for the united states congress, this is a fairly radical piece of legislation. we have many billions of dollars of opposition that will be out there from drug companies and other sources. but i believe from the bottom of my heart that this issue is so important that discussion has got to begin as soon as possible, and that's what we're doing today. so the ideas that people may be hearing on c-span today may seem fairly radical. in a few years they're not. i think what we're talking about is fairly sense cal and they're best for our country and people throughout the world. i want to thank all of you for being here, not just for being here today but for the work many of you have done for many, many years on this subject. i start my approach to health care from a very basic premise. that's something that i have believed throughout my entire life, that health care is a right, not a privilege, and that poverty, the inability to pay for medicine or health care in general should not be a death sentence neither in the united states of america or anyplace else. and yet to

video of scott walker revealing his divide and conquer plan could put him in hot water with the united states congress> the number one radio talker takes a huge hit in the ratings. i'm ask michael harrison what it means for limbaugh and the radio industry. you can listen to my radio show on sirius xm channel 127 monday through friday. follow me on twitter at ed show and like "the ed show" on facebook. we're coming back. >>> mark the calendar. wisconsin democrats have 15 days to rally the troops and end scott walkers hold on the state. absentee voting in the recall started today. tom barrett is trailing in the polls but many insiders are saying the race is closer than indicates. he is doing his best to fight back after being out spent 25 to 1. >> scott walker is playing tricks with job numbers because he didn't like the real ones just like the trick he's playing be john doe scandals. if walker received our spent any of these e-mails, he's in deep trouble. he's hired criminal attorneys and he refuses to tell us what he said to the prosecutors. doesn't wisconsin deserve the truth before the election. >>

it starts in the united states congress. now mr. farr talked a few minutes ago about how this was already an authorized activity and to that extent he introduced a bill in the 111th congress, h.r. 21. january 6, 2009. that has now become law. there has never been an appropriation that has been issued to support that. on the other hand, here's what the executive order does do. it creates -- let me see if i can find the -- it creates 10 new national policies, nine new national priority objectives, nine new strategic action plans, seven new national goals for coastal marine special planning, 12 new guiding planning for coastal marine spacial planning. in addition, the agencies are advised to evaluate necessary and appropriate legislative changes to regulations to address the constraints. that, my friends, did not start in the united states congress pursuant to the constitution. now, it's been said this is not going to cause any additional regulation. it's been said this isn't really ocean zoning. let me give you an example of one of the

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could this possibly be a partisan issue how is it possible that any person elected to serve the united states congress and represent the people the united states would think it's ok to allow jobs that are perfectly well done by by american citizens to be sent offshore i mean these are our friends and our neighbors and our and our colleagues that are losing forty and fifty thousand dollars a year jobs just so a bank or some other entity can pay have their bottom line i mean this is unconscionable and i simply don't see i don't understand why all four hundred thirty four of my colleagues haven't signed on to this legislation in the house i absolutely agree and very very well said representative tim bishop i wish you the very best of this legislation and thank you for your efforts thank you for having me on thank you call your member of congress and tell them to support this critical piece of legislation for american workers and consumers. in the rest of the rest of the news mitt romney released his so-called plan for educating students in america last week and a no one surprise the plan has very little

the united states congress takes a hard line on iran saying it must be prevented from even being capable of building nuclear weapons causing speculation now war is edging closer. and the syrian regime says al qaida militants are behind attacks in the country as damascus releases the names of foreign terrorists and cranes are in custody. blue chips in russia red all across the board dropping three to seven per cent small game one of the worst weeks in the russian market history more of this with. thanks for joining our team of us friday it's eleven o'clock here in moscow and i'm karen. the survival of europe's single currency and the shock waves from its possible break up will inevitably dominate a meeting of the world's top eight political heavyweights leaders are gathering in the u.s. where they'll also discuss the situation in syria and pulling out troops from afghanistan president obama will also be balancing the small matter of his election campaign as artie's and so now i reports. there are several challenges for this year's g. eight summit one is facing its host obama who has his h

