the coal industry was widely credited for giving bush west virginia so it's no secret that he had a a large debt to pay to the coal industry and they made sure he paid it throughout mine safety throughout the rollback of regulations on dirty power plants through a variety of places he essentially stocked all the regulatory agencies with with former coal industry lobbyists or executives by two thousand and one the bush administration made of white wording changing the clean water act designating waste as bill this wording change cleared the way for the expansion of mountaintop removal mining throughout southern appalachians. on january twenty second of two thousand and two president bush returned to west virginia it is such a wonderful day for us and for west virginia to host a special me in with those with a special bond to our state please and gentlemen the president of the united states i'm. we can do a better job in america one of these days we're going to be driving you know automobiles that are fueled differently and that's going to exciting times for america and we're just new t

president bush the margin he needed to take the oval office was the first time that west virginia had gone republican in something like seventy years and guess what's going to happen come november we're going to carry the state of west virginia thank. the callers he was widely credited for giving bush west virginia so it's no secret that he had a large debt to pay to the coal industry and they made sure he paid it through out mine safety throughout the rollback of regulations on dirty power plants through a variety of places he essentially stopped all the regulatory agencies with with former coal industry lobbyists or executives by two thousand and one the bush administration and its white working changing the clean water act as a meeting waste as will this wording change here the way the expansion of mountaintop removal mining throughout southern appalachians. on january twenty second of two thousand and two president bush returned to west virginia it is such a wonderful day for us and for west virginia to host a special me in little with a special bond to our state ladies and gentle

hundred forty billion gallons of coal slurry contained in more than one hundred lb ments in west virginia alone the total quantity of coal slurry in the rest of southern appalachians is number. one december twenty second two thousand and eight acall ash impoundment at the tennessee valley authorities kingston fossil plant failed when an earthen dike broke spilling over one point one billion gallons of coal ash sludge over three hundred acres. coal ash sludge has waste created from the burning of coal at the kingston coal plant it is believed to contain toxic compounds including arsenic and mercury. the tennessee valley authority estimates the cost of the cleanup job or eight hundred twenty five million dollars this spill is ten times larger than the exxon valdez spill in alaska and is believed to be america's largest environmental disaster to date with throwing away the next generation's most valuable resource and that is water and one of the best sources of water anywhere in the world and maybe the best source of fresh water and proximity to one of the world's largest fastest growing pop

virginia, patrick henry took virginia as the largest stake in the union at the time. girl turned the territory and population it could not be an independent country. it was the california of its time. he seriously argued that the virginia didn't have to ratify right away. he did see why it could be an independent nation and others answered very quickly arguing that the union was the union of trading and because it needed help from other places to defend itself. it had a slave population, didn't have sufficiently high militia to take on its own defense. the argument in this issue is an important part of the virginia debate. i don't think he wanted to stay out of the union forever. then there is new york. new york, the constitution had been ratified by the time knew york decided what it was going to do. a lot of it was arguably a majority, certainly a majority going into the convention thought that it should be rejected or not adopted a less certain changes were made before hand. there was a real problem with states left out. think how strange the united states would lo

go county west virginia within sight of massey energy c.e.o. don blankenship soon perma leader brown has been battling for clean want to be. why some years ago. i want to turn black and white straight and i asked our hollering and screaming to my husband got up and asked and asked me was on a camera and he said when he looked at it he said i want obviously that's close laurie. we went and looked at fifteen wells. said the samples off to the laboratory got the testing results back and took some analysis on those results and it was pretty compelling that we needed to do more research down there i had never seen water quality that poor. pretty good compared to what it was this morning for these documents from the west virginia department of natural resources researched by mountain just to some are volunteers or permits for coal slurry injections that took place in the early one nine hundred eighty s. at the slurry impoundment located approximately two miles above carmelita brown soem this permit shows that over two hundred eight million gallons of

