsey. the panelist. the question i have is that the a.k.c. part

the house and in the senate. [inaudible] >> i would think the challenges of managing either the house or the senate, the responsibility of the leadership -- they are working to deal with getting a bill through the house. i am going to wait until they have taken action. >> "mother jones magazine." if you are one of the 8 million americans unemployed, who asks, what is in this budget for me for the near term, short-term benefits, job creation -- what would you point them toward? >> first is the fact that coming out of december, it was a matter of enormous importance to extend unemployment benefits of that we go into this year having a system that still provides a safety net for workers who are struggling. it is a very important backdrop. secondly, if you look at our infrastructure proposals, headstart, it would come at the beginning with an eye toward creating immediate opportunities. while we are very much -- the recovery is very much in the way an unemployment is going down, we are not satisfied with where we are

as for the role of the u.s., the u.s. is a major importer ofil. the u.s. is the lone superpower in the world. the u.s. of course will have rol-- role. that will be more hands off and it has been in the past year this is an opportunity. ople who see this as a problem may see this as a challenge for america because we have to change the way we've done business with these people. i would characterize it more as an opportunity for the u.s. to create a relationship finally with arab countries, and our society, rather than arab dictators. we have heardg secretaries of state in the u.s. saying that egypt has been a friend of ours. that's not true. egypt has not. president mubarak has been a friend to the u.s. the u.s. has not tried hard to make friends with actual egyptians. w these are young people not beholden to the u.s., but not anti-american writer. integuments of revolution across the arab world, people have not been burning the american flag. people not been hanging effigies of the president of the united states. these people are suspicious of the u.s. and

on the to the business this the good indicate is the level of the trade i mean we had the maximum twenty three billion dollars before the crisis now we're around for teen billion dollars but we're moving very fast to restore this level and of course britain is the fifth largest investor in the russian economy. that means that sometimes you're reading the newspapers that the climate is not so good you know but if you look at the deeds you'll find that the big business is really interested you know in the big deals and the last meeting of the international committee of trade and investment just show that we had six day mentions directions of the corporations and we are planning to. in different areas like for example. the brits will help us to make the final international financial center we expect to cooperate on the energy efficiency so basically i'm very optimistic about the economic areas of corporation between our two countries and as far as your job case what areas of your target set that you will focus on in terms of corp frankly i have to to to to to point you know all the all the

it reduced the take of the federal government from the private economy. the private economy grew and the governmental sector became more efficient and more productive. that's what we need to return to. it was such a fabulous honor to have the opportunity to serve in that position, and i hope and -- that i was faithful to the lues that the president who appointed me had. i got to tell you, i think i knew what they were and i know i gave my best effort to be worthy of the trust he placed in me. and i think that was true of many, many more people throughout the federal vernment. i would note mr. president, i ask unanimous consent to suspend the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. a senator: as a junior senator representing the state of illinois and one who will lead a celebration of president reagan's life in chicago saturday night for sunday, the 100th birthday of our native illinoisan, the 40th president, ronald reagan, i want to talk for a moment about his life and what he has meant to the united states now on the 100th anni

the conflicts between the serbs and the bosnian muslims, the serbs and the croatians, the conflicts in bosnia and croatia. the killing in bosnia was as bad as the demonstrations in cairo and around the world today. i would like to put into some context what all this means before i introduced the panel. i will give just a little beyond what the film did. many people seem to think that the 1990's after the cold war and before 9/11 were peaceful, uneventful interludes between the cold war and the dawn of the struggle against terrorism. i think those of us who were there would beg to differ. first, in bosnia alone, it understates the sheer scale of the destruction and the killing. in a small nation of two modern 50,000 people -- in a small nation, 250,000 people were killed and others became refugees. secondly, the dayton accords, the military action was really the first test of what the world would do to order itself in the aftermath of the cold war. the cold war dominated the organization of american foreign policy until about two years before i was inaugurated. the struggle between the

