bill. the clerk: h.r. 6080, a bill making emergency supplemental appropriations for border security for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2010, and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from north carolina, mr. price, and the gentleman from kentucky, mr. rogers, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from north carolina. mr. price: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks on h.r. 6080. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. price: and i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. price: madam speaker, i ask to urge the adoption of h.r. 6080. violence on the mexican side of the border has intensified because of turf battles among murderous transnational criminal organizations competing for drug, alien and weapon trafficking business. the bill would provide $600 million to enable

the bills get combined -- tax bills, appropriation bills, housing bills, financial reform bills -- >> one bill that you were part of that got passed and that you can say here is part of what i have brought the people of florida. >> we have a bill that is protecting our coastline right now. >> offshore oil drilling? >> yes, as it relates to calling for the moratorium, which the administration said it would follow through on as it relates to policy, so there was no need for the passage. pythons have been a major issue. the department of interior said, no need to pass the legislation. we will put it in policy because you have raised the issue. the issue of making sure to deal with the stimulus. transportation was a huge issue. making sure that we stayed -- saved holmes a in a state. the president is working to bridge gaps between families and institutions. >> all right. >> go aheda. -- ahead. sorry. >> when the pencil gets raised, that means time is up. >> mr. greene should get a response. you say he is 0 for 70. he is not -- >> he has not authored anything. i get results. i hold people

, the war bill, the fema bill. they don't understand all of that. they see it as more delays and more denies from the government and congress about not wanting to help them. but that's why i want to take advantage of this time today and for all of the members of the senate that are watching. do the right thing for the black farmers. put aside your political differences and vote yes. we have a free-standing bill. it's paid for. it has offsets and for the democrats who say some of the republicans don't want to work, there's senator grassley who i think will come up with some type of compromise to work on a bill, so i'm urging the republicans to work together with the democrats and the democrats to work together with the republicans so that the black farmers can actually receive their funds. host: independent line? caller: am i on there? host: you are. welcome, john. caller: what really upsets me. my mother was native american. nobody's concerned about them. all i hear is blacks. native american lands were took from t

i cannot tell you what his bill will look like, what senator schumer's bill will look like. what i can say it is all those pieces work together to ultimately come up with something that is hopefully, at least, something that we can create a foundation from. comprehensive immigration reform has to be broad enough to make -- give us the foundation to build more, but i do not think it will be done at that point. there will be a lot of issues that will not happen in the first go round that will need to be perfected, but me to do enough to turn immigration into something that is not so politicized and is more about really getting down to the problems. i wanted to address briefly some by pointing out, you cannot always tell what ll happen based on one set of votes. in the dhhs appropriations bill for 2010, in the senate, and there were a lot of horrible amendments to make e-verify mandatory, inshore every inch of the fence was real, we get ensure every inch of the fence was real, not virtual. -- ensure every inch of the fence was real, not virtual. a lot of people said, my goodnes

billing number of locations. to be built on a number of locations. he is joined by our chairman of our policy committee and our education and work force committee. he has been a fighter for keeping these teachers on the job. chairman george miller. i want to acknowledge a member of this committee, chairman on a subcommittee on elementary, secondary, early childhood education, the congressman of michigan. [applause] i am pleased to introduce kathy johnson, who will tell us what this legislation means to her school district in ohio. kathy. >> thank you. good afternoon. i am cathy johnson, a school board member from the school district in ohio, which educates nearly 21,000 students and is the sixth largest district in the state. in spite of a governor who championed education and a state legislature that worked with them to pass a comprehensive education reform law, the economy has forced the school district, including mine, to make budget cuts. that includes to school closures in the last year, teachers and staff r

to look at utility bills. the first line at the bottom looks at the average water bill and how that fits into average household income. figures we read say anything below 2% is affordable, if your water bill is below that, if your waste water bill is below 2.5%. it is deemed affordable. so on average, our water bills are affordable compared to the needy in el -- income. our debt, and we have issued six straight debts so once you lock in that rate, you do not much change. the waste water source system improvement program is the light blue line. with the projected need of services to improvements needed, we would rent up from 1% to 1.5%. then we would lock that in to a fixed rate. household incomes are soon to continue to grow at that 3% global inflation. this is how household income would change over time. in today's dollars, household income is $70,000. household income is when we look at all the income coming into a household. if two people live in a home, it is their combined income. if someone has unemploym

