he didn't think that was funny at all because it was james watt and not a friend. so nevertheless, we were never too close. but you know what happened, he got promoted to be department of interior and did wonderful things like turn the buffalo around on the seal so it was facing to the right and not the left, important things, refused to take private land donated for conservation purposes. all of these hope aholices moved in here, these dreamers. things like the mountain states legal foundation were established with james watt. i never met mr. watt and will never forget he called me during the '70s from the mountain states legal foundation and said, i'm james watt, i'm a constituent and i would like for you to get me some feminists who are against the equal rights amendment. now, i said, okay, which one of my crazy friends is trying to crank me up. he didn't think that was funny at all because it was james watt and not a friend. so nevertheless, we were never too close. but you know what happened, he got promoted to be department of interior and did wonderful thing

watts.this not only has 5700-watts of running, but 7100-watts of starting power. it can start up your refrigerator. let's say you want to be a good neighbor and supply your neighbor with a little power, you'd be able to do so with one like this. >> how much is this? >> this one here about $700. >> not bad. >> not bad at all, considering, you know, all the stores we're hearing about -- [ everyone talking at once ] >> it tells you exactly how much you're running, so you know how much you have to spare in case you do want to share. >> home depot also does, and this is what i dream of, those beautiful home generators. you do the installation and get those out. that's the cadillac, right? >> one thing that everybody questions now, can i run my ac on a generator like this? if you're running a window unit, about 6,000btu, yes, you can use one like this. talking about a whole house, you want to think about a whole house generator. talking about between a 12,000 to 20,000-kilowatt of power to run it

here's abc's nick watt. >> hello. i'm katherine jackson. >> reporter: and with those words, her first public words in ten days, the jackson clan matriarch, surrounded by her children, jermaine, janet and rebbie, her daughter, and the marketing director at the resort where she's staying, katherine gave her side of this explosive story. >> there are rumors going around about me that i've been kidnapped and held against my will. i'll here today to let everybody know that i'm fine and i'm here with my children and my children would never do a thing like that, hold me against my will. it's very stupid of people to think that. >> reporter: late saturday night, katherine's nephew trent reported her missing from the jackson compound in calabasas. paris tweeted "my grandmother is missing, i haven't spoken with her in a week, i want her home now." an abc reporter at the reading of this statement was not allowed to ask questions. >> and now people are saying that they are there with nothing to eat. i'm sure they have something t

i put a watt meter on it when it was off it was drawing 15 watts. in your average home between 10 and 15 percent of your electric bill is coming from that 24 hour stand by power. >> here's one thing you can do you get a strip that has an on again/off again button when you don't have stuff connected to the transformer you shut the power strip off. when you have something plugged in you turn the power switch on. we have our microwave. clothes, washer, drier, all of these things. tv tv'st tv's stereos and put it on the power strip. >> a lot of people leave their computers on all the time. i keep hearing it's better to leave it on. it -- is this a myth it takes energy to start it up joochlt that's i myth. >> that's what i thought. gee the real question is is it good to turn it on and off. your computer, well -- computer life is determined by the advancement of the software your computer is obsolete at some point hard drives have a certain amount of life to them. if you have it running all the time you are chewing through the life while you are asleep or

watt, two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from north carolina is recognized for two minutes. mr. watt: thank you, mr. chairman, and let me say, first, that this bill is not about sunshine. it's not about transparency. it is about dissatisfaction that some individuals have with the man indicate that congress has given -- mandate that congress has given to the federal reserve. the gentleman who just spoke is absolutely right. they're supposed to deal with inflation. that's what we told them to do in their mandate. they're supposed to deal with unemployment. that's what we told them to do in the mandate we gave them. and some people over there are dissatisfied with the fact that they don't want them to deal with unemployment. they don't want them to try to adjust and make changes that will be beneficial to our economy. and if they don't want that, they ought to just introduce a bill that repeals the mandate that we gave to them. don't come and say we're talking about sunshine and transparen