the city's contribution to the health service payment is based on the 10-county survey of the largest counties in california, ins " -- excluding san francisco. it looks like after you conducted the survey, a 10- county survey has actually increased for the coming year? >> yes, by 6.7%. >> $482.85 to $503.94? could you walk us through how that impacts what we pay? we current a 100% of the single employee cost. what about dependents? >> currently, the charter for active employees guarantees the 10-county amount, and for dependents, the charter says that we will pay 75% -- not the charter, the majority of collective bargaining agreements. most of them say we will pay 75% of the employee + two kaiser rates. so we have to calculate what the rate is, non-bargained, and then multiplied it by 75%. that is what is paid for essentially for dependent care. a large chunk of what we pay for is for dependent care. for retirees, the charter guarantees that we will -- an actual air difference of retirees between -- who are retired before they are eligible for medicare. their premiums will only be 50%

the gravity of the situation and the violence of the repression and that country demands urgent attention. as the secretary general of the united nations noted, the scale of the attacks on civilians are egregious violations of international humanitarian and human rights law. he condemned them without qualification and stated that those responsible for brutally shedding the blood of innocents must be punished. let me remind this council that at the 2005 summit, world leaders unanimously agreed that each individual state has the responsibility to protect its population from crimes against humanity and other international crimes. this responsibility entails the prevention of such crimes, including the incitement through appropriate and necessary means. when the state is manifestly failing to protect its population from serious international crime, the international community has the responsibility to step then by taking protective action in a collective and decisive manner. in its emergency session this week, the security council highlighted the need to hold the responsibility to protect, to

the wealthy people the rest of the world comes the ninth dates. for that reason, employees are often flung back to nine states. i have a chapter in "come back" about this. how do we get uninsured americans on insurance? the reason health care costs more in the u.s. is because we have a very diverse, overweight -- we have expenses and we do everything we can to keep anyone alive, whether or not they want to stay alive. families often keep patients alive because he never expressed their desire. host: quick response -- if you are worried about your children and grandchildren's future, you and everyone else will have to pony up to taxation to pay down the national debt. americans really ready to feel taxes? this generation will have to make big sacrifices to help to two generations. guest: democrats will oppose any cut in benefits and republicans will oppose any increase in taxes whatsoever. we will have to pay more taxes, otherwise we will have to lose some services. trickle-down implies that it ignores the economic reality that the higher the taxes,

in the white house with the budget directer and the secretary of the treasury and the chairman of the fed. and i went to several of those meetings, and at one meet being i tried to convince -- meeting i tried to convince arthur burns that his policy of trying to head off the inflation in the oil price was a mistake. and, you know, i, it was my persuasive past that failed completely. he was convinced that he had to do something about it, and they repeated that mistake in 1978-'79 of thinking about the oil price change which is a relative price change. nothing that the fed can do about relative price changes of that kind except kill the economy. and that was a mistake. and it's one of the mistakes that i cite in the book, and by the third big oil price increase which is sometime in the 2000 period when you were responsible for thinking about these things, they didn't repeat that error. they said, it's a relative price shock, it'll go through, and the inflation rate will be the same after it passes through as it was before. that's what people like me were saying in the 1970s. but that wa

reinforced the feeling on the street that the united states and you with him powers and the rest of the world leading needs to stay out of egypt and i say is my colleague in england took a look at the phenomenon president obama starts today my belief that an orderly transition must be meaningful it must be peaceful and it must begin now and then faithfully one after the other one the other governments followed suit. the show these democratic change has to start now. it needs to happen now for greater freedom and democracy in egypt and it seems the theme was contagious as the call for a new egypt spreads uncontrolled across the western mass media there were two hundred fifty thousand people in the streets of cairo protesting for democracy this is how democracy happens but what right do u.s. and european leaders have to get involved in what's essentially domestic unrest about dissatisfaction with a ruler who cares what they want in egypt certainly not these demonstrators at the egyptian embassy in london they supported you can redeem for such a long time. and now they're talking about

on the to the business this the good indicator is the level of the trade but the last meeting of the international committee of trade and investment just showed that we had six day mentions directions of the corporations and we are planning to cook rate in different areas like for example. the brits will help us to make the international financial center we expect to cooperate on the energy efficiency so basically i am very optimistic about the economic areas of cooperation between our two countries and as far as your job case what areas of your target set that you will focus on in times of cooperation altshuler frankly i have to to to to to to point to know all the all the areas still so this is politics definitely this is economy this is technology because you know we're building skolkovo with the brits building you know the same center not far from london reason regime we're in favor of the better conditions you know we want the same conditions that we have with the european union and we're ready you know to move in this direction and definitely we'll try you know to see good reac

