sharon waxman, some thoughts about the impact of this man's career. it's hard to avoid the use of super latives because did he it for so long, and he did high impact stories and interviewed everybody from presidents to he once asked ayatollah whether he was crazy. >> good question. >> he interviewed ayatollah and it gives you a sense of his longevity and his ability to sustain, you know, that -- those really hard-hitting interviews. i mean, his mental strength, i mean, really all the way through until he retired was something that was really remarkable. i'll just recall -- the first time i met him in person, he was stripped to -- he was bare to his shorts and walked in glowing. it was on a summer day. the east coast on martha's vineregard. i was at someone's house, and he came in, and he immediately started peppering me with questions. who was i? where was i at? where did i come from? he was just a natural intufr, and he had this dazzling smile. he was late in his 1980s. he was just a remarkable person. >> force of nature. final thought, marissa guthr

waxman name is richard. earlier i turned in a speaker card. >> ok. >> thank you. i want to have the department's attention. there are more smoke pot and flowers -- smoke pots than flowers in the square. recently the spacing was not fixed or replaced for the last week. i was going to speak about the congestion of traffic in stockton, but lots of speakers touch the subject. i went to the department of public works, who was supposed to monitor the sidewalks and streets. mainly these stores in stockton, they use the street as a storage area. they put boxes. many of those stores, they put the band's to facilitate their business. certainly, the goods are away from the premises. >> [inaudible] >> everyone is listening. we have many seniors walking the streets and buying this stuff. they are forced to walk on these streets to get by. mainly, mother with a baby carriage, also have to go out on the street. so, this problem, everybody know it for years. but the enforcement is due. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. we have time for one more, then we are really out of time.

henry waxman. those who don't remember who he is, a familiar looking guy.ou may remember him, head of the house oversight committee. 78 hearings he held. lehman brothers, baseball, a lot of things. here he is about condoleezza rice. >> secretary rice is going to have a confrontation with this committee because we're not going to accept the idea that if you say something that could be negative about the maliki government that could be classified. if you said something positive it's okay. that's seems to about what we've -- that seems to be what we were told by the state department. i consider that completely unacceptable. >> 78 hearings for his tenure. darrell issa already at 50. john, is he out of control? >> when he says things that are ridiculous on their face, like the most corrupt administration in history, yes. that is a sign of not someone in control. not a serious person. but you know, what waxman comments indicate, this is a bipartisan problem. grandstanding when a president of the opposite party and it diminishing the entire process. >> thanks to a

you know, barney frank, for example, got some push-back this week from example, henry waxman because barney frank's point was financial services reform, we need to focus on the banks bankd waxman said, he got his bill, so what is he complaining about? true, that bill came later. true, they lost some time. they could have done more if they hadn't spent political capital on helt care reform. but they didn't do that -- did do that bill and so to say they were steamrolled is a little much,. >> greta: the plot thickens. we will see what happens with the supreme court and with the voters when they have a chance to at least vote on the reverend upum on the health carry. thank you. >> sure. thank you. >> greta: straight ahead. it was a warm winter, but is the economic recovery headed for a deep freeze? who is warning us that dark clouds are on the horizon? a new photo in the trayvon martin case, taken within minutes of the deadly shooting. could it be a game changer? it will blow up the case? and a new storm, knocking the infamous friday off its perch. what new song got the title, worst song

waxman: i thank the gentleman for yielding. the cynicism of the debate today is why congress is held in such low repute. we hear republicans saying that a public health fund is a slush fund. this is a fund set up to keep us healthy, prevent diseases as long as possible, immunize our kids, provide mammography and pap smears to women in need, find wirt defects early on, help stop smoking, they call this a slush fund. they are not trying to reduce this fund, their proposal to eliminate it. and the argume from the other side of the sle is, well, we'll still get those services. i don't know whether we'll get those services if the fund is eliminated and appropriations are being squeezed down. so they call this a slush fund, but they are using it as a slush fund because they took the elimination of this fund to pay for this extension of student loan interest rates, and they eliminated this fund so they could use it for their reconciliation to the budget in order to make sure defense is adequately funded, to make sure the tax cuts are

it was joe barton, henry waxman, barney frank, who was your college classmate, and congressman bachus. everyone agreed we should keep our jurisdiction because we did a really good job and because there was uncertainty over the cfpb, particularly very, very early on. >> commissioner rosch, you are very diplomatic and i understand where you're coming from. >> i have very little to add to what the chairman has said except the following. first of all, with respect to the people who have gone over there, peggy tuohy, who brought our principal pre-2008 case that yielded consumers millions and millions of dollars, went over to head up the cfpb's new nonbank financial protection program. second, i would point out that the cfpb has exclusive jurisdiction over rule making, over fair debt collection practices. and it may make a rule which is broader than the one that we enforce under the fair debt collection practices act. we don't know.