and until the bill came the following month. then, bills kept coming. seda went to the sears outlet in september last year. she bought a refrigerator, dish washer and range and changed her mind the next day. eight days before the scheduled delivery. >> i thought the order was cancelled but october, i received a bill. >> sears correctly gave her credit for the refrigerator but lift the charges for diswasher and range. the store told her they were supposed to be delivered from a warehouse. >> they said okay. give us couple days. we need to get in touch with the wear house to see if it left. >> two more months went by before the charge for the dish washer was removed but sears insisted on charging for the range. >> they couldn't find the proof of delivery. and didn't know if the merchandise left the warehouse. all they knew is that there is a bill i haven't paid. >> in all, sears would send her seven bills for merchandise she cancelled and said she never receive i'd called every month. i e mailed. i called every month. they kept on, as i said, every time i

bill and getting the 06 votes on that bill. there was a lot of finger pointing saying you're responsible, no, you're responsible. it was quite clear everyone was shrugging their shoulders and saying i don't know who is responsible. president obama invited senators into the white house and tried to figure out what they wanted and where the middle ground was. but he never really, you know, shrugged shoulders or twisted arms and really tried to get the 60 votes that were needed to pass this bill. >> warner: eric, you spent a lot of time reporting this. how did you see the way the white house handled this? >> well, people in the white house told me early in the obama administration that they were proceeding with what they called a stealth strategy where they would work mostly behind the scenes. the president would talk about it, say, maybe on a tuesday afternoon when he was visiting a solar plant. but he did not do it in a really sustained way on three levels. one is the level of deep communication to the american people. even in h

in january two thousand and nine unpaid utility bills accounted for half of. the first campaign acting on a. company by t.v. crews. apartment and delivered service. in february local residents not only paid their bills in full but even settled some of their debts after that decided to organize such campaigns on a regular basis to are doing this for those who make it to day. so it's for the sake of those who will watch this on t.v. read it in newspapers and conclusions. local officials are explaining to sleepy delinquent bill payers what will happen to them unless they settle their debts in the meantime ten uniformed female bailiffs are getting ready to hand the court papers to the debtors. to do i show my id. to the other man. the bailiff screen entrance is an important part of the show t.v. viewers must see that bailiffs are nice people and there's no need to be afraid of them as long as you follow the rules and pay your debts the papers have been served but that's not the end the debtors board a bus. seats and told us a little uncomfortable. but is there any

and also this bill. more importantly, it is going to take a very long time for us to actually be able to get this uncertainty to go away and from banks and financial institutions to have a clear vision of what this will do to them. how do we know that? well, it is roughly, first we are talking in the new creation of an agency, the consumer protection bureau, right? they still have hundreds of rules to write so right there, and we also know there is very little restriction on what this bill can do. this is a big deal. hundreds of-- which means firms are unlikely to do anything right now because they don't know what they are going to be hit with sin. that is just one. but we also know that they have, lawmakers have 120 something reports to write, so this is going to take a long time. sarbanes-oxley, a much smaller bill, took roughly two years and according to some estimates, it is going to take roughly 10 times that time to actually get some clarity and getting all these rules out. so, this is pretty much

bill clinton went on "arsenio hall." i think it helps them in little bit. >> it helps them a little bit but he needs a lot of help. this white house and their message machine that was so vaunted during the campaign has been a miserable failure for the last several months, as evidenced by every public opinion poll that is out there. his poll numbers are just tanking each time somebody goes out into the field. now they are putting him out there and trying to reverse those numbers, trying to prop up his image while he also does this summary thing for the political season. we will see if it will work. he reassured house members and senators that they could take these tough votes because he and his popularity would bail them out in the midterm. well, he and his popularity have not shown up. >> correct answer is is not going to help him. charm helps you if you are a challenger and nobody knows who you are and you are running to be the president. it helped him and he won. but second time around, it is not about how charming you