abc's nick watt for our series seriously funny. >> ladies and gentlemen, ricky gervais. >> ricky gervaishe comedy of the unkind. remember the golden globes? >> many of you in this room probably know him best as the betty ford clinic and los angeles county jail. please welcome robert down di jr. >> unkind, that wasn't a room for the wounded soldiers. that was room full of the richest most privileged people world. i said sometime i don't like their film? really. >> butts of the jokes on the ricky gervais show. carl is now traveling around the world as the hideous abroad. >> with warrick daifts, star of life's too short, tale of a dwarf. >> called cycling round with war wick in a basket. i first pitched this to carl, he didn't say that's a ridiculous idea. he said [ bleep ]. >> and this is derek, a pilot that just aired on british tv about an odd ball who works in a retirement home. not everyone thinks it's funny. defensive to the mentally challenged. >> does it find father of an autistic boy to call worse than racism, worse than home phobia and vile. >> no, it doesn't bother me at all beca

i have a good idea who is doing that. >> that was nick watt reporting. today the controversy continues. michael jackson's 15-year-old son prince tweeted a photo apparently showing a group text message from monday to his aunts, in it he demanded to contact his grandmother. janet allegedly responded, please don't let them. prince tweeted he believes his grandmother was lied to. a lot of drama and there's much more on this coming up on "good afternoon america." >>> right now meteorologist mike nicco is ahead with our forecast. >> [ laughing ] >> airing dirty laundry on twitter, crazy. >>> we talked about clouds are going to be more stubborn, cooler, flight arrival delays into sfo we'll talk about when the pattern will clear and summer will come back. >>> man's best friend, we'll tell you about a seeing eye dog that saved its owners life after sniffing out a gas leak. after sniffing out a gas leak. >> and [ male announcer ] if you're ready to get more from your tv service, now's a great time to get at&t u-verse tv. make the switch! [ megan ] call now to get

i have a good idea who is doing that. >> that was nick watt reporting. today the controversy continues. michael jackson's 15-year-old son prince tweeted a photo apparently showing a group text message from monday to his aunts, in it he demanded to contact his grandmother. janet allegedly responded, please don't let them. prince tweeted he believes his grandmother was lied to. a lot of drama and there's much more on this coming up on "good afternoon america." >>> right now meteorologist mike nicco is ahead with our forecast. >> [ laughing ] >> airing dirty laundry on twitter, crazy. >>> we talked about clouds are going to be more stubborn, cooler, flight arrival delays into sfo we'll talk about when the pattern will clear and summer will come back. >>> man's best friend, we'll tell you about a seeing eye dog that saved its owners life after sniffing out a gas leak. >> and how ebay is you can see . >>> if you own a ford vehicle we have a new recall to tell you about. ford is recalling nearly 485,000 escape and maverick suv's they have sticking gas pedals t

after a weekend in which michael's mother was erroneously reported missing, abc's nick watt sorts out the latest details. >> reporter: the jackson kids were coming home from summer school. following them home, uncles randy and jermaine and janet. cordial at first, but not for long. >> it was an ambush of sorts. they wanted the children to come with them. turned into yelling, aggression. >> janet jackson slapped paris jackson in the face. after the slap, janet told her, you're a spoiled little bitch. paris jackson retaliated slapped janet jackson back, get the f out of here. >> can you can see janet trying to grab her cellphone. >> i believe it was because of the tweets. >> reporter: she's still tweeting about missing her grandparents. so help me god i will make whoever did this pay. the sheriff's department describes this as -- >> a minor scuffle between two jackson members. >> reporter: tmz describes this as -- >> a scene from "the jerry springer show." trent punched jermaine jackson in the mouth. >> reporter: tonight randy gave his version on msnbc. >> yesterday we did go to the hom

i'm nick watt for "nightline" in los angeles. >> our thanks to nick. >>> and just ahead, a clumsy young tries to make it on his own in the wild of africa. last season was the gulf's best tourism season in years. in florida we had more suntans... in alabama we had more beautiful blooms... in mississippi we had more good times... in louisiana we had more fun on the water. last season we broke all kinds of records on the gulf. this year we are out to do even better... and now is a great time to start. our beatches are even more relaxing... the fishing's great. so pick your favorite spot on the gulf... and come on down. brought to you by bp and all of us who call the gulf home. >>> he's sort of the black sheep of the leopard family. not graceful, not agile, just adore bly awkward. he's also now a star of a new documently called "the unlikely leopard." here's my decidedly unclumsy co-anchor, bill weir. >> reporter: the little guy is just 10 days old. vision hazy, balance insteaddy. which is why a newborn leopard's chances of survival are 1 in 6. but his vulnerability is offset by a cuteness

