u.s. congressional candidate dan o'connor about the growing disparity and poverty and what it means for the state of the u.s. today. because a really important topic here in the u.s. i think everyone is quite aware of it and i think that it's something that is becoming more and more obvious and it's becoming. increasingly worse and i think it tells us that the direction that we've been going in for a long time is a complete failure the us federal government really actively became involved in the redistribution of wealth process about one hundred years ago and throughout that process we've seen the poverty level get greater the more and more people poverty stricken become greater and the concentration of wealth in this country continues to go into the hands of the few. and the bronchus as on the software part of their forty nine percent of children live below the poverty line in the nation it's one in five i mean why don't we hear much discussion about this from our g.o.p. presidential candidate especially today in the primaries are underway why are we hearing more about this from the. that'

u.s. congressional budget office where he was the lead analyst on studies of the natural gas market deregulation from 1981 to 1983. so with no further adieu, i will turn this over to tim. tim, you have 15, 20 minutes, please, have at it. >> good afternoon, everyone. good afternoon, everyone. as you can see on the slide, i'm going to ask several key questions. we address these in a study. first i want to give you an overview of california's energy position. and then we developed some reasonable scenarios for future energy use, conservation and supply in california. and we look at a baseline scenario and three alternatives to that scenario. and point out the economic and environmental pros and cons of these alternatives. and then reach some quick conclusions. okay. california's energy supply. california historically has been a fairly major producer of energy, primarily oil and gas. back in 1970, it produced about 62% of its total energy requirements. in 2009, california imported 67% of its energy needs. even today, california remains a very significant oil and gas producer and as we point out in t

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u.s. congressional seat all the while, however, he has stepped down from the romney campaign.why does he feel he's in a position to continue running for office, yet he's now stepping away from working on someone else's campaign? >> i think what he's trying to do is just change the game here, make it about him being gay and it's okay for him to be gay. i think he's hoping he'll get some support just out of his, you know, what he calls his honesty now. he has. refuted any of ichlt it's going to be challenge for him because his opponents are now raising questions about his judgment just in the photographs to somebody, an anonymous individual, some exclusive photos. but, you know, he is denying the allegations. what's important is the allegations, what the next chapter of the story has to be, who's going to look into that. they investigate the nature of what happened. >> monica, alonzo with the phoenix news times, thanks for that reporting. >>> controversy has found jeremy lin. his fans react to a racial slur used by espn. all this in-on-day when he had to suit up and play. >>> al

u.s. congressional primaries this year. today the commonwealth's house elections committee voted to push the primaries back from june to august. it's to give the general assembly more time to straighten out new voting district boundaries. a newly redrawn district map is being challenged in court. last year redistricting also delayed virginia state legislature primaries until august. >>> a transgender woman murdered at a bus stop in northeast d.c. the victim stabbed in the head last night on east capital street near sycamore. tonight the killer is on the loose and pat collins has more on how this unfolded. >> reporter: police have identified the victim as japarker jones who also goes by the name of dione or logan. a 23-year-old transgender woman murdered last night at a bus stop at 49th and east capital streets northeast. today we talked to the victim's mother. >> reporter: you accepted his decisions? >> yes, i supported them. >> regarding his sexuality? >> i'm his mother. >> reporter: you love your child. >> i love my son t

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u.s. congressional leaders today.town he visited decades ago when he was just a provincial official. here is cnn's ted rowlands. >> reporter: frederica, people here in iowa are absolutely thrilled that the next leader of iowa is coming to visit, especially the folks living in the very small town of muscatine. >> you look at the logistics and the cost of him putting in and coming to this little town that's 35 miles removed from an airplane that will accommodate him and his entourage, there's some motivation, just for a little time, spend an hour, hour and a half in a room with, as he says, his old friends. that's significant. >> reporter: musscality teen will be the first stop for vice president xi, he will spend about an hour and a half in one of the homes that he had dinner in back in 1985. 17 of the people that he met 26 years ago will be there to meet with the expected new leader of china. fred? >>> political buzz, your rapid-fire look at the best political topics of the day. three questions, 30 seconds on the cloc