. >> reporter: ab for assembly bill and some are referring to it as the dash cam bill. the reason for it, good intentioned as these show, a driver not wearing his seat belt, nods off. seconds later, and watch that black pick up truck driving along a wet highway. probably the worst, a semi swerving on a busy freeway. the author of the bill is an assembly member from san diego who says the intention is not to invade privacy but monitor your driving which can lead to better driving habits and save lives. >> let's face it, cars are pretty smart already, but ab 1942 would take it to a whole new level with ability to record video and sound, tell which direction you were going and how fast. also record the history of where you've been. it is able to record steering and break performance as well as whether or not you were wearing your seat belt all of it readily transmittible to a central location any time you are in an accident. the bill is aimed at safety some believe it is nothing more than over reach of government power. >> i think that is invasion of privacy. i don't think

this is the bill. this is the bill. this is the bill that goes on and on. it's written on special parchment paper and then i'll sign the bill here. i have to use all these pens. then we'll send it over to the president and he will sign the bill. not yet. i have to use these pence on the first part here -- pens on the first part here. just as on inauguration day, the president uses pennsylvania avenue to be inaugurated. today we will send this bill up pennsylvania avenue back to the whowls. for the signature of president barack obama. [applause] >> speaker pelosi. >> i just want to say something about the president. because education has been such a key issue for the president that i want to thank him for his extraordinary leadership in making this vote possible as well. his vision, his leadership and now today with his signature. thank you all. >> thank you, folks. thank you. >> thank you. >> did i give you one? >> thank you. >> thank you all very much. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp

only this time obama is the establishment and bill clinton is backing the insurgent. >> hi, this is bill clinton. i'm supporting andrew romanoff for the u.s. senate. >> reporter: a loss for bennet would be an embarrassment for obama. in georgia today the gubernatorial primaries are testing the strength of republicans at the national level. newt gingrich and mike huckabee have been campaigning for nathan deal while sarah palin is throwing her support to karen handel. >> are you ready to elect a pro-life, pro-second amendment, commonsense, constitutional conservative who will fight like a mama grizzly for you? >> reporter: if her candidate wins, she's guaranteed to be seen as the mama grizzly bear of her party headed into the

now, the bill. in terms of manpower, the bill provides for one dells and additional border patrol agents. it can take -- 1000 additional border patrol agents. it facilitates legal traffic and intercedes contraband. enables ice to help combat narcotics smuggling. provides two more unmanned aircraft systems and will deploy tactical communications technology that will improve enforcement, particularly along some of the more remote areas of the border. it also includes $196 million for the justice department to add prosecutors, immigration judges, and support for detention and incarceration of criminal aliens in coordination with our homeland security enforcement efforts. in terms of infrastructure, it includes $6 million operating bases to improve our border enforcement activity. this bill is clearly another step forward on border security, on top of the significant progress that the administration has already made. it is one of the many tools in the toolbox we have constructed along the border. so, we

bill. the companion bill has been introduced which deals with the tax impacts and the tax that would be collected. there are estimates that have shown that online gambling regulation for the federal government could generate up to $42 billion. there is a significant amount of money, some estimates are a up to $30 billion that could be collected for state governments. this is important to note that this is new revenue. there is not a lot of sources of new revenue. when you put this new revenue on the table, the real opportunity is to figure out how that will be dedicated. so both at the federal and state level, we have deficits, tremendous budget problems, and i think it is valuable to put this money that right now is being lost offshore to good use. host: we have lines for and against this. we are on with michael waxman. caller: i am against internet gambling. it has robbed people who do not have any control of their money. they just blow it away. i had a relative who was murdered because o

major utility bill. picked up from across the town these people haven't paid tricity gas and water bills for months. they don't know yet about to take part in a big reality show there are t.v. cameras waiting for them at the bailiff service office. and the head of the municipal court. in january two thousand and nine unpaid utility bills accounted for half of. january. the first p.r. campaign acting on a. company by t.v. crews. apartment and delivered to the bailiff service in february local residents not only paid their bills in full but even settled some of their debts after that decided to organize such campaigns on a regular basis. for the sake of the. local officials are explaining to sleepy delinquent. happen to them unless they settle their debts in the meantime ten uniformed female bailiffs are getting ready to hand a court papers to the debtors. do i show my id. to the other man and. the bailiffs grand entrance is an important part of the show t.v. viewers must see that bailiffs are nice people