there is no more west virginia it don't grow back. it's not going to come back i mean you know we had a politician get up on tavi not long ago he said well the reason that jan saying it's the unix thing the deer are in. order bought this thousand acre. site it's not the garage sale process mountaintop removal coal mine is an awesome display of coal extraction engineering it is also quite simple once the site is a den of clear cutting begins next explosives are used to blast away the earth material holes. then machinery completing massive shovels called dragon lines remove the overburden which is then deposited in adjacent valleys called valley fills mountaintop removal coal mining can bring down the elevation of a peak by hundreds of feet sites are often thousands of acres in size but i believe these are legal action rather than blacksburg and written. in the spring of two thousand and five a group of activists college students and local citizen conservation groups joined together to oppose the widespread increase in mountaintop remov

we've made the decision in virginia.hink it's right for our state. >> woodruff: governor bob mcdonald of virginia, thank you so much. >> lehrer: this is pledge week on public television. we'll be back shortly with a look at the high-level resignations at npr. this break allows your public television station to ask for your support. that support helps keep programs like ours on the air. >> brown: finally tonight, npr's c.e.o. departs amid a growing storm. >> from "npr news" in washington, i'm craig wyndham. the president and c.e.o. of npr, viivian schiller has abruptly resigned today..." >> brown: news of vivian schiller's departure followed yesterday's release of this hidden-camera video. it showed npr fundraising executive ron schiller-- no relation-- at what he thought was a meeting with potential funders. among much else, he was heard disparaging tea party republicans. >> they believe in sort of white, middle america, gun toting, i mean, it's scary. they're seriously racist, racist people. >> brown: and he also commen

we've made the decision in virginia.hink it's right for our state. >> woodruff: governor bob mcdonald of virginia, thank you so much. >> lehrer: this is pledge week on public television. we'll be back shortly with a look at the high-level resignations at npr. this break allows your public television station to ask for your support. that support helps keep programs like ours on the air. >> brown: for those stations not taking a pledge break, we have a report about an invasive fungus that's killing millions of bats across the country. tonight's story comes from ed yahn of "oregon field guide," a production of oregon public broadcasting. >> reporter: a single bat can devour 600 mosquitoes, moths and other insects in a single hour. so despite their creepy reputation, scientists say its life without bats that should terrify us. and it's why pat ormsbee shudders at the news that entire bat colonies are being wiped out. >> we're talking about the very real possibility of extinction, of one or more species in a very short time.

we've made the decision in virginia.hink it's right for our state. >> woodruff: governor bob mcdonald of virginia, thank you so much. >> lehrer: this is pledge week on public television. we'll be back shortly with a look at the high-level resignations at npr. this break allows your public >> hiern i'm david with ingrid. join for another evening of the pbs newshour. we're taking a few minutes now to ask you to do something very important. financially support the pbs newshour and all the public affairs programs you enjoy right here on weta. no matter what is happening in our world, the pbs newshour is sure to cover the stories of the day in in depth informative manner. it takes a lot of talent and commitment but they do it every day just for you. you can feel especially proud that the pbs newshour is produced right here at weta. this great programmingest made possible by membership support. weta and the pbs newshour depend on you to keep us on the air every day, every year. it is no easy task but we can do it with your hel

certainly the virginia delegation was the most important and the virginia delegation included george washington. had he not been there, i am doubtful whether the convention would ever have happened. the fact his name was on the virginia delegation, meant that the convention would be and events of significance and encouraged other states to send important degradations as well. and george mason, one of the leading constitutionalists in the country, who wrote the state declaration of rights, and james madison, who we'd like to think of as the father of the constitution, but, god bless the man, he said the title was inappropriate and it was the work of many, many hands. and it was a very impressive delegation. edmund randolph, the governor. and, this was -- these were -- this was a group of -- >> why was virginia so responsible for this? >> that is an extraordinarily good question. i suspect washington's presence had something to do with it. certainly, mad done who had been in the congress and understood first hand how debilitated the government of the united states was, was an important

when i took office last year, we faced historic budget deficits of $6 billion your in virginia. we close to those deficits by cutting expendspending, no

