vermont has led in the past. we were the first state to pasish slavery, twto marriage equalitys, we have the best small farmers and best ag products being shipped all over the world. 2200 are in the farming and food processing businesses, small farmers, small entrepreneurs. they really want people to know that, when you eat vermont food, it is good, not tampered with, and the best food you can buy. i think it backs up the whole part of our jobs sector by simply saying consumers in vermont will know what they are eating. tavis: what is your sense of why it is states and cities that have to lead the way on an issue of this importance to our health? why do states have to lead and not the federal government? >> i do believe it comes down to an issue we are all familiar with. washington is paralyzed with a lot of extremists but don't want to do anything. campaign country wishes to washington. we believe there are all kinds of issues, including the right to know what you are eating at the grocery store, that kind of ch

governor shumlin of vermont. governor shumlin was elected in 2010, reelected in 20 told her calmly states elect governors every two years? you're running again, are you nuts because i haven't announced yet. we have a lot of work to do. >> i would bet on you to win because i checked, no governor of vermont running for reelection has been defeated in over 50 years. >> hoping to keep it that way. >> back in 1962. governor shumlin consummate plays very due to my heart. i just have a roommate in college that we used to visit the putney school all the time. we had dinner, i remember. >> wonderful place. beautiful place. he's also the chair of the democratic chair of the democratic governors association and, therefore, responsible for what happens in the election this year for governor. how many governors are up this year? >> thirty-six. >> if you look on page three of the newsletter you will see that the outlook for democrats for governor is pretty good compared with the outlook for democrats for the senate. over on th

patrol, we have been very active working in vermont. we've actually, even the burlington is a small office, we've actually sent agents temporarily, on a continuous basis to help in rutland and make sure that we have enforcement presence there. i'm hoping by the end of the week or even early next week that i will be having a conversation with the u.s. attorney in vermont who has been talking to our special agent in charge. and as we make decisions about moving forward with the resources or reallocating resources, i will take into account what his needs are and what he feels dea could do to assist him in his district. >> and by highway patrol i serving the state police. a lot more than highway. >> that's correct. >> f. criminal investigation, all these other things i'm very proud of what they do. i sent a letter earlier this year expressing my concerns about certain dea investigative techniques. some of that information remains classified. some has been deemed a law enforcement sensitive. we do need more of a public dialogue. senator whit

they expect vermont to be sued over its new law. one group said it will file a lawsuit in coming weeks. >> vermont still has to figure out how gmo foods will be labeled and if food companies will have to change their labels just for product they sell in vermont. i spoke to an industry analyst. there are 18 other states considering similar legislation that would require gmo labeling right now. >> so interesting. thank you for this fascinating report. >>> coming up, we will reveal the most popular baby names of 2013. some of us actually had babies last year. we'll take a look at what those names tell us about the changing times, and then it's "real money with ali velshi." >> reporter: coming up with "real money" with all that cash apple could buy anything. why would it buy dr. dre's beats electronics? i'll have a look. plus johnny manziel la, if you've got job skills cleveland wants to draft you, too. we'll tell you that and more on "real money." >> remember that video of amazon's drone? well, uavs take off the faa has selected six ci

, including my state of vermont, i think our minimum wage is around $8.70 an hour. ed, we have one of the lowest unemployment rates in the united states of america. it's not true. there have been studies that have shown that states which have high minimum wage not only do not lose jobs but they gain jobs because people at the bottom have more expendable -- more income to spend, and in turn they create jobs. >> yeah. senator sanders, good to have you with us tonight. keep up the fight. thanks so much. appreciate your time. answer tonight's question at bottom of the screen. share your thoughts on twitter "the ed show" and facebook. we want to know what you think. >>> a challenge for republican governors opposing obamacare. how ard dean and brian schweitzr join me. action to get dart money out of politics. trenders is next. [ girl ] my mom, she makes underwater fans that are powered by the moon. ♪ she can print amazing things, right from her computer. [ whirring ] [ train whistle blows ] she makes trains that are friends with trees. ♪ my mom works at ge. ♪ [ bank

