pobladores de alabama continÚan atemorizados con la ola antiinmigrante que se vive en el paÍs.[íóyx#,?'wíñ?ñ? ahora ser hispano con o sin documentos es cada vez mÁs difÍcil.c$ñ?ñ? >> numerosas personalidades fueron galardonadas hoy por el presidente barack obama con la medalla de la libertad, el mÁs alto honor que confiere el paÍs a un civil. la hispana silvia mÉndez estaba entre los galardonados.ysñ?ñ? >> este es su noticiero univisiÓn con hhmp/% jorge ramÍ elena salinas.÷óñ?ñ? >> el gobierno de mÉxico contestÓ que bajo esas condiciones cancelÓ su participaciÓn en francia con casi 300 cementos socioculturales y de turismo. >> de forma unilateral sin consultar se cambian las condiciones y se dedica alguien condenada por delitos graves, se verÍa en la imposibilidad de participar. el periÓdico universal publicó el Álbum familiar de la familia, donde tanto los padres como... aparecen jugando. y los seÑalamientos de las vÍctimas que estuvieron secuestradas 52 dìas fueron acusatorios sobre. >> nunca la vi. pero sigue escuchÉ su voz. y es la misma voz

ya los latinos forman parte de varias comunidades como la de alabama por ejemplo. un comentario hecho por un senador estatal republicano ha causado gran preocupaciÓn. dijo a sus colegas de partido en una reuniÓn. segÚn ... usar como analogÍa un arma de fuego cuando se habla de este tema puede tener graves consecuencias. >> desde 2000 hemos monitoreado un incremento de mÁs de 50%, incremento en crÍmenes de odio en los estados unidos. esto lo atribuimos a la creciente ola anti inmigrante. >> algunos analistas aseguran que la reciente masacre ... >> tratamos de conseguir una entrevista con el senador en repetidas ocasiones, incluso fuimos hasta su casa pero se nos dijo que no estaba disponible esta tarde nos enviÓ una reacciÓn por escrito diciendo que el comentario significa que cÓmo legislatura tenemos que trabajar constantemente tenemos que agotar nuestras habilidades para lidiar con los problemas y trabajar hasta que se resuelvan y no dejarlos a mitad de camino. aÑadiÓ que jamÁs harÍa un comentario donde abogarÁ por actos violentos contra indocumentad

ron mott, nbc news, auburn, alabama. >>> a quick word here about tomorrow night's "making a difference" report. as we head into daytona 500 weekend for all of us motorheads, a big name in racing, who is helping kids with chronic illnesses, whose names he will never know and making a lot of lives better in the process. that's tomorrow night's "making a difference" report followed next week by a week's worth of special reports on those who are giving back. for now, that is our broadcast for this thursday night. thank you for being here with us. i'm brian williams. we hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> bay area on storm watch. rain, wind, take a look, even snow. the latest on the conditions and what to expect as we head into this holiday weekend. >> president obama, just touched down in the bay area. coming up, details on who he is meeting with, why he is here. >> developments involving the san bruno pipeline explosion, why pg & e says you could be covering some of their costs. news at 6:00 starts right now.

the charity that we're going a thing of the proceeds there is the alabama victims of a sting is the alabama. crime victim coalition committee anyway it's a c b c c dot com. and world news will take the guns and you know clean them up and put them on auction site in the proceeds from that will go to that charity which will help the victims of gun crime so haven't been successful thus far how many people have actually been willing to to part ways with their guns just for their valentine. well we are saturday and good but we've got a lot of phone calls a lot of questions and was not a number of guns i think seven or the door we're expecting a lot more traffic than we can you know most people are out of work and looking for balance and. i think we'll have a lot more now sherry you mentioned of course the fact that this could help out a lot of people that don't necessarily have the money to go out and buy valentine's day present but a lot of other people are out of work right now but i'm just curious how is your business doing during these times you know i would think that when everyone else is