>> the iraq the security forces have the ability to control the internal security of the country.y are leading the effort to do that now. they do need to continue to work on logistics' and intelligence capabilities. >> do you feel comfortable with the iraqi security forces as they exist january 1, 2012, to protect thousands of americans and other people in iraq tried to provide assistance? can they do the job? are you comfortable with them being able to provide that security? >> i think adequate security will be provided, provided the security it is -- >> is it your opinion we do not need any troops in iraq in 2012? >> what we are focused on is abiding by the agreement -- >> but you are advising congress -- you have been on the ground a lot. please put on the table what you see as reasonably necessary or an insurance policy, if you can construct the perfect scenario what would you have the scenario be regarding military involvement in iraq in 2012? >> i would prefer to avoid speculating on what we would be able to do and what we could provide. i think the iraq these would have to

the presiding officer: the clerk will read the title of the bill for the first time. the clerk: h.r. 1, an act making appropriations for the department of defense and other departments and agencies of the government for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2011, and for other purposes. mr. reid: mr. president, i now ask for a second reading in order to place the bill under the calendar, and i object to my own request. the presiding officer: objection having been heard. the bill will receive a second reading on the next legislative day. mr. reid: i now ask unanimous consent the rules committee be discharged from further consideration of s. res. 7. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. reid: mr. president, i ask this resolution be placed on the calendar. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today it adjourn until tomorrow morning, march 1, at 10:00 a.m. following the prayer and pledge, the journal of proceedings be approved to date, the morning hour be d

many of the protesters gathered in the capitol rotunda as the meeting stretched into the night. republican leaders said later they would make significant changes in the bill. and in florida, republican governor rick scott canceled plans for a high-speed rail line between orlando and tampa. he said the state could not afford the multibillion-dollar transit line. the project had been supported by president obama. in economic news, new data raised the possibility of inflation rising. the labor department reported wholesale prices rose half a percent in january, the most in more than two years. the housing sector also saw improvement. home construction rose at the fastest rate in 20 months, mainly from more apartments being built. on wall street today, the dow jones industrial average gained 61 points to close at 12,288. the nasdaq rose 21 points to close at 2,825. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to jim. >> lehrer: and we return to egypt, and to jeffrey brown. >> reporter: in the first official accounting, egypt's health ministry said today that at least 360 peo

of dealing with the infrastructure and developing the rail or the water, correcting the water pipes. the capitalist system has to deal of doubt. the government has not shown at they are efficient in spending our money. taking it from us and taxes from businesses and then circulating it through washington and then back out for the states and saying that is sufficient, i don't think that is and never has been. making the government smaller and getting things in the hands of the people of the local communities, they will handle the infrastructure. b of a structure will be corrected to support the capitalist system -- i guess it is my point as an independent from big government to small government. the federal government needs to shrink and shrink in a big way. host: is the federal government capable of that? guest: in many ways, the federal government is the only entity that can do these things. much of this infrastructure is not at the local level. the planning, the connections for all that, we are aation of 50 states. we're competing with other countries. you cannot have -- many of ou

given the problems with the bureau, the dollar and the prospective growth in the economy, the dollar is looking more attractive relative to the other currencies in the world. mrs. mcclellan. >> thank you, mr. chairman. chairman bernanke, thank you for being here. i believe that we have a lot of work ahead of us. i want to thank you for the work that you did in stabilizing our economy. i look forward to hearing some of your advice, suggestions, and ideas on how we move forward with getting out of the great recession. i want to be part of the solution. we hear a lot of talk here in congress about spending, but i am also concerned about the perks that lobbyists have been able to get for special interest in our tax code. i take we need to put everything on the table. having said that, today we focus on spending quite a bit. in fact, i will paraphrase a popular tea party slogan. the federal government does not have a revenue problem, it has a spending problem. last week, chairman bryant put forth his best effort to reduce the deficit with spending targets cuts at $41 billion in the fiscal

