unless the upton back in under the supreme court of effectively overturned, other duties, particularly those related to an forceable obligations will be transferred to the successor entity which, in this case is the city and county of san francisco. overseeing some of those duties will be something called the oversight board that has been created. the oversight board will consist of seven members, four of which are appointed by the mayor of san francisco and confirmed by the board of supervisors. the other three will be appointed, one by the superintendent, one by the chancellor of the california community college system, and one by the largest special taxing entity which is part. -- barty. . the members have a fiduciary duty to the particular interests, this includes holders of bonds and also parties to a contract with the redevelopment agency. the second interest artie entities themselves. the most critical of which i believe are the approval of the recognized obligation payment schedule which is the list of contracts and obligations that the agency is required to continue forward wi

many years ago, upton sinclair wrote a classical study of journalism. he said that the advertising model does not work. clearly, it does work, but the main thing that is missing from what everyone has been talking about so far is the consumer. when i read long form of journalism, which i write, i print it out. when i mounted an investigation of the region's last year of california, i collected about $7,000 from individuals and parlayed it into six print journeys, seven weeklies. got a lot of national coverage. it made some difference in people's lives, but i did not take a dime from any corporation. ok? so let's talk about how we go back to the model where people who need investigation, news -- because my duty is not to reflect corporations. let us not be proud that we are moving forward because we do not have journalist unions anymore. that's going back to selling the news that people need, and get rid of the middle man, which is turning out to be a lot of publishers. >> first, thank you for bringing that up. a great question. it gives me the opportuni

two of the people on the conference committee that will talk about this legislation are walden and upton, and they're the chairmen of the house energy and commerce committee and the communications subcommittee. so they're expected to push the spectrum revisions. >> host: juliana gruenwald, do you see action on spectrum happening this year? >> guest: i do. there's a big push on all sides to see this go through. the question is, what does the legislation look like. and congressman walden has actually thrown out the idea of possibly dropping the public safety provisions if they can't settle some of the issues on that. but, you know, that's a big priority for senator rockefeller in the senate, and i would be surprised if he allowed that to happen. he says public safety provisions are his most -- his top priority as far as spectrum goes. >> guest: yes, i think juliana's right. it would be surprising to see public safety left behind on this issue because that's been one of the main sticking points going forward. i think there's fairly widespread consensus on the need for spectrum auctions, obv

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it shows the solyndra investigation that chairman upton and stearns are conducting needs to be ongoingt shows we need to get some of the top white house officials there at the time to come before the committee and be accountable for their decisions and actions. bill: if that's the case you'll get a chance to ask a lot more questions personally. is this a lesson learned? or is there -- are there more out there? >> well, my suspicion is that there's more out there. it certainly intensifies my commitment to go ahead with the investigation, and i told that to both -- to chairman upton of the full committee and chairman stearns. bill: when will that happen, sir? >> i'm hopeful they will schedule hearings in the next two to three weeks and based on those hearings we'll continue to go forward. bill: we'll bring you back and try to get to the bottom of it. joe barton, thank you for your time. >> thank you. martha: mourners are paying their respects to former penn state football coach joe paterno. he died yesterday after complications in his battle with lung cancer. david lee miller is live in

. >> we have our contest coming upton the?dle fire is the giveaway. >> we're not eligible to win, right? >> you're not. >> i've been telling you that for two weeks now, the same thing every night. >>> let's bring in henry wofford from our comcast sportsnet newsroom. if you're out and about in the city tonight, look for the new orleans saints, they are in town, right, henry? >> they pushed back their itinerary for a second, they will be arriving first thing tomorrow morning now, raj. in the nfl, there was no doubt who was best out west this season, the 49ers finished 13 and 3, about the only knock on the niners is their lack of playoff experience. they have only eight players who made it to the postseason. saints have 39. go figure, something's going to happen this weekend. mindy back is in santa clara covering the camp. when the saints come marching in, will the 49ers be ready to play? >> the game plan and practices for the week are over. the only thing left is a final walk-through on friday, when speaking to the players today

upton sinclair air and the jungle, the workers are getting desperate. and you had the teddy roosevelt might have to go, i love corporations and i love big businesses, but this is a moment when we have to take action. like the antitrust act and other things to begin to regulate, to modulate the concentration of wealth and power. so when we look at moments in time where we're increasing government participation, we are increasing social safety nets. arafat hangs about it, but there could things. you don't overdo it be at the bureaucracy are handing out checks, but understand that stability, economic opportunity, the ability to earn a paycheck and of course by the consumer in this country, all of these things are necessary for capitalism to flourish. for small, medium businesses, entrepreneurs, innovation, all of that must have that kind of social setting. so again, it's back to balance. james madison going, got to have both the liberal voice in the conservative voice to keep his balance. so as i was working on the book, one of the things that hit me as we

