the meter increase recommendation fell through, fell by the wayside. i hope we can get together and plan this with director oka about this. the second issue is whether or not more taxi medallions are needed. i heard the director say you are going to issue more unbalanced to balance your budget. i think first, you need to have a hearing. -- issue more medallions. i agree that we need more part- time medallions. hopefully, you can set up something on the agenda, and we can work towards that. the federal credit union supporting the medallion pilot program sales is very interested to have a similar program for single user permits to career and taxi drivers. it could be that you might want to assign permits on the weekend nights for the big company operators, sell them for a modest price. it was disturbing, so that you have a plan for big-time taxis you are dealing with, and we have not had any hearings. >> i came in late. is there an item 11 for items not on this agenda, or is this just plain public comment right now? ok. what is the difference between mta

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because they fall by the wayside and compromise with their own party or what the other party wouldn't stand for. >> two lines that i remember in the last 15 years, there was clinton's the year of small government is over. and president bush the axis of evil. that was pretty much it. >> i can't tell from that shot if they're all there or not. six, seven, and nine. >> samuel alito is in hawaii at the moment. clarence thomas isn't there either. >> and, of course, senior members of the armed services as well. >> although it's a laundry list of things the president wants to get done, it all gets united under sort of an arc, a theme. what is the theme this year, mike? >> well, i think, you know, if there are three words or four words, it's he wants to win the future. which both suggests that it's a contest and a battle heading forward. >> there's the vice president and sir john boehner, the newly elected speaker of the house on the other side of the political aisle. he will now address the house and the nation. in his second state of the union address. barack obama, american's 44th presiden

of income inequality- - in other words, the rich are getting richer, and the poor are going by the wayside. he's bill rodgers, professor at rutgers university. >> the "great recession" forced the elderly, veterans, minorities, youth, and less educated and less skilled americans to move from our nation's main streets to its side streets. the new stimulus will accelerate the recovery's pace, but in 2011 and beyond, i am concerned that many americans will not move back to main street. with republican power increasing, all americans, especially these groups, will bear an even greater share of the systemic risk that is inherent in our economy. to get americans back to main street, i suggest the following: we must reinvigorate our investment in education and training. we must strengthen our cities' infrastructures, parks, community centers; and our social safety nets, which are highly successful at reducing poverty. we must stop the bleeding in the government's monitoring of the economy that occurred during the bush administration. if not, we jeopardize not only our economic competitiveness, but

." >> tom: susie, that folksy demeanor may go by the wayside as boehner takes the lead on the people's business. that likely means we'll see fights over spending, namely on health care and the nation's massive red ink. >> susie: in his acceptance speech, senator boehner promised to make congress more transparent and to restore the american people's trust in the political system. he said, "a great deal of scar tissue has built up on both sides of the aisle." >> tom: joining us now to talk more about the challenges facing the new congress, washington bureau chief darren gersh. darren, the republicans take over the u.s. house just as the government debt tops $14 trillion and races toward that debt ceiling. the fight is a few weeks away, but how does this shape the budget battle? >> yeah. that is the budget battle, the economic scar tissue, if you will. it is about to get a lot more interesting. the treasury usually when it is about to ask for debt ceiling increase sends up a letter to capitol hill complaining why it wants that. the interesting thing here, tom, is that the new members, the

they did away with the punch cards so that when by the wayside.they left the states and the local jurisdictions with the capability of coming up with a solution of what do you play punch cards with. the other thing that they ended up doing, the more dramatic thing, is required that each state have a statewide voter registration file. because up to that point in time you had to go to every single county to find out who was registered and get a list of registered voters to do a mailing with, for example. that caused enormous cost, and so congress dictated that states create a conglomerate, statewide voter registration file and system by collecting all of those counties together in the one uniform format. it helped from a campaign state. -- if not from the campaign standpoint, and it helped get rid of -- it helped from a campaign standpoint. they were canceling border registrations in the old jurisdiction, and that is what that helps do this time. so there are benefits on that side from doing something on a uniform basis. it varies. i think there are