waxman: i rise in opposition to the amendment. president obama's already threatened to veto this legislation because it circumvents the longstanding process for reviewing and potentially dangerous keystone x.l. pipeline, the mckinley amendment would add another extraneous provision to the underlying bill. this amendment would prevent e.p.a. from regulating toxic coal ash and would put our nation's drinking water and public health at greater risk. on december 22, 2008, a coal ash empowerment in tennessee burst, releasing 5.4 million cuic yards of toxic sludge blanketing a river and the surrounding land and creating a superfund site that could cause up to 1.2 -- $1.2 billion to clean up. at hearings in the energy and commerce committee, we heard testimony about the devastating impacts contamination from coal combustion wastes can cause. we learned of contaminated drinking water supplies and ruined property values. we learned that in proper disposal of coal ash can both present catastrophic risks for ruptures of containment structure

joining me now, sharon waxman, the editor of the wrap.com, who broke the story.you, as soon as i read this, i forward ed it to a screenwriter friend of minute who worked with mel gibson and read everything in the letter and said, yes, this is the kind of thing i heard. this makes sense to me. he wanted to add to your file. he said the theme in here that you constant lly hear is how ha it is to be mel gibson. here is a quote, in the first 20 minutes of knowing him, whatever i say about the jews, a thousand rabi's around the world would come after me, because of this pressure he is under, he has actually had a face mask made by the hollywood experts that can make face masks, he has made a face mask made so he can go out in public in restaurants and he said that it works perfectly. he goes out in public in restaurants with a face mask that disguises him perfectly and he went on to say, he is a constant conspiracy thetheeoris and believes that there were drones that brought down the twin towers, it's madness run wild, i'm giving you an additional source, but the spir

congressman henry waxman and elijah cummings launching an investigation following the times report thiskend alleging wal-mart covered up widespread bribery. bill george says it is not unusual for a firm with over 2 million employees operating in 15 countries. >> if you're running a big global company, it is almost impossible to never have violations. but when you find out about it, you act swiftly, remove the people involved, put in new people and make sure have you all of the preventative practices in place. >> reportedly, executives in wal-mart's mexican unit bribed officials in 2007 for rapid expansions in mexico for the retailers. last year they opened its own internal probe led by outside counsel and forensic accountants. this led to comply once the corn corrupt practices act. randy turk who conducted these investigations for other companies calls the board's actions appropriate. noting suspensions or other moves will probably happen only after the investigation is complete. reportedly, three current board members, mike duke, lee scott and eduardo wright knew of the first internal

congressman waxman was never interested in that. he just wanted to bash bush.arrell issa will be doing, i'm pretty sure that what he's going to be looking at is ways to get the agency back on track and to stop wasting the american taxpayer money and that's good for all americans. >> she is the former g.s.a. administrator. thanks so much for your thoughts this morning. have a great week. >> thank you, gretchen have. a great day. >> this guy passed the florida bar with flying colors but turns out he's in the country illegally? should he still be allowed to practice law? the inside story of one of the biggest scams in america. a woman who claimed to be a 9/11 survivor, hero and widow lying the whole time? how did she fool everyone? how did she keep her stories straight? that's coming up. ♪ [ upbeat ] [ barks ] [ announcer ] all work and no play... will make allie miss her favorite part of the day. [ laughing ] that's why there's new beneful baked delights. from crispy crackers to shortbread cookie dog snacks, they're oven-baked to surprise and delight. beneful bak

c-span: here's some video of the testifying back in 1994 before the waxman committee.et's watch a little bit of it. >> i would like to say that senior management and return, virginia, as well as top officials at phillip morris reviewed our research and approved it. senior management also made final decisions determining whether data could be published, presented at scientific meetings, or even discussed in the scientific community. with regard to the phillip morris press release dated march 1231, 1994, the statements made concerning my research and assessment of experiments are out of context and misleading. further, during my employment, three manuscripts were approved for publication. two of these manuscripts were subsequently ordered to be withdrawn by the company after this approval. in addition, in 1983 scheduled presentation of the nicotine self administration paper of the american psychological association meeting was also blocked by the company. finally, without prior discussion or prior warning, the pharmacology laboratory was closed in april of 1984. c-span:

