schools? simply put, yes. we believe, from a policy standpoint, the growth in charter schools and the potential they offer for being able to offer innovative reforms or good. we think you often have a proliferation of different oversights and models of the state levels that make the subsequent overside more difficult. our direct interaction is with the state entity and authorizing entity. our work is with the states of verses with the schools and i think we share concerns that states to need need to do a better job in terms of exercising that oversight. how does the department create more transparency in how charter schools use taxpayer funds? do you look at graduation rates, scores, reading levels and the math? if they are direct reps it recipients of money, they are subject to all the requirements of title 1. the dominant framework is the state framework for governing schools. we work in partnership but we have to defer in cases to where the states have a framework in regard to the charter schools. we send them title 1 money and we have some responsibility. we do provide oversight. i am a strong advocate of high performing charter school but i am troubled by the rest of the privatization of public schools under the guise of a charter operators. in your investigation involving education/chartered management organizations, do you find that fraud and other problems are more prevalent with for-profit organizations or nonprofits? we have not found a difference between profit and for-profit. we have had problems with chartered management organizations. we are commencing audit work in this area also. we had a number of investigations involving these entities and charter schools in particular, we wanted to go in and get a good look at what that might mean. i agree with you that there is a problem. we may be able to find things in these funds when you go to some of these organizations? yes, we have had a number of investigated cases already since the last few years. we have opened 56 charter school investigations and dead had recovery of about $10 million. the deputy secretary was correct when he said that part of the problem is that there are a number of the risers in every state and a very and the level of over state oversight varies wildly among states. that is where some of the problems are. i thank the gentleman and now we go to mr. mika of florida. in the recent legislation that congress passed known as map 21, the transportation reauthorization, we mandated the consolidation or elimination of some 50 department of transportation programs. how many positions have been eliminated and what taxpayer dollars can we expect from that consolidation or elimination of programs? we are in the process of consolidation now. there are specific requirements for doing so. can you give us an estimate? would be 100 positions? 500 positions? will it save $1 million? although the programs have been consolidated, the need for oversight and implementation of the funds has not gone away. we will redeployed personnel many positions do you expect to eliminate? we are currently on a hiring freeze. so, nobody? i did not say that. for direct hiring freezes, we expect people are just trying to justify their continued existence and congress sent a mandate to consolidate or eliminate some 50 programs. people in the department of transportation are still making excuses to continue the red tape and paperwork. i have not gotten into that which i see the same thing. maybe you can supply the committee with some information on the savings and elimination of programs when we are trying to save money. we trod we talked about contract powers. before i became chairman of aviation, there was a study about the operation of contract powers. less and safety operations. after i became chairman, i asked the air traffic controllers this is a skewed steady and they did ask the right questions. we did another study and the study came back and it said for every contract power tower we ve they monitor the safety records. we have been cutting back contract towers is one of our biggest contracts and we are cutting back. what is your proposal to cut back? the objective we have we are saying $134 million? want to minimize the inconvenience with the maximum number of towers. how big is the elimination? there are up to 248 hours. each contract tower operates the price that i had the savings is about $1.5 million for contract towers and it is safer. you re cutting back substantially. you said this is your biggest contract? it is one of our biggest contracts. we had a list from way back in the clinton administration when they recommended another 69 towers to be converted and bush never converted them. can we look at ways we can save money and make it safer? are you familiar with that report? you are generally correct. that s all i need to said. say. we will provide this for the record. how much in the rail area are we cutting? passenger rail on the passenger rail side of their is about $10 million cut. we re cutting back on talk about some things with conferences. we the increase in loss of food service and amtrak have gone from 81-$85 million in the last fiscal cycle. we could eliminate food service. would anyone start between here and new york? between here and york. almost every hamburger was underwritten at $7. could we look at that instead of some of these other essential city services? would you consider that? the amtrak cuts are about $70 million. we would be happy you could eliminate food services and that would save another $85 million. let me close with it. mr. clinger is a former chairman when i came to congress. his act required all the agencies come up with an enterprise architecture. we have $3 billion in annual expenditures for it and we have 400 information systems and some are duplicative and some are . ihaicdo understand something is coming in may? yes. we are waiting with bated breath. there s an opportunity for savings there and that has been a focus of management. i will yield back the balance of my time. now for the rest of your answer i could not show my face back at my office if i let this go by. that study was an oig study and it is less expensive than the faa operated towers and they are less safe. they are accepted with approval by the user community. i apologize, i meant oig. with that, we go to the gentleman from massachusetts. tighe, your office did a study and they found there was $187 billion in student aid funds involved in student fraud. i commend you on that. in reality, it is less than one- half of 1% of what we spend on federal aid and next to what i find of the subcommittee of oversight for the national security, it is minuscule. it is important nonetheless. if you look at for-profit institutions in a higher education field, 90% of their revenues come from taxpayers. that s correct. federal financial aid, pell grants, g.i. bills, tuition assistance the have about 10% of all student enrollment but they take up about 25% of all financial aid dollars we spend. 2009-2010, they got $32 billion in taxpayer money. that is a lot of it we have had problems with overpricing tuition and recruiting practices. have you looked at them with respect as to whether they are at greater risk in a fraud? where we have seen the greater risk is the low-cost institutions. which is primarily community colleges. there are for-profit schools like the university of phoenix that operates a community college component called axia college which ihas seen a number of problems with fraud. it is the lower cost institutions primarily but not exclusively can you tell me why that is? you have so many more dollars and its programs going to one set of institutions and less going to the others. what is the distinction? it is not just a function of dollars. i agree with that said with the statistics. it is all about what comes back to the so-called student. when you sign up online, you have and visibility to your institution. they sign up for classes and apply for student aid and then the community college or will take back from the title 4 dig if they receive a pell grant of $5,000 because i put zero , my application the community college will take $600 for a semester of classes and remit the rest to you for room and board and books and other expenses related to education. the problem we see for distance education is, why are we finding room and board and those kind of circumstances? that grew up in brick and mortar schools when you lived on campus and in needed to pay room and board. you don t necessarily need to do that in distance education. there is a restriction on the old correspondence schools. you do not get room and board for correspondence schools. the post 9-eleven gi bill done by the department of defense a eliminated living expenses of that gives you money that goes back to the bad guys. all they need to do is get a bunch of their friends or inmates in prison institutions to apply for student aid and then they kick back some of that money to the ring leaders. mr. miller, what are we doing about that? we are following up on the recommendations to take action. there are system changes we can make like statistical models, front aend. we could work on fasa. if there is a pattern that looks like suspicious behavior, you can require more personal identification to go on in the application process. some of these require statutory changes. if you re going to change the eligibility requirements, that requires congress to act. are you making those recommendations to congress? we will work with congress and pursue what we think is the right reproaapproach. could you provide to this committee the recommendations you have made for statutory changes and the recommendations you are making for rule changes? yes, there will be processed where we re starting with hearings. can you provide what is your doing? what is your doing to change the statute? yes, part of the regulatory process we have to honor the process which says we cannot have a prescribed proscribes prescription before we start the roll-making process. when the agenda gets upset, we will share that with your. you have some things that will already get changed a lot? we have an understanding of the issue and then how we engage? you have come to no conclusion yet as to changes in law? that would be premature. there are different ways to address the problem and coming up with specific solutions, we re not at that point. ms. tighe, can you help us? the primary statutory change recommended was the change to the cost of attendance. there has been some modest movement in the senate through the appropriations bill for this year that will look at pell grant but i would urge congress to look at it as a total package of not just pell but also loans one can get. looking at pell could possibly lead to a perverse situation where a financial aid administrator would do two calculations for cost of its attendance, one for pell and one for loans. one student might borrow more. i don t know the department has put in any kind of proposal to change the cost of attendance. if you will summarize you have a written report at this time? we did do a written report on the fraud rings i talked about. thank you. i might remind all those that the ranking member and i in the last congress had the data act that would have changed recipient reporting and the databases on which these kind of investigations happen. i m not sure you can use the recovery act, the so-called rat board, to enact this and some of what you are trying to find, you may still be able to use that as set that the former ig said up to do modeling of what could be done on a broader basis. we would encourage that and if you need support from that, we would provide it. with that, we go to the gentleman from texas. thank you, i was in high school, i was a dj and when i got sick of a song is when people knew what the song was an eye and they started to like it. i get the same feeling with the talk of sequestration. many american people busy raising their families and working are catching on. i think they are seeing that this is looking a whole like like a manufactured crisis with people screaming that the sky is falling. if my personal budget were being sequestered and i was in your place testify before this committee, i might choose not to pay my mortgage because of sequestration my children will be hamas or i could choose not to eat out as often and said my family will go hungry. heaven forbid we look for a box of noodles in the pantry, macaroni and cheese. my kids would probably prefer that. is i reallyting at feel like this is a lot of posturing. i d like to ask the two secretaries if i came to you and say cut 2% from your budget, do whatever you need to do, minimize the effect on safety, minimize laying employees off you got card plus to figure fix your budget. could you do it? let s start with mr. miller. we struggle with that. the money for poor kids and students for disabilities and kids on indian reservations is there. what child is more or less important? there is not 3% in a waste, fraud, or abuse. 99% is directly and program dollars. there is no fraud in these programs? you are saying you could not cut 3% from the budget? the sequester is forcing us to cut if you said could we find cuts that would not adversely affect students, the ones who are struggling to participate are global economies, i would say no. this will have an adverse impact we will regret that i cannot believe there is 3% there. what about transportation? 3/4 of our department is exempt from some question from sequestration could you find 3%? of course we can do it but it depends of what the impact is. the easy stuff has been done. since 2008 with in the faa, we have cut $510 million out of the cost by reducing travel 30%, it savings of $36 million, $100 million in innovative contracts. there was a nice laundry list of things we can continue to look at and i find it difficult to believe that it with the increased cost of gasoline, many families have had to squeeze 3% out of their budget. i don t think it is unreasonable we ask a desperate we in the house have come up with two different replacements for sequester that are not as painful. maybe you could find something. i have an important question for the inspector general. i am the subcommittee chairman of on the post office government work force and the senses and recent news reports suggest that agency managers, to be able to choose favorites among their employees, to save them from furloughs in sequestration. can you commit that the ig s this will make sure that whatever furloughs, are handled in a fair and appropriate manner and they don t have political reprisals or choosing favorites? we will investigate every allegation. we are equipped to ensure that they are inquired into properly. miller situation in education? yes. great, i ve only got 25 seconds. i have questions on improper payments but i will just yield back the remainder of my time. it is all yours, mr. chairman. you went to your work force and told them they had a hypothetical choice of taking that furlough, that 5% effective pay cut, or finding a way to come back to you and show they could do the same amount of work with 5% less employees next year, not this year, in the next fiscal year, would you predict that you re workers would come up with organizational changes that will allow you to keep the pay and benefits where they are and do as much with slightly less people? just a prediction i think that i think that s what we were getting too. isn t there enough organizational litharge gaea that builds and that almost any work force faced with attrition and other means or taking a pay cut, they will find a way to do better in the efficiency. most of the savings in 2008 that i was out line had been suggested by our employees. we have a committed cadre of public servants. they will continue to find savings. i would submit they would do that with or without a sequester scenario. you agree that your work force is smart and innovative and can help us in this process? i would argue they have been. we have asked them even today to take on more and more responsibility and they have been forced to be more innovative with their programs and take more accountability and take more responsibility for providing real effective assistance not just about getting money out but that it is having an impact. we are asking more of our employees everyday. to ask them if we can do more, our employees would welcome that but they would not see it as a new request. q, let s go to the gentleman from nevada. thank you, mr. chairman. prior to coming to congress, i served in the state senate in nevada and over the last few years, we experienced tremendous budget shortfalls which required both sides of the aisle to come together to find a balanced approach to pass a balanced budget which is what we have done. i believe that the federal cuts, whether under sequestration, what occurred in the prior fiscal year, or what may come, needs to be put in context with the cuts that state and local entities have already incurred. in the department of education in nevada, 70% of our department s budget the federaly fund are federally funded positions. that is on top of the reductions that were made by our state agencies. i am a bit perplexed, mr. chairman, that the line of questioning by some members on the other side somehow is pointing to the blame at our federal agency heads rather than taking the responsibility as members to do our job. , to come up with the policies we need to arrive at a balanced approach which is what a lot of state governments have been doing for many years. i respect the professionals that are here today and your viewpoints and i specifically want to ask mr. p-orcari on the faa. i am concerned about air traffic control. we have 40 million visitors in and out of our major airports in las vegas. can you elaborate on what the impact of the furloughs were that occurred in 2011 on your employees? we focused on what the new impact would be but what has already occurred? to the extent that we have had furloughs in the past, they have not been nearly as broad as what is being proposed under sequestration. the vast majority of the 47,000 faa employees would be subject to furloughs and that is because 70% of our operations account is the cost of people. those people are out there in the field, not in washington. it is going to have an across the board unlike the past it will have an across the board impact on operations. are trying to minimize the impact on the maximum number of people. i respect the position that faa police are definitely going to feel the brunt of this under sequestration. what about the average american traveler? what will they experience? if you re traveling by commercial airline and you are generally going if you are not going point to point, thru a hub, is the bulk of the passengers are, you will likely experience significant delays sometimes. if you are a general aviation user, you will see a number of places where control tower services, controlled airspace, was formally provided but will not be either a midnight-8:00 or 24 hours. you will operate and what we believe is a safe but different operating environment. this is an important aspect because sometimes people talk about some nondescript bureaucrat not performing an essential function. we are talking about air traffic safety. has anyone forgotten about 9/11 and the effects of not having the top notch safety that we expect for the travelling public? what will that cause? there was a report issued by the aerospace industries association that said the combined reduction in passenger and commercial air traffic from the sequestered could lead to anywhere from 10- $20 billion in reduced economic activity and a job loss upwards of 132,000 jobs. we cannot afford more job losses in nevada. we re trying to get our economy moving in the right direction. we need to work in that regard it. this study accurate? we have not independently verified that study. there are several others out there that have similar conclusions. we do know that aviation at large as one of the driving forces behind the economy. whether it is commercial air traffic or whether it is aircraft production or whether it is the innovation that happens on the electronic and avionic site, we know it is one of the drivers of the economy that will clearly have an impact on the economy from the sequestration cut. i just want to close by saying i want to work with anybody that has a good idea as to how we can identify targeted cuts in federal programs that are not efficient and can be improved but to single out these across-the-board cuts that we know are not good for our economy, that are not good for public safety and our ill- conceived, we have to move in a different direction. the gentleman yield back and now we have the gentleman from gainesville, ga.. i m sorry go ahead. it s you. you should be next. one of the things that comes when you are new and sitting in the front row and listen to the entire hearing, it is amazing how many things we have talked about that have absolutely nothing to do with this hearing. we have talked about sequestration and other things. we could have saved the taxpayers $67 billion over the last two years. we have not talked about that. there are savings. let me tell you a quick story to illustrate some questions. a few years ago, i pastor of a church for 11 years and went back to law school. i said the only way i can go back at 38 years old was to go full time. i said i will lose and income because i could not work and go to law school at the same time. we looked at all the things or we would not buy. i had three children and we did not discuss selling a kid on ebay. look at what we could do. when i look at this right here i served in the georgia legislature as well we have $5 billion in cuts. in georgia, we cut our budget and we lowered taxes and we attracted business. it can be done. the problem i have here is that there are things involved with the cuts and the ig s - you are not listening to them anyway. what is the problem? you ve got to have a balance. i go back to $67 billion left on the table that we re not talking the pay cuts you re talking about were through furlough days? we talked about rhetoric from both sides in dealing with the inaction in congress and i think there is an understanding that there is a frustration of lack of common sense and planning. mr. miller, i m assuming this was your statement but you said we thought was not going to happen. that is the problem in government, this approach that it would not happen. it was something that was coming and now it is here. the frustration that most people like myself who had to make plans was that you are not planning. my question goes back to the political nature of this. you have done well with transportation and i understand that. you mentioned in new york, chicago, and san francisco because those are high profile airports. why did you not mention atlanta which is the busiest airport in the world? because it does not play as well? because i could only rattled off three or four at a time. we leave of the largest in the country? not at all, there would be substantial impact in atlanta. i appreciate that. in planning furloughed days governments in nevada and other places have had to do you are telling you cannot plan well enough that you cannot stagger your furlough days in such a way that you had to close a tower? we will be staggering furlough days. the employees will have to take one furlough day per pay period. you were telling you cannot stagger them in such a way to make them effective? that s correct. in some of our major operation centers 84% of our operation employs are outside of washington. long have you had to think about this? we have been working on this for months. i recommendationg and these have been left on the table that are currently getting around to not getting done, you have money left on the table but in a hearing like this at a time when there is no real cuts going on, that is part of the problem, this is the time to squeal and say i am having problems. when we had cuts in georgia, we were trying to look at all of our departments and one area was higher education. we re taking a direct hit. there was a saying that we would raise tuition 30% and then one of our presidents said we will have to cut the cooperative extension program. in other words, we will cut 4h knowing good and well that 4h was one of the lease things that need to be cut. he generated 700 people less said don t cut my 4h program. the american people don t understand the budget and i don t understand $67 billion left on the table. that s what i don t understand that the american people don t understand we will know we will now go to the gentle lady from new york, mr. maloney. out like to address my questions to mr. porcarui as it pertains to sandyaid. i want to thank my colleagues that voted for this. the cuts to the department of transportation under sequestration would have a devastating impact on hurricane send a relief efforts in new york and new jersey. i would like to ask about two key dot program allows the federal highway emergency relief program and the federal transit administration public transportation emergency relief program. each faces sharp cuts under sequestration, is that correct? that is correct. the emergency relief program which provides relief funds to repair federal highways and bridges face over $100 million in cuts under sequestration, is that right? $101 million. will the federal highway emergency relief program be required to grant less money to state departments of transportation that has already been approved for sandy relief? have made provisions with the federal highway emergency relief money that it will not affect sandy relief. wow. as part of the portion to cover previous relief efforts. this will not be true in the case of the federal transit administration. we will not be impacting sandy relief. the federal transit cuts of approximately $544 million will, unfortunately, directly impacted the rebuilding post-sandy. about as a problem. new york as a transit city, probably the largest transit city in the world in terms of how we move our people. will that be a $544 million cut to sandy or how much will it affect the transportation? that transit cuts will all be towards sandy 8. whoa. one of the important things that congress approved his medication. rebuilding to a more resilience standard. there have been stormy vets in the last 18 months that have flooded the transportation system. five stations, five subway lines in my district, it is huge. it is the most brazilian efforts that will bear the brunt of that cut. wow, is a disproportionate to sandy? this transit cut applies only to sandy 8. only to send aid, oh, my word. ]oh no, is there any way we can change that? if it is the will of congress. why were we able not to sustain the cuts in the emergency relief program but the cuts went through in the transit program? how was that decision made? the federal highway emergency relief funds were a little over $2 billion and of that, the cut was $101 million. that left a sufficient balance to not only take care of all the highway-related sandy relief we believe will be required under the program but also to cover some of the existing priorities as well. this other $544 million is only to the transit might for sandy? who made that decision? did you cut transit across the country? that was a specific sequestration cuts. we did not have flexibility on that. thank you for that information i also want to talk about a flight that fell in the great state of new york that killed a number of people including a friend of mine in february, 2009, flight 3407 when it crashed approaching buffalo. 