others also argue that virginia needed the union more than the union needed virginia because it needed help from other places.er it had the slaven't population, did not have a sufficiently high a militia militia, the arguments of the issue are the important o part of the virginia debate. he did not want to stay at of the union for ever but then there was new york. it had already been ratified a and arguably a majority going into the convention thought it should be rejected or not adopted unless certain changes were made before hands. there was a real problem there were states left out. without looking for new york or virginia? without rhode island it would be less of anrod issue. >> host: who was patrick henry? >> guest: thehe greatest orator who ever lived according to thomas jefferson. a leading figure and living in theli age of four tory, they did not havethey microphones or voice sys enhancement system a spread that a speaker who could project, speak dramatically dramatically, commanded great audience is and one reason why people were carting to these conventions tot see the perfor

there was a virginia doesn't i haven't i have a list in my pocket but the point is even there's also the two kids involved in columbine there's a kid in virginia tech there is jeremiah here in arizona none of them are muslim timothy mcveigh wasn't mark and how many are you've now going back over twenty years to get before well off the top of my head. i'll tell you what i was on last night on this network with someone who said there have been forty eight muslim terribly to the activities since nine eleven and. all of the radiology or whatever you want to say combined which means one in more than one in three is islamic related so peter king playing the numbers will be certain i'm robbing the banks because that's where the money is he's investigating the number one leading cause of domestic terrorism or attempted to mass of terrorism in the united states you play the numbers i think the concern though is that a lot of attention could build up here and i want to take you now to a community that actually in the united kingdom where tension is starting to build up between muslims and chri

virginia was told to do this.they didn't do it until they wrote a permanent one, that is one that didn't have a clear ending. then the question is how do you make these documents acts of the people? that was finally worked out, i think most successfully in massachusetts where on the insistence of people in the towns. the constitution was written by special delegates to a convention that did only this, that is it only drew up a constitution and then sent it back to the towns for rad ification. this begins we, the people, of massachusetts, dot, dot, dot date, and establish. where have you heard similar words? the constitution clearly built on the massachusetts presence. >> host: 10 minutes left, this call is from arizona. >> caller: hi, thank you both for doing this. i'm so excited to hear dr. maier's disorration here like a previous caller. i'm so excited if i was close, i'd sign up to your class and sit in the front row. >> guest: i wish my students were so excited as having me as a teacher as your listeners are,

yesterday hundreds gathered quantico marine base in virginia to peacefully protest the abusive treatment of bradley manning they were met with hundreds of police in riot gear and the arrest and the taint of over thirty people are feeling forty ports. in photos he's a smiling twenty three year old army private. but for two hundred and ninety nine days bradley manning has been behind bars accused of passing top secret cables war logs and videos to whistle blowing web site wiki leaks here in quantico hundreds of activists and veterans have gathered outside of the military base where bradley manning is being held in solitary confinement twenty three hours a day they say he's being tortured to call for his immediate release although president obama says otherwise i have actually asked the pentagon whether or not. the procedures that have been taken in terms of his confinement are appropriate and are meeting our basic standards and they assured me that they are state department spokesman p.j. crowley called manning's treatment quote ridiculous counterproductive and stupid and was forced to res

books was in northern virginia right over here. muslims there have been collected before politely all of their books over six years ago and they haven't got a case yet saw those of the most corporative muslims in the united states the homes were invaded they were basically or prose but next thing is as far as. islam is concerned and these people. who have been arrested in recent years you have to look at the concept of entrapment i understand contract because i've been trapped by the government if you look at the african americans we lose we look at very close you take the new york issue they rolled in a pakistani got out of jail went to the mustard the man told him stay away from the center just like that a man did stay away from the center he went around and picked on the last act is muslims and the community showered them with money then after that drove the guys to new york to a synagogue and said now plays this year and then the f.b.i. arrested him just a minute and caught the judge actually a guy do you know was going on here