watch all the wet weather just sift off the coast even through the afternoon. we're going to keep those temperatures in the 30's throughout the morning hours and santa rosa, napa. 39 sambar file, 42 in oakland, south bay temperatures in the upper 30's. in the afternoon, our highs will be 52 santa rosa novato and 50 in san rafael in san francisco. we will keep temperatures in the low 50s in the east bay topping off around 54 in san jose. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay, shows us a break in their what weather on your tuesday and wednesday. we bring a cold and rainy weather back on thursday and friday. a wet weekend ahead of us. >>george: you're going to have an easy drive, regardless of were heading. it traffic lights are on the bay area. as you can see a bridge check, no hot spots or slow spots to tell you about. traffic is to let the bay bridge, we probably will get turned on this morning. a very easy ride at the san mateo bridge, at 6:00 a.m. a thought we would see more volume but we don't. the golden gate bridges problem free, southbound 101 and s

side will the army take and what is the -- what is the -- is the possibility of the protection of the minority rights that is -- that is after the takeover. what will happen? do we know any theory around that? >> thank you. it is a public meeting, we hope you come back many times. who wants to tackle that briefly? >> from personal experience, because i was conscripted for 14 months in the egyptian army. the egyptian army, the people look at in a very romantic way as the defender of the country, the good soldiers. they -- the -- they would not be like crush them. no officer or soldier in the army can imagine himself. there's a long history between the army and the police. where the army sees themselves ads the more pure form and the police are sort of the pugs and the police see themselves, these are, we are the -- guardians of the security and so they don't know what they're talking about. >> i mean, the army i think will remain neutral. there's in -- there's no tendency in the army to seize power or to do a military coup or anything like that. the army -- the higher echelons want it

the next step was to end the war between the moslems and the croats. we succeeded doing that in negotiations that took place in croatia. there was pressure on the president of croatia. he was persuaded to change course. we got the alliance between the two and the washington agreement that was signed in president clinton's presence in march of 1994 and then came a critical decision which president clinton discussed. the president of croatia came to me and said the bosnian government, the president has asked what the u.s. attitude was if we permit arms to transit our territory to go to the bosnian government? some of them were coming from iran but that -- but most of them are coming from the black market, from russia, interestingly. president clinton took the decision which i thought was the right one. i told him that we don't object. he actually had hoped for the opposite decision. he did not really like the end of the muslim-croat war. the arms began to flow. the president of bombay -- bosnia's about was the single most important thing that led to peac

by the reporting. well the new deal on the nuclear arms reduction between russia and the u.s. has now come into force nearly a year after it was first signed by the two countries presidents the treaty known as start is being hailed as a reset relations between the two countries but as our. reports it's only the beginning of a long road to scrapping cold war era stereotypes. words put into action a historic exchange of ratification documents and the new strategic arms reduction treaty between moscow and washington is officially in force and when it comes to the button that has worried the most over the years the one that would unleash nuclear destruction the day we take another step to ensure it will never be pushed . to last for the next ten years the treaty said to reduce the number of nuclear weapons on both sides over a third an outcome which would have appeared impossible even a decade ago i think we will be presented with this historical moment the green light has been given in around six weeks to russia and the united states will exchange full information on all their st

customers in the u.s., use the ports of the u.s., use the u.s. coast guard and all whose executives live in the u.s. and they don't pay taxes here. or exxonmobil who doesn't pay taxes in the united states but pays other places around the world, we borrow money to give a subsidy to exxonmobil, yet in the last quarter of also year, they had the largest single corporate profit in the history of the world. we are going to borrow money to give them tax rebates or taxes they didn't pay in the united states of america that they paid elsewhere. that system can't be fixed, the republicans say. those would be tax increases. agriculture subsidies, pay people $20 billion not to grow things? nope. can't go there. we are going to balance the budget by hacking away at nondefense discretionary spending. unfortunately, physics and reality don't work for them here, nor does math because it's a tiny fraction of the deficit if we totally eliminated those programs instead of just hacking at them. let's get real, let's get together here. the country is confronted with

by the middle of the decade. we will do that in part by eliminating waste and cutting whatever spending we can do without. >> our problem is, we are running down the road to keep kicking the can down. what did we just it today? we got a punt. the president punted on the budget and on the deficit and debt. that is not leadership. that is an abdication of leadership. host: here are some of the details for you to think about before you start dialing in. what do you like and what do you not like? free-spending cuts in the president's 12 -- 2012 budget request -- immunity block grants, something the president said was " due to close to his heart, was cut. key spending proposals for the 2012 budget request -- what are your thoughts on this this morning? john cranford is the "cq" managing editor and he will be with us as we take your phone calls as well. i wanted to begin with what happens after the president proposes a budget for 2012 -- this is just the first that. guest: it is. there are at least half a dozen committ

