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For the nail that the ledbetter bill was. the two go together. but i really believe had this been the law back in my day, had this been an act that had been on the books, i could have found out from coworkers without being retaliated against. >> mr. romney -- im sorry to interrupt. mr. romney, the republican presidential nominee, has not taken a position on this bill as we ended up finding out today through a sort of bizarre series of e-mails in which he said he supported the concept of equal pa...

Department of justice upheld or precleared georgias law four or five years ago. the united states supreme court upheld indianas law back in 2007. what you basically have. you have the department of justice denying the citizens of south carolina the protections of a bill that united states supreme court upheld for the citizens of indiana. it is a double-standard and it blows my mind that the department of justice sees that this could be potential suppression. only thing we want to suppress here i...

Ron paul voted against the law back in 2002. we are talking about the public company accounting reform, an investor protection act, better known as socks for short. it comes from a two former congressmen. the heart of this law is section 404. it requires public companies to include in their annual reports both the firms own assessment of its internal controls, and an outside auditors assessment. conservatives say compliance costs have soared from an estimated $91,000 per publicly held company to...

Privacy act but it was signed into law back in 1986. that was long before the internet was widely used. many people since said that law needs to be updated to procedurely reflect modern communications. gregg? gregg: doug mckelway, live in washington. doug, thanks very much. jenna? jenna: a real-life nate mayor here. a woman held captive and tortured. no one knew for a month. well tell you how she finally escaped from this house. also disturbing new developments in the widening scandal around t...

Can rival the 100 watt bulbs. all the brightness comes with a hefty price tag. this is incredible. >> it is. when congress passed this law back in 2011, they surely thought by 2012, they will have 1,000 different replace manies for those bulbs. but the deadline is coming on us and they are still not really a bright bulb that can combat the old traditional incandescent light. we are talking about 6 months from now. the deal is incandescent bulbs take electricity, turn it into heat, they waste all...

If he wanted to set the record straight perhaps he should be speaking to the criminal investigators. he still has not spoken to the fbi or anybody at the department of justice. you know, he takes no responsibility for the financial devastation hes created and the dreams that are lost and youve got all of these longer-term investors and i dont know where he is getting his 18% from. no one got anywhere near that. the people, the innocent investors, the longer term investors who lost their entire l...

The white house says a crucial provision of the law that bars federal recognition of same-sex marriages is unconstitutional. jeffrey toobin is joining us now to discuss. can the president set aside a law that congress passed? bill clinton signed it into law back in 1996. >> well, hes not setting aside the law. hes still honoring the law. married same-sex couples in massachusetts will still be denied the tax benefits that married couples all over the country get. but they are no longer defending ...

That our interests were so great that they should evoke in us a unilateral action. im not sure thats the best course, but i do not fault the president for taking the time it takes to work through these diplomatic steps and get with our partners and try to come out of the box as george w. bush and his father before him and president clinton in there, too, did, is the more partners, the more likely the effective -- the positive nature of the outcome of the conflict. >> let me switch gears briefly,...

That marriage can only exist between a man and a woman. attorney general eric holder told congress today that the president has concluded the law is unconstitutional. the federal law will still be observed but the justice department is leaving it to congress who passed the law back in 1996 to defend it in court. the u.s. military working with the fbi and justice department today to determine where 15 somali pirates connected to the murder of four americans at sea will go next. a spokesman from...

Aspects of this bill met at least temporary defeat today at the hands of this federal judge. on the losing end of this court battle, arizonas republican governor jan brewer, who signed this bill into law back in april. governor brewer was, not surprisingly, defiant today. >> obviously, its a little bump in the road, i believe, and that, you know, until i get my whole arms around it, we dont really exactly know where were going to go. i think that its important to remind everybody that today, the...