. >>> me la daban en un centro de niños en virginia o la mandaban a guatemala. >>> le dije al departamentogación, sobre por q una niña de 4 años ciudadana de estados unidos, fue deportada. >>> los padres esperan con ansias el reencuentro con la pequeña. >>> se desconoce si se entablara una demanda contra el departamento de segudad interna, por la deportación. >>> pocos días después del pacto firmado por medios de comunicación mexicanos, la prensa tiene un nuevo luto, esta vez el hijo de un conocido escritor, tenemos el informe. >>> la sociedad civil sale a las calles, ante la ola de violencia, los cuerpos de 7 jóvenes atados de pies y manos y con signos de tortura, ha asombrado a cuernavaca. >>> convoca a la ciudadanía a expresar su repudio. >>> uno de los jóvenes es el hijo del escritor de la revista proceso, javier sicilia, que acudió al bar donde fue el ilícito, las autoridades en morelos dicen que ya van varios casos, donde los criminales dejan los cuerpos, por la autopista del sol. >>> la procuradoría expresa su pesar por los casos. >>> y también los padres demuestran la esperanza. >>

virginia, like the majority of states, is challenging this legislation in court. already, a federal district court judge has ruled in or favor. including the provision that virginia citizens must purchase insurance or face a penalty is unconstitutional. courts are split. it will case that will be ultimately decided by the supreme court. but now the very same administration that was in set a rush to pass the bill, is in no hurry to find out it is legal. the legal issues must be settled promptly by the court to create certainty and fidelity for health care providers businesses, and all americans appeared shockingly, the obama administration opposes an expedited appeal to the supreme court, performing the potential for years of costly litigation in lower courts. regardless of party, the sooner we know of the law is constitutional, the better for the american people. also, how we can all agree that we must make our health care system more affordable, accessible, and accountable. republican governors are on the front lines of this effort. we believe that the best way t

the gentleman from west virginia. mr. rahall: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. rahall: madam speaker, i rise in support of h.r. 662, the surface transportation extension act of 2011. as my chairman has said, this legislation extends the federal aid and highway public transit and motor carryway safety program through the end of the year. i commend the chairman of the committee, mr. mica, for his bringing this bill before us today. i also associate myself with the remarks that he has just said in support thereof. i commend him for the listening tour that he has embarked around the country, as well as a few formal hearings thrown in his listening tour. this gives the country and you members of body an opportunity to learn a great deal about what re-authorization of our transportation program really means when it comes to jobs and when it comes to infrastructure, particularly within each member of congress' congressional district. extending these programs is

not so with virginia commonwealth. after the... being snubbed or being discredited, if you will, after that has worn off. now they've found that deep-down talent. you have to look at the way they've been winning. they've been leading in a lot of these games especially by double figures against kansas they were up at 14 at half. i mean they are not just winning. they're making a statement with each of these wins. >> woodruff: does it say something about the way this tournament is structured, about the way the seeds are chosen that... two teams like this, that were so far back have now catapulted to the very top? >> well, seeding is almost more dramatic than some of what goes on on the court. if you ask a lot of people, you know, you have a ncaa selection committee. it's ten people. they're usually athletic administrators or conference commissioners and they decide who are the seeds and they use a lot of factors. they use obviously your record with the losses and they also use your strength of schedule. so when you have mid majors li

say here in northern virginia. in october 2010, faruq aaek mad what ashburn, virginia, was arrested for allegedly plotting attacks on the metro system to find times to kill as many people as possible. july 2010, zachary chesser, graduate of oakland high school was arrested in new york en route to somalia. chesser pled guilty to charges provided material support to terrorist, communicating threats and slis tating crimes of violence and was sentenced to 30 years. november 2009, five american muslim teenagers from fairfax county were arrested in pakistan attempting to join militant islamist organizations. they've been sentenced to ten years in a pakistan prison. in november 2009, virginia native army major nadal hassan killed 13 service men and women in ft. hood, texas. hassan grew up in arlington, went to wakefield high school and later moved to roanoke. in 2004, abdul al moodie from falls church, virginia, was convicted on three charges of conspiring to senate the crown prince abdullah. in 2003, a northern virginia