. >> i think there will go by the wayside. since the end of the cold war in the last two decades the united states has engaged in military interventions in somalia, bosnia, haiti, kosovo, iraq and afghanistan. these military interventions had varying motives, but they all ended with the united states spending a lot of time and effort trying to build a working governmental institutions in these countries to use the familiar term. we have got ourselves involved in nation-building all over the world. whenever you think of those particular missions with you are for or against him we really come to the end of them. there are just too expensive. none of them have been all that popular with the public. they came about in response to an attack on the u.s. states. now that in the nation-building has become unpopular. although i think members of the foreign policy community and members of the government see this kind of activity as the wave of the future. a lot of talk about reorganizing the defense department and converting the state d

and even that has gone by the wayside. >> host: what do you mean by that?>> guest: handling those kinds of materials, and you know, making riveting things together, you know, just putting angle iron together. and also understanding of vacuum tubes work and how capacitors work because those are all outmoded things. he said he always made them laugh, this whole doesn't have had white hair, except his, his hair was red. but i own them a lot. he was really great and he explained a lot of things to me. and sorted a lot of things out for many. >> host: it seems courageous. i cover technology and i don't know if i was able to set up doing this, in that -- >> guest: i felt that since i understood those were principl principles, but somehow i would get through it. and yet, i did get bogged down from time to time in the text up within the drama which is keep going. the death, interesting guests on among the group. clifford berry, did he commit suicide? alan turing, did he commit suicide? touring as we all know are as anyone who's interested in in computers knows, tur

so a lot of great research goes by the wayside because it is underfunded. the cornerstone of cancer research is what these clinical trials are, and they deserve to be covered. after recovering from cancer, children can no longer be denied coverage due to pre-existing conditions. that . in the future, what are we going to do? do they need to worry whether they will be in shorter not? not in my country. that is not acceptable. also providing preventive services without charging co- payments and deductibles, or co- insurance, they can detect childhood cancers earlier because early protection is the key to survival -- early detection is the key to survival. we pay over $500 just in copays because we see a series of specialists every year. to a family of six, $500 in one copiague is rather expensive. the affordable care act eliminates annual and lifetime caps on coverage. that helps eliminate one road to bankruptcy for many people. cancer is very expensive. oftentimes people hit their caps before they even hit the hospital -- before they even leave the hospital.

laid under the soft blue light of a wayside clinic waiting to go and quietly with the flies returning to his skin, he is still though he must wait there until dusk before they notice, before a procession of mothers leads the body out into the night. and mother of mothers, she hears her child, look around and speak. how nice the air is out here. fore he dies. this time for good. mother of mothers. in your ban dan a and with your holy testament, you must draw the line of defense around the beleaguered souls. and speak a torrent of curses on the beast lurking in the shadows. >> ifill: jeff ison >> ifill: jeff is on a reporting trip to haiti now and has filed a video dpatch from port-au- prince. that's on our web site, as are links to the "u.s.a. today" and pulitzer center series. >> lehrer: again, the major developments of the day. republican leaders vowed to cut spending on the eve of the new congress convening. and the u.s. navy relieved the captain of the aircraft carrier u.s.s. "enterprise" for making and showing lewd videos on board when he was second in command. and to kwame holman

the assumption that national sovereignty could be defended with conventional forces, fell to the wayside, it no longer became possible to maintain national sovereignty by going to war. because war became as the phrase was all those years, suicidal. under those circumstances it's as if nuclear energy shortage out the limited amount of energy available for conventional explosives and move the whole political system over to a different place. we are still in the middle of beginning to work out the consequences of this discovery of this formulation. and we haven't made that much progress, but if you look, for example, at the number of nuclear tests over the last 60 years, there's a japanese artist who put together an animated slide, a map of the world and it shows each nuclear test. and it's absolutely fascinating and runs 15 minutes. you've got a ping, ping, ping. the middle of the cold war is a symphony of sound. it becomes clear very quickly that besides testing, design, there is something like a communication going on at this very low bit rate as it were a nuclear explosion between the u

on the assumption that national sovereignty could be defended with conventional forces fell to the wayside. it no longer became possible to maintain national sovereignty by going to war because war became as the phrase was all those years, suicidal. under those circumstances, it says if nuclear energy shorted out the limited amount of energy available for conventional weapons and move the whole political system over to a different place, we are still in the middle of beginning to work out the consequences of this discovery, this formulation and we haven't made that much progress. but if you look for example at the number of nuclear tests over the last 60 years, there is a japanese artist who put together an animated slide, and map of the world and it shows each nuclear test. it is absolutely fascinating. it runs 15 minutes. the middle of the cold war is just a symphony of sound. it becomes clear very quickly that there was something like the communication going on at this very rate of nuclear explosions between the united states in the soviet union. it drops off dramatically in 1991 and th