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nick watt is in los angeles with the latest on this family feud. >> hello? i'm katherine jackson. >> reporter: and with those words, her first public words in ten days, the jackson clan matriarch, katherine gave her side of this explosive story. >> there are rumors about me being kidnapped and held against my will. i'm here today to let everybody know, i'm fine. i'm here with my children. they would never do a thing like that, holding me against my will. it's very stupid for people to think that. >> reporter: late saturday night, katherine's nephew trent -- >> he said everything was going fine, but, i'm still -- i was still thinking about the children. i still worry about them. but they're fine. >> reporter: here the a resort in tucson, arizona. jermaine explained she's there on doctor's orders. she was reading a script. she needed help from time to time. michael jackson's will gave custody to his mother. in a courtroom, temporary customer was handed over to tito's son, 34-year-old t.j. jackson. >> i'm def tated that my grandchildren have been taken away fro

i'm nick watt for "nightline" in los angeles. >> our thanks to nick. >>> and just ahead, a clumsy young tries to make it on his own in the wild of africa. last season was the gulf's best tourism season in years. in florida we had more suntans... in alabama we had more beautiful blooms... in mississippi we had more good times... in louisiana we had more fun on the water. last season we broke all kinds of records on the gulf. this year we are out to do even better... and now is a great time to start. our beatches are even more relaxing... the fishing's great. so pick your favorite spot on the gulf... and come on down. brought to you by bp and all of us who call the gulf home. and our schools and teachers. thousands of good paying jobs it's the new resort casino at national harbor. but it won't happen unless lawmakers act right now. all that money -- and all those new jobs -- will go to delaware, pennsylvania, west virginia. the only loser: maryland schools. tell your delegate and state senator to vote yes for schools, jobs, and small businesses by saying yes to national harbor. by saying

>> this project would put 60 foot tall white standards, 10 of them with 150,000 watts of lighting. that is 60 feet, is six stories high so it would dwarf the mid -- windmills and trees. the irs concludes the lighting is insignificant which is an absurd in an area that is a dark sky area. it is pitch black out there except for the beach alley itself. we hired lighting expert lumino consulting. they concluded the eir failed to consider fog scatter impact spread when light hits fog, it scatters in all directions. the city has proposed to reduce the light impact by putting blinders around the lights to direct the light downward. kind of like a laser beam but not quite as focused. when the light hits the fog, it scatters in all directions. lumino consulting concludes it would be 10 or 20 times more impact in fog conditions. that area is as funny as it gets. it is foggy all the time pretty much every night. so, the eir fails entirely to consider bob scatter. it makes a conclusion that fog would reduce light impact which there is no expert support for that conclusion at all. the-are also

watt of north carolina. the clerk: the chair: pursuant to house resolution 738, the gentleman from north carolina, mr. watt, and a member opposed, each will troll five minutes this echair recognizes the gentleman from north carolina. mr. watt: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. watt: madam speaker, after six long years of negotiations, thoughtful consideration, and bipartisan cooperation, we passed a patent reform bill which was signed into law on september 16, 2011, by president obama. at the time the bill was passed, speaker boehner said, quote, modernizing our patent system for america's innovators and job creators is an important part of the republican jobs plan. this bipartisan measure reflects our commitment to find common ground with the president on removing barriers to private sector job growth and i am pleased to see it signed into law. under the america invents act, we, the congress, republicans and democrats, directed the united states patent an

here is abc's nick watt. ♪ what a drag it is getting old ♪ >> reporter: might be the truth for most of mick and keith. the stones are still rolling. >> i'm lucky to be here, man. it's amazing. ♪ i can't get no satisfaction ♪ >> reporter: and they sure tried. the leathery lead guitarist has survived drugs, drink, even falling out of a coconut tree . and despite the kind of all the years of past and everything. i think i've come through pretty unscathed! >> reporter: mick, 68-years old, is still shaking his boney behind and pouting, which some say started out as a marilyn monroe parody! which is then, which is now? >> i mean, i recognize the person. it's still the same person. the core of the person is still pretty much the same. >> reporter: they were just 18 when the stones got together back in '62. kennedy was in the white house, man was still seven years away from walking on the moon. the longest marriage in rock history, mick is called her majesty. a golden anniversary tour? >> we're playing around with the idea and we've had a couple of rehearsals. >> reporter: in the event of nucl

