the gentleman from wisconsin is recognized. mr. obey: i yield one minute to the distinguished gentleman from georgia. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from georgia is recognized for one minute. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. i appreciate you giving me a minute to speak on this. this is the single most important issue facing the american people. jobs. you talk about troubled assets, what greater troubled assets do we have than jobs and homes? these are the troubled assets that the american people want us to respond to. throughout the breadth of this country, small towns, country towns from michigan, ohio, throughout wherever it is, people are concerned about jobs. the misery index is high. the depression index is high. do you know what a job means? here we've got $75 billion, what better place to put it than in small businesses? into the heart and soul of the american economy at the middle and at the bottom where people will spend it. ladies and gentlemen of this congress, this is christmastime. next week is christmas.

the gentleman from wisconsin is recognized. mr.obey: madam speaker, i think people understand what this legislation is. it is an effort to redirect some $75 billion from tarp funds that in the past have been directed to help wall street, instead direct them to main street to try to help americans who are struggling to hang onto their jobs, their houses and their health care. i think the need for it is obvious. i urge passage and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from wisconsin reserves. the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. lewis: thank you, madam speaker. madam speaker, chairman obey calls this legislation the jobs for main street act. i call it economic insanity. truly this is one of those rare occasions when i hardly, hardly know where to begin. it's because of legislation like this and the manner in which it was produced that the public has lost faith in this congress -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is correct. the gentleman will suspend. the house is not in order. mem

the gentleman from wisconsin is recognized. mr.: madam speaker, i think people understand what this legislation is. it is an effort to redirect some $75 billion from tarp funds that in the past have been directed to help wall street, instead direct them to main street to try to help americans who are struggling to hang onto their jobs, their houses and their health care. i think the need for it is obvious. i urge passage and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from wisconsin reserves. the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. lewis: thank you, madam speaker. madam speaker, chairman obey calls this legislation the jobs for main street act. i call it economic insanity. truly this is one of those rare occasions when i hardly, hardly know where to begin. it's because of legislation like this and the manner in which it was produced that the public has lost faith in this congress -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is correct. the gentleman will suspend. the house is not in order. members

the gentleman from wisconsin is recognized. mr. obey: i would again urge support for the motion and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from wisconsin yields back. all time for debate has expired. pursuant to house resolution 976, the previous question is ordered. the question is on engrossment and third reading of the joint resolution. so many as are in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. third reading. the clerk: resolution making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2010, and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on passage of the joint resolution. so many as are in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the aye vs. it. the joint resolution is passed. without objection the motion to reconsider is laid upon the reconsider is laid upon the table. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? >> madam speaker, pursuant to house resolution 976, i call up the bill h.r. 4314 an ask for its immediate consideration

. >> next up is milwaukee, wisconsin. ronald on our line for democrats. go ahead. >> yes.hen he was a senator, president obama took a high-profile trip to africa. and among other places he visited the poor. but now as the president, we don't hear much from him regarding the issue of the poor. probably i know that u.s. might be watching some things and all that kind of stuff. but this type of a low-profile posture he has assumed as a president, it really does not bode well. and just what is exactly the obama administration currently doing to deal with this issue of the poor in africa -- darfur in africa? >> well, as you say, darfur is one of the most serious crisis that we face in africa or anywhere in the world. 300,000 people at least have died, been killed, several million people are internally displaced and millions more have been forced to flee across the border into chad. there is an envoy, special envoy the president appointed general scott gracian who's working more broadly on sued an ease issues. one of the challenges in sudan is not only is there a crisis in darfu

he ended up running wisconsin for jfk in 1960. and then wisconsin after that. became very close to bobby kennedy and was on the kennedy family payroll from the early '60s to the day he died in 1991. he was on the payroll of the joseph p. kennedy foundation, the merchandising mart which the kennedys owned in chicago. he, of course, was supporting ted kennedy in the primaries over jimmy carter in 1980. and, of course, as we all know, is that senator kennedy lost and lost badly to jimmy carter. and the kennedy family was furious with carter in 1980 because he ran what they thought was a very vicious campaign against senator kennedy. and corbin took it upon himself to exact -- meet out revenge, so he secreted the campaign briefing documents, the carter briefing books out of the carter white house and gave them to billier who by that time was running the reagan campaign. in fact, casey put paul corbin as a retainer. he had a background in working with communist party politics, labor politics. had been arrested numerous times for running scams in the midwest and was,

he went back to the morning of the, and they departed, the wisconsin primary. teddy kennedy has gotten off the map in the democratic race, he won new york, connecticut. the next primary is wisconsin and he is searching and looks like he might beat carter again in this primary. president carter goes on national television that very morning to announce a quote on quote major breakthrough in a lot of you remember and he unexpectedly wins the wisconsin primary at that time people thought kennedy might pull it off. and there was no major breakthrough or an explanation of why there was no major breakthrough and i still remember david, of "the washington post," wrote a piece, column e fisa reading the president and basically accusing him of no uncertain terms he was using the plight of the hostages to advance his political fortunes and a actually there was data that came out in

