of the credit unions net worth or 12.25% of the credit union's total assets. the member was put in place in 1988 with a message by congress of the credit union membership access act. since that time, the credit union industry has advocated for the removal of increase in the business lending cap. senator mark udall has introduced legislation that would raise the capitol to 27.5% of total assets. there is a wide range of views on this matter especially as congress considers proposals to speed the economic recovery. i think that is as important and would take the time to examine this issue here in the committee and provide the opportunity for all expressed views on this subject. i look forward to your testimony, chairman, to our other witnesses' testimony and the questions and answer period. i see there is not any other members of present. the chairman of the national credit union administration since august 2009. prior to the department, she was the executive vice president and chief operating officer of the federal credit union of certain maryland. the chairman

of the credit union charter. unfortunately, the ncua has erected obstacles making it extremely difficult for a credit union to become a mutual savings bank. i thank you for this opportunity to share my thoughts and i am happy to answer any questions. >> thank you, mr. wilson. a question for mr. wilson and mr. wilcox -- over the past several years, there have been many versions of legislation to remove or raise the cap for member business lending and credit unions. last year, many changes were made to legislation to give more control to the regulator to determine which credit unions should be able to demonstrate a history on business loans. what do you think about changes made by the senator and do they address any of your concerns? >> thank you very much. i would like to respond to one thing as i began that was in the testimony. that is the subchapter s banks do not pay federal taxes. i am not a subchapter s federal bank. i am a bank that pays taxes. i pay taxes twice. i pay taxes at the bank when we make the mone

to look always wanted to invade the soviet union the reason he gave out was that the soviet union would actually attack germany i think the evidence for that in nineteen forty one slight underneath that justification to his military were two main factors the first was hitler's hatred of communism of bolshevism and that was what he really put out to your that it was a crusade against bolshevism bolshevism was a man that needed to be destroyed but underneath the real truth about this war was race hatred and if one reads my hitler's book it's clear that he always wanted to carve out a living space. and do so expansive the people he regarded as racially inferior and when he announced operation barbarossa he told his staff that it was a war of annihilation didn't he he he thought in terms of a war of survival. it was going to be the survival of the fittest and it didn't take einstein to realize the consequences and thought that there would be horrific losses. and that was and. how unexpected was the invasion i mean hitler and stalin had signs the molotov ribbentrop pact making them allies on

unions. thetrying to pass a law that they may not have it. do you people have anything to do with that? guest: the national labor relations act does not cover public-sector workers at all. federal workers are regulated under the civil service act and state workers, if they have bargaining rights, or pursuant to state law. there is a constitutional right under the freedom of association, the first amendment, to join a union. but there is no constitutional right that says the government must negotiate with its workers. in these states is a political issue. what i think should be going on is they should be going to the bargaining table because they are arguing that the labor costs are being excessive -- becoming excessive. go to the bargaining table and bargain over wages. the vast majority of states have allowed their workers to bargain and this has been considered a very basic right. in fact, the international labor organization has a convention saying that all civilized countries should allow the

this high come on to believe at that point the soviet union and. what was it that kept the red army. that's the sixty four thousand dollar question an extraordinary mix of. brutal leadership tough leadership from stalin but it was necessary to be tough and the autumn of nineteen forty one and stalin was old so moscow would be defended and they would keep fighting but it was also sure to some profound truths and that the red army recovered from the initial crisis realized it was a powerful for survival and what was at stake was not just a communist system but russia as a country on the soviet union i was in the boardroom and without really did become a part sure of it war it was unusual time in the red army. devote quite a lot during the time it comes what do you think explains the marked difference in its effectiveness from say nine hundred forty one to for example the starting block in which it secured a stunning victory but of course that technical reasons that the red army in the midst of war is is retraining. and of course it's the worst possibl

