wicker and raish -- unlike wicker and raisch, our client could not choose to not be regulated under this particular act. >> explain this statement to me. "it is essential to a comprehensive regulation of interstate commerce even though the interstate activity does not itself substantially affect interstate commerce. so if you have an act here, it does not substantially affect interstate commerce, it nonetheless, it is essential to comprehensive regulation? is that not the case whether this can be snacted? it is essential to comprehensive regulation? >> no, your honor. in fact, raisch represents the outer limits, and raisch is clearly in the plaintiff's favor. first you need a comprehensive steam. in this particular case, it was taken way beyond raisch as well as wicker. >> as far as being part of a comprehensive regulation. >> i think what we have -- pardon? >> you aren't saying there is a comprehensive statute? >> i don't dispute this is a comprehensive statute. we are not challenging the entire statute, we are challenging the individual mandate. >> in lopez was the fact that there was

wicker: thank you.madam president, on friday of this week, two years will have passed since president obama signed the patient protection and affordable care act into law. this actually is a sad anniversary, because more than enough time has gone by to reveal the failures of this massive, burdensome piece of legislation. the fact that 26 of our 50 states, more than half of the states, are part of the legal challenge currently under review by the supreme court points out the inevitable truth. this is a law that simply does not work. the case which will be argued in a few days will be one of the most consequential supreme court cases of my lifetime. consequential not only because it deals with this massive, burdensome piece of legislation, but because the implications goes so much further. the implications of this supreme court case will decide the scope of the commerce clause. and, indeed, madam president and my colleagues, if the supreme court decides that this law can withstand constitutional scrutiny,

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senator wicker. >> thank you. general allen, on january 31st of this year lance corporal eddie dykhuis, a marine from greenville, mississippi, was shot in the head by an afghan army liaison nco embedded with lance corporal dykhuis' unit in helmand province. yesterday my staff and i received a briefing on the details of this case from the marine corps and the nail criminal investigative service, ncis. the ongoing marine corps and ncis investigation of this case has revealed that the afghan soldier responsible for the shooting has a questionable personal history previously unknown to the u.s. military. i was informed by the marine corps that this afghan soldier would never have been allowed to embed with our forces had we known of his history. as such, i believe robust recruit screening by the afghan security forces could have helped avoid the tragic death of this brave young man. general, will your team at isaf headquarters work with the marine corps and ncis to provide me with a detailed written report on the circ

the regulation of the wheat market in wickered against fillburn, all this to address the supply side, what congress was trying to do, support of price's wheat. much more efficient to make everybody in america buy ten loaves of bread? that would have had a much more direct affect of the price of wheat in the prevailing market. but we didn't do that. we didn't say when we had problems in the automobile industry. we're not just giving incentives. not just cash for clunkers. everybody over $100,000 has to buy a new car. >> mr. clement, the key to the government's argument to the contrary is that everybody is in this market. it's all right to regulate in wick ert against fillburn, that's a particular market which the farm her been participating. every is in this market. that makes it very different than the market for cars or the other hypotheticals you came up with, and all they're regulating is how you pay for it. >> well, with respect, mr. chief justice, i suppose the first thing you have to say, what market are we talking about? because the government, this statute undeniably operates

was live outside of jolly king wicker, the store that sold a ticket worth $300,000. apparently that is not the only person with that luck. much to this flores dismay, a few floors down at alice radio, they got a big news. take a listen. >> unbelievable! $310,000. >> there has to be some mistake. oh my god! pop this is impossible. >> we just won the lottery? >> not quite. alice radio managed to match for out of the six winning numbers. our building neighbors bought the tickets as a group and three times is the charm. originally as you heard, they thought they won the $300,000 but instead six of them will split $13,000. we spoke to them before they turn in their ticket and it is a good thing they did not bank on the bigger win. >> if you could buy a house, in a moment time, i would already be screwed because i had the winnings, and it was done. and then it turns out, the meghan number got us. >> the plot is now at $500 million, that is the largest ever in the game's history. the next ron will be on friday so if you can match all six numbers, you can take on $359 millio

this is the wicker tobacco and more store where they have been printing tickets. there are about one dozen people in line right now. we have seen the longest lines of the day in san lorenzo >> traps around this entire liquor store. let me ask some of the people along with a bid in line >> 1.5 hours >> by photographer will tell you where the front of the story is. inside, about 100 more people. the line has been like this all day long because this has been a lucky spot. there have been five winners here in the past 10 years, one of them in january. people are hoping this is the spot. people here at cavanagh liquors are banking on another winning tickets being sold here. some even ask the owner of the store to kiss their ticket. >> lets get a round of applause! >> the odds are 176 million-one that a person will win the largest lottery pay off in history >> as soon as we open there was a line instantly. >> two hours? >> yes >> was it worth it? >> definitely >> to slightly increase chances of winning, many are joining office pools. she is heading up hers, she bought 6