a project in south dakota may be invested on from wisconsin, or they can be from alabama or georgia.le to own a piece of this. one thing i want to do is generate that through renewable -- we have to look at the most cost-effective way to do this. we know about the corridor that will give us a great reduction of wind -- a great production of wind energy throughout the great plains. not every farm is the same. we also have to make certain that when we locate that kind of generation, we can move the fire out of those regions. we have to be very aware of the fact that -- it has been the experience with the bottom-up planning, this works the best. we need local people putting this plan together to determine the best way to move forward. that is a principle but we will have to follow. bottom-up for the transition system of the country. i would also suggest that under these conditions, and the fact that we will have to move the transmission system across state lines, and we may run into difficulty. the national best interest is not being served. so, i think that as we are having the local p

. >> marques: wisconsin. >> steve: yeah. yesterday kyle singler scored one he needed to. >> marques: talk about great point guards wisconsin has one in hughes. a nice job kind of putting the locks on john scheuer. >> steve: who's your top point guard collins will battle with this year? >> marques: again, john wahl from kentucky is just a freshman, out of raleigh, north carolina. but watching him, especially in the early stages of the game against a very talented north carolina team, watching him take them apart, some of the stuff he was doing, people are saying he may be better than derick rose which is saying a lot, number one pick in the nba draft, derick rose of the chicago bulls. >> steve: defended by tyler honeycutt. >> marques: xavier henry is a good player. like him a lot. he could really use another year of college basketball to make him even better. >> steve: xavier -- maybe not. >> marques: maybe not. he's addressed that issue. a lot of people assume that's going to happen but do what's best for him, his family, th

engineer or a small capability could easily fit into our joint force headquarters, in our case in wisconsinr in other states headquarters. we would then provide those forces to the state coordinating officer, which is lined up perfectly under the stafford act. >> i'm going to ask staff and i'm going to ask if any of you to look at what happens here at the inauguration. the state to safeguard to guard does not separate the powers. state to state, we lend across state lines all the time. but all forces of the united states constitutionally is under the commander in chief, and that constitutional barrier is not of interest to his. there's certain things you can't wait very easily. >> yes, ma'am. >> during the inauguration, here i may not have all the facts but since i represent the district, i was concerned that the inauguration was so big this time that there was at first the notion that reserves should be a under some dual command. we were able, apparently it's always been under the d.c. national guard, the commander of the d.c. national guard. there was some kind of swearing in, i'm not sur

three legs, wisconsin. i was asked to speak there on a friday night. i counted. there were 67 people in the audience. i was supposed to be a one-hour lecture. most people were excited until they got in their seating. two and a half hours after i started, i wanted to say, everybody was still asking questions. still engaged, still dynamically interested in pakistan, afghanistan, darfur, and other countries around the world. hollywood, milwaukee, and recently here in new york city. when you think about, it's not civilian. taliban is not civilians. so book goes out of his way distinguish from the real people from those who are armed or intended to cause problems. i know many of you who are in the room, you know that i value not just the strength by many gifts as my role models and applications for my ins ration. i spent hours with me sharing my own. and tonight i would like to do is what the book does best. which is talk not about my journey, but also the people who live in these great countries, afghanistan, pakistan, darfur. it's their story that has changed me. it

in 2000 i was working in wisconsin, another near victory. we lost, i was working for bush campaign and we lost there by 5,000 votes. one of the things that was really interesting in the early voting stage there was actually very broadly published national story. a woman from new york, manhattan social item, went out with the campaign and gore's campaign handing out cigarettes to homeless people which was kind of awesome for us. best news story. handing out cigarettes, loading these people into vans, driving them to voting place and casting early vote. you can't give somebody anything more more than a dollar. best part about it, it looked so, so fabulously, tabloid, she was in fur handing out cigarettes and interviewed her outside manhattan apartment. i was trying to make homeless people feel better. or you were bribing them. making sure you know what you can do. you can give somebody a ride but can't pay them. give somebody something to eat but not over a certain dollar amount. make sure you know what you can do to drive somebody to the poll

war ii in the pacific, the events that would catapult my father from the snowy hills of northern wisconsin out to a little island 600 miles south of tokyo that the japanese called iwo jima. you know, in 1941, when the japanese hit pearl harbor, franklin delano roosevelt condemned it as a sneak attack. hit none history is the fact that this was the second time that the japanese had used a sneak attack to ignite a major war against the western power. the first was against russia at port arthur during the administration of president theodore roosevelt. theodore roosevelt book that the japanese sneak attack against the russians, which the russians and much of the world condemned, and theodore roosevelt wrote secretly to his son, i was there early well pleased with the japanese victory because the japs are playing our game. what game? what was roosevelt game here and what was the game that he was saying that japan was playing in cahoots with the america of? i wanted to know. theodore roosevelt was awarded the nobel peace prize for actions that he took in the summer of 1905 during this imperial

