the national tourism trade is critical to a border state, like vermont. now, let me point out one thing that has troubled me a great deal. last week opponents of comprehensive immigration reform began to exploit the boston marathon bombing. -- newnewfoundlander englander. i spent a lot of time in boston growing up and do so today. friends and relatives there, i urge restraint in that regard. they have enriched this country from our founding. i and vermont we welcome our neighbors, just as other states have welcomed immigrants to america. is minnesota, vietnamese, cuban-americans, texas, florida, new jersey, or utah. our history is full of these stories of salvation. let no one be so cruel as to try to use the heinous acts of the young men last week to derail the dreams and futures of millions of hard-working people, who bill before us the strengthening of national security by allowing us to focus our security and enforcement efforts against those who would do us harm. cantion as strong as ours welcome the oppressed and persecuted without compromising our

when the reason i lived in vermont a decade or so ago a little bit more than a decade ago we have. the local all the phone lines were owned by i believe it was verizon it was one of those big companies and but the state of vermont it passed a law saying the as part of the common carrier and it was if you're going to run your lines through our commons on our streets you have to allow any company to have access to that copper and so we got our telephone service in little company called solver net and they charge twenty five dollars a month for a helpful telephone access and when we called for assistance for help literally the guy lived in the next block over and walk over to the house you know there gives a little time seven thousand people believe for a month. in the second year that we lived in vermont there was legislation introduced into the room on state senate to say that it was. inappropriate role of government to force the rise and to allow sovereign debt to compete with them over their own copper and i don't know the status of it nollywood was being fought when we moved but

in the second year that we lived in vermont there was. into the monster to say it was an inappropriate role of government to force the rise and to allow sovereign debt to compete with them over their own copper and i don't know the status of it nollywood was being fought when we moved but is that the kind of thing that you're talking about absolutely when it comes to these natural monopoly infrastructure businesses it makes sense to have wholesale facilities that are then shared by lots of retail providers and that that's what protects consumers so again back to seoul the mayor in seoul decided that it made sense to have a wholesale fiber ring going through the subways in that city and that's the reason for souls great success there are lots and lots of retail providers that use that basic infrastructure which is available to them at a standard cost and then they differentiate themselves they provide you know different kinds of services at different price points that protects consumers and we've done this in america for one hundred years

vermont is very dependent on tourism. our percentage of jobs in the industry is twice the natural -- national average of 38%. the majority of our businesses are small and family-owned and agri-tourism is growing in a very high rate. we are starting to see a steady increase of international visitors and it is a market we are focusing on much more with the support for brand usa. while we benefit for being a weekend destination for millions of travelers in order for small businesses to flourish we need to attract more international travelers who stay longer an average of 14 days and spend more money. our nation has not remain competitive in the global traveling marketplace. from 2001 through 2010 our market share of the world traveler fell from 17 to 12%. this resulted in more than 78 million international travelers going somewhere else and the u.s. using losing 460,000 jobs in $606 billion in revenue over those years. in the importance of growing international visitation let me highlight these provisions in immigration bill

her family is long tradition of farming in vermont and currently own a 278-acre farm in vermont. it's one of the prettiest parts of vermont. one of the most significant agricultural parts of our state. mrs. eastman, go ahead. >> good morning. we have been assisting employers since 1993. first i would like to thank chairman leahy, ranking member grassley, and all members of the committee for providing me the opportunity to appear before you today. on behalf of the ag employers that i represent in vermont, new hampshire, and new york as an agent. as a member of the national counsel ag employers and my work i traveled to d.c. on several occasions including two bipartisan meets with the u.s. dol officials and members of congress. there is a bipartisan agreement that the current system is broke and that the program is a stands steady nearly impossible use. a shared challenge faced by all farmers seems to be finding legal and experienced labor to provide the agricultural employer with confident, predict, and stability. property posed bill would be useful as it no longer draws a distinc