45 passengers were killed. the national transportation the pilots performance was likely impaired because of fatigue. both of the pilots operating the five were found to have committed hundreds of miles prior to the flight. in december 2011, the part of transportation issued a new rule known as the pilot fatigue rule to emphasize responsibility of pilots on airlines to ensure that pilots are fit to fly when the report for duty. however, the new rule does not restrict the amount of commuting that pilots by undertake on their way to the airport. who would be the proper person to ask about this? have you recommended that the faa ensure that the collection and analysis of data regarding domestic and commuting links for 121 flight crews? why did you make this recommendation? did you make this recommendation? we did. why did you make the recommendation and what type of study is required to understand the risk of fatigue associated with pilots commuting? we made that recommendation in part because of the ntsb findings in part. the most significant in terms of looking at the faa available information on pilot domicile and commuting, it did not exist. we thought would be helpful to the agency in their safety oversight responsibility to begin to collected that data but not jump to the conclusion that regulation of pilot domicile or committing practices should be embarked on. in light of the dearth of the data and the ntsb concern and the national academy of sciences did a study as well and found a lack of available data, we thought it would be who of the safety regulators to take a look. do you think that the amount of review of existing studies and literature is sufficient? we are not satisfied with the data we have. there was some work by our own faa medical institution on cabin crews that were used as a proxy for flight crews. in neither case did draw a direct link between commuting time and fitness for duty which is the responsibility of the air crew. we know we could benefit from better data on this. do you believe the faa s examination of existing literature is enough? not yet, why not. the faa owes us a response and i believe it was due at the end of last week in have not seen it yet. i am told informally is on the way. i would like to ask the chairman that we get a copy of this. it is important to me and the families that lost their loved ones. can you commit to make an effort to collect and analyze primary source data on this issue to determine whether additional steps should be taken to ensure flight safety? right now, we are looking at what can be done in terms of reliable data. i can commit that safety is our number one priority. we know this is a frustration of all of us. we need to understand this better at this point. for the work the faa is completing now, i would like it to speak for itself which is the next step in this process. thank you and my time is expired, regretfully. i have a lot of questions but thank you for your time and testimony. we will do a quick second round because i know the ranking member has a couple of questions and i have one or two i would like to ask. i read through your testimony and listens to what you had to say but the bulk of the ig recommendations outdot deal with safety issues and rightly so. bridges in particular. we have an aging bridge we are looking at which is $600 million that we will have to replace. that is not uncommon around the country. what we did not talk about and one of the purposes of this hearing is where we can find savings to avoid having to do additional tax increases or may be offset some of the things with sequestered. in some other reports from your department, did you find some cost savings? of course we did. last year, we have financial recommendations totaling $1.7 billion for the department. the year before that, $1.7 billion. from your department, did youthat is not f those financial recommendations translate immediately to cost savings because they do not. some of them, we would expect our recommendations, for instance for the enterprise architecture or faa facility consolidation and realignment they are forward-looking and we would expect they would lead to better decision making an ultimate cost savings over the course of a long process to fully implement the programs. we heard a lot of testimony about next gen in aviation. we have heard a lot about the delays associated with vests. aviation. i hear that not only are these delays costing the airlines efficiency in money but they are potentially costing us money. how much would we have saved if we had gotten next gen done on time? we can get to estimates of the accelerated benefits. in one piece of it, using required navigation performance in the seattle, tacoma airport, it is saving the airline a significant amount of money. it is the equivalent to taking a couple of thousand cars off the road in terms of environmental. i understand they are getting a route from a houston to corpus christi? the houston metroplex initiative is one of the early short-term benefits of next gen. i have met with the interdepartmental staff working on it and they take great pride in getting the approvals in designing the approaches and the other parts on an accelerated basis. they are literally committed to shaving years of of what would be a multi-year process. is there anything this committee can do to help expedite the process? congress has been very supportive historically of next gen which is a multi-tier system. which is very expensive. it is the continued year-to-year commitments so we can plan ahead and the contract in community and the airlines can be confident to make those investments. that is the single most important thing is the consistency. i had the privilege of touring some faa facilities and you have some fine men and women working there. the traveling public would be better served as well as the environment if that were taken care of. i will yield back the remainder of my time and recognize the ranking member for his second round of questions about thank you very much and i want to thank you all for being here. says been extremely helpful. it is clear that more needs to be done, these recommendations need to be followed and i would hope that both departments would act on them swiftly. a lot of discussion has gone to sequestration because that is what we are dealing with. we have heard that there is more to, and that is very clear, more cuts to come be on sequestration. i am trying to figure out as i listened to you, i was saying to myself, the ig offices have a tremendous credibility. as a lawyer, i respect that and as a legislator i respect what you all do. as you talked about, i think it was you, you said there was some criminal investigations you could not get into because of i wish there is a level of trust with regard to other federal employees outside of their agencies. i was telling a group on the floor the other day when there were talking about federal employees, it was mentioned that federal employees leave at a zero 0.4% in the federal government. the exit rate is not as extensive as the private sector because they have great benefits and they have all this pay period i tried to help tell the myth that if they listened to the federal employees and ask them why they do what they do, in most instances, is because they want to help the public, period. it is not about pay. when we look at people losing their jobs and there will be some job cuts, when we look at people taking furloughs like the lady i met the other day who will lose $800 per month and has two kids and is trying to put one through college, that is pain. we may act like it is not a big deal but it is a big deal. i am concerned that i want us to make sure that when we say there is going to be impact that it is truly that it s true. in other words, if there is something else that can be done to avoid certain things, i want to know that those things are being done. when you talk about sophie s choice where you have disadvantaged kids trying to be all they can be and they can t get their when you cut all sorts of programs that is kind of tough. mr. porcari, you said that 3/4 of your budget is exempt, basically. that s correct, 74% is exempt. when you have when i look at bwi in baltimore, they ve already got about 258,000 flights per year. at some point, something has to give. they are right they are already flying from 5:00 in the morning until midnight. what gives? that is an excellent question. flight delays is like throwing a rock in a pond. it ripples through the entire system. you may have flights taking off late or cancellations. most passengers are moving to a hub, they may miss their connections. those connections are tied together. we cannot fully quantify what all the impacts are. we believe they will be significant and it is important to point out that they are cumulative in the sense you re airport experience also includes the tea s.a. delays to get the tsa delays and the flight beyond that. exactly where is your responsibility and and there s began? you talked about possible criminal investigations you also talked about the money that has been lost where is the line there? understand the ig makes recommendations. we re not management and cannot make management decisions. we make recommendations and the department has to decide how to proceed on those. it is their responsibility to executed if they come up with corrective action which we get a chance to agree on, then it is up to them to execute to that. that is fully in their responsibility. when you talk about criminal investigations, i am trying to figure out where that is. criminal investigations is purely under my bailiwick. that is not something the department decides one way or another. i think the secretary under the ig is prohibited from impacting my investigations and what we initiate. with resources, i will have to drop numbers of the next couple of years. let s look past this year. i need to draw my numbers. what do you mean? in terms of people. we have not had good attrition. that is a nice reflection that we are a good place to work on the other hand, for a budget, it has credit problems. we will have to do a buyout in all the ways the government has to reduce numbers. that will mean fewer investigators and fewer auditors. that is fine if that is the decision we make. but that is what the consequences. we re still looking at an era of lower budgets. thank you all very much. seeing as we have no other members waiting to ask questions, i would like to take this opportunity on behalf of the entire committee to thank our panel for being in front of us. we may not be the easiest committee to testify for as our mission statement says it is our solemn responsibility to hold government accountable to the taxpayers and that is what we try to do. chairman issa extra referred to as as the watchdogs so thank you for coming before the dogs. thank you very much and we are adjourned. 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every day and we d love to get your opinion on our show. so visit please raise their hand. the u.n. security council punishing north korea with tough new sanctions. members of the united nations security council warned north korean leaders together and separately not to carry out another nuclear test. authorities disregarded those warnings and went ahead with a third underground test. the security council has responded with new sanctions. the resolution requires union nations to deport official who is violate resolutions. the sanctions include a freeze on assets believed to be linked to the country s nuclear or missile programs. it s now mandatory to inspect cargo that would be related to weapons development. crews of ships who refuse inspections will not be allowed to dock. previous resolutions only requested such action. council members have expressed concern over the use of diplomatic privileges. these sanctions will bite an bite hard. they increase north korea s isolation and raise the cost to north korea s leaders of defiing the international security. to address the nuclear address and to prevent isolation. japan s u.n. ambassador urged officials to think hard about what path they should take. it took the security council just over three weeks to pass this resolution. we ve beenollowing the story. how did the security council act so unanimously in. the key here was the u.s. and china worked together. in the past china has opposed tough sanctions against its long time ally. this time china helped the u.s. draft the resolution. china doesn t want its neighbor north korea to be armed with nuclear weapons. at the same time chinese leaders are concerned sanctions that are too severe could further deteriorate the north korean economy. that cld result in a flood of refugees crossing their border. the wording of the resolution underlines that the sanctions apply only to actions related to north korea s nuclear and missile program so that focus may have made the chinese comfortable enough to authorize the resolution. we ve seen the security council agree to repeated penalties in the past. how will these be any different? it s not clear whether this will do anything to change north korea s behavior immediately. we ve heard some hostile rhetoric over the last few days. to borrow u.s. ambassador rice s words the sanctions are designed to bite hard. for instance, there have been cases reported to the u.n. sanctions committee of north korean agents carrying cash in bulk. the effectiveness will depend on how measures are implemented in each country and to make the sanctions work member nations must cooperate in exchanging information regarding north korea s activities and act upon them. thanks very much. they threatened t u.s. with a preemptive strike. the officials said countermeasures will be necessary if the u.s. does not change what they called its hostile attitude. they accused the u.s. of trying to spark a nuclear war. they said they will exercise their right to a preemptive attack on what they called the headquarters of the aggressors. the aurves officer told the crowd that north korea is ready to fire a nuclear missile at washington, d.c. state run tv broadcast the rally. military personnel and civilians filled the square. the country s second in command attended the event. one officer said north ykorea i ready to launch several missiles. he said the north diversified nuclear warheads and made them smaller. he said the missiles would turn washington, d.c. into a sea of fire and they re prepared to hit targets in countries that support the u.s. too. american and south korean forces drilled on thursday at a u.s. base in the south. about 250 soldiers took part in the maneuvers. malaysian security forces say they have killed 23 people on the island of borneo. they ve called for a cease fire. they ve been operating a village in borneo since the middle of february. they re led by sultans of the sulu. malaysia sent security troops last friday. they attacked the militants from the air and ground. they said eight security personnel have been killed. the prime minister rejected an offer of a truce. he said the military will continue its assaults. he said the militants should lay down their weapon and surrender unconditionally. an italian court has convicted silvio berlusconi on charges of leaking police information. he was sentenced on thursday to one year in prison. a newspaper owned by berlusconi published the contents of a phone call in 2005. the call was between the leader of the then opposition democratic party and an official involved in a bid to take over a financial institution. berlusconi is believed to have been trying damage the reputation of the opposition party in a run-up to a parliamentary election the following year. the prime minister is expected to appeal the ruling. it is rare in italy for anyone to be put behind bars unless for a very serious crime. berlusconi was convicted last october of major tax u fraud. he is also due to face trial for allegedly paying an underaged girl for sex. his center right coalition finished second in last month s election. gnchts gdp was revised upward.dp was revised upward. it s the first time since 1985 that three straight months of deficit were posted. the january current account deficit was about $3.8 billion. the trade balance registered a deficit of more than $15 billion. exports were up 6.7% while imports increased 6.6%. market observers saw a surplus of $12 billion in the income balance. that was up 6.8% in yen terms from a year earlier. japan s economy posted growth. the office said in its preliminary report that the gdp declined on an annualized basis in the same period. let s get a check on the markets. the dollar is higher against the yen. as you can see it s currently quoted right below that 94.95 to 97. traders are buying dollars as their more optimistic about the u.s. economy. that s after weekly jobless claims came in better than the market consensus. the euro is also higher against the yen. that s after the european central bank president said on thursday that the regional economy is stabilizing. the euro against the yen being quoted at 124.34 to 40. now onto stocks. tokyo share prices continue to rally. that s after six straight days of a winning streak. the nikkei average at that s gain of 1.26% from thursday s close. soul s kospi is down by .12 percent.soul s kospi is down by a percent.esoul s kospi is downf a percent.osoul s kospi is down of a percent.usoul s kospi is d of a perce.lso s kpi idowny .1 of a percent. s kospi is down b a percent. traders in japan will have more flexibility to short sell stocks later this year. regulators plan to ease restrictions amid an upturn. officials strengthened restrictions when the 2008 global financial crisis erupted. they said short selling could cause market confusion. investors were prohibited at a lower price than the market rate. officials now say investors will be allowed to short sell shares until the share prices fall 10% from the previous days closing rate. opinions will be sought from market experts before enacting changes in november. i ll plan to increase flights between japan and china will be postponed. that s because negotiations were hampered by bilateral relations. japanese and chinese government officials had agreed last august to increase flights between the two countries. they were to start four regular daily flights between tokyo s airport later this month. daily flights were to be doubled to 16. airlines have not made requests to increase flights. japanese governmt officials think the territory dispute had a negative effect on the expansion plan. they are also concerned be failed talks will have a negative impact on economic ties between the two countries. here in tokyo the nikkei is trading higher. let s see how other regional markets are doing. cradle of culture. economic powerhouse. many enjoy the fruits of prosperity along the path to a new china. but millions are still missing out, and public discontent is growing. against that backdrop, officials are choosing a fresh slate of government leaders. newsline correspondents will bring you full coverage of incoming president jinping s new ideas. japanese government leaders say they don t like the pace of the cleanup at fukushima daichii. so they ve launched a panel to speed up the deconditioning of reactors at the nuclear plant. industry minister will lead the oup. the power president will sit on it along with the presidents of major manufacturers of electrical equipment. members met for the first time on thursday. they discussed a timetable drawn up by officials from the former government, he told them to review the schedule and come up with a new one by the end of june. translator: the deconditioning work should be put on a faster track, to rebuild the area marked by the disasters. the current timetable includes a plan to start removinguclear melted fuel within ten years. panel members plan to speak with officials in fukushima and academics in drawing up the new road map. tens of thousands of people have visited japan s northeastern toko region in the two years since it was hit by an earthquake and tsunami. some volunteered. reporter: the website is a joined project between japan and communications ministry and the national diet library. officials launched it on thursday. they say anyone, anywhere can use it. a website provides an online clearinghouse for mountains of data about the earthquake and tsunami. academics, government officials as well as members of the media and nonprofit each looked after a portion, but that created challenges. people had a hard time tracking down information. there was a risk that materials would be lost. the website makes it much easier to search for images. just punching key words like tsunami and the name of a town and you re interested in. a map pops up with details about video of when and where they were filmed. people can access recordings. the website manager say they ll keep adding at it until it becomes a variable. translator: we think the database will help people in other countries make their own disaster preparations. reporter: the website s creator say they want to be more than just a report. they hope the archive will help turn japan s disaster into something meaningful for people that all over. tomoko kamata, nhk world. tensf thousands of people have lhit in the years since th tsunami hit. the disaster encouraged a buddhist nun to return. she s since become a beacon of strength for survivors. we spoke with her at her home in kyoto. reporter: dukto sadochi is 90 years old. since the disaster, she s been visiting tokyo to see what she can do and to give encouragement and support to the people there. before becoming a nun, dukto was known as the best-selling novelist. she has written 400 books over a career that has spanned more than 60 years. because of her strong connection with the region, she s visited many areas, giving people an opportunity to share their problems with her. translator: when i visit the region, the only way i can help is by preaching. actually, my sermons are not so much me speaking as listening to other people talk about their problems and difficulties. i tell them not to hold back. by sharing their feelings, they won t feel so weighed down. they will find it easier to breathe and will feel more relaxed. i told them, if you ve hit rock bottom now, that means there is nowhere lower to sink, right? there is nowhere to go but up. so we shouldn t lose hope. instead of despairing, we should take heart. even after two years, little has been done to rebuild housing and infrastructure in the devastated areas. there are 320,000 people who have no homes to go back to. many of them are still suffering and in need of psychological support. it s getting harder for dukto to travel, but last month she made another visit to toku. she said her spirits were lifted by what she found. translator: nothing has changed regarding people s living conditions. it s been two years, but nothing has been done by the government. so they ve had to start rebuilding on their own, because they can t just wait for someone to come and help them. they realize the only way to make progress is by doing things themselves. they started helping each other. it really impressed me. people are so amazing, aren t they? another sign of hope that dukto found was the smiles on the faces of the children she spoke to in the area. translator: they lost their homes. and i m sure some also lost family members. before meeting them, i was worried because i imagined they would look sad. were animated and their eyes ces were shining so brightly. they weren t depressed at all. i told them the earthquake and tsunami were calls by natural forces. it was a natural disaster. i said disasters like that have happened throughout history and people can t prevent them. i told them to study hard so they can figure out ways to prevent natural disasters. and they started clapping. children really understand if we talk with them. i was so happy i went there. living far from toku, it s easy to carry on as if nothing happened. we ve not forgotten, but for many it s not so immediate now. translator: for many of us, it was just luck that we avoided this disaster. it was just luck that we survived without losing everything. but those who lost their lives didn t do anything wrong. those of us who are still living have probably done things that were much worse. so those of us who have been spared must thank those who took on our suffering and died in our place. we must never forget them. that s dukto, a writer and buddhist nun speaking with nhk world. you can see the full interview on march 9 and 10 on nhk world. people in chicago are dealing with more than just stro gusts. the storm that has been battering the eastern half of this continent is finally pulling away. you can see this big spiral moving to the atlantic coast finally moving off into the shore. it has done the damage. let me show you a video coming up from chicago. a strong winter storm battered chicago on tuesday bringing heavy snow and strong winds. 28 centimeters of snowfall making it the largest winter storm to hit this area since 2011. the blizzard brought it to stand still. many residents found ways to enjoy the colder weather too. people are having snowball fights out there. finally the conditions will be improving in the eastern coast. the new england states will still be feeling the very gusty conditions as well as mixed precipitation due to a system intensifying over water. you can see how big it has become since yesterday due to the warm sea surface temperature. the flights could get cancelled in and around new york both airports as well as boston. if you are flying in and out of these vicinities do check your flight schedule. we have this very big high pressure system that s back behind it pushes the system away. very good news. the warmth will be returning much of the midsection of the united states will be able to enjoy your first weekend of your spring break. out towards the west we have another pacific system moving in. this will be a heavy snow maker across the southern areas especially in higher elevations the snow could be piling up in copious amounts. we already have winter storm warnings and advisories posted. the snow will be shifting toward the four corners regions out toward southern south dakota as well as minnesota. you ll see freezing rain which will very difficult for driving conditions. the texas panhandle will start to see severe thunderstorms on your late friday. houston at 22. denver at 13. you re looking at washington, d.c. take a look at this. it s going to be on the rise. chicago 11 degrees above your average range. washington, d.c. finally reaching the norm at 15 degrees on your sunday into the double digits finally from that cold winter you had. denver will be a different story. one degree due to another cold system moving in. that s for your high. here across western hemisphere we have another tropical sky clone. this is sandra which is now a category 1 moving towards the easterly direction. it s not going to be directly hitting any land masses, it will be affecting the solomon islandss with very stormy conditions. severe weather warning is in place. you can see how heavy the rain could be and the low lying areas could cause flooding. we ll keep a close eye on this system for you. out towards eastern continental asia we re talking about the warmth here. northern japan will see se thunderstorms and mixed precipitation. that will be quickly pulling away. we re also talking about yellow sand forecasted northern china. you have heavy amounts. it s going to be quite significant there. the temperatures are shaping up like this. tokyo reaching 22. that s about beginning of summer temperatures. here is our extended forecast.
