mckinley of west virginia. the chair: the gentleman from west virginia, mr. mckinley and member opposed will each control three minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from west virginia. mr. mckinley: i want to thank my colleague cliff stearns for offering a similar amendment. this amendment will specifically bar the use of use of funds to carry out the regulation of fossil fuel combustion waste under subtitle c of the solid waste disposal act. in 2010, the e.p.a. proposed this regulation and we are standing against this emotional reaction. what happened in tennessee is tragic and should be dealt by the proper agency regarding the dam's integrity and should not be used to advance an idealogically agenda regarding the environment. fly ash is a by-product using coal. it is captured before being emitted into the atmosphere. the fine grain parallels are recycled for roads, bridges and buildings. it is in masonry production, concrete blocks and bricks and been used in houses, schools and offices. the fly ash is even used in fertilizers and agriculture and sol

and west virginia coal. moving forward, achieving true energy independence demands that we not only start realizing the importance that coal has in achieving this goal, it means we must stop demonizing one resource and start realizing we must develop a comprehensive plan that utilizes all of our domestic resources -- coal, natural gas, the development of nuclear, wind, and solar so that we can, once and for all, end our dependence on foreign oil within this generation. if we are going to truly be secure, we must declare our country to be energy independent and every state in this great nation must do its part. west virginia is using every owngs of its natural resources, our goal, our abundant supply of natural gas, wind, biofuel, electric, solar, all of which must be used in a responsible way. as a country we must stop buying oil from the dhawns promote violence against their own people and the united states. that's just common sense. i'm also strongly committed to working with my fellow senators to develop

i them to come to virginia. i asked for a major economic package giving us $63 million in new incentives. i asked for money to open offices in england, chai that, and india. i'll travel throughout the year, and this opens offices, meet with potential investors, and potential new customers for virginia's products. >> how many jobs have to be at stake to get the governor himself to show up for one of these meetings? i mean, are we talking thousands, hundreds? will you fly across the country for a few hundred jobs? >> sure. we have multiple meetings during those times where i meet with a lot of potential investors. we put together a plan saying what are we good at in virginia? it's defense contracting, aerospace, technology, advanced manufacturing, wine, tourism, and fill. . we know what we're good at. i want to go and tell people in other states and in other countries what we're good at, what the incentives virginia has to offer to create interests to get them to look at virginia and i think one the biggest issues

griffith of virginia. the chair: the gentleman from virginia, mr. give igget and member opposed will bib recognized for three minutes. mr. griffith: amendment 109 is a timeout on the e.p.a. the e.p.a. and its guidelines with water quality coming out of mines came up with a connectivity test, a test which did not go through the administrative procedures act, a test which is relying on science, which is not yet fully counted for or reliable. in fact, in the document in 31 pages, they use words like expect and anticipate what the science will be on 27 of those 31 pages. mr. chairman, president johnson had a war on poverty. there are some in my district and in appalachia that president obama and his e.p.a. have a war for poverty in the appalachian region. that connectivity test is so severe that the -- the distilled water -- it would pass and just barely make it out of the zone in question but evian water would not pass and it's not good enough and pelligrino would not either. if you think coal is ugly, wait until you see poverty. there are some who bel

attorney general, i remember reading that when you were a senior at the university of virginia law school you invited ralph bunche to appear at the university of virginia for law day, and there was an upwaroar d the president of the university said he could not come, and your classmates would not support you, but he pushed it.

