u.s. chamber of commerce. in that coalition we have more than 700 trade associations and companies representing roughly 24 of the highest growth sectors of the u.s. economy. i'd like to put in context the discussion we're having about universities and the role of universities in addressing what i think of as the rule of law on the internet. what i can report to you is that every single sector of the 24 sectors represented in that coalition has indicated that the problem of stolen digital content and the distribution of counterfeit goods on the internet is getting worse, not better, every single sector. so the framework here i think in fairness of what we're discussing, is truly the question of hough does a rule of law come to the broad band internet. everyone is familiar with the fact that in virtually every aspect of modern, 21st century society, the internet is visualized as a key pillar. whether that's information, whether that's commerce and on and on. in that framework i think everyone and this team would

u.s. chamber of commerce. why is our national economic policy on the wrong track? there are two main reasons. first, the federal government is unnecessarily adding to the cost of living and the cost of doing business in america. just one example is our cost of energy. the price of gasoline is rising rapidly because we continue to depend on foreign oil. it is now within our reach to become energy independent in north america if we simply develop the resources we already have available. in places like the gulf of mexico. non-sensitive public lands across america, and in our friendly bordering countries. the second reason we are on the wrong track is the federal government is killing energy development with overly burdenen some regulations. the best example of this is the keystone pipeline, which the obama administration will not allow to be built. the stayed of north dakota is currently experiencing an oil boom. we have doubled our oil production in the last four years and are about to become the second largest oil-producing state behind only texas. but we cannot effe

u.s. chamber of commerce is is targeting two democrats right now one of them sure a ground already spending money on the campaign here eight months out and they say they plan to spend fifty million dollars to defeat democrats specifically to defeat democrats. more than a dozen senate seats more than thirty house seats that they've already targeted and used to be a crime and this is in one thousand and seven the tillman act was passed to make this illegal and the supreme court has overturned this how can it be a good thing for our democracy to have corporate interests deciding who are candidates here are you know or are having such a large influence as you said sam low information voters people who just pay attention the last few weeks before the campaign and they can watch via well we're already seeing the effects of it because in two thousand and ten when was the first election after citizens united over three hundred million dollars and outside corporate spending went into that and elected one of the most corporate friendly house of representative ever seen now after fifteen months of the

u.s. chamber of commerce will show the trade policy for the year. representatives from cisco, boeing, and a microsoft. over on c-span3, coverage of the education alliance. there will talk about ways to increase high school graduation rates and prepare young people for college in the work force. live coverage begins at 8:00 a.m. eastern. in march, 1979, c-span began televising the u.s. house of representatives nationwide. today, are content of its politics, public affairs, nonfiction books, and history is available on tv, radio, and online. >> we have headed by some we do not do what i do today and come in with a plain old white shirt and a summertime. heaven forbid. i did not know if my colleagues feel this would be better to corn for the senate. and i see the distinguished senator nodding, no. perhaps the people of all i will make a judgment on what they want to see the entire in the united states senate. mr. president, these are just a few of our concerns here in the senate. i am sure that none of us will do one thing differently in the senate of t

u.s. chamber of commerce for our hiring our heroes efforts. we're holding events across the country, overseas and online, to highlight the valuable skills that our veterans can bring to our economy, and one of these events is aboard the "uss inpred up" here in new york this morning. you're listening to the united states military academy band at west point providing us with some music this morning. a lot to get to. we're very excited about it. >> great event and very, very important. look forward to that. a little later on a much different note we're going to tell but the major online controversy that's been ignited by the unusual way alicia silverstone feeds her 10-month-old son. we'll tell you more about that. but we begin this morning with that jetblue flight that made an emergency landing in amarillo, texas, after the pilot had to be restrained by passengers, nbc's tom costello has the latest. tom, good morning. >> matt, good morning to you. the captain is a 12-year veteran of jetblue. he's now under arrest charged by the fbi in amarillo wit

u.s. chamber of commerce to launch nbc news hiring heroes. second lady and others will open a job fair in new york. >>> a special one-night viewing of "the body guard" will be shown. happy birthday to singer lady gaga who turns 26. all day long you can stay on top of the latest developments. and be sure to watch brian williams with nbc nightly news. hear from a passenger who helped restrain a jet blue pilot who had a mid air outburst and live reports from the hiring event. and now keep it on this channel for continuing local news, weather, sports and more. i'm lynn berry. thanks for watching "early today." have a good one.

