>> the vermont cot. >> guest: again, it's because vermont saw this as just like marriage between a husband and wife and if one spouse is not giving visitation to the other spouse, which lisa did stop giving visitation, she argued to protect her child, the vermont court did what under its own view now of families, was going to do, which was order lisa to give up her child because she wouldn't give visitation anymore. >> host: where is lisa now? >> guest: have no idea. the only thing i know there have been some court proceedings taking place, some people arrested two pastors arrested, helping lisa flee the country. >> host: were they afillitied with liberty coup? >> guest: they were not. they were beg mennite masters, and there's been some coverage on it. that one was a mennonite pastor in nicaragua, and was alleged involved in help are her, and another was a anyone onight, and it seemed at one point she was in nicaragua but that's what i know. >> host: you were lawyer and the court case came down. is then when she fled the country? >> guest: the timing was different. you can imagine over se

>> the vermont court did, yes. because vermont saw this as a marriage between husband and wife. if one spouse is not getting visitation to the other spouse, which after a while lisa stopped giving visitation, she argued to protect her child, the vermont court under its own view now, family, was going to do which was order lisa to give up her child because she didn't give visitation anymore. >> where it is lisa no? >> have no idea. the only thing i know is there have been some court proceedings taking place. there's been people arrested, two pastors have been arrested at one point allegedly helped lisa through the country. >> where they affiliated with liberty counsel? >> they were not. they were mennonite pastors but i know all of this to the affidavits that have been filed in court, and access to court website and through media reports, there's been coverage on it, that one was a mennonite pastor in nicaragua i believe, and he was alleged to have been involved helping her. another was a mennonite pastor here in this country. who was alleged now and facing trial for helping her a

then the sec filed suit realizing vermont was the lawsuit asking to declare that child to go to the sub but then two states were involved. court in vermont was setting precedent and edna did sell. it was us slow path. the court was cautious but it was hesitant to complete the take her child but it did ordered the said to turn per child over to janet. vermont sought it as a husband and wife and leases stopped giving visitation their vermont court did to order lisa to give up the child because she would not order visitation. >>host: where is she now? >> i have no idea. to pastors have been arrested allegedly helping her flee the country. >> affiliated with liberty counsel? >> they were urbanite pastors. accessing through media reports, one is in nicaragua alleged to be involved another was here in the country and face saying trial helping her flee the country with her child. that is all i know. >>host: you were her lawyer at the time? the court case came down? >> the timing is different. there is a lot of motions made so we were waiting for the court to decide then after one month later s

we'll expand the workforce in saint alban's vermont, the vermont service center but i'm constantly impressed every time i see the men and women that work there. absent senator grassley senator kyl do you wish to make an opening statement before we go to the secretary? >> no. i think we want to hear from the secretary and then we'll all have questions. thank you. >> madam secretary, it's your -- the floor is open to you and then we'll go to seven minute rounds. we'll rotate in the usual manner from side to side in which people arrive. secretary napolitano please go ahead. >> thank you, chairman leahy and members of the committee. i thank the committee for your support of the department over these past three years and, indeed, since the department was founded more than nine years ago. before i begin, i want to address the allegations of misconduct by secret service agents in colombia. the allegations are inexcusable. and we take them very seriously. since the allegations surfaced i've been in close touch with director sullivan. the director took immediate action to remove the agents involved a

the workforce in vermont, the vermont service center, see the men and women who work there. did you wish to make an opening statement? >> no, i think we want to hear from the secretary, but thank you. >> madam secretary, it is open to you. then we will go to 7 minute rounds. we will rotate from side to osama it that the order in which people arrived. secretary to paul tonko. >> thank you chairman leahy. -- secretary napolitano. >> thank you chairman leahy. i thank the committee for your support of the department. the department was founded more than nine years ago. before i begin, i want to address the allegations of misconduct by secret service agents in colombia. the allegations are inexcusable. we take them very seriously. the allegations, i have been in close touch with director sullivan. the director took immediate action to remove the agents involved. a full and thorough investigation is underway to determine exactly what transpired and actions we need to take to ensure this, but does not happen again. the director has my full confidence -- this contract does not happe

of is the reason the vermont legislature is going to such a clear position on this issue of money in politics is because people organized at the grassroots more than sixty vermont towns voted in march in favor of resolution saying that citizens united needed to be overturned that created a grassroots movement that fed up through the legislature there's an effort across the country now to get balance of american communities to step up on this issue and i think what's happened in vermont is a good indication that when we pass these resolutions at the local level if we do it at a critical mass we can get state legislatures to start to move and that's what we're going to have to do starts at the grassroots it moves to the states but this pressure's got to go on congress in washington to begin to dismantle what is to my mind the most destructive of all supreme court decisions in modern times and that is the citizens united ruling absolutely so we'll see john in fifteen seconds as the wisconsin recall going. but it's going pretty well mainly because we keep finding out that scott walker is