properties. iilg is a strong travel-related stock. it will help you pay for your summer trip, this which will be more expensive this year. what are you wearing? you re in chicago. i m ready for vacation. i m ready to go on vacation. i need stocks to help send me there. can you do us a favor and give us one more button next time? a little chest hair. we have to leave it there. thanks to everyone. remember, folks, we work hard. we pay our taxes. we pay our bills. we take care of our families. meanwhile, our elected officials from the potomac to portland are cashing in on our hard work. our job here is to shine a bright light, blow the whistle loudly on their wasteful ways because it just has to stop. don t forget to weigh in on all the topics we just discussed on twitter. at eric bolling hash tag cashing in. have a great weekend, everybody. see you next week. i m greg gutfeld look withck the group. she s apotele for pez dispensers. dana perino. she s 5:00 o clock in new york city and whatever. shock pan at ahmadinejab. the same redou car at the time. it s not for a flick, because funeral.k, hugo s. venezuela had 22,000 murders. penn claimsse hugo was a champin of the poor action but if you t mean undertaker, you re probably right. this is an adult moment for america, which is needed in that our president seems to bring out the kid in everyone, including himself. takes sequestration. that was the bunk bed he made. he still blamed others, tping the white house in a tawdry tantrum of baby games. another teenage response, sneaking someone s through a bedroom window.w. here it s been laden s son-in-law who we find out is now in manhattan awaiting a civilian trial. how did that happen? i blame gitmo. this terror sneak and the drones employed as exterminators exist solely to avoid saying that you were wrong about the beauty of gitmo. what is gitmo? gitmo is really just a reminder in this worlddvil and that evil needs a cage when it s caught. so as world leaders kiss the c dead hand of an anti-american tyrant, north korea threatens annihilation and iran gears up for war, it s about time for the teen-agerte in chief to wise up. there is a big world that hatest you and no matter how many apology tours you make or heartfelt videos or how much yoo bow, they still do. so eric, why new york city? cheaper flights than cuba? no idea. this could be one of the biggest mistakes they ve ever made. once he lands here, once you read him his mar randa rights, it s over. he ll get the full benefits of the legal system. no interrogation. it has to be a speedy trial. in gitmo, you keep them there, you can take loty of time to fid out what k he knows and what ele the other baind guys we can fin. the left is saying, look what we did with the underwear bomber. there is a difference here, though. this guyua was caught in jordan and they brought him here. those other two bozos were caught here. they were trying to pull it off here. big difference. he wasn t caught in jordan. he was caught in turkey. the turks said they wouldn tld turn him over to the united states if they sent him to k kuwait. somehow, we gohot on the plane n jordan and got him off. that s a big question. i don t know how that worked out. the other thing is, this guy was not involved int 9-11. not operational for years. this is not somebody to be really scared of. he was there when bin laden s took credit for 9-11. he was in the video of bin laden taking credit for 9-11. but he wasn t involved in 9-11. correct? n they don t believe that he was. oh, oh the research is wrong. they don t believe that he was. that s correct. one ofn t believe he was the top operational guys. as i understand it, they didn t even talk about taking him to gitmo. even though they just redid the whole soccer field. it s beautiful. i guess they think taking anybody there is inconsistent with their stated policy of closing it. right. but if they ve already taken the political hit that it s not going to be closed and they re not closing it, then why not take this person there? because the two examples that they gave were the underwear bomber and the times square bomber. but those two guys were already here inys the united states. this one goes back to what they wanted to do originally, which is bring khalid sheikh mohammed to new york city, which is what they said they weren t going to do. why are they backtracking? this is one of the first things that eric holder did. he pushed for trials in downtown new york city. the public went crazy. he walked itub back. they haven t closed gitmo. just stay with the stated position. this now in the w midst of the drone debate makes people scratch their heads and go, wait a minute. he has more rights, he has the same rights as an american citizen than somebody who they re pursuing that they think is bad with a drone. it makesnk no sense. they re driven by the shadow of gitmo. that s what it is. they can t come up with a consistent response. you mind if i correct you on something? ly. please do. okay. you said that obama was hated around the world. he s not hated around the worldr no, i m saying america is. oh, i see. okay. you ve got to get used to that. correction back. you were for the correction before you were against the correction. actually loved and hate. he s loved by some and hated by others. bob talk to you about the chavez funeral? you were invited. you choseu not to go? no, no. i was on the list, but so were yout and eric. i don t know why you turned it down. i couldn t do it because of my thumb. i was hoping eric would pay fort flights. he s going to do that. he s going to pay off the deficit. he s decide that might friend on twitter. that s true. everybody get hold t of eric. i get heat from all of you. i was actually going to i want you up for 100 bucks. now i guessu i won t. you know how many people are going to hit you up for money? just f remember, it s for the folks. for the children. right. how many times i say that when i m arrested. i still think what s really important, besides chavez is not there, is thishe is a very important moment in latin america for us, for the u.s. to redo some very, very strained relations. it would be good fours. we didn t strain those relationships, bob. no, i understand. i agree with you. i m not going to correct you either. but what i mor saying is that io think that there you got big economies down there. not the least of which is brazil.th and in venezuela is a place. if chavez is gone, who takesla over? the otheran dictator. right. i don t know if the funeral is the appropriate place to go and do the diplomacy because this is the opportunity, last time i checked funerals, to horn and heap praise on him. you look at the guest list, steven morales of bolivia. castro of cuba, daniel ortega of nicaragua. these are the guys that they funded, chavez funded with oil money from venezuela. their ideology is radical. i don t know if they should do it. dictator tots. i love it. here is the thing, he s going to lie in state forever. is that creepy or cool? would you want to lie in state? no, when i m gone, i want to be gone. done. puff of air. you want to be fed to jasper. no.as well. you want to be cremated? you didn t say that. cremated, sure. i ll be cremated. i don t really care. i want to be cremated. who is the dude that embalmed him forever? stalin. lenin. can you imagine how ugly that is? that.don t do why do some countries do that? c it makes no sense. that s how warped it is. that s like the psychological problem that were built up over a generation. i love what you said the other day, why is it these dictator tots who say they re for the poor action they only create more poor? yet the allegiance to them lasts well beyond thei lr lifetime. fear. that s what it t is. the interesting thing is with that guest list read off, the c.i.a. is going to run out of bugs in the hotel rooms down there. i guarantee you there is a lot of covert activity going on. if you were there, eric, they would do y it, too. i m bothered by that. jesse jackson will be there. shouldn t he behe spending more time with his son than a dead guy? there is only visiting hours are limited. oh, there you go. north korea, i want to talk about north korea. the issue is these threats are happening over and over again. we don t seem to take them seriously. is it because we they re not credible? so were laugh? we don t take any threat seriously now adays. it doesn t have to be north korea. they seem to brush everything t off. i think that this guy is a mad man. maybe we don t know as much as we knew about his father. but let s assume the apple doesn t fall far from the tree. we have to take what he says seriously. he s making very serious threats. we can t laugh them off.er another group that shouldn t laugh him off, the chinese. they treat him like a rabid dog in their backyard. this is a big deal. you can t just i mean, look,a he s a nut. but you can t discount him. i think our government takes it pretty seriously, or certaino sector of our government takes it very seriously so that we don t have to, so that we can make fun of him. i said before this guy was supposed to be the better of thg threeed generations. he was educated in the united states, liked basketball, appeared to be somebody more receptive to opening up to western ideas. and by the way, he wouldn t have done this without the chinese okaying it. absolutely. chinese have enabled this guy. they vech enabled north korea fr years. why do they continue to enable him? they don t want them to come here. the japanese are right across the peninsula. they are at risk. they can reach that. they may not be able to reach us with any of their nuclear weapons, but there are certain areas that are very, very friendly to us that they could reach. don t hold it past these guys to do something to one of ourgu allies. do you think dennis rodman made this worse or better? or was it just a coincidence he left and now it s getting even worse? cause and effect. worse. you didn t know rodman was a graduate of california technical institute, did you? he s an engineer, really. a nuclear engineer and he taught this guy how to get a missile to get here. here is my theory. north korea is i greg gutfeld ad perino.is dana north korea is just america is going to kick your no. north korea is pulling america - pig tails. why are they doing this? they re not going to do anything. they just want us to like them. you just want her to like you? they re just irritating us? what can we interpret from thate analogy? none whatsoever. that i have great hair? eric is right here. it s our allies in the pacific rim that are threatened. that s something we really center to take into account. if i m not mistaken, we have a treaty with south korea, right that, we would come it their aid? like 57,000 or 60,000 troops on the border. all right. we got to take a break. i can t wait for this next segment. coming up, has the white house closed its doors to our nation s devastatedrs youth? will eric update his generous offer to keep t tours up ands running? next, stick around around.usic ) why turbo? trust us. it s just better to be in front. the sonata turbo. from hyundai. schwab bank was built with all e value and convenience tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 investors want. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 like no atm fees, worldwide. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 and no nuisance fees. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 plus deposit ches with mobile deposit. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 and manage your cash and investments tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 he he he rocky mountain way . so yesterday askedte the president to reconsider his decision to close down the whits house, i offered the cost to keep it open because i don t want kids to be disappointed. the white house is our house. reached out multiple times to jay carneyac today, but this is what i heard. that s a cricket. the president s closed the white house doors, the american. bob, i would put this out there yesterday. it really, really gained a loty of steam, sean hannity jumped on board. he said he would do the same thing. charles cars, newt gingrich, a lot of people are coming forward saying president obama, open the white house doors. what s this all about? i don t know. i m goingse to put ten bucks ino it. [ laughter ] and before you spend all that money, don t forget my car. okay? listen, it s a dumb end of what i thought was too much of a campaign event and it s you do something like this, and you get kids involved and they can t come to the white house, i can t think of a worst combination to leave yourself as vulnerable as you are. in many ways, whoever thought this up deserves to get hit on it because it doesn t make it. it seems like a little bit of karma for a president who likes to use children in press conferences. now it s backfiring because the children are pretty powerful when it comes to pr tactics. they want to get a tour. what s worse is they should have backed off because now it sw story after story after story.af we learn things like, obama s dog has a handler for over $100,000 her year? what? i think he does more than handle the dog. what else do you think he does? reached out to the press office. i spoke to the assistant. i e-mailed both of them. i called both of them and jayi carney. did they say who is eric bolling? i ve never heard of him. here is my question, do you think they don t know that that offer has been extended, especially since sean hannityse said he would do a week off? as petty political maneuvers go, they can be matched hand foy hand. i think if i were them, i would not i think they were smart not to respond.re if i am them, but i do think that the press office was probably never consulted abouton the decision to close the white house tours.de or if they were, and they didn t block it, then they deserve to lay in a bunk bed that they you think they were going to say, yes, mr. boling, you ve been such a strong supporter of ours? i don t have the kind of wealth to display on tv. but i am willing to offer summer tours of my apartment, only to college age students and they would noert disappear like last year, i swear. bill hemmer, he s telling me he s joining in. he s offering to buy margaritas. sounds like you re defending obama. can we roll the tape of a few of the kids, the last few that got white house tours. listen. i just walked in there and i never felt like so much magnificence. it s like thene red carpet. i was like, i could be walking here sunday.ng i feel pretty lucky cause it s the last tour and i really wanted to see the white house and i got to do that. i thought it was definitely worth it to come on the tour. but it s kind of at a disadvantage for people ho can t. you guys can make fun of it, but i think it s bad. b we re not make fun of it. it s a black eye to america shutlaesident obama has the white house down. no, i don t think you re wrong of the i think everybody is agreeing that they made a terrible decision and they immediatelysaid like, okay. wait, let s stop the bleeding. but now they re basically, like, in the e.r. room. we didn t say it was a good idea. it was a badwe idea. now, if you work in the white house, i didn t like the tours coming through cause you couldi never get one side of the house to the other without having to run against all these kids. you made your offer, eric, and then sean hannity jumped on board, it made it worse. it fed the story for another f news cycle. again, more reason for them to back off. but you and io talk about this all the time, whether it was the bp oilll spill, whether it s the huge public affairs or public relations nightmares, they seem to just let it go and let it go and let it go and they have no idea that it s blown up. i think it s cause the media gives them a free ride about everything, so they never really think about it until they absolutely have to, case in point with giving an award to the woman who was anti-semitic. they let it go until somebody caught on because the main stream media didn t n but they were smart enough to back off. right. they said we re not going to give her theba award. let s not all dump on him because of this. this is a bad idea. but bob he has gotten a lot of play on this and he got reelected. you know why we re dumping on him? because he has chosen not to manage the o sequester. he could and he has said, i will not do it. that s the problem. how can the army s tuition assistance program, suspended because of this. that affects 200,000 soldiers. that s pretty brutal. it just feels like it st arbitrary punishment. it s got to be a great time to h be a criminal because you could do something horrible andal they re going to blame it on sequestration. look at this, $1.4 billion, the obama family has cost the american taxpayer over the years. t meanwhile, do we have that? all right. anyway, so it s $1.4 billion. here is my point, choices. decisions. there are plenty of decisions and choices to be made. how about cutting back on some of the other things that couldha cut back on? why don t we look at the last five presidents and see he doesn t do anything too much different. did anyone close the white d house? no, you re talking about theo cost of them flying to colorado. that s the last five presidents didn t lecture us about all getting skin in the game, bob. maybe he s running out of mojo, but the fact is, he s beat everybody at this game and he s done a very good job and so far, this year, he has slowed down on his game. but i think he s going to be fine. eric, do you have a good accountant? 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[ male announcer ] volkswagen springtoberfest is here and there s no better time to get a passat. that s the power of german engineering. right now lease one of four volkswagen models for under $200 a month. visit vwdealer.com today. good-bye ruby tuesday who could hang a name on you when you change with every new day then i m going to miss you the view is changing in new york city. that s right. chat show host jay behar announced after 16 years, it s time for her to mouth off somewhere else. she told deadline.com she wants to do a, quote, intelligent talk show ino the future. say it isn t so. robert, i know you re so upset a about this. you ve been crying. clayton: we went on the air. i barely were able to pull myself b in here today as a rest of this. by the way, an intelligent i punched the wall. an intelligent talk show for hel is what they really do call an oxymoron. look, she s liberal. i like that. most are on that show. by and large, when you start to get into details and politics. some people think you re joy behar without the wig. i know, i ve heard that before. heard that.where i that s a compliment. she also had some words for the five, specifically greg gutfeld. greg, i don t know if you re a fan f of the view, but it looe like joy has been watching you. why do they have to be so nasty to us. there is the guy, what s his name? t greg gutfeld on fox. his quote was, it s better for o to talk to foreign policy rather than those biddies on the view. i got a biddy for you, mac. come see me. oooo. i want to say it. what s wrong with biddies? first chavez, now behar. she suffers from something called liberal blind spot syndrome. when you re around people who agree with you constantly, youe tend to say really stupid things because no one is saying shut up. t so maybe she ll find new friends. i thought she took a bit of a slap at her co-hosts and the show iner general that has employed her for 17 years. she said i want to do an intelligent show and talk about things? i think it could be read that way. but i doubt that s how she read it. 17 years. she has been on the show for 17 years. that s a generation. she s one of the only original members of the show. eric? i m just pointing out that on the way over here, us weekly is reporting that elizabeth hasselbeck is leaving as well. her contract is up. is it? coming up, it is up. who is left? it s going to be i actually joy behar was funny. she was funny, if you ve ever seen behar, she was good. g but in the last couple of years, she s been too partisan, too bitter for the morning. i ll tell you, it s a sad day for america. it s like when mickey dolenz left the beatles. speaking of bitter, chris matthews, yes, another favorite here, he has some words for republicans. take a listen. i look at obama as the perfect american. the guy went to school, neverca broke a law. he s a good husband, a good father. my god, i don t think he s ever got a speeding ticket. he does everything right.. and these right wings and he s been h moderate on guns until te horror of newtown and i don t know what they re so afraid of him for except he happens to be black. had to play the race card, greg. why does he always have to go there? by the way, there is no such thing as a perfect american. i love chris matthews. he s what you call the bozo baseline of theer so you can measure all idiocy against the standard measurement. he s kind of like a kelvin for crazies. i kind of feel bad for him. he seems like a nice chap.im well, i don t know if he is. i don t know, maybe he is nice. i think he s lost it. let me put some truth in telling he s a friend of mine and i ve always enjoyed chris and he does have a good deal of political knowledge and background. you may not like hisl politics, he was with speaker o neill for a number of years. he was a speech writer. he s a guy who understands politic. why all the insults? why all the insults? because he hates republicans. how is that a good thing? you just said it s a goodai political analyst, but he hates republicans. i said he was a goodo, politician. but he s a terriblent journalist then because he s completely biased.ur he has no two sides. president obama is really? hold on. president obama is a perfect american?a the guy who never held a job that wasn t paid for by any taxpayer or some form of tax largeees, a guy who called himself lazy? that s a perfect american? are you showing your bias b here? you re an impartial source to go to on this subject. i don t think anyone looks at chris matthews to be fair and balanced, though. no one looks at him for fair and balanced news, chris matthews. he s an opinion guy. my issue is why go back to the race card? president obama has been reelected and elected. can we move past this? why do they always play the race card? it works. a couple years ago, i went to one of thepl many opportunities that the press give o themselves to give themselves awards in washington, d.c he was thees keynote speaker. he started off the whole speech about how important it was to return civility to political discourse. i snickered in the background. my husband did the cough bs thing. and i kicked him under the table hard as well. i always remember that when i hear that about how you might be a good guy, but i think that if you re going to be the guy on tv i wish he would just be the same person and then not lecture people about political discourse and polec duringed people lectured people on political discourse. he was calling everybody to return to a time of civility. and president obama has lectured that same type of thing, yet he has divide the country. so he s not aat perfect america. there is no such thing as a perfect american. as much as iabhor, i have to say i think some of this on the race card chris believes. and that s something that comes out. i mean, it is what it is. he believes there are elements of the republican party that are racist and they re out to get obama. so is he racist when he goes up against republicans like tim scott? what s that about? or how about when he goes after women?ut is that sex holy spirit they do that against republican women? no one plays those cards on theol other side. nobody does on the other side? i don t hear the right standing up using the race cardi using the sex card. how about calling what s hero name a slut? and they say some of the mos> horrific things. what s her name? what s her name? i don t remember. yeah. he apologized. we know you who mean. that wasn t right and you know what? that wasn t right either. how about that. ahead, a red light cameras really about public safety? or are they just a sneaky way for the government to make money is iyt that debate ahead on the five ahead on the five. 