>> i think we are going to win wisconsin. it is going to be a battleground state. >> id is -- it is a purple state? >> i think under the right circumstances, it can go read. as long as people are focused on economic issues, people are fiscal conservatives in wisconsin. i think we win on those issues. those are the issues governor walker is talking about. >> will your party take back the senate? what are the key races you need to win? >> i am not going to say it is a key race, but besides nevada and a typical race as we talk about, watch wisconsin. i don't want to get into it right now, but i think you will see a replay of the fine gold race. i know they seemed very different types of candidates, but it's the same message -- it's an out of control deficit and an out uncontrolled debt ratio. my guess is he is not going to run and you will see a couple of strong candidates come out. >> will paul ryan run? >> you have to talk to paul about that

and we proved once again in wisconsin that we have had a political shift in wisconsin. we have shifted to the right. wisconsin is a red state, and now it looks like prosser is even outsi

we are showing wisconsin is open for business. the thing that's most important is when you think about overdoing, we really make a commitment to the future. at the two high school. in fact, some classmates are here today from east high school. our proposals are about making a commitment to the future so our children don't face even more dire consequences than what we face today. for more than a 200 years, this country has been based on leadership relators care more about children and grandchildren than they did about themselves. it is time you're in then across this country. we have leaders began to worry more about the next generation than the next election and that's exactly what we're doing. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, governor. governor sheldon. >> thank you so much, chairman issa, ranking member for this invitation today in on members of the oversight and reform committee in particular thanks to my friend and congressmen, peter welch who does an extraordinary job for a start in washington. thank you for the warm we

limit for less than a month left with the debt ceiling finally collapsed she won and she lost now wisconsin's assistant attorney general joined falkenberg is demanding a recount in the race for the state's supreme court she would claim victory over scott walker's david prosser. and oh wait they go jobs over two million were shipped overseas in the last decade or so who are the fact that c.e.o. is behind the move and i want to keep the jobs here at home. you need to know this with less than a month to go until our nation hits its debt ceiling which could trigger a global economic collapse and with the nation's top credit agency warning us that our credit rating could get downgraded of politicians to lock that house republicans are trying to sink the ship majority leader eric cantor or and democrats yesterday that his party will not support a debt limit increase next month and must they get a list of their demands met in other words republicans are willing to crash the system or at least place chicken is as if they were if they don't get what they want including a balanced budget amendment cuts

we are showing wisconsin is open for business. the thing of the most important thing i bring it to you today is when you think about two high school science. in fact some of the classmates are here from his high school. our proposals are about making it a bit to the future, so her children still face even more dire consequences than what we face today. for more than a 200 years, this country has been based on leadership where leaders care more about children and grandchildren than they did about themselves. it's time here in wisconsin and across the country. we have leaders worry more about the next generation, the next election and that's exactly what we're doing. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, governor. governor shumlin. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you for the invitation to all members of the oversight. particular thanks to my friend and congressmen, peter welch is an extraordinary job here in washington. it's great to be here also with governor walker. as governor walker mentioned, we met at the governor's school

"the los angeles times" says , "wrong in wisconsin." "by overreaching, wisconsin gov. hinders reform in all states." i even have some editorials from your own state papers, the centennial, "the green bay press gazette." i'd like to read from a few of these and get your responses. "the philadelphia inquirer" calls your actions and, "a partisan plot masquerading as fiscal prudence." "the new york times" says, "even when unions have made concessions, republican officials have kept up the attacks. the republicans claim to be acting on behalf of taxpayers and this is not believable." "the l.a. times" says, "that public employee unions must be crushed in order to balance the state's budget is deeply disingenuous." "the milwaukee, wisconsin, journey sentinel" says, "parts of walker's budget repair bill unfairly targets public bargaining for public employees." even "the green bay press gazette" which endorsed you when you ran for governor says, " casts the debate as an anti- union campaign and not a tough but fair shared sacrifice." what is your reaction to these statements by