my local power company says it takes 100 watts to bring 1 watt to my local town 75 miles away. so it's tremendously inefficient and decentralized grid would, of course, be a lot more efficient in bringing power to localized areas. so please comment on that. also, my unrelated question is that, you know, any large contractor portions 10% or so of their profits to maintaining the grid, and to what extent is the u.s. taxpayer asked to contribute to and maintain, subsidized power grid just like we're asked to subsidize the gas expense at the pump with the taxes we pay? thank you. >> okay. well, i'll tell you a difference about taxpayers and rate payers. there isn't any. i pay taxes, i pay for electricity. i pay for electricity at home, pay for electricity in the cost of everything i buy. there's some subsidy as in the stimulus act. most of it is paid by rate payers, but i don't thing that's a huge difference. people pay electric bills and pay taxes. i don't think your local utility is losing 99% of the energy in the grid. if you take coal or natural gas and you burn it and turn it

, lumens per watts, at least half of it has to be that way. whether you want it or not you've got to do it. state law. >> the layman term for high efficacy are fluorescent. >> they're developing other types. >> you have to count the lights and count the wattage and actually submit that sometimes with your permit. that's why undercabinet lights are good, you can put a lot of fluorescent lights there and meet that requirement. you can do also overcabinet lights and have ambient light as well. >> if you put a new window in, you have to meet energy standards for windows. what else can we do to make it a green kitchsnn >> you have to remember the lighting on the hood, many of these, like your hood sounds to be fairly large a lot of them are hall general lighting. you have to count the wattage in that hood along with all the rest of the lighting in your house. >> what else is green? we could use flooring materials. >> every option you can pick something green. so bamboo cabinets are very popular. you can do, you know, the resingled glass countertops

. >> and a three-year long labor dispute between high watt hotels and employees is getting nastier. employees are picketing and calling for a global boycott of the chain, charging high watt with overworking employees. they filed a complaint citing the unions for negotiatitting in bad faith. hundreds of janitors marred through the financial district threatening to go on strike if they don't get a new contract. and that would leave 450 buildings with no one to clean up. in a statement, the association says it's negotiating in good faith and expects to reach a fair agreement. >> a cutting edge technique is helping patients fight a deadly form of brain cancer. and they're delivering them in a grund breaking new way. >> there is when we've spent the last few days calculating this. >> for a man about to undergo brain surgery he's about as feisty as they come. >> diagnosis is that i'm a crazy old man and have gbm. >> it's a brain tumor returning twice after surgeries so this time, doctors will use an investigational technique to help kill the cancer cell autos we're injecting a virus foot

police say when they entered the home of charles dominick near watts avenue and annapolis road... they uncovered 46 marijuana plants worth 50-thousand dollars... along with 24 guns and ammunition. dominick was released on a 25-thousand dollar bond. police have arrested a 19-year- old glen burnie man, accused of robbing another man near cherry lane and ritchie highway in brooklyn park. police say tayvon patterson --along with three other men punched a man-- and robbed him..... as the man was waiting outside for someone. police are continuing to look for the other suspects. police are still searching for the man who abducted the mother of ácal ripken jrá. ripken's mother was taken at gunpoint last tuesday and driven around in her lincoln town car for 24-hours... before she was returned home. no ransom was demanded and mrs. ripken wasn't hurt.police did say a photo of the suspect has led to numerous tips.... helping the investigation. 3 a.,.. self described joker.... is... being checked out... by... mental health experts....// it ... follows ...friday's arrest... of... neil prescott

. >>> bargain shoppers could get money back cbs 5 reporter julie watts says groupon could owe you money. >>> $8.5 million miss you purchased a groupon before december 2011 you may have received an e-mail to the class action website groupon it makes no wrongdoing but agreed to settle the lawsuit that the expiration dates are illegal in states like california. it is a expected to be approved by the end of the weak claim forms on-line we have a link at cbs s f dot com. thanks to another landmark settlement you may lose money which total about the settlement with the visa mastercard stores may charge a fee to pay by credit card but in california state law prohibits credit card surcharges you still need to be my fault and other states. california consumer protections among the best in the nation. dog owners in eight states to offer better protection they believe contaminated chicken and treats from china second or killed their pets. they filed a lawsuit against an arena a the fda has been unable to identify and the specific toxins' responsible for illnesses even though it has been getting co