speaker, i yield the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. obey, five minutes. mr. obey is the chairman of the full appropriations committee but also serves as the chairman of the labor, health and education subcommittee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from wisconsin is recognized for five minutes. mr. obey: mr. speaker, i have a question. is the gentleman from california, mr. lewis, the same mr. lewis who chaired the appropriations committee the last year that the republicans were in control? it's my impression that he is. as i recall in that year, the republicans passed exactly two appropriation bills through the congress and had them signed into law. the other nine appropriation bills were not passed in october. they were not passed in november. they were not passed in december. they were never passed. and so the incoming congress under our control was forced to pass their bills at the beginning of the next session before we could ever get to our own. and yet the gentleman with that record is now complaining because with passage of this bill we will only

in your written testimony you talked about how wisconsin discovered it had 12,000 convicted offenders were not in the convicted offender data base and this i don't think was an issue of the testing as much as the data wasn't dumped in, is that right? >> that's correct. my understanding is that some of this is this reaction to an unfunded mandate. some of the localities are required, of course, to collect kits tr all convicted offenders within a particular county. and i'm aware that that costs money to the counties and somewhat of a burden to counties which are strapped. and as a result, those counties are not as vigorous as they should be in collecting that data. i'm sure that wisconsin is not alone, that there is a problem of uncollected -- >> you're not picking on them because of the packers? >> no. >> you believe this happens in other states, it's the actual physical entry of the data? >> i do. i would be shocked if it didn't, yes. >> do you know if we have that going on in minnesota? >> there is a problem in minnesota we are attempting to correct right now, but it is an issue. >>

i was out in indiana nor the maryland, indiana game and next day went to wisconsin for the duke wisconsinflew back to the 0 office to take care of things then to the championship game in tampa and conference opener in boston a. busy week. >> jenn: you have a lot of miles. what have you been impressed with so far from what you've seen of the a krrcc basketball teams? one thing, what i've seen the race for the top team in the league is wide open. we have a lot of quality teams, 1 through 7, 8, 9. this game today is an example of that. boston college seems like they're getting ready to put it away, miami clause and scraps, typical conference game fashion, get back in it, one or two point finish. i think you will see a lot of games like that. good thing for television. >> jenn: we like that. >> gives me a few gray hair, but good, will be a very competitive year. >> jenn: coming up, what are things acc fans can look for, players, teams you like, anything else, your insight you can add? >> i really like this miami team. i think they have a lot of nice young pieces, durand scott and malcolm gran

i want to thank the gentlelady from wisconsin for her hard work. she's indicated, benefited from the trio program so she knows firsthand as i do as a counselor in college, i spent three years as a counselor in upward bound programs, noticing the profound change from the beginning of the program to the end of the program. we need to make sure these opportunities and this guidance is made -- this guidance is made available to all students to make sure they can get into college and then to support services once they get there so they can graduate. these are important programs and i thank the gentlelady for organizing this special order and i thank the gentlelady from texas for joining us. ms. moore: thank you so much. ms. jackson lee: if i may. ms. moore: the gentlelady may use the rest of our time. ms. jackson lee: a word of appreciation for you and a picture is worth a thousand words. these tall bars, if they can be seen, shows what happens to upward bound participants, much higher than the little low bar here that shows students without assistance

and wisconsin democrat senator russ feingold-- a leading liberal-- said he has serious concerns. and you know i am interested in seeing what the c.b.o. office numbers are, for example. the public option under the majority leaders bill saves $25 billion. and we're gonna lose those savings. that's an example of questions i'd like to get answer for before i feel confident that this will work. >> until its score, we can't talk about the specifics fellow democrat blanche lincoln of arkansas, a fiscal, conservative-- said today she too was waiting to see more details. >> there are lot of things on the table still, and until we hear back from c.b.o., it's going to be hard to see what i can support as well. >> reporter: republicans lined up against the latest democratic plan, especially the expansion of medicare. minority leader mitch mcconnell. >> we all know medicare is going broke now. in seven years, they're going to take $460 billion out of it-- not to make it more sustainable but to start a new program for a whole different set of americans, and now they want to expand coverage eve