hey tom good so to what extent is this recount in wisconsin going to be. what actually let me let me just set this up in wisconsin the way that they vote is and correct me if i'm if i have this wrong is you mark a ballot by you know by by pencil or pen or whatever and then that ballot is read by a machine that is owned by a private corporation the private corporation takes the data from the machine puts it into computers calculators whatnot those get aggregated into a giant tabulator and the secretary of state or the local county whatever but it's will there be a hand count of those pieces of paper or are they simply going to run the same paper through the same machines and say well gee look at it's got the same results . you know the problem is that the ballots are not examined by human beings we just trust in whatever it is that the electronic systems spit out and while most of the ballots across. wisconsin as you say are in fact paper ballots that we could read and if we could determine what they say if we bother to we don't do that we run them through

the gentleman from wisconsin. mr. ryan: mr. speaker, i yield myself 30 seconds simply to say, if he read that c.b.o. letter a little letter it would say that medicare is on such an unsustainable path that it cannot sustain itself where it is. we are making comparisons to futures that are not going to exist. the greatest threat to medicare is the status quo. the president yesterday said he wants this unelected board of bureaucrats to cut $1 trillion out of medicare. we don't want to see that happen. with that, mr. speaker, i yield three minutes to the distinguished chairman of the appropriations committee, the gentleman from kentucky. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. rogers: i thank the chairman for yielding. i just rise today to commend chairman ryan and this effort to craft a sustainable and responsible budget proposal. this budget represents a valiant effort to effect real change in the way washington spends real taxpayer dollars. this couples tangible cuts with the entitlement reform ne

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rights for workers in wisconsin is on the on the line right now details on the neck and neck race for the state's new supreme court justice in just a few minutes and paul ryan's proposed budget plan is supposed to lower the nation's deficit right now don't be too quick to believe everything you hear from the g.o.p. tom we'll tell you why it's nice and. all right well japanese officials are saying that they have plug the leak in one of the reactors at the crippled fukushima nuclear plant temporarily stopping tons of radioactive waste water from flowing into the ocean every hour but that does not mean that the workers of the plant are out of the woods just yet and there are new fears of a nother explosion as massive amounts of hydrogen are building up within the reactor one and that comes into contact with oxygen boom now the daiichi plant has already been rocked by several explosions this past month that have left reactors two three and four badly damaged and leaking enormous amounts of radiation samples of that radioactive waste water were found to contain radiation at five million ti

this is a fox news alert on a new showdown in wisconsin that is starting to get national attention. small business owners are accusing big labor of using bully tactics to drum up support and some of the mom and pop stores are fighting back. welcome to "america live." i'm megyn kelly. a growing number of smalltown wisconsin residents complaining about strong-arm tactics -- their term -- from the powerful unions. they were told to hang this sign in their store windows or else suffer boycotts by organized labor. it's not okay, according to the labor unions, for the businesses to remain neutral. it stems from the epic battle over limiting union power as a way to reign in state budgets. >> reporter: extortion, threats, retribution, these are

at the bottom tier of the public sector in wisconsin and other states and this is something that i do write about quite a bit in the book, you know, we have the largest force of newly organized union members who are also at risk in these struggles in wisconsin, in ohio and indiana and states like new jersey, where brother brook comes out of the public sector new jersey here tonight and the cwa vice president had a huge rally in trended confronted with a charming fellow chris christie. i don't know if you saw his mug on the cover of "the sunday times" magazine a week or two ago. the guy has a voracious appetite clearly for a number of things. contracted sessions are a number number -- one of them. but in new jersey and all these other states, afscme, the ft, the uaw all following the lead of seiu, have organized in total five, 600,000 home-based workers, home health care, home daycare providers in the last 10 years, the biggest source of new union membership and have gained a very precarious foothold in the public sector for these workers who work in nontraditional work bases, predomin