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[ voice of dennis ] indeed. are you in good hands? live from america s news headquarters. i m arthel neville. road crews in cleveland closing a major interstate after this dump truck slamd into a pedestrian bridge this morning. police say the truck was traveling with the trailer raised when it hit, causing it to flip over. officials say the bridge s pillars were seriously damaged and will likely be torn down. amazingly, no injuries reported. and don t forget you re losing an hour of sleep tonight. yes, we re springing forward. it s daylight saving time. make sure to turn the clock ahead tonight. officially happening at 2:00 a.m. your time. wherever you are, you ll lose an hour of sleep, but gain an extra hour of evening sunlight. it s also a good time to put new batteries in the smoke detectors. i m arthel neville. join me at the top of the hour back for more news. now back to the five. log on for all the latest headlines, fox news channel. most powerful name in news. welcome back to the five. red light and speed cameras, what s the upside and the down side? bob has a theory. on one hand, some cities say they improve safety. but others think it s a scam to entrap people so people can fill their revenues. a judge stopped them in one town outside cincinnati just yesterday. in six months, 1.5 million fines were elected in a place in ohio of 2100 people. so pretty much everybody must have gotten a ticket and paid it, bob. first of all, congratulations to this judge. whoever came up with this ideara of putting these things in, it is as close to farbism as you can get. you drive by these things, first of all, they sun you a thing in the mail saying, you owe us 140 bucks, and they show a picture of your car. it s very nice. you say technology is good. they don t know if you re driving the car. how do they know you didn t loao your car to your neighbor? bob, they send a picture of with you a woman and say, you owe $1,000. well, yeah. i don t like the idea. i don t like cameras in my business at all, particularly in my business at night. but it is all about collecting revenuele for towns because they don t can t figure out another way to do it. it s ridiculous! i used to get tickets on thee on ramp to get on i-95. s when getting on the highway, that s y when you have to accelerate, so that you can be safe when you get on the highway. but you aren t supposed to be in a big wheel. i have a little barbie jeep. chicago, your hometown, somebody else s hometown, a lotc of corruption there.ju just about a couple weeks ago,e they found out that this australian company has a lot of the cameras, they get 40% of the tickets that they send out. what happens iswh somebody likee pays a ticket right away. but other people don t pay them. in order t to make up that revenue, instead of waiting forf them to go to court, then out more ticket. you can basically do it on every corner, raise the number of tickets. here is thee problem, though. it s not for me, i m for these. you are? yeah. look, you want to break the law you rere mr. camera. you pay. you want to play, you have to pay. i ve gotten nailed by so many of these cameras. do you just pay right away. you pay right away.ri they got my license plate. who cares? by the way, i have to pay for my wife anyway. in it s not my wife, then i m ii more trouble than a speedingha ticket. but i s think that they do, they reduce crime. i think twice before i speed on the street. all of my research today, i saw a lot of cities do things that helped safety. however, some people think that it s caused more accidents because rear-end collisions. absolutely. have you gotten one? yes. you don t drive, greg. yeah. years ago, oddly enough issues when i was dressed as santa claus doing a segment on going to santa school and the photo of me was in a santa claus outfit. [ laughter ] not an elf? no, not an eltf, you crazy little person. this is taxation disguised as safety. red light camee are is a cama is a democratic drone. a new way to pick your pocket. it s not, because if you don t break the law, they don t tax you. a lot of these people aren t breaking the law. also, the point of they don t know that you actually were the one in the car. what if your neighbor borrowed the car? it ous true. i hate thesero cameras. but i actually, i agree with you on this one, they only take your picture if you re violating the law. they re not taking your picture, bob, if you re doing something something chair dancing, like i do. they do not take a picture of that. although they are annoying. you ve never danced in your d car while you drive? no.n okay. that s one thing you president-elect obama haven t done in your car. can you get the picture of gutfeld in this santa claus? first of all, the problem with? that, is no kid can sit on your lap without n crushing you. it was the worst experience in my lifement by the way, i got ticketed for, i was on the turnpike leaving a mall in philadelphia. and i made a u the other way to go back and they took a picture. you can t do that. yeah. the other thing is that one of the accusations is that some of these o cities have shortened the yellow light. absolutely. so that they can catch more people either running the red light. r that, i don t like because then theryng really are nickel l diming you into complete i submission. but i do think there are safety benefits. like they get me to drive slower for sure. they cause people to leave certain neighborhoods when they know they re there. people won t frequent the stores. so it has ane unintended hurting theof economy in that area. they get those cameras and they lower the speed. they ll drop it down to 30 to catch more people. i m telling you. stop break the law. have you seen the cameras on the street?ou bob, have you seen the cameras out here on the streets in new york city. i know. you re usually doing something wrong. no, no. only in any apartment. the guy in chicago, the person who got busted for accepting some bribes, basically he was going to get a kickback for putting more and more ofbe these cameras all around the city. they stopped that. cnd a lot of cities are deciding this is just not the way for them to go. chicago has done a lot of things wrong. that 40% number came up with some of the parking meters, some of the parking lots. they re giving away 40%. that s all kickback stuff. that s some of the most expensive parking in america. do you remember the time when they had that no turn on right? yeah. in washington, d.c. that happened and mayor for life. marion barry. turns out that i can t figure out why all these streets in the middle of nowhere, you can make a right. turnsig out his brother-in-laws owns a company that made the signs. isn t that convenient? a little politics there, you know. bob is on the side of all of thaws are break the law. coming up, don t forget, time to spring forward this sunday andor move those clocks ahead an hour. bob beckel has a history lessonh on that when we come back [ woman ] we had two tiny reasons to get our adt security system. and one really big reason the house next door. our neighbor s house was broken into. luckily, her family wasn t there, but what if this happened here? what if our girls were home? and since we can t monitor everything 24/7, we got someone who could. adt. 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[ laughter ] it s lighter later. that s great. so next week we ll have light l background the whole show.le does anybody know why they went to daylight savings time? e isn t it harvest? yeah. it s about harvest. and benjamin franklin floatel the idea saying people would be more productive if they hadre light later on. they could get their equipment, like greg gets on his combine and gets out there. you know the worst thinges about this? when you re at a bar at 1:00 a.m. and it goes immediately to 2 a.m you are screwed. i don t think they turn theu clock forward enough.on i think they should do an entire 24 hour forward so like when it s monday, it s actually sunday. and when it s sunday, it s actually saturday. and when it s saturday, it s actually friday. and when it s s friday wure get the idea. why are you going backwards? no, you spring forward, you backwards. don t understand? you go forward aren hour, but you re an hour earlier. no, i don t get it. you are nuts. do you like i lovend this? why? because i like when it s lighter out and i don t even care if it s not the first day of spring. for me it s spring when it s daylight saving when you spring forward. love is in the air action it s springtime. they moved it up in 2005, didn t they move this up a month? yeah. lower electricity costs, although they said it was nominal because since it s dark in the morning, you re turning on lights.se it used to be it was in april, right? right. they moved it up three weeks. i guess people are really happy about it. i don t know. if you re a kid that gets up for school, that s early. you reor going to be driving in dark whatever. right? eric? that s my problem. i m amazed you re getting five minutes out of daylight savings. actually i m affected by darkness. winter, i m always depressed. once it happens, i m so happy. i don t mind in the winter, i kind of don t mind because then i have a good excuse for how early i go to bed. what is that called? sars? seasonal not what you re thinking. sad, seasonal? affective. i have it? you have it, too? i do. i m happier in the spring and summer. the only thing i remember about it, when i got up at 6:00 o clock ino the afternoon, it ws still light g for three hours. that was kind f of strange. then you can get all your chores done. yeah. hit the liquor store. get to the video store. and down to my dealer. renting bambi. of course. there is a great movie about that. one more thing is up next. we did do that for one segment. thank you. sometimes life can be well, a little uncomfortable. but when it s he bathroom, there s dulcolax stool softener. dulcolax stool softener doesn t make you go, it just makes it easier to go. dulcolax stool softener. make yourself comfortable. morning, boys. so, i m working on a cistern intake valve and the guy hands me a locknut wrench. no way! i m like, what is this, a drainpipe slipknot? wherever your business takes you, nobody keeps you on the road like progressive commercial auto. [ flo speaking japanese ] [ shouting in japanese ] we work wherever you work. now, that s progressive. call or click today. still talking about daylight savings time. that electrifying. one more thing. t it over with firstit with dana. okay. i m glad you came to me first. i appreciate that. i was gone the last couple of days. one of the things i got to do. was go to houston. i saw president bush 41 and mrs. barbara bush. both doing very well. ander so that was very special. then i got to go to the houston rodeo. and io got to see dierks bentle, my favorite country music star, and his guitar player, brian lacen, and he later tweetedd something i wanted to read to you, especially for bob. we have that tweetpe up. i think it is coming. here it is! cool meeting dana perino at our show. please extend my fandom to the rest of the five crew. yes, even bob. with a miley face. thank you very much. he says that a lot. even bob. isn t it troubling when adult men end messages with smiley faces? no, because he directed it to me. you could w learn. a i think it s the emask laying of society and makes me sick. you know ahe lot about the emask laying of society. andrea? jimmy kimmel wednesday night, who i just love, had a little fun with a segment he does called lie witness news and sent one of his reporters out on thet street to ask folks what they think about the new pope. take a listen. what new pope?. what do you think about the new pope? i think the new pope is amazing. from new t york.az where were you when you found out about him? actually i was on facebook.as one of my church friends. did you see the interview with the pope s ex-wife? yeah. what did you think of that? well, she was hilarious. what s his name? the new pope. pope, the new pope. all right. him, what do you think about the fact that he s jewish? very, verye funny stuff. they stole my joke! there is no new pope. a some people thought i was serious about having a muslim pope. they re going to what do they call it? conclave. they re going in next week. tuesday, right? yeah. that will be rivetting television. you look for the white smoke or the black smoke.ck i know a lot about this stuff.ut i do like the new pope myself. stop it.g: bob, you re up next. i well, i m going to cng
her mother s folks are from virginia and probably her father s as well. john converts to quakerism and they go off and live in north carolina in a quaker community. as far as we know dolley was born there so she is north carolina s only first lady. what is sad about that she spends most of her life denying it. we think it has to do with her father s shady business practices and they move back to virginia. so she s raised in the world of slave holding. her father released his slaves as a quaker. is that the cause of his inability to continue his business? i think he had other problems besides that. he couldn t farm so they moved to that chilly northern city of philadelphia. i m not sure if you know so much about her thoughts of slavery. how is it that she reconciled herself to actually having slaves in the white house? i think that s a good question. i m not sure i know the answer to that. but she did not free any of her slaves as her father had. and she didn t speak out against slavery so the quaker background there did not effect her slave holding. this is why historians have a hard job. it s a real dichotomy. her father frees slaves and go to philadelphia. for ten years things are terrible for the pains in philadelphia. children die. her mother has to open up a boarding house. she s pushed into marrying john todd. she has two children, one of them dies. then she s this beautiful 25- year-old widow. and you could argue she could have had her pick of any man but she picks james madison. turns out to be a great pick. but why does she do that? it s one of those moments she said i could go back to the world i lived in but we don t have anything from her at the. what we do know is by the time she s a woman in middle age and old she has exactly the same kind of attitude toward enslaved americans that southerners had which is the inability to understand them as humans. when james madison dies and doesn t free slaves, everyone begins to blame dolley. part of that is fine because she starts selling slaves as soon as she can. what about her quaker roots affected the kind of woman she became if this aspect did not i think we re back to the empathy thing. the peacemaking. the idea you don t make war. do we know if she counseled her husband against going to war since quakers don t believe in fighting wars. we don t know. if you read her letters she s as partisan as anybody. she has the white house defensiveness. i think she probably supported him 100% in what he decided to do but her own nature was always to conciliate. how did dolley feel about women s education? what we know about her was she was a very well educated woman for her day, any class. we re not sure how she got there because she was a southerner and southerners did not educate their girls. we know from her handwriting that she was very well educated. she never had a daughter so we don t know what she would have done but i m sure she would have given her daughter a good education. the quakers believed in educating women as well as men so she benefited from that. she takes that background with her into the first ladies role. what qualities did she see in james madison when he was so much her opposite? well, i think on sits attract many times. i think she was very impressed with his intellect understand private he was thought to be very amusing and very entertaining. and so i think that s the side of him that she saw while they were courting. and it s interesting that aaron burr provided the link between the two. you get the sense of these people who were part of the american cannon were a small community. it s a small world. and james madison fell in love with her and was very romantic. he was in his mid 40 s and had never married which was odd. marriage is a very pragmatic business in this age and love isn t necessarily part of it. so dolley s approach to the marriage was pragmatic. he would be a protector of her son. as the marriage went on she fell deeply in love with james. marriage was a pragmatic business and she had a son to protect and property to be managed. and someone who would do that honestly and well. and had a reputation for running his own family plantation in virginia. rick is up next in kansas. hello. good evening. you ladies are good. thanks, rick. two questions if you would. first, did ms. madison travel abroad, if , so when and who did she visit? and among modern time first ladies who might she compare with? did dolley madison travel abroad? i don t think she ever travel add broad. diplomats were amazed by that because she was so converse nt and she was a diplomatic wife so they did marvel that she had that quality. and how did she get her knowledge of french fashions for example? if you were dolley madison, you could not go anywhere whether it was a city in america or france without having to shop for her. also very early on she became the patriot jay of the french minister s wife and she schooled her as well. she hired a master of ceremonies in the white house who was french and familiar with all of the diplomatic niceties shall we say so that he would explain to her what kind of food was served and what the french taste was and what french qui sin was about so she had a number of people who helped school her in this type of thing. the white house staff is large d all of this come from the money that they were paid or from their personal wealth, all these extra staff and advisors that you talk about? probably most of them did. for instance, one of the things she hired as they called him french john away from the minister from great britain which was a huge slap tofment hire somebody away from somebody else s household particularly when that person was in the diplomatic community was an insult on the one hand or a great coo on the other. and she was able to do that. a lot of resources went to creating the out fits. she got the bills and she was like don t tell my husband. between buying the stuff and paying the duties on it, it was quite a lot. i wanted to ask you about the maryland component of this fleeing of the white house during the war. my understanding is that there is a house in brookville maryland that is called white house for a day and my understanding is that madison arrived at that house and conducted business from there and i wondered whether dolley madison was part of that or whether there was some kind of a transition from virginia to maryland? i do not know the answer to that question. that gives us another stop in this. stump the panel. another place to check out, the white house for a day you tell us about. i was going to go back and answer or give my opinion about the second part of the question was who would she compare to in the present. and i would say jacqueline kennedy. i think she looked at imagining her husband s administration and recreating the white house for the stage for diplomacy through her renovation of the white house in the same way dolley looked at the white house as a stage and imagined her husband s presidency. so i see a lot of comparable activity and things that she was trying to achieve as was jacqueline kennedy. and jacqueline kennedy referenced dolley. she was a fan and definitely referenced her in the re dog of the white house. and she had to love the french furniture. with regard to the renovation of the white house, if you go to the white house today, can you see evidence of the torching by the british? there are places in the basement where you can see burned timbers. i know when they did the restoration of the white house, they found a lot of charred wood and charred bricks and so forth that were taken out and saved as remnants from the fire. we re showing some pictures of some of the charring right now. you can see it on the trim of the balcony too. laura bush told me president bush showed the prime minister. how complete it was destruction? pretty complete inside. how long did it take to rebuild it? the mad sons didn t move back in. it wasn t until the monroe s administration that they were able to move back in the white house so i would say a couple of years. about 18 minutes and it s time to move. a complex part of our history and long life to the retirement after the madison administration. james and dolley return to their beloved montpelier in virginia and we re going to visit that place next. if you were a visitor you would enter here and be shown into the madison s great drawing room. mrs. madison had many lady friends she would invite here. the daughters of thomas jefferson were also frequent visitors. her most intimate circle included her families, her sisters especially were always welcome guests as well as many nieces she had who often stayed for extended visits here. the drawing room combined many different themes into one. you see many of the faces of the great american statesman, but you see figures of classical antiquity. you have a reproduction of the declaration of independence. have you a miniature of homer, the writer of the great epics of grease. then you have a painting of pan and youths. this was 200 years old when they purchased it. in the way of blending the classical and american they were trying to place the events in world history. this is a room where all the guests would assemble before dinner and have a chance to meet one another and converse socially and casually and then they might be invited to dine in the dining room. after supper the ladies would adjourn back into the drawing room and maybe play a game and be served coffee and tea. this was a social center of the house. if you were a part of the intimate circle of friend you would be invited into the dining room from the drawing room. here dolley madison in an unusual setting for the period would is it at the head of the table and her husband would is it at the middle of the table. dolley would direct the conversation and james could engage in conversation with the people to his right or left. this table today is set for eight people but there could be as many people as 20 served in the dining room. that would not be unusual. she considered dining here to be more relaxing than entertaining in washington. she was less worried serving 100 people here than 20 in washington. many important figures would be seated with them. thomas jefferson was frequently here. james monroe was here. henry clay. margaret smith. once while mrs. madison was serving at the head of the table the vice president offered to do the honors for her and she responded oh no, watch with what ease i do it. and he had to admit she did it with unparalleled ease. and looking at their life when they returned there, how was it compared to when they lived in the white house? i think they were besieged by people who wanted to associate themselves with the mad sons. many visitors in addition to political visitors in addition to family and friend. sort of like the washingtons and the jeffersons. everybody wanted to meet the great percentages. so they had people in the house with them. not only relatives but many political visitors as well. she was devoted to him and getting his papers together in that role. was she happy doing that? yes, that the point she loved her husband very much. that is where he wanted to stay and so she stayed as well. the descriptions of her at this time weren t the same. she s described as content, adam and eve in paradise. she definitely missed washington. she would write and say tell me all the news and she would complain a little bit i haven t been out. keep me up to date and let me know what is happening. for her own self-she probably would have wanted to go back to washington for a visit but james madison was going to stay put. she was 49 years old when she left the white house. he was 17 years her senior. she worked to involve him when he was in the last days of his final illness. before we talk about her years back in washington because she lived until the age of 81 and was very much involved in the august. i have a couple of comments about dolley madison s clothing and fashion and then i have a question. i used to be a dozen at the north carolina historical museum and we happen to have some of her belongings which includes the original of that red velvet dress we saw. also we own a pink silk dress she wore while she was first lady. and what was interesting about that piece of clothing was when we had it conserved by the people of williamsburg virginia. they found that the tiny but tons on the front of the dress were filled with dried peas. so that s what her dress maker did for her with french fashion also as she grew older and her hair became very very thin, she did have some real human hair curls sewed into her turbins and put that on in the morning with her curls showing and she looked younger she thought. the way the greensboro historical museum came into possession of these wonderful items including beautiful silk shoes and carved ivory calling cases is they received it from some folks who brought a trunk at auction that was sort of a hidden treasure. and i want to know what these ladies know about the finding of that trunk that was hidden behind a wall. and i want to say it was in philadelphia. but i want to know how the person that had that hidden behind the wall got those very important things and had them? i ll answer quickly because i want to say this is happening in the 1950 s and 1960 s so not