its maya lin-designed facility and more than doubled its brownie production for ben & jerry's, the vermontompany. julius walls jr. resigned as c.e.o. of the greyston bakery in 2009 to pursue a full-time church ministry. his successor, william mistretta, is the first baking industry professional to run greyston as it continues its double bottom line mission. that's this edition of 60 minutes on cnbc.

so he sent them to the kissel family ski house in vermont. ner elected to stay in hong kong, one of those fateful decisions. >> he first approached me june of 2003. >> frank shay is a former new york city police detective turned private investigator. during the separation from his family, rob got that funny feeling, one that tells you your spouse is doing something she shouldn't. >> he wanted the confirmation. he was pretty convinced it was going on, but he wanted the evidence. >> he hired shay's investigators to surveil his wife. he called him in hong kong to report what they were seeing in real time. >> this gentleman arrived in a van, parked on a dirt road and snuck into the house. i told rob what was going on. >> same time, on-going as we're talking. that gentleman was michael del fiore, a local tv installer. on the phone, kissel took the news stoically, hung up, immediately called his wife. minutes later, there was a stir in the vermont house. >> the male came out of the house, got in his van and drove off. so rob called me back at my hou

sense of international ednews at bbc.com/news. >> funding was made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu, newman's own foundation, and union bank. >> at union bank, our relationship managers work hard to understand the industry you operate in, working to nurture new ventures and help provide capital for key strategic decisions. we offer expertise and tailored solutions in a wide range of industries. what can we do for you? >> "bbc world news" was presented by kcet los angeles. and this is you speaking. what does libertarian mean as little government as possible, as few rules as possible, that i'm not saying it should be taken to the absolute limit. the gives of that few rules but not nobody else. >> oh, clearly there are unnecessary rules in a working society. but they can be overdone. >> from recent tweets of yours portray an all-star approach as to right wing -- >> that was rather low. don't take my tweets too seriously. [laughter] i think i would say the extremists on both sides were piling it on me. >> and you refer to the myths about you, mr. murdoch. is it your feelin

, many people visit the border and enjoy all that vermonthas to offer. when i was a youngster, you just found going to another state -- it was back easy going back and forth between the border. we take that for granted. i hope that we can work on that to keep it protected and keep the borders open as possible. i am pleased that the senate recommendation programs are among your programs. that is one of your jobs. we have worked with that in vermont. i look forward to working with the reauthorization of this program. senator grassley and i have been working to get this and other expiring visa programs reauthorized by bipartisan measure. we continue to work with you and the director to strengthen the program. i have raised issues creating procedures with the technology of the air force. i continue to have questions about these policies. the impact of the privacy and health of americans. when this technology happens in the most effective use of resources. honestly, when you see an elderly person in a wheelchair going through a lot of screening,

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the environment. a company in vermont found a creative approach to recycling the vermont marble granite slate and soapny cuts and ships countertops and sinks all over the country. when the cutting is done there are stone remnants left over. they use them to -- they used to throw them away. now someone came up with an idea of cutting them into three quarter inch squares and using them in place of ice cubes. company officials say that unlike regular ice, soap stone rocks will not absorb flavors in your freezer. they're reuseable and they don't water down drinks. >> there's a way around that where the whole drink stays cold and no dilution whatsoever. >> but can you chew on that ice? no. don't try that at home. paul thompson says his company has sold 500,000 soap stone ice cubes in the last year and $13 for a pack of six or a six-pack. >> we know he's a hot ice eater. >> what happens when you go from whiskey to tequila or something? >> that's what i wonder. >> it's porous. so we're talking about it's green. you have on your green. we're going to be greening things up next week. >> all right. >> after the

all are states will expand the workforce, the vermont service center, but i am constantly impressed with the men and women who work there. senator grassley, senator kyl, did you wish to make an opening statement? >> know, mr. chairman, we want to hear from the secretary and then we will have questions. but thank you. >> secretary, it is you are -- it is open to you. then we will go to seven minute rounds of -- rotating from side to side, secretary napolitano, please go ahead. >> thank you, chairman leahy and members of the committee. i'm pleased to be with you today. i think the committee for your support of the department over these past two years, and indeed, since the department was founded more than nine years ago. before i begin, i want to address the allegations and misconduct by secret service agents in colombia. the allegations are inexcusable, and we take them very seriously. since the allegations have surfaced, i have been in close touch with director sullivan. the director took immediate action to renew the agents involved, and a full and thorough investigation is underway to