request in wisconsin. by the republican party so what we saw at the national center doing essentially was mimicking this tactic can they do course to be nonpartizan and this just appear to be very very part of. our effort on their part. the legislative. legislative council is the acronym alex alex alex alex the american legislative exchange council but i'm certain. they basically pass out these ready made laws is the right wing group and they're being picked up by states all over the country there's a commonality of funding and a commonality of action with a wide variety of people on the ground might this be the same kind of thing or is this just a coincidence i think there's been some discussion of that i've seen people talk about what comes from our. reporting it i've seen that has suggested that's come from them specifically it is something that we're seeing happening you know in more and more places as you mention that it you know sort of the same kind of thing i mean i do think there's a connection wi

where we seem to be headed where him in cairo by the lake in wisconsin, a brother bob university of wisconsin probably about on twitter the great labor journalists just returned from madison some hopefully we get reports from a little bit later. anybody else? we have a bunch of out of state cheerleaders now vice the is now called the chatter revolution. [laughter] now on this particular tour those at haymarket although they have been saddled with the name from two centuries ago, it came up with the subtitle birth of a new workers' movement or death throes of the old?" very savvy marketing because if things are not going well for the labor movement, answer questions in interviews that two while on the subject of organizational staff and dying or if the finns have broke our way, the focus more happily on the prospects of the birth of the labor movement. i just want to say a few words about what is exciting particularly for those who have first and involvement about the upsurge of madison and and talk about how the subject matter into lap -- overlaps with the book which is finished up before the

wisconsin was a police state, very liberal, right? it is against the law to have intercourse until you are 18 years old. but i just ask you this, this is san francisco, let me ask you this -- how many of you have smoked pot? [laughter] i ask this of my students every semester. how many of you have sexual intercourse before age 17? in my state, you are convicted felons. right? so i tell my students, i tell them that i'm going to take my university's 15,000, and going to take my students, and we're going to march down to the police station, and they are all going to confess to having sexual intercourse before age 18. my point is there is no escape anymore. it is not just a criminal records. i really feel sorry for our children and grandchildren. we are telling -- felonizing recreational drugs, felonziinizg recreational sex. i go into prisons, and in interviewing lesbian women who are 19 and 20 years old who get 20 years for having sex with a 17 year-old. she's 19, she 17, she got 20 years. that is what is coming to. in this country now

than 100,000 people who are fighting for their rights in madison, wisconsin? the president of course arguably never went to bat for these middle class folks because it would have politicized the whole thing and i said in previous commentaries i'm sick of that garbage. it is about politics. and right now they're out politicking us. that's how i feel as a liberal. look, senate democrats have to realize one thing. you can't pin this on president obama. you guys got elected, too. you have the majority. the senate democrats need to stand up and say, you know what? you gave us a record number of filibusters. you've said no to absolutely everything. we gave you the bush tax cuts. we're not going to take these draconian cuts. shut down the government. go ahead and do whatever you guys got to do. we're ready to do this. but for some reason the senate democrats, they get in caucus and say, well, you know, president obama has got to engage. president obama really has to do this. what does president obama have to lift every weight in washington? hold your own, harry. get

believed is going on in wisconsin yeah it's. actually something odd is going to walk struck down in this county quote jack nicklaus is simply well no election officials should be trusted we need to be able to oversee our elections. she washed them most i can't for the life of biden state has not already counted every single solitary computer everything else walker's shocking because the more i learn about that situation the more troubling it becomes. there was an eighty year old democratic canvasser ramona kid singer who had been sort of pulled out at the press conference that nicholas gave the other day and was sort of pushed forward and told about the numbers we're learning more today that she knew nothing about numbers she was kept out of some of the canvassing meetings something very strange is going on that those fourteen thousand votes that jackie nicholas suddenly announced on thursday actually reported in a small local news outlet brookfield on tuesday night so nicholas didn't necessarily pull them out of thin air that s