u.s. air force now running to fill gabrielle giffords' vacated congressional seat and the colonel joins us from tucson. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> steve: it's an honor to have the first american woman to fly in combat. congratulations and thank you. >> thank you, sir. >> steve: why do you want -- you've had such a great career. why do you want to go to congress? >> well, i'm a public servant at heart, steve. when i see things that are messed up, i fix them. right now i have been overseas teaching senior government officials from all over the world, helping them transition to democracy and seeing what their economic problems are and realizing that we got messed up things going on at home. feel very convicted to come home and help our own government and lead them and represent the people of this district in a very critical time. >> steve: what's your number one

u.s. deficit. so far, congressional republicans are not buying it.nottingham has a look at what is shaping up to be an election year spending showdown. >> president obama rolled out his 2013 budget monday and launched an election year battle over the deficit. he is pitching a $3.8 trillion plan that includes $350 billion to stimulate job growth. the president told a crowd of supporters at a northern virginia community college that $8 billion would be dedicated to help schools train workers. >> at a time when our economy is growing and creating jobs at a faster clip, we have to do everything in our power to keep

senior defense officials told a congressional hearing that the u.s. should continue to provide military support to its ally, the philippines, which is in a territorial dispute with china. assistant secretary of state kurt campbell testified at a house foreign affairs committee hearing on u.s.-philippine relations. campbell implied concern over chinese activity in the region where china and the philippines both claim sovereignty of disputed islands. >> we support a collaborative diplomatic process by all claimants for resolving the various disputes without coercion. >> meanwhile, the committee heard that a u.s. cutter sold to the philippines last year had completed its first patrol. a senior defense official stressed the need to further support the philippines with sales of military hardware to secure freedom of navigation in the south china sea. the u.s. is reportedly planning to base more ships in the philippines to increase its influence over the asia-pacific region and keep china in check. >>> pakistan's president has told iran that his country is

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u.s. senate. senior congressional correspondent dana bash is here to take us through these numbers.ntorum's done pretty well for himself since leaving congress, eh? >> reporter: how would you like to qaudruple your salary in one year? that's what he did after he was defretted from the senate in 2006. in the private sector nearly $670,000. by 2009 he earned $1.1 million. his effective tax rate i should tell you was between 25 and 28%. that's relevant because you remember now famously mitt romney paid about 14.5% effective tax rate because that was just on investments. >> but dana, he may be surging in the polls but he still trails his opponents when you want to talk about net income, right? >> reporter: he made a lot but not as much as his opponents. mitt romney's income for 2010 was 21.7 million. newt gingrich 3.1 million. rick santorum $930,000. another interesting thing, kate, charitable giving. santorum if you look at all four years of the release come bind he gave a little more than $81,000 of his $3.6 million. that's about 2%. that's far less than what mitt romney gave percenta

u.s. sees in the world. >>> congressional budget offer director douglas elmendorf testifying yesterday on the outlook. you can see the remainder of his remarks in the c-span video library. this morning he's testifying before the house budget committee on the same topic and is predicting that the budget will run about $1.1 trillion and it will slow with the unemployment rate staying at about 8%. the chairman of the house budget committee, congressman paul ryan. >>> the committee will come to order. welcome, all, to this very important hearing on the difficult fiscal challenges and economic challenges ahead of us. i want to welcome cbo director back with us again and with his beautiful daughters. it i'd good to have you here again, doug. wish we had better news. i want to thank doug, first of all, dr. elmendorf and your entire cbo staff for your hard work on the release of the annual budget and economic outlook. we have a compressed timeline this year, given the tardiness of the president's budget, given our easter coming earlier, so we know that cbo is going to be pushed extra hard this ye

sources say that market players are waiting to go hear fed chairman ben bernanke's congressional testimony about the u.s. economy on wednesday. >>> a look at the latest long-term interest rates. this is the yield on the benchmark ten-year japanese government bond. and let's also take a look at some other asian market figures. >>> that's the latest in business. back to kathryn. >>> thank very much. gunmen in northern pakistan have attacked a full bus of passengers. they killed 18 people. the bus was traveling from a suburb of the capital islamabad to the northern city of gilgit. eight gunmen stopped the bus. they checked people's names, then shot the male passengers. police say all casualties were shia muslims, a minority sect. police in the area are on high alert for sectarian violence. tensions have been rising since last month when month when sun muslim was killed. >>> mayan mar -- is receiving aid from japan. >> building infrastructure is essential to accentuate mayan mar's democratic reform. resuming yen loans will help the move. >> japanese foreign minister said that adjustments are being made to r