i see some road work there at vermont street, northbound 101 at vermont. pardon me i have to cough here. okay. i feel much better. northbound 101 at vermont the traffic is backed up from 280 up to vermont. looks like they might be getting it out of the lanes right now. it's really slow here. let's go to steve. >>> sal. >> yes, sir. >> i could have used a cough button in the last month or so. >> yeah tell me about it. >> yeah, it's been tough. if you are outside today and even if yesterday, you need the sunscreen. when we warm up 70s and 80s it doesn't take much. if you're out for an extended period of time, it doesn't take much. today will be one more day. then we will start a cool down. above average temps 5-15 degrees. as long as that north breeze holds, it tries. san francisco looking for a high today of 72. normal 63. they are sitting at 59 now. went 57 at 7:00 a.m.. it won't take much. although i do think a westerly breeze will kick in. sfo had a slight component of it. all of those are really tough. i would rather forecast rain. it's that fine line o

i see some road work there at vermont street, northbound 101 at vermont. pardon me i have to cough here. okay. i feel much better. northbound 101 at vermont the traffic is backed up from 280 up to vermont. looks like they might be getting it out of the lanes right now. it's really slow here. let's go to steve. >>> sal. >> yes, sir. >> i could have used a cough button in the last month or so. >> yeah tell me about it. >> yeah, it's been tough. if you are outside today and even if yesterday, you need the sunscreen. when we warm up 70s and 80s it doesn't take much. if you're out for an extended period of time, it doesn't take much. today will be one more day. then we will start a cool down. above average temps 5-15 degrees. as long as that north breeze holds, it tries. san francisco looking for a high today of 72. normal 63. they are sitting at 59 now. went 57 at 7:00 a.m.. it won't take much. although i do think a westerly breeze will kick in. sfo had a slight component of it. all of those are really tough. i would rather forecast rain. it's that fine line o

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, and it is co-sponsored by 25 state representative and four senators in the state of vermont.ivestment is the important compliment to the climate work and others happening. locally we have succeeded in significantly reducing our emissions and close to launching the clean power. california is moving for ward with the implementation with ab 32, environmentalists are finding to stop the keystone pipeline and there are hundreds and thousands of people to protest the pipeline when president obama came to san francisco. but government action is not enough. the fossil fuel companies are the root of our climate problems, in fact the companies have tried very, very hard to make sure that the debate and discourse about the climate action is something that is not scientific at all and it is based on things that do not exist or are not measurable by science. we can exercise the power of our pocket books by divesting our retirement fund from the fossil fuel companies. the retirement board can divest without effecting the fund security or yield. the staff of the retirement board estimates t

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she was in the vermont legislator. before she became commissioner, she and her husband owned and a very nicemont in thn place for over a dozen years. please go ahead. >> chairman leahy, ranking member grassley and members of the committee, i am pleased to be here today on behalf of the department -- vermont department of tourism in marketing to highlight the importance of travel-related provisions, included immigration reform. vermont is very dependent on tourism. the depend it is twice the national average of 30%. the majority of the businesses are small and family-owned. we're starting to see a steady increase of international visitors, and a market we're focusing on much more with the support of branded u.s. said. well we benefit from being a weekend destination for millions of travelers -- while we benefit from being a weekend destination for millions of travelers, we need to market to international travelers. our nation has not remain competitive in the global travel market place. from 2001-2010 the market share o

she certainly had to be aware if she was watching the race. >> residents along vermont street say race organizers have gone out of their way to ensure the safety of participants playing hey hay bails and directing traffic. >> considering how have you done it i don't know what they could do to make it better. they seem to have a pretty good policy. you weren't having big people and little people together. >> they sign a waiver in case of injury and he lives along the course and says the majority of injuries have been minor up until now. >> but they are typically among the by standers and the spectators because of the whole not paying attention and not looking at the course and the quickness with which the riders come up. >> the race has grown from 30 people in 2006 to more than a thousand ts weekend. raising the chances of more serious injuries. this weekend's incident takes the big your own big wheel event to a new level. >> she is expected to survive her serious injury. her husband says he is not interested in a lawsuit, but he believes there is room for safety improvements. live in s

