we ought to all agree that medicare has to be reformed to save it. we ought to be able to do that. budget that we are about to vote on soon will have medicare reforms in it. we have seen a bipartisan medicare reform with the ryan- widen medicare reform, and we can debate how best we need to proceed in that area. but what we can do is simply cut -- cannot do is simply cut without changing the way medicare works. that is not reform. and that is what the independent pain and advisory board that is in the president's health-care plan does. it basically says, we are not going to reform medicare, we are not going to change medicare to save it. we are not going to change the internal workings of medicare so that it provides more services for less money. we are not going to do any of that. what we are going to do is leave medicare exactly as it is and when it starts to run out of money, have an unelected board of bureaucrats start cutting or rationing, depending on how you define it, care. and thehave more seniors who cat find doctors who take medicare. it is already significantly below wi

try to make it easier for people to refinance to to get into of lower interest rates to make it easier for people to stay in their home if they can afford to buy having their payment obligation reduced overtime, helping them if the need to leave their home to transition to more affordable options we're trying to get more support to communities where there is still devastated by the huge number of occupied homes across communities to get more resources into neighborhoods to help stabilize those communities and we're going to keep doing everything we can in this context and if we work closely the to the next event to make sure we are reaching more people the settlement is part of it but it's not the leading happening. >> exactly. let me make sure we are clear some of this money can be used to help it on principle, is that correct? >> that's correct. they agreed they would have to provide some of the assistance by reducing the balance of principal owed by some of the borrowers. >> very good. now the area that we are emphasizing here is one of the fastest if not the fastest group of homele

of want to take a moment to describe to you. we are fortunate to have the staff in atlantic adderall the world. we have nearly 2,000 people working for cdc around the world, and the of thousands of people lost. in hagee where we have been able to improve the ability of the government and the local institutions to respond to the cholera epidemic, we have presented. much more needs to be done and we are lacking the resources to improve water and sanitation in the way that all of us would want to have happened but we have made tremendous progress. prevention of transmission isn't going out as readily as we would like and we know it's continuing to be from the government of nigeria to the faith the government of liguria and we're optimistic who you will see significant progress. from ten yes since we have seen the examples of the scheldt, more than to serve the fall to the patients in kenya are being tested for hiv in the found put on the antiretroviral treatment. a couple of years accounting for about one out of six. showing that t

i want to read it to you.such an operation would be executed only by diverting considerable air support is essential to the success of forces elsewhere, and in any case it would be of such doubtful efficacy that it would not warrant the use of our resources. and my friends come here is the most remarkable sentence of all, and i quote, such an effort might provoke even more vindictive action by the germans. think about that. even more vindictive faction them the holocaust. my friends, 2012 is not 1944. the american government today is different. [applause] you heard that in president obama's speech yesterday but here's my point, the jewish people are also different. today we have a state of our ellen. [applause] and the purpose of the jewish state is to defend jewish lives and secure the jewish future. [applause] never again will the jewish people be [inaudible] never again. [applause] that is why israel must always have the above the to defend itself against any threats. my friends, we deeply appreciate the gr

what i think we need to do is to do more to try to take these things to scale. those that prove to be extraordinarily successful and take them to cgi and say, instead of thinking of a new commitment, how about some of these? [applause] >> how many people do you think cobbled up this weekend, just ballpark? -- coupled up this weekend, just ballpark? [laughter] how many do you think, about 100? oh, sorry. >> one of the promises to myself in my old age is i will try to find an opportunity every day for the rest of my life, even if i'm just saying it to myself on tuesday, i don't know, or i was wrong. -- to say, i don't know, or, i was wrong. i don't know. [laughter] [applause] >> i don't know. i am always surprised at your ability to be tenacious, your ability to approach these issues that are seemingly intractable. has your commitment ever wavered? has your commitment ever been challenged in a way -- not necessarily dark night -- knight of the soul, but i cannot keep banging my head against the wall? everybody will come up against seen the -- seemingly intractable

she had the courage to want to go to washington to deliver real change. she is doing just that.] in our short time in washington, she has been an important voice to promote life, to project our veterans and stop runaway spending. i hear she is beginning to lead a bipartisan revolt in the united states senate against harry reid to actually do a budget for the first time in three years. [applause] i do not have to tell kelly this, but guess what, it is a about time. it has been more than three years. i will turn this all over to kelly in a couple of minutes but i have a couple of things i want to say. the upcoming election will be the most important election of our lifetimes. you have heard politicians over the course of your life talk about this upcoming election being the most important election of our lifetime. guess what? most of the time it was not. i say the most important election of my lifetime will occur this november. the election will be a referendum on the president's economic policies. whether it is about jobs in the economy, whether it is about gasoline prices, or wh