u.s. army 100th infantry -- were given the congressional gold medal.t's the highest civilian award you can receive. the ceremony was held to pay tribute to those who can't attend the event in washington last november. >>> soldiers and their families are not the only japanese americans being honored this week. one san jose man gets an award tomorrow that only a handful of people in the world are getting to share. >> jimmy has attained one name status in san jose's japanese american community. you say jimmy, everyone knows who you're talk iing about. there is not a cause or civic undertaking that jimmy has not been a part of or probably led over the years. the -- is coming to san jose to award him the order of the rising sun for his contribution to japanese americans in northern california. only ten people got the award this year in the world. he's earned it. as you see tonight. jimmy is by trade a carpenter. for close to 70 years, jimmy has been doing what carpenters do. taking something in rough shape and transforming it into something useful. somethin

congressional leaders. >>> some background for the next story from u.s. today reporting that defensive i can't and samir sharma had just ordered appetizers on the costa concordia when the cruise ship lurched, the lights went out. after emergency lights came on the massachusetts couple celebrating their fifth wedding anniversary climbed six flights of stairs to their room despite a lack of emergency training since they boarded the ship earlier in the day near rome. they knew life jackets were in the closet because she placed her husband's jacket in the closet but said crew mates would not say why the ship was listing badly to port just off the italian coast. the problem was expanded when the electrical malfunction took place. the couple would later learn the ship struck rocks that gashed a hole on the side of the ship. 25 people killed, seven others remain missing. today on capitol hill a congressional hearing focusing on what happened and less sons for the u.s. cruise line industry. >> at about 9:15 we were at our dinner table on deck three in the process

u.s. policy experts and the relevant congressional offices were not brought into the fold with advanced briefings as is typical can with a policy announ announcement. what does that tell you? >> well, from housing and business groups, and reals or the and mortgage bankers and that there has not been a stronger focus on the housing administration, and as well as the advocacy community, and you have heard different bills and hold the hearings and come up with proposals to try to address some of the things such as broad refinancing, and it has been frustrating that they haven't seen more from the administration, and we are in an election year, and i think that the white house, you know, wants to try to term what has been kind of a weakness as a strength by showing that the president is out there talking about these issues and putting forth a plan. i will say though that a lot of the folks who typically get invited to these things that are really on the inside loop as far as what the details are and as far as how this is going the work and the advanced copies of the legislative language were not a pa

u.s. workforce, that according to the congressional budget office. the government spent an estimated $200 billion to compensate federal civilian employees. the proposal being put forth by congressman sean duffy would extend to nonmilitary federal employees a pay freeze into the third year saving an estimated $26.2 billion. he is supporting the measure, representative chris van hol len is opposing the measure, we want to know what you think about this idea. 202-626-7962. your thoughts about freezing federal pay salary for the next year, would also impact members of congress as a way to offset the budget deficit. 202-626-7962. this is "washington today." more from the director of the congressional budget office, doug elmendorf, who announced yesterday the government bull run a $1.1 trillion deficit in the next fiscal year. a slight dip but high by any measure. the budget office reporting annual deficits will remain at the $1 trillion range the next several years if the bush era tax cuts are also extended. doug ellen dorff testifying yesterday and back

u.s. postal service that do such an extraordinary job delivering our mail. thanks so much all of you for being here and our congressional delegation for helping to organize this forum tonight. i feel blessed as your governor to serve in the state with the best congressional delegation in america. [ cheers and applause ] they don't get any better than senator leahy. they're hometown boys so thank you very much. and before i say a few words about the idiocy of shutting down the white river processing facility -- [ cheers and applause ] i want to thank our congressional delegation for the announcement that just came through from washington where they with their extraordinary power can convince the congress who does almost negative to send hundreds of millions of dollars back to the state of vermont to help us rebuild from the worst flood in our history. thank you, bernie. thank you, patrick. thank you, peter. we're proud of you. couple of quick words. i was born and raised here. we understand what flows in the white river junction processing facility would mean to vermont. we're a rural state. we require mail to get to us.