terrorista >>> y hablaremos de inmigración m (>> josé: >>> qué quiso decir un senador del estado de alabama cuando dijo que hay que vaciar el cargador algunos dijeron que era una incitación a la violencia dice como las palabras del senador sacudieron a la comunidad ♪ . >>> la presencia de inmigrantes hispanos ya no se limita a ciudades como s Ángeles, miami o nueva york, con o sin documentos, ya los latinos forman de varias comunidades como la de alabama dijo a sus colegas de puntos en una reunión, vacíen el cargador y hagan lo que tengan que hacer usar como analogía un arma de fuego en estos temas, puede tener varias consecuencias >>> hemos monitoreado, y esto lo atribuimos a la creciente ola, . >>> aseguran que la reciente masacre es un reciente hecho de lo que los malos comentarios pueden provocar tratamos de conseguir una entrevista, incluso fuimos a su casa, pero se nos dijo que no estaba disponible el comentario, significa que tenemos que trabajar constantemente en los problemas, y trabajar hasta que se resuelvan añadió que jamás haría un comentario sobre actos violentos en

prison for his hijacking of the freighter mesrk alabama in 2005. two others were killed in a navy seal operation in which the captain was executed. >> i'm happy to be alive. >> i love my wife, i love my life. >> now, friends of scott and jean adam are praying for their rescue or release. george lewis, nbc news, los angeles. >>> when we continue tonight, heartbreak at auburn university where a longstanding rivalry has gotten out of hand. >>> all over the northeast and mid-atlantic region today, the weather was causing big problems, specifically, very high winds with gusts up to 74 miles per hour. the winds contributed to dozens of wildfires like these in maryland forcing the shutdown of one stretch of i-95. in washington, the winds blew down the blue spruce that becomes the annual christmas tree each season. >>> in auburn, alabama an update on a sad tale involving other historic trees. thousands came uni s came out t imminent loss of two oak trees that have stood for more than 130 years. a fan of the rival football team has been charged with poisoni

king, when do you want me to go to month come ri, alabama -- montgomery, alabama? the deal was sealed. what martin said about me, but really the sub text title should have been i was the making of a disciple. it changed my life, no doubt about it. >> host: from there, clarence, what happened with the case? >> guest: oh, oh, the case. think about this, in april -- get my memory on the exact month, but the case -- he's acquitted by an all-white jury. >> host: may 6, 1960. >> guest: yeah. the reason he was acquitted, you know, bob laten, you know, these two tax attorneys in chicago, one had been a supervisor for the internal revenue service. one was the supervisor attorney for the internal revenue service, and the other had been a tax examiner for the revenue service. they literally destroyed the state's case, so it was clear to me that the only way that those 12 white people could come back and bring a conviction, they said, we can't convict this because we're going to look like fools. racism may be something, but pride had something to do with it. they acquitted him

he wanted something done about alabama and he wanted it done the day before yesterday. and the lawyers who worked for me believed in him, believe that's what he wanted and that's what they wanted. so they just put it all out for him. >> his great achievement as attorney general was sublimate. he himself grew through that period of time. he had an instinct. he always had any state for the underdog, for those who are not included. >> the schools had been closed in 1959, rather than meet the requirements of brown viewport of education, they took the position that the constitution did not compel the states to offer public education and therefore they would close the schools. and of course overnight he had nights cool for the african-american children. this is something he didn't have to do. both he and president kennedy focused on the children and the opportunity and under his leadership in the school system in prince edward county, probably one of the best in the country. i'm not served -- but that is a very personal example of robert kennedy responding to a problem, not j

a young guy asked me out to a movie in tuskegee, alabama. there was one little movie theater there, and he said we are going to have to cook our own popcorn and bring it there. and we need to buy some candy bars because we couldn't go down on the first floor for the concession stand was. all the black people had to sit up in the balcony, which of course they never cleaned it or take care of it. and i was like, no, i am not doing it. i am not going into a segregated facility. i had to go to montgomery alabama to shop and they wouldn't let you try on clothes. there was a dressing room for white ladies and the white man and then there was a dressing room in which men, women and children had to change clothes. i was not going to abide i that segregated dressing room. so you would have to hold up close and see if it would fit or something like that. and i was like, oh my got. i can't stand this. this is crazy. i was like on another planet. so i would end up doing catalog shopping or my mother would send stuff from chicago down to me because i jus

i had watched, you know, being an alabama. i had seen all of that demonstrations he was leading and all of his work. of course his speech in washington, the i have a dream speech. i just had so much admiration for this man. i never thought i would get an opportunity to meet him. he announced from atlanta that he was going north to chicago, and he was going to fight segregation in chicago. well, this big competitive news town, all of the reporters are trying to find out what the heck he is going to chicago for. mayor richard j. daley, he was horrified. what is this carpetbagger, nothing wrong with the city of chicago. so everybody was trying to find out what it was that he was coming for. i asked my news director, can i have the story? he said, well, she's black, he's back, probably. [laughter] >> host: it benefits you again. >> guest: yes. i went to o'hare airport waiting for all of the planes coming from atlanta with all of the other reporters and tv crews. so we are going from gate to gate as planes were coming in from atlan