treasury bills. scott gurvey explains the move. the fed is on a roll, or at least that is the policy. with main street in a gloomy mood, the central bank announced today it will roll over its portfolio of securities. that will keep its balance sheet at record levels, but it will prevent the tightening impact shrinking the portfolio would have on the economy. that doesn't hurt. but economist bob brusca says it doesn't help, either. >> this is a milquetoast policy. it's hard to disagree with it. it's not clearly bad, it's not clearly good. it's just sort of in the middle. it takes a half step towards doing something for the economy at a time when maybe they can only take three quarters of a step at best. >> reporter: today's closely analyzed statement also removed previous wording noting that foreign economies were weak, and significantly changed the wording on the american economy. in june, the recovery was said to be "proceeding." now, the fed says it has "slowed in recent months." that is not news for anyone who has been looking f

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good morning, bill. >> no, no tetris for me. >> no. what do you prefer? >> pac-man. >> pac-man, there you go. >> miss pac-man, actually. >> i thought you with going to go more modern like wii bowling or something, you know? >> i tried some of that stuff. it just hasn't stuck with me. >> your wife is probably very happy. trust me. you lose a part of your spouse when they discover the wii. >> she's the one that would probably be playing it, not me. let's talk about the high temperatures, lynn, because it was another hot day away from the coast yesterday, from phoenix all the way northward, into nevada, western sections of the state of idaho and eastern washington and oregon were very steamy yesterday. much of the country was still under the grips a heat wave, including arkansas, which was 105 in little rock. do you believe that? now, the problem is that the weather pattern hasn't changed this week. doesn't look like it's going to probably until the middle of next week. we're still very cloudy during the morning and the night along the coast, and that's why

bill. thank you for the g.i. bill where people who came from humble beginnings could actually realize professions such as being attorneys, doctors, whatever. he was an extraordinary human being. >> to your point, michelle of his having bean fighter pilot. if i'm treading too close let me know and i'll pull back. i want to respect your feelings what i know is a difficult time four. i was struck today by the fact that he was, in fact, as you mentioned a fighter pilot. his wife dies in a plane crash in 1978, his first wife. he survives that plane crash. as we mentioned earlier the airport in anchorage is named after him. he said once that plane crashes in alaska are an occupational hazard of alaska pilots. that's the senator talking because you got to hop on these small planes because of the way alaska is laid out. what do you make of the fact after all that he end up perishing in a plane crash. >> i was working for him at the time of the first crash. and it was a horrific scene, a typical campaign trip. inclement w

1070 and house bill 2281. the arizona department of education passed an order to all of its school districts to remove and. the teachers with accents from teaching english class's and banning ethnic studies class is to run all the districts in arizona. as an educator, i felt i cannot stand silent any more. i am asking the board to prohibit the expenditures of any district fund on travel or attendance of anybody from our school district or staff or school board to attend any and all conferences and meetings in arizona until these divisive laws are changed. as a leader of this district, i would like to reach out to all the educators and arizona and let them know we and the san francisco unified school district currently have openings for various site and central administrative positions. we are a multi-ethnic, multilingual community, and proud of it. and we welcome anybody who offers those same things to join us in the struggle and in the great work that we work on, but leaving and social justice and its civil-r

governor schwarzenegger has not taken a policy on this bill. >>> the bill would make it a crime to operate motorcycles that violate emission standards. the law would apply to motorcycles manufactured at january 1, 2013. he owns several motorcycles but there is no word on whether he will sign the bill. >>> there's word tonight about what steve jobs will announce on wednesday at the next apple event. itunes customers will get more time to sample songs. the way it is now, it's only 30 seconds. also apple is not going to launch a service allowing users to store their music on apple servers and then access it on iphones. >>> myspace today made a change. it is going to cross with facebook and twitters. this will apply to bands and celebrities. not just individual users. it comes as myspace is losing out to facebook. >>> why are buildings in the square sitting empty? that is tonight's special report. >>> also forcing cars off [ man i was deciding what to do with my citi thankyou points when it happened... [ glass breaks ...again. ♪ [ child run! [ man first it was the mailbox. then my squirrel.