. >> the highway road signs were flashing throughout new hampshire and vermont saying to avoid boston and to not proceed to boston. >> one side notes -- one side note about carol, she was running to raise money for cancer research. a few days after the marathon she put her outfit back on and marathon bib back on and finished the last six miles. she said drivers were honking their horns and people were stoping to thank her and even give her donations. at sfo, john alston, abc news. >> thank you. >>> security at major sporting events is a major concern everywhere. that was the case tonight at at&t park. the giants were playing their first home game since the bombings in boston. >> sergio is live at the ballpark where some fans found themselves on the outside waiting to get in. sergio? >> fans are just leaving the game. it wrapped up shortly. as you mentioned, on the way in there were lines of fans around the park. there were some people who didn't make it to their seats until well past an hour after the first pitch. >> please have all of your pockets and every come compartment of your b

. >> the highway road signs were flashing throughout new hampshire and vermont saying to avoid boston and to not proceed to boston. >> one side notes -- one side note about carol, she was running to raise money for cancer research. a few days after the marathon she put her outfit back on and marathon bib back on and finished the last six miles. she said drivers were honking their horns and people were stoping to thank her and even give her donations. at sfo, john alston, abc news. >> thank you. >>> security at major sporting events is a major concern everywhere. that was the case tonight at at&t park. the giants were playing their first home game since the bombings in boston. >> sergio is live at the ballpark where some fans found themselves on the outside waiting to get in. sergio? >> fans are just leaving the game. it wrapped up shortly. as you mentioned, on the way in there were lines of fans around the park. there were some people who didn't make it to their seats until well past an hour after the first pitch. >> please have all of your pockets and every come compartment of your b

, and it is co-sponsored by 25 state representative and four senators in the state of vermont. divestment is the important compliment to the climate work and others

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she certainly had to be aware if she was watching the race. >> residents along vermont street say race organizers have gone out of their way to ensure the safety of participants playing hey hay bails and directing traffic. >> considering how have you done it i don't know what they could do to make it better. they seem to have a pretty good policy. you weren't having big people and little people together. >> they sign a waiver in case of injury and he lives along the course and says the majority of injuries have been minor up until now. >> but they are typically among the by standers and the spectators because of the whole not paying attention and not looking at the course and the quickness with which the riders come up. >> the race has grown from 30 people in 2006 to more than a thousand this weekend. raising the chances of more serious injuries. this weekend's incident takes the big your own big wheel event to a new level. >> she is expected to survive her serious injury. her husband says he is not interested in a lawsuit, but he believes there is room for safety improvements. live in

she certainly had to be aware if she was watching the race. >> residents along vermont street say race organizers have gone out of their way to ensure the safety of participants playing hey hay bails and directing traffic. >> considering how have you done it i don't know what they could do to make it better. they seem to have a pretty good policy. you weren't having big people and little people together. >> they sign a waiver in case of injury and he lives along the course and says the majority of injuries have been minor up until now. >> but they are typically among the by standers and the spectators because of the whole not paying attention and not looking at the course and the quickness with which the riders come up. >> the race has grown from 30 people in 2006 to more than a thousand this weekend. raising the chances of more serious injuries. this weekend's incident takes the big your own big wheel event to a new level. >> she is expected to survive her serious injury. her husband says he is not interested in a lawsuit, but he believes there is room for safety improvements. live in

. >> the highway road signs were flashing throughout new hampshire and vermont saying to avoid boston and to not proceed to boston. >> one side notes -- one side note about carol, she was running to raise money for cancer research. a few days after the marathon she put her outfit back on and marathon bib back on and finished the last six miles. she said drivers were honking their horns and people were stoping to thank her and even give her donations. at sfo, john alston, abc news. >> thank you. >>> security at major sporting events is a major concern everywhere. that was the case tonight at at&t park. the giants were playing their first home game since the bombings in boston. >> sergio is live at the ballpark where some fans found themselves on the outside waiting to get in. sergio? >> fans are just leaving the game. it wrapped up shortly. as you mentioned, on the way in there were lines of fans around the park. there were some people who didn't make it to their seats until well past an hour after the first pitch. >> please have all of your pockets and every come compartment of your b