wisconsin, 243,443, and wyoming, 3,942.these are people who benefit from medicare advantage that would not like to get off of it. well, this choice in coverage has made a difference in the lives of more than almost 11 million people. 11 million individuals nationwide, families that benefit from this. the extra benefits that i had mentioned earlier are being portrayed as gym memberships as opposed to lower premiums, copayments and deductibles. let me read you some letters from my constituents. these are real lives being affected by the cuts contemplated in this bill. i'm going to have to get my reading glasses on. and you should see some of the beautiful handwriting. some of it is very shaky but beautiful, to me, anyway. from cedar city, utah. "senator hatch: i'm writing to you to request your help in preserving our medicare advantage plans from being cut. my medicare advantage plan provides me with benefits and servings that traditional medicare did not provide. i like my plan very much. it allows me my choice of doctors, h

wisconsin is a winner. oklahoma state/stanford, when they're done you get a full 30 minutes of the "final score" presented by burger king. until then, oklahoma state up by 5 at the break. enjoy your second half. talk to you guys later. >> barry: we prepare to start the second half by five points. it's been a strange game. approximate if you just walked in here and watched the game and didn't look at the scoreboard, you'd think it was a 15 oor 20--point lead for the guys in the orange. >> marques: they've played more physical than stanford at times. you would think how stanford turned the ball over nine times in the first half, here are some of the turnovers created by extreme pressure in the backcourt for oklahoma state, two defenders running at jarrett mann. a nice adjustment. what does he do? he takes mann off the basketball. he allows other guys to be more of a playmaker and put jarrett mann at the other end finishing and do a great job executing on two inbound play. that's what is keeping stanford ft ba

olver: i yield three minutes to the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. obey, -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from wisconsin is recognized for three minutes. mr. obey: mr. speaker, i would like to comment very briefly on the comments of the gentleman from tennessee. who a few moments ago criticized us because we were some 70 days late in passing the military construction v.a. appropriation bill. let me simply point out that we may be 70 days late. but we are getting the job done. and in addition to passing the basic bill, we are for the first time in history providing advanced funding for v.a. activities. that is something that the veterans community has wanted for years and years, and it has been this congress that delivered. that stands in contrast to the performance of the minority party when they chaired this institution with respect to what they produced on the military construction-v.a. bill. they complained about the fact we were seven days late. they never passed that bill at all. they dew point pass it in october. they didn't pass it in

my name is linda and i'm from sussex wisconsin. in april of 2007 my 19-year-old daughter and i went to temporarily live in atlanta, georgia. my daughter had sustained a spinal cord injury in 2007 while downhill skiing and was a quadriplegic. she started to get movement back in her legs and both my husband and i felt that she needed to go to a spinal cord facility for the best opportunity for recovery. my husband would have to care for our other children solo back in wisconsin. one of the best things about being in atlanta was meeting and socializing with other families in the same situation. one of our favorite things to do was to go to the movie theater. in july of 2007, i started purchasing tickets from movietickets.com. i remember that at the end of the transaction on the confirmation page was a coupon stating get $10 off your next purchase. so i clicked on the coupon because it seemed that it was a legitimate offer for movietickets.com and i thought they were a good website. the next page needed my personal information. i then

host: next on the line, ronald from wisconsin. high profile trip to africa. now the president, we don't hear much from him regarding the issue of darfur millions have been forced to flee across the border into chad. there is an envoy appointed working more broadly on the issues this is a coming apart of the fragile peace between the north and south. part of the challenge is to dole with that emerging crisis and deal with the continuing challenge in darfur. you are right. it's a year sister and a continuing issue. we are trying to deal with the humanitarian side. we are also supportive of the efforts. we have a lot going on there. host: our next call from bill in nebraska. caller: first off, merry christmas. you were not specific about what those other things were. you are not talking about the bill of rights but a new set of rights to be created. when obama goes around the world valley, what that is is the area of self sacrifice. what he is really doing is sacrificing the american taxpayer or american people. host: we'll leave it

my name is linda lindquist and i am from thune, wisconsin. in april 2007 my 90-year-old daughter and i went to temporary live in atlanta georgia. my daughter had sustained the spinal cord injury in 2007 while downhill skiing and was a quadriplegic. she started to get moving back in her legs and both my husband and i thought she needed to go to his specialty spinal cord facility in order to give her the best opportunity for recovery. this would mean i have been would have to care for of the three children so low in wisconsin. one of the best things about being in atlanta was meeting and socializing with other families in the same situation. one of our favorite things to do with to go to the movie theater. in july of 2007 i started purchasing tickets for movie tickets.com. i remember at the end of the transaction on the confirmation page was a coupon stating, get $10 off your next purchase. soi click on the key bomb because it seemed it was a legitimate offer for movie tickets thought, and that thought they were in reputable web site. the next