u.s. chamber of commerce. in that coalition, we have more than 700 trade associations and companies representing roughly 24 of the highest growth sectors of the u.s. economy. i would like to put in context the discussion we are having about the role of universities in addressing what i think is the rule of law on the internet. every single sector of the 24 sectors represented in that coalition have indicated that the problem of stolen digital content and the distribution of counterfeit goods on the internet is getting worse, not better. every single sector. the framework here, in fairness of what we are discussing, is truly the question of how does the rule of law come to broadband internet? everyone is familiar with the fact that in virtually every aspect of modern 21st century society, the enter net is a key pillar, whether it is information, commerce, or on and on. in that framework, i think everyone of around this table would agree that we cannot have a vision of the broadband internet of the wild west as s

of all u.s. households own at least one apple product and 61% of homes with kids own an iphone, ipad, ipod or mac. yesterday on the "uss intrepid" nbc news and u.s. chamber of commerce teamed up for a hiring our heroes job fair in new york. the unemployment rate for veterans is more than 12%. over 400 such job fares are scheduled around the country this year aimed at getting 500,000 vets or their spouses in to the civilian workforce by the end of 2014. coming up, love games the bobcats. the niners nab a giant and the kings blank the flames. raptors slam the nuggets, snapping a nine game losing streak. >>> in weather all eyes are on the west coast. huge storm system coming on shore. your forecast is coming up. you're watching early today. >>> good morning if you're just waking up. this is "early today." in sports despite a long casualty list the new york knicks pulled off a win. >> good morning. the knicks will be without amare stoudemire. if they keep playing like this, he can sit out the rest of the season. here we go to new york. no problem against the magic. trailed at the end of the first. after that, it was all the knicks. at one point they scored 21 straight.

u.s. chamber of commerce have joined forces to help unemployed veterans get back to work. through an initiative more than 400 job vehrs will be held in several cities across the country to help veterans and their spouses find work. officials say veterans bring experience to the workplace including the ability to adapt. this was the case with a fighter pilot turned journalist. >> when i realized some -- so many people were talking about the military and what we're doing. it is a different perspective. >> the hiring our heroes initiative was launched a year ago. >> with all the unbelievable warm weather, many flowers and fruit trees are blooming. tonight it will get close to or below freezing which is bad news for many of those plans and for some farmers. we have more on how they're getting ready. >> many of your plants in bloom will be handle the cold temperatures and a possible frost. those are the plans that are outside. inside in the greenhouse are the plants that will not able to handle the cold. like geraniums, basil, and tomato plants. >> cover them up and hope you ge

u.s. chamber of commerce. it is a very important project. th jack earlier. if you're a ceo watching this right now or head of a human resources department and thinking about how to hire veterans, what to do, the practical aspects of it, what should be the takeaway? >> the fundamental reality is that veterans are well trained, they know how to work in teams, they got extraordinary skills and technology and big time leadership abilities and you want to get them. so, you can contact the chamber, we ran last year 100 hiring fares. that's how you bring together veterans and their families with companies that are looking to hire people. this year starting today on the intrepid with your partnership, we're going to run 400 hiring fares around this country and put people together and put people to work. >> how quickly can do you that? 500,000 people. i don't know that any one group of people can do this. what we've tried to do is take advantage of our extraordinary network around the country and run what will be four times the number of hiring fares.

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u.s. chamber of commerce, it included the afl, cio and many of the individual sectors that the legislation imposed obligations on but it was larnlly a washington-based coalition the challenge, the two buckets that the senator justified, which is we need to broaden and deepen the coalition that is in support, there need to be voices card across the country, it's partsly a education process and encouraging both the sector s of the economy and the worker s and the groups actually who get benefit from the us being a leader in technology and invention and creativity to speak up and have their voices haer haerds. and we need to responds in way that the campaign was run this time and be in a position to contradict claims that don't have a basis in truth. so, i think those are approximate -- those are the big challenges, being more effective in communicating. >> i appreciate that and i've been thinking through when it became this silicone valley against hollywood are the millions artists, young struggling, the ones who are being injured on this. if i can get a plug, van stephenson has been working