. >> thank you, senator wicker. we're going to take a 10-minute break. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. i want to add a welcome and an aloha to our panelists who considers distinguished leaders of our country, and i want to thank you very much for your timeless efforts in leading the men and women of our navy and marines for our country. i also want to recognize and thank the military members and their families for their outstanding service. mr. secretary, it's always good to see you and speak with you. i always wish you well. in your written testimony, mr. secretary, you indicate the naval academy received nearly 7,000 minority applications for the 2014 class, and it's double the number for the class of 2010. can you discuss what the navy is doing to receive this significant age as well as the pipeline for the offices of the navy and marine corps? >> thank you, senator, and i will return the good wishes and very good to see you. the naval academy has had an t outreach program going now for several years to make sure we get as diverse an applicant pool as is possible. we shoul

senator wicker. >> thank you very much. mr. secretary, i was very pleased to receive word the other day that a memorandum of agreement had been signed for the lha seven america class amphibious ship, this very important for our future freedom of the seas as we leave -- well, as we draw down forces in some areas of the world and focus on the asia-pacific region. this will be a linchpin in the american force. i assume we will see that final contract concluded within a matter of weeks? >> senator, we anticipate that final contract before the end of april. >> excellent. thank you very much. well, let me ask you, then, both of you, secretary mabus and admiral greenert, about the -- about the shipbuilding industrial base. of course, your main concern is getting the job done, but we also have to be concerned about the employment peaks and valleys that we may see. and i notice in your testimony, secretary mabus, we're not going to be back to 300 ships until 2019. the current fitup says we'll have new construction of 41 ships. this is a

wicker: let me ask my colleagues about another promise. i know they are going to call time on us in just a few moments. does anybody recall hearing this staple from the president of the united states in 2009 -- if you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan, period. no one will take it away, no matter what. unquote, the president of the united states, june 15, 2009. what happened to that one? mr. barrasso: even the administration admits that wasn't true. small businesses, people who get their insurance through small businesses are going to have a very difficult time continuing to provide coverage for people because of the mandates, the washington mandates that say you have to provide washington-approved insurance. i mean, that's the problem, is that people have what they like. it may be something that they want, that they need, they can afford, and now they are being mandated to have something that they may not want, may not need and may not be able to afford. so, again, you have another broken promise, w

about individual liberties, the person who called and said it was about commerce, this goes back to wicker versus fillburn which limited the amount of wheat that somebody could grow. and if that's not an individual liberty case, then i don't know what is. i mean, the commerce clause in liberty are intertwined as one. i think there are a lot of, you know, things that aren't really being told. and i thank you for taking the call and i think you need a libertarian line. thank you. >> thanks, brian, from cambridge, massachusetts. bill has a post to share with you. he writes, our government has the authority to regulate interstate commerce pursuant to article 1 section 8 of the constitution. no, the third provision i believe. one without health insurance carries an inherent propensity to detrimentally affect interstate commerce and it is incumbent upon the government to mitigate these and while the constitution may not spell out the power to conscript it is widely understood to exist through the necessary and proper clause of the constitution. now, one may interfret criteria for what is necessa

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it's like -- very much like wickered in that respect. with respect to the -- with respect to the, considering the commerce clause alone and not embedded in the comprehensive scheme, our position is that congress can regulate the method of payment by imposing an insurance requirement in advance of the time in which the -- the service is consumed, when the class to which that requirement applies either is or virtually is certain to be in that market when the timing of one's entry into that market and what you will need when you enter that market is uncertain and when -- when you will get the care in that market, whether you can afford to pay for it or not and shift costs to other market participants. so those are the principling we're advocating for and in fact the conjunction of two of them here that makes this, we think, a strong case on the commerce clause. >> and the rooms, could you turn to the tax clause? >> yes. >> i have looked for a case that involves the issue of whether something denominated by congress as a penalty was never th

