mark twain, i read every single one of his books. i'd love to see his inspiration from the great state of missouri. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from new york yields back the balance of her time. all time having expired, the question is, will the house suspend the rules and concur in the senate amendments to h.r. 2453. so many as are in favor say aye. mrs. maloney: i demand the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from suspend. those oppose ld say no. pp opinion, 2/3 of those voting having responded in the affirmative -- -- in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 of those voting having responded in the affirmative -- the gentlelady from new york requests the yeas and nays. the yeas and nays are requested. those in favor of taking this vote by the yeas and nays will rise and remain standing until counted. a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, further proceedings on the question will be postponed. for what purpose doe

twain would be truly shocked to see paris after dark today., 21st century americans find the city, with its art, its history, its cafes and byways, as beguiling as the first wave of americans did. >> mccullough: are you a citizen of paris? >> i am. >> mccullough: lucky you. >> safer: mccullough encounters fans everywhere. many of them turned out for a reception in his honor at the residence of the american ambassador to france, charles rivkin, where the author had an unexpected encounter with a very famous admirer. >> mccullough: i just kissed olivia de havilland. >> safer: and for good measure, he did it again. madame de havilland is 96, just about the last great star from hollywood's golden age. she was melanie, the good girl, in "gone with the wind." >> mccullough: how long have you been in paris? and what brought you here? >> olivia de havilland: a frenchman. ( laughter ) >> mccullough: that'll do it. >> de havilland: a frenchman. >> safer: she has lived in paris for half a century, a love affair with the city shared by americans past and

mark twain said that tom sawyer pointed out, a preacher came to town who was so good that huck finn stayed saved until tuesday. chris: hold his party together. >> and get enough republican votes. >> the unpredictable things he hasn't planned for. chris: the black swan. >> i totally agree with annette. if you had told me in 2008 that the whoufs would have been consumed with worry in the first term over whether greek pensioners would accept austerity measures in europe, i wouldn't have thought that. it's these promises that determine the course. chris: hubris? >> he said it in his press conference, overreach. every president since roosevelt has had this horrible second term. for someone who wants to be a transforming president, that may be a problem. chris: keep the supreme court at nine. when we come back, the big question of the week -- americans look for new frontiers, always have. americans look for new frontiers, always have. will future secondhand smoke affects everyone's health. it's not just irritating. it can cause heart disease and even death. speak up about secondhand smoke. your

. >> do you remember mark twain said that? buyers in baltimore king get some pretty could deals on foreclosed homes. jane king has the bloomberg business report. good morning. >> the department of veterans affairs is falling behind in its mission of caring for veterans. 896,000 claims were pending as of last week. foreclosures are not the deal they use to be. discount of 7.7%. the discount was closer to 24% back in 2009. discount is about 20% in baltimore. futures this morning are a little higher. we did manage some slight gains back on friday. we did have the best week for for stocks since june. those are catalogs and there is the annual fashion show which is televised nationwide. it serves as the cornerstone of their marketing machine. at the new york stock exchange, i'm jane king, bloomberg news, for wbal-tv 11 news. back to you. >> mindy often walks down the street with a roulette wheel. >> absolutely. eavy.at would be have th >> the number of people on food stamps is on the rise. >> one in seven americans relies on food s

without said that mark twain. >> mark twain. >> rose: that's changing, in the beginning there was no taxation. >> are you talking about sales tax. >> rose: yes. >> and so we are-- for ten years now our position on this has been there should be federal legislation that-- . >> rose: but not state-by-state. >> what happen-- what is happening is the state-by-state and what we think could be better is the federal legislation. so we're trying to get that to happen. >> has that been a huge benefit to you in terms of gaining traction in the success of your business? >> you know, some people say that, charlie. i done believe so. and my-- the reason i done believe that is because we are just as successful in the states where we do collect sales tax. for example in washington state where we have been, collected sales tax there the whole time. you go to the european union where they have value added tax. we've been very successful there and collected the value added tax the wol time. >> go to japan. >> you think we should add val u added tax in america. >> i don't think so i think the state tax