this will go by the wayside. only security advisory system will be shown the door as home and security officer will make the announcement today after pulling the plug in april. they are expected to unveil a new system focusing on specific threats. her speeches scheduled for later this afternoon at george washington university. >> 5 and 7:00 a.m., a big story the weather. we have a warm friend in the bay area, they have another big storm back east. live shot of new york. you can see the slow traffic. streets are clogged with snow that they are doing their best to removed. it's really delicious, mom. it's not too well done? nope. but it is a job well done. what are you reading, sweetie? her diary. when you're done, i'd love some feedback. sure. your mom and i read that thing cover-to-cover. loved it. thanks. would you mind if i cut the lawn this weekend? only if you let me talk to your mother on the phone for hours on end. done. [ male announcer ] u-verse brings peace to the family. at&t u-verse lets you record fou

they did away with the punch cards so that when by the wayside. but they left the states and the local jurisdictions with the capability of coming up with a solution of what do you play punch cards with. the other thing that they ended up doing, the more dramatic thing, is required that each state have a statewide voter registration file. because up to that point in time you had to go to every single county to find out who was registered and get a list of registered voters to do a mailing with, for example. that caused enormous cost, and so congress dictated that states create a conglomerate, statewide voter registration file and system by collecting all of those counties together in the one uniform format. it helped from a campaign state. -- if not from the campaign standpoint, and it helped get rid of -- it helped from a campaign standpoint. they were canceling border registrations in the old jurisdiction, and that is what that helps do this time. so there are benefits on that side from doing something on a uniform basis. it varies. i think ther

is still operating by the wayside.they were so busy now as committee chairman and subcommittee chairman they didn't have that time. what we did and what i did and c.m.n. and s.o.s. would try to find guys in each class and invite them to join and i was fortunate enough to be selected to join s.o.s., myself and one other freshman member. and what we would do is meet every week on a tuesday afternoon in a member's office. the member would be responsible for laying out the booze and the cheese and the crackers and youth sit there and you'd sit there and talk about what your committees were doing. you'd be there for an hour. you had to be there on time. if not you were fined. i don't know where the money went. >> the earmarks. >> but there would be people who were more senior people. i would be able to listen to barbara, the ranking member of the ways and means committee talk about issues before the ways and means committee and what was happening and all of this stuff and all of these other people, john anderson, gerry ford

particularly if we are talking about a bipartisan deal, that is something that may have to go by the waysidest: cordelia, georgia. go ahead, buck. you are on the air. you have to turn down your television. caller: i would like to find better who decided to invest with the chinese? they are not investing with our individuals or jobs. what caused us to be in this position? everyone in government that put us in this position needs to be removed and put in people with some common sense. host: we have moved on from that topic, now talking about the house gop strategy. let's go to chris in virginia. caller: i have been wondering what the income of the u.s. is, nobody tells us. i was also wondering how much senior citizens pay into entitlements. this report, we exceed what we pay because of our claims. we are on top of the game. guest: the question about china is relevant here. one of the reasons we have this economic situation with china is because we have decided to have a government that gives out more in benefits than it takes in taxes. under that system, you are going to have a situation where

whether it's the relentlessness of sexual morality that has fallen by the wayside, whether it's the addthis is the culture of death that leads to dispair to which we must fight against. we can call it whatever we want to. we can use whatever youth niches we want. those children, whether they are children in the womb, whether they are the sick or elderly, it's the same thing. it's murder, and we have to stand against it for the sake of our country, for the sake of our nation, for the sake of our integrity. as christians, we provide -- we have the solution for this country. as christians, we provide a way out of that culture of death and despair. through repentness, there is a way out of the grief, out of the self-hatred and despair, but we have to communicate that message to a culture that is intoxicated with its own pleasure. brothers and sisters, let us fight against that heedennism, that selfishness which is at the very core of the destruction of our people and of our nation. it's at the very core of the self-destructive behaviors which come out of a behavior of abortion. there is for