. >> thank you for your mention i'm a lutheran who lived in wisconsin for years.and i'd like your insights on how the chief justice being a lutheran from wisconsin -- how that shaped who he was. >> i'll answer it. there are a couple of answers. one he was not born a lutheran. he was confirmed in the church of christ. a congressionalist church and he converted to lutheranism. he admired in lutheranism the formality -- i'm not sure that's the correct word. the structure, the structure of service. he described -- what i describe in my book that we both were quite interested in t.s. eliot. and as some of you may know, t.s. eliot was also born in the congressionalist church and from a distinguished line of congressionalists who had been in new england, and t.s. eliot converted to episcopalism and we went to ash wednesday and eliot described himself as converting to the english version of catholicism. he called himself an angleton catholic. and bill saw lutheranism in a similar -- we talked about eliot and connected his conversion from congressionalists to lutheran simi

played for him at wisconsin green bay and coached with him at wisconsin and then at washington state. among the challenges with the new coaching staff, daymeon, is not one player on the virginia roster recruited by the coaching staff so they are working with a brand new set of players and a coaching staff that has not worked together until the start of this season. >> daymeon: and at the same time, they are excited about the recruited guys already and coach bennett excited about the new kids that they have coming in as well as working with the group that they have this year for the duration of the season. >> matt: when you talk about a bennett coached team you talk about defense which makes their dead last rank ghtsing in the conference so hard for them to swallow. landesberg had to fire up a three. didn't hit anything and auburn brings down the floor as the shot clock was running down on them. foul is going be called on sene. >> daymeon: still learning to play this basketball game. people forget how young he is and i think he has a world of potential defensively. we know what we can

the news now, one firefighter is dead and nine others injured after an explosion in saint anna, wisconsin. fire crews were checking out a dumpster fire outside of a manufacturing plant when it exploded. at least one of the firefighters is in critical condition. >>> david goldman may have his son sean back at his home in new jersey for the first time in more than five years but the international custody battle may not be over. the 9-year-old's relatives in brazil are threatening more legal action. brazilian courts granted custody to goldman more than a year after his ex-wife's death. >>> 2,000 san francisco residents have disappeared and no one seems to know why. the sea lions have left pier 39 where they hung out the last 20 years. a few weeks ago there were 1900 sea lions. some believe the cancellation of the herring season may have wiped out the supply. >>> a drug taken by millions of americans may not protect patients from cancer. that story coming up. >>> plus, snow is falling out west, but is it heading our way? oh, no. the dreaded is it headed our way question already? i will talk a

it had already been tried in the states like wisconsin, wyoming, and cities. the person who drafted the bill said we are just riding the wave now. they gave a lot of flexibility to states for have the cat actually implemented. that is a good model -- how they can actually implement it. >> how does one best regulate big government without increasing the size of the bureaucracy? is that even possible? >> regulate the government? regulating government is one of our big problems to date. if you were one of the senior executives that i talked about, you are faced with so many rules and regulations and constraints on how to manage. when we did our survey, we ask, what is the biggest reason we are having problems today? they said partisanship and other areas. all the administrative rules and constraints and everything that make it impossible to actually do anything if you are in government. we have made that hill for sisyphus of lot steeper than it actually was. what we need to do is the regulate the government allots -- deregulate the government a lot. those of you

it is a problem in wisconsin, in a problem in every state that has the dairy industry. i have commented formerly to a rulemaking process and of its written to secretary solis about this. age to waive rules from sheepherders to obtain h2a visas, even though the job is exactly what prevent dairy farmers from obtaining workers and that is really not fair. i suggested we-- i'm not with suggesting we cut it from them but to encourage the labor department to make the rules necessary on the h2a program. >> mr. chair, yes and we have been working with the department of labor. there is the issue presented is whether through rule or preg we can fix this issue for the dairy farmers under age two a or whether there will need to be a statutory change and the lawyers are looking at that issue right now. >> god bless the lawyers. but, we do want a solution one way or the other sns we can. >> agreed. >> thank you. senator sessions again i appreciate your courtesy. >> thank you and i know senator leahy is always working to be effective in helping his constituents, and there are some pro

in 2000 i was working in wisconsin, another near victory.e lost, i was working for bush campaign and we lost there by 5,000 votes. one of the things that was really interesting in the early voting stage there was actually very broadly published national story. a woman from new york, manhattan social item, went out with the campaign and gore's campaign handing out cigarettes to homeless people which was kind of awesome for us. best news story. handing out cigarettes, loading these people into vans, driving them to voting place and casting early vote. you can't give somebody anything more more than a dollar. best part about it, it looked so, so fabulously, tabloid, she was in fur handing out cigarettes and interviewed her outside manhattan apartment. i was trying to make homeless people feel better. or you were bribing them. making sure you know what you can do. you can give somebody a ride but can't pay them. give somebody something to eat but not over a certain dollar amount. make sure you know what you can do to drive somebody to the polls

