u.s. department of agriculture. forget fruit and get ready for a beefsplosion. ing caprisun beef. eight ounces of cow with a pouch. >> it tastes like a thousand hamburgers. >> that's the taste of america. >> can i have 20? >> sure. there's no limit to the amount of beef the u.s. government will let you consume. make your cafeteria a beefateria today. may cause child onset obesity. [ applause ] >> jimmy: everyone loves the story at christmas, the manger, the star, the wise men. i was wondering how well kids know it when they're still kids? by the time you're a parent, you've heard the story a thousand times. today we thought it would be fun to go to hollywood boulevard and ask little kids to tell us the story. here it is now. the story of christmas, as told by kids. >> the story of christmas was about baby jesus being born. >> god didn't like the way we were being down on earth, so says i'm going to send my son to go take care of that. bam. angel comes. hey. god's son is coming down. he's going to be born unto you. >> i think it happened like in the 1950s. >> they

u.s. department of agriculture forty one percent of food stamp recipients live in households where someone does earn a paycheck the so-called working poor and the very sad part about the recent data we got from the u.s.d.a. is that while we've been somewhat excited or seen an excited reaction to some of the recent non-farm payroll numbers that have come out from the b.l.s. which show you know some decent job creation that. pales in comparison to the number of people that have been added to the food stamp rolls that are scarce so it's very alarming because it really gives this completely dismaying picture that is totally at odds with any optimism about one hundred thousand jobs created when you're adding six hundred thousand people to food stamps and at the same period of time i agree and i think we're at a time when i want to participate in code on this one ok well and then we'll leave it there because that is all we have time for thank you so much for watching be sure to come back tomorrow and the meantime you know you can follow me on twitter at lauren lyster you can like our facebook pa

u.s. department of agriculture which administers the program said quote the increase in precipitation duringod economic decline which included the recent recession was consistent with the increase during previous periods of economic decline. as the unemployment rate slowly drops the number of those participating in snap continues to rise. skeptics go to one key factor. >> a lot of people don't realize one of the provisions in the 2009 economic stimulus bill was to essentially ee sris rate all of the requirements for food stamps. today in most states there's no requirement in exchange for the work benefits. >> it has a work requirement. forable bodied results who don't have dependents. heather and heather back to you. >> thank you very much, shannon. the time is 6 minutes to the top of the hour. still ahead, if you think that you live in a clean city you may want oh lito lustisten up. we have a list of the dirtiest cities in the nation. >> what holiday shopping do you leave until the last minute? we will read your tweets coming up next. ♪ >> three minutes until the top of the hour. time to lo

u.s. department of agriculture. he has a holiday message to share with you as well. >> speaker boehner, senators udall and bennett, congressman tipton and distinguished guests, on behalf of the secretary, tom vilsack and our chief of the forest service, i would like to say a few words if i can. each year, the capitol christmas tree comes from the u.s. forest service, which is an agency within usda and eachier we -- each year we select that tree from a different forest. this tree is from a small town called meeker, colorado in the white river national forest in the high mountain areas of colorado. and it's a spruce tree and 73 feet tall and happens to be 74 years old. it's only the third time in colorado's history that colorado has provided the capitol christmas tree and i'm particularly proud of that since i'm a colorado resident. yay, colorado! [cheers and applause] >> we call this the people's tree for good reason and that's because it comes from our public lands, which are owned by all the people of the united states. and these are lands that provide recreation, w

u.s. department of agriculture that administers the program says the increase in snap participation in thed of economic decline including the recent recession was consistent with the increase in the previous period of economic decline. but as the unemployment rate dropped the number of those participating in snap continues to rise. skeptics point to one key factor. >> a lot of people don't realize one of the provisions in the 2009 economic stimulus bill was to essentially evas rate the work requirement -- eviscerate the work requirements for food stamp. today in most state there is to requirement whatsoever to work in exchange for benefits. >> the usda maintains that the snap program has a workbe requirement for able-body adults who don't have dependents and it's up to the state to enforce specific guidelines. chris? >> chris: thank you. things were calmer today in the nation's newest right to work state. in detroit, michigan, a few dozen protesters entered a state office buildings. demonstrators in lansing and other cities covered mouth with tape in a silent protest. they signed the bill