bill to finance his education in san francisco state and two weeks after earning his broadcasting degree in 1951 he landed his first job on radio. it wasn't long before dave shot to stardom. >> are we missing something? >> no, there's more on radio 74. >> reporter: news man al hart worked as his producer. >> he was quick witted. >> reporter: after 25 years, mac flipped the switch and made the move to tv at cbs 5. some of the new technology was a challenge but dave met it with a smile every time. >> eyewitness news with dave mcelhatton. [ laughter ] >> well, we had a fast landing, didn't we. >> mac was very good humored. he knew he looked funny compared to the typical man. he wasn't young and perky and energetic. he was humorous and occasionally sharp witted. butt never cruel, he was glib but never mean-spirited. >> reporter: harry fuller produced his first newscast and his general manager was there for some of the biggest moments. >> here comes the footage of the bay ridge. >> there's another after shock. >> mcelhatton was unflappable. i watched him work through the 1989 earthquake and p

it was wild bill, he says, impersonating cher. keith, sandy and others tried to alert local authorities. >> i said, cheryl hughes was a very close friend of mine, something's wrong, her dogs are not with her, she would not have ever sold her ireland. >> reporter: why wouldn't the police look when you tell them, my wife is missing? >> in central america, a lot of people come here to be missing. >> reporter: keith confronted wild bill. >> i said, show me some papers. cher would never sell before talking to me. >> reporter: police finally mounted an investigation into wild bill, after an expat blogger broke and pursued the story. and cher's concerned relatives flew to the mainland to meet with police. >> so i went to panama city with her aunt and sister. he has an ak-47 on the property. is that probable cause to execute a search warrant? and it was. >> reporter: by then, wild bill and jane, really william and laura, had fled. law enforcement caught up with them in nicaragua. laura is being held now as an accomplice to murder. armed w

and the bill passed on the second vote. now there are hundreds of these bills before the convention and they would not become law until the governor signed them. well, time was running out. it was almost midnight on the last day. i didn't know what to do. so i stroled into the governor's office and up to his desk and i politely told him that i would like to be a lawyer and he said why? and i said because that's my lifelong dream and why couldn't a woman be a lawyer? he signed that bill and i became the first woman lawyer in california and the west coast. but even though i became that lawyer, i felt i would be -- i could get more clients if i had a law degree. see, i was self-educated. so i went to hastings law school to register and they said they wouldn't permit me to be there. something about the rustling of petticoats bothering the male students. i don't know. so my friend and i, lori gordon, we sued hastings, which included judge hastings, one of the great lawyers and judges at that time and oh, they were mad and oh, di

there's also a border security bill. there will also be a proposal from tom price concerning the lame-duck session. host: do we have any idea how they're likely to vote on the state aid or jobs bill? caller: certainly the democrats support it, it will likely pass with a comfortable margin. republicans are not happy with coming back from the recess, plus they do not like several aspects of the bill. host: do you expect republicans to gain any traction? get -- caller: republicans will make the point that they are spending money that they do not have and that the tax offset is another increase in corporate america, declaring the democrats to be spending money that they do not have to spend. host: what are the charges that maxine waters is facing? caller: yesterday the ethics committee announced three counts of violations. she held a bank in california that her husband is associated with. she helped the bank bailout money in 2008. they called it a violation of health at -- house ethics rules. host: do you expect to see her i

used to paying utility bills or the land tax. to pay off the debts they've run up over many months they claim they can't get a job done with the new value fortune telling everything there are girls try to get a job at a factory but they were told you're illiterate you're gypsies and when you don't have anything for you they want us to pay for electricity for gas for water no discounts no favors. the main objective of the rapid reaction squad is to protect the executive bailiff in the past there were several attacks bailiffs in the roma village this time everything was quiet there have been situations in which people attacked squad members with firearms pitchforks or axis. what are you doing ok lady give me the x. back. almost. constant psychological pressure is the most difficult part of their job perhaps that's the reason only psychologically stable people can work here. as one of the most experienced workers at the service she's been working here for fifteen years. i'm ready to go. the is going out to execute a court order she'