become spies for the union.as the army's penetrate the territory there should be only friendly faces, the only people who come out and welcome them and help them, show them the way. and even weeks into the civil war as general benjamin butler is sending out his force into what becomes the first significant land battle in the war he sends out and whether the head of the force alongside the commanding officers is writing one of these escapes who's been helping them as a scout and butler orders this man be given a gun to use when they go into battle. it's extraordinary moment. this is about two years before we think of as the beginning of black americans servings as glory regiments in massachusetts and so to me this moment emancipation begins is not something lincoln sat down and decreed with a sheet of paper and i start a chapter with a story that i love that hasn't been told very much and it's the day that the emancipation proclamation is finally issued an william seward, many of you have red team of rivals you k

to look for ways wanted to invade the soviet union the reason he gave out was that the soviet union would actually attack germany i think the evidence for that in nine hundred forty one slight underneath that justification to his military were two main factors the first was hitler's hatred of communism bolshevism but underneath the real truth about this war was race hatred i believe that if it was just the science or the technical side. germany could very well have want to either a nine hundred forty one on nine hundred forty two but it with love of the motherland it was this extraordinary determination to carry on fighting that the germans underestimated and. you can see the full interview with dr michael johns in ten minutes ahead l.t. . u.s. is tightening financial sanctions on the libyan government some members of congress call for a one year extension of america's military role in the country meanwhile the intervention has been hit by continuing criticism over a number of civilian deaths historian loans davidson says the u.s. and nato have made themselves hostages to conflicts. what

in the studio today is the lend head of the european union delegation to russia. mr violence rather recently on june the eighth if i'm not mistaken prime minister putin made the remark he said travel rules should be equal for all russian citizens but this remark caused a concern among the citizens among the russians who live in kaliningrad because there they have been discussions on a special agreement on special travel rules for the people because they live in an unpaved so so will these will these discussions. be continued despite this room. i i i cannot judge of all the remarks of course because it's made by the prime minister second i don't have the moments but the situation is that the people from kaliningrad have already a special regime which is a typical region for. cross border traffic so people that the near the border normally have a special regime because both size installations there which is fair i mean is normal is not only occasion kaliningrad in the e.u. but it's in many other parts of of our borders and in other parts of the world in fact and the

and you guys now want to strip away the union so we don't lose your user were both perfectly legal to have a union but should i tax dollars go to pay for union fun movie should not it's a point of fact it works out to if it's two point nine million hours a year which is the most recent number if even if we're paying twenty dollars an hour you know those you guys are earning more than that you know that still fifty million dollars a year we're in times of crisis so you want union employees you want you want guys who are representing their fellow worker. who have volunteered to help there to represent their fall fellow workers or who have been elected let's keep in mind unions are democracies workplaces are typically kingdoms there are good got one guy up there you know you're fired but unions are democracies they elect their leaders so you get somebody is elected and you want that person to then be forced not to take a paycheck no i want that person to have an adversarial relationship with his boss which ultimately delegate that was thi

union dues. even if i have the benefit of the union and i have a collective bargaining contract, the union cannot require me to pay union dues. host: where are they in this country? guest: the last i knew is there were 22. the vast majority are in the south and in the non populous states. if you look at states like new york, pennsylvania, ohio, california and illinois, the big states were mostf the unions are, they do not have right to work laws. host: linda, you are up next. caller: from what i understand, boeing has expanded their jobs to washington. i do not understand why they do not want the people to work in south carolina. i come from a stage where you do not have to be unionized. whatever it is called. host: right toork. caller: yes, ma'am. and you are allowed to join a union if you want to. i think it is all political and it needs to stop. we need to put people back to work. guest: i do think this is political. i think the machinists union is trying to put pressure on the boeing company. that is why they filed with the labor practice charge. the white house has nothing to do with this, c

pact making them allies onesie allies of course but allies nonetheless they were allies and the soviet union was caught by surprise and this was stalin's great blow and stalin was not naive but he thought that germany would not attack in nine hundred forty one he thought the attack would come late and he believed that he could use this product to develop the soviet union's and sphere of influence and at the same time. the radhasoami and transfer industry was beyond your own mountains but in fact he got it very very badly wrong and of course the red army was caught deeply unprepared in nine hundred forty one your book is about the sort of human story behind the how did it develop militarily during the. one at the beginning in one nine hundred forty one the red army was hunted. by the autumn of one thousand nine hundred he wanted to last between two and three million in terms of killed in this thing and should i think few of his in the world could to sustain that level of punishment and still carried on fighting and it was not madness for him and his high come on to believe at that point the s