u.s. economic cooperation. i thank you. [applause] >> the congressional u.s.-china commission had a hearing. they talked about imprisoned human rights activist in this meeting that is a little over an hour and half. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> the commission will come to order, and i want to welcome our distinguished panelists. as president obama welcomes the chinese vice president, our commission will hear testimony from two wives appealing for the immediate release of their jailed husband, a great human rights leaders in china. we will also appear from experts who will give great insights into this issue before us. i hope president obama does not put human rights last on the agenda as he did when hu jintao visited on january 19, 2011. one of the wives said, only the united states can make this case to china, the case of her husband and the disappeared and incarcerated human-rights leaders. please, president obama, listen to these women and act decisively. the china commission hopes to issue of human rig

u.s. postal service. we will show you a congressional hearing on the plans. the post master general will outline the hearing. we begin with the capitol hill reporter's conversation. >> rachel covers postal service issues for the post master. the post office could run out of money by next fall. why is the post office in such serious financial shape? >> the 200-year-old postal service is going bankrupt because of the internet age in part. it has too many mail men and not enough mail to carry. the most obvious thing is the internet. people are paying their bills online. because of this, the volume of first class mail has dropped 20% in the past five years. with that drop comes a drop in postal service revenues. last year, the postal service lost $5 billion. it would have lost $10 billion if congress did not extend the deadline for bills it owed the u.s. treasury. that comes on the losses from 2010 as well. $8.5 billion. donohue said it will increase. >> senator susan collins has called the usps financial situation "dire." what legislative solution is that commit

u.s. marine. >> back in 1987 i was awarded the congressional medal of honor. i got wounded many times by the same guy. >> reporter: but he never served a single day in uniform. in colorado a man who launched a veterans group claimed he was honored for galantry in iraq. his claim was a total fabrication. both were charged under the stolen valor act, a law that makes lying about receiving military honors a federal crime. >> stolen valor is impersonation. it's stealing the identity of a war hero or a wounded warrior. >> reporter: but defense lawyers say the claims did not hurt anyone and are protected free speech under past rulings by the supreme court. >> it's never upheld a law like we have here which are bare falsities that actually harms nobody. >> reporter: some justices wondered how far congress could go to ban false statements. justice ginsberg, what about lying about serving in the military, not about medals? chief justice roberts, where do you stop? lying about having a high school diploma? the first amendment protects even offensive speech. but several

u.s. could stop them militarily. a congressional hearing will be held today on accountability at arlington national cemetery. if officials are expected to testify. a year-and-a-half ago, numerous problems were found including misplaced remains. a hearing to look into whether recent management changes are adequate. >> a major breast cancer charity is facing a backlash over its decision to stop giving grants to planned parenthood or press screenings. officials at susan g. komen denied the cutoff was driven by pressure from anti-abortion groups. planned parenthood has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations since the cut off was announced including a pledge from michael bloomberg, a mayor of new york. >> the avirginia general assembly is making a step towards loosening the gun laws. >> a la put in place in 1993 limited personal handgun ownership. more than 40 gun-related bills are before the general assembly this session. virginia students one step closer to starting the school year even earlier. the house of delegates p

u.s. attorney general eric holder will testify before the congressional committee about the failure to stop the gun smuggling, called fast and furious. it comes day after the department reject add question by the chairman of the committee to release key documents. the chairman, dan issa, has threatened holder if the documents are not released, claiming it would be evidence that the justice department is engaged a cover-up. >>> the u.s. could end its combat in afghanistan by the end of next year. defense secretary leon panetta hopes to shift training. he also said u.s. and nato forces begin to plan a final phase of afghan security control by mid next year. at the same time, reports out of london say the taliban backed by pakistan plan to retake control of afghanistan after nato forces leave. >>> well, this morning d.c. police are looking for a man who walked into an elementary school and inappropriately touched a student. the incident happened at ketchum elementary school in southeast. the victim immediately told the teacher. the teacher and officials swept the building but did not find the

invite you and any of your cnn viewers that want to come down to texas and look at the u.s. 287 in my congressionalistrict. i think you will see that it's a straight-up project. in my homes that you referred to are in residential parts of ennis, texas. i own no commercial property nor do i have options on any commercial property anywhere, not just in ennis, texas, but anywhere along the len of that highway. >> one of the complaints about the earmarks is they're not transparent. do you push for them to be more transpare transparent? >> of course, we're not doing earmarks in the house of representatives right now. but when we did do them, we had to sign a sheet, and i posted it on my website, and we also sent copies down to the local press. so we've been transparent for, i think, for almost the entire time that i've been in congress when we were doing them. >> let's turn around talk about politics in terms of the caucuses that are today. newt gingrich surrogate is what your role is on that front. how do you think it's going to go? you know, some people are backing away from predict that mitt romney i