of your show is also on a 50,000 watt station.e talk about wattage and how it reaches people -- >> his big handle and his big giant stick will be there tomorrow night. >> yeah. you plug a little cable into our -- >> this is a subversive way to get me i, heart, switcher. >> yes. >> and lots of fresh new crunchy comedy goodness by mitt romney. and by tomorrow night imagine how many more stupid things he would have said. >> yeah. >> and i want to send thoughts and prayers out to wendy schultz. ed schultz's wife. i knew about this last weekend, wendy who is literally the nicest woman i think i have ever met. and she is battling ovarian cancer. and ed has been my big brother, and wendy has been so kind to me. >> before this show started ed had you fill in on his show. >> yeah. >> oh, nice. >> i just texted him, and said big bro so sorry, and please give wendy my love. so do that if you can, send an email or something. >> he has twitter too. if you want to contact him that way. >> yeah. big progressive group hug. now let's go to cindy i

watt of north carolina. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a 15-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the chair: on this vote theys are 177. the nays are 244. less than the majority voting in the affirmative, the amendment is not agreed to. the unfinished business is the request for recorded vote on amendment number 7 printed in house report -- part b of house report 112-616, by the gentleman from iowa, mr. loebsack, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment

hundreds of thousands of insured californians are getting money back next week >> shoaly watts explains is all part of a new health care reform law. >> consumer advocate best advocate says they failed to meet the 80-20 rule required by the federal health-care law. insurers are supposed to spend a minimum of 80 percent of premiums on actual health care costs rather than on medical expenses like marketing and salaries which are limited to 20%. >> since six of the state's largest health care insurers did not meet the threshold, californians will be getting rebates. they are expected to average $65 per family but will not necessarily, as a check in the mail. insurers can issue premium discounts, credit on a card and if you have a plan the employer gets the rebate and is expected to share with you but no matter how you get your money, she says one thing is clear >> they will be paying more attention this year because it means they need to reduce advertising, marketing and salaries and redirect that two things that actually pay for consumers' health care. >> many insurers did meet the medical

paving over of this right where it interfaces' the ocean with toxic tires, plastic grass, and 150,000 watts of lights, i would argue it constitutes inappropriate development in a very, very special place. it is an open space resources that should be protected by you, our elected supervisors. you have that power today. the benefits of this project and not outweigh the damage it would cause. how the planning commission and parks and recreation commission could ignore the master plan and approve this project is beyond belief, especially when there is a perfectly viable alternative. keep the golden gate park natural. but the artificial turf elsewhere instead. again, approve the alternate plan. president chiu: next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. for land use and the housing committee, i would like to read a portion of a letter, it is four pages, so we cannot do the whole thing. i will highlight it. this encourages the board of supervisors to support the appeal of the eir for the balletic -- athletic project. they believe this is inadequate, in complete it, inaccurate, in insufficient,

construction has started on a ram's head bar, prime rib iran, and shop live store for those who watt to watch instead of gam larrable. >>> coming up, pup byes pilfered. a man goes to extreme lengths to take home a puppy pomeranian. >> two firefighters are hospitalized after an apartment cogoes up in flames. >> robbed by a mob. it's happening more and more in maryland. i'll show you surveillance camera video of one of the latest incidents in baltimore. >> storms overnight and perhaps more tomorrow. i'm bob turk with and i'll have your complete forecast coming up next. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> it is 37 centuries with showers right now first, lightning is believed to have stated this 6-alarm fire at an apartment building in brooklyn. -ups of redents were evacuated from the #-story structure. firefighters fought it for over 3 hours. two dozen were taken to the hoapt, mostly for heat exhaustion. >>> we are learning more about the traveling medical technician charged with causing an outbreak of help teats c. he worked at several whos, including four here in maryland. his former employer said

the medical examiner's office says 78-year-old roosevelt watts was killed in the fire. that blaze broke out in a building on cleary court in the western addition neighborhood wednesday. two other residents of the complex suffered smoke inhalation but are expected to recover. the cause remains investigation. >>> demand from a non-profit group that has raised hundreds of thousands in donations to save a popular state park from the budget ax. this after similar group in sonoma county made the same demand yesterday. they want the stay to make a promise or hand all that money back. terry mcsweeney is live in san jose this is a fallout after a stunning discovery. >> reporter: yeah that was 54 million dollars sitting there in a california state park's bank account that not a lot of people knew about. in this morning's mercury news a blockbuster of a story this may be the tip of the iceberg it is reporting billions in state money found in hundreds of different accounts in addition to the state parks. take a look at a news conference in san jose about one hour ago. representativ