i just want to be sure you're going to be able to defend it. and if you want to argue that it was fundamentally slavery, look at those constitutions. but you're also going to have to tie in the fact that lincoln was willing to compromise. that union soldiers will go off to war flat out saying there is no way. they are abolitionists. they're fighting to preserve the union. so you've got to get clear in your head the complexity of it all. all right? when i was a kid, some of the first historians i ever read, a guy by the name of bruce catten. and he once argued that in 1860, slavery wasn't the only issue that caused the war. but was the one issue that americans not only couldn't compromise on, it was that they didn't want to anymore. that they were so angry with each other, they just wouldn't compromise on that one anymore. they just didn't care to compromise anymore. and, to me, that's the best way to characterize it. no war is ever about one thing. but that slavery became that one issue on which people got so mad, they didn't even want to try t

be tough for her to go to war.it is always easy, but i think it is getting tougher with these horrible mistake. >> host: our guess is creator and host of the train to show, one of the early talk shows to change the conversation in the way talk shows go in america. he focused on controversial issues at times that divided liberals think of there because his most frequent guest is ralph nader for her marquess campaigned. he's not on the campaign trail for norman solomon who was in a battle for congressional, rather california's second congressional district adding california's coast. one of our followers on twitter asked a question about joseph colony and whether or not you think he should be brought to justice. should the united states engage in not so with the rebel leader, the ugandan guerrilla group has gotten a lot of attention because of the 2012 video. and our tweeter asked, is there a case that america should get involved click should we put troops on the ground or help out? >> whenever you think about peace,

you do not need to go back to the lab to be able to tell a parent that is not ok for them to experience -- experiment with drugs and alcohol. the locker they do not use or abuse drugs and alcohol, the better chance they have all living a life free from addiction and dependency. we need to get that message across. [applause] >> how do you see the mental health parity act helping our soldiers received treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder? >> stigman, stigman, a stigma. -- stigman, stigma, stigma. if you are a young soldier used to do whatever it takes to get the job done, you do not want to be told that you have a problem that is stigmatized where is treated as a moral issue and not a medical issue. let me tell you an interesting story. i rededicated the john f. kennedy special warfare center in number of years ago. the first chairman of the joint chiefs of staff said to me, we had the best mental health for green berets of any branch in the military. i said, you do not need to tell me that. why do they need mental health? they jump out of airplanes. they swim under water 42 miles

we'll have to get the candidates to agree to leave. i want to say what a pleasure it's been to have all of our candidates here and you just have to realize how tough it is to rearrange schedules in order to be at something like this and i hope you appreciate the efforts they've made. let me present rick santorum. >> thank you very much, governor. it's great to be here with you and it's great to be here in the state of ohio. governor romney just said, it's important that we're in a place like here in wilmington where we've seen the economic devastation that has been caused by a very rapidly and dynamically changing economy and we need someone who is out there who understands what it means to grown up as at this in a steel town and lose jobs and understand what it means to have folks that you grew up with being left behind. we see a lot of that going on in this country today. a lot of folks feeling like they're paddling alone and not having the opportunities to be able to rise in society. that's why i put together a very bold economic pl

through you to the department to urge to take a serious look at this, not just to push back because it is new or different, but to see what systemically can be done about this. there are two messages to somebody that i have in the department and i consider myself a friend but i don't think there's a place in the government and i admire more than the department of justice. but that doesn't mean that there is an occasional room for improvement. and i worry sometimes that in addition to not necessarily having the rule right, when something does go wrong, it appears there are times there can be a bit of a lean shall we say in favor of the department attorneys who violated, assuming they did, violated the provision. and i just want to raise something i've raised over and over yet the department and take the opportunity to flatten this yet again. this goes back to the office of legal counsel opinion on torture , which they failed to cite a circuit court decision of the united states but looked at the type of conduct that was involved, waterboarding. described it very clearly, and describe

they do not have to go to jail. -- someone will have to go to jail to fight for our voting rights. we saw the march in selma. there were people who died. there were people who went to jail and did what they have -- they had to do. if you want the enemy to know that you are ready, we need to make some noise to say you are ready to fight. can we make some noise up in here? for us, it is about being organized. we had our round table last week with women from penn state, who came together. we brought young ladies with us to learn how all of this works. we have our youth training last -- next week. we are getting ready for the fight. we will focus on 100,000 new black women and 100,000 youth and be able to make sure we are prepared. fay anderson is somewhere around here. we have because of freedom act we are about to launch. -- we have a cost of freedom app we are about to launch. south carolina for instance. people say, why not get an id? if you are talking about someone if is elderly or seasoned, you have to prove who you are, it is in the bible. not everybody had a birth certificate.