. >> thank you in out recognize the commerce committee chairman representative upton for five minutes. >> thank you mr. chairman. this conference committee was so simple to finish her work with the middle tax -- middle-class tax relief. there were two parts of bill and i want to talk about both. are able chair and vice chair of talked about the tax relief piece of the puzzle and certainly that is very important. this week economy working families can use the extra 1000 bucks per year that comes from a temporary payroll tax. likewise far too many americans who cannot find jobs in this economy are forced to turn to unemployment benefits instead of a regular paycheck. this conference will address both of those issues. but we can't talk about the relief portion without also addressing jobs. the house passed middle class tax relief act provided job creating policies. many of them originating in the commerce committee and i would like to talk about those provisions. the first jobs provision included in the house passed bill is properly called the jobs that. that is jumpstarting opportunity

upton from michigan.stone pipe lien. in october of 2010, secretary clinton was indicating that she was inclined to support this project. in august, this last august 2011, the state department completed their analysis, and they agreed that the proposed route was, in fact, the preferred route. the payroll tax legislation that we passed, senate as well, we had a provision there that the president should decide based on whether it's in the national interest or not as to whether the keystone pipeline should move forward. president obama took office, the national gas price was $1.83. in my direct this weekend it was $3.69, more than twice as high. this is a pipeline that will bring as much as a million barrels a day. so, where do we go from here? we have asked already secretary clinton to come testify before our committee next week. the president won't say yes. we want to let the american people know that we will, no option is going to be off the table. we can't wait. as a sponsor of legislation relating to key

upton, chairman of the full committee. >> well, thank you. i notice we have a number of refugees in that second row. welcome to the big house. i noticed that you've got red flags, and, of course, it's not a yellow flag, it's red. a red flag usually means it's a review of the play. we look forward to having a review of the play. in fact, that vote did pass in this committee and on the house floor by a 2-1 margin, and we're looking to have the ruling on the field confirmed again and perhaps again and again. it's not often that congress can take a step that will reduce the future price at the gas pump, strengthening the nation's energy security and create literally tens of thousands of jobs. it's certainly not often that we can accomplish all of these important goals at absolutely no cost to the taxpayer. but that's exactly what approving the keystone x.l. pipeline expansion project would do and why i support this legislation, hr-3548, the north american energy access act. keystone is a shovel-ready project whose construction would create badly

particularly fred upton and cliff stern that chairs the committee that's been on the obama administration'slatest dump that it moves nothing, no evidence there's been any politicalization at all. but we have to remember that in the last document dump the department of energy was urging solyndra to postpone the announcement about the layoffs and the most recent e-mail show is that the communications between some of these underlings and carol browner, at the time the energy and global energy czar were worried and fretting themselves about the pr that would come from the layouts. and the phrase, the take away phrase that the underling wrote was no es bueno. >> indeed. we want to talk to you about a guest that we had on earlier this morning, who wrote in 1960, when he was in 7th grade, a prayer mural for his school in cranston, rhode island and just this week, a judge had ordered that this be taken down because it begins with "our heavenly father" as you see and ends with "amen." other than those two things it's sort of a daily affirmation to students. and let's listen to our guest and have you

conference committee, two people on the conference committee that will talk about this are waldon and upton, the chairman of health energy and commerce committee and said indication subcommittee so they're expected to push the spectrum. >> do you see action on spectrum? >> i do. >> happening this year? a big push on all sides to see this go through. the question is what does the legislation look like? congressman waldon has thrown off the idea of possibly dropping the public safety provision it's they can't settle some of the issues. a big priority for senator rockefeller in the senate. i would be surprised if he allowed that to happen. he said the provisions are his high priority as far as spectrum goes. >> yes, i think guilana is right. it's been one of the main sticking points going forward. >> think there's fairly widespread consensus on need for spectrum auctions, obviously our wireless networks have been a huge issue for the f.c.c. with at&t mergers so it's been front and center for the last year. the momentum is there. they're hammering out the details. >> whether you say widespread,

grow 1,000 garden and green space grant recipient cities for the year are baltimore, maryland and the upton edible garden, mayor stephanie rawlings. would you please step up? cleveland, ohio and the urban agricultural cultivation zone, mayor frank jackson. [applause] columbia, south carolina and the i-126 graystone boulevard interchange greenspace, mayor steve benjamin. [applause] corpus christi, texas and the ly nndale park initiative, and san fransisco, california and the casada greenspace initiative, mayor edwin lee. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> congratulations to all the award winners, and there was one part of the rules that maybe we should have been more clear on that is you must be present to win. [laughter] there was another part of the rule that's left to the chair's discretion, and that is those who are not present, the money will roll over to the chair's hometown. [laughter] on behalf of mesa, arizona, i'd like to thank -- [laughter] oh, she ruins it. [laughter] mayor stephanie rawlings blake just in time to save our fine community to receive