say here in northern virginia. in october 2010, faruq aaek mad what ashburn, virginia, was arrested for allegedly plotting attacks on the metro system to find times to kill as many people as possible. july 2010, zachary chesser, graduate of oakland high school was arrested in new york en route to somalia. chesser pled guilty to charges provided material support to terrorist, communicating threats and slis tating crimes of violence and was sentenced to 30 years. november 2009, five american muslim teenagers from fairfax county were arrested in pakistan attempting to join militant islamist organizations. they've been sentenc to ten years in a pakistaprison. in november 2009, virginia native army major nadal hassan killed 13 service mennd women in ft. hood, texas. hassan grew up in arlington, went to wakefield high school and later moved to roanoke. in 2004, abdul al moodie from falls church, virginia, was convicted on three charges of conspiring to senate the crown prince abdullah. in 2003, a northern virginia reside

in virginia we allow everybody to contribute.aming corporation and everybody but you know who these and at least you can go to the voters and say look who's behind this person. these are independent ads coming into campaigns where the candidates don't control their own campaigns interest groups to. so i think it's gone away off the cliff at this point and i just think going back to a full disclosure is the best way to go. i have nothing else to add except a kind of feel like the genie's out of the bottle, is that what comes out a bottle? the genie is out of a bottle and it's hard to put back together again. how do we make our conversations more civil? eliminate half of cable television and the internet. it's just not going to happen so i agree with tom completely. making the parties stronger, give the parties and candidates more control of the method and more responsibility but i don't think it can't happen. >> would you favor having independent commission saying redistricting for congress for the republican districts leading to

>> virginia lee. >> thank you, virginia . >> good evening. i'm a seen juror at george washington high school. i've met many teachers who have helped inspire and guide me. they've helped keep me safe. if these features get cut, we wouldn't have the classes nesterovic to meet california's university standards. i was told when i was younger to go for the american dream. this is where the power is. people are coming up and expressing communication problems expressing frustration with this scenario that is totally unrealistic. i would like to know where the power is with this board and with you? basically, we need to hear your voice. we need to hear on the radio in the news everyday. it has to be if we want to promote what we are doing here in san francisco. we are looking here to be the leaders. just because the district amount hands over money and you ask them to decide how to skin their own hides. that doesn't mean they have autonomy or equity. people are coming to you to try to see if they can get a reasonable decision and definitely some powe

the gentleman from west virginia. mr. rahall: mr. costello has been in the trenches, on the runways and in the towers of this legislation for many years. he's been with the takeoffs and the landings of so many extensions and i now yield him sufficient time as he may consume. the chair: the gentleman from illinois is recognized for as much time as he may consume. mr. costello: thank you, madam chair, and i thank the ranking member for yielding to me and his kind remarks. all of us agree we need a long-term f.a.a. re-authorization act. the f.a.a. and the aviation community needs to -- needs stability and direction that a multiyear authorization bill will provide. however, it's not this bill. it is important for members to know that h.r. 658 is a different f.a.a. re-authorization bill from the bipartisan legislation that my colleagues and i worked together on and that passed the house three times in the 110th and 111th congresses. that legislation would have created jobs, improved aviation safety and provided the f.a.a. with

there was a virginia doesn't i haven't i have a list in my pocket but the point is even. to pick him. involved in columbine there's they can go to any attack there's jared loughner in arizona none of them are muslim timothy mcveigh wasn't muslim and how many have now gone back over twenty years to get the four are well off the top of my head then i don't you know i don't live above that that well i'll tell you what i was on the last night on the foreign network with someone who said there have been forty eight muslim care related activities since eleven and seventy so all of the radiology or whatever you want to say combined which means one in three more than one in three islamic related so peter king playing the numbers will lisa i'm robbing the base because that's where the money is he's investigating the number one leading cause of domestic terrorism or attempted domestic terrorism in the united states you play the numbers and this is what as if that this is what upsets me. and there are some of the muslim community that are doing this this is a huge opportunity for th