news is that recently senator webb from virginia is entering a piece of legislation into the united states congress and senate that prohibits the president. on the humanitarian side if it does not get the approval of congress this move in libya was a violation of the united states constitution and a violation of powers and was the grounds actually for impeachment of president obama and briefly laurence musa and it was a disaster do you think the west has learned lessons then in libya and that's the reason we're not seeing that sort of intervention in syria now. well i think we're on the verge in syria and i think one of the one of the intentions in syria and possibly iran is to force a confrontation with russia and china over a military intervention i think they're on a very dangerous course right now with nato and the united states pushing to the limit pushing the envelope on a break been shared with russia and china and you're seeing that over right now the anti-ballistic missile defense system that the u.s. and nato are playing for or at least in europe in europe interesting perspective on all o

first, the united states congress wanted to hold a hearing on this issue. and the secretary and the chairman and other u.s. officials believe that it's very important to share with congress our perspective on the law of the convection. it's important to the establishment of regular international regimes governing maritime activities by nations to include militaries around the world and every time we have the opportunity to signal or support for this convection, we will. >> has congress signalled to you that maybe there's movement there and you might get something through now? >> i grew up in this town so i've long since offered predictions on what congress may or may not do. i don't have any particular signals about what they may do with respect to this convection. we hope that it is eventually adopted by the united states. >> the armed services committee yesterday released its report on counterfeit electronic parts that have made their way into the defense procurement line, supply line. most of the criticisms seem pointed at china, they saved some of it for

frank of massachusetts, the first person to make the decision to come out while serving in the united states congress thanks very much for being here. it's nice to see you. >> thank you, rachel. i'm about to have my 25th anniversary of my volunteering that i was gay to the "boston globe." it's memorial day of 1987. >> wow, 25. 25 years ago, could you have imagined a sitting u.s. president of either party coming out and saying that he believe that you and other gay americans should have the right to get married? >> no, and i didn't figure at that point that i would be one of those who would be doing it within a couple months. >> i actually wondered about that. i know that you have plans, you're going to be retiring, you're not running for re-election, but before you leave congress, you and your partner, jim, have announced that you're going to be married. you are going to be a married member of the united states congress, with a same-sex partner. i wondered if today's announcement changed the seating list for the ceremony. >> no, i admire the president. i deeply respect him. but i don't want my guests

i would say, one of the grade honors i had was being in the balcony of the united states congress the she was elected speaker in the house, the highest elected women in the history of the government. [applause] with that, i am going to ask a few people to say a few words here today. before i do that, and you'll enjoy this, i was given a list of the vip's to introduce. well, if i look at everybody sitting here, you are all vip's. yay, exactly. so you'll have to swallow a little hard when your name does not get mentioned, and i will give you the list that i have here. we're honored to have ambassador jim hormel here today. i have about 10 of them. city attorney. the police chief, greg suhr. puc. jose cisneros, our treasurer. sophie maxwell. former supervisor, a member of the america's cup organizing committee. we have megan from the recreation and park commission. larry from rec and park. we have mimi, the vip of all vip's. and i see a lot of friends out there, and i know you all hold titles. leroy king, redevelopment agency. jane morrison and i could go on and on the but here is where

welcome back to spotlight the guest in the show today is the chairman of the united states congress party sam webb who is joining us via satellite link from new york city and we're talking we're talking about may first the bad news about today's and today's holiday which is celebrated in many countries around the world as a labor day well. we talked about the occupy wall street slogan of course and the slogan is we are ninety nine percent but what role do laboring classes actually play in the occupy a movement isn't it more a student and intellectual movement today rather than that of the working class the main participants are young people. but. the labor movement has been very supportive of the occupy movement in cities around the country. they haven't shied away from it at all they've embraced it and they're trying to be as helpful as they can to you know the young people who occupy and spaces and from from new york to los angeles. many of the demonstrations or actions that the occupy movement as it has called labour's responded to them their members of hit the streets in support of th