we'll be involved in all six of those recalls -- >> in wisconsin? >> senators and we are going to be heavily involved in the referendum recall on s.b. 5. >> well, i want to show some poll numbers here, michael. a gallup poll, who do you agree with in the battles? state labor unions or governors. 48% say they the end to side more with the labor unions, 39% with the governors here. you know, what is it that the governors have gotten wrong in this fight? obviously you don't like the policy but messaging-wise seems like you are getting your mess on and out there than they're not. >> the numbers are higher than that and people that support us but they have gone to almost trying to create a darth vader image out of public workers, and you know, they're your neighbors, husbands, wives, brothers, sisters. they're not evil people, not darth vaders. they try and talk about the union bosses -- look. our union bosses are police officers. the president of the fop is a full-time police officer in marion, ohio, so i think the public is seeing through this image th

. >> madison and i are here today at shooters in wisconsin. interviewing dozens of individuals, we are both very curious as to why open carry enthusiasts feel it is essential to have training before they wear their firearm. >> one of the things i appreciate seeing is appropriate training to how to handle a firearm before you can actually purchase it. >> the only way that we feel we were able to answer these questions is to shoot a handgun for ourselves. it is important to know that we have never fired a handgun before. today we will be the first-time shooter. >> for safety reasons and because we cannot legally fire a handgun in wisconsin due to our age, a professional, some shooters and a legal guardian are closely monitoring us. both of the handguns we will be shooting are man-stoppers because of the powers of the rounds of the chamber. i will be shooting a 4510 double single revolver with a five-pound capacity. >> i will be shooting a semi-automatic pistol. >> ♪ why don't you hit me with your best shot ♪ hit me with your best shot ♪ fire awa

i'm from madison, wisconsin, which is a town not unlike san francisco.hey cannot put me on trial in madison in wisconsin, so they took me to the south of carolina, and they put me on trial in strom thurmond federal courthouse in charleston, south carolina. across the street was the confederate cemetery. from the courthouse, they flew two flags -- the u.s. flag and the confederate battle flag, which was the state flag of south carolina. from the court room, i could look out the window and seaport sumter in the distance -- see fort sumter. they put me on a case with no marijuana. they invented imaginary marijuana. they said i was charged with conspiring to contribute 10 tons of colombian marijuana. i pled not guilty. i had a jury trial. i was found guilty on one account, acquitted on nine. i had an appellate case and the supreme court case. i was then facing 15 years. since may to nine. when i went to federal prison, i did time in eight different states in nine different federal prisons, including four penitentiaries -- that is a maximum security. includin

kind of wisconsin. the chair will reduce to two minutes the time for any electronic vote after the first vote in this series. the unfinished business the request for recorded vote on amendment number 1 printed in house report 112-54 by the gentlewoman from texas, ms. jackson lee, on which proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 1 printed in house report 112-54 offered by ms. jackson lee of texas. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a 15-minute vote followed by two-minute votes. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial pur

well the thing is i don't think that any of the middle class and working class families in wisconsin or anywhere else in the united states expected the republicans to balance the budget on their backs so i don't i don't think that it's a response to the november elections i don't think it's them saying. i don't think it's them saying like ok we didn't like the republicans and now we're now we're going to go through the democrats again and after that we're going to go out for the republicans again that pattern i don't know if that's the case here i think that what's really happening is they're upset with the fact the republicans are attacking their workers' rights and they want to make sure that you know especially with the supreme court the state supreme court situation right now in wisconsin they want to do whatever is possible to prevent that republic. in law for passing through so then does it tell us that perhaps we need to pay a lot more attention perhaps voters need to pay a lot more attention to their state and local elections you know often all we hear about is of course thes