. >> el joven dijo que la inspiracion la saco de las matanzas de virginia tech. >> un decomiso terminótraron también la metanfetamina, la mujer que iba al volante del vehículo era una mujer que venia de tijuana. >> la procuradora de california anuncio el arresto de un sujeto que supuestamente violó hace tres años a una mujer en santa cruz . >> el hombre ataco a una mujer después de que ella salío del lugar donde trabajaba. >> al regresar... . >> aumentan la popularidad de la ley arizona, otro estado quiere tener una ley antiinmigrante --en medio de protestas a favor y en contra, el se . >> en medio de protestas a favor en contra, virginia aprobó una ley similar a la ley arizona . >> la iniciativa recibió 34 votos a favor. >> el sistema electoral de san francisco fue tema de discusion en la reunión de hoy. >> el sistema permite que los electores eligen a sus tres candidatos favoritos, para no poder ir a segunda vuelta. >> varias organizaciones querían hacer una propuesta en contra de los recortes a un programa de salud, pero esta no se realizo . >> queríamos que el alcalde nos escuchara

supreme court asking them to grant cert in the case in virginia. the administration has opposed that decision to expedite, but that is now before the court. the court will make a decision on whether they intend to expedite this case. >> i have a number of questions for the record. i will submit them in writing. my final question is on nih. several years ago we passed a reform bill to this committee that was signed into law. that bill was a reauthorization bill that lapsed several years ago and is up for renewal. i will encourage chairman at upton to have a hearing and we reauthorization. in that was the creation of a common fund to try to get more cross-examination between the various nih organizations. have you followed that? if so, can you give an update on how you believe that common fund is operating? >> i know that the new director of the nih has taken a great interest in the common fund and has been actively involved in not only seeking to fill gaps in research, but directing it to the most promising options that he feels in the research fiel

these are firefighters, 150 of them from los angeles and fairfax, virginia. they are looking for survivors, but in two days they have found just six people, all of them dead. the u.s. response to japan's disaster is growing. 17,000 military personnel, 14 ships, 113 helicopters, and the aircraft carrier "ronald reagan" are now in or on their way to the country. the american red cross has already sent $10 million. but the human need is growing faster. this woman and her two children are living on a blanket in an evacuation center hallway. what is this like to go through this with your kids? she says she worries about their hygiene. and the situation here is getting worse by the day. these are the bathrooms and there is no running water so people are basically flushing toilets using these buckets of water. the united nations says 102 countries have offered japan help. it has accepted it from only 15. >> i think the japanese see themselves as self-reliant and very effective at dealing with disaster, so they're really trying to do as much as they can on their own

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jared loughner a problem, so is timothy mcveigh a problem, so are the people who killed citizens at virginia tech and columbine and so many other places a problem. when a citizen goes from law abiding to kill for religion or some set of ideas, this is something we must pay close attention to, and in my opinion, we don't know nearly enough about it. so in my opinion, obviously, this is a very important topic. i'm focused on it. i've spoken on it. i have written on it and i will continue to be engaged. >> so what did you both hear-- and i'll begin with you, congressman mccall-- about why it is occurring in this community and what more could be done that would be more effect 95 countering it? >> well, in a lot of these cases whether major hassan, as congressman ellison mentioned, a lot of the common thread here are the cleric alwalkie. he had a lot of communications with assad before he killed the 13 soldiers in fort hood, and

. >> virginia estÁs allÍ? >> quÉ te parece? >> sÍ, estoy aquí. >> ay! sÍ, me pareciÓ algo... porque Él... es inocente. >> es inocente. >> sÍ se declarÓ inocente. porque Él no fue el que... >> y estaba furioso y se fue derecho a casa para decirle algunas verdades. >> porque el que hizo todas las cosas del crimen fue leonardo. >> asÍ es, precisamente se encontrÓ con Él y lo enfrentÓ por esa infamia. >> y leonardo quÉ fue lo que hizo? >> siempre trata de lavarse las manos.