you need to have the prevention to keep... to keep these risk factors either away or down to a minimum with youth. show alternative ways to spend your time, i think that is probably the ideal thing. and prevention is probably a lot easier since you aren't already addicted to anything, then having to quit later and going to rehab. like i always say, i don't want to do that. i want to finish school and go to college. in this club you get to help people and you get to tell people what things not to do, like i have experience with background, like with drugs and stuff, and i don't want to go down that road. i want to go down a different road. so that's why i am in this group. as a community we are after the same goals and knowing that we can work together and we can bring positive change to the community is always very rewarding. dr. greene, going back to screening and brief interventions, are there certain competencies that need to be highlighted while trying to implement that program? definitely. the cultural competency piece is a specific part of our know the risk sbirt program at howar

go to college to go to college, but we have to understand that not everybody wants to or restricting their life in that direction. and we have to have jobs for everybody, no matter what the skill level here in america. [applause] we can't be leaving sectors of our economy to ravages of foreign competition where they don't care to play fair. they play to win. we need to make sure the people who have the opportunity to get the good paying jobs and manufactured and they are high-paying, $20,000 on average more a year in those jobs in manufacturing versus a free of her job on american average. we need to have a president who looks out and says we care. we want a dynamic system, not with the president suggested give me tax credits here or the kind the president wants you to do. we have seen that with a green energy and a host of other failures out of this administration. our plan is called by "the wall street journal" both compared to a certain governor of massachusetts plan which was called tenet. our plan is called supply-side economics for the working men in america. we have a plan tha

i used to walk to school hoping i could find a soda bottle i could read seem to get my fair to ride toschool, so i know what it was like, and i would hope this community would take time to get to know us before making assumptions, so please be careful in what you are saying, because we want to build a spirit of camaraderie, but thank you for coming out. with respect to the budget, i do agree with the comments on everything she said. your the things i particularly want to talk about is my interest in finding revenues from parking and increasing parking meters on sundays and after hours. i think it is very ironic deaththat we can continue to gie free parking on sundays and after six, but we cannot find the funding to give free passes for youth. i think it is backwards. i hope you understand if we are going to instill a sense of value, and buildings future transit riders shift, it has got to come from everybody. it is upon us us of all city of demonstrating what we value, and by charging people to ride muni after 6:00 are well cars get to ride for free after 6:00 or by charging people to

and i certainly want to just ask that whatever you can do to help us to reach that 10,000 goal and to help make this a successful event is going to be june 1st and 2nd. now, a lot has happened. we know we have some opportunities here to go to the heart of this matter and help many of our struggling homeowners with the writing down of principle. we've had a settlement, mr. secretary as you know, of several billion dollars. but there's a lot of cloud there. we don't know. there are many people struggling homeowners out there who say isn't this to help us? how does it help? we want to use this event on june 1st and 2nd to really see what we can do to get some of this money out where it helps the most. and we can help reach this 10,000 goal. georgia, for example, will get 800 and $13 million of this money. i want to ask you, what does this mean? how can we use this money and the billions and every other state gets their share, but there's a lot of cloud of what it can be used for, what it can't -- how do our struggling homeowners get a piece of the action? >> well, you're going to be able

the issue is now we had to work in human space to reach out to them to say they're trying to steal something you, you've got to stop it. there's got to be a better way to do that because that's like going at network speed, trying to send a regular mail letter to them that you're being attacked. so we've got to bring this up into the network age to get these responses out. so i would advocate, and i think the way we're going is, to, one, bill our defense and two have options that would stop it. beyond that, i think the president and secretary need options that would take it to the next step. these are not options that we would take but these are options that we would propose the administration. if they exceed certain limits, i think it is our responsibility jointly and with the co-coms to say these are actions to take on stopping the act and here's what we propose to be done. i think our job would be to defend and protect astop some attack analogous to the missiles coming in and give the administration options to take it to the next step if they chose. those include cyber and other options av

so he was going to try to give this river away to the spanish. and really this gets at the heart of the problem, the continental congress and the congress under the articles of confederation had no capacity to bring together the military might of the nation. and if it had, the spanish would have never dared to provoke us into a war. but it's the quick thinking of madison and monroe and founding rivals that prevents the mississippi from being lost to the united states forever. well, we all know about the problems of congress under the articles of confederation. madison and monroe worked very, very hard to try to offer them, they tried to do two measures principally. number one, to pass an inpost so that trade that comes into the united states could be taxed, and the national government would have a steady source of revenue and be able to stand on its feet and pay its debts, particularly its war debts for the brave soldiers who won our revolution and never passed. they never passed the requisite 13 states. it had to be man unanimous. the second thi

