thank you. >> thank you, then the. -- dennis. >> "this is america" is made possible by the national education association, the nation's largest advocate for children and public education. the american federation of teachers, a union of professionals. poongsan corporation, forging a higher global standard. >> the ctc foundation, afo communications. new zealand has one of the top education systems in the world. to learn about the how and the white, i spoke with the minister of education. >> i read these reports, and they say that new zealand is always ranking in the top 10 of all school systems all over the world. what is the secret of success? >> well, there is no one reason. in order to get a system, which is made up of many parts, is we have a highly aspirational culture as a society. we are a small country, the last stop before antarctica. we know we have to trade to survive. in order to do that, we have to design products and services that we can sell to the world and the world wants from us, so our biggest and best resources located between the two ears of a our citizens, which means we have to ensur

. >> "this is america" is made possible by the national education association, the nation's largest advocate for children and public education. the american federation of teachers, a union of professionals. the singapore tourism board. there is something for everyone. singapore airlines, a great way to fly. poongsan corporation, forging a higher global standard. the rotondaro family trust. the ctc foundation. afo communications. >> ambassador, the czech republic is landlocked, isn't it? >> yes. >> tell me the border countries so people can visit it on imap. >> it is bordered with germany. we are basically a trying goal that comes into the belly of germany. we border with bavaria on the south, and saxony on the north. and of our north border, it is quite a long border, with portland. and our eastern border, we border -- with poland. and our eastern border, we border with slovakia. >> the population of the czech republic now is how much? >> it used to be a 50 million nation, czechoslovakia, and it split 2 to one. >> and the capital, of course, as prague. which i understand is one of the most b

. >> "this is america" is made possible by the national education association, the nation's largest advocate for children and public education. the american federation of teachers, a union of professionals. poongsan corporation, forging a higher global standard. the ctc foundation. afo communications. the rotondaro family trust. >> having heard so much about finland's successes in public education, i had a chance to sit down and talk with tapio kosunen from the ministry of education in finland. why is education in finland so successful? what's the real answer? >> the real answer is education is very much appreciated in finland. >> by the general public? >> yes. we see that as a means to a decent life, well-being and to climb the social ladder. >> you are not so much concerned, if i'm hearing you correctly, not so much with scores and statistics, but more as a total human being? >> yes. that's the point. but we do not use any standardized tests. >> would you say that again outloud? >> we do not use any standardized tests in finland. we have one standardized test which is an examination after

." >> "this is america" is made possible by the national education association, the nation's largest advocate for children and public education. the american federation of teachers, a union of professionals. singapore airlines. the singapore tourism board, there is something for everyone. singapore airlines,a great way to fly. poongsan corp., forging a higher global standard. the ctc foundation. afo communications. the rotondaro family trust. >> the book is absolutely terrific on some money different levels, not only to get to know the queen, the family, how it operates inside, but also some of the history. and people know the movies in the last couple of years, "the king's speech" which i gather the queen has seen, but she did not see "the queen," of the helen mirren film. her father was a george vi and he took over because his brother, edward the a's, decided he did not want to be king. george died pretty young and she becomes queen at the moment of his death, the best pitcher and all of this later on. but she was 25 years old. home schooled. in the war, she helped out her father.

he is a life member of the national rifle association. ive a warm welcome to friend, the governor of massachusetts, mitt romney. [applause] >> thank you so much. thank you. thank you for your generous welcome. what a job wayne lapierre just did. what an extraordinary man. thank you to chris cox for that wonderful introduction. there is one more person i would like to introduce. i happen to believe all moms are working moms. if you have five mommies -- five sons, your work is never done. my sweetheart, ann romney. [applause] say something. you are welcome. >> this is fabulous. let me give a shot out to all moms that are working. and, by the way, all dads that are working. we love all of you. as a parent, you are only as happy as your saddest child. he never, ever stop being a parent. our boys are grown. they have children of their own. it is such a wonderful opportunity for me to think about the heritage we are leaving those children. i love be that bad when my kids were -- the fact that when my kids were growing up, we let it from- a stone

organizations like the national association of evangelicals, the nae, dispute any need for an atheist chaplain. galen carey is an nae vice president. >> evangelicals very strongly support the men and women in uniform, and they want to see that their spiritual needs are met. i don't think you would find many who could understand, frankly, the point of a chaplain for atheists. >> there are over 3,000 chaplains altogether. 90% are christian, even though only about seven out of ten soldiers claim to be christian. there are also a handful of muslim, jewish and hindu chaplains. jason torpy, an iraq veteran, wants to know why the much larger group of atheists or humanists, estimated to be about 40,000 soldiers, don't have their own chaplain. >> they have trainings for the jewish perspective and the eastern orthodox perspective and the christian science perspective even though, you know, our group -- even just the atheists, not even the general nontheists, you know -- even though we dwarf their numbers. >> torpy is a graduate of west point. he was a captain in the first armored division and i