virginia, virginia is different. in massachusetts, all the people were educated, famous orators were for the constitution. the other side were farmers and no owners. it was a little lopsided in virginia that wasn't the case. virginia was close. they did know how it was going to go. it all seem to turn on 14 votes from kentucky which was still part of virginia. and virginia didn't -- kentucky didn't seem very happy about the tranny. i think james madison heart was in his mouth through the whole episode. and, indeed, it was roughly divided. if you take oratorical strength, probably the opposition had the edge because they have patrick henry. patrick henry was a magnificent orator. jefferson who really hated him called him the greatest orator of all times. to get a couple of by somebody who hated him as much as jefferson did give him special credence. once in the 1780s jefferson and madison were in a fight with henry on the other side, in jefferson city medicine, look, we just have to give up. the only thing we can do i

microsoft just made the largest investment in southern virginia. we offered a series of incentives to come. northrop grumman relocating to fairfax county this year. we offered a cash incentive to offset the cost of the relocation and create incentives to come here to have proximity to d.c. i guess the bigger one, morant then the incentives, -- more than the incentives. what my predecessors of virginia, jefferson and henry said were important are still important now. that is the basic impediments to free enterprise are still problems today. if you have a climate in your state that is not friendly on those issues, you will not be able to expand. if you do, you will grow. there is nothing new under the sun in terms of what it takes to promote a strong economy. to the degree that virginia promotes those values, we will stay strong. >> indeed some taxes to provide these services people need -- you need some taxes to provide these services. >> we have to be able to build roads and hospitals. >> governor mcdonnel, thank you for being with us. thank you. >

back in the days when who's afraid of virginia woolf? was up for the pulitzer prize, the qualified jury of theater professionals voted the play that it should get the pulitzer prize that year. but there were a bunch of newspaper editors who sat on top of the jury, so to speak, and decided whether the jury's recommendations were tolerable or not-- editors and publishers, i think. and this group of 15, the new york times, bless them, told us all, decided eight to seven that who's afraid of virginia woolf? was too what? too controversial, too good-- something; i don't know-- to get the pulitzer prize that year. and the new york times went further and talked to some of the eight who had voted against it and found that half of them had neither seen it nor read it, which gave them a kind of objectivity. [laughter] clearly. so i don't know that whether that year, i got the pulitzer prize and they took it away from me, or i didn't get it. so since i got three later, i think i have 3 1/2. (paulson) a lot of people apparently believe art can be da

forbes of virginia. the chair: pursuant to the order of the house of february 17, the gentleman from virginia, mr. forbes, and a member opposed control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from virginia. mr. forbes: thank you. i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. forbes: mr. chairman, let me start off by saying this is an amendment that the congressional budget office has said is cost mutual so we're not talking about revenue coming in or going out. second thing about this amendment is it's not dispositive and doesn't ultimately make a decision. the third thing is, this is an amendment supported not only by the chairman of the house armed services committee but by every single subcommittee chairman of the house armed services committee. so what does it do? it simply states before we turn out the lights on the men and women who without question have the most expertise and experience and the legal authority to assemble the teams to fight our wars and

state of virginia, bob mcdonnell. thank you for joining us. >> nice to be here. >> the focus is all about jobs. in the state of virginia, what is the picture? what is the employment picture? what does it look like down the road for the next few years? >> this is our top focus in virginia. for most republicans -- for most governors, focusing on economic development, getting people back to work is their top priority. i am still focused on that. is what people are concerned about. jobs give people the sense of dignity and reduces the reliance on government. because of our tax and regulatory climate, a virginia has fare better than most states. we are at 6.7% unemployment right now. >> why is virginia in a better spot? >> several things. the fundamentals of the virginia economy -- we have this focus on keeping taxes and litigation of lower. we are a right to work state. we have some of the best universities in america. long term, we are always developing workforce development. we are in close proximity to washington, d.c.

[applause] that is the virginia aisle over there. two staffers i want to knowledge, where is clyde williams, our political director. stand-up, clyde. clyde williams [applause] . most of you have worked with clyde in his political shop. they have long wanted to go back to you in new york where they are from and that will be moving back to new york. i said the other day, it is bittersweet, except we will not really miss clyde because we will be fighting the same values in doing the same work. he will not be on south capitol in washington, he will be in new york and beyond and abroad and doing great things. we know you have so much public service left in you. we thank you for your wonderful contribution to this organization and we look forward to working for the with you down the road. please give him a round of applause. [applause] the second staff transition i want to announce is the executive director. jan has done a superb job. in 2008, she was a battleground states director for the obama campaign. she came into the dnc and it has b