madison, wisconsin, sarah palin at rally yesterday her appearance offered an early hint at wisconsin'ssignificance in the presidential race ahead. the place has long been a battle ground but what seems clear is ters are energized and that offers prospects on both sides. guest: if you look at wisconsin we have to be serious. wisconsin has gone for the democrats in the presidential election i think in every election since ronald reagan's re-election in anyone -- since 1984. it is a state democrats ultimately do well in. what we saw last year is not the same democratic turnout in previous elections during the midterm and it is always a little dicier because you don't get the young performance, minorities who show up, all the women who support democrats that show up. that makes it more conservative. host: yet the president has been there more often than any other state. guest: else looking at the electoral map. it is always part of the calculation in the white house. regardless if you are republican or democrat. what you are seeing is a catalyst for movement of how both the public sector a

with the bills what can the people of wisconsin through here's some multiple choice possibilities a teacher's can put out a special table just for duffy at their next bake sale where they're raising money for the schools that walk or took away b. they can petition congress to give all members of congress collective bargaining rights or c. they can give duffy a role on a new reality t.v. show i hear he's really good at it's called the real congress the tourists. ory of seven lawmakers pick to work on capitol hill and how their lives have changed i know what happens when lawmakers stop being bipartisan and start being car wow i love america it is really hard to be a congressman and only make one hundred seventy five thousand dollars every year please send your top hats and send your french cup shirts and center monocles needs and representative sean duffy really needs your help today because he's not work in a job that pays the american media and income about thirty five to fifty thousand dollars you know exactly what the article was not which is let's say this was a bad way to go on

madison, wisconsin, sarah palin at a rally yesterday her appearance offered an early hint at wisconsin's rising significance in the presidential race ahead. the place has long been a battle ground but what seems clear is voters are energized and that offers prospects on both sides. guest: if you look at wisconsin we have to be serious. wisconsin has gone for the democrats in the presidential election i think in every election since ronald reagan's re-election in anyone -- since 1984. it is a state democrats ultimately do well in. what we saw last year is not the same democratic turnout in previous elections during the midterm and it is always a little dicier because you don't get the young performance, minorities who show up, all the women who support democrats that show up. that makes it more conservative. host: yet the president has been there more often than any other state. guest: else looking at the electoral map. it is always part of the calculation in the white house. regardless if you are republican or democrat. what you are seeing is a catalyst for movement of how both the publi

. >>> the recent legislative battles in wisconsin and ohio against public employee collective bargaining rights is spreading across the country. almost 750 bills have been introduced in virtually every state affect unions in some way. almost half would restrict employee bargaining rights. workers are fighting back and wisconsin is gathering signatures to recall republican lawmakers who supported the new law. a judge put the law on hold while it goes through the appeal process. >>> dozens of trucks lined up this morning unable to deliver or pickup loads. port officials say members of a union are taking part in a national day of action in response to the collective bargaining laws in ohio and wisconsin. at least one driver was upset by this morning's actions. >> port officials expect them to be back on the job soon. the u.s. agreed to a request to continue air strikes through the end of today. the u.s. was scheduled to hand over the role to britain, france, and other nato allies yesterday. the new york times is reporting that two of gadhafi's sons are proposing a solution to push their fat

sarah palin spoke this week at a tea party rally in madison wisconsin ground zero the nationwide war on labor unions and the mainstream media pale in calls of the lame stream media quite a job in making her look really good actually when covering a rally the media can use the audio from the crowd to make someone either look really good or really bad case in point two thousand and six democratic presidential primary howard dean take a look. we're going to south carolina and oklahoma. and recruit new recruit richard thank you for your breakfast. regular throughout recorded the record i want you to. remember to watch your. dean was skewered for showing a little bit of emotion at a political rally by just taking the audio from dean's microphone and karine known or very little of the crowd noise the media made it look like dean was raining into a quiet room that made him into a buffoon even though there wasn't a shred of truth to it as joel roberts from c.b.s. news said about the coverage of the dean rally what you are not hearing is a room with thousands of people screaming and cheering