"this is america" is made possible by -- the national education association. the nation's largest advocate for children and public education. the american federation of teachers, a union of professionals. the ctc foundation, ofa communications. mr. secretary, thank you for joining us. >> thank you for this opportunity. >> how did the idea of a summit come about? >> we thought was important to not learn from isolation but from our colleagues around the globe we brought the union leaders. we did it last year. we did not know if it would be successful or a failure. it went extraordinarily well. the feedback has been fantastic. it is a lot of fun. we learned so much from these other countries. it has been an amazing two days. >> what were the takeaways from last year's summit? >> there are so many comments that are interesting but what i did not fully appreciate was despite all the differences in geography and local context, the local issues we are grappling with. how do you support a workforce that is preparing for the 24 century still, how do you retain teachers,

the study wasn't done by the hoover institution it was done by the california branch of the national association of scholars this is the study the national association of scholars is a group that is funded by the skate foundation among others are largely and they claim to be a membership organization but they have one member. i read this yes and i can't find anywhere in here and i brought it out to ask you can you show me anywhere in here word actually qualifies how i mean there's all these anecdotes and all the and a lot of commentary and rhetoric i found no actual quantitative analysis of here's proof that the school outcomes are getting worse here's here's a connection between that and professors being liberal can you show me well please as you can imagine i haven't got a command of every page but i'm pretty sure if you turn to page to sixty through sixty five of this you'll find many studies that demonstrate that the quality of education is declined i think if you turn to iran page twenty one or twenty two you'll find pages with graphs which show the number of run twenty twenty one you will

it was created by the national rifle association, and the nra has been the driving force behind the lawthey got stand your ground on the books in florida. since then it pushed the law in 24 more states, and it doesn't stop there. remember the shooting of gabrielle giffords and it panned the sale of high capacity ammunition magazines? why would anyone need to carry around a .09-millimeter glock with 36 rounds? >> it is great to be with so many friends here today from the national rifle association. >> yes, friends. the friends that drew up the stand your ground law. he pretends he one of them, but the truth is he has been in every chamber of the six shooter. zle with tough gun laws in massachusetts, i support them, i won't chip away, they protect us and provide for our safety. >> i don't line up 100% with the nra. >> even with that sound, can you really believe this guy? >> i'm not a big game hunter, i made it clear, i'm a rodent and rabbit hunter, small varmentes if you will. i started when i was 15 and hunted like that some time. >> u remember you were teased for saying you hunted varm

and they have a list of all the national association of carpet shampooers meeting, the national association of q-tip weaver meeting. and all of these organizations meeting and these guys i worked with, they knew the skinny on all of them in terms of food and booze. they'd say remember that reception with the q-tip people? they had great food, they had lobster there. and i'm sitting there going, well, i guess we best go over and say howdy to the q-tip people. and you know, we would -- i would go and all they would do is party. and we did a bit of that. but i also had a guy say to me, do you want to work on a project other than opening constituent mail. which was before the internet, obviously. this is '77 i think i did this. and the guy said to me -- he said what do you want -- he said i've got a project for you. returning vietnam veterans. no greater love back then. he nodded. thank you. jerry ambro, the guy who worked for jerry said we're going to put you in charge. no greater love wants each of the members of congress to select the most well reacclimated vietnam veteran. we're going to ta

once it was signed, on june 25th, randolph proceeded to fly to the meeting of the national association for color people and announce that the march was off. a call was made out on the radio stations that touched most african-americans, and they called off the march, the negro march on washington. this march would prove to be extraordinarily effective, it used the rhetoric of citizenship, it used an international -- threat of international embarrassment, and it used a legitimate claim to put pressure on the president. and it also used the capital spaces. it threatened to use the capital spaces in a way that would prove especially embarrassing to the united states on the eve of war. the notion of african-americans marching peaceably up pennsylvania avenue and then assembling at the lincoln memorial, using that space to display their place in the nation when that place was so treated unequally, was incredibly powerful. but could it be recreated? and this is what i will conclude with, is to think some about could that happen again, that special power? there were special circumstances, it w

of guns in the united states and a correspondingly large number of gun-related deaths the national rifle associationnd other gun groups believe the answer to that gun violence that those guns generate is even more guns. they want to expand and have been successful in this congress and expanding concealed carry laws. and, in fact,0protections for those that use their guns irresponsibly. here in(congressnd in far too many state houses he country their side is, in fact, winning. loosening already porous gun laws and blocking the passage of any sensible gun control measures. i understand that as many as 30 states now have vigilante laws comparable to florida's thanks to the national rifle association and the american legislative exchange council which has worked hand in hand with them in trying to get this legislation through even though it didn't come interest any grassroots effort on the part of citizens. it came from the top. it came from the nra working with the legislators with threats of political repercussions if they don't comply and, of coue, rewas, financial and political, when they do and the