why is virginia a better spot? >> it is the simple thing that we have stayed strong, and we are a right to work state. we have a competitive advantage. long term we are always addressing development by having skilled labor. we have proximity to washington, d.c.. because of that there has been a fairly stable market up there. and we have just focused on that. economic development takes work by the government. not to create jobs. i do not think that government creates jobs. but you can reduce the barriers for economic development and create the kinds of incentives that will allow you to attract businesses. i have spent a lot of time in other countries to talk about the story of virginia. >> tell us about that. as you said, not only traveling in the united states, but also overseas, talk about how that worked and how successful it has been. >> we are fourth in the country in terms of new jobs being created. on a per capita basis, i think we are fourth or fifth. just like anyone else in business, you have to look a cus

virginia virginia may i inquire as to how much time we have on either side left. the chair: the gentleman from virginia has six minutes remaining and the gentleman from texas has 3 1/2 minutes remaining. the gentleman from virginia. mr. moran: mr. chairman, thank you. at this point, i would yield four minutes to the distinguished the gentleman from washington, one of the house's premier experts on the issue of pollution, mr. jay inslee. mr. inslee: permission to revise and extend. the chair: without objection. mr. inslee: anyone who has seen a child grasping for breath due to a persistent asthma problem which most of us in america should be adamantly opposed to this amendment because it woman strip the legal right and obligation of uncle sam to protect our children, right to breathe. now i just heard something incredible from one of my republican colleagues. they said they were astounded to the precept that uncle sam has that responsibility. we had that responsibility for 40 years. under the guidance of teddy roosevelt and richard nixon, we got the clean air act 4

virginia. to me, this is a second stake in the heart of obamacare. the president at the state of the union said he was looking for those of us to come forward with ideas to how to increase quality and decrease the cost of care. we continue to come up with those ideas and bring them to the president. these are ideas he has rejected in the past. what we want, what i want as a doctor for my patients, what dr. coburn and others want is we want patients to be able to get the care they need from the doctor that they want at a cost they can afford. the president made a lot of promises about bringing down the cost of care. the american people know that those promises have turned out to be false. this is adding to the cost of care and adding to the cost of business. it is much more expensive now to hire someone, and we want to make it cheaper and easier to create new private sector jobs. this health care law makes it tougher and more expensive to create new private sector jobs. i talk to patients, i tal

el asesinato de seis personas de origen hispano sacude a los residentes de una pequeÑa poblaciÓn en virginia. >> otra propuesta republicana anti indocumentados genera debate en arizona. pretenden que los hospitales investigan el estatus migratorio de pacientes potenciales. >> ya son tres en total de los secuestrados liberados por las farc. hoy dos mÁs disfruta esta noche el calor de sus hogares. >> y calcule cuÁntas toneladas de arena se necesitan para rendir este homenaje artÍstico a los campeones del super ball. >> que tal, muy buenas noches. fin de semana, o comienza el fin de semana y estamos acÁ para ustedes, es un placer que nos acompaÑe. en menos de 24 horas las cosas cambiarÁn en egipto y para millones que durante 18 dÍas protestar y exigir la salida inmediata de mubarak y su gabinete. el mandatario renunciÓ y se habrÍa refugiado por el momento en su casa de verano, en la costa del mar rojo. el vicepresidente anunciÓ que el dictador habrÍa pasado el poder a una junta militar. >> buenas noches enrique. un gran regocijo, esto es lo que ha provocado en egipto y alrededor del

because martha washington is the wealthiest widow in virginia. and upon marrying her, he immediately is vaulted to the top of the social staircase in virginia. your question is what kind of relationship did they have? i think one telltale evidence that they did have a close, warm, affectionate relationship is that every year that washington was away in the war, for 7 1/2 years, she came to the winter encampments. and spent the winters with him. and she didn't have to do that, and it was dangerous as a matter of fact. her sorrow at his death is profound. we were talking at the reception before that mount vernon opened the attics recently to show you that when he died, she refused to sleep in the same bedroom. she moved upstairs to the attic to sleep. the pictures of martha that have survived have made her look like not a terribly attractive woman. but i think as a younger woman she was quite attractive and the vogue then was more plump than it is now. i think if the letters had not been burned, they would not be as intellectually sophisticated as