to respect each other, to work with each other, to live with each other, and to do good to each other. so shall we make our nation great in goodness and good in its greatness. may all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory. amen. the speaker pro tempore: the chair has examined the journal of the last day's proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approved. the chair will lead the house in the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house a communication. the clerk: the honorable the speaker, house of representatives. sir, pursuant to the permission granted in clause 2-h of rule 2 of the rules of the u.s. house of representatives, the clerk received the following message from the secretary of the senate on march 12, 2012, at 10 :11 a.m. that the senate agreed to senate resolution 390. with best

to be able to sell again.they are permanently excluded, then in fact permanent means to remain permanent. more importantly in this day and age in the ability to research, if you only have 100 people to track this huge amount of potential waste, one can make the other 99 more effective. the scandal we are looking at today is important because we know that 100 people working for the secretary in fact found people who were stealing from the taxpayers, stealing from families who need that food and need that benefit. one of those 100 assigns to do what whistleblowers have done for us in fact could have prevented many of these stores from being back in business. it's that simple. we will hear today here today as we often do, if we only had more resources. this committee has no more resources to provide. in fact, you're going to have to do more for less. that is more oversight, more accountability with less money available for that and more need by people on the food stamp program. ultimately, we are going to hear te

to go back to. and likewise, too, looking at the cost of what we do. because we want to do things that are cost effective. and great examples of this i'll show you in a little bit. how we miss canceled appointments or no-show appointments. again, cost a lot of money, but if we could impact that by having people show up when their appointments are due, we could save money that we could reinvest into the system. but again, it's a relevant continuum for our readiness. next, please. you know, we have many metrics and goals that we look at when we do our readiness metrics. their vary -- they vary, really, between all components. but, you know, derived from our dod eye, six elements that constitute, for example, pha, dental readiness, no deployment-limiting conditions, current immunizations and current labs, particularly dna, and possession of appropriate medical equipment. now, what we're measuring is really looking at the total force. and be i think we're doing an improving job as time has gone on becau

the ryan budget allows us to way to do that. the g.o.p. budget allows us to way to do that. the president budget never does that. may i have 30 seconds? mr. brady: i yield the gentleman 30 seconds. >> there's -- >> mr. mulvaney: the republican budget that actually balances. i yield back my time. the chair: the gentleman from -- the gentlelady from new york. mrs. maloney: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: the gentlelady veck niced. mrs. maloney: i would like to talk to the gentleman who said i was calling it the -- who would like to object to my saying it should be called the road to austerity instead of the road to prosperity. on the negative side of the republican plan, the economic policy institute estimates that the republican austerity plan will destroy 4.1 million jobs through 2014. but at the same time, the republican budget makes tax cuts for the most fortunate few permanent. while those making over $1 million per year will get an average tax cut of at least $150,000 and tax breaks for big oil will be preserved. that's their plan. the alternative,

just say when i get to be president, i am going to change it but i want to hear how they're going toe it. how they are going to get cooperation in congress and get anything better than what is being done now. >> that is a good point, trying to compare the issues of the candidates. we have a special campaign 2012 website where you can line up the candidates and to compare them on the issues. across the country now to san diego on the republican line. >> thank you for taking my call. i wanted to let everybody know that i think they should reevaluate ron paul again. he has been ignored in the media at all lot. he has been calling of voter fraud and lately and is trying and a lot more people to the rallies than a majority of these other candidates. >> is this primary process good for ron paul? >> it could be if the media would pay more attention. that is the main fault. in illinois, he drew 5000 people whereat santorum troops 120 people and gingrich have 70 people at his rally. if the media pays attention, people will realize where ron paul stands and he definitely could be president. >>

going to the edges. use the any of that in the end of flow with the makeup conservatives in the room they go to the extreme does that have been today? >> not on the liberal side. i will tell you that.keup of the opinions with a history of the supreme court? >> liberals and conservatives in the room they go to the extreme does that have been today? >> not on the liberal side. i will tell you that. nobody on the court today like justice brennan or thurgood marshall who would think of the constitution to be harnessed for social progress. the liberals on the court court, have been playing defense for a long time. we'll speak for the majority but it relates in part to the personalities of theersonale individuals but somebody who has steeply progressive groups is not likely t the personalities of the individuals but somebody who has steeply progressive groups is not likely these days to get nominated or confirmed. . . etch for joining us. appreciate it. guest: thank you. host: now we turn our attention to the