u.s. chamber of commerce. only as part of the yes man of course you can find his work at the yes man and his latest film the yes man fix the world is available on d.v.d. and the pickle bomb welcome to the kaiser report i think all right any book about for those who don't know for the international audience who are the yes man and what do they do in a word what the yes men try to do is make hoaxes make funny stories to give journalists an excuse to cover important issues that aren't getting covered enough . so we come up with whatever scheme we can that we think is funny that we think other people think is funny and we do it with the audience being journalists who will then take the information and make a story out of it getting more coverage for the issue in two thousand and four when we posed as dow chemical thanks to b.b.c. error we gave a lot of journalists an excuse to talk about the twentieth anniversary of the bhopal concerts or fiji the biggest industrial disaster in history that has never been cleaned u

u.s. chamber of commerce is working with the military to help change those numbers.equent now. fewer soldiers from ft. hood are deployed overseas and for many of them, another tough mission lies ahead, finding a job. here at ft. hood and all over the army, soldiers about to leave the service or retire are required take classes about finding a job. >> many of our soldiers come straight into the military directly from high school. the officers come directly in from college. and they may not have had a lot of experience in looking for work in the past. they don't have a resume. they don't know how to write one. >> at ft. hood alone, 600 soldiers a month enter into civilian life. from one of them has a meeting with i an counselor, most like linda stanley are former soldiers. >> i was ammunition. so i know what it's like to find a job with the skill set that most employers don't use. >> sergeant nathanielrately has worn the uniform more than two decades. >> if you're not prepared to get out, it's scary out there. >> with new waves of troops withdrawing from afghanistan in

u.s. chamber of commerce. more than 4,400 vets and their spouses attended job fairs today in new york, chicago, ft. hood, texas. 16,000 more participated online. our own parent company, by the way, comcast nbc universal, pledged to hire 1,000 vets over the next three-year period. wes moore is here with us in the studio. he was a captain in the u.s. army, 82nd airborne in afghanistan and has worked to get other vets hired since he got home from war. nice to have you. and no fair, by the way. you had a degree from johns hopkins, you were a rhodes scholar, but yes, you were an army captain, and someone, in this case, citibank, hired you, and as i said on this broadcast last night, if you have seen a sergeant major in the army in the field, you would hire them person so fast because they can do anything. >> it's so true. it's important for america to understand that not just working with vets, but hiring vets isn't a charity, it's an investment. you think about -- i think there's two real misconceptions that peopl

u.s. chamber of commerce, the business round table and the national association of manufacturers, also backing the amendment. a number of conservative groups do oppose it, arguing the export/importment as to corporate welfare. the boeing company tonight vowing to continue to press for the bank's reauthorization. as you heard a few moment. s ago. it will fall to the bottom of the list with other items including the senate agenda. which goes back to the question, what would you do? 202-626-7962. >> i'm calling from fairfax, virginia, and i would change congress by making a one issue, one vote and not allowing in different issues to be voted on in one bill and allowing accountability for each bill and each vote. >> hello. i'm calling from clearwater, florida. my name is dennis and what i would propose is that we limit the number of lawyers in both the house and the senate. because if you think about it, what do lawyers do, they simply argue their point and they're adamant about their position with no give. and that's why i think there's a lack of compromise because too many attorneys, too many la

u.s. chamber of commerce. you stated that keystone pipeline is really a symbol for the oil sands and the mst irhas with carbon emissions. you setd the numbers have been misconstrued. you explained that if a barrel of petroleum made from -- in terms 02, you said americans use other oils that add about that same amount of extra kre 2 to the atmosphere. you hope the decision will be reversed by the beginning of 2013 about if not before then. would you elaborate how critical you think the oil sands and the pipeline are to america's energy security. >> i think the united states and canada become much more integrated in terms of energy. canada is a larger source of imports. it happens to be our neighbor. the growth of the oil sands has been really quite going from being a fringe to being something significant. if you look on a well to wheels basis, carbon footprint is 5 to 15% higher. the one to bring down that disparity. what strikes me about the keystone in the discussion is there has been less discussion about the

of all u.s. households own at least one apple product and 61% of homes with kids own an iphone, ipad, ipod or mac. >>> and yesterday on the "uss intrepid," nbc news and the u.s. chamber of commerce hiring our heroes job fair in new york. the unemployment rate for veterans is more than 12%. over 400 such job fairs are scheduled all around the country this year. it's aimed at getting around 500,000 vets or their spouses into the civilian workforce by the end of 2014. a good cause there. >>> love thames the bob cat. the niners nab the giants. and the kings blank the flames. >>> plus, the raptors slam the nuggets, snapping a nine-game losing streak. cannot be contai. [ clang ] the all-new 2013 lexus gs. there's no going back. see your lexus dealer. yeah, but the feeling wasn't always mutual. i should be arrested for crimes against potted plant-kind. we're armed, and inexperienced. people call me an over-waterer. [ female announcer ] with miracle-gro, you don't have to be a great gardener to have a green thumb. every miracle-gro product helps your garden grow bigger, more beautiful flowers and bountiful vegetables. guaranteed. so even if... i have all these tools, and i have no idea