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. >> jimmy: a lot of wicker hanging there. >> if you [ bleep ] you couldn't turn around.ight in there. >> jimmy: looks like a cracker barrel restaurant. >> yeah. my grandma was smart. she said, you know what? let's take lots of flammable things and hang them up on the ceiling so when the flames lick them, we can all go up. >> jimmy: what did she say here? >> she said, "now we have circle dining room, which we did ourselves. everything but the foundation." she's bragging now. "upright posts and roof and roof beams. but we did not" -- and it says unintelligible. >> jimmy: it says l and a on it. >> that's linda and andy. two of her favorite neighbors. >> jimmy: will these be in the book? >> not now, jimmy. >> jimmy: is she proud of you, do you think? >> a huge fan. she never had cable. but she was told. not a big fan. she said -- she came home one day. i was at her house. i was eating lunch with her. and she said, guess what? i was with the gelson's in studio city and guess who i saw? i saw bill maher shopping there. and i said, you know what, grandma? bill maher is a big fa

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. >> reporter: but in the next moment senator wicker told me as well that the president has to be carefulimpact on gas prices going even higher so it shows how it is going to be a balancing act for the president. on one hand wants to look tough against iran but also concerned about the impact here on gas prices. >> shepard: ed, have a good weekend. thank you. >> good to see you. >> shepard: secretary of state met withlinton med with officials today. the talks come ahead of a 60 nation gathering of the friends of the syrian people. president obama has called the syrian president to step down but has really shopped short of calling for any military intervention. activist groups report the syrian government is still attacking its own people. even though president assad agreed to a peace plan. the united nations estimates the syrian government crackdown has killed more than 9,000 people. >>> osama bin laden now, he had five safehouses and fathered four children in pakistan in the time it took the united states to kill him after the attacks of 9/11. so reports bin laden's youngest wife or wido

of massachusetts, dean heller of nevada, richard lugar of indiana and corker, hatch, barrasso and wicker are all up for re-election. >> well, all i know is that we keep having this debate over and over again. and the komen debate. and i think what people are realizing is that there is a very strong support across america to keep the access to women's health care on prevention because it's helping save women's lives and controlling health care costs by making sure we catch things early. and so why do people want to upset that at such a critical time? >> i don't understand that -- i don't understand why these senators could vote for it, even those with tough races because it doesn't make sense. but i thank you for being with us tonight. i'm glad to put it bluntly that so far you stopped the blunt amendment, pun intended. kaernt cantwell, thank you for your time tonight. this blunt amendment today was also a big problem for mitt romney who wants conservatives to know he really, truly supports the plan, even though he initially said he opposed it. >> i'm in favor of the blunt amendment. >> c

in 1942, wickered v.d unanimously that a farmer could destroy kess crops and pay a penalty even though he was growing them for public use. he was growing it on his farm, for his use. >> it's very broadful i think people would be surprised how broadly the federal power has been extended. and in terms of how it's going to turn out, i say the administration obviously thinks they have a strong case, or they notr would not have gone ahead with it in an election year. their argument is that because it affects such a large part of the economy t-- economy, that it affects commerce. gonzales versus rash -- >> this is how prepared we are. here's that case. this is 2005. the federal government said. >> if home-grown marijuana, we don't know the person's going to sell it, they were probably using it themselves. >> it was. it was a woman who was sick. >> but it will affect interstate commerce, you can see how broadly this goes. what is important is that both scalia and kennedy concurred with that opinion. so people ar

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wicker: i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be suspended. we watch fuel prices skyrocket, shockingly so in the last few months, as the average price of a gallon of gasoline breaks records again and again for this time of year. today the national average when i last checked was $3.90 per gallon. when president obama took office, americans paid $1.95 for a golan of regular gasoline. now they are paying more than twice that price. some analysts are speculating gasoline could top $5 a gallon by the summer. now senate democrats propose raising taxes on gasoline production. we hear a lot about an all of the above energy approach, and that needs to be put into practice. this should include expanding access to america's plentiful resources. instead, the president insists on a flawed energy strategy, such as using taxpayer money or high-risk projects like solyndra while delaying drilling in the gulf. the president has slowed permitting -- the permitting process, he has blocked leases, and he has supported higher energy taxes and more regulations. his