>> no one has worked harder to try to come up with ideas to try to make it work. i think for the near-term negotiations are not on. there is too much talk about iran. it seems the prime minister netanyahu wants negotiations without an outcome, and their politics do not permit it, so what do we do? the thing that is so important is what the palestinians have done over the last few years, which is to build a society under occupation with security forces taking responsibility and for the government responsibilities of a free state. there is economic progress on the west as saying. life is better. it is why the west bank has not turned to violence. i think it is important that be preserved, not just for the benefit of palestinians, but also to keep it quiet for israel, and i think what can be done -- israelis are talking to palestinians about how the process can continue, how a security is maintained so israelis can step back and quietly seek more territory for palestinian security presence and allow greater palestinian economic and activity on the west bank. but as t

give them to a reason to go to obama.is going to go on youhere. mitt romney will make it seem like we're heading into the general elections. he wants to suggest taking a page from the way george w. bush acted on election night not good 2004. he claimed victory. romney is a little weaker than they thought. >> not at all. we have seen such an interesting super tuesday. we love to look forward to this night. it is about half of the voters going to the polls that we saw. there are fewer states going to the polls. you take a look at this amazing fight going on. we have to look at the keys for success. even if he doesn't, we know he does well. he backed off the comment about wanting to throw up after hearing the separation of church and state. he backed off the stop comments. it is interesting to see how he played it off. his wife has been speaking publicly. he talked about her advising him to stay away from some of the social issues. he will say that she is being dragged in by the media. it is the language he uses. it is not j

i have to pay like $31 just to go to high school. i feel it is unfair, paying $31 just to go to school. for me and some friends, we really need it. it is not just we want. it is a necessity for us. chairperson nolan: thank you. anybody else? >> [speaking spanish] >> most of the people here are latinos. we do not have a lot of opportunities. we have a lot of families. sometimes we only have one parent to come support us. for some of the families, it is really hard for us to pay nearly -- to pay muni. >> i get at least three buses -- going to school, coming back from school, going to an after- school program, where i have to pay at least $3 every day or more. i hope i can get your support. chairperson nolan: thank you very much. next speaker. >> my mom always goes to the park with my little brother. we pay a lot of money. we can use that money for buying something else. me and my mom, we go to -- my mom needs to pay me and my sisters, needs to pay more money. >> anonymous, followed by gaby rodriguez. >> i am anonymous. chairperson nola

we do not have the answers to that yet, but we feed to be open to what -- but we need to be open to what we learned from the investigation. >> i yield to the lady. >> mr. chairman -- pardon, you said cheap, and i just want you to know that cruise is comprehensive, affordable travel having been a travel agent prior to coming to congress. >> i'm reclaiming my time, i take back my word cheap and substitute it with affordable. i yield back, thank you for correcting me ms. brouchblt -- ms. brown, i yield back. >> i ask unanimous consent to have entered into the record, testimony. >> without objection, so ordered. ms. brown, mr. cummings? anything else? well, thank you very much, this was i think helpful and as we proceed, i would like to state a few things while mr. mica request that we have this hearing over the tragedy of the c concorid concorida, that we use this opportunity that the u.s. cruise industries that been very proactive with the coast guard, which we are going look forward to following up on and highlight the reality as ms. brown and mr. cummings amply d but to make sure that we

you have to have a vision to know where you want to go.ave to the goals to figure out if you are accomplishing something or not. without good management, that all tends to fall by the wayside. to paraphrase an old song, without good government, it is like sitting in a rocking chair. it keeps you moving, but you go nowhere. with that, i want to thank spur and mfac. it is so important to recognize the people in the city that are so good and so creative and reward them and celebrate that good management. keep moving the city forward, folks. [applause] >> but it is not going to get this award next year. [laughter] technical difficulties. be patient. enjoy that fabulous bar. i just love landscaping. i grew up in a landscaping business. i learned to appreciate the outdoors. coming to rec and park was a natural transition. i started in may of 1998. i came in as a gardener and worked with the turf crew. i manage approximately 7,000 acres and i supervise 75 to 85 people under my direct supervision. i am responsible for eight parks more or less. eve