for mark twain came from. we are mining gold. huge reserves of gold and silver.one time it was the wealthiest place on earth is moving back in that direction. dicate industrial center, which is the part i own and develop, largest industrial park in the united states today. that is where apple just associated and located here recently. we have fortune 100 companies, 130 companies, 12 million feet in eight years, i have done those, that is why was elected as commissioner. that is how i'm going to take care of my folks. melissa: would announce a run for president, will you come on my show first? >> anytime, i love you. melissa: i hope you come back. this is a city officials may have banned public nudity, but there is some reasonable exceptions. thank goodness. all the details you need to know next. you can never have too much "money." you can have too much public nudity though, i think. úú a to in time for a little fun with spare change. we are joined weight david asman and lori rothman. the city of san francisco is trying to ban nudity. can you imagine? necessary e

a neighbor said the homeowner lost a collection of original mark twain books. luckily no one was hurt. >>> this series of storms might be the biggest we have seen in the past 2 1/2 years. >> jeff, how intense will tomorrow be? >> when we talk about intense, stronger with the next storm, the second in a series of storms we mean rainfall. it will produce three to five times the am of rainfall for today. as we head throughout saturday we expect rainfall totals that could go from two to three inches across the north bay. meanwhile, let's look at what we are finding. at the coastline some of our buoys are reading 15 to 30 miles an hour. the strongest wind and rain moved out with the first storm. the second storm is shaping up and the key thing about the next developing storm, it is very slow movement. that's why we need to monitor the creeks, rivers and streams. we could see one to three inches of rainfall again with five-plus merrill lync inches of rain. we will detail it all coming up in the full forecast. >> we will see you shortly. a lot of viewers are sending s

>> well, i do think, like samuel clemmenes, mark twain said, the rumors of my demise are premature.i don't think these products are disappearing, even if the hostess company might go to a different stage of life. twinkies of course likewise in our lore, whether or not people were enraged and did violent things, supposedly, with this product. many confectionary companyes, almond joy, the different peter paul products lived on as herschs managed to give them a new life, companies like quaker city confectionary company disappeared but good and plenty lived on. it might be a private equity firm short term, lose of susie. it might not immediately be one of the food companies in the food business. you don't want to alienate the customer base. want to find some way where the brand is brought back to life. we have seen the schwinn, nautilus found a new direction for them in the recreational equipment business. there are ways of repositioning them. >> susie: it's interesting, most of the products you mentioned -- almond joy and there's also sugar babies, cracker youkilis what is it about foo

the got connected with mark twain who recognized that a grant memoir would be a huge best seller is indeed it was. while he was writing the memoir he discovered he was dying of cancer and so the nation watched as grant was in this race for his life and it was unclear whether grant wood finish writing the story of his life before he finished his actual life. but as he was in the final stages of both writing a memoir and dying of cancer he wrote some notes to himself and one of the notes that he writes, this is grant at the age of 65 -- 63. he knows he is dying and he has been the commanding general, the only general to have the rank george washington held in the revolutionary war since then. he might well have been one of the most famous people on earth. he took world for after he left the white house and everywhere he went crowds turned out to see this great american hero but he writes just weeks before he dies i never thought of acquiring rank in the profession i was educated for, namely the military. yet it came with two grades higher prefix to the rank of general officer for me. i certa

i would just like to p oi nt out -- mark twain wrote robert e lee's biography. i don't know if that pokes a hole in your theory. i don't think they tumbled around. >> that's a lot of fatal share to negotiate. >> to kennedy's point, in a way petraeus acted like the media and did obama a favor by holding the bad news until after the election. he didn't want to get his boss in trouble which is honorable. he probably talked to his wife and said -- if this is all about the affair it is like i don't want to -- if i resign before the election, that's going to be the story and we are never living it down. this is the story that killed the obama resurgeons was the story i was screwing around. >> maybe she is a romney supporter. maybe she is a romney supporter and black mailed him and was going to come out with salacious e-mails. >> why use the term black mail? this is 2012. >> it is african-american-mail. >> i actually subscribe to that catalog. there are a lot of great robes i buy. >> shorty robes, people. everybody knows about my shorty robe collection. are there ducks

he is the mark twain of our time. how lucky are we to have a moment in time with him? and what better way to start this conversation -- hopefully i can get them to come to the stage -- than with a published author in his own right and a man whose name is synonymous with leadership, our own former mayor, manny diaz. manny diaz, let me turn it to you. hopefully, we can get him up here, and tom wolfe. please welcome them. [applause] >> well, good evening, everybody. and let's get this started. if "bonfire of the vanities," you chose new york with wall street and the upper east side as your setting. in "the man in full," you chose -- [inaudible] and then for "i am charlotte simms," you wrote about college sports at a fictional college. many believe it was duke, especially since your daughter attended duke, graduated from duke. my question is, and i think what all of us want to know, is why miami? how did you come to choose it as a backdrop, and what surprised you the most about miami? >> my first purpose was to write a book on immigration. this is when i was still working