. >> jimmy: a lot of wicker hanging there. >> if you [ bleep ] you couldn't turn around.im mr. trump? >> no. i mean you should if you'd like to stay. but if you're basic cable and your trump suite is not so great and you want to leave, you can call him whatever you want. >> jimmy: i see. >> i marvel at his hair. and i know there's been a lot said about his hair. but it is. it's like yosemite. you have to see it. you know what i mean? i can talk to you all day about half dome and sheer granite cliffs. you have to go into the valley and go oh my god. >> jimmy: how would you describe his hair? >> well, first off, it moves -- it's alive. you know what i mean? it has its own heartbeat. it's like if you've ever seen underwater footage of kelp. [ laughter ] you see what a kelp bed looks like, with the currents moving and swaying. different parts going different directions at the same time. yeah. movement. more movement than a rubik's cube. >> jimmy: it's not -- i've looked at it myself. it's not like a helmet like a lot of people -- like mine. >> no. no, no. it's confusing. it's

it may be closer because wicker argued in substance by limiting how much i grow up force me to buy aroduct i would not otherwise want to buy at a time and a place i would not have to. even there, you start with the practice in which they have chosen to enter the stream of commerce to produce wheat. it to be closer if the government had said you go by in so many predict it would be close to the government -- it would be closer if the government said you go by a certain amount on the open market. >> you cannot find this in the commerce clause. our point is that this is similar. if i could go back to what i was saying about point of sale. if you ask congress to pass a lot to say hospitals will only to people if they have lined up insurance ahead of time, they think that this constitution. did they think that is constitutional. -- ahead of time, and they think that is constitutional. they are asking the congress to do what they did. this is about timing. they want timing down the road. >> does this case boils down to eight temporal question? -- to a temporal question? they compelled the

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later today, senator isaacson and i will be joined by senators durbin and wicker for considering legislation that supports the efforts all of you have talked about that calls for the government of sudan to allow humanitarian access to conflict areas and calls on sudan and the north to reach mutually beneficial agreement to end their conflict. that is one of many things we in the congress can and should be doing to continue what has long been a bipartisan tradition of engagement leadership on these issues. george, you) referencing the folks to stay up all night. the energetic young people who process images from the satellite project. in a few weeks we have seen a flood of interest in joseph kony. you have both been very effective in getting americans and folks around the world to pay attention to a grave humanitarian crisis in a fairly remote corner of the world. what advice do have for all of us who want to sustain and engage americans and folks were broadly in continuing to be concerned about a humanitarian crisis such as exists in darfur and the nuba mountains and with joseph kony. how do

. >> senator wicker. senator udall. >> thank you, mr. chairman. good morning, gentlemen. general allen, good to see you again. as always, cheney that for your service and dedication in this crucial mission. and senator jack reid and i were in afghanistan last fall and october, we talked at length about plans for this year's campaign and about the particular training plan for the afghan national security forces. i want to make sure you have the resources to recruit, train and equip viable security force. dr. miller, good to see you as well. how to make sure also that the administration and dod are in the process of developing models and plans for after 2014, after the nato combat troops have left afghanistan. i have to tell you i believe that insufficient contingency planning for what might happen after the taliban were routed in 2001 after saddam's fully -- regime fell in 2003 in the today's long arabian moors in the last decade and they want to be certainly will not make the same mistake by failing to plan and prepare for post-nato afghanistan. so in that spirit, i know

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chair and ranking minority on the africans the subcommittee will be joined by senators durbin and wickerntroducing a resolution or consideration by the senate that specifically supports the efforts that all of you have talked about today, it calls for the government of sudan to allow indeed an unrestricted humanitarian access to south kordofan, blue nile and other conflict areas. and calls on sudan and splm to mutually in the conflict. that is one of many things we should be doing to continue what has long been a bipartisan tradition of engagement leadership on these issues. george w. close by referencing the focus they have all my. the energetic young people who process the images from the satellite project. just in the past few weeks we've seen a flood of interest in joseph kony through the 202012 campaign. you have both been very effective in kitty americans of folks around the world to pay attention to a great american crisis at a remote corner of the were. what advice do you have for all of us who want to sustain engaged americans of folks more broadly in actually continue to be con