an uprising of sorts especially in michigan wisconsin new union centric states against not only the state policy network or the affiliate in that state but also alec the koch brothers that people are really just starting to grapple with what they're up against if they're on the left and they're seeing these think tanks they're seeing the cokes they're seeing the bradleys they're seeing alec and they're just getting a clear picture of it i think you know it's in the media as well or try to open things up as well and make it clear what they're fighting against do you think the average american gets not yet i think they're on. way but i think there's more work to be done reporting it and organizing to to fully understand what the conservative movement is built all of these all these years and it's really it's it's it's an amazing it's an amazing creature they've created and thanks so much for granted you are to have you with us and he's reporting proof of the need the union busting that we're seeing around the country is not just a coincidence but instead a coordinated attack on democracy in

wisconsin workers he says might have done better had they walked off their jobs. >> it was us volunteering the to with hold our labor. but in america, would you do that. i think you would see a new power dynamic emerging. >> reporter: the issue of fairness got this woman out of her house. >> they don't seem to care about the people, the middle class people that are suffering through all of this. >> reporter: that union official from wisconsin got some of the biggest cheers of the night vowing the recalls of their republican government and the protest. these strikes and many other in the country were planned for martin luther king jr.'s strike. >>> another large crowd turned out at this prolabor crowd this one in san jose. those on hand gathered in support of the people of wisconsin. >>> there's word tonight that phillip garrido is going to plead guilty to kidnapping jaycee dugard for holding her hostage for 18 years. >> he's going to plead guilty to most of the counts against him and go away for a long time. >> the garridos are accused ofd kidnap -- accused of kidnapping dugard. nancy garr

wisconsin workers he says might have done better had they walked off their jobs. >> it was us volunteering the to with hold our labor. but in america, would you do that. i think you would see a new power dynamic emerging. >> reporter: the issue of fairness got this woman out of her house. >> they don't seem to care about the people, the middle class people that are suffering through all of this. >> reporter: that union official from wisconsin got some of the biggest cheers of the night vowing the recalls of their republican government and the protest. these strikes and many other in the country were planned for martin luther king jr.'s strike. >>> another large crowd turned out at this prolabor crowd this one in san jose. those on hand gathered in support of the people of wisconsin. >>> there's word tonight that phillip garrido is going to plead guilty to kidnapping jaycee dugard for holding her hostage for 18 years. >> he's going to plead guilty to most of the counts against him and go away for a long time. >> the garridos are accused ofd kidnap -- accused of kidnapping dugard. nancy garr

moore of wisconsin. the chair: the gentlewoman from wisconsin, ms. moore, and a member opposed each will be recognized for five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from wisconsin. ms. moore: this amendment encourages the development of zones. let me start out by congratulating and thanking the committee for including the amendment in the underlying bill that would direct the f.a.a. to adopt policies that encourage the development of airtropolis zones. no airports exists in isolation. there are targeted in the transportation system and the system would significantly benefit the airport and make it more profitable. and all other users would be -- we need to think about how to do that in the future and make these airports the hub of these activities. i so appreciate mr. cohen's leadership on this and recognize the value of his new way of looking at our nation's airports and the value that that brings to us. my amendment goes one step further, by giving the administration explicit authority to participate in helping to fund aerotropolis project

. >> hello, madison, wisconsin! >> reporter: sarah palin braved the snow and a vocal crowd, a core group of tea partyers surrounded by a larger pro-union group at a rally in madison today. >> these are the front lines in the battle for the future of our country! >> reporter: ground zero in what's become a national debate over public unions' rights versus taxpayers' rights. >> madison, you held your ground. your governor did the right thing. >> reporter: two months ago, this capitol drew tens of thousands of protesters to fight governor scott walker's call to limit state workers' power to collective bargaining. tea party member john prijic says what happened in wisconsin is a wake-up call for the rest of the nation. >> the government needs to go on a diet and it starts here with grass-roots efforts. >> reporter: tea party rallies around the country marking the movement's two-year anniversary attracted the faithful, but also offered a platform for potential 2012 g.o.p. presidential contenders. minnesota's governor, ti