the reason why we're doing this we're doing our series here on cross talk on the collapse of the soviet union twenty years ago and twenty years ago on june twelfth one thousand anyone else who came the first popularly elected president of the russian soviet federated socialist republic would basically the beginning of the demise of the soviet union that would follow her in the year dimitri bondage let's look at that time twenty years ago and how the soviet union unraveled how much was yeltsin involved with that unraveling of the soviet union people talk a lot about going to much of what about yeltsin at this time but i think there are two parallel process that's going on which should not be mixed up there was the process of democratization and i think it was yeltsin starro for the first time in russian history and man came to power while honest election against the will of the government that was an achievement i asked for the collapse of the soviet union it

this week july the first poland is taking chairmanship in the european union and this country is anything but indifferent towards russia we have special relations with poland then we have problems in our relations with the world what do you expect from polish chairmanship in the european union and then you think that poland will have a special russian a gem there for instruments. i don't know i mean paul is going to present his priorities for the presidency of the union soon of course things have changed since the entry into force of the lisbon treaty and now all the rotating presidency has no longer the responsibility for external relations or the. presidency of the european council but it has a still the responsibility of the presidency for a number of issues of you policies and i'm sure that poland will make a very good presidency they have been preparing themselves for that we know that you know that they are ready and i have no doubt that they will have to do a very good presidency and in terms of. russian poland relations russia e.u. rule ations do you think that that poland preside

always wanted to invade the soviet union the reason he gave out was that the soviet union would actually attack germany i think the evidence for that in nineteen forty one it's flights underneath that justification to his military were two main factors the first was hitler's hatred of communism bolshevism and that was what he really put out to you or that it was a crusade against bolshevism bolshevism was a man that needed to be destroyed but underneath the real truth about this war was race hatred and if one reads mind hitler's book it's clear that he always wanted to carve out a living space. and use the experience of people.

i don't know i mean paul is going to present his priorities for the presidency of the union soon. of course things have changed since the entry into force of the lisbon treaty in all the rotating presidency has no longer the responsibility for external relations or the. presidency of the european council but it has is still the responsibility of the presidency for a number of issues of e.u. policies and i'm sure that poland will make a very good presidency they have been preparing themselves for that we know that you know that they are really in i have no doubt that they will have him will do a very good presidency and in terms of. russian poland relations russia e.u. relations do you think that that poland polish presidency will. play some role in making this russian issue special for the e.u. and for reactions with were not very likely in the sense that they are not responsible for the foreign relations in there actually on a number of issues it might be might have of course a bearing but but not on what is the bilateral relation between russia and the e.u. which is a matter now

always wanted to invade the soviet union the reason he gave out was that the soviet union would actually attack germany underneath that justification to his military with two main factors the first was hitler's hatred of communism both of us and but underneath the real truth about this war was race hatred and if one reads mind hitler's book it's clear that you always want to carve out a living space in the east and do so the expense of the people he regarded as racially inferior he he thought in terms of a war of survival. it was going to be the survival of the fittest and it didn't take time to realize the consequences and of course the red army was caught deeply unprepared in nine hundred forty one your book is about the human story behind the red army but how did it develop militarily during the conflict. it's only the beginning and nine hundred forty one the red army was hunted. by the autumn of nine hundred forty one the last between two and three million tons of killed in this thing and should. i think few of them is in the world could sustain that level of punishment and still car

on the twenty seventh of june russian and the european union diplomats had their meeting and these are related issues and agreed on some joint action steps on the way to these are free travel could you specify what have these joint action steps well this is something that came out of the not this dust summit but the previous summit where we agreed that the best way to be more efficient in making progress would be to identify were of the problems which are the issues that need to be solved in order to reach one day these bits of regime so we don't these after that this working groups got together start working identifying which. those issues would be now they have almost come to an end not completely and that's why i cannot give you a completely stop it because it's still been been dealt with but i'm quite convinced that in a matter of perhaps a few weeks we would have at least of these come steps that we call because are steps that we are going to tackle together and the idea is that when this is steps article we will get to the views of the regime this may be a still a long process le