peculiar that muslims that are used to very warm climates are coming to detroit, coming to chicago, wisconsin and settling there and building mosques. my concern is that they might, the muslim terrorists might be coming over the canadian border into the united states and settling in detroit. and i think we might have on our -- on the platter there a trojan horse, and muslim terrorists coming into the united states there. guest: first of all, as far as detroit. detroit has been a population center for arab-americans for decades, generations, and that's not a recent phenom. and of course let me quickly underscore the vast majority of arab americans and muslim americans are like the rest of us, they have absolutely nothing to do with terrorism and are as appalled by these incidents as anyone else but both the subject of the borders the mexican border and the northern border, both of them are -- there's a possibility for terror illses to exploit our border defenses and there's been considerable tightening along the southern border continued by the obama administration. relatively the efforts to i

it involved in non-profit group, wisconsin right to life and their run afoul of mccain-feingold but with an ad on television telling wisconsinites to call your senators and tell them not to vote for-- not to vote to filibuster republican judicial nominees, and this was ruled by the federal election commission to be the electioneering speech because it came within 60 days of an election. that was a typo in act. congress really wanted to prohibit speaking about an election 60 years before the election. [laughter] but it accidently came out 60 days. and the supreme court in a 5-4 decision by chief justice roberts held that the law couldn't be applied to ban this speech. he stated the ties go to the sons are and applied accurately that they probably would hold the unconstitutional. again, switching o'connor for a ledo change the results on that case. there is one other case that summer and i will end with this one. it is the case of a high school kid with a banner at a parade, hits for jesus. i don't know whether the kid is offering their one or two jesus or which is pushing grass or being a

. >> if you could, give us the keys to victory for the wisconsins tonight. >> it will be a good job. doing an awesome job. you might recall back on november #th, the pacers won 102-86. that night antawn jamison let his voice be heard. he is on the floor tonight. leading scorer and rebounder. we will be back for the post game live. >> speaking of buck and phil, you will hear from them a little later in the show. talking hockey, the capitalize and maple leaves will be -- capitals will be playing against the maple leaves. >> they were pleased to see mike knuble back and he did what he normally does. this is when he was hurt against the wild. missed 1 game with the broken pinky after having surgery last night against carolina, doing what he does best that, is hanging out below the tops to have circles and the offensive zone. getting in front of ward, using his size to create scoring. >> the coaches want today ease him back in. 15.5 minutes last night was manageable. >> joe, that was only a minute off his season average prior to last night. ended up to -1 with four shot as hit. >> reporte

jonathan patz is the director of global environmental health at the university of wisconsin in madison, and also a lead author for the intergovernmental panel on climate change. >> every year, we get these combined sewage overflow events already, just with the type of rainfall intensity we get today. we have over a trillion gallons that overflow into surface water, so over a trillion gallons of sewage-contaminated water overflowing from simple rainstorms every year in the united states. >> suarez: one example of this is new orleans. hurricane katrina contaminated and shut down the municipal water system long after the storm had passed. but in places like haiti, contaminated water brings typhoid and even death. but as temperatures rise and climate zones shift, wont some places benefit as others suffer? sure, says jonathan patz-- the former soviet union will have a longer growing season, but he says losers will outnumber winners. >> a majority of agricultural areas will suffer, and the adverse effects will outweigh the beneficial effects. >> suarez: in developing nations, the increase in

. >> reporter: overnightplow truc tried to clear more than a foot of snown places like dison, wisconsin, where at ast one plow got stuck itsel and a second roundf snow slammed the upper midwesand great lakes today. >> i jt do a little at a time because i'm getting o old to do it fast. >> reporter:now driven by 50- mile-an-hour winds piled u drifts imuch of the midwest and brought airpts to a standstillwith hundreds of fligs canceled. >> i'm actually heed back to los angeles, b this blizzard-- it just won't stop goi, and right now, all thelights are canceled and i can't get he. >> reporter: fther south toda the storm took the form of heavy rn that flooded streets virginia. and high win blew over mobile homein south colina. and in the northeast, snow began falling last night andontinued into theorning. commuters new jersey were among many thousands who fed a treacherous tr. >> i probably did about 30 mes per ur the entire time, i have automatic fo wheel drive, but other cars in front of me ke spinng out. >> reporte the storm system was expected tcross maine tonight and begimaking its way

by today, at least a foot of snow was expected to blanket parts of iowa, illinois, and wisconsin. the arctic blast brought winds gusting to 40 miles an hour. forecasters also warned flights would be delayed or canceled from chicago to denver. hundreds of police officers turned out in tacoma, washington today for a memorial service honoring four of their fallen. they were shot and killed last month at a coffee shop. later, police in seattle killed the suspected gunman. today, a procession of hundreds of police cars moved from an air force base down streets lined by somber crowds. the memorial service was held in the tacoma dome. the u.s. government will pay american indian tribes $3.4 billion to settle a suit over royalties. the deal ends a 13-year lawsuit brought by the tribes. they claimed the interior department cheated them out of billions of dollars in oil, gas and timber revenue dating back to 1887. the proposed settlement must be approved by congress and a federal judge. wall street had a down day, over a new case of jitters about the global economy. the dow jones industrial