that long ago. the story of ladies historical society found and financed this deserves a television program of its own. they raised money one chicken dinner at a time paid the sum of $25,000 to get this stuff. is that close to where she was born s. that where the connection was? the ladies felt like she was north carolina s only born first lady. you can go there now and see part of that. dolley madison returns to washington after the death of her beloved james. how does she spend her years here? she become it is grand am of washington society once again. because people know about her poverty but don t want to confront her with it, people in the white house, the tylers invite her to come to dinner on many occasions. the younger first ladies always ask her advice on entertaining and handling large crowd of people. so she becomes sort of an ex- first lady advisor. and that s how she happened to do the match making between angel casington and van buren the son. she s in the mix again and very much a behind the scenes player again. this is not a tragic ending. she manages to live a well known involved life. i think it was lonely without james. eventually she sold. you remember this is her town. she worked for 16 years to build this town and the president s mansion as a symbol. it was under her tenure that the president s mansion got a nickname the white house. she can be credited with the nationalism around the end of the war of 1812. when she comes back to washington it is like the past came to light. she wore many of the same clothes. she was poor. but of coursed the this expect of making her seem like a relic from an rare was that her real name? it was indeed. though again her niece tried to perpetuate this idea that she was named dorothy. but she was dolley and trying to figure out why her family tried back to the scandalous rumors about her sex al fair with thomas jefferson and they thought that was too common a name for her but she was dolley and her birth is recorded that way. with or without the e. you see it spelled sometimes without. that s advertising. now the icon. john is in pennsylvania. yes i was wondering if dolley madison s first husband john todd was related to abraham lincoln s wife mayor todd. i have no idea. i m going to say what is important about that is marry todd brooded that about. when mary todd comes to down decade later and dolley madison set the example. mary todd tries to ride on her coat tails. but she does not have dolley s sense of tone. she s tone death when it comes to that. is it true dolley s son from her first marriage gambled away much of her money? that and drinking. that will do it. yes. did he continue his relationship with his mother in later years? no she did not. your question about dolley madison? i m questioning what s the relationship between ms. madison and ms. polk and harrison. and harrison. i think the polks became friend. people wanted to associate themselves with dolley after she came back to the capitol city and it was cash shea by association so the polks often invited her to dine with them and take part in parties and so forth in the we should tell people about congress awarding her a seat. i call this her iconic phase when she becomes a symbol. she s awarded a seat on the floor of congress with escorts. she s the only woman to do it and for a woman to do it. there is a lot of attention being paid to her and she starts to become a symbol even as she s living. did she avail herself in the debates 234 congress? one of the things she did for other women is that she would go to the debates and go and watch the supreme court argue and that allowed other women to do that as well. that was a way of bringing the women into a knowledge of what was going on politically so while they were part of this social network that she was setting up in washington, they could also be part of the political networks as well. she would get the women together and they would go up to capitol hill. she called them dove parties. debbie on facebook didn t paul jennings give her money at the end of her life when she was so poor? money and groceries, yes. you spoke about how she was writing a letter to her sister in the midst of evacuating the white house. how did it get posted or did she hold on to it? we only have this letter in her fair hand. so in 1830 s when she s thinking about her legacy. she wants stuff from dolley madison. she s caution. and she mentioned this letter, we don t have the original. we have a caller: which margaret smith reproduces. there is an art cal that suggest that dolley may have at heard the for his sake. that s a good pr move. pam, you re our last caller. i wanted to ask whether dolley madison had any kind of relationship with james monroe s wife who i know travelled in europe and i believe was born in england and whether she had any grandchildren through her son? thank you very much. that helps us set the stage for a future conversation d. they have a relationship? not terribly much new york city. they knew each other as plantation owners in the same area but they were not friendly and there were no children. we would say no legitimate issue as they would say. as we close here, here is a quote from dolley madison, we all have a hand in the formation of our own destiny. we must press on that intricate path leading to perfection and happiness by doing all that is good and hand some before we can be taken under the silver wing of that angel. she s important for several reasons which she does set the role of first lady. for historians we look at her and she let s us know the role of aristocracy in this great democracy, why does this matter? and i think for dolley madison what she s offered us a model of governance that stresses civility and empathy. she s modeling this for us. she s not going to win. we need examples and role models and her way of conducting politics, stressing building bridges and not bunkers is a model we can use for the future. important she s very as katherine says for bringing those models but also for bringing women into the political mix at a very early time period. and her conciliation or her abilities to bring people together. wouldn t it be nice if we had her back in washington now. we only skimmed the surface in 90 minutes of 81 entering years of life. if you want to learn more. i thank the white house historical association for their help in this series. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] next monday night first lady elizabeth monroe was more private than dolley madison. she refused to continue the tradition of making social calls around the city. she spoke french inside the white house and gained a reputation of being queenly by her critics. and louisa katherine adams was the only first lady born outside the u.s. next monday live at 9:00 p.m. eastern on c-span and c-span 3, also on c-span radio and cspan.org. and our website has more about the first ladies including a welcome to the white house. the association is offing the book first ladies of the united states of america. and thoughts from michelle obama on the role of first ladies throughout history now available for the discounted price of $12.95 plus shipping at cspan.org/products. senator carl levin announced last week that he will not seek reelection. today the majority leader harry reid spoke about the michigan democrat who chairs the senate armed services committee. shutdown to derail its progress. mr. president, for some public servants, the political fires lit by their first trip to washington, whereby being moved bay memorable party convention speech. for others, the history of military service leads to a career in public service. for still others, a single issue such as a vibrant community propels them into community. for senator carl levin, serving michigan families is something a family business. his father worked as a corrections commissioner. his uncle theodore was chief judge for the district court in the eastern district of michigan for many, many years. i was elected to congress in 1982, the same year that senator levin s brother, sander, was elected to the house of representatives. he has been ranking member of the house ways and means committee. he s a distinguished member of the house of represeatives, having served that body for going on 31 years. mr. president, the first time i met carl levin was over here when i was in the house, going to run for the senate. we met in his office and the first thing he said as i came to washington a few years ago, he said, he s my brother but also my best friend. mr. president, how about that? that s something i have never ever forgoen. these two brothers, nativesf detroit, have done much for the state of michigan. carl levin is truly an outstanding senator and even a better man. the senior senator from michigan is the longest-serving senator in its state s history. he dedicated his life to michigan families before elected to the senate. he served as general counsel to the civil rights commission and assistt attorney general to the state commission. he served two terms in the detroit city counsel, one as president of the city cowan sefplt as a senator, senator levin consistently advocated for michigan families, whether that meant supporting the auto industry, protecting lake michigan, holding credit card companies accountable or securing funding for our sons and daughters serving in the military. as chairman of the armed services committee, carl levin is the nation s most respected voice on national security and the most powerful advocate for men and women of the united states armed forces. as chairman of the permanent senate committee on investigations, he sought the truth on behalf of american families time and time again. he s led investigations for the 2008 financial crisis, abusive credit practices and abusive credit card practices and a long extensive, extremely enlightening bit of work on the enron collapse. his dedication to the senate, is matched only by his dedication to his own family. he and his lovely wife barbara have been married for more than 50 years. they have three daughters and six grandchildren. i m confident carl is looking to spending more time with these grandchildren, taking long walks through his his and sandy s tree farm. it s a wonderful place they go. they don t harvestnything. it s just a bunch of trees. and they love that tree farm. i so admire senator levin. clearly when he retires in two years, the united states senate will lose his powerful voice for military families and investigating things that need to be investigated by this body. michigan is a much better place because of carl levin. our country, the united states, is a much representative coming up, a conversation on women in politics. the transportation policy conference looks at funding priorities. later, a consumer protection summit hosted by the justice department. george washington enjoyed a long relationship in alexandria. and the time alexandra was founded in 1749 when he was 17, until he died at age of 67. he participated in the political life of the city. he was the trustee of alexandria and he was a justice of the piece of fairfax county. he represented alexandria in the virginia legislature. even when he was president, he made sure that when they chose this area to be the new site of the nation s capital that alexander was included in the original district of columbia. we are in the ballroom of gas bees tavern. george washington love to dance. that had balls here for george washington in 1798 and 799. he died in 1799. they did not have one in 1800 because that was to close to his death. today, alexander is main state is named after george washington. alexandrian like to say that this is george washington s home town. next weekend, more from alexandria. we look behind-the-scenes on book tv and sunday at 5:00 on american history tv, on c-span3. now, a conference on women in politics from southern methodist university in dallas. they explored the landscape for women as candidates for elective offices in state and federal races. this is an hour and 35 minutes. [applause] thanks so much for having me today. the weather in d.c. i thought i was getting a break. morning. this weekend i was looking on the internet. i got a much better title. ask not what you can do for women but what women can do for you. eight years ago i found myself sitting next to the mayor of salt lake city. he was a nice guy. we started to talk about what to do for living. i told him i work to encourage young women and girls to run for political office. he said, why? in my world the question of why we need more women is not a question. they just ask how do we get more women there. he said i have two daughters. i have a wife. i have a mother. i know what women need. what can women do in office that i cannot do? it was an interesting question. he had no idea what it can of worms he was opening. i really believe that no matter how well intentioned a man in office is his decisions will never be as strong as if he had men and women legislating together. i am happy to say in the years since i started doing this work the world has really come around to this idea. the idea that we need to add women to leadership not because it is there are the right thing to do but because adding more women to leadership is going to make stronger decisions in a better world for all of us. when i talk to groups, the best news comes from the business world. there are two studies that came out a few years ago. i think there are really relevant and exciting. i m going to read this you do not miss the new ones. what they thought was that fortune 500 companies with three or more women on the board gain a significant performance advantage over those with the fewest. there were 73% return on sales, 83 serve on equity and 112% of invested capital. add women, make more money. the companies with the highs a lot of women showed the best performance. this research has been taken so seriously that when i was in belgium speaking to the people on the european parliament i learned about how they are talking about having 400 women on every corporate board. it is huge. this is something that could change the way business was done. would this also hold true for politics? of course it would hold true for politics. adding women to corporate boards, it is that that women have some magic money-making ability. it is that they add diversity in diversity is the key. i want to reduce and think again. there was a recurrence that said research is demonstrated groups with greater diversity to and to perform better than homogeneous went even if the homogeneous groups are more capable. think about that. that is fascinating. when people say we cannot have coaches because you do not get the best women, at this report says if you have a diversity that well outperform even people who are smarter and more capable on paper. diversity absolutely matters if you want to get the best results. i speak to a lot of groups of very young women. i ask what do you think, do you have diversity of politics. i am telling you. they all say yes. of course we do. we have hillary clinton. she ran for president. she is secretary of state. we see her every day. the have sarah palin that was all over the place. michele bachmann. these are big names. we have nancy pelosi running the house. we have record gains in the senate this year. everyone is talking about how this is such an exciting collection. now we have 20 senators. we have an entire state with an all female obligation. women are everywhere in politics. i think that is what most people think. everybody in this room knows it is not even the slightest bit true. women hold 18% of the seats in congress. we have been stuck at 23% forever. there is no movement. we still have 9 governors. all of this places the u.s. at about 95th in the world in terms of our female political representation. that is another one that i will ask the students. where do you think we rank in the world? and as this to domestic groups and abroad. where do you think the u.s. ranked? in forming the restaurants will say we re no. 1. many of international students think the same even when their countries are much much higher. secretary clinton has said frequently the unfinished business of the 21st century is the empowerment of women and girls. it is really cute she is saying that. this drawing attention to the fact that we re using half of our brain power. we are using half of our talent pool right now appear adding more women is about what is best ever body. the springing back to my organization. i want to tell you a little bit about the work i do to get more women into leadership. we have a very unique approach to this age-old problem. 12 years ago i was working in a law firm. i was running a political action committee on the side. the name of it is the women under 40 political action committee. professor palmer was on the board. we tried to change this name. whenever got anywhere. the mission is to elect women under 40 to congress. in that demographic women under 40 running for congress, that is an incredibly a typical candidate. did these women or not old. there were not mail. many times they were not white. if you look at our congress, that is what you see. because the or not are typical candidates they had trouble getting traditional donor support. they loved wolf pack because you re the first people to give them a check. we re the first people to say i believe in me as a candidates. i think you can do this. they were incredibly great candidates to back. while other people saw the woman with long hair and high heels who looks like a granddaughter, we saw a political candidate. we were often really write about how great these women are going to be. in the 12 years that will pack is been around we have collected some of the people who are the big names in congress. debbie wasserman schultz started out at age 33. she is backing the rounds trying to get money and establish herself as a viable candidates. the meeting she went to she had our newborn baby with her. i just loved. she was breast-feeding. she lived in florida. she had to bring this baby with her. cathy rodgers is a republican young woman from washington state. we helped elect her a while ago. she was 33. she was chosen as one of the top picks for gop leadership. she is going places. senator kiersten gillibrand is one of ours. gabrielle giffords to everyone knows. she brings so much that to congress. she is very young. she s been in politics and she was 21. we have all of these non- traditional candidates that not only bring diversity of gender but also diversity of experience. they bring different things to congress. i will tell you what this problem is. the problem is that if we have all the money in the world, if oprah were to come in and say i m going to give you million dollars, we literally would not have that candidate to give the money to. that is a crazy problem. it is because the number of women under 40 who run for congress is teeny tiny. some have 50 great candidates. on a really good year we would have five. i divided up the board. half of them continue to run a wolf pack. the rest of us came to running start. want to grow this pipeline of women who would become candidates. nobody was really talking to young women about running for office. we decided to not work with candidates which most bridger trying to get women into politics. we decided to not even work with women. we started with girls. people thought we were absolutely crazy. we started with high school girls. some of them were 14. that is a lot of years until you can run for congress. running start is a very long game. the reason we did it has to do with dr. richard fox. they did research that he will tell you about. i dare not barely even mention it. you have the real expert right here. his research basically says that women do not feel qualified to run for office as men do. we took that and thought that is just horrible. we were surrounded by all of these bright wonderful women. women have the same qualifications as men do not feel as qualified to run for office. we need to change that. they work with women when they re still thinking about what they were and what they were capable of. work at them at a point or you could convince them that they do have what it takes. they are qualified. he can give them the skills they need in order to really feel confident about their leadership ability. he talked to a high school girl and you tell her if you see hillary clinton how could i ever the hillary clinton? how could i get up to the top ranks? it is not rocket science. there is not one magic formula. it is all about hard work and learning the skills. we get these young girls to think of themselves as candidates. we have been around since 2007. it is still a baby organization. we started with 20 girls from could 2007. as a 2013 we have trained 7000 young women around the country. that is another story about how we are able to do so much. the most exciting thing is we started i knew it was a good idea to train girls. i knew it made sense and that it could really make a difference. i have no idea i could convince the girls. the program is rigorous. and makes these girls do things they do not want to do. public speaking is just excruciating for all of us. being put on camera. we bring in reporters and interview them on camera. they hate it. that is worst than public speaking. they get into fund-raising. the great news is we started out with 20. the next year they told their friends. we had 300 girls apply to our program. after the 2008 election will when we had all of these amazing people running for office or politics is call for the first time and so long, we started to accept applications for our 2009 summer program after the election. at this point we were working out in my attic. we did not have much money. the first week we got 1000 applications in the mail. we made a stupid mistake of opening them in november and posting them until february. by february will be closed if we had received 30,000 applications. the great thing is that we really do see results. the girls that come to our program right is e-mails all the time. i have to redo a quick one. before attending running start would never occur to me to run for office. to my surprise i enjoyed politics and the opportunity it gives me to make a difference. a plan to run for office in the near future. that is what we hear. i was in israel speaking to this group of young women. i will asking women raise your hand, let me know how many of you think it is a good idea if there were more women in politics. they all raised their hands. and never had a group that does not. then i followed it up with the question, not tell me who is going to run. which you are going to run? one girl raised her hands. why are you not going to run i asked? they said i am a behind-the- scenes person. shelley would do a fabulous job. she is really good at all of this stuff but i will help her campaign. shelley is good, not me. let s talk to barbara. they feel like they have real responsibility to step up. what i want to do is to take the girls to apply to our program. they are such amazing girls. they re going to bring some is to politics when they get there. the reason they want to be in politics is not because they want to be powerful people. they want to because they re coming from communities or schools where they see real problems and nobody doing anything to fix it. that is exactly who i want to see in politics. i am incredibly encouraged every day when i work with these young women that they are stepping out of the sidelines. they re realizing that they have a responsibility to get up there and run. [applause] good morning. i am more the darth vader of politics. thank you so much for inviting me. my title is why women are not running for office. i am a typical social scientist. i m going to give you a world wind of statistics. quickly. ask me more about these later if you have questions. if you look at the major elected positions in the united states men occupied between 75% and 95%. the percentage of women in our legislature, we are 90 fit. maybe we have gone up. we are 95th in the world. there s a big difference between the parties here, democrats and republicans. if you look at the u.s. house, 31% of democrats in the senate republican. similar. if you draft this out, at the democrats have slow and steady gains among women. the republicans have been flat lining. what is going on? researchers have looked at a bunch of explanations to try to explain why women are so slow to move into office. there must be widespread discrimination, right? although individual women will say they felt discriminated by a voter or a media source, there is no evidence of broad discrimination. when they run for office they raise as much money as their male counterparts. they re just as likely to win and get vote shares. another explanation is electoral structures. it is hard to run for office. we have very candidates entered politics. if you want to run for congress to have to build your own campaign organization. he might be a democrat or republican. you have to be very entrepreneurial and raise your own money. there s something to that explanation. these of it that the people run for office. some of the key professions are those of not been in at the highest level. what we have done is we have spent the last few years serving men and women will in the professions that proceed a career in politicians. the jobs are law, business, education, or political activists. we see if men and women are equally ambitious and running for office. in 2001 we interviewed a sample survey of almost 3700. we went back and contacted over 2007 years later. 