it looks as if vermont may well be on the way, but the problem is before vermont can even move in thatdirection i have to waivers from the federal government. the affordable care act says you can get a waiver into 2017. and part of what senator bernie sanders is trying to urge is that waiver be moved up to 2014 because in the meantime, we know that on the ground, the representatives of the commercial interest industry which are creating distortion, the longer they have to spread their particular propaganda, the more the wind will be taken out of the single payer sales can move up that waiver date and maybe vermont can do what the will of the people seems to want. then maybe we can say as vermont goes, so goes the nation. [laughter] >> i'm always encouraged when i look at vermont, about everything. [laughter] about everything. vermont is just dreamy. >> there's a question over here. >> hi. so, i recently read the cbo report that said there's actually a possibility that employers would start simply paying the fee under obamacare and drop a lot of people. and you would see as a result a l

harkin: a couple of thoughts, i just say to my friend from vermont. those who say it is unconstitutional to do those things, i wonder if they ever read the preamble to the constitution, which is, by the way, a part of the constitution of the united states. we the people of the united states in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare. that's part of the constitution of the united states. so how we do that obviously can vary from time to time, generation to generation, but the idea that we are here to promote the general welfare as a federal government is clearly in the constitution of the united states. secondly, the senator in his statement pointed out that the idea that social security, that this is really a trust fund. people pay into it, they take out. again, it's had some problems, but i ask the senator if unemployment today were down to less than 5%, say 4%, what would the social security trust fund look like? mr. sanders: it would be much lar

the presiding officer: the senator from erm vermont. mr. leahy: i ask unanimous consent to proceed for 10 minutes. the presiding officer: we are in a quorum call. mr. leahy: i ask consent the call of the quorum be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. leahy: and, mr. president, i ask consent to be able to continue for ten minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. leahy: mr. president, earlier this week i spoke about the need for the senate to consider legislation to help increase america's safety by reducing gun violence. i came on the floor of the senate and i urged my yellow senators to abandon efforts to filibuster proceeding to this bill. the senate should not have to overcome a filibuster to respond to the call for action to response to the gun violence they're experiencing. mr. president, i have the privilege of being the longest serving member of this body, and i've watched debate on so many issues. if there was ever an issue where all 100 of us should vote yes or no, it's here. i was encouraged b

so he sets up a similar in vermont and he goes through his rolodex answer is military journal but he invites everybody to be confined who has written anything remotely interesting about the subject of water. and he comes up with about 30. and they all assembled for five days to discuss these things. the pivotal think about this meeting is not so much what they discussed as that they met. most of these people didn't know each other before. they didn't know of one another's existence. they thought they were out on a limb, here, on a daring slim just writing stuff that nobody is going to read that was way against what was going on in the mainstream army. a lot of these people were junior officers, some of them were mid-level officials and think tank types. and they realized they formed a community and they might be able to do something if they worked together. so they come away with a great sense of mission. meanwhile, petraeus sitting in leavenworth can he knows a lot of these people who are at this conference. some of them were his students come his colleagues, people have been under

the seller otherwise has zero connection to vermont. so it really does beg the question, is this fair? and i would contend not. does this present a burden on interstate commerce? absolutely. absolutely. the drafters of this bill will argue that it creates new taxes, but i would also respectfully disagree on that. this bill essentially forces states like ours to adopt its requirements to ensure parity. now, currently no states can impose its local sales tax on another, short of meeting constitutional nexus requirements. we've made clear you can't do that. this legislation, again, kind of scoops everybody in. states who wish to into agreements with other states for this purpose are able to do so. but let those individual states decide whether or not they want to participate in the stliemed sales tax and use tax agreement but don't mandate it and that's what this measure would do. only 24 states could could agree to do this. you want -- you have to ask, is 24 states a mandate for congress? i don't think so. again, it begs the question, is