the senator from vermont. mr. leahy: mr. president, i have a long speech that i am about to put in the record. i thank the bipartisan coalition for coming together on this. most importantly -- the presiding officer: the senate will come to order. the senate will be in order. mr. leahy: most importantly, the coalition across political spectrum who are so opposed to the violence against women will thank us for passing this. i ask consent my full statement be made part of the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. leahy: have the yeas and nays been ordered? the presiding officer: they have not been. mr. leahy: i ask for the yeas and nays. the presiding officer: there appears to be a sufficient second. there is a sufficient second. the yeas and nays have been ordered. do you yield time? mr. leahy: i yield back all the time on our side and ... and time has been yielded back, i've been advised, on the other side. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: the presiding officer: are there any sen

lo and j l o e w e n at u v m i still get my e-mail at the university of vermont dot edu i'd love to hear from you there at my website that is the ones i know about so that's the first step towards healing to admit it. and then the second thing is . i think we have to make cause with the good people in the lots most of the folks aren't in favor of this but if you have a two percent thought minority that thinks this is the right thing to do does your brick through their window with a move in order to beat up their kids at school then the family almost has to leave and then i do have a third proposal and that is i actually think the. white house holds in sundown towns or sundown counties should lose their homes or homestead interest mortgage interest deduction from their income tax. and it's suzanna up and then suddenly they want to find a black household. dr james wood thank you so much for being with us sure it's been a it's been an honor to see this and more conversations the great minds go to our web site of conversations with great minds dot com. coming up after the break a promine

the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. mr. leahy: mr. president, i ask consent that the call of the quorum be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. leahy: mr. president, the distinguished senator -- senior senator from connecticut, senator lieberman, had a speech thank ngly postal staff. i'd ask his speech be placed in the record at the time of the passage of the postal bill. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. leahy: and i ask -- excuse me, i'm out of breath here. i ask unanimous consent that following the adoption of the motion to proceed to s. 1925, the senate be in a period of debate only on the bill for the remainder of today's session. that when the senate resumes consideration of the bill on thursday, april 26, it be for debate only until 11:30 a.m. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. leahy: mr. president, i -- the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate adopts the motion to proceed to s. 1925, which the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 312, s. 1925, a bill to

the 6th. boy, they know how to have fun in vermont, huh? s wait for the cinder block to drop through joe's pond. >> you're reading that story, i'm like wow, that's interesting. >>> we've had spring all winter long. >> sure have. >> we have a cool down coming down as we are officially in spring. before we get to that, we want to start with the radar. we have a few showers out there. not the needed rain that we really do need right now because it's so dry. we have that high fire danger. we do have showers out there. this will help a little bit. having on and off throughout the afternoon and for southern parts of maryland. earlier today, sunshine once again. that gave way to increasing clouds and then these scattered showers as this front starts to make its way through. we have more and more fun to talk about with the chance for showers. the winds remain high. they do back off a little bit overnight. we're looking at about 5-50 miles an hour sustained. tomorrow, these are going back up. a high fire danger tomorrow. red flag warnings almost stat

wells who was an executive with the american optical corporation and friends and family went up to vermont to go golfing for the weekend. problem was it poured rain, they couldn't go golfing. someone suggested that go antiquing, instead. mr. wells who is a bit of a curmudgeon said i don't want to waste my weekend in junk shops. they prevailed on him to go anyway. he had an epiphany. they went anyway. he fell in love with what he came to call his primitives, things like mouse traps and wooden bowls and rolling pins and spinning wheels, the kind of debt detritus of early american everyday life that most people just had relegated to attics and barns and great grandpa's stuff that nobody cared about. but that very first weekend mr. wells bought two wagon loads of antiques and it came an all-consuming mania for them after that. he ended up moving his family out of his mansion because there wasn't room for them and the antiques. he had two large barns that he filled them literally to the rafters with the antiques and still didn't have enough room and started at that point to realize he wasn't go