if we are all responsible to work together to insure -- we are all responsible to work together to ensurehis can be dealt with in a responsible way. host: a tweet then asks -- host: is it a political question their wrangling with at this point? guest: there are many political questions regarding the health- care bill, but the questions before the court are not is this a good bill or a bad bill, it is as politically a good idea or a bad idea. the question is under the constitution congress was given certain powers, in particular the power to regulate commerce and the power under the necessary and proper clause to enact other laws that are useful to make sure that its regulation of commerce is effective. the only question before the court is this -- is is this appropriately within congress' power, and if not, how much else of what congress has done should we do away with? host: tony, an independent scholar in florida. -- caller in florida. caller: first of all, if you did not buy gasoline, you do not pay for that. you're a great salesman. at what point do you become a criminal for not purch

we have to try to work and get that cut out. that cut out. >> we talk recently about the challenges in the supreme court, not in the individual mandate or the challenge out of florida. the federal government me uld force the state to raise the number of people who were me vered by medicaid and even though this was rejected at a lower leveuathe suupeme court reached out and decided they wanted to hear it again. what the chances none ut o this matters. the supreme court is just going to pull a citizens united and get rid of the law. >> the supreme couupe drejision his four elements. one is a mandate. another is a much scarier one wone-c is the question of whethr the government can compel states 1 o government is paying for. the federal goveroveent reimburses 100% oofmedicaid coverage for the first several years and 90% after s1 oeral e foars. if the federal government can comf pl states toizndertake cotivities in the public good, and broad implication for many upograms forid arge part ut o h we do the social insurance in 1 o i wis

it's going to take a long time if we want to get to where we want to get to. but right now we're headed in the right direction. the threat from north korea, before we get to a little more on this proscription, is analytically again three pieces. first and for me most important and i want to linger on this point, is the transfer issue. what i'm most concerned about and have always been with north korea is that they would transfer fissile material, nuclear weapons technology or nuclear weapons to another country or nonnational entity such as a terrorist group. that as an american is my principal concern, security concern. second, is, of course, the impact of what they have done already and might do in the future in terms of the plans of other countries in the region. that is to say we could shorthand that as a domino effect. over time a robust nuclear program in north korea with a regime that stays in place may not be tolerable for domestic reasons either in solar, tokyo or elsewhere and it could change the face of northeast asia and ultimately cause a rollback

to go to the mic. we do every few more minutes for questions. while we save anybody has got in, i want to ask you, some weeks ago you on a show with me, and clark was on as well. but he was crowing about the canadian banking system. is there a banking system out there that is something we can take some lessons from, is canada it? is it somewhere else? >> they have never had a banking crisis, as far as i can tell pics i think they're clearly doing something right. i do think the regulatory culture in canada is stronger. i think the people, would say that trade off is less innovation. not all innovation is bad. you need some innovation. we clearly went too far in one direction. so i do think we have something stolen, and stronger regulatory culture, stronger acceptance of regulation and better industry support for commonsense rigatoni structure i do think is something we could import. >> paul volcker said earlier, forget, forget financial information, forget that it didn't do anything for. please identif

to get credit and fine tools to be able to do that. sba programs cover a wide range, and i will talk about this range of lending and the kinds of things we do, but in many ways, we do not do it alone. we do it with partners, and that is the takeaway message, the sba lending activity, while would guarantee loans through a number of lenders, we do it with a lot of other partners as well. let me give a little bit of a sense of what the small business administration does and is. we in san francisco covered the bay area and north coast counties, and we do a variety of things. i will come back to the credit card because i know that is what this session is about, but before i do that, there's two other roles we play that are important as well. one is about helping small businesses understand how to start businesses, getting good technical assistance, getting good advice about starting and managing your business. equally important is being prepared for credit. one of the things we tried to do is work with small businesses to understand how to

the need to create is going to happen, and you are going to have to fulfill it because that is your life. [applause] >> if i could get everybody's attention, please. grab your food, have a seat. i am an old fashioned a journalist. a few of us still exist. i host "your call." thank you. [applause] it airs from 10:00 to 11:00 and i am always wanting more women to call in. it is interesting to see when we have more men called versus women. we focus on politics, social issues, the environment. when i needed break, we focus on the arts. on today's show, we talked about international women's day. and what we're facing here at home. the u.n. declared march 8 international women's day three decades ago. the goal was to provide an opportunity to reflect and confront issues affecting women. we know that we cannot have a vibrant society and must we have a seat at the table and have the power to make our own decisions about our bodies, families, and communities. each year, the un select a team . -- theme. if we could have everybody sit down, please. thank you. i love looking at the photographs and r