we have judges representing a lot of president businesses here in the union square area. with that, to all the mta employees and fine citizens of san francisco, thank you for joining us today and thank you for your support. >> matt ford, ladies and gentlemen. the bell ringing competition is a two-part event today. we have professionals competing for a number of prizes in the coveted title of world champion bell ringer. for the amateur portion we have executives from some of our local media outlets competing for first, second, and third place trophies. the competition started with preliminaries. 37 contestants went through filling out the paperwork and a chance to proceed to the finals. all cable car crews were invited to compete. this year they have six finalists competing here at union square, competing against the two-time current champion mr. leonard oates. going to be tough. two years with the tiara, hard to give up. individual trophies welcome awarded to all six professional bell ringers. first, second, and third prizes will not only win trophies but a most -- host of

the u.k. hasn't been seen for decades later we hear from a british trade union leader so walk up and says if the government fails to take notice this time people will return to protest and even greater numbers. having three quarters of a million people from four different unions on strike is something that happens hasn't happened in this country for decades it's the start not the finish where our message to the government is if they try to ignore will come back in the autumn we may well see millions of people on strike so the idea is to build pressure so the government realise that working people the length and breadth of the u.k. are not just going to let them get away with what they're doing and we believe that pressure ultimately can force them to change direction saying you want to go see just when they're having a chat with a few people in a room is one thing saying you want to go see when there could be millions of. brutha construction is entirely another and we actually believe that the six million trade unionists plus the thousands and thousands or hundreds of thousands of pensioners and

up next peter lavelle and guess look at the fall of the soviet union and discuss the role of russia's first president boris yeltsin in setting the country's course is coming your way in crosstalk. if you can. follow in welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle boris yeltsin was he a great man who made history or was he merely a product of his time and opinions differ widely don't no one denies the important role he played in creating our present cross-talk to continue that series on the collapse of the soviet union twenty years ago. due. to cross-talk yeltsin's russia i'm joined by dmitri baba chair in the studio with me he's a political analyst at ria novosti news agency in washington we have donald jensen he's a resident fellow at the center for transatlantic relations and in london we go to alex project he is director of russian and eurasian studies center at the university of oxford all right gentlemen crosstalk rules and in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want well the reason why we're doing this we're doing our series here on cross talk on the collapse of the soviet un

and came very, very close to destroying the union army of virginia. if any of you go down there and go to henry house bill, down below it there's a stone house with the war -- across the road, the intersection. if they would've capture that pokes army would have been scattered. many would've been forced to surrender but they came close but they never did. from the seven days, the beginning of july and till the end of august, somehow this army, parts of the came together. this was a different army then marched in seven days. communications was much better. jackson had gotten down, whatever cost and have a subpar performance during the seven days, he was the one that executed the march around. longstreet is clearly becoming a solid wing commander at the time, both he and jackson would have wings. and in that sense it is in many ways lee's masterpiece even though chancellorsville is considered his greatest battle, but if you want to look at lee and what lee -- see, we have this image of lee, a lot of minds. i know why we have it, because i imagine all of

with that unraveling of the soviet union people talk a lot about going to charge what about yeltsin at this time well i think there are two parallel process that's going on which should not be mixed up there was the process of democratization and i think it was yeltsin storrow for the first time in russian history and man came to power almost election against the will of the government that was an achievement as for that collapse of the soviet union it had begun long before that it speeded. back in one thousand eight hundred nine already there was a lot of talk about it and by one thousand nine hundred that brought the process was almost complete i would remind you of that in march two months before the election. seven republics out of fifteen did not take part in the referendum on the reform of the soviet union so the process has already gone very very much fault and yeltsin of course when the soviet union was just virtually collapse and in some one thousand one thousand vonne he didn't shed dius he started building the russian federation of the use to say it's employment if i go to