this is where he found, excuse me, not in vermont. he moves to in your -- new york. it gets the tablets, found his religion in 1830. the mood from vermont to upstate new york and begins to gather adherents, largely on the strength of his charismatic preaching but also due to the fact is brought to the world a third bible for his followers, or his followers. the bibles or the old testament, a new custom and the book of mormons. smith again gains more people, gains adherents, gains followers and brooms -- and moved to ohio which is vermont, new york, ohio, the first serious mormon settlement. the church is growing partly through preaching, and, of course, also through aggressive missionary work. the kind of aggressive missionary work that continues right into our day, has always been a key part of the growth of the mormon church. so the church is growing, and in what will be the first of a series of very similar events, smith and the mormons are chased out of kirkland ohio. smith decides to start a bank which really was not a good idea and most of the citizens lost all

i was born and raised in vermont. i had to move to colorado to get the training i needed. the snow wasn't consistent enough in areas like new england. everything goes through an ebb and flow. there are snow years that are better than others but the general trend is you have to go higher and farther north to find the conditions we need to enjoy the slopes. >> is that a known thing? people in the world of winter sports know that? you know that? >> absolutely. i think that we have our finger on the heart beat of the climate change more than most. we are directly affected. the hot days during the summer can be uncomfortable. but when there is no snow in the winter time you can't snowboard or ski. it's not a thing where skiers and snow boarders are some of the first to notice. >> catherine hayhoe and alex diebold. tank you both. rachel ma maddow starts now. >> thanks for joining us. when last we looked in at the elections this year, republicans were mad about the last round of polling from the new york times. polling thaw showed democratic candidates for senate. challengers and

. >> the senator from vermont. >> mr. president, let me touch on a few points with my distinguished colleague from louisiana. first of all, regarding the allegations against the va in phoenix, as you know these are very, very serious allegations, and it is absolutely appropriate that the inspector general do a thorough and independent investigation of those allegations, as i'm sure my colleague from louisiana knows, the leadership at phoenix has rejected those allegations, they that they're not true. the secretary of va has done what i believe and i would hope my friend from louisiana believes is the right thing to do, and that is do an independent investigation. i'm not a lawyer, but i did learn enough in school to know that you don't find somebody guilty without assessing the evidence. and, frankly, just because cnn says something doesn't always make it the case. so what we need is a serious, independent investigation in the very serious allegations about phoenix and any other facility within the va. and what i have sai

por eso, los especificados recomiendan la terapia con caballos o perros pero en un condado de vermont existe un programa terapÉutico nada menos que con llamas. el objetivo es ayudar a niÑos con problemas de comunicaciÓn. los adolescentes pasan la tarde junto a estos lindos animalitos. lo sorprendente es que cada uno encuentra una llama afÍn de acuerdo con su propia personalidad. habrÁ que ver cÓmo es eso. y tambiÉn, otra terapia que a mÍ me encanta es la de viajar. ¿quÉ tal si nos vamos ahora a la gran manzana con los muchachos? adelante. >> te extraÑamos tambiÉn, natalia. ¿quÉ mÁs podemos pedir en new jersey? al rato viene bianca marroquÍn. ya llegÓ maite perroni. >> imagÍnense. >> y daniel arenas.

in vermont, we are close to nine dollars an hour. washington is higher than that. seattle, last week, there city council decided to eventually move the minimum wage to $15 an hour. i think what is really going on here is the extreme right-wing, the coke brothers and other folks, exert in our mess influence -- enormous influence over members of the congress. at a time when the middle class is disappearing and we have more people living in poverty than ever before, what the republicans want to do is continue their efforts to go to war against working families and the middle class and provide everything they possibly can to the top one percent. >> what does it say about our national politics? the minimum wage increases that are happening are happening in states and cities across the country, but not out of washington. it is impossible to get anything done in the senate unless you get 60 votes. we rarely get support from republicans on anything that is significant. the republican house is not going to do anything to hope working families. let me be very honest with you