according to the treasury, the treasury secretary, tim geithner, twain report said the entitlement programsus interest on the national debt to pay for the programs, within ten years will consume 92% of the federal budget. that's eight cents left over of every dollar to pay for the entire military, for national parks, food safety inspections. the entitlements are already broken. only romney and ryan has a plan of touching it. by the way, not for anyone 55 years and older. >> well, you have a very negative president obama talk about revenge. you know, out, there get our vote for revenge. i'm looking at that revenge for who? >> right. >> then you have gov. romney, vote forgot of your country. >> yes, yes. i really love how corny romney is and how patriotic and they keep making fun of him for this in the mainstream media. >> look at the crowd he's drawing >> and some don't think he's hip enough. we tried hip. we've had really hip the last four years and the country is suffering. romney-ryan is such an amazing ticket to have two articulate republicans, we were just talking about this in the gree

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you know, mark twain says history doesn't repeat. >> got it. got it. okay. >> rick, let me ask you before we go, if you get any sort of semblance of a framework that something is going to happen between now and the end of the year, say by christmas, as the president said he wanted to have happen today, what happens to the interest rates? >> oh, there's no doubt in my mind that any kind of a solution is going to give us a strong rally in stocks. it depresses me a bit, actually, scott. i don't even think it needs to be a good deal. just any deal, and then that leaves us with the notion of how to tackle economic growth beyond the fiscal cliff. that's where it really starts to get interesting. >> i agree. i dweguess the market would ral so much before it even got to the details. >> that's the irony. it really would. >> it's all about sentiment. it's about two sides acting like adults saying, let's do this together. it's what the people want. >> i'm in. let's leave it there, guys. all right, gentlemen. thank you so much for weighing in. >> all right. let's

>> brandon: well, i think it was mark twain who said, "if you put all your eggs in one basket, you better." i watch my basket pretty carefully when it comes to football. >> keteyian: michigan has the nation's largest alumni group, and a zealous fan base that gobbles up millions of dollars in merchandise. even so, brandon taps into that fervor any way he can. yes, for $6,000 a pop, the big house can occasionally be turned into the chapel of love. with revenue streams flowing from every direction, michigan's athletic department turns a profit, but it is the exception in college sports. >> brandon: the business model of big-time college athletics is primarily broken. it's a horrible business model. >> keteyian: broken. >> brandon: broken. you've got 125 of these programs. out of 125, 22 of them were cash flow even or cash flow positive. now, thankfully, we're one of those. what that means is you've got a model that's not sustainable, in most cases. you just don't have enough revenues to support the costs. and the costs continue to go up. >> keteyian: why? a big reason is universities are in

bill bolling, the lieutenant governor, dropped out in twain to make way for bob mcdonnell, currentlyhe governor, dropped out again this week to make way for state attorney jgeneral ken cucinell cucinelli. you have the best friend of bill clinton terry mcauliffe as the democratic nominee. some people are painting this as a tea party against the clintons in mcauliffe. things can still happen. it looks like a fascinating race. >> chris, as you know, political reporters, we only have two gubernatorial races to cover. we give a lot of attention to virginia and new jersey. what's fascinating about virginia, since i've been covering politics on the national stage, the off-year election has proved to be a template if that party that's out of power wins. 2005, tim kaine ends up running a race, appealing to independents, sfresing his religious faith. actually kind of having a very soft appeal to a lot of folks. he's adopted that 2006 and 2008. a lot of the ideas barack obama ran on in 2008 was tim cane. >> he endorsed him for president, just as a sidebar. >> mcdonnell was focused like a laser

he is the mark twain of our time. how lucky are we to have a moment in time with him? and what better way to start this conversation -- hopefully i can get them to come to the stage -- than with a published author in his own right and a man whose name is synonymous with leadership, our own former mayor, manny diaz. manny diaz, let me turn it to you. hopefully, we can get him up here, and tom wolfe. please welcome them. [applause] >> well, good evening, everybody. and let's get this started. if "bonfire of the vanities," you chose new york with wall street and the upper east side as your setting. in "the man in full," you chose -- [inaudible] and then for "i am charlotte simms," you wrote about college sports at a fictional college. many believe it was duke, especially since your daughter attended duke, graduated from duke. my question is, and i think what all of us want to know, is why miami? how did you come to choose it as a backdrop, and what surprised you the most about miami? >> my first purpose was to write a book on immigration. this is when i was still working