virginia is a good race for em, north dakota is definitely a good race for them. virginia was going to be a hard fought race anyway, but it might have gotten easier now. >> george allen wants to come back and virginia, and tim kaine, the governor, they want him to run. >> that comes down to his relationship with the president. with jim webb, most politicians come back to this town and then they are at chamber of commerce college and a fight tooth and nail to stay here and they leave in a box, a ballot box or pine box. jim webb came as a maverick and he is leaving as a maverick. he wrote to the gi bill, he took the matter of incarceration, with the more people incarcerated in the united states than any place and the earth. >> representative chris lee resigned after the website dr. publis -- the website gawker publish pictures of thehim shirtless. >> i have never heard of them before, and he was gone before i got to know him. i don't think any of us here topless on tv -- he added, he could fly it, i guess. >> can i endorse mark onto the w -- on jim webb? remarkable

the gentleman from west virginia. mr. rahall: i yield five minutes to the gentleman from oregon, our distinguished leading democrat on the subcommittee on highways and transit. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. defazio: here we are trying to fill up space while america is in crisis. why do i say that? one of the most important an ongoing obligations of the united states congress is oversight. we don't need to pass a meaningless resolution to tell committee it is do oversight. i've observed a number of the republican-led committees are already vigorously endwaged in oversight. i held dozens of hearings in oversight of the bureaucracy in trying -- and programs when i chaired the service committee. that's something we are not cone enough of, we should do more of but spening 10 hours on the floor instead of a few hours marking up bills that could create jobs in america is a waste of time and meaningless. now, we need, today, we had two commissions. they were named when the republicans

now, farmville virginia was mechanical prince edward county. and in the years following the brown v. board of education decision in 1954, of the south for massive resistance to his close and no one was more massive resistance in his state of virginia and in fact, virginia closed down and passed a law in 1959, same no city needs to allow -- these to provide public education for anybody. if you want, you can shut down your whole school system. back in 1951, before brown, barbara johns was concerned about the inequality of facilities of black-and-white was. what happened in virginia at the time if you are only required to provide schooling from gabe k. to 80. after that, you could turn the kids off to work in the field or the farms are fact juries were to do nothing. but there was one school system in virginia they did offer kato told education for blacks and those in prince edward county. so that's why schools were so overwhelmed. the school built for 180 people at 450 students enrolled in it. so barbara johns intelligently organized a boycott of

hace poco, en richmond, la capital de virginia, enfrentÓ cara a cara a algunos legisladores que abogan por mano dura contra los indocumentados. >>querÍan prohibir que los estudiantes indocumentados asistieran a las universidades pÚblicas de virginia y no pasÓ esa propuesta, ni la propuesta similar a la de arizona, asÍ es que de alguna manera, creo que sÍ ayuda contar tu historia y decir, este es mi paÍs... lori: mirando mÁs alla de su comunidad, isabel une sus esfuerzos con los de otros jÓvenes indocumentados en la naciÓn, que ya estÁn planificando cuales serÁn sus estrategias para los prÓximos meses y con miras a las elecciones presidenciales del 2o12. >>sabes cÓmo son los polÍticos y el proceso, sabes que no es fÁcil, pero te limpias las lÁgrimas y sigues adelante con mÁs fuerza. >>bueno, josÉ, como ves, estos estudiantes, los soÑadores, muy activos, muy determinados. por ejemplo, los prÓximos meses, en particular el prÓximo mes de marzo, ya, van a estar realizando varias cumbres para plantear estrategias. por ejemplo, quieren presionar a la casa blanca para que

guest: jay rockefeller from west virginia will lead the way. he said yesterday in a conference call that senator patty murray -- maria cantwell would help manage the bill on the floor. then in the house you have the new house transportation committee, john mica it will have the mark of of the bill in the next few weeks. he will be an interesting player because he is an advocate mostly for transportation funding. so that potentially puts him at odds wiwith a lot of new or members of the house. generally he will be an advocate for this. it will be interesting to see what extent he can get what he wants in the bill and what extent members, new republican members will push back on that. host: lots to talk about.