this is the bill. all of this is the bill. it goes on and on. it's written on parchment special -- parchment paper, special punchment paper. i'll sign the bill here. >> you're so excited to sign this. >> i rushed right into it. then we'll send it over to the president and he will sign the bill. not yet because i have to use these pens here. just as in inauguration day, the president uses pennsylvania avenue to come to the capitol to be inaugurated, today we will send this bill up to pennsylvania avenue back to the white house for our president barack obama to sign it into law. >> i just want to say something about the president because education has been such a key issue for the president that i want to thank him for his extraordinary leadership in making today possible as well, both with his vision, his leadership and now today with his signature. thank you all. >> thank you, folks. >> thank you. >> did i give you one? all right. >> thank you all very much. >> now house republicans speaking with reporters before the debate on the medicaid and e

bill after bill after bill to try to punish corporations for, quote, shifting jobs overseas. chris: when we come back, the big question of the week. president obama turned 49 this week. will his youth be a plus or minus when he runs next time? [captioning made possible by nbc universal] chris: welcome back. president obama turned 49 the other day. that brings us to this week's question. his youth won him the white house you could say, last i time. next time will it be a plus or a minus? >> i think a minus. a republican attack on obama is going to revolve around too liberal and also too ineconomy and the inexperience the republicans will try to hang around his neck, they're going to say look, you hired this guy who was too young and inexperienced for the job the >> i agree except nobody will care if you start getting real jobs creation in the next six months. >> i think still a plus. how you feel about a president, a youthful president with a young ibf and children is still aheal -- appealing. >> historically, still appealing. but i think obama is a person and what got him ele

is the united states setting a good example now in dealing with climate change the senate bill that's going to be debated. historically the united states has been seen as being behind the curve when it comes to dealing with the climate is he getting ahead of the curve now. well i think it's still playing catch up. there are lots of reasons that we want a clean energy bill and a clean energy economy in the united states as you know we're just like the rest of the world we're dealing with severe economic recession a lot of unemployment and we're looking for the growth industries of the twenty first century and just like china and europe we're trying to participate in what we think is the next. you know boom industry which is clean energy and there's been reasons that we've wanted to move towards renewable energy sources that don't run out that give you domestic energy security we don't have the we don't pay or import. fossil fuels from parts of the world that are unfriendly and unstable. so we can save money there's really an economic case for this so climate change and especially the d

you know, that's the thing that bill o'reilly will never understand. you got your own biases that are built-in spin. and i wish to god he would have me on my show so i could say, "bill, you're doing it right now. you're spinning right now." [laughs] but i think that a lot of people just find me to be off-putting and aggressive. and then because we are a culture that-- we demand our women to be, um, attractive in a very mainstream way, that is another thing that they are like-- in a lot of reviews of my shows and a lot of reviews about me, people find it necessary to comment on my physical appearance, which they never do for male comics, never. it would never, ever happen. they would never say, "i just saw bill maher last night, and looks like he's gained some weight" or blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, you know? this, that, and the other. but i've gotten, "janeane garofalo looking like an unmade bed." and then one person put something like-- in an interview, that said, "let's hope her new year's resolution entails joining a gym." because our culture objec

not only do they want to do some sort of defense bill or get some of the appropriations bills done, they're also trying to get into this tax-cut debate. senate majority leader harry reid has signaled that they want to bring up the debate over extending the bush 2001 and 2003 tax cuts which are due to expire at the end of the year. there are only a few weeks left in the session. it is not clear what will be brought in september or pushed off until after november. maybe they will just pass a continuing resolution extending the current funding levels. >> we saw what happened when walter mondale talked about raising taxes. will this be an issue of the tax court -- tax increase in tax cut between democrat and republican? >> it is all about who wins the race to define what is happening. this is not a new pledge from democrats. go back to 2004 and this is what we heard. they said it would roll back the bush tax cuts to the tricky part for democrats -- bush tax cuts. the tricky part for democrats is to

bill, have you ever seen this? a lot of times these guys are down in the subway playing the carpenter's saw. it's eerie, isn't it? >> spooky. >> i could do that. i'm not musically inclined, but i could do that. >> yeah, a saw would be a little easier. >>> time now for an early look at some of the stories we'll follow throughout the day here on nbc. the world remembers the atomic bombing of nagasaki, japan. it is the 65th anniversary of the u.s. attack which claimed 70,000 lives. it came three days after the united states dropped a bomb on hiroshima killing 140,000. >>> today also marks the 36th anniversary of the resignation of former president richard nixon following the watergate scandal. nixon stepped down handing the position of commander in chi ee gerald ford. >>> and today is smoky bear's birthday. the advocate of protecting the nation's forests was introduced in 1944 with his famous warning, only you can prevent forest fires. >>> all day long, you can stay on top of the very latest developments in those stor