ladies and gentlemen, please remain seated for the unveiling of the gold medal by members of the united states congress and representatives from each unit. [ applause ] >> this is "the arizona" as she is today. this model depicts her resting on the harbor bottom. in 40 feet of water and 23 feet of mud. if you come with me, we can cut the glare here and actually look at the model. and just bring your camera down just slow, and you'll get a great view of the arizona as she is today with the arizona memorial stretching across her. this model that you see allows us to see the piers that support her, and it doesn't touch "the arizona." and this is great for the visitors because mostly the water is very cloudy, and you can see very carefully, you can see national park service drivers working here and the model maker put a shark right towards the bow, not for fear but rather as a homage to the shark god that the hawaiians believes occupies these waters and protect the hawaiian people. we were sensitive to the story sensitive to the culture, and also sensitive that this ship, which looks like a shipwreck here,

states. the kansas-nebraska act, as many of you know, was negotiated through congress by illinois senator steven douglas. the effect of the kansas-nebraska act seriously affected the political coalitions across the united states. people who were moving towards a new party struggled with what name they might call this party, fusion party, people's party, independents, and anti-nebraska were considered. but the republican party became the most prominent. anti-slavery, northern democrats, some of whom called themselves free democrats, former supporters of the liberty party and the free soil party, along with a good number of know-nothing party loyalists, helped establish the republican party. many of these people were part of what was then called the anti-nebraska movement. thus some northern democrats came to be called anti-nebraska democrats. in 1856 a group of illinois anti-nebraska newspaper editors called for a convention of people opposed to the kansas-nebraska act to be held in bloomington on may 29th. this gathering is remembered as the time and place that the republican party was officially established in illinois. on july 2nd at the republican convention for the third congressional district, the

the fifth congressional district in the state. he co-chairs the congressional progressive caucus. congressman ellison enjoys a moment in history here as the first muslim elected to the united states congress. previously he served two terms in the minnesota house of representatives. congressman ellison, welcome. the floor is yours. >> thank you, senator durbin. also thank you, senator graham. thank you for holding this important hearing. also, thank you for urging attorney general holder to revise the justice department's racial profiling guidance. very important. as you know, that guidance has a loophole allowing law enforcement to profile american citizens based on religion and national origin. while many -- while any profiling of americans based on race, ethnicity, religion, or national origin is disturbing, i think it's important also to note that it is poor law enforcement. law enforcement is a finite resource. using law enforcement resources profiling as opposed to relying on articulable facts based on behavior suggesting a crime is a waste of that law enforcement resource. it leaves us less safe and more at risk when we don't target based on conduct and behavior suggestive of a crim

passed by congress in 1793, the same year that the cotton gin was patented, i always thought there might be a connection. but a much stronger fugitive slave law was passed in 1850 by the united states congress, signed by president fillmore. this came as a body blow to abolitionists. people who had been involved with the anti-slavery movement considered this a very real setback. it also made many of them very, very angry, and in many ways, i believe that between 1850 and the time the civil war breaks out, the effect of that fugitive slave law was to instill into abolitionists a higher degree of resolve, and indeed underground railroad activity was strengthened after that. remember this, the underground railroad heads out of the south in every direction. if you live in illinois, we tend to think of fugitive slaves rightfully headed northwards towards canada. in fact, fugitive slaves escaped in any direction they could. they went into arkansas and texas and down into mexico. they escaped on boats into the caribbean sea, and seacraft that went up along the sea, the eastern seacoast. in some cases, fugitive slaves who were taken abroad by their masters waited until they were in foreign

testimony from the chairman of the major oil companies just a few years ago testifying before the united states congress that they didn't need these subsidies as an incentive to drill. and oil prices have only gone up since then of the and so what we're proposing doesn't add one penny to the deficit. we're simply saying make sure the social services are available and ask the 0i8 companies to chip in a little more. >> i yield four minutes to our colleague from california miss bass. >> i want to thank the gentlemen. on behalf of almost half a million children in the foster care system, i strongly support the motion rejecting the elimination of the social services block grant. each may is foster care month. it provides an opportunity to shine the light on the experiences of the more than 400,000 children and the thousands of dedicated families and the social workers who support them. and this may the advocates who support the youth, are youthed in the elimination of the block grant. within the complex system of federal, state and local child welfare financing, ssbg funds play a critical role in supplementi