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i'll talk to former governor of vermont, dr. howard dean, and wendy davis' running mate in the texas gubernatorial election about all of this, up ahead. >>> georgia, are you ready to make history? >> last night, georgia's michelle nunn became the democratic nominee for the senate seat being vacated by senator saxby chambliss. she's pro-choice, and pro-medicaid expansion. >> our state did not expand medicaid, which i think was a mistake. but we need to make sure we repeal the cuts that are happening or could happen to our rural hospitals. >> michelle nunn isn't the only mid-term candidate who's actively campaigning on expanding medicaid in his state. so is tom wolfe, and jason carter, the challenger to nathan deal in georgia. >> the governor has decided to put that washington politics of what he calls obamacare ahead of our taxpayers. we're paying today as georgians for the medicaid expansion dollars that the government has, yet we're refusing to take them. that is a terrible stewardship by our governor of our tax dollars. >> whi

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last week vermont was the first to pass a gmo labeling bill that requires foods sold in vermont to have a label on it if it's genetically modified. 89 bills being considered. on the ballot in oregon this fall. a passionate activist movement that will keep coming. >> i love that, passion. robert? >> on saturday, former florida governor jeb bush gave his only commencement address of the year in western pennsylvania at a small christian liberal arts school called grove city college. laura bush, the former first lady gave the commencement address in 2011. it's in the rust belt in western pennsylvania, for him to pick that strategically is an interesting side of what's on his mind. >> leaning in there. julie? >> democrats are starting to feel increasingly optimistic about the marks. this is mark pryor of arkansas and mark begich of alaska. they're starting to show strength in recent polls. pryor appeared with the president in arkansas when obama went down there to see tornado damage. this allows him to push back against critic whose say he's running away with the president but appears in a s

vermont gets it right with this bill. >> reporter: grocery manufacturers association estimates that 70 to 80% of the foods that we eat in the u.s. contain genetically modified ingredients. >> as we have said from the start, if we're going to label and go down that path, we would have much preferred to continue with a national uniform system. >> reporter: but there is no national system, so some states have taken it upon themselves to pass their own laws. attempts in california and washington state have failed but they succeeded in maine and connecticut. but those laws won't take effect until a certain number of other nearby states also adopt the bill. 64 other countries require labeling. the world health organization hasn't said whether genetically modified foods are safe. they say they need to be assessed on a case by case basis. opponents say gmo's may harm the environment and the people who eat them. both supporters and critics of gmo's expect vermont to be sued over its knew law. >> that's roxana saberi reporting. >>> now a tribute to the film fantasia. the colorado symphony is pla

the bill passed the vermont house of representatives one fourteen to thirty in the senate twenty two. his bill requires food sold in retail outlets and labeled i as having been produced or partially produced with genetic engineering. it also makes it illegal to describe this weekend as asn the nation to pass it along similar legislation failed in california and washington maine and connecticut counselor bells last year because as stating that other states must pass chem i was before theirs could be enacted and the states have to be nearby. what goes into effect to my first two thousand sixteen. last month it was because nature is the policy director center for food safety told us this is just the beginning of the grassroots movements require camera labeling on fitted across the nation ross recruitment of forming an enabling initiative the coming into play. make that ian and animating this may have been around the country the industry to get those going to keep the dog had helped to get this bill into the standard of living have been trying to make a hat. the movement into a different

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in the "crossfire," senator bernie sanders, a vermont independent, and senator dean heller, north dakota republican. day risked their lives for our country. how does the president do right by our veterans? tonight on "crossfire." >>> welcome to "crossfire." i'm van jones on the left. >> i'm newt gingrich on the right. in the "cross fofire" tonights members of the senate veterans committee. twomerge from president obama's embarrassing news conference today. after having a five-year opportunity to clean up the department of veterans affairs, both he and his cabinet appointee failed. second, faced with universal coverage of that failure, all we got from the president today was this. >> all of us, whether here in washington or all across the country have to stay focused on the larger mission which is upholding our sacred trust to all of our veterans bringing the va system into the 21st century which is not an easy task. >> bill clinton used to say, i feel your pain. barack obama says, i hope you'll feel my pain. this is a big mess. it deserves a big response. instead, we get another pathetic