guest: jay rockefeller from west virginia will lead the way. he said yesterday in a conference call that senator patty murray -- maria cantwell would help manage the bill on the floorwith a lot of new or members of the house. >> guest: generally, he's going to advocate for this, so it's interesting to see interestinge what extent he can get what he wants in the bill and what extent members, new republican members will push back on that. host: lots to talk about.

the gentleman from virginia. mr. moran: mr. chairman, i make a point of order against the amendment because it proposes to change existing law and constitutes legislation in an appropriation bill and therefore violates clause 2 of rule 21. the rule states in pertinent part, an amendment to a general appropriation bill shall not be in order if changing existing law. the amendment imposes additional duties beyond what is legislatively authorized. so i now ask for a ruling from the chair. the chair: any other member who wishes to speak to this point of order? the chair will rule. the chair finds that this amendment imposes new duties on the secretary to re-issue a different final rule that is required to be re-issued by the pending section. the amendment constitutes a violation in in -- and the point of order is sustained and the amendment is not in order. the gentleman from washington. mr. dicks: i strike the requisite number of words. even though you had a broken heart, you made the right ruling. the chair: i don't think the gen

in morgan town, west virginia. the facility is the only national laboratory devoted to fossil energy research. while i'm unable to offer my amendment to strike $47 million from the arpa-e program and restore the $30.6 million into the clean coal research program, i do want to take this opportunity to emphasize the feeling that i have of how important it is for us to move forward in a bold and technologically superior way to find a way to use our most abundant resource, the advanced research projects will help clean affordable energy from our traditional resources as a part of our energy supply while we innovate and research our way to those new energy resources and i yield back. the chair: the gentlelady yields back. the question is on the amendment offered by the gentlelady from illinois. for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recognition? >> i move to strike the last word. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. . >> i rise in support of the gentlewoman's amendment which would stri

former senator from virginia, george allen. what can washington learn from sports? >> it can learn a great deal. i learned a lot growing up on the sidelines in the training camps and playing sports myself. probably the most overarching thing, when sports the race, religion, ethnicity doesn't matter. can you help the team win? not guaranteed equal results, but equal opportunity. which is what our country was built on. you would never see the way that washington operates, redistributors from the winners to those who are not winners. if we are up to washington, they take one the steelers six super bowl trophies. the poor detroit lions. they've never made it o super bowl. let's give them a trophy. no you have to earn it in sports. there's accountability. and personal responsibility. there's measurements. you know who's winning and losing. and there's also in sports a competitiveness that you are always looking how you can improve yourself and how you can make your team better. and for team america, we need to be looking at what are economic policies, tax policies, energ

the gentleman from virginia. mr. connolly: i deeply regret my colleague would invoke a point of order. as i said, the metro funding in this case, he talks about difficult decisions, this zeros out the entire federal amount of the subsidy for capital construction and safety improvements from a system that is over 30 years old, reaching capacity, and serves first and foremost the federal work force. the chair: the gentleman is confine it his remarks to the point of order. mr. connolly: i can't hear. oh, i thought i was speaking to the point of order and the points made by our colleague. the chair: your remarks need to be towards the point of order, not your amendment. mr. connolly: i deeply regret my colleague would cite a point of order on a bill of such importance to the capital region. the chair: does anyone else wish to be heard? to be considered in the en bloc pursuant of 2-f of rule 2157bd section 2 of house resolution 92 to an amendment must propose only to transfer appropriations among objects in the bill and m