u.s. congressman mike honda will accept the congressional gold medal on behalf of his father. the elder honda was part of the military intelligence service in world war ii, while he served his wife and children were imprisoned at the internment camp. the award after the 70th anniversary of the order to send more than 100,000 japanese and japanese-americans to internment camps. >> members of the japanese community gathered all over the bay area to remember that dark day in history at the cinema in san francisco honorees attendees honored gordon who defied the order. community members say yesterday's event was to make sure americans do not forget what happened to japanese americans during world war ii. >> i think the financial world would like to be in a position to react to the situation but the markets are closed for washington's birthday. note i didn't say presidents day. on wall street they don't recognize presidents day. they recognize washington's birthday, they are traditionali traditionalists. the state of virginia calls it george washington day. the markets will open to

congressional testimony. that willing on tuesday. >>> the unemployment rate in the u.s.ling to 8.3% is also likely to be good news for asia, pushing deman higher for consumer goods. there is a deadline today for state officials to sign on to a landmark multibillion dollar settlement on foreclosure abuses that would significantly expand its effects. the department of homeland security might get the power to regulate the cybersecurity of companies in critical industries like electricity and water. >>> boeing is inspecting its newest plane, a 787 dreamliner for any possible repairs to the carbon fiber composite structure of the plane. >>> china has banned its airlines from paying charges on carbon emission imposed by the european union. that took effect last month. airfrance says it expects to maintain more than 80% of its flights as pilots and cabin crews start a four-day walkout to protest a government reform. >>> suspended crisis talks in greece on a debt deal on sunday. negotiations will be resumed today. >>> and maybe this is good news. wall street may be happy with th

u.s. representative from california congressional district serving since 1998. she is the first woman to represent the district. a former chair of the congressional black caucus and a former co-chair of the congressional caucus. an interesting fact began her political career as an intern in the office of her predecessor. eventually she became his chief of staff. reforming elected to congress to serve the california state assembly and in this state senate. >> thank you very much, and good morning. let me first thank the house historian's office for his presentation today. also, a drina and of course to what congresswoman frederica wilson for your vision and for your tenacity and for organizing this very important form and for bringing my former boss to capitol hill for all of you, if you don't know him, to meet an agreed, but to listen and learn about. this man and, yes, i served as an intern when i was in college, watergate summer of 1973. you can imagine what an amazing summer that was for me. i came back in 75 and continue to work for ron until 1986. and i tel

u.s. economy. but the director of the congressional budget office warned this week that despite all this optimism,merica is many years away from an economy that's hitting on all cylinders. >> we expect economic activity to quicken after 2013, but will gdp to remain below the economy's potential through 2017. >> will, first of all, we don't usually have emen dorve on elmendorf on our show. >> he's a good guy and makes an important point. >> as excited as we are, it's legitimate to be excited about some of these numbers, bottom line is we are still well away from a real recovery and most thinking economists have told us that. >> that's right. >> there are unthinking economists? i hope i don't resemble that comment. >> they will tell you that it doesn't really have all that much to do with who wins in november. >> but it can have an effect. the historical averages on a credit bubble recession, when you've built up large amounts of debt, it's like seven years. in that process, if that's true, we're following that model, we're three to four years into a seven-year process. meaning expect three more yea

u.s. congressman mike honda will accept the congressional gold medal on behalf of his father buy ron hondaer honda was part of a military intelligence service in world war ii. while he served his wife and children were imprisoned in the internment camp. the award a day after the 70th anniversary of the order to send more than 100,000 japanese and japanese americans into internment camps. members of the japanese community gathered to remember that dark period in history. at the sun dance cinema attendees honored gordon who defied the order and was a life long advocate for civil rights. community members say yesterday's event was to make sure that americans do not forget what happened to japanese americans during world war ii. >> it is 6:58. let's check back in with meteorologist christina loren to find out about your presidents day forecast. >> we've got good news if you are getting ready to walk out the front door. the golden gate bridge shot, for instance, shows you that we are drying out very nicely. we had a lot of moisture on the shot earlier. and that is the trend over the greater bay

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