some cases will fall by the wayside if they simply ban an exercise of the right of arms or some aspect of it, for example. i'm currently litigating a case in which the city of chicago has banned people from using guns at a firing range. they have banned gun training, they've banned going to the range and practicing. well, we believe that a core aspect of the second amendment, if you have the right to a gun, one of the obvious things, take it to the range and practice. that doesn't really require a standard of review, necessarily, to resolve that case on appeal. we look forward to that. some jurisdictions ban entirely the caring of arms in public. now that activity can be regulated, but not banned entirely. again, that's a matter that doesn't -- isn't going to require a balancing test. and to the extent that some of these jurisdictions impose licensing requirements, they are applied in arbitrary and capricious fashion, that's not balancing. that calls into play the supreme court long standing teachings about prior strength doctrines. since we've had a number of federal courts already ad

particularly if we are talking about a bipartisan deal, that is something that may have to go by the wayside. host: cordelia, georgia. go ahead, buck. you are on the air. you have to turn down your television. caller: i would like to find better who decided to invest with the chinese? they are not investing with our individuals or jobs. what caused us to be in this position? everyone in government that put us in this position needs to be removed and put in people with some common sense. host: we have moved on from that topic, now talking about the house gop strategy. let's go to chris in virginia. caller: i have been wondering what the income of the u.s. is, nobody tells us. i was also wondering how much senior citizens pay into entitlements. this report, we exceed what we pay because of our claims. we are on top of the game. guest: the question about china is relevant here. one of the reasons we have this economic situation with china is because we have decided to have a government that gives out more in benefits than it takes in taxes. under that system, you are going to have a situation w

so a lot of great research goes by the wayside because it's underfunded. the cornerstone of cancer research is what these clinical trials are and they deserve to be covered. after recovering from cancer, children can no longer be denied coverage due to pre-existing conditions. that's one of our biggest fears. if my husband were to lose his job, no one is going to take us. and in the future, what are they going to do? do they deserve to worry if they worry whether they are going to be insured or not. not in my country. no. it's not acceptable. and also requires new plans to provide preventive services without increasing regular checkups that can detect childhood cancers because earliest detection is key to survival. we pay right now over zhrrs 500 in just co-pays because we see a series of specialists and to a family of six, $500 in one co-pay is rather expensive. the affordable care eliminates lifetime caps on coverage. that helps eliminate one road to bankruptcy for many people. cancer is very expensive and oftentimes hit their caps. they hit their caps b

has fallen by the wayside when gingrich took over because they were busy as committee chairs that they didn't have the time. what i did and the two would try to find a couple of guys in each class and invite them to join and i was fortunate enough to be selected to join s.o.s., myself and one other freshman member. we would meet every week on a tuesday afternoon in a member's office. the member would be responsible for laying out the booze and the cheese and crackers and sit there and talk about what your committees were doing and be there for an hour. and you had to be there on time. you would get fined and the money went into -- >> earmarks. >> the booze fund but there would be people who were more senior people on all of the committees in congress, everything would be represented there, so i would be able to listen to the ranking member of the ways and means committee talk about issues before the ways and means committee and what was happening and what wilbur mills was doing now and john anderson, jerry ford was a member. these people were the experts on their committees and every w

they did to a certain degree, they did away with the punch cards so that went by the wayside.they left the states and local jurisdictions with a double the of coming up with a solution of what do you replace the punch cards with, for example. the other thing the in the doing, the more dramatic thing is require that each state have a statewide voter registration file because up to that point in time, you had to go to every single county to find out who was registered and get a list of registered voters to do a mailing list for example. that caused enormous costs and so the congress dictated that states create a conglomerate statewide legislation filed and system by collecting all of those counties to get their in the one uniform format. it helped from a candian standpoint and it helped get rid of some of the dead wood that was there because indeed, with all those people moving between jurisdictions they were not canceling the vote. they were not canceling their registration in the world jurisdiction, and so that's what creating a statewide voter registration system has helped d