in its 2009 report, facts about modern manufacturing, the national association of manufacturers identifies external policy rated costs such as a persistently high corporate tax rate, the high cost of health care, the rising cost of energy, regulatory costs and tort costs as serious barriers to manufacturing. simply put, there's a prevailing sense among many people that the u.s. is falling even further behind in fostering an environment conducive to job creation. when it comes to u.s. manufacturing, is the glass mafl full, half empty or will it remain shattered on the kitchen floor for millions of out of work americans. mr. secretary, let's working to the sweep up the glass and then set the table for a manufacturing comeback. i continue to believe without a doubt in the greatness of america and made in america should continue to be a shared pride for all of us. and with that, i now recognize the ranking member of our subcommittee and want to in advance wish him a happy 65th birthday, which we will be celebrating next week. so mr. butterfield, your recognized for five minutes for your openin

let me focus on the central theme of the national rifle association. the right to bear arms comes from our creator, not our government. [applause] it is one of the unalienable rights and alluded to in the declaration of independence. it does not grant the right to bear arms. it acknowledges their pre- existing condition. the founding fathers knew this for a practical reason. when british troops arrived on lexington and concord expecting to force the peasants into surrender, something they had done quite well in ireland, scotland, wales, and england, they found they were not up against peasants. they were up against americans. they were up against trained militia. they were up against people who work sure the land of the free or the home of the -- and the home of the brave. without being the home of the brave, you would not remain the land of the free. [applause] many of you know i like wayver -- wayne very much. i think the nra has been too damaged. the gingrich presidency will submit to the united nations a treaty that extends the right to bear arms as

she is the president of the national association for the advancement of colored people in california. welcome. [applause] >> thank you to the commissioners and the co-chair. as a national board member of the n.a.a.c.p., to have an opportunity to discuss this issue, and i want to go on record to say that we are pleased to get at second it -- the commission in los angeles to pass a resolution to end the war on drugs. we have all come to realize the war on drugs as a failed war. i am probably speaking to the choir, but sometimes that is how you get salvation, because we know this war has failed, get a lot of resources are still going toward it. i am pleased to be here with the commission, to finally have a human rights commission connect this with human rights and criminalization that is going on. that is a profound step forward. people want to talk -- very few people want to talk about the humanity and the depletion of human resources going on across this country. i have heard this linked to human rights, and i want to applaud you for that and remind your when we talk about rights, firs

we also have another pharmacist joining us, kevin nicholson, vice president of the national association of chain drugstores. next is kendra martello, assistant general counsel pharmaceutical research and manufacturers of america, and our final witness is david gaugh, vice president for regulatory science of the generic pharmaceutical association. welcome, everyone. i think you know the drill, the five minutes. there's the timer. and with that we'll be happy to turn to you, mr. gray, for your five minutes. please make sure your microphone is on. >> thank you. good afternoon, members of the energy commerce subcommittee of manufacturing and trade. i am john gray, president and ceo of the health care distribution management association. i want to thank you all for the opportunity to come here today and talk about this critically important problem of prescription drug abuse and it didversion and most importantly what my members are doing to combat that problem. the pharmaceutical industry's primary mission is to operate the most sufficient and safest supply chain in the world. as part of thi

i have a variety of certifications from the national association of securities dealers. but i don't pretend that i have the time or the expertise to set up a retirement plan. employers do that. and that's why it matters that they do. every time a business says you're on your own, fewer people get a secure retirement. now fortunately most businesses do offer retirement plans. 2/3 of american workers today, 2/3 have access to some sort of employer provided plan. and not to hit a point too hard, american airlines is an example here, too. american is a company that work both to succeed and to provide retirement security for 130,000, well, americans, and their family. n now, how about government? what does government do? government doesn't require private retirement plans but it does encourage them. it sets minimum standards. if a business promises a pension, it should deliver on that commitment. if a business gets tax benefits for its pension, it should help all employs not just senior management. government steps in to make sure those things happen. government encourages bot