republican candidate in nevada paul ryan, the most important thing he has ever done in the united states congressr the united states senate. so we are eager to clearly confidently draw the contrast between republicans and democrats on issues around jobs on making sure that the middle class can survive, that they can deal with the squeeze they are facing by lowering incomes and rising costs. again, i would go back to massachusetts, at the primary example. scott brown will do anything and everything he can to run away from his record of supporting higher taxes for the middle class and lower taxes for the very wealthiest americans. and we want to draw that contrast. we want to talk about those issues. but we won't run from our position like women's health gay issues, or any others that we feel are important to other people around the country. >> yeah. so tonight, on the war room we are sort of looking at this we are looking at the fallout of the decision. could the senate moving to repeal doma on the flip side energize the base? could that help progressive democrats? >> as you probably know, the jud

now, in 1920, during the red scare, the united states congress was useless. now why does that sound familiar? whrft [laughter] most members of congress had no desire to get involved. the newspapers went along with the government, they too want nod controversy. but there was a small number of lawyers who did put themselves in harm's way and standed up against hoover and the justice department. very briefly, i hope this is professor fee licks frankfurter on the screen, felix frankfurter the supreme court justice was a professor at hoovered law school. he brought a happy habe habe use corps. use action of the reds arrested in the boston area. he used the platform to bring several officials under oath and made them explain how they acted without warrants and using -- and conducted abusive searches and lead people to the streets of boston in chains on the way to prison. at that kind of action was reported in the newspapers and started to turn public opinion around. second, is clarence. there was about five years before the famous monkey trail. he was is one of the

a billionaire donor about his plan to divide and labor might land him in hot water with the united states congress. the video of walker talking with billionaire diane hendricks surfaced in a documentary late last week. take a look. >> any chance we'll get to be a completely red state and work on these unions and become a right to work? what can we do to help you? >> we're going to start in a couple of weeks with our budget adjustment. the first step is deal with collective bargaining for all public employees. use divide and conquer. >> it's a look inside the governor's head and agenda less than one month before he staged an all out assault. at the time he lied about his reasons for gutting the public sector. his biggest lie happened during congressional testimony in april of 2011. >> have you ever had a conversation with respect to your actions in wisconsin in using them to punish members of the opposition party and their donor base? >> no. >> you've never had such a conversation? >> no. >> let's go back and take another look at what the he told billionaire donor three months earlier. >> the first

why in the world would the speaker of the house of the united states congress want to to the people allation that the if you're not a christian like these people, your rights are threatened. they have an agenda to make this nation just like them. that is -- there is no place for that in the united states capital. >> reverend welton gaddy, pastor for preaching worship in monroe, louisiana, president of the interface alliance. welton, thank you so much for being here to talk with us about it. i appreciate it. >>> still to come, it is hard to believe that just buying a couple of cadillacs saved the american automotive industry, but that's apparently true. that's all it took. that story's next. [ jennifer garner ] why can't strong sunscreen feel great? actually it can. neutrogena® ultra sheer provides unbeatable uva uvb protection and while other sunscreens can feel greasy ultra sheer® is clean and dry. it's the best for your skin. ultra sheer®. neutrogena®. >>> for most of the past decade, mitt romney has been running for president. sometimes that has meant actively campaigning, shaking ha

it's what the israeli does and pentagon does and what the white house does, what we do if the united states congresshe t sa decides that whole body immanualing machines are better. we stick hundreds of millions of dollars in the ware house. >> they found tsa purchased body scanners before they were tested for effectiveness. >> the puffers disappeared. they were removed from the airport, despite costing taxpayers $30 million. >> bret: thank you. house armed services committee is working on its version of a it was budget. it adds $3 billion to the one proposed by president obama. many lawmakers are worry over the prospects of having to cut half a trillion dollars over the next ten years if they cannot agree to alternative. they are trying to avoid the so-called sequester. still ahead, geeing rid of roe v. wade one state at a time. first, there season much cease in the syria cease-fire. [ male announcer ] what's in your energy drink? ♪ wer surge, let it blow your mind. [ male announcer ] for fruits, veggies and natural green tea energy... new v8 v-fusion plus energy. could've had a v8. >> bret: we have