u.s. department of agriculture decision to cut the greens demand forecast. fact activity in new york state declining for the fifth month in a row in december as new orders dropped in the labor market remains weak. the new york fed empire state index falling into negative 8.1 from negative 5.2 in november. liz: we have larry in the pits of the chicago mercantile exchange. he will let us know about the clothes. the fiscal deal is coming. they will find out in a second, and says the market is heavily discounted and at historic levels. should you jump in? a 100-point gain on the dow jones industrial a full percentage point for the russell and the s&p and the nasdaq rather. this is a great day, isn't it? >> a good day, that is for sure. kind of took an informal poll on the floor ask a few traders are we going to reach the fiscal cliff, are we going over it? certainly most traders were not in agreement. everyone is in agreement we're not going to go over the fiscal cliff. liz: the highest of the session of the last hours of trading, what does that tell us about th

u.s. department of agriculture encouraging seniors to get on food stamps because they will make you look better. we have more news on the food stamp front that will make you angry and that's later in the show. with the tax and fiscal cliff looming 21 days from now, is there a reason for even some slight optimism this evening? joining us now in studio, we welcome distinguished house members carolina maloney of new york and larry kudlow's house member in manhattan. and the republican from arizona. as always, welcome to both of you. dave, let me ask you this. i'm hearing a lot of this that there is a strategic retreat by the republican party. 57b and that they are not either in the house or senate going to block the middle class stax tax cuts which proliferate in terms of the bill. is that true, sir? >> i haven't been invited into the strategic retreat caucus. look. i hear more on the news than i ever actually come across in reality in d.c. so far, i do not see a willingness, particularly on the conservative side of the caucus, to give away our principles. >> i heard rand paul thursday night on th

u.s. department of agriculture and oversees this program and other similar programs. here is what they told us. the increase in snap participation during the 2008 and 2010 pared of economic decline which include the recent recession was consistent during increase in previous periods of economic decline. senator sessions and others make a point. the math doesn't add up. as we're seeing unemployment rate tick down very slowly small increements at a time explosion of people who are dependent on food stamps continue to rise. 600,000 new people in september was added to program. the math doesn't add up. if the economy is doing better why do we have a explosion? jenna: lower unemployment is not a way to lower food stamp problem. >> the costs keep rising. jenna: the economy is way it is. we'll talk about the economy. shannon, great to see face-to-face as always. jon. jon: the fiscal cliff talk is ticking less than three week to go to hammer out a deal before automatic spending cuts and kick in. house speaker boehner has made it clear republicans are staying in washington befo

u.s. department of agriculture. he has a holiday message to share with you as well. >> speaker boehner, senators udall and bennett, congressman tipton and distinguished guests, on behalf of the secretary, tom vilsack and our chief of the forest service, i would like to say a few words if i can. each year, the capitol christmas tree comes from the u.s. forest service, which is an agency within usda and eachier we -- each year we select that tree from a different forest. this tree is from a small town called meeker, colorado in the white river national forest in the high mountain areas of colorado. 73 it's a spruce tree and feet tall and happens to be 74 years old. it's only the third time in colorado's history that colorado has provided the capitol christmas tree and i'm particularly proud of that since i'm a colorado resident. yay, colorado! [cheers and applause] >> we call this the people's tree for good reason and that's because it comes from our public lands, which are owned by all the people of the united states. and these are lands that provide recreation, wildl