i start with a quote from mark twain who says that history doesn't repeat itself. at best it sometimes rhymes. it's true that the election of 1932 dealt with deep depression and franklin roosevelt and his very death campaign against a very administration of herbert hoover, so those particular incidents and people are not going to be repeated, but it certainly suggests a number of political refrain that we will see through this year as well and how to the candidates and how does the public respond when issues shift from cultural issues which had dominated the previous three elections to economic issues that dominated in 1932 and it also suggests fax politicians will always do well never to underestimate their opposition. the other quote that informed my research i heard as i was driving to work one day it was just rescheduling at enron who said the trouble with history is that it tells you what happened but not what might have happened. and i thought that is a good model for studying and election because we start with the knowledge of who won the election so there i

i know who i am and they know who they are and never the twain shall meet. now there just seems to be very much more variation. not that it didn't occur before but because we never talked about it. so i reject -- which is why the transgendered community offers us such gifts. the trans gender community will raise questions even for gay and lesbian people that we have not really fully confronted. if that is exciting to you, great but my guess is to a lot of people, the trans gender issue will push a lot of scary buttons. i want to be honest about the fact that god believes -- "god believes in love: straight talk about gay marriage," that is both straight forward and also i did have heterosexual people in mind when i wrote it. marriage is one of those things that is under siege and again, i think the l b -- the lgbt community has become the whipping boy for marriage's troubles which were here long before we ever started talking about gay marriage. and marriage is under siege at least in my experience, my counseling experience and that of my clergy and so on. th

those of for instance richard ford or robert frost or even mark twain. this is a quote.oncentrate. thisthis israeli. he could cut official corners to call in and out. he could walk and a man's house unless invited or else with a warrant and bust down the door. it was the way he was raised, to have good manners. back when they were living in a cold camp and the miners struck rail and been a picket line most of the year, his dad in the house dying with black lung and company gun thugs came looking for his uncle. they came across the street, five of them in a couple with pic handles and up the walk to where his mother stood on the porch. the gun thugs said they wanted to speak to her brother. she told them, you don't walk into a persons home unless you are invited. even you people must believe that. you have homes, don't you, wives and mothers keeping house? they shoved her aside and hit him with a big handle to put him down. her words haven't stop them. no, what they did was stick in his mind. for words and her quiet tone of voice that stopped him more than 20 years later

sometimes bipartisanship in washington is a little like what mark twain said about tom sawyer and huck finn. there was once an evangelist who came to town who was so good that even huck finn was saved until sunday afternoon. there is a short half life. >> so pessimism about business as usual changing in washington? >> not pessimism. just, it's going to be a very -- nobody's interests have radically changed except that do you have this fiscal cliff. you do have this situation that interestingly washington created. they passed a bill that said at the end of the year the tax cuts expire. we'll sequester money. we're not going to spend it. we're going to force ourselves to make a hard decision. and history tells us that washington makes hard decisions only when they really have to. >> tell me more broadly about second terms. presidents are unburdened by the need to be re-elected but for a lot of presidents they've been fraught the second terms. which way does it cut for president obama? >> the only thing worse than winning a second term is not winning a second term. it's hard because peopl

it is the twain 20 defect 252 they're miles an hour.up by the time you reach the concord side is to make the connection with highly 680. the nimitz freeway has slowed traffic southbound as you work your way out of san leandro. in 238 is close to hayward approaching 92 with more stopping the traffic for years southbound ride as you head towards fremont and the south bay. if you're headed to the oakland airport traffic is moving well on the oakland side of the nimitz freeway. now's a good time to head out the door. southbound as soon as you head to 38 is low through san leandro and to hayward and on towards fremont. >> today is a big travel day and a lot of folks are leaving for the thanksgiving holiday. will tran has and keeping an eye on any potential delays at sfo. i know we have some weather that was threatening to delay flights but i don't think yet seen much on the board's right? >> not yet but the key word is potential. what's gone on the chicago with all the delays and cancellations we are hearing it is backed up for hours. if tho