the united states congress, this is a fairly radical piece of legislation. many billions of dollars of opposition will be out there from drug companies and other sources. i believe from the bottom of my heart that this issue is so important that discussion has got to begin as soon as possible and that is what we are doing today. the ideas people may be hearing on c-span may sound fairly radical but they're not because what we are talking about is common sense and in the best interests of the people of our country and throughout the world. i want to thank all of you for being here not just for being here but for the work that many of you have done for many years on this subject. r thought my approach to heali care from a basic premise. that health care is a right, not a privilege. poverty, inability to pay for health care or medicine should not be a death sentence in the united states of america or anyplace else. yet this is a significant degree, that is the case. 40,000 americans die each year because they don't get to a doctor when they should and many other

that is going to be up to debate inside the united states congress. this isn't something that somehow the president of the united states can guarantee a specific amount of money. it is going to end up being a little bit of a negotiation with the folks that control the purse strings. in this case is congress. that's why you don't see any numbers there. nor do you see a specific number of troops. >> indeed. and chuck, what will the president deliver tonight at 7:00 -- just after 7:30? is he going to be speaking primarily to the troops there? or do you think that he will be addressing the american nation when he speaks? >> it is my understanding there won't even be an audience. he is addressing the american people explaining what this mission will look like. not only are we on the one-year anniversary of the bin laden death. this is the ninth anniversary of the infamous mission accomplished speech that president obama gave after iraq. so i think that is two words you will not hear tonight from the president. that said, he is going to be about what is this

american people need to know it and taxpayers need to know it and certainly the members of the united states congressit as their duties are to give oversight over the protection of the president and other dignitaries around the world. and lastly, we should know how we're going forward. director sullivan has laid out a framework of going forward with a complete ban on any of this kind of socializing and partying, interacting with foreign nationals, establishing the law that is they should abide by are the laws of the united states of america. ludicrous for anyone to defend themselves by saying, everybody else was doing it. >> senator joe lieberman has started to address the committee and addressing folks. let's take a listen. >> three things we hope to establish today and in our committee's ongoing investigation. first, we want to get the facts about what precisely happened in cartagena and where the secret service's own investigation of cartagena stands today. as widely reported, the misconduct involved 11 agents and officer who is arrived in cartagena the morning of wednesday, april 11th, and were o

congress has got to move much more aggressively. in the real world, as most americans know, it is not the congress that regulates wall street. it's wall street that regulates the united statesievably powerful. and there is lobbying ethics if you're asking me if we need to regulate wall street more, we do need to do that. most people don't know this. you have the sixth largest financial institutions which collectively have assets equivalent to two-thirds of the gdp of the united states of america, over $9 trillion. you know what? if you really want wall street reform, you've got to break these guys up. you can't continue to have that kind of concentration of ownership in this country. >> senator, i want to get to this quickly because you say that part of the problem and back to jamie dimon is that he's on the federal reserve board and you say that's a conflict. you're working on a proposal to stop the fox guarding the hen house. how does this remedy that kind of conflict? >> it says when you have egregious examples of conflict of interest, you'll have the ceo, the chairman of the largest financial institution in this country sitting on a board which is supposed to be regulat

it's what we do in the united states congress. and yet only the t.s.a.dy imaging machines are better and then we stick hundreds of millions of dollars of them in the warehouse. >> indeed, one type of explosive trace detectors those puffer machines have been removed now from the nation's airports because they didn't work. they got clogged with dirt and dust and were expensive to repair. but they still cost taxpayers almost $30 million. the joint committee also learned today that the t.s.a. began its procurement or purchase of body scanners at the at the same time they were still testing them to find out whether they worked. we now know that those body scanners are not reliable detectors of the kind of explosive that the cia found last week in that more advanced underwear bomb, shep? >> shepard: doug mckelway in d.c. tonight. facebook is about to go public and it could make a whole lot of people a whole lot of money. of course, not everybody will be able to get in on the action. the reason for that next. plus, there is newly released home video of the bare