. >> en virginia la pobción hispana creció más de un0% hay 603.000 hispanos en el virginia. >> además de vira y missisip reflejaque nueva jersey hay un aumento de 39en louisiana viven un aumento de 78%. >> estanformación es la que se a para re distribui los distrito electorales, pero podríaarecer de vor si n aumenta la participación p política. >> ir a las juntas de la comunid local, las elecciones. >> por organización como naleo nos quitan el dedo del renglón para hacerue los hispanos se registren y salgan a votar. >> refleja que en 4 de los 8 estados que tendrán más bancas en el estado se debió a los hispanos, tes con 4 banc nuevas, la florida con 2 arizona y nevada con 1 cada uno. >> se espera que en est estados haya stritos con fuerte representación lana. >> la fecha límite para completar proso será el primero de abril, los gobiernos estatales serán los encargados de re diseñar los distritos elecrales basándose en esta información, y usted encontrará los datos del censo en univición notici notias.com. >> una información muy intesante que hace la diferencia. >> q

virginia. >> yes, commissioner, murphy. a.d.a. was scheduled on the agenda as the last item primarily because it was an informational item and since it's department staff that is already here and part of the meeting that is going to be presenting, the decision was to put to put it at the end of the meeting. president murphy: ok, thank you. that's it for me. >> president o'brien. president o'brien: we're all here on a busy schedule so i won't further delay the proceedings. we can just get started right away other than to echo what has already been said. really, the intention of this evening is to understand the processes that take place every day for people who do business in san francisco, whether it's the small business community that is running a restaurant, starting a grocery store, drapery shop, whatever it is, or somebody is trying to get a permit or a homeowner trying to remodel a bathroom or whatever. they interact with nearly every single agency in town whether it's health services or d.p.w. or d.b.i. or planning departmen

. >> ♪ almost heaven, ♪ west virginia, ♪ blue ridge mountains, ♪ shenandoah river. ♪ life is old there, ♪ older than the trees, ♪ younger than the mountains ♪ growing like a breeze. ♪ country roads, ♪ take me home ♪ to the place ♪ i belong. ♪ west virginia, ♪ mountain mama, ♪ take me home. >> take me home, country roads is a classic sing-along song. it's an audience song. it just fits into that great sort of tradition of a song that everybody sings, and everybody wants to sing. you don't have to be the greatest singer in the world. you could just sing that melody, just pour your heart into it. >> ♪ dark and dusty ♪ painted on the sky, ♪ misty taste of moonshine, ♪ teardrops in my eye. >> it has become popular all over the world, and surprisingly, it was a very big song in china, and that came about when john did a concert at constitution hall in washington. the president and the premier of china were invited to john's concert. afterwards, someone told me that the premier wanted to take some cassettes of john's music back to china. i asked how many cassettes

richmond, virginia. republican minority caller: i really think most people don't have an idea what the patriot act is all about. to be against something that they can't understand, which actually most people don't understand. first off, the government is not going to tap your phone just because they wanted. here is the biggest deal about the patriot act. remember when the airplane hit the 14th street bridge in washington. virginia, and maryland, and d.c. police never acted together. the pentagon is in virginia. they have mass confusion. -- had mass confusion. maybe all of these agencies and the united states should work together -- atf and dea don't even work together and the fbi. if you have had dealings with those organizations, you realize that they never worked together until the patriot act. you have all of these naysayers who want to complain and make a big issue about something that really the average american -- it has nothing to do -- who have nothing to do with farmers or extremists. they shoul

freshman senator jim webb of virginia said he will retire when his term is up next year. the former navy secretary said he wants to get back to the private sector. that leaves democrats looking for strong candidate who can keep the gop from regaining the see loss by republican senator george allen. a flight instructor came across a sad sight while flying over a white. he took a photo of a humpback whale, seems sick and injured. the he said it appears the wells back as been broken. read experts are out there trying to find it. to say it may have been hit by boat they're going to try and help it but it has not been spotted again. >> in the bay area tour is on a well watching excursion got are rare experience today. they witnessed a large pot of killer whales outside the golden gate this morning. as many as 14 or does came within 30 ft. of their boat, with more than 30 minutes. killer whales usually don't venture this farce of the naturalist attribute their presence to improving wales migrating north. traffic on this wednesday, the bay bridge toll plaza no problems headed we