the officer and the two people inside the other car had to be taken to the hospital. the officer is expected to be okay. no word though on the condition of the other two people. >>> this morning, president obama is reaching out to egypt's military. what the president says needs to be done by military leaders there now that they are in charge of that country. and politics are getting more hands-on in venezuela. what is causing the rise in tension there? >>> happy saturday. mostly clear skies as we start the morning. little cool started, just a light breeze al am immediata for you. >>> this morning, senior u.s. military officials are headed to the middle east to reassure two key u.s. allies. recent demonstrations in egypt have sparked some fear that similar unrest could spread through the region. as a result, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff will hold meetings in amman tomorrow with the jordan king. jordan is a close u.s. partner on the war on terror and a key player in the mideast peace process. after a visit to jordan, amman will lead to israel where leaders are

the army has grown to the point where it dominates the rest of the pakistani state. but we learned from many examples around the world that countries or states can't operate on the basis of a powerful army. whenever i go to pakistan, i say, your country, your estate, hopping on one strong leg which is the army. and there's strategic dilemma of the military leadership is to build up that civilian way, the chinese official said we would characterize it as pakistan having one leg like an elephant and the other like a chop stick. that's maybe an exaggeration but i think the point is clear the army can't do everything in pakistan. in fact it can barely do the things it's supposed to do, let alone build a state. and the interaction of the state, the state of pakistan which is in decline. with the idea of pkz, competing ideas of pakistan i think is at the heart of the pakistani. if you read my -- i think the issue, as arnold says states and bureaucracies are important. i started to figure out there are 18 or 19 different variables or factors. and i'm not sure how to rank th

and you remember the character ben kingsley, whose firm did the work for the germans, the work on the machinery. at the end of the movie, liam neeson starts crying to him. he said, i didn't do enough. and the character -- ben kingsley said, you did plenty. he said remember, when you save one life, you saved the entire world. and in the case of bill gates, he has saved the entire world over and over and over again. [applause] and not just a financial benefactor, which he is, and which the bill and linda gates foundation is, but also a moral leader who has been able to exert great influence on business, corporate, financial, n.g.o., and government leaders all over the world. so without saying any more about him, this is a great man, a great american who has changed a lot of lives, please welcome bill gates. [applause] >> thank you, secretary goodman. i have to go back and watch that movie again. it's a great honor to join the u.s. global leadership coalition in paying tribute to secretary albright and secretary ridge. secretaries, as someone still adjusting to my second career, i'm insp

it is the bipartisanship of the welfare system, the warfare system, the monetary system, the challenger civil liberties -- it all goes through both parties. this should be a challenge in the issue of philosophy -- good philosophy versus bad philosophy. [applause] agree oncan't something you should make coalitions with whoever agrees with you and come together, but i would like to see it is the big conservatives to like to spend money and get the big government liberals and let them get together and say, "it is time. let's have a little bit of bipartisanship and cut both." [applause] there has been talk lately about american exceptional ism. we like to talk about that. we certainly will in an exceptional country. we have been blessed. we had the most freedom and those prosperity. my concern is i am afraid we e losing it. we have given up on our devotion to liberty. that is where our problem is. where i think we go astray on is thatceptional as soism there are people who are neo conservatives who believe we have more responsibility to use force to go around the world and tell people to d

the real measure of the burden on the economy is the level of taxes. to just connect a few dots here, it's also intesting to hear the discussion about how there a disproportionate negative impact. in other wds, the negative impact from higher taxes exceeds the revenue benefit to the vernment from an increase in taxes. if we're saying the taxes are essentially equivalent to spending, then what we're saying is that as government spending rose and, therefore, the corresponding taxes, we're doing harm to our economic growth which is i think we're well within the range at which increases in spending are doing negative consequences to our economy. the question i have is also about the vat. dr. lindsey has argued against a combination of income taxes and vat. i think if i understand you correctly, it's because of a concern about an additional layer of complexity. but i wonder about something else, also, that concerns me. if we had both, we could at least initially have both at what would appear to be nominally relatively low rates since you have two different