suspend three years there in tuscaloosa, alabama. generally have loved it because it is great to be there. i just came back from there when i was sharing the story. one member of the audience said i don't believe that you would come to america just because alphabetically we are the first. strange things do happen. then i went to buffalo. it is kind of difficult to work my way through this language that was not my own. still not my own in many ways. one thing that to learn through writing this book, i wrote myself into an american because i started as a non citizen. it was in the process of writing this book. it took me two years, research in. it was a long affair over a decade but when i decided to write a book it was in the process of writing this book and looking at the kind of racism america used to have against chinese, it is a history of the chinese experience in america and to meet charlie chan is the key in a way for me to understand what is going on to chinese-americans or asian americans, bad and good. it was in the process

all of my family came in from alabama. i was overwhelmed by the thought of being sworn in in front of some mini family members. it was on january 3rd. two weeks later we celebrated martin luther king jr. day or as when beck calls it, monday. now, dr. king's legacy has always held a very special place in my heart. i know that folks marched, many in this audience, many in this audience so that i could be the first african-american woman to serve in congress and the state of alabama. i know that i am living proof that dr. king famous dream speech is now a reality. i can only think of ending this torture by paraphrasing dr. king's most famous speech. by hasan know that tonight i will be judged not by the color of my skin but by the contents of a comedy routine. please be kind. [applauding] >> the nicest congressional district in alabama. what is that like? pablo it sounds awesome. [laughter] where are you, but? [laughter] americans were first introduced to our final speaker in 1997 when he appeared as the seventh most interest

i was born in alabama, but i moved to live with my biological aunt and uncle. remember, in the rural area, there are no signs saying " white" and "colored" because it is too difficult, but how i learned about it is in the general store. they sell everything. everything you want to find in the post office, the bus station -- everything has been in the general store. one day, i was standing in line. it was a summer day, and some white kids came in.

he wanted something done about louisiana, about alabama. and he wanted it done the day before yesterday. lawyers who worked for me believed in him, believe that is what he wanted, and that is what they wanted. they wanted to get something done. and they put it all out for him. >> his great achievement as attorney general was civil rights. he himself grew through that period of time. he had an instinct, he always had an instinct for the underdog, for those who were not in power. >> in virginia, the schools were closed in 1959 rather than meet the requirements of browning -- brown v. board of education. they took the position that the constitution did not compel states to offer public education, and that therefore they would close their schools in prince william county. and then they opened private schools for the white children and the african american children have none. this is something he did not have to do. but he and president kennedy felt that those children had to be given an education. there was a school system in prince edward kenn

all of my family came in from alabama. i was overwhelmed by the thought of being sworn in in front of some mini family members. it was on january 3rd. two weeks later we celebrated martin luther king jr. day or as when beck calls it, monday. now, dr. king's legacy has always held a very special place in my heart. i know that folks marched, many in this audience, many in this audience so that i could be the first african-american woman to serve in congress and the state of alabama. i know that i am living proof that dr. king famous dream speech is now a reality. i can only think of ending this torture by paraphrasing dr. king's most famous speech. by hasan know that tonight i will be judged not by the color of my skin but by the contents of a comedy routine. please be kind. [applauding] >> the nicest congressional district in alabama. what is that like? pablo it sounds awesome. [laughter] where are you, but? [laughter] americans were first introduced to our final speaker in 1997 when he appeared as the seventh most interest

i was born in alabama, but i moved to live with my biological aunt and uncle. remember, in the rural area, there are no signs saying " white" and "colored" because it is too difficult, but how i learned about it is

i was born in alabama, but i moved to live with my biological aunt and uncle. remember, in the rural area, there are no signs saying " white" and "colored" because it is too difficult, but how i learned about it is in the general store. they sell everything. everything you want to find in the post office, the bus station -- everything has been in the general store. one day, i was standing in line. it was a summer day, and some white kids came in. funny thing about it -- you know their parents' names, but you do not know the children's names because you are not allowed to interact with white children. they came in, and they were laughing, and the older ones started punching me. one of the little boys -- i do not know, somebody was saying something about my hands. he wanted to see my hands. i just raised them up. i was wondering what they wanted to see my hands for. what happened was the white boy placed his hands against my hands, and his mother looked at my mom, and my mom looked at me, and she gave me a backhand slap. from then on, i knew that i was not suppos