let's get to sharon waxman from rape.com. you've seen the show. do you like it?thing different. >> so give me the premise of it. >> it's definitely for women. these are women who are young women in their early 20s who are not gorgeous, not glamorous, don't have great jobs, and in the episode last night they spent half of it at an abortion cli clinic. it has the feeling of an indy movie instead of hbo. there is explicit sex and a lot of anxiety in the show all the way through about the sexual lives of these young women. >> which i guess is where those comparisons to "sex and the city" coming from. where some of the criticism comes from is the entire show takes place in new york city and, yet, they really don't have much diversity, if any diversity on the show, right? >> there's a lot of different ways to short of parse the show. that's definitely one aspect that is a little bit strange for people who live in new york city which is this wildly diverse city. "sex and the city" had the same issue. it was very, very white. by the way, every time television does this y

i covered the henry, waxman markie bill. trying to get it passed.ze green energy since we can't increase the cost of carbon and the response has been scandal mongering about solyndra and solar powpower. seems you can't win. >> how do you present this? make it relevant to people. there are times when i think we've lost the climate argument and we ought to just be talking about emissions. talking about the greenhouse gases, what they mean. >> interesting. >> if you can say something that is not contagious as an epf asthma in this country. the single largest cause of missed school days, over 10 million missed school days. that's very real to people. every time i go into a school and ask kids, do they know anybody, have asthma in their family? three quarters of hands go up. we don't know what causes asthma. we know fine particulate matter in the air is triggerç an atta or exacerbate an attack. we need to find more instances where it really gets back to the individual to say, this matters to you. this stuff dirty. if nothing else, it's dirty. you don't

waxman: i thank the gentleman for yielding. the cynicism of the debate today is why congress is held in such low repute. we hear republicans saying that a public health fund is a slush fund. this is a fund set up to keep us healthy, prevent diseases as long as possible, immunize our kids, provide mammography and pap smears to women in need, find wirt defects early on, help stop smoking, they call this a slush fund. they are not trying to reduce this fund, their proposal is to eliminate it. and the argument from the other side of the aisle is, well, we'll still get those services. i don't know whether we'll get those services if the fund is eliminated and appropriations are being squeezed down. so they call this a slush fund, but they are using it as a slush fund because they took the elimination of this fund to pay for this extension of student loan interest rates, and they eliminated this fund so they could use it for their reconciliation to the budget in order to make sure defense is adequately funded, to make sure the tax cu

he was kicked out of leadership by as fellow democrats, by nancy pelosi and henry waxman. he had to content himself with being a congressman in the third category. john dingell at 85 still knows how to get things done. host: mike is our next caller. caller: you guys to a wonderful job. good morning. i wonder if you have a opinion of my representative in arizona. guest: i do not know him well. i did not focus on him. he was a thorn in the side to house leadership and has been on whip team and was kicked off because he voted one way even as the majority whip was asking him to convince people to vote the other way. i mentioned in the book that he had gabrielle giffords got along well. her last acts as congresswoman, she gave him a tour of the capital. the next day the terrible tragedy occurred. those are the only mentions that he gets. host: isn't he in a primary right now? guest: ben quayle said barack obama is the worst president of my lifetime. nobody thought he would be thrust into a primary where he would find myself having to defend his conservative credentials. it is p

upton, whitfield and waxman. from the committee on natural resources for consideration of sections 122, 142, 204 and titles 3 and 6 of the house bill and section 1116, subtitle c, f and g of title 1 of division a, section 33009, title 6 and 7 of division c, section 40101, subtitles a and b of title 1 of division f and section 100301 of senate amendment, modifications committed to the conference, ms.ers hastings of washington, bishop of utah and markey. from the committee on science, space and technology for consideration of sections 121, 123, 136 and 137 of the house bill and section 1534, subtitle f, title 1 of division a, sections 20013, 20014, 20029, 31010, 31103, 31111, 31204, 31504, 32705. 33009, 34008 and division e of the senate amendment, a modification committed to conference, messrs. hal, cravaack and ms. eddie bernice johnson of texas. from the committee of ways and means for consideration of sections 141 and 142 of the house bill and sections 1801, 40101, 4102, 40201, 40202, 40204, 40205, 40301 throug

he was kicked out of leadership by as fellow democrats, by nancy pelosi and henry waxman. he had to content himself with being a congressman in the third category. john dingell at 85 still knows how to get things done. host: mike is our next caller. caller: you guys to a wonderful job. good morning. i wonder if you have a opinion of my representative in arizona. guest: i do not know him well. i did not focus on him. he was a thorn in the side to house leadership and has been on whip team and was kicked off because he voted one way even as the majority whip was asking him to convince people to vote the other way. i mentioned in the book that he had gabrielle giffords got along well. as one of her last acts as congresswoman, she gave him a tour of the capital. the next day the terrible tragedy occurred. those are the only mentions that he gets. primaryn't he in a right now? guest: ben quayle said barack obama is the worst president of my lifetime. nobody thought he would be thrust into a primary where he would find myself having to defend his conservative credentials. it is