. >> julie watts explains that officers were looking for drunk drivers but rather polluters >> the bureauf automotive repair is conducting surveys all over the state focusing on areas with poor air quality. today was the 30 in the bay area this week. drivers are flat down and asked to participate in a voluntary roadside inspection. the test takes 10 minutes of in and they get a free vehicle inspection report. >> they're trying to make sure our air stays clean >> is for a good cause so i figure i might as well do it >> it is a good way to keep your car up to date and help with the environment so it won't pollute the air so much >> they say the random checks allow them to measure the effectiveness of the mandatory smog check program california homeowners now have some of the strongest foreclosure protections in the country. today governor brown signed the homeowner's bill of rights. it outlines were one arm of the bank is working on a modification with a homer where another is for closing on the home. banks now need to provide a single point of contact. >> we are done with robotic signing,

csi reported to the watts explains why one woman had a surprise roadblock when she tried to get hers'. my personal medical records. i don't care who pays for it. motherland's once the medical records for physical exam she needs them for new job. she says the place where she got the physical said no. did we stay absolutely refuse. her old company did. >>> from there is very surprised when i heard the story. that is because david says you have a right to any in your own medical records. it says so right here under the state health and safety code. within five working days of a formal written request it does make a difference to pay for the exam. when confronted with the health code the hospital couldn't explain why wouldn't directly give her her own records and said many refer to a former company saying " this is standard policy nothing is withheld in the tonight and and she finally got a copy of those records performer company of these now she wants to pay for another exam. to get a copy of your medical records he should put your request in writing and if you have a problem getting man

jolie watts explains the opinions are mixed. >> it seems really strange >> i think they can compare reallyy >> i think it is an odd combination but i love both stores >> many shoppers are shocked to hear that neiman-marcus is teaming up with target. they're offering the same holiday collection for the same price made up of designers. >> it is an unlikely match but i think it makes sense >> consumer psychologist says that high and partnerships have proven successful like one last year that sold out in minutes >> the most obvious to understand is how target would want to elevate their image but the other one that is a little bit more subtle is why neiman- marcus would want to be associated with target >> she points to a recent study that finds most consumers do not any longer find exclusivity with appeal, they equate it with arrogance >> they're not seen as for everyone and that is the challenge, how to make themselves more accessible >> it seems that the mere announcement of the partnership is already having a positive impact on perceptions >> i'm not a branded perot but i think it is cool

lane at the bridge toll if you don't have a fast track or cash you can get hit with a $25 fine, julie watts pine covered a wide to wiggle out of paying the ticket. we went to santa cruz boardwalk for the first time. >>> susan munson and her boyfriend were used the bay area bridges they did not know there'd be a toll: over the carquinez bridge >>> and we went through no tolls on the way they're with cindy would not go through any >>> the bridge does not take and checks or credit so they 10 and told her to drive through >>> she told me there be a fee for not paying >>> his data was a $25 fee >>> foretold the invasion i some like a criminal $25 >>> if you don't have cast is go through the plaza and you'll receive a violation notice there's room on the for written explanation >>> fast-track says of the cut in that situation just explain your caught without cash >>> chances are excellent customer service will dismiss the violation >>> it worked for susan, the way for $25 panting after she wrote a letter and a just asking for the $5 toll. >>> if you live in the bay area at the bridge authority to

watt, two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from north carolina is recognized for two minutes. mr. watt: thank you, mr. chairman, and let me say, first, that this bill is not about sunshine. it's not about transparency. it is about dissatisfaction that some individuals have with the man indicate that congress has given -- mandate that congress has given to the federal reserve. the gentleman who just spoke is absolutely right. they're supposed to deal with inflation. that's what we told them to do in their mandate. they're supposed to deal with unemployment. that's what we told them to do in the mandate we gave them. and some people over there are dissatisfied with the fact that they don't want them to deal with unemployment. they don't want them to try to adjust and make changes that will be beneficial to our economy. and if they don't want that, they ought to just introduce a bill that repeals the mandate that we gave to them. don't come and say we're talking about sunshine and transparen