all of my family came in from alabama. i was overwhelmed by the thought of being sworn in in front of some mini family members. it was on january 3rd. two weeks later we celebrated martin luther king jr. day or as when beck calls it, monday. now, dr. king's legacy has always held a very special place in my heart. i know that folks marched, many in this audience, many in this audience so that i could be the first african-american woman to serve in congress and the state of alabama. i know that i am living proof that dr. king famous dream speech is now a reality. i can only think of ending this torture by paraphrasing dr. king's most famous speech. by hasan know that tonight i will be judged not by the color of my skin but by the contents of a comedy routine. please be kind. [applauding] >> the nicest congressional district in alabama. what is that like? pablo it sounds awesome. [laughter] where are you, but? [laughter] americans were first introduced to our final speaker in 1997 when he appeared as the seventh most interest

he wanted something done about alabama. and he wanted done -- wanted it done the day before yesterday. and the lawyers who worked for me believe in him, believed that is what he wanted, and that is what they wanted. they wanted to get something done. >> his great achievement in attorney -- as attorney general was civil rights. he himself grew during that period of time. he had an instinct -- always had an instinct for the underdog, for those who are not included. >> in prince william county, virginia, the schools were closed in 1959 rather than meet the requirements of brown versus board of education. they took the position that the constitution did not compel states to offer public education, and therefore they would close their schools in prince william county. of course, overnight they had private school for white children and african-american children had none. >> this was something he did not have to do. but those children had to be given an educational opportunity. under his leadership, worked to create school system

. >>> california and alabama have something in common when it comes to prisons. overcrowding. we'll show you the unusual strategy one prison is taking to ease tensions in close quarters. >>> and temperatures soared into the record books again today. the news at 5:00 starts right now. >>> good evening. i'm diane dwyer. the three uc berkeley graduates accused of spying in iran face their first day of trial today. they all pleaded not guilty to the charges. but getting any additional information out of iran is proving to be difficult. mare r marianne favro joins us with more. >> this took place in iran's revolutionary court. sarah shourd, who was released earlier on $500,000 bail, was not there. her two friends, josh fattal and shane bauer, were at the court today. no members of the media were allowed in. in fact, there was a blanket ban on any observers going into the courts, including the swiss ambassador who represents u.s. interests in iran. she told nbc news she was very frustrated she couldn't get any information or find out what was happening touring the proceedings. the l

i visited with small business people in phoenix city, alabama, and jasper, alabama, 15, 20 in each, and they told me that it was going to cause them to reduce employment, the health care bill would. there is no doubt about it. one man said i have got ten fast food restaurants, 200 employees. it will -- i believe i'm heading to a reduction of 70 workers. if it's a reduction of ten workers, it's too many. if it's a reduction of five. we need growth in jobs, not reduction in jobs. the health care bill is killing jobs. the congressional budget office director is hired by the congress. mr. elmendorf who does that is -- was selected by the democratic majority. i like him, i think he's an honest man. he said it will cost jobs in america to continue the health care bill. i think it's going to be far more significant than he suggests. one of the things i asked the witnesses at the budget committee hearing yesterday was these temporary extensions of tax rates, are they detrimental, would the economy be better with permanent rates, and they said yes, every one of them. liberal and conservative sai

about ten years ago, harry kazazian decided he could retool a factory in alabama to make sleeping bags for a lower price than his competitors in china. >> we started bringing back our production from china to the united states and hiring more employees and expanding. when everyone else was offshoring, we were re-shoring. >> reporter: but kazazian now claims those chinese competitors have shifted production to bangladesh to take advantage of a trade preference aimed at supporting poor countries. rising imports of duty-free sleeping bags from bangladesh now threaten to put workers at exxel outdoors, the last sleeping bag factory in the u.s., out of business. so kazazian is asking lawmakers in washington for help. >> really, they're not trying to cause a problem; they're trying to fix a problem and make sure that american workers should never be put at a disadvantage. >> reporter: and this is where the roses come in. we import most of our roses from colombia under the andean trade preference act, which was designed to give colombian farmers a reason to grow something other than cocaine. a