. >> [inaudible] those rally went by the wayside last night. his speech had a tremendous emotional impact. t think that will fundamentally -- >> i do not want to get into political prognosticating. has done ae president' pretty good job touching on the hopes and aspirations and dreams of many in this country. it provides an opportunity to reflect. >> thank you, robert. i think there seems to be an agreement across the board about the president touching on civility and healing and bipartisanship. is he aware and does he have a reaction to some of the comments made in the last week by members of his own party in the other direction? making suggestions about free speech and the nature. or senator bernie sanders? >> i am not -- there are many you can comment on all this. i would point you to what the president said last night. it was a message that was not reserved for or intended for anybody in particular. it was intended for and received by the whole country. there are plenty who can play a convent. that is not my role. >> -- play pundit. >> is h

is linked nk with this, whether it's belowsss of sensuousness of morality that has fallen by the waysidecy foror euthanasia, all of this is that culte of culture death which leads to despair for which we must fightl again.e we can call it whatever we want to. use we can use whatever euphemisms we want, but the murder oftherhy persons, whether those weren the children in the world, whether you're it's the same thing. it's murder, and we have to stand against it for the sake of our country, for the sake of our nation, for the sake of our integrity. as christians, we provide -- we have the solution for this country. as christians, we provide a way out of that culture of death and despair. through repentness, there is a way out of the grief, out of the self-hatred and despair, but we have to communicate that message to a culture that is intoxicated with its own pleasure. brothers and sisters, let us fight against that heedennism, that selfishness which is at the very core of the destruction of our people and of our nation. it's at the very core of the self-destructive behaviors which come ou

those went by the wayside last night. this speech had a tremendous emotional impact. do you think that that will -- >> i don't want to get into political prognosticating. i think that -- i think the president, over the course of his career, has done a pretty good job touching on the hopes and the aspirations and the dreams of many in this country. and, again, i think yesterday provideds us an opportunity to reflect. yes, sir. >> thank you, robert. i think there seems to be agreement across the board about the president touching on civility and healing in his remarks last night and bipartisanship. is he aware of, and does he have a reaction to some of the comments made in the last week by members of his own party in the other direction? notably congressman cly born making a speech and others suggesting arizona is unsafe for people who are republicans. >> i'm not going to -- there are many who can comment on all this, an i would simply point you to what the president said last night. it was a message that was not reserved for, or intended for the whole country. >> are y

some cases will fall by the wayside, if you simply ban an exercise of the right to arms or some aspect of it. for example, i'm currently litigating a case in which the -- the city of chicago has banned people from using guns at a firing range. they've bannedun training. they've banned going to the range and practicing. where we believe that a core aspect of the second amendment, if you have the right to a gun, one of the obvious things that you would do with that gun is take it to the range and practice. and so that doesn't really require a standard of review necessarily to resolve. that case is on appeal. we look ford that. some jurisdictions ban entirely the carrying of arms in public. now that activity can be regulated but they cannot be banned entirely. again, that's -- that's a matter that doesn't -- that isn't going to require a balancing test. and to the extent that some of these jurisdictions impose licensing requirements that are applied in arbitrary capricious action. again that's not a balancing interest. that simply calls into play the supreme court's longstanding teachings

that fell by the wayside. other things also fell by the way. there are further various not too, but they're high profile. i do not think they will attract too much attention in congress. it always does in certain corners, but the program cuts in this are fairly modest. the bigger news part of this is the overall top line reducing. host: and i mentioned the veterans' health care program called a strike here. the defense berman is proposing what with regard to that? guest: they have to reform the entire system. it has become broken. it has almost become too generous. but the specific proposal that they throughout yesterday has a link to do with working age retirees. these are people who work in the military, have retired, but -- who were in the military, have retired, but are still under 65. they have health care coverage, but are paying as little as $500 per year for a family of four through this strike care program and that is a rate that has not been touched since 1995. gates said in the civilian sector, that would be as much as $5,000 for fed

those really went by the wayside last night. his speech had a tremendous emotional impact. i mean, do you think that will fundamentally -- >> look, i do want to get into political -- i think the president over the course of his career has been a pretty good job touching on the hopes and the aspirations and dreams of many in this country. and again, yes, they provide an opportunity to reflect. yes, sir. >> thank you, robert. i think there seems to be agreement across the board about president touching on civility and healing in his remarks last night. and bipartisanship. is he aware of, and does have a reaction to some of the comments made last week by members of his own party in the other direction, to blame congressman clybourn making the suggestions about free speech and the nature of it, or senator bernie sanders including reference to the tragedy in a fundraising letter and suggesting arizona is unsafe for people who are republicans? >> i'm not going -- there are many, many who can comment on, on all this. i would simply point to you, i think what the president said las