let's go back to this, the basic precedent, the wicker versus philbin.>> you lost 85% of the public. >> this is very simple. that case was about the federal government not allowing a wheat farmer to grow enough wheat for his own personal con sumpx. it's what allowed this clause. what is a more basic human right than to grow food. >> you made his point. this law -- this law, the supreme court held up this law from the 1940s. you bring up this law, it's 70 years that's 70 years of precedent. of course we think this is ridiculous. >> we are being held hostage to freedom-restoring precedent. >> it's 70 years old. you have to make a different argument. >> senator, in the last 70 years, have americans been free? >> our freeage is shrinking. >> hold back. let me read this. this is the key. >> let me read this, really quickly. first of all, i would say that you can compel people to do things but you can't compel people if they don't want to engage in commerce. >> but everyone has said that there's no difference between buying and not buying insurance for the fol

your caller raised a comment about wicker vs. silber and.that case the farmer was growing wheat. the defendant in that case was growing cannabis. hear an attempt is made to make you do something. that is the distinction that you could make between action and inaction, one that was found persuasive by the florida federal judge who threw out the individual mandate. i think it may be one minute in principle that is valuable here and that may be turned to. the second point, akhil indicates the country is different from what it was in the late 18th century and that we do travel interstate and that is something that the government needs to take account of. the real question remains, even so, are we still committed to the principles of putting limits on the federal government and police powers must remain with the states? if you answer those questions in the affirmative, those acts go too far. caller: good morning. i have a question that i do not know the answer to. why is there such an uproar about having to go out and buy insurance, but every per

wicker: mr. president, i come to the floor today greatly disturbed and upset, as are many americans, by the comments president obama made on monday to outgoing russian president didmitry medvedev at the nuclear summit in seoul, korea. the exchange which was accidentally recorded by a russian journalist, suggested that presiden president obama'sn missile defense will change after the november election. it implies that the president is willing to make more concessions to an authoritarian government that has caused american concern time and time again. it raises questions about what else might be hidden on the president's agenda. -- if he secures a second term in the white house. americans can view the recording themselves, as president obama tells mr. medvedev -- quote -- "on all these things, but particularly missile defense, this can be solved, but it's important for him to give me space." unquote. "him" meaning former and future president vladimir putin. mr. medvedev responds by saying, and i qu

wicker?and more rain from green hill, mississippi was shot in the -- a marine from green fill mississippi was shot in the head. -- greenville, mississippi was shot in the head. the investigation of this case has revealed that the afghan soldier responsible for the shooting has a questionable personal history previously unknown to the u.s. military. i was informed that this afghan soldier would never have been allowed to embed with our forces if we had known of his history. i believe robust recruit screening by the afghan security forces could help avoid the tragic death of this brave young man. will your team at isaf provide me with a detailed written report on this murder? >> yes, we will. >> what is your current assessment of the insider threat facing troops in afghanistan from individuals in the afghan security forces? i understand this happens so frequently that it is known by the term, "green on blue attacks." how many isaf and american personnel have died as a result of grain on blue at

wicker: thank you. madam president, on friday of this week, two years will have passed since president obama signed the patient protection and affordable care act into law. this actually is a sad anniversary, because more than enough time has gone by to reveal the failures of this massive, burdensome piece of legislation. the fact that 26 of our 50 states, more than half of the states, are part of the legal challenge currently under review by the supreme court points out the inevitable truth. this is a law that simply does not work. the case which will be argued in a few days will be one of the most consequential supreme court cases of my lifetime. consequential not only because it deals with this massive, burdensome piece of legislation, but because the implications goes so much further. the implications of this supreme court case will decide the scope of the commerce clause. and, indeed, madam president and my colleagues, if the supreme court decides that this law can withstand constitutional scrutiny

mississippi could derive major benefits from part of the bill called the restore act, supported by wicker and cochran. it would establish a restoration fund for the gulf coast to repair the damage in the calamitous oil spill." so here you have newspaper after newspaper, and for my colleagues who are going to speak, i will be finished in about six minutes -- here's another one. ""chicago sun-times"." "for a better commute, pass the transportation bill." bhow this, "the u.s. senate just delivered a gift to the house: a bipartisan transportation bill at a time when america really could use a lift here's hoping the republicans don't mess it up ..." well, i've got news for ""the chicago tribune"." right now they're messing it up much because all they have to do is take our bill from the desk and pass it. and guess what that would mean? 3 million jobs. thousands of businesses relieved that they know they can enter into contracts to build our roads, fix our bridges, 70,000 bridges, madam president, in a state of disrepair, deficient, meaning they could have serious consequences. we saw bridges c