i had to go to mike ray alabama it to shop and they would not let you try on clothes. there was a dressing room for white ladies and white men and a color dressing room in which the fed coming women come and children had to change clothes. and i would not abide by the segregated dressing room. you would have to hold up close to see if it would fit. i could not stand in this. it is crazy like i was on another planet. i would end up doing catalog shopping or my mother would send the stuff from chicago because i could not go back into that the atmosphere and the horrible things shock to the me as i walk down the street by young white men. i will not repeat them but you can imagine they were nasty and hurtful. i just hated the south. i came to hate the south. and southern people. i was very radical about my feelings about the south. but it made me do this stuff that made the difference because i didn't demonstrate but those who died or imprisoned i felt i had to do something for my people or to make things better. i was determined i would work where for was to try to make

so you'd go out and think, god, this is the middle of alabama, the middle of mississippi. and people would go out and try and get people to come into town and register. you'd wonder, people would go off and you'd think maybe we'll never see them again. if we got arrested, we were in the patrol car, you'd see the jail, you know, coming up. you're like, oh my god. thank goodness it's the jail. it's not the river. >> belva: jimmy sang and organized across the south. as well as in chicago and harlem. but most of his work took place in alabama with the fight for voting rights in selma and the long march to montgomery. two civil rights workers were murdered in that struggle. >> the lady that got killed on the selma to montgomery march. i just happened to be talking to her before she got in the car with another young kid. they went up to montgomery. of course, she never made it. ♪ once you walk that highway, she has walked by herself ♪ ♪ nobody else could walk it for her, she had to walk by herself ♪ you know that once people are involved, even if it's just singing, that

alabama, the poorest county in the depression. the women made these quilts because they needed to keep her children warm and would stack them to make a mattress. they covered the tables with them, they used them for their children to crawl on when they would go outside and have picnics. they used the quilts for everything, small ones and large ones. now today, those quilts are going for 25,000 and more. it was my pleasure to go to g's bend and had the opportunity to quilt with them. my next picture book, i will share this with you and it is called never gotten. i would like to share it because this is something that had been in the process for about 20 years. i have been asking every west african that i have met, did you miss us? what i meant by that was are there stories in your culture that talk about the ones who were taken away? did you tell stories? did you sing songs, poetry, any remnant of anything i could use to tell a story that comes from that side over the year where you looked and longed for us the way we looked and lo

today the police charged a 62-year-old man, apparently an alabama fan, with criminal mischief. in iowa, wrestling is like a religion. for the first time ever two girls competed in the state high school championship tournament against the boys. one lost in her first match but the other girl won by default. her opponent refused to wrestle saying he felt it wasn't appropriate to compete with a girl in what he called a combat sport. in "jeopardy's!" contest of man versus machine, the winner was clear. >> bram stoker was what we're looking for, and we find who is stoker. i for one welcome our new computer overlord. >> couric: ken jennings and brad rutter had lost to watson-- the i.b.m. super computer-- as the winner, watson gets $1 million which will be donated to charity. million which will be donated to charity. but with advair, i'm breathing better. so now, i've got the leading part. advair is clinically proven to help significantly improve lung function. unlike most copd medications, advair contains both an anti-inflammatory and a long-acting bronchodilator, working together to

these in auburn, alabama. visitors came out to mourn the famous toomer's trees. they're oaks and they're dying after being poisoned with a toxic herbicide. students have gathered at the trees to celebrate wins in big events. a 62-year-old fan of rival university alabama has been charged with poisoning them. >>> when we come back, after so much buzz over jeopardy this week, a quiz for you tonight. if your eyes were closed, could you tell the difference -- talking to man or machine? tends to stn motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arths, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain so your body can stay in motion. because just one 200mg celebrex a day can provide our relief for many with arthritis pain and inflammation. plus, in clinical studies, celebrex is proven to improve daily physical function so moving is er. and celebrex is not a narcotic. when it comes to relieving your arthritis pain, you and your doctor need to balance the benefits with the risks. all prescription nsaids,