: h.r. 2453 an act to require the secretary of the treasury to mint coins in commemoration of mark twain. the speaker pro tempore: will the house concur in the senate amendment. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: on this vote, the yeas are 370, the nays are 19. 2/3 being in the affirmative, the rulings are suspended, the senate amendments are agreed to. without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? mr. poe: i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on h.res. 80 . the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. the chair lays befo

by saying we should not be overly optimistic or pessimistic, and they go back to the expert, mark twain. he said about music, and i would say about the u.s.-china relationship, on the one hand, he said, about richard walker's music, that is not as bad as it sounds. so keep that in mind when things are not going well with china. but he also said, he was a great music critic. he discussed britney spears music, and he said it's not as good as it looks lik. [laughter] so if you keep a steady home, i think we can succeed with this complex relationship. >> thank you. >> let me pick up on secretary campbell's point about the china today, is just a much more complex entity to deal with. and the great challenge that we face, and they face them is managing this relationship. and in this context, i want to stress what i see is two of the major areas of challenge. first is the internal challenge. we tend to assume that gee, china was growing at 10% a year for three decades, it slowed down a little bit but it's going to keep growing. i think that's wrong. i think we're going to see a situation where

i will go back to that expert, mark twain. he says about music what i would say about the u.s.-china relationship. --said about wagner's music he was a great music critic. britney spears'spair not asand said, "it's good as it looks." [laughter] >> thank you. >> let me pick up on a point he made earlier. it is a complex idea. a great challenge that we face and might face is managing this relationship. in this context, i want to stress what i see as two of the major issues of challenge. first, the internal challenge. we tend to assume that china is growing at an% a year -- 10% per year, but i think that is wrong. i think we will see a combination of economic and internal political reasons. china is entering, my guess is a very difficult period. the society has outgrown the political system that brought the revolution. we have seen decided grow in the way it has. it has substantial measure because of its economic growth. i like to do this when i give talks about china. this is one of the most revolutionary technologies of any kind -- cell phone. it is relevant because there are mi

public embrace of the idea of bipartisanship at a time of great stress in the country, bell bromance twain obama and chris christie was kind of like a cross between "i spy" and laurel and hardy. you have got that, and you had run the talking about how i will reach out, i will find common ground. obama calls in and says we need a common ground. i need you to be my emissary to congressional republicans and get them to go along with the simpson-bulls tied grand bargain. what does from the same? at the same time, while congressional republicans are not want to exactly dow down to governor romney, and remember when paul ryan after the 2010 elections, he was an icon for them, came back to the freshmen and said we cannot do the budget cuts we promised you right now. they threw him out of the room. they are not 6 " to be eager to do that. you can gain significant leverage by moving in that direction, and it would not surprise me that obama has a couple of cards up his sleeve to turn the bully pulpit into a more potent weapon in the next month. >> there are other ways of doing that. one is i think

[laughter] mark twain once said an expert is from out of town. and in many respects, i learned a lot about this subject by traveling with my colleagues, by helping them find their paper in our paper as well, and i'm speaking from the perspective a comparative business jumped into this subject what about is him by fire. and it is going to share a few points. for purposes of full disclosure, hesham to my left is not only one of the coeditors buddies also a ph.d student at church and university and happens to be two of his advisors sitting on this panel at this remote. but it's a tribute to hesham he's not only a student but in many respects is a college. he's been associate with usip for about four years now, many projects. so many respects he's a veteran and were working on these problems long before of course before the arab spring corrupted it very quickly, why is it so difficult to advance security sector reform, seems to be to keep issues. if you compare security tech reform, the middle east, latin america, there you have these extraction cont

. >> mark twain said the duty of every patriot is to defend our country against their government when not doing on our foreign service not protecting our people out there by what they are doing with killing businesses with the regulations. obama care to begin with, that was rammed down our throat. >>> thank, that's some anger. >> yes. i was with paul ryan in ohio, pennsylvania, virginia and florida. today in milwaukee and green bay to talk to voters in wisconsin. we are picking up this level of anger and frustration. i will tell you one important conclusion. i believe the romney voters are more energized than the obama voters. some of this polling that shows obama up by 1 or 2 percent don't necessarily believe it. i think the romney people will be coming to the polls. we have more segments for you tomorrow to show you what's really happening in the swing states across america. >> frank is swinging you in the obama states. look forward to seeing you and your brand new show whenever it gets test time spot. >> something frank luntz might put in his own show that is weather. you have the