>> newt gingrich vowing to roll on to tampa. >> i emphasize going to tampa. >> newt vowed to take his fight to tampa in he made it clear he is not getting out. >> gingrich is in this thing until the end. >> what state do you think you can win. >> i don't know yet. >> newt gingrich is swimming in a sea of delusion. >> it is hard for us to get inside of the great man's mind. >> newt craves attention as many of us politics do. >> why is this guy in the race. >> he will have to say more outrageous things to draw attention to himself. >> newt wants to go to the convention come hell or high water. [ laughter ] >> republican voters can't seem to decide who the republican nominee for president should be, so that, of course, leaves republicans wondering, who does god want? after watching romney finish in third, erick erickson wris it is almost like god himself is toying with romney. maybe it is because the romney camp said it would take an act of god for santorum or gingrich to win. god seems like he wants to make it happen. all right. let's look at the big board. according to nbc news, here's

the going to ask you to come up to the podium. [applause] when thinking of this year's theme, women's education, women's economic strength and empowerment, i cannot think of a more fitting honor read and melissa. she's about economic strength and women's empowerment. i first learned of her past accomplishments at an annual dinner. she's a managing partner and one of the three original co- founders along with two other women of asia alternatives, and asian private equity fund to funds providing investment opportunities in asia. despite a chorus of knows, she has grown asia alternative since 2006 to be an organization with over $2 billion in assets under management with investments across asia. japan, southeast asia, australia and japan. you will recognize some of the large investors, including calpers, ontario municipal retirement fund, pennsylvania state employees retirement fund and many others. she sits on an number of cities service boards and the foundation that it works on improving the lives of orphans and china. she is on t

and to present to the congress and to the congress to have a process for holding accountable the administration and making progress to address these issues. this would be a path going forward that would have us working together between the congress and the administration and russia to strengthen the rule of law. it wouldn't interfere. i'm not talking, mr. chairman, about a conditional extension of pntr. i'm saying let's tackle off of these problems right now. as we tackle immediately the pntr issue. >> glad you made that very clear it would not be conditional. i think that's a very important point you just made to not be conditional. you'd like the united states as we all would to negotiate a bilateral investment treaty with russia. you'd like us to -- ordinarily all negotiations with countries and businesses what not you sequence your goals and you try to leverage one against the other to get a mutual agreement. you'd agree, wouldn't you, this is not that case. there there's no leverage here. i believe that countries generally do not grant concessions out of the goodness of their heart. they d

i have to go to my notes. but you can see the netherlands is top in europe as it comes tobacco ownership. we have more -- to bicycle ownership. we have more bicycles than people. so you can imagine how many bikes there are. you can find them on every street, every street corner. denmark is very good. second. and then you see it all the way down to spain. oops, now i see a mistake in my slide. uh, where -- if you compare the netherlands with other cities, we have 27% bike share. so this is the use. we own many bikes but we use them a lot as well. we use -- 27% of our trims are made by bicycle, average in the netherlands. denmark, 18%, germany, 10%. and in the u.s., average in your country is 1%. the latest figures i've got. and as i've told you it's the average, 27%. but if you have a closer look and you look at short-distance trips then it's 34% on the bike and 15% of trims up to 10 miles we also use the bicycle. still a great share. and we have two cities that are top of our bike use. the city of gronig and t

host: we have to go now to the house floor. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] john a. boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 17, 2012, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes each, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11:50 a.m. the chair recognizes the gentleman from new york, mr. higgins, for five minutes. mr. higgins: mr. speaker, as our nation winds down from its military engagements overseas, it's time for america to do some nation building here at home. a $1.2 trillion investment in rebuilding american roads, bridges, transit and water systems would create 27 million jobs over five

you have no choice. ♪ 15 to life ♪ doing 15 to life ♪ 15 to life ♪ doing 15 to life that's it. >> inral valley is corcoran state prison, one of the state's largest maximum security institutions, housing many of its most violent criminals. now, corcoran first opened in 1988 and was the site of so-called gladiator fights in the mid-1990s in which inmates fought to the death in concrete yards while guards allegedly looked on. the guards were charged and acquitted of subjecting prisoners to cruel and unusual punishment. but when we first brought our cameras into corcoran in 2000, the prison was still recovering from that scandal. in this hour, we'll take you back into the highly charged facility to see whether it has overcome its notorious past. >> home again. ♪ >> my life's in danger. if i stay in there, then i end up getting stabbed. >> that's stored under extreme pressure. it's a powder keg. it's a powder keg. >> basically, it's pure hell. it's hell up in here. it's hectic. >> there's nothing here. ain't no roses growing up out of here. >> bottom line, it's punishment. there's nothing