200 seven years later. we just surveyed a national sample of high school and college students to see if they have future potential interest in running for office. we literally got those a month ago. we spent the last 12 years examining men and women levels of ambitions of running for office. what have we found? in 2001 when as some of their ever considered running for office, people in their mid- 40 s, a generally successful. there s a 16. gap between women and men. these equally qualified women and men. then we went back to 2011. no change in woman saying they are running for office. this will present the from our high school and college students. the gap seems to be fairly static. it is not changing dramatically. the republicans cannot want to run and democratic women do. not really. there is a 20 point gap among republican women with republican men. it is not about party. if you get to the pool of candidates, party is not the explanation. what are the explanations? i have seven explanations. i will go through them quickly. women are more likely to proceed by is and as highly competitive. there is a perception that is very competitive. there is a perception there will be biased against them. none of those may be particularly true. that perception of competition is one reason women are less likely to say they will run for office. the as women about the key activities, how you feel about soliciting campaign contributions are going door- to-door with the constituents? women are more likely to feel a willingness to engage. maybe these things lead to breaking down the doors. there were some very high- profile instances. instead of these things breaking down barriers, we will discourage them. if you re sitting there watching this you are a 35 year- old law partner of things it looks less appealing. we found this in 2011. these highly qualified women perceive themselves as less qualified than their male counterparts. they are twice as likely to say they are not at all qualified to run for office. the good to very qualified there is a huge gap between men and women. you did not run for office unless you think you are good. these are it self assessments. we ask people whether they thought they were confident or competitive. hillary clinton is a you have to have a thick skin. that is what we ve done repeatedly that women say you do not have. been recruited by real political people makes running for political of israel. women are less likely to have those suggestions made to them. it is even sure about your colleagues at work. someone from your church. it is across the board. they are doing a vast majority of household responsibilities. there are six times more likely than their male counterpart to say they are responsible. they are 10 times more likely to say i am responsible for the majority or all of the child care. it makes it far more complicated to run for office for women. women of all professions are less likely than their male counterparts, and the gender gaps in every category. the two biggest reasons are that are not recruited and they do not feel qualified. women remain the primary caretakers of the home and children. those are more complicated considerations. where to go from here? the one thing is recruitment matters. that is one thing that equalizes things. recruiting closes that gap if you get to enough women and suggest them. spread awareness about women s electoral success. there is broad scale relief that there harder to run. it is not harder to get a vote or wind. so women redid many women perceive it is more difficult to do that. in may feel that way. i think i m going to cut it off right there. thank you very much. i am going to start to tell you why it matters once women get elected to office. what i m going to talk about is a connection between electing women to office and the representation of women issues in the state legislatures which is where i specialize. the thing that has led me to this question was i started doing research on this area. i came across a big puzzle which we have done all of this research on women in politics and whether women make a difference. there s a fundamental connection between electing women to office and seeing the policies in the state legislature. it is really variable. it depends somewhat kind of legislature you are in. we cannot get this consisting connection between the presence of women and these outcomes without having xyz variables in between. parties or often ignored at the highest of proving women made a difference. that was the important part of the research. we know from antidotes that parties matter. what i m going to talk about is what partisanship can mean, particularly to different ways we see partisanship affect how women represent women. by have turned in the short-term and long-term ways. i am going to show you some evidence from the state legislature. short-term forces are those forces inside of the legislative body. particularly two things. whatever party is in charge really controls the agenda process. if anybody has been in the legislature, this is not a shock. it is something that we do not necessarily think of as having so much control. especially when they are polarized. they are very different. there are very consistent it that they really can have a show cold. that means if you re in the minority party and you want to introduce your women s issues bill is going nowhere. why is this short-term tax begin change very quickly. the long-term forces are harder to put our fingers on. we know the party has changed a lot since the 1960 s. people have turned them realignment depending on how you see it. it boils down to something very basic. parties have picked of different types of women issues in different types of women have identified the party s over time. the era have legislation that many considered in the late 70s became a partisan issue over time. it asked congress with flying colors. but 1982 it was extremely partisan. more women started running for office. these forces are little longer over time. they re harder to put our fingers on. i am going to show you some evidence from a couple of studies that i have done. some of this research work done for quite a while talks about women issue bills. when i say the bills, you can see the categories i am talking about. i am talking about things that fundamentally affect women. anything from bills about their health specifically to marriage bills, child custody bills, et cetera. and i m looking at the enfire spectrum of these types of bills. if you look over here, the yellow is democratic women, the pimping is the pink is republican women, the you can see how successful they were in pushing their agendas through. shockingly, the democrats are much more successful at getting their women s issues bills through. interestingly we have two states where republican men are quite successful at the same time. why? they were both transitioning into republican controlled chambers. that s arkansas and texas, which kind of bookend here, both of which have changed over to republican. so it gives a little evidence foffer that long-term party change as well. here in the republican controlled chambers, you see a stark difference. republicans become more successful. particularly republican men are the most successful about legislating about women s issues. particularly republican men have the least to say about women s issues. they introduce the fewest bills and they pass the fewest bills. the south dakota democratic women did not even introduce anything, so they had nothing to pass. so while this is better, i saw all these partisan differences and they did not really match with a lot of research prior to that. so i am working on now trying to understand both of these party changes at the same time, especially this long-term change in how democratic and republican women see women s issues. but i wanted to point something out. i think i mentioned what has been termed the party gap. i see a big difference between democratic women increasing and increasing their election to office and republican women, as someone put it, flatlining. in some of the state legislatures that is not quite the case. if you look across the bottom you see that party gap where they are increasing in state legislatures. if you look ated sd, arizona, you see there is a strong republican presence. in washington, that is actually true, too. so this is a party change and the women elected to the washington state legislature for four sample years. 1973, 1983, and 2003. you will see that the party gap is actually closed a little bit in the washington state legislature. i picked washington mostly as a sample case. i have several other states i m working on. that they consistently have a large number of women in their statehouse. so they are very interesting to the study. what difference does it make? focusuickly i m going to you on the contrast. these are the bills introduced in the same women s issues category. you can see in 1973, note the scale goes up to two, that there are not a lot of women s issues legislation introduced, and it is primarily introduced by democratic men. that starts to change a little bit in 1983. but republican men and democratic men are still largely controlling the women s issues agenda. i will point out here, this is when republican men started to introduce a lot of bills about those morality issues. as the republican party picked that up under reagan. in 1993, which is the year of the woman, all of a sudden, you see a big difference. you see women start to control the legislation in these issue areas, particularly democratic women who have a pretty good advantage at this time. you may not remember that. but i will point out, 2003 and 2004 is when there was a very close democratic majority in the washington house. you see it becomes much more diverse. you see republican women and democratic women introducing bills to the women s issues agenda as well as men from both parties. i will point out a couple issues. men like to focus on punishment when you talk about issues. if you talk about the sex offender category, everyone wanted to regulate the sex offendor category. most regulations were focused on what kind of punishment. increasing punishment, keeping track, et cetera. women tended to focus on more societal explanations, particularly democratic women. in discrimination and health areas, republican women and democratic women look similar. they introduce similar types of legislation. but when it comes to things like child support and child care and child custody, when republican and democratic women introduce bills, they actually introduce very different options. so that parity law that i mentioned before actually comes from washington state. in the 1993 session there were competing bills over and over to either keep the parity law on the state party books or get rid of it. i think that is a great exampe of the kind of competing agendas that get introduced. so just to conclude, i find evidence of short-term and long-term party effects. the long-term party effects are kind of the most interesting with this party gap. where we see parties electing different parties of women. what i can show is it has a real and important part in the outcome. thanks very much. [applause] i m barbara palmer. dennis and i have been working on this since 1998. this really gives you that individual psychological picture in the decision to actually run for office. that decision making that goes on at the individual level. and dennis and i are big picture people. we like to muck around in data. we have been looking at historical trends since 1900 trying to figure out if there are patterns that can help us explain why we have so few women in congress and in state legislatures. that is the perspective that we re coming from. to sort of dove-tail into something that was said, women don t see themselves as qualified. this is an amazing quote attributed to he will more roosevelt. she said, we will have reached true equality when there as many stupid women in politics as there are stupid men. [laughter] so richard has already told you some of knees numbers. i am going to repeat them to drive home the point here. in 1962 when you looked at the women in the u.s. house, there were 11 of them. there were six democrats and five republicans. so the partisan distribution among the women in congress was really remarkably equal. that was true for a really long time. however, 50 years later, as we look at the partisan distribution of the women that were elected in 2012 to serve in congress, the story is really very, very different. the split between democratic and republican women is nearly 3-1. among the record number of 78 women elected to the house, 58 are democrats and only 20 are republicans. among those 20 in the senate, 16 are democrats, four are republicans. this gap is getting wider and wider and wider every single election cycle. we know since the early 1970 s we have seen the steady if not very slow and steady increase in the number of women who have been serving in congress. there is something else going on here. if you disaggregate those numbers by party, you get a very different sort of story. this is why i think your research sort of dovetails with this really, really well. since the 1990 s we have seen this huge party gap developing. it is not true just in congress. you don t just see this in the u.s. house and senate, you also see it in state legislatures. that s what dennis will be talking to in just a minute. so we know that we have very candidate-centered elections. basically, if i wake up tomorrow, and i want to run for whatever office as a republican, i can. there is nog nothing the republican party at the national, state, or local level can do to stop me. if i get the requisite number of signatures to get my name on the ballot, i run in the election. we have a decentralized system for running candidates. at the same time we know parties do play a very important role in the recruitment of candidates. particularly at the state level. i can give you just an example from my home state of minnesota, for example. in about 10 years ago, there was a representative who was part of the democratic party in minnesota, the d.f.l.ers, and she got fired of being one of a handful of women in her own party s caucus. this is an interesting story of how agenda and party sort of interact. she was looking around the house chamber in minnesota thinking, this is ridiculous. so she went to party leaders. it was going to be a bad year for democrats in the state. nobody wanted to be in charge of candidate recruitment for the parties. she stepped up and said, i will be in charge of candidate recruitment. but i am going to make recruiting women candidates a priority. i will open a female candidate for every single state legislative seat there is. the old boy network were like, go ahead. go for it. whatever. like that s going to happen. and she did it. she single-handedly in one election doubled the number of democrat women in the minnesota statehouse. i am not saying it went from one to two. it went from about a dozen to over 20. and the following the election cycle, she went back and asked the women who had lost to run again, they did, and they won. so they saw another spike in the number of democratic women in the minnesota house. so the good news and bad news in that story. the good news is that in one election cycle there was huge change. and one party it took a party leader who happened to be a woman to make it a priority. it is not that there is, again, discrimination, i just don t think it is on the radar screen. especially for the national party and for state parties. it is not a priority. and the organizations that have started that are out there to do recruitment for the parties have really started at the state level. the republicans started doing this back in the 1980 s with the lugar excellence in public service series, which was created in indiana in 1989. there are programs like that now in about a dozen states across the country. the democrats started doing this called emerge america. it started in 2002 and they have this in about a dozen states as well. these are programs external to the parties. they are focused on recruiting women for their parties, but they are external to the party organization. so what i think is interesting, in 2010 the republicans talked a lot about how they needed to get on the ball and start redruting recruiting women candidates. they recruited kathy mcmorris, the head of the national republican committee, to get out there and recruit candidates which is something republicans had never done before at the national level. a lot of republican operatives said, you know what? women can actually do better in the in a lot of areas is they they are perceived as a bias. they get that, you know, that assumption made about them that they are not part of the old boy network. which can help when you have some scandals going on. my favorite example of this is nicki hailey s race. she ran for governor of north carolina. she said, look, i m different, i m not part of the frat party politics we have seen in our state for a couple years. she was running after the out- going republican governor ran into a little bit of trouble. if you may remember, he sort of disappeared for a couple days and was off the grid for a while, and then he said he was hiking the appalachian trail, and he wasn t. yeah. it turns out he was actually in argentina visiting his mistress. you know this is true because you can t make it up. and the state legislature started an investigation and started impeachment proceedings. my favorite line from that whole story is of course his wife is the one that literally threw his stuff on the lawn of the statehouse and wrote a book. she said she was trying to explain this to their two sons. they had a 13-year-old son. she was trying to explain what was happening, what as going on with their father. the 13-year-old said, quote, oh, my gosh, this is going to be worse than elliott spitser. [laughter] the point is, when party leaders make this a priority, you can see change. the problem is, it just hasn t been a priority. the point is, i m going to turn it over now to dennis to show you the numbers. kelley: i want to crush i want to crush any illusions that what we do is glamorous. what we do involves looking at those individually. just as one anecdote, we code whether any primary candidate listed in the single result is male or female. now, that strikes forward a lot. barbara, no problem. how about pat? rob? so it also involves digging through some archival of anything we could find at that point. now, barb said we re interested in sort of the big picture over time. there are three steps in getting to the house of representatives. you have to put yourself out there, first of all, to run in a primary. and this pattern will become very, very familiar. so we start here in 1956, and you see sort of basically partisan equality. it tells you until the until you hit the late 1980 s, and then the percentage of democratic women seeking the nomination starts to exceed the equivalent percentage among republicans. the next step, who gets nominated in these primaries? there we go again. and interestingly, you see particular spikes of that open up that gap and then it continues in rows. so flat line, jump for the democrats, continues slow growth, and republicans relatively stable over time. this is the number of women elected to the u.s. house of representatives. and the one thing everybody talks about, the year of the woman, in 1992, but that year of the woman was disproportionately democrat. and it was a great year. there were three issues there, if you recall. the house banking scandal forced a lot of incumbents to retire. they just don t get it in the wake of the clarence thomas hearings, and probably lesser known, why there were open sealts, that was the last year a member of congress could retire and convert campaign funds to personal funds. so a lot of people got while the getting was good. if we move over, women as a portion of their party s delegation, the gap is even more exaggerated. so democrat women are nearly 30% of all democrats in the house. republican women under 10% of the party s majority. this is aggregating over six- year cycles in the senate. we see a similar pattern. so running from house nominees elected to the house, elected to the senate, and just to show this isn t restricted to the national level, and going back to there are your lower chamber of state legislatures, upper chamber of state legislatures. so essentially our conclusion from this that we can speculate is that there are forces in our political culture that have led to slow, steady growth in women seeking office and being elected. slow, steady. but those forces somehow operate disproportionately to create a very wide and alarming, according to republican discussions within the party, different between the reputation of women in the democratic party and the republican party. thank you. now we re going to have suse step in and sort of reflect on her experience in light of what the academics may have established. [applause] from the nonacademic perspective. i am a lawyer by training and i do not have background in this. i love coming to panels where i can get in deep with the academic research. i have several comments. just to sort of take them in order, one of the things that richard talks about as one of the obstacles is that women don t think that they are as thick skinned as men. so what we find when we train our young women, and this is both talking to our women under 40 candidates and with the high school and college, we now train young professional women, too, we find that they often will say they don t have the personality to run for office. so they would like to run. often they will say i really would love to to this, but i am not a good public speaker, i can t ask for money. literally they will say i can t ask. they will say they are too scared to go on camera, et cetera. what we have found is that a lot of people do stereotype themselves as i am not this type of person. honestly, one week of training is all most of our students get. in one week of training, it is more than enough to get them on their way to not just being comfortable with these skills but actually being good at these skills. that was actually kind of a revelation to me. when we first did this i thought we would have to keep working with them over the year to really engrain it. we have an example of a student who came into the program that absolutely refused to do some of the trainings. well, tried to refuse. we don t allow them to refuse. they would go off and run for student government at school. they would realize they are not rocket science. all of these skills are things you can learn. likewise, one of the other seven of those reasons that dr. fox talked about was talking about how women do most of the house work. we were talking about this at dinner. women do do most of the house work and do impossible jobs and do well at all of those things. the truth is, that s not good relief for men or women that women do so much of that. what we have started to realize, and we haven t done this yet, but i hope another group will pick this up, what we really need to be doing is training the men, too. when we talk to high school girls, we need to talk to high school boys, too, about responsibility and about fairness and equity as you go grow up and get married and have a family. these are things that can be taught. tracy was talking a lot about the fact about which issues are pressed when you have republicans in the legislature or democrats in the legislature, and the differences between men and women. one thing we hear often, how do you make sure you are only training the good ones? it is an interesting question. you know, it assumes i only want a woman elected to office if she is going to believe exactly what i believe. frankly, i usually hear this from really liberal democratic women. they are, well, how do you make sure you will not get a sarah palin in the mix? what i really believe, and we were talking about diversity early, the democratic women, the democratic men, the republican women, the republican men, they are all pushing different issues. what we really want is we want to see a lot of different perspectives on a lot of different issues. you really need to have all of them there. the fact we talked so much about the panel talked so much about partisanship, it is something we talked about almost every day. it is so difficult to convince republican young women to be trained in our programs. it is something we think about all the time. it is difficult for us to get sometimes to get republican women to understand this cause. bud palmer who is on this board knows how hard we work on all of this. when we get high school girls to come into our programs, i think a lot of high school girls are still looking at their parents politics. they grew up in a republican family, then they are still going to be thinking that way. if they grew up in a democratic family, the same way. once they move into college, they start thinking for themselves. many of us say the reason they are now democratic is that they don t feel as comfortable a home in the republican party that they care about if they care about women s issues. we had this great panel a couple years ago where we had the head of the d.c. republican party and then we had the head of the maryland democratic party. and the democratic woman was talking all about the trages that they do for women, how they work actively to recruit women to run for office. how they actively they do a lot of panels and training so that women will feel comfortable and supported as they run for office. then it was the republican woman s turn. she talked about a whole lot of other thimmings, but they did not talk when training at all. during question and answer someone raised their hands and said, tell us about what training you do for republican women in d.c. which is a small group, by the way. she said, well, we do lots and lots of training, but our trainings are co-ed. we don t see any reason to just train women. we think women and men, they are not so different, we train them together. the truth is, there are not very many republican trainings anywhere. there are so many big democratic groups that do all of this recruitment training. women s campaign forum. i could go on and on. barb talked about a lot of them. on the republican side, there is hardly anybody. the truth is that there is some magic to training women in a group of women. there really is something the women do still have a different enough set of obstacles that they need to be trained on their own so they can understand how things are different and how to overcome those obstacles. let me see what else i wanted to tell you all about? the last thing, richard was talking about social media for young people. social media is one of the main reasons they think they don t want to run for office. they have seen the effect. they know the photos they have online. and these are not girls gone wild. these are top students. they are students who have done all the right