u.s. department of agriculture when it comes to these animals being used as extras in films. these animals should not be captured under the animal welfare act regulations. the usda as we know is spread it is using scarce resources to regulate personal pets that now isequired under this law -- der the curnt lawhathis legislation will relievthat buen from. we think that the usda should focus its resources on more cost-effective measures rather than regulating individual personal pets that are used in these movies or television shows as the term of art is, animal actors, or animals that play a key movie or television role will not be affected by this legislation. they will continue to be regulated by the animal welfare act. so this does, as i said on the outset, is a common sense regulatory relief of burdensome paperwork. i would ask my colleagues to support this measure. s. 3666p is a, i think, a well thought out measure. with that, madam speaker, i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from arkans

u.s. department of agriculture records that the majority of funding has been used in past years for wind damaged trees in mississippi, georgia, and tennessee. there remains an unobligated $15 million in the program's account. now, i just -- i just say to my colleagues, this is $58 million here, $58million there. sooner or later, it runs into real money. in fact, it runs into a $16 trillion debt. so can't we at least -- and by the way, i come from a state, i say, mr. president, we love trees. we have not enough of them. some parts of our state we have a lot of them. some part of yo of our state its kind of bleak, but beautiful. but i'm not asking for any money for private owners in my state to plant trees. i think they can do that themselves. so, again, it's only $58 million. maybe i'm take up the time of the senate to talk about $60 billion, but it is an example -- it is an example -- it is on outstanding example of the kind of excess that has not -- that does not have the priority to spend another $58 million of the taxpayers' money. so, mr. president, i yield the floor. ms. mikulski: snrch. th

u.s. department of agriculture, social science analyst. thank you for being with us. withwe have coverage on a websie about the fiscal cliff. we will learn later today as the principles gather at the white house for a meeting that will get underway at 3:00 p.m.. the president, vice president, john boehner, nancy pelosi, and harry reid and mitch mcconnell and if there are any statements after that meeting, and if the president has anything to say, we will have coverage of that on c-span and on c-span radio and always on c-span.org. thank you for joining us and enjoy the rest of your weekend. we'll be back tomorrow at 7:00 a.m. eastern time. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> in live look at the executive mansion where negotiations on the looming fiscal cliff move down pennsylvania avenue to the white house today. house and senate leaders meeting with the president to continue work. the meeting is set for 3:00 p.m. and we will monitor any news that comes from that. c-span cameras standing b

u.s. department of agriculture, social science analyst. thank you for being with us. >> thank you for having us. >> tomorrow, we will continue looking at fiscal cliff negotiations and how americans will be affected if the deadline passes. our guest will be joseph rosenberg, followed by a look by presidential campaigning and the influence of the electoral college. then a discussion on hurricane sandy relief funding. we will be joined by dan freed iedman. all that beginning at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. ♪ >> if we turn away from the needs of others, we align ourselves with those forces which are bringing about this suffering. >> the white house is a bully pulpit and you ought to take advantage of it. >> obesity is nothing short of a public health conference. >> i think i had little antennas go up that told me when somebody had there an agenda. >> it would be a shame to waste it. >> i think they serve as a window on the past to what was going on with american women. >> she becomes the chief confidante, really any way the only one in th

u.s. department of agriculture says there are thousands of community farms and gardens throughout the country. >> being a small little market garden, it's not as if we're growing a ton of food. but we are showing people in urban places like san francisco how they can be their own food producers. >> this was just like perbect for me. so, it was just a garden. we can grow it ourselves. and we can eat it. and it's fresh. it's organic. so, absolutely, this really has been, you know, it's been wonderful. >> in san francisco, charlotte fadipe for "california country tv." >> this segment is brought to you by the california farm bureau federation. >> literally farm to table. literally it's like from the garden. it's from the dirt. i mean, they come straight from that place. the connection, when you make that connection with the farmer, with the growers, it makes for a different feeling when you're cooking. for me now, things taste different. >> welcome back to "california country." the show that takes you on an all-expense paid trip to experience the best kept secrets of the golden state. >> sacramen