bernie sanders is the senator from vermont and the chairman. in a hearing last week they testified about the problems when shinseki said he's mad as hell about it. all along the white house has tried to keep its distance and sent rob neighbors over to va to assist in the investigation, to insist what is happening in terms of what the va is doing looking into this. neighbors was to meet with veterans groups today. we assume that's still on. he's going to phoenix tomorrow, thursday, to look into the facility where the allegations originated. it's not only members of congress. republican senators and members of the house are calling for shinseki's head at this point. it's the american legion in this city and around the country are calling for something to happen up to and including shinseki's resignation or sacking, del. >> the question has to be asked, why now? those familiar with the department of veterans affairs realize this is a department that's been problem-plagued for more than a decade. in fact, it goes back to the bush white house during

the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. sand sand i apologize to my -- mr. sanders: i apologize to my friend from north carolina. mr. president, i want to talk about an issue that millions and millions of people all over this country are increasingly concerned about, and that is that last week the f.c.c., the federal communication commission, release add proposal in response to a recent federal court decision that struck down the commission's 2010 open internet order. the proposal would, for the very first time, allow internet service providers to be able to pay for priority treatment. what this means in point of fact is the end of net neutrality and the end of the internet as we know it. mr. president, what net neutrality means is that everyone in our country -- and in fact the world -- has the same access to the same information, whether you are a mom and pop store in hardwick, vermont, or whether you are wal-mart, the largest private corporation in america, you should have the same access to your customers. net neutrality also means that a blogger -- some

sanders,ernie independent of vermont, the chair of the senate foreign affairs committee, he held a hearing this month that included eric shinseki, saying that there is a growing chorus among some , talking aboutgn the problems in phoenix, arizona, and other facilities around the country -- this question -- should the be a secretary be fired or resign? >> should the leader of the veteran,t, a vietnam resign or be fired? >> no. >> that from senator bernie sanders. the full interview is available on our website. leon is joining us from the bronx. good morning. caller: drugs should be illegal. but you legal drugs are cocaine, things like that. but the merrill went -- the marijuana plant, we need to leave that here for the younger generation. it is too powerful, it cannot be killed. we tried everything and we cannot kill it, so we should just leave it alone. it is a holy plant. it cannot be killed unless you can stop it from coming, which we cannot do. when will we realize that that plan is more powerful than america and its allies put together? thank you for the call. some figures according to

the governor of vermont. willie nelson could have been the governor of vermont. this guy makes allen colmes like fdr. >> is he not fit to carry . >> it's interesting many i ever run into howard dean, he would flee if that happened. i would say every canadian go to the uk and russia because in canada you have to produce an id to vote, and canada is not a conservative country, it's just common sense. all right. from canada, we go to iran. all right? so there was a video made about that hit song happy. roll the tape. ♪ because i'm happy, clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth ♪ ♪ because i'm happy, clap along if you know what happiness is to you ♪ ♪ because i'm happy ♪ clap along if you feel like that's what you want to do ♪ >> all right. there is no farsy version of happy but everybody knows what "happy" is. the iranians were arrested. >> you can call it dancing, bill. you and billy and alan combs could dance better than these poor kids in the video, however, this is progress. back in the '80s, you would get beheaded and stoned. today you

it is a problem in vermont. i suspect it is in florida. we want veterans to get that as well. there is bipartisan support for defense appropriations for v.a. we have that in our legislation. while the v.a. is making good progress in cutting back the backlog for moving from paper to a digital system, i want to see them do better. we have language that will push them to do better. just this morning senator byrd and i were at a hearing which dealt with the educational problems facing veterans to come back from the battlefield, go to college, and there are problems there. what most of us think is that we should -- veterans should be able to take advantage of in in-state tuition in this state in which they are living. sexual assault has been of very serious problem in the military. we want the v.a. to do better than that. so madame president, i am very glad that my republican friends, virtually all of them, and i want to take -- think the senators for voting with this bill along with every democrat from but i am glad that my republican colleagues are now beginning to focus on veter