joining me, bernie sanders, independent from vermont, may bouvier, from the grassroots climate change, and dan, a cnbc contributor, and we're joined by glen hooks of the sierra club of arkansas. no one from exxonmobil or the american petroleum institute was available to join us. glen, i'll begin with you. how big of story is it there and what are residents being told? >> we're here in mayflower, arkansas. thanks for coffering the story. when you get off the freeway, you can really smell the oil spill. i spent some time today walking through the evacuated neighborhoods. there aren't a lot of neighbors around to tell their story, but the story is told by their oil soaked backyard, the smell in the street, and the fact that the tar sands oil has taken a chunk out of mayflower, arkansas. >> my producers and i were going through news accounts of the spill. it was so startling. almost no one seemed to know they were atop this oil pipeline. >> no, they don't know that. and actually, what exxon has been telling folks, the story seems to be that this is just regular old west texas crude. when

hundreds escaped unharmed after getting the toys down the block on vermont street.any of the racers outgrew the toys decades ago. vermont has more curves than most other streets. >>> and powering your next project. how you can be a part of it. and a return to virtual reality. the headset making waves with gamers everywhere. >> and i am leigh glaser. some of the rain we have seen today will head into southern california tomorrow. a look at that forecast and another live look at li >>> for a few dollars anyone can be a media mogul, finance a movie or help launch the next great start up. they help people donate money to artists or entrepreneurs who ask for small or large donations on-line. there 1* indy-gogo and go fund me and kick starter. people who donate money are not looking to get rich off their investments. >> the fundamental question is not will this make money, but it is do i like this? it allows many more things to happen. >> grass root projects are not the only ones benefiting. the brains be -- behind the show raised money to make a movie. >>> back in the 19

hundreds escaped unharmed after getting the toys down the block on vermont street.any of the racers outgrew the toys decades ago. vermont has more curves than most other streets. >>> and powering your next project. how you can be a part of it. and a return to virtual reality. the headset making waves with gamers everywhere. >> and i am leigh glaser. some of the rain we have seen today will head into southern california tomorrow. a look at that forecast and another live look at li >>> for a few dollars anyone can be a media mogul, finance a movie or help launch the next great start up. they help people donate money to artists or entrepreneurs who ask for small or large donations on-line. there 1* indy-gogo and go fund me and kick starter. people who donate money are not looking to get rich off their investments. >> the fundamental question is not will this make money, but it is do i like this? it allows many more things to happen. >> grass root projects are not the only ones benefiting. the brains be -- behind the show raised money to make a movie. >>> back in the 19

host: we're talking with democrat peter welch from vermont. president obama's 2014 budget is delivered to capitol hill today. the washington times says its nine weeks late. peter welch is talking about what happens next between the two sides. here's the hill newspaper yesterday with this headline -- here's what senator portman had to say, from ohio, yesterday asked a politico breakfast. [video clip] >> that's how we got the budget agreement between bill clinton and newt gingrich. it was through a debt limit discussion. the idea we cannot use the debt limit discussion is ridiculous. most americans don't think we ought to be raising the debt limit without dealing with the underlying problem. it like their credit card limit. when you reach your limits, you don't just raise it. we have to deal with the underlying problem. this is an opportunity and the timing is pretty good, so let's deal with it, let's use the debt limit. the leverage is the american people to think it's crazy for us to continue to borrow more without any end in sight. host: your

we're insuring vermont. >> do you want florida's money?re act is this, we'll take in hundreds of millions of federal dollars to help employers deal with struggling health insurance. and, you know, everyone knows, i'm a small business person, came to governor's office as a business person, not a politician. i can tell you, biggest challenge for me as a small business person is the rising cost of health insurance. look at the money. right now in vermont we're spending 20 cents of every dollar on health care. if our health care costs grow for the next ten years, at the same rate they did for the last ten years, that will double in the next decade. if anyone thinks that's not a jobs killer, i don't know what is. we'll ensure our people and have a great plan. >> the cbo says, david, help me out here, i'll ask you to put on your political analyst hat and not a hat as someone who worked with the president. >> i got to find the right hat. >> that's a big hat to take off. but, you know, if i'm running against a democrat in 2014, i know they didn't

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