some of the latest video shares he the chaos, with this to say was very scary. >> to see the top of the cathedral come down i have never seen anything like that. to see the dust, people running out. it is just no workthere just no wordse are no words. i'm still shaking now. >> james: of state of emergency has been clearedeclard it will bring you the latest as it continues to come in. check on our local forecast, a live look at the golden gate bridge, mild day on tap louisa? >> louisa: today, tomorrow, taking advantage jeff. we will stay dry. of thate itge oft temperatures, 33 a degree above freezing in santa rosa. 34 napa, 37 san rafael, redwood city thirties, concord, livermore 37. you can see the satellite, the greater the storm from yesterday pushed it to a town along the state hugging 7 california. we can stay that way. another storm pushes and pushing plenty of wet weather here's your temperatures into the afternoon. 58 santa rosa, 55 san francisco. also in to novato, east bay temperatures will warm up to the upper 50s. 52 trees today for san jose, along the coast those temperature

the brutal crackdown on the part of the iranian regime against the democracy proponents in the streets. the administration -- the initial reaction from the administration was weak and wobbly, and then after that, on wheat saw in the parliamentary elections in egypt, a rigging of elections, in-your-face kind of brazen rigging of these elections. again, the administration that the position was not strong enough. all of these moves on the part of the administration gritted the impression -- false or not -- that this administration will pursue the same line as the bush administration. talk the talk, but not walk the walk. that is why the administration finds itself now chasing bait events in cairo and alexandria. now that are going back to the speech in cairo. now there are going back to the major speech hill recruits -- hillary clinton gave in doha before the uprising in egypt there now i think the administration is on the right path. but i think they have a legacy of the year and a half where they did not do enough to push for democratic reform in countries such as texting egypt and jord

the marin county coroner's office mr. make the i.d. when they get the body. police were brought here because of a missing person's report from a neighbor. police aren't saying what the information is, that there could be a body buried. the information turned out to be true. a neighbor said the couple kept to themselves but you could sometimes hear the couple's conversation. >> it's moving from a missing person's investigation into a criminal investigation. our investigation will be focused op following up with additional interviews of family members and the resident who lived her with -- here with mr. smith. >> reporter: evelyn smith is married to dale smith. he's the one missing. smith, along with her attorneys gave officers per noition search the back -- permission to search the backyard. they will be back out here shortly to resume the grim task of resuming the body and who is buried in this backyard. kraig debro reporting. >>> also, we've got new information coming in from vallejo residents about why they didn't answer frantic calls for help from two teen

of the cia in the united states. and he's not exactly a skilled politician either. and he is associated with some of the darker side of the regime. so i think there would be an absence of trust that he's this order person that would really be interested in a truly democratic tnsition. on the contrary i think he would want to preserve the kind of police state that exists. so i think there would be a lot of mistrust in omar suleiman as the person to carry out this transition. >> when you get up tomorrow morning what's the question you must want to see answered. >> well, i think that's a very difficult question to answer. we've been living in such a roller coaster. if mubarak is still president, i suppose, are there indication-- indicationses that we are moving towards a democratic transition or are there indications that we're actually slipping back into the police state in egypt. >> rose: max, thank you so much. >> great, thank you. >> rose: max rodenbeck since 2000 has been the chief middle east economist magazine an

the longer a shut down the badder the consequences. in 1995 and 1996 the government shut down. >> we are working, we want to compromise and make sure we don't shut down the government because you know the most at risk are going to be hurt. >> reporter: a poll said 60% of voters want a compromise. in oakland, ktv channel 2news. >> the leader of lybia vows to stay in power as violence escalates and his control diminishes. hundreds filled the streets in the city's to celebrate taking control of towns. another city under rebel control appointed a new leader and others have set up councils. we have more on the obama administration's response today to the unrest. >> reporter: the secretary of state is heading to geneva to consult with allies. she offered the latest administration comments on the situation saying we have been reaching out to many different people trying to organize in the east. we are going to be ready and prepared to offer any kind of help that anyone wishes to have from the united states. she didn't comment specifically on