that is still operating, sos has fallen by the wayside.en the republicans come to the majority, wind new gingrich and the company took over only because they were so busy now as committee chairmen and so forth they didn't have that time but what we did and i did and cnn and sos would try to find a couple of guys in each class and invite them to join and i was fortunate to be selected to join an sos by what other freshman member and we would do is read every week tuesday afternoon in a member's office the member would be responsible for leaving out the cheese and crackers and dewitt sit there and talk about what your committees are doing and you would be there for an hour. you had to be fair on time, you would get find you didn't show one time. the money went into, who knows where it went. >> the earmark. >> the fund. but there would be people, more senior people on the committees in congress everything would be represented and so i would be able to listen to the ranking member of the ways and means committee talk about issues before the wa

they have to make money, take care of children and it goes by the wayside.we get to sex. one of the surprising things is that women do enjoy lovemaking. as a matter of fact, women in a happy relationship had double the amount of sex per month than women who were in unhappy relationships. when men say, my wife doesn't want to have sex, i say, she wants to have sex. maybe not with you. when you have the emotional connection it really speaks to everything including the bedroom. we have to work on it before it gets out of control. >> women so need the emotional connection for that healthy sex life. that's so important to women. >> your husband, i guess you tried to get back with him and he said, no go. >> too little too late. >> you have to live with that. >> guilt and regret are hard. >> thank you so much for being here. this will raise a lot of discussion. thank you so much. the book is connect to love. m. gary newman. up next, we head to the kitchen for a spin on the classic italian dish but first this is "today" on nbc. the next, you start one feeling bit of

seasonal snowfall average has gone by the wayside, meredith. over 6 feet of snow, meredith, so far in hartford, connecticut. blockbuster storms. >> mike, thank you so much. reporting for us from braintree, massachusetts. al is headed inside where he's tracking the storm. >> all right, meredith. record breaking snowfall. new york city breaking the old record back in 1925 for the month of january. newark breaks the record with 37.6 inches back in 1996. islip, long island, new record. bridgeport, 38 inches of snow. january, this snow, 19 inches of snow. that is coming down and we're not done yet. as we check out the satellite and the radar, you can see the radar pulling away, the snow starting to shrink as that system moves offshore. that's the good news. final snowfall totals before it's all over, we are talking about 19 in new york city. newark, new jersey, almost 19 inches. new haven in connecticut, 18. another clipper coming soon. matt? >> good news, al. thank you very much. we'll get the rest of your forecast in a moment. what's causing this

that is linked with this, whether it's that licentiousness of sexual morality that has fallen by the waysidewhether it is the advocacy for euthanasia, all of this is the culture of death which leads to despair, which we must fight against. we can call it whatever we want to. we can use whatever euphemisms we want, but the murder of persons, whether those who are children in the womb, whether they are our sick and elderly, it is the same thing, it is murder. we have to stand against it for the sake of our country and the sake of our nation, for the sake of our integrity. as christians, we have the solution for this country. as christians, we provide a way out of that cultural death and despair. to repentance, to the message of forgiveness, that there is a way out of that brief, a way out of the self hatred and despair, but we have to be able to communicate that message to a culture that is intoxicated with its own pleasure. brothers and sisters, let us fight against that hedonism, that selfishness which is at the very core of the destruction of our people and our nation. it is at the very cor

clinical research is never covered by insurance, so a lot of great research goes by the wayside because it is underfunded. the cornerstone of cancer research is what these are. children should no longer be denied coverage because of pre- existing conditions. that is one of our vegas fears. -- biggest fears. in the future, what are they going to do? are they going to go uncovered? not in my country. as with all cancers, earliest detection is key to survival. we pay over $500 in copays, because we see a series of specialists, and to a family of six, $500.10 coke paid is very expensive -- of $500 copiague is very expensive. -- cancer is very expensive. it will also prohibit companies from dropping coverage if somebody get sick and giving the peace of mind that they will cover the procedures the doctors recommend, because just because you have insurance doesn't mean they cannot deny it and say we are not going to pay for it, because in my plan they covered the growth hormone, but they could also refused to pay for itself, and wouldn't that be a breach of contract if you are paying for a ser