seven republics fifteen did not take part in the referendum on the reform of the soviet union so the process has already gone very very much fault and yeltsin of course when the soviet union was just virtually collapse and in some one thousand one thousand vonne he didn't shed jeus he started building the russian federation of the new state if they attempt to. go to you in washington from a russian perspective in two thousand and eleven that was the good yeltsin ok the else and they did the right thing ok because right now in two thousand and eleven most people in this country are very pleased that the soviet union is gone there's still a small minority that regret it but yeltsin was seen as a great banner to bring the end of a system that wasn't working for the people anymore so yeltsin twenty years ago what kind of character do you sense some to be. i have some looking back i'm very contradictory figure both i would almost say heroic but certainly someone who displayed tremendous political courage and i would note in passing about. with the most common sense and the ultimate was ah

just in recent weeks and months, i do want to a knowledge that the union has been very engaged with us, and we have been spending quite a bit of time -- i have, i know the health department, finance, and my office has been working through the various numbers and proposals with the union, and that has been, from my perspective, a good conversation. so we have been trying to work with them to talk through these issues and look through the numbers. they have been very productively engaged with us in that regard. supervisor chiu: i appreciate that. obviously, i feel like we're not necessarily there at this moment for us to make a decision. colleagues, if it is ok for us to move this decision to tomorrow, i would support that. but i think if there are additional conversations that we could have, and over the last few days, i have been going back and forth between his department and sciu to see if there is a place we can get to that will work, but i am willing to keep doing that over the next 24 hours to see if we can get there. >> and so are we, supervisor. we're definitely open to have mor

country's declaration of sovereignty and its first free elections which led to the historic fall of the soviet union. you're watching live from moscow we have the latest news and a wrap up of the week's top stories for you this sunday we begin in libya where rebel fighters on the mediterranean frontline are trying to retake the major oil port of zawiya not far from the capital tripoli tripoli at least one hundred members of gadhafi forces and fifteen rebels have reportedly been killed in fierce fighting well the offensive marks a breakthrough for the opposition which was swept out from the port by artillery fire and intensive shelling from pro-government troops about three months ago the advance has prompted the closure of a key supply route from tunisia rebel leaders have complained that nato airstrikes aimed at supporting their military efforts have focused too heavily on tripoli rather than on frontlines in misrata and so we and this is. leading to even more civilian casualties as our g.'s f. an ocean our reports. saddam has been we've been there has breath of death the doctors have performed any

and the unions are quite. mean in their opinion to take the action that they've taken. right andrew birkin from the coalition of resistance live with us on the line from london thanks for your analysis. the assets of former ukrainian prime minister here have been frozen by prosecutors she says of queues of abuses of power the expression here is said to have sealed highly on. profitable gas deals with russia in two thousand and nine these are said to have constant prying around four hundred million dollars by investigators claim she had no authority to sign the contracts and that she did not secure cabinet approval to machine claims the case has been fabricated by her political rival president victory on a cord which if found guilty of could face up to ten years in jail. russian court has ruled that some literature distributed in russia by the church of scientology is the legal saying the text is both extremist and anti-social or too sour for of his outside the scientology moscow headquarters. this court ruling

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the african union has condemned fronts for supplying weapons to the libyan rebels its chief said the move through. it is to put the entire region risk wednesday france became the first nato country to openly admit to arming tribal fighters striving to. have recently been making gains in hope to advance on tripoli but more on this we're joined now by john laughlin the director for the institute of democracy incorporation in paris thanks for joining us here on r.t. france is once again at the forefront of nato campaign in libya now a dropping weapons to the rebels some analysts say the move contravenes the un embargo on arms supplies to libya what's your take on that. well obviously it does and it also makes the nonsense of the whole argument in favor of the war in the first place that argument is you know was predicated on the idea on the accusation that the libyan government was attacking civilians well the admission that france is arming the rebels is very obviously an admission that what's going on in libya is a fight between the government and armed rebels and armed rebels are not