u.s. chamber of commerce yesterday, speaking with them. and one of the things that they praised us for and i think it's a very common sense thing for us to do, we have launched an initiative on streamlining the regulations that we have inherited from other agencies. we didn't write those rules. we're not personally invested in them. they were adopted by different agencies at different times for different purposes. there's often not a lot of careful thought about the aggregate impact of those. so we have had a request for information outstanding, published in the federal register for a couple of months now, asking anyone to bring us their ideas about how we can cut back and streamline regulations and show that we're a different sort of agency. that we're interested in doing this. and in the consumer realm, we think there is room to do this, because there has been such a sort of mania for disclosure over the years that those disclosures piled up, piled up, piled up and became very dense, unreadable, consumers were driving very little value fr

u.s. chamber of commerce and the organization business europe looking at trade priorities this year for the world trade organization. this is about half an hour. >> welcome back, everyone. many of you are still enjoying our lunch up in the foyer, and we've now had a wonderful keyneath note to start us off, and two panels, and we're now on the home stretch, and then we're going to have another luncheon keynote and then two more panels this afternoon. and i have the pleasure of first just telling you one thing by way of an administrative announcement of sorts. we've talked a lot this morning about the website. there's another place that you can go to find a lot of current information in sort of a series or sequential form chronologically and that's the collaboration on government secrecy website, cgs for short, and i could give you the long url for that, but all you have to do is go in google and put in cgs, clan rakes on government secrecy, washington university of law and it will pop up there and if you go to the table of comments section, you'll see the amendment of the foia which was crea

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u.s. chamber of commerce will host a forum for the world trade organization. among the panelists, the c most fromisco, boeing, and microsoft. on c-span3, coverage of an education conference. participants including a arne duncan will talk about ways to increase high-school graduation rates and preparing young people for college and the work force. coverage begins at 8:00 a.m. eastern. >> three days ago, bombs were dropped on a neighboring village. when we got there, we found children filled with shrapnel including a 9-year-old boy who had both of his hands blown off. as we travelled further north, we were greeted by hundreds of villagers with signs. as we met with their leaders, we were also met with 3 300 millimeter rockets fired overhead. people ran into caves for their safety. that happens every day. these are not the cave people of nuba. they live on farms. they have the oldest society in the world and they're forced to hide in caves. >> george clooney is one of many actors that have promoted political change over the years. all archives are searchable on li

u.s. chamber of commerce. why >> why is our policy on the wrong track? there are two main reasons. first, the federal government is unnecessarily adding to the cost of living and the cost of doing business in america. just one example is our cost of energy. the price of gasoline is rising rapidly because we continue to depend on foreign oil. it is now within our reach to become energy independent in north america if we simply develop the resources we already have available in places like the gulf of mexico, nonsensitive public lands across america, and in our friendly bordering countries. the second reason that we are on the wrong track is that the federal government is killing energy development with overly burdensome regulations. the best example of this is the keystone xcel pipeline which the obama administration will not allow to be built. the state of north dakota is currently experiencing an oil boom in its formation. we have doubled our oil production in the last four years and are about to become the second largest oil producing state behind only texas. but we cannot effecti

u.s. chamber of commerce's place to spend over forty million dollars most of it were almost certainly be for ads to destroy progressives and the president and by the way don't expect the corporate media to blow the whistle on this or on the billionaires who are funding the republicans in their primary i didn't hear or see or read about rove attacking me aren't anymore than you don't hear about the corporate here the corporate media referring to gay marriage as show. since man or santorum is foster freezes guy or romney as well saying we're in john polson spam because the corporate media are the ones who end up with all that super pac money via t.v. radio print or even internet advertising it all goes to the media and we're talking big bucks here as election cycle can well see over two billion dollars almost all of it through the media which seems so reluctant to report on are that super pac money heading their way as americans concerned about the integrity of our electoral process we all need to be paying close attention to what's going on in massachusetts and we need to be talking about the