joining us now is independent senator bernie sanders of vermont. he's chair of the senate veterans affairs committee. senator sanders, it's really nice to see you. thanks for being here. >> my pleasure. >> so overall what is your response to these allegations about the phoenix v.a. do you feel like, as chair of the veterans committee in the senate, do you feel like you have a handle on how serious these allegations are and what really happened? >> well, rachel, the allegations are very, very serious. as you noted, the director of the hospital denies them. what is going on now is exactly the right thing. the inspector general of the v.a., an independent entity, is going down there, they're in phoenix right now, and they're going to do an exhaustive investigation to get to the truth of the matter. and what i have said and say again that as soon as that investigation is completed, we're going to do a hearing or a series of hearings on what has happened in phoenix. so i think we're moving in the right direction. we're going to get the facts, and we're

the government of vermont sent a letter to call on members of congress, actually speaker boehner and majority leader reid n the senate to pass legislation help, that would provide more funding for the states. to fix our bridges. host: we're talking to eugene mo laro of transport. we're talking bridges, highways investments in this segment of "washington journal" today. if you have a question or comment. want to point out one other chart from the american society of civil engineers, their list of functionally obsolete bridges in the united states. in 2012, they listed nearly 67,000 structurely deficient bridges. and nearly 85,000 functional obsolete. what's the difference? >> structurely means that a bridge has shown, inspectors have found a series of problems -- it em, and it cub could be problems with the actual infrastructure, it's not meeting the codes that the standards at the state level at the federal level. and to be deemed structurally deficient, the recommendation is that they should be rehabilitated or replaced. doesn't necessarily mean they're unsafe to drive on, but they

in vermont, it is even higher at $28,000. one in eight borrowers are carrying more than $50,000 in student debt. the percentage of families in the united states with outstanding student debt increased from 33% in 2005 to 45% in 2010. so, mr. president, the bottom line here is that we have a huge crisis which is impacting millions of individual families and individual young people. but from a national perspective, it is a crisis which is impacting our competitiveness in the global economy. there was once a time not so many years ago when we had the best educated work force in the world, when we had a higher percentage of college graduates than any other country on earth. that is not the case today. so i think we have got to do some very, very, very hard thinking about the crisis regarding college affordability and the crisis it's arding student debt. and if this country is to remain internationally competitive in the global economy, we need some bold ideas in terms of how we address these crises. and i can tell you that in ver

>> the senator from vermont. >> let me reiterate. when i quoted the "washington post" and i talked about politicalization i wasn't suggesting that the senator from florida was being political in the floor today. what i was suggesting about politicizing the va is if you have a situation for example for a new secretary comes in for a new administration comes in and can fire wholesale hospital administrators that i think without their ability to defend themselves i think that is not the kind of system that the senator from florida would want and certainly i would want. so how do we address this issue is important. i would suspect that while this issue may have been taken up in committee today i doubt very much that there were any witnesses who testified about this bill. second of all i found it interesting the senator from florida said in these right at the republicans have raised this point. the legislation that i introduced which again has the support of the american legion dav vietnam vets veterans of foreign wars iraq and afghanista

in vermont, vermont actually i believe -- the vermont transportation department just released some new data that showed that they have had the record number of potholes, and they attribute that to the severe winter they just experienced. those potholes -- the number me on how much they will have to spend to fix that, but it is in the millions of dollars. that is what you have the governor of vermont clamoring for federal assistance. in new hampshire, where they just raised to the gas tax, same thing. it was a very tough winter, the roads got a big pounding, and they need to be repaved. the salt has been a problem with the tappan zee bridge, you had the salt trucks over the years for decades and just dumping salt residue into the roadway, and that has a damaging effect on the structure of that bridge, and that is something that present obama has pointed out, and i believe -- i think last month he was at a white house press conference and he was calling for the need for congress to pass a transportation legislation, and he said something to the effect "we have potholes the size of canyon