across the country, certainly people in my state or places like missouri, virginia, california, wisconsin will agree that the federal government should break with its longstapblgd policy against federally funding abortions. that is exactly what has happened and what is in this bill. abortion is not health care. why is it even in this bill at all? the president himself said that at the joint session of congress. at the end of the day the vote for cloture is an affirmative vote to the federal funding of abortion. there is no way around that fact. some people on the democrat side, particularly senator nelson of nebraska, who i've been working with and closely on this, wants to keep abortion out of this bill. i believe there are huge flaws still in it. he has been fighting to keep abortion out of it. he said this: taxpayers shouldn't be required to pay for abortions. it's his statement on it. he says that. shouldn't be in there. and he's worked to try to get this out. i think there's still enormous flaws and holes in this. if we start the funding of abortions, the last time we did fund them,

it is a problem in wisconsin, in a problem in every state that has the dairy industry.i have commented formerly to a rulemaking process and of its written to secretary solis about this. age to waive rules from sheepherders to obtain h2a visas, even though the job is exactly what prevent dairy farmers from obtaining workers and that is really not fair. i suggested we-- i'm not with suggesting we cut it from them but to encourage the labor department to make the rules necessary on the h2a program. >> mr. chair, yes and we have been working with the department of labor. there is the issue presented is whether through rule or preg we can fix this issue for the dairy farmers under age two a or whether there will need to be a statutory change and the lawyers are looking at that issue right now. >> god bless the lawyers. but, we do want a solution one way or the other sns we can. >> agreed. >> thank you. senator sessions again i appreciate your courtesy. >> thank you and i know senator leahy is always working to be effective in helping his constituents, and there are some prob

katie wilson, chairman of the exclusion association and the school and attrition, a director in wisconsin at a time of unprecedented economic challenge for our country. the school food programs are a key part of the vital safety net for a growing number of our school children. for some students, school breakfast is the first meal they had eaten since the day before. their students to come to school on monday not having eaten since friday. as a country, we have gone from discussing millions to billions to trillions of dollars simply overwhelming for most of us. yet at the same time, each of us in the child nutrition program struggle to balance pennies. the average cost of producing a school lunches to $92 cents, based on our internal study. currently, -- is $2.92, based on our internal study. on average, our reimbursement for a free meal is 35 cents less than it costs to produce it. it is hard to believe, but many families cannot afford the 40 cents for lunch or the 30 cents for breakfast and discharged for a reduced price meals. we see checks of just a few dollars returned for insufficien

host: you get the last word, wisconsin. what i am concerned with and have always been concerned with -- i am a 51-year-old american laborer -- all my life, i have not watched my government said all this money overseas come out -- which is a wonder have -- have watched my government send all this money overseas, which is a wonderful thing. but what i did not understand, you have this young man on today, who is an american -- why can't

the gentlewoman from wisconsin, ms. baldwin. >> thank you mr. chairman.appreciate your calling this hearing of the house subcommittee to discuss whether it is both a deeply personal and deeply political issue for myself and as you have heard many of our colleagues in this room. >> hanna preventative services task force was authorized by congress to deliver recommendations regarding the clinical preventive services. ideally these recommendations will be used to inform primary medical care. on november 16th the task force delivered new recommendations regarding breast cancer screenings incorporating the most extensive scientific evidence available. among the more controversial findings were the great c recommendation for mammography in women over 40 which means that because defines does not point to any significant harm for tremendous benefit that the provision of the services should be a decision between individual and a doctor. and independent rigorous examination of the science behind clinical preventive services is an essential part of delivering effect

it's not just vermont, it is a problem when wisconsin and every state that has a very industry. i've commented the department of labor's rulemaking process secretary solis about this, each way the rules permit on the western range to obtain the visas even though the jobs are exactly would prevent the dairy farmers from taking workers and that is really not fair, not suggesting we cut off from them by any means, but when you get serious consideration addressing this issue as the secretary of labor to encourage labor department to make the rules necessary on the h2a program? >> mr. chair, yes and we have been working with the department of labour. there is the issue presented is whether through roel or schrag we can fix this issue for the dairy farmers under h2a or whether they need to be a statutory change. and the lawyers are looking at that issue right now. >> god bless the lawyers. but we do want a solution one way or the offer as soon as we can. >> agreed. >> senator sessions again i appreciate your courtesy. >> senator leahy is always working to be effective in helping his c