things, but it is difficult in this day and age to escape without a photo of something that looks compromising. maybe you have a drink in your hand. there is a fasmse example of a woman named crystal ball. i don t know if you remember her story. she ran for congress in virginia. she ran a very good campaign. she raised a lot of money. but she woke up one day to find actually, the story is, she was at a very conservative meeting. with a whole lot of retirees. as she was speaking, her phone buzzed. she saw a text from her husband that said, as soon as you are done, get out of there quickly and talk to no one. she wondered what was going on. she got out of there and called her. him. he said there are photos of you from a party. she was a young woman. the party was when she was 20. they are only slightly compromising. i don t know if anyone has seen these photos, but i think for many people, that would have ruined their campaign. that would have been it. here are these photos on the internet leaked and everybody saw them. she decided to confront this head on, and she talked about these photos and she said i was not doing anything wrong. she said this is a young woman having fun. she was able to attack it head on. while she did not win her race, she saved her reputation. she will go on to do other great things, i m sure. social media is something we need to talk to girls about, to be very, very careful, and then confront things head on if they go get called on it later. so thank you all. [applause] thank you very much. i want to thank the panelists who both went through odessies in airports and delays to be with us today. a different experience in student government is to the leave them with different directions later. that is an excellent question and i could talk to you all day about what we do at a running start. one of the programs is we go to colleges, we do day-long training in the house to run student government at senior college. girls are tapering off and need to be involved. a lot of them have to do with a voice. in college, when men don t run as much. we think it is incredibly great training. that is incredible training for running later on? i don t think they are having bad experiences. we survey potential candidates and asked if they were running for office. those people that said they had run expressed higher levels of ambition to run 30 years later in life. we survey the women in the house, the u.s. house, and half of them had participated in student government in high school or college. there is a drop-off. that is why i think going to college and not just running for president, but running for student government, it has a huge impact later on. i should preface this by saying that my discipline is english literature. it is a question about words and categories. it is mostly directed at tracy, but everybody they used this term, how do you decide what is a women s issue? not that i think it is a bad turn necessarily although i think it is horribly over use. i am also wondering what happens to efforts to explain how the gender gap. since 1982, if you introduced the word feminist into the mix and i recognize the problems in defining it, i think he can be done for the purpose of political science and research. that is my question. that is the $64,000 question. particularly for me, since my interesting is understanding women of both parties, i wanted to take a really broad definition. there are categories that disproportionately affect women, but anything can fall in those categories. something, and for republican women is business grants. that falls into my category of the quality of discrimination. republican women sometimes will phrase something in a gender with it on the surface doesn t appear to be gendered. not to said democratic women can t do that, but the issues are more easily matched with their party. i think that business grants are a good example. you see it sometimes with foreign affairs, made a particular country. on the surface, it doesn t have anything to do with gender, a republican woman says, as a woman with two sons in combat and as a mother, the language is gendered but the bill is not necessarily. i can say a difference between the work i have done as some of the previous work is that i include conservative bills and don t define it as just women s issues. some people don t like that have some people do. i find it hard to understand how republican women legislate on women s issues. it could be a spark. something that i think tracy mentioned, you had a reversal from a bipartisan approach in the early 80 s. they filtered it out, and seriously, if you go back to that time, the most prominent woman associated with opposition to the era was phil chapman. it would be interesting to see to what extent that developed as a stereotype regarding attitudes toward women at that time. obviously, other factors have come in, but i think it is both a political and cultural phenomenon that opens that up. it is a continuing matter for research. when i was a republican [laughter] i wanted to run for the legislature. i had just had a baby the week before. i wanted to be a delegate to the national convention, and i was told by more than one of the republicans, remember i was end of the beginning. i was supporting him. they told me i could not do this because i did not have any money. you had to have money to be a delegate in the republican party. it doesn t bother democrats or democratic women. and also, when it comes to something like social media, the republicans that i saw, they are more influenced by the opinion of the men in the party. the word feminist is a no-no, but democrats don t have that kind of problem. if they re caught with a drink in their hand, they say, so? you show it, there is a lot more guts when it comes to taking a chance in the democratic party. i went to republican convention in fort worth, and they had votes on era and the equal rights amendment for young people. and abortion. they both failed. i thought, what am i doing here? i can see these vast differences. for years, republicans did not speak ill about other republicans. democrats don t have a problem with that either. out a republican primary, and i would say maybe republican women won t have this problem anymore. have things changed? i am doing a project the compares legislatures over 50 years, how changes have happened over time. one thing i have noticed is around the time you see this split between the democratic and republican parties, you also see a change in the type of republican woman that is elected. in to give you a really good example, one of the women who in the legislature was introducing bills defending women s rights to get divorced and custody issues, things like that. the republican party was introducing covenant marriage. there is a fundamental opposition that did not exist in the 1970 s. there was a more general non- opposition. first off, thank all of you for this session. i am the former steering committee chairmen. for those of you that don t know, it is a democratic political pac. when we look at the disparity between democratic and republican women, the left and the right say the same things. why don t they want to train women or have these programs? we also have a staff and training program. we train young individuals to be staffed so that they immediately go to a candidate s campaign. theisn t that happening on right? i can give you an example of a recent development that i think it s fascinating. about a month ago, a group of republican women got together and told the old boys, we are done with you. it is too extreme, you have such a narrow range of issues that you re talking about. it doesn t appeal to a broader look publicans or women. they got voters to support them and they have created their own organization. i can t remember the name of it, but the primary focus is to recruit republican women. the only requirement is a need to be fiscally conservative. they have stated, we don t care what your position is on social issues. we want to ask you about abortion or gay marriage. what we do care about is going back to fiscal conservatism. and they have gotten a lot of trust within the states. if they appear to have some pretty substantial financial support and i think it will be interesting to see what happens. this is something i know is going on in minnesota. i think it gets to both of your point about this. this morning, i looked up, republican women who were either defeated or got out because they were tired of it in the house, it is nancy johnson in connecticut, deborah pryce in ohio, maryland, washington, and melissa heart of pennsylvania. part of the reason they got out was feeling the pressure of the possibility of our primary challenger from the social right. others were defeated because of moderation and not getting established support when they were facing a tough race. that is something that i think was addressed as well. [inaudible] is there evidence to show that women are not voting for women? . . . thank you for being here in washington, d.c. it s my pleasure to bring on stage kastio. thank you for that great ridership news and your assessment of our challenges. you certainly made some fast tracks in your 16 months on board at afta so congratulations to you too. as michael mentioned, we have a unique opportunity to influence the nation s investment in public transportation. map 21 was a step in the right direction but we have more to do before it expires in september 2014. we need to ramp up now. i applaud the hard work and stewardship of the authorization tax force which is developing recommendations for our industry. my thanks go to jeff nelson, general manager of metro link and chair of afta s legislative committee and the fine members that are teaming up with him. please lend your voice to this effort because it matters. it matters, as michael say. so please see either rob or brian to share your thoughts and get involved. tomorrow please lend your voice to another critical effort that is speaking directly to members of congress about the people of public transportation. the people that the industry directly employs. the 400,000 and growing men and women across our country who are working in factories, manufacturing plants, in the front offices as operators, engineers and planners. the people employed in the 1.9 million jobs we indirectly support in every district, every legislative district in this country. the people who take the 10.5 billion, yes that s billion with a capital b buses trains as michael shared with us. there is strength in these numbers because there are people behind these numbers. every individual in this room has a compelling message about the value of public transit to the people in your communities. it is time to make public transportation come alive in the eyes for congress. by talking about the lives, the lives, ladies and gentlemen that we change each and every day. the lives of a mother in north philadelphia who takes two buses to get to her job at the customer call center. the life of the elderly couple who moved to charlotte to take advantage of transit oriented development to keep their independence when they can no longer drive. a daughter in west texas with a mental disability who relies on transit to get to and from her job when she would otherwise be house bound. that nurse in cleveland who takes the cleveland line to get to her job at the hospital. that veteran in denver who found a new career in public transportation as a mechanic. there is no question the public transit enriches lives. for proof, look no further than the devastating impact of superstorm sandy on the northeast, my community. those cities came to a halt when public transportation was forced to shut down. but now ladies and gentlemen, we re back, we re back and so is the northeast. and i am proud to say that afta was with us every single step of the way with resources that are second to none. but please, don t take my word for it. just look at the company that afta keeps. afta was named one of the most influential brands in washington by the national journal. policy makers, the media, our association partners listen, they listen when we talk. they trust what we say. they respect our research. they act on our policies. and they often seek our input. so you should all be very proud of that. i know i take pride in it. now it is my pleasure and my honor to introduce to you two trusted voices in washington. first joseph szabo an administrator of the f.t.a. which national rail policy in programs. as a board member of new jersey transit, we appreciate joe s direct interest in the northeast corridor commission and of the nec future effort. the northeast corridor accommodates eight rail transit operators and the future of the nec is critical to each of them. his entire career, joe has been centered on advocacy and helping communities and joe, ladies and gentlemen, is also a fifth generation railroader. please help me welcome joseph szabo. thank you and good morning afta. on behalf of president obama and secretary lahood it s an honor to join you once again this morning along with peter rogoff. i think you re going to hear me stay on the same theme that we ve already established this morning. mike did a bit of talking about the importance of systems in talking about the record ridership growth that transit is seeing. there is a simple fact that world class economies do not develop by accident. and they are certainly not sustained by resting on our laurels. world class committees require world class transportation. and it requires continuous improvement. so in order to remain the leading global economy, it s absolute we must continue to advance our transportation system. and the key words are transportation system. it s about each mode working in unison with the others to move people and good. four years ago president obama laid out a bold vision for rail in america. during these fours years the effects of record level private and federal investment in the rail network has been nothing short of game changing. 2012 was one of the greatest years for rail in generations. let s start with safety. it was the safest year in railroad history. amtrak achieved record on time performance and record ridership growth. rail continued to be the fastest growing mode of public transit. we saw freight surge above 1 million unit which is close to a record. the stage is set now for world class, 220 mile per hour passenger rail service which is ready to break ground this summer. in the midwest 110 mile per hour service. the service was introduced on both the chicago st. louis routes and chicago detroit routes and both of those lines will be running at those sustained speeds with improved reliability cuttings the trips to close to an hour. it s going to include equipment certified to go 125 miles per hour manufactured here in america. in order to bring world class service to one of the most densely populated rail markets, the northeast corridor, we launched the first comprehensive planning in rail since the carter administration and we obligated 100% of our funding well in advance of her september 30th statutory deadline. of the 11 projects completed last year, the main rail project extension alone, in addition to generating millions of dollars in new commercial and residential development around the brunswick train station, it created and sustained jobs at 53 companies in 20 states. so that was last year. and all of this is just simply a warmup. the $19 billion this administration has invested in rail since 2009 is building, improving or creating 6,000 corridor miles, 40 stations, 75 planning studies and 30 state rail plans or service development plans. with our high speed and inner city passenger rail program we ve been able to partner with 32 states and invest in 152 projects. but the next two years will be our busiest yet. we re at $3.6 billion in funding are complete, under construction or set to begin. in the pacific northwest 21 projects are moving forward that will increase round trips and cut trip times in a growing rail market connecting portland and seattle. north carolina is moving forward with a series of construction projects along the charlotte to raleigh corridor that will improve safety, reliability and frequency for both passer and freight trains. it will connect in to the northeast corridor. by tend of this year north carolina and virginia will finish a planning effort to cut 90 minutes off today s trip time between rally and dc. then you take a look around the country in states like georgia and tech texas. coming back to the northeast corridor. our planning there called the nec future is one of the largest projects ever undertaken in the united states. the end result will be a clear vision for how to optimize the northeast corridor in a 30 year rail investment plan to guide future investments. in addition to planning, this administration has invested more than $3 billion, more than any previous administration in northeast corridor development projects. these are devoted to track upgrades, modernizing systems, replacing infrastructure, buying new equipment and improvements to speed, frequency and reliability. these improvements are allowing for faster train speeds between philadelphia and new york. and for the untangling of delay causing bottlenecks in convenience and delaware and rhode island. stations are being enhanced in boston, washington, d.c., bwi airport and in new york where pen station will be expanded. major engineering projects are moving forward including baltimore mother s tunnel. we ve made investments in routes including two project that is have already come in on time and on budget. now the benefits of all these projects could stand alone. they are already advancing american transportation. but like the u.s. chamber of commerce, the u.s. conference of marries, the american road and transportation builders and the american society of civil engineers, just to name a few, just like them, the president recognizes this isn t enough. and as the president said in his stated of the union, i quote, ask any c.e.o. where they d rather locate and hire a country with deteriorating bridges or one with high speed rail. the president has two programs the rebuild america partnership and putting americans to work improving infrastructure and building new infrastructure. and while this will create even more high quality construction and manufacturing jobs, most importantly it will help tackle pivotal growth and mobility challenges. the rebuild america partnership calls for leveraging partnership to create infrastructure most critical to our businesses including transportation. while fix it first targets our most urgent transportation repairs. additionally the president calls for a bipartisan instruct bank for long term development including long term rail funding. now sensible steps are going to have to be take on the tackle our budget challenges. a modern transportation network including rail is not a luxury but it s an absolute necessity. today we are looking at the challenge of how to move 100 million more people and 4 billion more tons of freight over the next four decades. all while our highways and airports are stretched close to their limits and the overreliance on them continues to grow. last month texas transportation institute reports highway congestion alone cost our economy $20 billion a year. close to 3 billion gallons of fuel, enough to fill the new orleans super dome is wasted annually. they measured travel reliability. underscoring the need to provide more transportation alternatives, the study increasing amounts of time have to be set aside to ensure on-time arrivals for high priority freeway trips. our reports are struggling to keep up with modern demand. about 20% of all flights are delayed. as a way of confronting high fuel prices and changing demand, airlines are making significant cutbacks to shorten flights to small and medium-sized cities. with service levels targeted to the marketplace, the most cost- effective and most environmentally friendly mode to move both people and freight. two tracks can carry as many travelers in an hour as 16 lanes of highway. by the cost of building rail favors compares favorably with roads, it only consumes one-third of the land acquired by roadways. americans travel habits are evolving. michael touched on it today. this old comment message that america has too much of a car culture. according to a recent study over the last eight years, americans have driven less while using passenger rail and public transit in record numbers. amtrak s ridership last year, the record was its ninth in its last 10 years and part of a close to 50% growth in ridership since the year 2000. from 1995 until 2008, ridership on a commuter rail shot of 72%. in 2011, americans took 10.4 billion trips on public transportation. ridership was even higher. these travel habits are changing fastest among young people. the study also noted that in an eight-year period starting in 2001, young people reduced their vehicle miles traveled by 23% while increasing their use of rail and public transit by a whopping 40%. it is not just about the next generation. aarp have made it clear that more and more seniors are seeking communities that make it easier to walk places and use public transportation rather than driving. allowing them to remain active and independent as they age. compared to the decade prior in 2009, seniors make 328 million more trips by rail and transit. this is the future and that we will have to prepare for. that is why we have to do better. with railroads safety, our goal is to ensure continuous improvements to save lives, fortified the industry for its growing role in moving people and freight. we will continue to work with the railroads to implement positive train control and will also continue supplementing technology with our traditional enforcement model with initiatives like a risk reduction and systems safety programs, which encourage the industry to take a hard look at the risk factors that are precursors to accidents. with all of our passenger rail investments, we will continue to focus on three key priorities. managing and executing high- quality projects. bringing them in on time and on budget. land the foundation for sustainable long-term passenger rail improvements by helping states and communities, regions do good planning and forge ahead with incremental improvements. insuring service improvements are tailored to the distinct needs of each market. four years ago, we learn that a modern rail network is not just a priority for this administration, it is a priority to the american people. of the $10.1 billion in high- speed intercity passenger rail funding that was available, we received more than 500 applications from around the country requesting more than seven times of the amount available. just like the early stages of the interstate highway system, we are in the initial phases of what is a multi generational effort. the interstate started with eight lonely miles in the middle of rural kansas. it took 10 administrations, 28 sessions of congress to complete, the year by year, we got it down. like the transcontinental railroad, a century earlier, the interstate system propelled our economy forward and advance the ability mobility means. now we have to answer the call to tackle the transportation challenges of the new century dealing with congesting, fuel utilization, air quality, and global warming. as i said at the opening, world leading economies do not develop accident nor did they evolve by resting on one s laurels. the case is clear, america cannot afford to sit on the sidelines and not develop a comprehensive passenger rail system offering high-speed and higher performing passenger rail and a more robust freight rail network. the next generation is counting on us and the time for action is now. thank you very much. [applause] thank you for those insightful comments. next, my pleasure to introduce peter. peter lead the transition to map 21. in fiscal year 2011, they signed more capital construction agreements and then in any two- year period in the agency s history. i want to thank peter for their active role in helping agencies devastated by super storm outstanding get the funding they needed to recover. peter and his staff began a hands-on involvement in making sure the impacted agencies received the assistance they needed during the crisis. they provided the guidance and continuing support in the aftermath needed to get our system is back in service for the people of our region. new jersey transit applauded peter s leadership and we thank you once again. please tell me welcome peter to the stage. [applause] good morning. i will echo and welcome to washington on behalf of the president and secretary ray lahood. we ve had opportunities to discuss the role of transit and our economy and our future economic potential. this conference is a legislative conference. this is the moment where we gather to focus on whether the actions in washington are enabling transit to move forward or move backward. we focus on whether today s national policies are enabling you to provide quality service to more americans or fewer americans. whether we are enabling you to reduce our consumption of foreign oil or continue the progress by which we are highly dependent on the unstable regimes that provide oil to us all over the world. we are focused on whether national policies are enabling you to transport more americans to work or leave more american sitting at the bus stop. we re focusing especially in the wake of hurricane sandy on whether our national policies are enabling you to respond and recover from national disasters. seven weeks ago, my son and i stood on the west front of the capital and heard president obama s second inaugural address. in that address, he said the following. no single person can build the roads and networks and research labs that will bring new jobs and businesses to our shores. now more than ever we must do these things together as one nation and one people. the key phrase for me in this passage is the word together. this administration cannot achieve these goals without the help of congress. we cannot achieve these goals without you and your advocacy. last year, many of you remember at the time of the legislative conference, public transit was in a battle for its life. the house of representatives was moving forward with plans to strip public