good morning to you, bill. i saw you watching that video, r 2 d 2. i know you go every year. >> i don't go every year. i've never been. but i do love the movies. i'm a sucker, when they put them on on the weekends, they do a trilogy, all three, i find myself five hours later still needing to do the laundry. >>> yesterday we saw hot conditions in the middle of the country. things are going to change this weekend of the heat that's been in the middle of the nation is going to begin to expand to the west. we saw that yesterday in phoenix where it was 110. we're going to see pretty extreme heat even by phoenix standards by the upcoming weekend. it was 103 in vegas. we started getting warmer. sacramento 89, downtown l.a. 78. the heat is going to expand to all locations except the immediate california coast, especially next week. maybe monday, tuesday, wednesday before they begin to cool it off on thursday and friday. here is how we're looking. little storm systems kicking up through montana. warm in the pacific northwest. definitely hot through southern n

bill. these are things people talk about. you state, this is a small issue. do you really think those are small issues or legitimate beefs? >> i think we can have a conversation about the progress we made on important issues and the progress that needs to be made that doesn't mean we haven't effectively been able to advance our ideals in this administration. the president has spent time doing exactly what he said he would do and in some things we are making quite a bit of progress. are people going to have disagreements about pace? will they have disagreements about what goes in what order? yes, of course they are. and of course in the democratic party, there is a strength in the diversity of opinions that democrats have. that's not a problem. that's not an issue. that's something that we're proud of. >> you admit even from the left that there's some legitimate concerns on certain issues and a frustration -- >> i would say -- there are legitimate disagreements. john? >> the congressman from

i am a co-sponsor of this bill. with that bill says is that you will have a matchup of the social security numbers of the employee who comes in to get the job, the current employees, with the social security office because we know there are 12 million people working on phony documents right now. and people come here, they commit document fraud, they buy a phony social security number. it is in the system. it is in the social security data bank. if we match that up, if the employer would call in and we could lift the prohibition on this, the employers could actually be mandated to check to see if these are valid workers. the problem that you face is according to the gallup polling organization, i have a friend who polls for gallup. he says if i extrapolate these numbers, there are a billion people who would like to come to the united states, and we have a legal process for people to come here and is the most generous in the world. but on top of that, we have a lot of people who are circumventing the process. if you h

and the senate was scared to act, there were a lot of senators that thought if i come out for this bill, you know, i am going to run into a buzz saw when i run for re-election because of all of the misinformation and all of the lies and the people who didn't step up, the guy who could have made the difference was barack obama, now he could have said look we can't do an economy wide cap, we have got to beat a tactical retreat let's just do the power sector let's just do the utilities and he could have gotten that done. >> rose: and gina kolata of the new york times is here to help us understand some new developments in alzheimer's. >> nobody has ever survived alzheimer's. they have been cured of cancer, heart disease but never survived alzheimer's so why do you want to even know you are getting this thing? and the reason there has been this big push to do this kind of research is that in order -- people think by the time you have alzheimer's it is kind of too late to help you, so many brain cells, you can't bring them back, there is nothing you can rely do. so in order to make a differen

the bills get combined -- tax bills, appropriation bills, housing bills, financial reform bills -- >> one bill that you were part of that got passed and that you can say here is part of what i have brought the people of florida. >> we have a bill that is protecting our coastline right now. >> offshore oil drilling? >> yes, as it relates to calling for the moratorium, which the administration said it would follow through on as it relates to policy, so there was no need for the passage. pythons have been a major issue. the department of interior said, no need to pass the legislation. we will put it in policy because you have raised the issue. the issue of making sure to deal with the stimulus. transportation was a huge issue. making sure that we stayed -- saved holmes a in a state. the president is working to bridge gaps between families and institutions. >> all right. >> go aheda. -- ahead. sorry. >> when the pencil gets raised, that means time is up. >> mr. greene should get a response. you say he is 0 for 70. he is not -- >> he has not authored anything. i get results. i hold people