the fastest-growing city in alabama. its population 45,000 at its peak. and then businesses began to leave. and hard times set in for good. in 1999 its finances in shambles the city declared bankruptcy. the pension fund was in trouble then. the city ignored a federal court order to replenish it. >> we saw a letter that was dated 2008. it was sent to members of the city council and the mayor. saying essentially it's going to run out of money in july, 2009. >> the math was pretty simple. i think the letter was basics basically something needs to be done and it needs to be done immediately. unfortunately there were no real efforts. >> reporter: and no penalty. city councilman troy ephraim is chairman of the pension board. >> i don't feel we've done everything in our power to prevent the inevitable from happening. >> reporter: would have, could have, should have. famous last words being heard all over the country these days. when its pension fund did run out of money right on schedule, what did prichard do? it filed for bankruptcy again. this time hoping to b

they eventually had to take into alabama across state lines. it was there that they came again. it is a sad moment in american history. i had never heard of him before. it is my belief that all americans need to confront the good and bad of what is happening within our borders. i did not know anything about that. >> i grew up here and i did not know the lot. thank you. >> thank you. >> i remember reading some time ago that a chicago defender who was very instrumental in a lot of the migration to chicago. did you find a thing? >> absolutely. one of the first to document. the first reference to the migration is in the chicago defender from 1916 in which it is referring to a small party of african americans who left saying that it is not worth staying anymore essentially. it was just a paragraph. and so that was the first documented indication that there was a migration of foot. they were instrumental in that they brought news from the north that give hope to people who were here in an untenable situation. it was almost contraband because it was not legal to have the chicago defend

>> how many farms are in the city in alabama -- in the city and? >> i and aware of a small handfuls. we do not have an exact tally of how many urban and agricultural uses there are. we could begin to compile the data to create a consistent use categories throughout the security of >> you mentioned there are not too many one-acre farms in the city. >> there are some, but there are not seen in a. -- not many. >> is it fenced? >> i believe the site was always sensed -- fenced. >> alamegny farm, is it fenced? >> i do not know. >> have you had any complaints of neighbors or residents in the area of those farms? >> not those firms. i did received one letter about aesthetics and traffic about not allowing this to go forward. >> those operations that are not small have been complaints-free? >> i do not work in code enforcement, so i would not be on the receiving end of those complaints. i have not received a complaint about those sites. >> thank you. >> any other questions, commissioners? of the total activity in the city, you mentioned two categories one

in places like wyoming or alabama. host: you have said that they have not embraced the "politically risky," using your words, behavior. guest: right, they have not taken on the collective bargaining when they will not be able to take on that fight. -- arwin mnf-i. the governor of iowa, -- not going to be able to win that fight. the governor of iowa has said that he would like to change collective bargaining, but democrats control the state senate. he is realistic in that he would not be able to win that fight, so why even started? -- start it? host: the last two years they received of to $105 billion in federal funds. that money will not be here this year. guest: and that is a huge problem. 25 new governors were elected this last november. while there are some partisan activities between the republicans and democrats, there are a lot of panels to talk about issues like this. if you talk to republican governors privately, they will of knowledge that stimulus money was clutch in helping them felder shortfalls -- fill the

the amendment is agreed to the gentleman from alabama is -- agreed to. the gentleman from alabama is recognized. mr. aderholt: i ask for a recorded vote. the chair: further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from north carolina will be postponed. for what purpose does the gentleman from oregon rise? >> mr. speaker, i move to strike the last word and i have an amendment at the desk. which i would -- the chair: the gentleman will specify the number of his amendment. mr. walden: the one related to network neutrality. do we have that amendment number? 404. the chair: does the gentleman off the amendment 404? mr. walden: yes, i do. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 404 printed in the congressional record offered pli mr. walden of oregon -- by mr. walden of oregon. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. walden: thank you, mr. speaker. i'm offering this amendment on behalf of my energy and commerce committee colleague, mr. stearns, as well as mr. terry and chairman upton and m

the gentleman from alabama. mr. bachus: at this time, mr. speaker, i'd like to recognize the gentlelady from west virginia, mrs. capito. for three minutes. i'm sorry, 1 1/2 minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for 1 1/2 minutes. mr. capuano: thank you, mr. speaker. and -- mrs. capito: thank you, mr. speaker, and thank you for yielding me the time. thank you for your leadership as we work toward better solutions for a modernized financial regulatory structure. last year the dodd-frank wall street reform and consumer protection act was signed into law. today we are realizing the overarching effects such regulation will be have on our economy and this is just begun. onerous new regulations and the creation of an entirely new agency with vast influence over consumer choice will only impede our recovery. instead of expanding the scope of government, we need efficient and effective regulatory oversight to support the private sector which will drive our economy's recovery. i have deep concerns abo