the lord is the everlasting god. the creator of the ends of the earth.es not faint or grow weary. his understanding is unsearchable. he gives power to the faint and strengthens the powerless. even youth will fade and be wary and the young will fall exhausted. but those who wait for the lord will renew their strength. they shall mount up with wings like eagles. they shall run and not be wary. and they shall walk and not faint. this is the word of the lord. thank you. [applause] >> sometimes, as busy people, we say that we are buried in our work. our next presenter knows the literal meaning of the term. along with 32 other miners, he endured 69 days half a mile underground in a chilean mine. the world marveled at the technological achievement of their rescue. >> our guest today brings us the story of how god protected and encouraged them until their rescue. please welcome the man who led those miners in worship and prayer to route those dark and fearful days, jose and because -- jose enriquez. transfer it -- translated for him will be the rev. albert coope

that was not the only the relocation. and reggie kumar will take as to the top of the mountain where it is similar wait and see. >> as i made my way of the panoramic highway to the state park i noticed that snow flurries at 1,600 ft.- 1,700 ft.. a much lower elevation, according to park officials. once i got to about 1,900 ft. at rock springs cold, strong wind. it felt like the temperatures was below freezing and snow blanketed the highways in the hillsides. driving became dangerous. park ranger,, frazier controlled the grounds and keeping out for drivers who could have an stuck in the snowfall. he said a handful of cars got stuck in could not leave the park a couple of years ago when it was snowing like this. >> the was so much accumulation of that it makes a vehicle difficult if you do not have an 4 x 4. >> in the last couple of years this is probably the most. and generally, it is not that frosted over. perhaps one half an inch to 1 in. but even more. people do not expecting to have driving through snowfall in the bay

the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker's rooms, washington, d.c., february 10, 2011, i hereby appoint the honorable jason chaffetz to act as speaker pro tempore on this day, signed, john a. boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 5, 2011, the chair will recognize members from lists is submitted by minority and majority members for debate. each member other than the majority and minority leader an minority whip limited to five minutes each but in no event shall debate continue beyond beyond 11:50 p.m. the chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. pitts, for five minutes. the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. pitts: thank you, mr. speaker. as i rise today mindful of events occurring in egypt, and i want to extend my congratulations to the lillian thrasher orphanage in egypt which is celebrating 100 years of service this month. as our ally, egypt, stands on the cusp of a new future, one hopefully based

the creamy feel. the oil. the military takes charge of egypt. or the president as a triumph of democracy and much of an american agenda that democracy. united states is becoming the laughingstock of the world the faces of potentially the next american president as well as the bold plans for the country. in washington. as ukraine prepares to host the next euro championships. the world cup so. good to have you with us you live from the russian capital with the twenty four hours a day the egyptian military authorities now controlling the country have promised they will comply fully with egypt's international obligations during the transitional period the army took charge of the country after the embattled president hosni mubarak finally stepped down on friday and in a public standoff last in more than two weeks on saturday crowds once again gathered at tahrir square which became the center point for the people in the country to the historic event. along with other world leaders. resignation saying that the voice of the people have been but since th

the near term it means the end of the democracy movement. what you saw today was the army being forced by mubarak to basically come out in defense of the regime. the tactics that mubarak employed, he got the police and security folks off the streets a few days ago. they are the folks that came out today in uniform -- or out of uniform in the civilian clothes quite deliberately to employ violence. i do fear that the next few days may be a little bit bloody. >> let's hope not. another million man march is planned for friday after prayer services. meantime, a group of hackers from all over the world says it has shut down the government's website in support of the antigovernment protests. >>> moving on. you will soon notice extra security and bart counter terrorism teams. the idea is to put more patrols on certain trains at certain times to prevent an attack. as heather ishimaru explains, the federal government is picking up the tab. >> reporter: at this afternoon briefing, eight bart police officers prepare to head out in teams of two to ride t

you now is not the time as the country battles on the. he used the whole battle's one of the worst economic crises it's ever seen now is not the time to be pumping cash to uncertain regimes because more now on this from along the correspondent more of it. in the battle for hearts and minds in the middle east a new front has opened up influential voices from the heart of europe to washington are urging western politicians to take advantage of unrest by pumping involves sums of money in aid to show the newly liberated people of the region that democracy does carry rewards but it's cash that many europeans don't feel they have through the research i don't with well give it a broader many of those search i think we should be close to work on that level i mean obviously they did serve someone they start helping to democracy but we need to be the council room farce that's crazy should probably try and look after was put on hold first before you try to make a transfer of themselves are really at this moment our country is going through these big