u.s. chamber of commerce. is year job fair's will spread to 400 cities and towns to help an estimated 1 million veterans looking for work. >> i am trainable. i can adapt and overcome. it is kind of cliche in the military but it is would bring to the table. >> it means deviating from the standard military mindset. facing that challenge is just the start for veterans trying to transition to the private sector. >> it breaks up into logistics and sources. >> it is daunting to try to explain the skills you learned in the military and how they translate to the workplace. >> eventually on their peril is what hiring our heroes is all about. the placed a 500 veterans in that new jobs last year. another 1 million veterans are expected to be released from active duty during the civilian ranks. mark carter, wbal-tv 11 news. >> that is a good deal. >> 5:27. >> coming up next half-hour -- >> baltimore county police say they need your help in finding a burglar who is breaking into houses while people are sleeping. >> the fina

u.s. chamber of commerce shows the policies all above energy policy is really some of the above.pa says it's timely and clean gas is abundant and cheap. they will be regulating that too to target fracking. one study finds those regulations may reduce natural gas drilling by half. >> ultimate objective rule is limit climate change but it doesn't do anything to curb greenhouse gases outside the u.s. and coal will be not regulated in the developing world. >> it looks like the keystone pipeline has competition. two energy companies are planning expansion promising on pumping 850,000 gallons a day by 2014. the project promised by two companies will compete with the proposed keystone pipeline which was delayed after pressure very environmental groups. president obama's delay has contributed to rising gas prices >>> dinosaur birthday or other things made your created cry? >> and hanoi jane that is make a roar on the right. for arthriti, think again. and take aleve. it's the one doctors recommend most for arthritis pain. two pills can last all day. ♪ [ cellphone rings ] tuscaloosa? schen

u.s. chamber of commerce. and in that coalition we have more than 700 trade associations and companies, representing roughly 24 of the highest growth sectors of the u.s. economy. i would like to put in context the discussion we're having about the universe and the role of universities in addressing what i think of as the rule of law on the internet. what i can report to you is that every single sector of the 24 so sectors represented in the coalition has indicated that the problem, stolen digital content and the distribution of counterfeit goods on the internet is getting worse, not better. every single sector. and so the framework here, i think in fairness of terms of what we're discussing, is to the question of how does a rule of law come to the broadband internet. everyone is familiar with the fact that in every aspect of modern 21st century's society, the internet is visualized as a key pillar. whether that is information, commerce, and on and on. and in the framework, i think everyone around this table wou

u.s. chamber of commerce where they are hosting a form looking a business priorities for the world trade organizationat 8:20, former senior white house adviser dennis ross and stephen hadley reveals some of the internal deliberations within each administration over middle east policy and on c-span 3 and under one hour, live coverage of an education conference hosted by america's promise alliance including remarks by education secretary arne duncan. our guest on "road to the white house" --

u.s. chamber of commerce to kick off a divisionwide series aimed at getting our veterans back into the workforceover the next five years as forces leave iraq and afghanistan. they've acquired skills while overkansas ciseas overseas, but that doesn't necessarily transform into a job once they return home. here's rahehema ellis. >> dawn smith is used to action. >> hello, baby. >> reporter: the 35-year-old working mom spent eight years in the air force, handling logistics in iraq and afghanistan. with her military experience and two masters degrees in accounting, she was surprised to discover finding a job wasn't easy. >> even for people that have degrees and have the skills, it's a difficult economy and society that we live in right now. >> reporter: she found a job as a secretary for the irs, making just over $30,000 a year. her sister told her not to settle and kept her motivated. then, last summer, she passed away suddenly. >> she was the one that told me, dawn, you can continue to do things, keep doing, something will come about. >> reporter: that's when dawn discovered the business and profes

u.s. chamber of commerce giving $66.4 million just in 2011. general electric with $26 million. al association of realtors, $22 million. american medical association $21.5 million. blue cross blue shield $21 million, and is it any surprise that those same corporations get tax break after tax break, loosened regulations and keeping the private healthcare system exactly how it is, why? look at all the money they're giving to the politicians. that's why. cbs news did a great undercover report on a getaway that some of these tea partyers had. they went down to the florida keys with lobbyists to party. >> we secretly sent our cameras along for an inside look where super interest got the kind of access that ordinary americans can only dream of. on the golf course. at a bar. at a private beach lagoon. book your key largo getaway now reads the invitation. here's congress canseco and gardener to host happy hour. donors had to pay $10,000. during his campaign, gardner promised average voters would inspire his actions. >> i'll always put colorado families before the washington special inter