alexander: i thank the senator from 1r-789 vment. -- from vermont. is is a body that operates by unanimous consent. it's difficult to get accustomed to it. that means any one of us can stop the senator from opening or having a prayer or saying the pledge of allegiance or going to a bill. what i'm about to say i don't want in any way to diminish the right of every senator, such as the senator from kentucky, to have an opportunity to -- to object to a unanimous consent request. but when you have -- when everyone has a lot of rights, unless we have some agreement, it's hard to get much done. and i have been sometimes critical of the majority leader but i've also tried to support and praise things that he's done when i can because i know that either being the democratic or the republican leader is not an easy job. so i want to commend the majority leader for offering to accept all relevant amendments, which is a broad category, and which this bill seems particularly appropriate for that because we have competing visions for what to do about th. it's gone

the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. mr. leahy: mr. president, retaining -- or regaining my time on this side, i appreciate the senator from missouri speaking about brian wimes. i agree, this is a judicial vacancy in the u.s. district court for the western-eastern districts of missouri. it has support of both home state senators, senator mccaskill and senator blunt. it was voted out favorably by the judiciary committee four months ago. there's really no justification to have taken this long. in the past, whether you had democratic or republican presidents, a nomination like this would be routinely done by advicvoice vote the week it camt of committee. the senate is still so far this year only considering judicial nominations that could have and should have been confirmed last year. it is not the fault of the president. it is the fault of the senate. i know the majority leader, senator reid, are has tried to get them up. i wish the other side would stop block them. we should get them done. we'll conclude the first four months

. >>> the new job numbers fall short of expectations and republicans are dancing for joy. vermont senator is here with reaction and a plan. >>> two more companies cut ties with the conservative group. >> members don't agree with all the policies. >> the color of change campaign is keeping the pressure on. their executive director joins me tonight. >>> one of the biggest names in american entertainment says he was the victim of racial profiling. michael ericdyson on explosionive a allegations 37. >>> good to have you with us. the president let america know what side he's on in the republicans war on women's rights. president obama spoke today on women and the economy. >> women are not some monolittic block. women are not an interest group. you shouldn't be treated that way. overall, a woman with a college degree doing the same work as a man will earn hundreds of thousands of dollars less over the course of her career. closing this pay gap, ending pay discrimination is about far more than simple fairness. when more women are bringing home the bacon but bringing homeless of it than m

the leader board. peter hansen is a leader at nine under. a one-shot lead over phil mickelson. umbc beat vermont. retrievers are two and zero in conference play. a beautiful spring day at the hopkins women's or hosting. mccaffrey scornful of the blue jays. hopkins led 3-1. the gators led by one at the break. they would hold on to win. the final score was 14-12. the capitals are playing their regular-season finale against the rangers. we start in the first period off of the face-off. in the first, that the key goal lead, john with a blast. 3-0, capitals after one. they keep it going. nicholas wills scored to make it four to nothing. hopefully the cold weather will stay away. we have a mm, these artisan bagels are so tasty. what do you think "artisan" means? i believe art is latin for "well-crafted" and isan is greek for "one who cares." so, well-crafted by one who cares, huh? either that, or it just means "really, really, really good bagels." i think you left out a "really." dunkin's new artisan bagels are as authentic as it gets. soft, chewy, and delicious. grab one today. discover the authentic t

the senator from vermont. mr. leahy: mr. president, i believe -- i believe under the regular order i would be recognized now and then senator grassley would be recognized, would be the regular order but i understand the senator from texas, did you need some more time? we're not on vawa now. we're on the nominations, i said under the regular order i'd be recognized for 15 minutes and senator grassley for 15 minutes. how much 0 more time did the senator from texas need? mrs. hutchison: mr. president, i was i believe perhaps -- the presiding officer: the senator from vermont is correct on the order that is in place now. mr. hutchinson: mrs. hutchison: however did the other side on vawa go over the allotted time? the presiding officer: they did not. the senator from texas was actually speaking on their time. the senator from vermont has the order. mr. leahy: 0 would the senator from texas tell me how much time she see needs? mrs. hutchison: i would like up to five minutes to finish on the vawa bill and then go forward with, i do

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with that i'd like to yield one minute to the gentleman from vermont, mr. welch. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from vermont is recognized for one minute. mr. welch: i thank the gentleman. mr. speaker, last week the republican majority was adamantly opposed to this legislation. this week we are rushing it through on the floor today. that's aood thing. we are on the same page. the majority and the minority want to preserve student interest rates at 3.4%, not let them double to 6.8%. so if that is the case, why are we selecting mutually unacceptable ways to pay for this? 's as though we are resorting to the trick bags. you raid the health fund that's so important to us, we present the oil company provision that is so unacceptable to you. what we should do is find a way to put some limits, some incentives to keep tuition increases at our below the rate of inflation. they were up 8.4%. if we work together, that would be a double win for students and parents. we could keep those interest rates low and we could start bringing down the escalation and tuition incre