the federal law enforcement officers association support this bill. the national sheriffs association support this bill. and the international association of chiefs of police support this bill. recent events in my state have shown me and really the entire population of minnesota in the worst possible way just how closely domestic violence is linked with the safety of our law enforcement officers. i don't think people always think of that. i think they realize when police are driving out on the road, drink drivers are driving on the road they're at risk because they're constantly on the road. what they don't realize is one of the leading cause of death of officers is domestic violence-related incidents. a couple of months ago, madam president, i attended the funeral of sean schneider, a young police officer from lake city, minnesota. officer schneider died responding to a domestic violence call. a 17-year-old girl who was being abused by her boyfriend. when officer schneider arrived at the scene, he was shot in the head. the girl survived, but officer schneider lit

dennis van roeckel is president of the national education association. studio in the next hour. we are talking now about the announcement by the special prosecutor, pretty surprising announcement, no grand jury in the trayvon martin indicates. good or bad for those who want to see justice in this case? gary is out in tacoma washington. good morning. >> good morning, bill. >> yeah. what do you think? >> well, what i think, i think that the special prosecutor is in a very tough position. she's between a rock and a hard place. there is so much intense scrutiny, you know, and both sides are pulling in different directions. and to me if there were enough to indict george zimmerman action he would already be in jail. i don't think she has got enough to do it at this point. >> she certainly has to have -- she certainly has to believe, right, that she has a case that she can prove without a reasonable doubt? >> correct. well, you know, she has to, in order to -- >> that's tough in this case. >> to indict -- indictment is one thing. taking it to trial being the pr

the national association of business economics look somewhat companies say of the economy.ompanies are growing even more upbeat will take on more workers. the economy will spend more than --expands more than 2% this year. sales are increasing, indicating the industry still powering the economy overall. european debt talks were in washington. they called for the imf to do more to ease the debt crisis. they're waiting on corporate quarterly results as well. is pretty low right now. lots of buzz of u.s. airways planning to merge with american airlines. it could mean higher fares. that is all coming up in the next hour. in new york, abc 7 news. >> a better start saving now. >> 4:38 and 40 degrees. >> of big court date for a candidates and sports star. >> a story you only hear here. you have more on a huge counterfeit bused in baltimore. >> we will check traffic and weather every 10 mi ♪ ♪ [ female announcer ] the vertical chair-climb. it's not an olympic sport, but it takes real effort and it takes a diaper that fits their every move. pampers cruisers with 3-way fit adapt at th

already noted is the national association of home builders that even 100 new at low-income housing units generate more than 120 construction jobs. when construction is complete, and support roughly 30 jobs and a wide variety of industries. the building of affordable housing benefits putting people back to work and keeping working families in the city. i applaud you for bringing this issue to us. >> thank you, chair mar. i want to thank the house and advocates that have been working really closely. our legislative aide has been staffing this issue. they kind of articulated what came out of the hearing. i want to call a the budget and legislative office. >> i am from the budget and legislative analyst up as -- office. will present a brief overview of the findings and recommendations. kay harrison enhance and smith are the subcontractors that worked on the audit. >> i will be presenting some highlights for the budget and legislative analyst's programs. i have the power point presentation on the computer. as with the performance of eds, we conducted in accordance with the auditing standards.

paul bishop of the national association of realtors says the real estate professionals are small business can gain rewards that a lot of small business people. it draws them in business to begin with. >> the national associate of realtors is working to get lawmakers to streamline government requirements. spending $22 million on lobbying in 2011. in washington, shannon bream, fox news. >> bret: mitt romney went after president obama today fresh off a clean sweep of the tuesday primary. we talk about it with the fox all-stars when we return. cordin, ford is having some sort of big tire event. i just want to confirm a few things with fiona. how would you describe the event? it's big. no,i mean in terms of savings how would you sum it up? big in your own words, with respect to selection, what would you say? big okay, let's talk rebates mike, they're big they're big get $100 rebate, plus the low price tire guarantee during the big tire event. so, in other words, we can agree that ford's tire event is a good size? big big ♪ ♪ >> nancy pelosi famously said we'd have to pass obamacare to find out

is just like the n.a.a.c.p., the national association for the advancement of corporate person hood. (laughter) and carl is their martin luther king, jr. he has been to the mountain top! technically it was aspen and he took the chair lift, but that still counts. (laughter) and civil rights, folks... yes. (cheers and applause) no one's going to keep a good man down. civil rights organizations like ours are being attackd from all sides. just this past friday a district court judged ruled 501c-4s must disclose their donors. why? sperm banks don't! (laughter) some do. oh, i have a ton of phone calls to make. (laughter) and according to the "new york times" the i.r.s. is now pressuring 501c-4s like mine to just phi their tax-protected status as social welfare organizations. of course i'm a social welfare organization! i believe welfare is socialism! (laughter) well, i refuse to reveal my donors and i will not be the one going to jail. it's going to be you, ham rove! you're the brains of this outfit! (laughter and applause) listen up, mister, you're the brains of this outfit and you're the