we're going to try to jump now to david. and david's book which i talk about also deals with the treatment of evil but i think largely from a different category of perpetrators. the statesmen and their followers who perpetrated mass murder and genocide in places like rwanda in the former yugoslavia, in sierra leon and cambodia. you really served in -- at the center of this when you were in the clinton administration. and lived through these terrible episodes with the jep side and the situation in the balkans. he we obviously should not lay blame for these events or responsibility i should say on the united states alone. this is a collective responsibility that was -- that was dropped by the international community during that time but i think you write very openly and honestly in your book about the failures south of tragedy. so before we talk about trying them, i would like you just to say a little bit about, you know, what you see in your book about -- you reflected about what you learned from how we can stop those kinds o

take some time to, to be offset.an important part of the recovery process in most expansions. additionally, we have had a severe financial dry sis which has -- crisis which has left still many stresses in the banking system and on the financial system, and again research notably by ken rogoff and carmen reinhart has pointed out that historically recoveries following financial crisis also tend to be somewhat slower than they otherwise would be. so having been hit by both of these factors and with housing problems still being important as you noted and as with financial conditions including some of the stresses coming from europe still being a drag to some extent on economic activity, um, we have had a slower recovery than we otherwise would have anticipated. nevertheless, of course, we have had now growth since mid 2009, and unemployment has come down. but, of course, not, the growth is not as strong, and the improvement in the unemployment rate is not as quick as, obviously, we would like. >> u.s. consumers are delev

they don't like being mandated to do anything. i get it. i don't like to be told what to do either. but when our nation's founders came to philadelphia to craft the constitution, they came with the idea of creating a national government that had the power to create national solutions to national problems. and they specifically gave congress the very powerful authority to regulate interstate commerce. and at the founding, the idea of regulate included the idea of directing. so, congress has the power to direct certain conduct when it comes to interstate commerce. and, you know, you may not like that and so you vote out the people who direct you in ways you don't like. but that doesn't mean that the constitution doesn't give the authority. and finally, i just want to get to the point that randy made at the end of his remarks about whether or not the conservative justices will or should feel constrained by precedent to vote to uphold the act. now, i'm not going to make any predictions here because you never know what the supreme court will do, but i think that there is a good reason to

it would be up to them to do that. >> would weasel out prior to the discount taking effect or would we start utilizing the discount and have worrier to come up with a third party verification? >> one of the amendments we of made requires a benefit corporation actually be a benefit corp. for six months a little lead times a week to get ahead of it. >> thank you. it's important when a company is competing with other companies outside the city that we are able to give a discount if they are providing low income communities or providing opportunities beyond the creation of jobs and i think this ordinance is an important step but i'm curious about some of the other things we will do to implement that. supervisor chu: thank you. just in terms of the definition, just understand that you have got corporations that might be benefit communities and different ways. but is there or -- is there a certain percentage of the profit that goes to benefit communities or is it just 1% would suffice that -- i don't understand the definition. >> there are a number of folks from the benefit corporation wo

to have a way, we also have a short-term fix to that, to have a long-term fix to that we thought was incredibly important. and the dnssec appears to be that when. we are pleased that liebowitz and create a critical mass to help adoption. >> mr. amoroso i've enjoyed your testimony and makes us all realize how much work we all have to do together faced this problem that is certainly there's an easy answer to come but i want to thank all the panelists for your testimony today. it's been very enlightening. i yield back, mr. chairman. >> will go now to mr. shimkus for five minutes. >> i kind of want to build a little bit on what my friend mike doyle mentioned, but i want a different perspective. because it is kind of tied, popped in my mind when you talk about federal workers. where are you finding your cyber warriors today from? in other words, where are they coming out of? are they coming from private universities? on the coming out of the military? briefly, cutting edge new people who help you do this stuff, where are they coming from? >> i think it's a private of places, and i would s

the best way to do that is for all of us to join together to say it needs to end. same call for bill maher? guest: i have to say that rush limbaugh continues on the american airwaves across the country. we have to pull back and walk away from that absolutely. host: hbo is different? public airwaves versus table -- cable? guest: there is a long history of what rush limbaugh has been doing. i think he has gone so much further on this one. it has just been outrageous. host: let's hear from david, a republican in detroit. caller: my question or comment is about what i am hearing from your guest on the show. speaking of bill maher, the word he used against sarah palin was disgusting. he pretty much double down on it by saying the only difference is he does not have sponsors. host: why is that a concern to you? caller: he doubled down pretty much because he does not have sponsors. last year, someone pretty much said about the same thing about laura ingram. is it ok to-conservative women conservative women? guest: there is no place in the discourse for any of this. there