. >> chicago aprobÓ un salario mÍnimo de 15 $ por hora, igual en vermont, son consecuencias de estas luchas, claro que las corporaciones por el comentario, el presidente d mÁs de 9000 $ por hora. gana. ( informaciÓn en pantalla ) >> frecuentemente aviones llenos de inmigrantes, deportados de estados unidos hacen su recorrido de ese paÍs a centroamÉrica, pero pocas veces un reportero acompaÑa a hombres y mujeres que regresan a sus lugares de origen con poco mÁs que sueÑos rotos. pulido logrÓ entrevistar a varios salvadoreÑos de manera exclusiva para univisiÓn. >> con dificultad para caminar estos 116 salvadoreÑos subieron al autobÚs de migraciÓn, para ir al aeropuerto donde un aviÓn los regresarÁ al salvador. >> dios ha permitido que podamos regresar sanos. >> en ese vuelo viajaban 102 hombres y 14 mujeres, 20 de ellos convictos por robo, violencia domÉstica y otros delitos, que nos marcaron para siempre como criminales. >> a muchas personas se les hace fÁcil decir vámonos, entiendo la necesidad econÓmica, cualquier situación, la de su familia es fuerte, pero es ne

southern vermont. >> host: i learned some things i didn't know. he was comfortable talking in a small room, but not a public speaker. how come? >> guest: when you think thiof washington you think of someone with a big voice commanding the room. and physically he was tall and strong and athletic and great dancer. but when it came to speaking, his teeth, he had terrible dental problems and it would garble his voice. he had many illnesses as a child and he had a breathy voice that didn't project well. >> host: and the other thing was unlike everyone in the era where everyone drank excessively in part because the water was bad and you had to drink something but he wasn't a big booze guy. >> guest: he wasn't. you would find adam with his tanger of sider in the morning. >> host: and then at lunch and dinner. >> guest: and then go out to the pubs and have bowls of rum that quote ducks could swim in. and they were drinking heavily and part was because if you drank the water you could get sick and die. but washington stayed away from gambling, cards, exces

new jersey has voted to raise their state's minimum wage to $8.25 and vermont is on track to have the highest in the nation at $10.50 an hour. that's just to name a few. meanwhile the center of the debate has moved. >> there are some basic things that we should be for. one of them is reasonable increases from time to time in the minimum wage. >> i for instance as you know part company with many of the conservatives in my party on the issue of minimum wage. i think we ought to raise it. >> let's not make the argument that we're for the blue collar guy but against a minimum wage increase. >> we should note all those republicans are people without power in the current gop. the people who are in power have been left behind as public opinion moves in the direction of those strikers that you saw today. >> do you believe in the minimum wage? >> when you look at raising it, all of the studies show that if you raise it, you get more unemployment. >> if you raise the minimum wage, the inevitable effect will be, number one, young people will lose their jobs or not be able to get their first jobs

the story of pastor wong who came to america in the 70s from taiwan after being abused by his father vermont he came to america he worked in america after coming out of the grace of yard shifty was waiting for a tow truck he noticed a young boy being physically brutal listed not wanting to get involved he drove away with are heavier heart he felt the presence of a divine presence and wondered how it would have felt to be bullied and next day roger and it's father made up up 50 sandwiches and the following week he brought his wife to the tenderloin and then san francisco impact was born it is now a volunteer nonprofit organization that concludes 5 departments today, we have 11 thousand 189 individuals every month through their come up kitchen program they run a thrift shop and offer affordable closing and have block parties. their church does doird outreach and run a k to 12 school program and run a health center it serves 2 hundred and 50 patience it goes on and on. they have tenderloin sunday street and the tenderloin was such a success and got the attention of press for something that's be

i'm joined now by vermont governor. governor, good morning to you, sir. >> hey, it's great to you with you. >> i think that seems to be your biggest challenge where at the end of the day when we look back at '98 after the '94 gop waiver, we look at '06, the gains that a party makes usually are in open seats, knocking off incumbents is very, very difficult. >> well, yeah, but let's remember that first of all in this particular round, 2010 was the biggest election of new governors in the history of america. and bottom line is what these republican governors have done is implement, the tea party sweep across america and what the governors have done is implement the tea party policies that the folks in congress so badly wanted to implement but the senate and president obama wouldn't let him. i think what you're sees across the country in this case of these republican governors who have slashed education spending, decimated schools, raised taxes on the middle class while they have reduced taxes for wealthy corporations and w