i am representing my mother, virginia ramos. i would address all the issues in my appellant replied baker -- reply data. i do not want to beat a dead horse, so to speak. i want to emphasize that in the requirements dated the fourth -- one was to send the responsible parties, one of them was my mother, the issues pertaining to the sign. thank you. commissioner fung: i have a couple of questions. a sign was removed and then another sign was constructed and added. it was rented out. >> by cbs outdoor. my mother, without realizing what was happening, believed that she still had the privilege to exhibit the sun. it was installed by another company, said she had nothing to do with it. but she did give her consent. commissioner fung: another company built the sign? >> i do not know how it was attached. it was on the side of the building. she was under a belief that we still could do this. commissioner fung: what was the rental on that? >> it was $125 a month. commissioner fung: not per year? >> not per year. commissioner fung: ok. >> t

guest: is that chantilly, maryland or virginia? caller: virginia. i do have a comment. i have been doing a lot of research on the government. there is this idea that we have free enterprise. we do not. it is one thing to import everything from china. the problem is we owe them too much money. that is why they can do anything with us. if you were the president, what would you do for the hard- working, american-loving people? guest: perish the thought -- were a president -- that is not an ambition i have. i am glad there are those willing to step up to the plate. the burdens of challenges that i have as a member of congress, you know, this concern that china has undue influence with the united states is a fair question. on the other hand, it is like the old expression. if i you owe you one dozen dollars, i do not sleep at night. you owe me $1 million, you do not sleep at night. the relationship works both ways. the fact that the largest communist country is also holding the largest single amount of debt in the world's largest capitalist economy means the relationship ther

. >> gentle lady from the virginia islands. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and welcome and thank you for the tremendous job you're doing with these challenges the country faces. my first question is to both of you. i want to focus on another part of the southern border that i don't think gets enough attention. as the representative from the u.s. virgin islands, i'm always afraid not enough attention i being paid to the caribbean, in either assessing the risk or building strong partnerships that we need in that region. so do you feel comfortable that the partner and center are seeking and getting adequate information from the caribbean and even from south and central america, where there are countries there that are friendly with areas ithe world that have radical islamicic extremism, or are there any effos, for example, to prevent radicalization, reduce the likelihood of radicalization or to help the governments in those country s countries to strengthen their capabilities to do so? >> representative, i have, myself asked somewhat similar questions, in part

icy conditions caused some major problems on a virginia highway. captions paid for by nbnbc-universal television >>> hello and good morning. welcome to our viewers across the nation including the pacific time zone. i'm lynn berry. today we begin with scandal on the hill. married republican new york congressman chris lee has stepped down from his post in the wake of reports that he sent a shirtless photo of himself to a woman he met on craigslist. nbc's kristen dahlgren has more. >> reporter: this is how washington was used to seeing western new york congressman chris lee. >> that's really what our job is, is to help people. >> reporter: but on wednesday afternoon, another image, a shirtless photo posted on gawker.com. the conservative republican and married father of one allegedly sent it in response to a craigslist ad for women seeking men. gawker also posted several e-mails lee reportedly exchanged with the woman claiming he was single and a washington lobbyist. just three hours after it became public, he was no longer a congressman. >> i hereby

host: virginia beach, virginia. george on the air. good morning. caller: with everything going on in the country, i would like to propose an idea that goes along with what has been happening. there seems to be a rift in the country. one of the things we are hardest hit with is the health-care dilemma. i propose that we build a society of medicine. transition ourselves into reinventing our national product. our national product could be medicine. i believe we could be providing training, construction, maintenance, logistics', everything. just about anything you can think of that goes along with it. make it so it is based on service, just liked the military and along the same lines. military has to transport people and provide a certain amount of service in order to repay for the training. medical licenses could be prohibited from doctors who practice mcmahon -- medical licenses in the future unless they do a certain amount in the future, otherwise there would not receive tax deductions or malpractice limits. i do not think it is right that we make a

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