it is a problem in wisconsin, in a problem in every state that has the dairy industry. have commented formerly to a rulemaking process and of its written to secretary solis about this. age to waive rules from sheepherders to obtain h2a visas, even though the job is exactly what prevent dairy farmers from obtaining workers and that is really not fair. i suggested we-- i'm not with suggesting we cut it from them but to encourage the labor department to make the rules necessary on the h2a program. >> mr. chair, yes and we have been working with the department of labor. there is the issue presented is whether through rule or preg we can fix this issue for the dairy farmers under age two a or whether there will need to be a statutory change and the lawyers are looking at that issue right now. >> god bless the lawyers. but, we do want a solution one way or the other sns we can. >> agreed. >> thank you. senator sessions again i appreciate your courtesy. >> thank you and i know senator leahy is always working to be effective in helping his constituents, and there are some probl

the gentlewoman from wisconsin, ms. baldwin. >> thank you mr. chairman. i appreciate your calling this hearing of the house subcommittee to discuss whether it is both a deeply personal and deeply political issue for myself and as you have heard many of our colleagues in this room. >> hanna preventative services task force was authorized by congress to deliver recommendations regarding the clinical preventive services. ideally these recommendations will be used to inform primary medical care. on november 16th the task force delivered new recommendations regarding breast cancer screenings incorporating the most extensive scientific evidence available. among the more controversial findings were the great c recommendation for mammography in women over 40 which means that because defines does not point to any significant harm for tremendous benefit that the provision of the services should be a decision between individual and a doctor. and independent rigorous examination of the science behind clinical preventive services is an essential part of delivering eff

the presiding officer: the senator from wisconsin. mr. kohl: i come to the floor today to talk about the many ways in which this bill will have a positive impact for seniors. over the past year we've seen confusion about what health care reform will mean for americans, and particularly for seniors. i had hoped that once the senate voted to move forward with debate on one merged bill we could answer why health reform will help them. unfortunately, here we are on the floor continuing to send mixed pledge messages about somy concrete provisions. i want to help set the record state for older americans. this health reform bill is not going to cut medicare benefits. independent groups such as the aarp and the national committee to preserve social security and medicare have said that this bill will strengthen medicare and not harm it. aarp believes that this bill will transition medicare to a more efficient system where quality health care outcomes are rewarded and waste which accounts for up to 30% of medicare spend something reduced. in terms

i would like to yield to my friend and colleague from wisconsin, representative moore. ms. moore: thank you for yielding. i can tell you i found the remarks of our chair very, very compelling. i guess i would agree with her, but i want to add that while a couple of the categories of the congressional black caucus include infrastructure jobs, and providing funds for local programs, and while i believe that there is a general call for these types of spending to stimulate our economy. i've heard on both sides of the aisle call for money to be used for infrastructure improvement. i would say with a qualification, that we need to make sure that the funds for infrastructure projects go directly to cities and counties and allow those governments the flexibility to determine where the greatest infrastructure needs are for their community. i think that while the recovery act saved or between 600,000 and 1.6 million jobs, we ought to learn from some of the mistakes that were made there, and i think that the congressional black caucus in its wisdom pointed out we need to target our in

i know in your written testimony you talked about how wisconsin discovered that it had 12,000 convicted offenders who were, nevertheless, not in the convicted offender database. and this, i don't think, was an issue of the testing as much as the data wasn't thumped in, right? >> that's correct. again, my understanding is that some of this is reaction to an unfunded mandate. some of the lowalties are -- localities are required, of course, to collect kits from all the particular offenders in a county. and i'm aware that that costs money to the counties, and it's somewhat of a burden to counties which are strapped. and as a result, those counties are not as vigorous as they should be in collecting that data. so i'm sure that wisconsin is not alone in this, that there is a problem of uncollected -- >> so you're not just picking on them because of the packers. >> i'm not picking on them because of the packers. [laughter] >> you say you believe this happens in other states and that the actual, physical entry of the data. >> i do, i would be shocked if it didn't, yes. >> do you know if we have

. >> the seventh circuit, where is it located in >> wisconsin, illinois, and indiana. but we always sit in chicago. >> what was your experience sitting on the seventh circuit? >> well, i learned a great deal. an awful lot about federal law, of course. i served with some awfully good judges and learned a lot from them. in that picture, for example, tom fairchild was the chief judge for years and i learned a lot from him and p others of my colleagues. >> so what's the difference between the circuit court of appeals and the supreme court? >> well, in the circuit court of appeals you are more bound by precedent than in the court of appeals here. if there is a decision or an tean -- opinion, the court of appeals is really required to follow it whereas in this court there are many more open questions that have not been really finally resovepled -- resolved. we have more of a duty to decide things that have not been faced before. >> let's go into your main office here. you've been in a lot of offices. >> right. >> does the atmosphere that you're working in matter to you much?