pascal vermont of san francisco leaved to for arkansas. vermont will provide disaster mental health relief to the affected families and families. the red cross is giving help to 12 states. >>> 8:54 this morning, we have video of an angry confrontation between neighbors in brentwood after two separate dog attacks. a 52-year-old woman who was walking her dog on nunn street yesterday when two dogs attacked her. she was bitten on the face, hand and ankle. and less than 10 minutes later, the same dog attacked a man walking two small dogs on hudson drive. both victims were taken to the hospital for treatment of their injuries. animal control managed to capture one of the dogs, a lab without incident, but they used a stun gun on the second dog when it charged at officers after they found it cornered in a backyard. neighbors got into a heated confrontation as the family of one of the victims returned from the hospital. >> i understand, and i feel for your wife. >> and my wife's little doll dog is in surgery right now. >> you don't know the whole s

veterans affairs committee responding to the request for the independent senator, bernie sanders in vermont. the democrats are in the majority of this senate, to come and testify. he will testify before the senate veterans affairs committee. so far the house veterans affairs committee that subpoenaed him to provide e-mails, all sorts of other information connected to the allegations of wrongdoing in the department of veterans affairs, when it comes to veterans waiting for treatment, the house veterans affairs committee has not formally subpoenaed or requested that he come testify there. that's the republican majority in the house veterans affairs committee but he will go before the democratic majority in this senate to testify next thursday on all of these issues, responding to bernie sanders, the independent senator from vermo vermont. more on this story coming up later. >>> meanwhile, dozens of the world's most influential economists are gathering for two days in nigeria, supposed to be a showcase moment for the country and its president. instead, it's been overshadowed by a series of ter

. >> you know lombard may get the attention, but another street, vermont, some brag they are sharper turns. this is almost a hair pin turn, isn't it? >> we'll have to check it out. >> just ahead bullying, a crime. one city about to vote on it, ahead. >> holiday headache. expected weekend bottle neck and little part that may cause big problems >> golfing protegees just keep getting younger. a bay area girl wowing the sport. >> and >>> if you plan to use interstate 280 this memorial day weekend there are major lane closures to tell you about. it's part of a project to replace very critical hinges that join the roadway. those closures begin this thursday. we now have more leanne? >> you know, they're several alerts like one you can see behind me around the city. it will be a bit naturally this weekend. you have baseball game, you have carnival. now, keep in mind this will be the first of three closures this memorial day weekend. then, a section of northbound 280 closed over july 4th, and labor day weekend. construction will take place on southbound 280 near cesar chavez street. caltrans

the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from vermont yields back. the gentleman from maryland reserves. the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. issa: i thank the gentleman from vermont in advance for his yes vote on this because the only way to send this to the court to be decided is to vote yes. in fact, we are not try lois lerner. we are determining that she should be tried. the question should be before a federal judge. with that, i yield two minutes to the gentlelady from wyoming a member of the committee, mrs. lummis. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for two minutes. mrs. lummis: thank you, mr. speaker. i contend that in the interest of protections the -- protecting the constitutional rights of this country from the behavior of the i.r.s., from lois lerner, herself a lawyer, who understands that you can waive your right to remain silent as to matters to which you chose to testify. and that she did that. she said, i've done nothing wrong, i have broken no laws, subsequently, we find out that she blamed the rimplet s

vermont governor peter shumlin has signed a law making vermont the first day to require labeling of gmo foods. the measure also bars foods with gmo's from being labeled as natural. it takes effect july 2016. more than 100 people gathered thursday in texas to protest the fatal police shooting of a 93-year-old african-american woman. witnesses say pearlie golden, known as ms. sully, was shot at least five times outside her home on tuesday. authorities say golden had a gun when a police officer arrived following a reported dispute with her nephew, who was trying to take away her car keys after she failed a drivers test. the officer involved, stephen stem, previously shot dead an african-american man in 2012, but was cleared by a grand jury. stem has been on the police force for less than two years. but testers spoke to the local eagle newspaper -- protesters spoke to the local eagle newspaper. >> we would do the same thing last year, and did nobody do nothing about it. .hey keep doing it nobody has consequences for their actions. that's it. ain't no threats. we just want something done. we