and initially, the true heroes in response, as we saw in tusk louisa and saw in newark, new jersey, recently. saw in upstate new york and vermont are the first responders. the police officers, the paramedics, the e.m.t.'s and nurses and doctors and neighbors helping neighbors. talked to a woman in tennessee last year during the floods in nashville, and it was this home that was completely flooded. actually it was a week later, and it was being mucked out or cleaned out by again, lutherans and another, i forget the other name of the other faith-based group. there were two groups cleaning up her front home and she's sitting out this 86-year-old woman saying all these nice people are helping me clean out literally what's left of their home and she said i wouldn't have survived if it wasn't for my neighbor that broke my front window out and pulled me out and saved her life. he was a nice young man, a 63-year-old neighbor, the nice young man that saved her life. [laughter] >> but it's neighbors helping neighbors. those are the heroes. those are the people that we need to make sure that they are part of our team as we plan to go forw

think that retaining air lift capacity in local and state national guards was critical in the statement of vermont represented by the real chairman of this committee as well as my statement in the past, flooding, hurricanes, other issues. i wondered if you have any comment about how the proceed's funding might affect the pablt ability of state national guards to play a role in disaster response? >> senator, let me get back to you on that, because, are you asking about how our requests with respect to reforming the grants overall would affect first responders? are you aski ining specific to national guard? >> i think this is more a national guard capacity within the branch issue. so i may have asked a question that's not directly in your -- >> i think that's probably more appropriately addressed to the department of defense. but i will say our entire work with fema has been to, being a team with local and state responders as opposed to the feds being in charge, and i think that teamwork approach has been well received and has worked very effectively. >> i would agree, and i hear all the time from o

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. >>> more reaction now to the senate vote against the buffett rule. vermont senator bernie sanders told ed why he thinks the defeat matters so much. >> here's what worries me very much. if we don't turn this around, we are going to lose the democratic foundations that have made this country the nation that it is and we are going to move very rapidly, which is where we're going right now, into an oligarchic form of society where a handful of people on the top control not only the economics of the nation, they control the politics as well. median family income has gone down precipitously in the last ten years. we've lost millions of good-paying jobs. you have the top 1%, now earning more income than the bottom 50%. you have millions and millions of people today, ed, who are struggling to pay their mortgage or rent, to buy food, to put gas in the car. you know what, they are by the way, they are paying federal taxes in terms of fica taxes, you can't get blood out of a stone when the middle class is shrinking. >> don't miss "the ed show" on msnbc. the place for p

during his first term, you'll have ohio becoming the 17th state joining tennessee, kentucky, vermont and the original 13. indiana in 1803 becomes a territory. and then in december of 1803, the united states would purchase louisiana. in fact, it would be general james wilkinson that would preside over the transfer of that territory. and in march of 1804, captain amos stoddard would go to st. louis and preside over the purchase of that territory. jefferson's empire of liberty was becoming a reality, becoming a reality. yet is it enough land for the 100th and 1,000th generation? jefferson still thinks so. we see that his secretary of war in the 1820s named james barber would comment that there would be enough land for 500 years. well, he didn't get it right either. in fact, we know that by 1890, the frontier vanishes. so what jefferson sees is that over the course of 100 years or so, americans had crossed the appalachian mountains, they had moved down the mississippi valley, they had begun trickling into east and west florida. america has secured the louisiana purchase, and now all eyes

once we gave the information back to the physicians in morrisville and around the rest of the state of vermontere turned out to be a radical shift in the rates of tonsillectomy in morrisville and they dropped down well below the state average... i mean, like in one year. you are making an argument for medicine based on science, or based on evidence. this kind of bugs me because i always thought my doctor was using evidence when she treated me. basically, people come to healthcare with the underlying assumption that the care they receive is based on their illness, based on medical evidence, and based on care that they actually want, their preferences. so you are gonna get the treatment you need and want? and want. i'd like to believe that. and works. yeah, and is that what happens? no. what happens is much of healthcare is unwarranted. it cannot be explained by illness, medical evidence, and patient opinion or preferences. the years went by and the wennberg group at dartmouth went national, studying medicare billing records -- millions and millions of them from all over the country. and you kno

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anti-hunger program, such as supplemental nutritional assistance program, the emergency food assistance program. that's not just important in vermont. it is in every part of the -- of the country. and i'll continue to work with the both of you to include ways to make purchasing local food a reality in nutrition assistance program. and i want to applaud