transit out of the highway trust fund entirely and instead make funding for public transit dependent on some of the most controversial legislative proposals put forward, led trilling in the arctic national wildlife refuge. it was politically cynical and prompted my boss to say that it was the worst piece of legislation he had seen in over 30 years of public service. i could not agree with him because i had only done it 24 years in public service. [laughter] together, at the administration working with you, beat back that proposal. today, we need your intervention again. recent congressional actions are threatening to send us backwards. we have made great progress under the president s leadership and making transit a priority, but that progress is facing a real and present threats by congress. i do not need to remind you that president obama has strengthened public transit and put it high on his agenda. we have built more than 350 miles of new rail and bus rapid transit. the fta has signed more grant agreements to build new extensions. in 2011-2012, more than in any two-year period in history. our new starts and small start program has kept people working. we created 88,000 local jobs with the new start program. we kept people working for what was the greatest recession since the great depression. we have devised ways of moving those projects forward in a streamlined fashion. we have cut red tape and we have been investing in opportunities to create jobs when we need them on projects that really improves the quality of life for generations. in the sun rail project that we are partners in florida, in orlando, we have it under people working which generated 250 million in related developments, and medical developments, office buildings, retail, housing. houston metro, they re building new light rail. we have 700 construction jobs right now out and about 25 million in related housing developments along the corridor. we ve had cities that have lost jobs and revenue in a desperate fashion and they are seeing a resurgence for public transit investment. places like allentown, pennsylvania. kent, ohio, an investment by secretary lahood is resulting in $125 million return on investment on a new hotel and conference center and other development in the area. through these tough economic times, transit has been a real engine, both in getting people to work, people do use transit for the first time when they had to get rid of a car payment. they are discovering the transit works for them and they re keeping more of their money in their wallets rather than handing it over to the gas pump. map21 was the culmination of many of the administration s highest transit priorities. safety was the most important, it is always the most important at the u.s. department of transportation. pilaus the land prohibited the fta from issuing the most basic common sense safety standards since 1964. the administration proposed that it be reversed in 2009. by adding value to the safety of operations without adding a great deal of cost. there were other wins that bore out the administration s policies. when the administration first proposed the budget that fta had its own emergency relief program, we could never have anticipated the worst transit disaster in history of the united states. thank heaven map21 put that program on the books because it enabled congress to provide us with $10.9 billion rapidly and we have awarded 400 million of that amount to age to aid the busiest transit agencies in the united states in response to the greatest transit disaster in the history of the united states. we made progress on state a good repair. we have always said that we can not let our transit agency s deteriorate at a time when demand is rising. we will lose ridership, we will lose our ability to reduce our dependence on foreign oil if the service we provide cannot be reliable and desirable. the administration proposed sizable funding increases for new state of good repair program. did we get those increases? i am afraid not. we did get the new program in place. the president is part of this fix it first initially in its dividend and yet union address is proposing to put real investment, real game changing increases in funding, to not only maintain, but advance the condition of our public transit access assets across the country. i do want to say map21 did not have the right funding levels. separate from the issue of funding, once it got past that a bitter fight over transit role in the trust fund, there was remarkable unanimity between the house and the senate and the obama administration on what the priority should be. that is why we got a new state of good repair program. that is why we got we had been moving forward in implementing a much of the agenda and i will tell you some of the critics of the head and we are encountering have been frustrating. the number one headwind is available resources. we did everything that congress has asked us to do. we are still doing its. we have worked with our partners of the federal highway administration in putting out new categorical exclusion is to streamline the environmental process by which transit projects could be advanced. i know it has been a frustration for many of you that investments that were inherently environmentally beneficial because they are transit investments must still go through a very lengthy environmental approval process. working with our partners of the federal highway administration, with their partners on the council on economic quality, we are streamlining that progress. we will be able to but more projects on the streets sooner. the president has what is called the white house dash board where we have projects that require us to work side-by-side with other federal agencies to get them through the environmental process. there are a number of transit project projects, like the red line in baltimore, like the columbia river crossing between oregon and washington. these projects are moving that much more quickly to a streamlined progress as a result of the present leadership. president s leadership. that has to do with the core issue of resources. we only got a two-year transportation bill rather than the multi-year funding levels the president proposed. those two years of funding was largely flat. coming on top of this, we have faced a sequester. that sequester has taken $656 million out of the federal transit administration. what has been the impact? a 5% cut, which pushes the budget back to where we were in 2009 before we had all the added requirements of implementing map21. it means that the furloughs are very real possibility in the future, which breaks my heart i cannot even express. my employers to be facing furloughs of the very time they should be putting out map21 policy guidance to help you do your job. our new starts and small start program has also been caught. rather than looks like the final funding level could be as much as 17% below the levels sots in the president s budget for this year. we have signed a record number of current agreements. we have done what congress asked us to do. when the secretary was first nominated to be transportation secretary, he passed along to us that the most common thing he heard about transit going for the confirmation process was that development process for new start projects took too long. it was the number one issue i heard about. it was the number one transit issue hereabout through his confirmation process. we have done a lot to streamline the process. as a result, we ve been able to advance these projects more quickly. we ve been able to get them to the funding pipeline. we ve been able to sign grant agreement and put people to work. what are we facing now? we re facing a funding level some 17% below what the president asked for. the funding level not allow us to honor the commitments we made in each of these grant agreements for 2013. it is sure it likely will have to have across-the-board cuts against every one of the new start projects currently in construction. what that will mean is higher borrowing costs, make these things more expensive to the taxpayer. it also means that new full funding grant agreements that could be on the horizon could be in danger. it is not clear if this were to continue, year after year, that we would be able to advance projects. we ve been encouraging people to move forward, we have streamlined the process, just as congress asked us to do. at this career resource level, at the window is rapidly closing. that will undermine our ability to lower our dependence on foreign oil. it will undermine their ability to serve all of those young people taking transit in increasing numbers but it will undermine their ability to limit, if not minimize congestion in a great many cities. we have new battles upon us and we need your advocacy. we need to speak to our representatives. is the legislative congress conference and you come here to washington not just to hear speeches like this one, but to make the case to members of congress. let me politely suggest this. if at the end of this trip folks calculate their hours and realize they spent more time sitting in a so tell listening to speeches than they have making the case on capitol hill, i think they demonstrated the wrong priority. this message needs to be delivered to our partners on the hill. they need to know what these funding decisions mean for our ability to advance a pro-transit agenda. president obama s observation in the state of the union about ceos want to locate close to infrastructure developments. the ceo brought hundreds of new jobs to north carolina set a free upgrade the infrastructure, they will bring even more jobs. my parallel example was in orlando, florida. i was down there recently providing a $78 million grant as part of their new start project to advance the sun rail commuter rail line. i was joined by ceo of a florida hospital corporation. he pointed out that because of our locating a commuter rail stop at the heart of his new health village, he will be bringing thousands of new jobs as part of the florida hospital corporation. it will have a dramatic impact, not only on the economic development of downtown orlando, it will have very meaningful impacts on congested on interstate 4. he knows that he can locate those people at that campus because they will have immediate commuter rail access to the campus and not have to put up with interstate 4. the inevitability about what we re dealing with public transit, the only issue is whether federal policies will follow a more seamless and helpful course to deal with are inevitable future or not. what of the things we learned in the last census is that our population will grow by 100 million people by 2015. that population growth is not plan to be spread evenly across the country. it will be concentrated in many of the areas where the population is concentrated now. we can either have policies in place at the federal level that will help us address and plan for that. or we can let that population growth to overwhelm us. the president has put forward a plan for fixing at first and advancing public transit that is fully paid for. he emphasized that in his state of the union. it is fully paid for. for those of you when you deliver this message to congress on the importance of moving forward with a pro-transit investment agenda, at the present has a plan to do that and is fully paid for. we can only do that with our partners. we need to do this together. we need to do it in a partnership between fta and all of our partners in congress. please deliver that message. please spend more time on capitol then you do in this hotel. that will make this a successful visit. thank you for having me. [applause] we want to open it up to questions from the audience. there are microphones on both sides of the aisle. i think these two gentlemen are ready for any questions you have for them. hello. i am wondering what we can do to help the reauthorization, restore the 57% cuts in programs. [inaudible] the numbers you are using, all little bit of an apple to orange comparison. what map21 did was somewhat in line with what the administration proposed, but other ways three out of line. we did propose the discretionary bus program, an annual grant competition that many of you participated, the substituted for a formula program for the state of good repair of our systems. what you also heard me say earlier is that the funding levels for that state of good repair program was hundreds of millions of dollars less than what the administration proposed. we proposed to do the consolidation and programs that the congress did, however congress and as the funding level far below what we proposed and as a result, people are not seen our agenda was to provide them a dependable funding source they could count on the other than be subject to the vagaries of grant competition where they worked very hard. some years the win, some years they do not. we want people to have a dependable funding source that they could plan on. we got the steady stream of funding, but we got it at an overly inadequate level. and partly, and what can we do with congress to advance that? the president has a fix it first agenda that will involve dramatically increased investments in that state of good repair program. in his state of the union message, he talked about the unfinished parts of the american jobs act. he asked them to adopt the rest. one of the things that was left on the cutting room floor was a sizable confusion of dollars, part of a $50 billion initiative. that would have done a great deal for our bus operators. the issue that has plagued us has been the financial piece. you tease us when you said the president s plan is paid for. when we go on the hill, folks will paying us on the details. give us the best answer that you can. we would like to make sure it is paid for. we want a credible response. the president proposal has been to capture a portion of this savings from the drawdowns in iraq and afghanistan. it is using a portion of that for deficit reduction, investments at home, investments to rebuild our economy. this was not the way congress wanted to go. at least last year. the need for these investments has not gone away. a compelling need or the jobs we create in construction and secondary jobs we get from investments of this kind has not gone. that is the most direct explanation we can give. i am not here to ask you about funding. for the first time in my career, our legislative acts we appreciate that you have shown up to our meetings. we wanted to make sure that the funding for the transit administration and railroad administration would be solid and increase. one of the ways to make sure funding does not go out, you challenged us that we would lose the funding. if you lose the funding, and hampers efforts to get the funding out there. we thank you for what you do. our legislative acts will be that the funding comes for transit and agencies that provide oversight and the funding that could us get through thank you. thank you. i will speak for joe here for my left as well. we will see. [laughter] we have been pushing the staff hard to advance a streamlined agenda and make these programs more easily accessible to put the investment dollars to work quickly. it is disheartening at a time when you are continuing to push folks to do more with less, to have furloughs, cross come across for the future. we are blessed. thank heaven we have staff that are motivated by the transit mission. they do not come to work because they are pulling a paycheck but they believe in what we are doing because we have not treated those employees well when we have to talk about furloughs when we are pushing them hard to advance the agenda. i will make an addition to that. echoing peter s comments, one of the most pleasant surprises i have had since i have came to fra was the quality and dedication of the workforce. these people are top shelf. they work hard. they believe in our mission. going back to a theme that peter carried so well in his speech. it is important that you make your priorities known to the hill. the most important take away that i heard from peter was the tabulation of time. if more of it is spent in a hotel than on the hill with leaders, that would be a failure. the eight miles of interstate highway in kansas were part of a national plan to develop a highway system. one of the things that makes it challenging on the hill is that there is not a similar kind of plan. where are we on developing a ?ational rail claiplan i talked about the need to strengthening planning by states and regions. we checked off the list those components that are part of the national rail planning process. there is a misunderstanding that people think some single document will come out. that is not the case. we have a checklist of the components necessary of a strong rail planning on a national basis. it is about giving the twinkles that states and regions need to better assess what their transportation needs are. understand how rail or transit fit into meeting those needs. we provide our deliverables and continue checking off that list. could you give us an update on the status of your metro safety standards initiative? let me talk generally about our effort on the new transit safety authority. the most important thing that we are seeking to do is develop commonsense standards that enable transit operators in a scalable fashion. we have said that our safety initiative will not be a one- size-fits-all approach. we need to recognize the safety challenges faced by a small to midsized bus only operator that is different from a rail operator. if we use the management system approach, we will scale the right safety focus for each agency, even to identical agencies. they will have different safety vulnerabilities. two different operators who are aerating rail, once s may be signal challenge. another one and maybe the knowledge of the people in the community on how to drive cars around light rail. each system needs to know what their vulnerability is and make sure they focus on it. our focus will be on trying to add value without adding a great deal of costs. our safety rules will have to pass cost-benefit analysis to get through the process. one of our nearest term focuses is we will be working through the state safety organizations to apply and enforce these new federal standards. we need to do a great deal of work to strengthen those state safety organizations. they are understaffed, without the expertise that is needed and without the enforcement authority given to them by the state legislature to have an impact. one of the things we did congress did something different and map 21. we wanted to put out federal funds at 100% federal funding for the state safety organizations to bring them to where they need to be. congress imposed a 80-20 cost. each governor will have to come up with 20% to match the grants i give them. secretary lahood accent out a letter sent out a letter to tell them to plan for this. i cannot give you four dollars unless you give me one dollar to advances clause 00 to this cost. we will get those dollars out and hope the governor s are ready to partner with us. those eight miles in kansas are still there. thank god for president eisenhower. you have a new start guided out. that guidance cuts the new small stars out of the picture. are we misreading that? was that the intention? we have a project in kansas city, kansas that is underway. those types of things for small communities we have no rail in kansas. they may not qualify. you are misreading it. i have had a number of advocates for projects like brt read the guidance differently, but importantly this is not something that needs to be left to confusion. it is a comprehensive document. i encourage you to meet with our people. discuss it. the biggest threat that i see to the availability of funding for new starts is not our guidance. it is the funding constraints. if we receive funding below what we requested the president asked for increased funding for ewe starts program the nw starts program because we needed that funding to accommodate the pipeline we see, one we are advancing quickly at congress and are repressed request. when we go south as a result of these of esther, as a result of the sequester, that is a troubling picture. if you have concerns about the guidance, let us put together a meeting with the staff. i want to understand what you may see as disadvantaging bus rapid transit. you can get a lot of throughput when it is done correctly with little money. if that was a result of our guidance, if you see something that has that impact, we want to know. thank you, joe. and peter for your partnership in your stewardship and your leadership on behalf of our industry. please help me find joe and peter please help me think joe and peter again. joe and peter again.
someone else, and whether someone had been, you know, living in the shaft for a period of time, hopefully will be determined by the investigation. reporter: police say it appears the man was sleeping at the top and was crushed to death. he was found wedged between the elevator and the wall of the shaft. investigators are still trying to determine how that homeless man got into the shaft in the first place and apparently or how long had he been living there or if he had been living there at all. live in san francisco, cate caugiran, kpix 5. there were no delays on bart or muni as a result of this investigation. family and friends are searching for an oakland woman missing for five days now. she was last seen jogging near 34th and telegraph on thursday morning. the 31-year-old was wearing gray pants, gray sweatshirt and red shoes. her family says oakland police aren t doing enough to find her. there is now a $1,000 reward for information in the case. a vigil will be held this afternoon. developing news in afghanistan. two american troops were killed today in an insider attack. an afghan police officer opened fire inside a police station while u.s. forces were visiting there. three afghan policemen were also killed in that gun battle. also afghan officials say u.s. troops have and killed two afghan civilians as the truck was approaching an american convoy just outside of kabul. north korea meanwhile has nullified the 1953 armistice which ended fighting in the korean war, that s according to the country s main newspaper. the communist government is upset by last week s united nations vote to impose more sanctions because of north korea s nuclear activities. this comes as south korea and u.s. troops hold their annual military drills which northbound regularly claims are preparations for an invasion. thousands of people who earn the minimum wage in san jose just got a raise. they are making $10 an hour. it s because voters approved the $2 an hour pay hike in november. chuck reed is concerned some businesses won t be able to handle the hike. the mayor is concerned about people who are likely to lose their jobs. as the minimum wage goes up, small businesses in particular will make accommodations, some of them will absorb the cost, some will pass it on to customers and some will lay people off. a campaign is kicking off to encourage people to spend extra earnings in san jose. redwood city could join many of its neighbors on the peninsula tonight and vote to ban most retailers from from giving out single use plastic bags. the plan before the city council would also require a 10- cent charge for paper bags. and san mateo county adopted a plastic bag ban in november. the county says only a small percentage of bags are recycled. thomas frazier begins work today as the oakland police department compliance director. a u.s. district court judge appointed him to oversee the reform efforts. frazier is the former baltimore police commissioner and deputy chief in san jose. his job is to get the oakland police department to comply are reform measures that were supposed to be completed five years ago. a rocket launcher was among the weapons turned in at a gun by back program in vallejo over the weekend. nearly 350 weapons were turned in in exchange for $30,000 word of cash and gift cards. coming up, melissa griffin will talk about new legislation for tax credits for people who sell guns at buy back events. something else is interesting. our weather? the weather around here, we love it. i thought you were going to say me. not really. the weather. i m boring, but the weather was something over the weekend. gorgeous. a taste of things to come as we ll see high pressure building in the next couple of days and temperatures warming up outside some places near 80 on wednesday. that ridge building in and, of course, sending the jet stream well to the north so no threat of any rain. we are seeing patchy fog at the coastline and valleys. but otherwise looking good. over the bay now mostly clear skies. the temperatures in the 30s and 40s. but by the afternoon, here comes that sunshine well into the 70s inland, 73 degrees in napa. about 70 degrees in san jose. 64 in oakland. and about 58 degrees a little cooler, a little sea breeze into san francisco. we ll have more on your weather coming up. right now let s check the roads with elizabeth. thank you, lawrence. word of an injury accident highway 92 at main street in half moon bay. so again there may be some delays in the area. in the moon time here s a live look in the meantime, here s a live look at the san mateo bridge where everything is at the limit in both directions on 92. bay bridge toll plaza, so far there are still no big delays in the middle fastrak lanes. that s because the metering lights have not been turned on yet. they may turn them on any minute. we are seeing delays growing in the cash lanes almost to looks like the first overcrossing. elsewhere to the south bay, live look at 101 at mckee exit. both directions at the limit. and mobile 1 drove through tracy and they are reporting big delays on 205, grant line to 580. this is a closer look at the dublin interchange and things are stacking up especially in the westbound lanes headlights in the commute direction. that is your timesaver traffic. thank you. an animal sanctuary where a lion killed a volunteer intern is open to the public again in fresno county. project survival s cat haven observed a moment of silence yesterday for diana hanson, who was killed wednesday. the lion was later shot to death by a sheriff s deputy. the park founder says cat haven reopened with the consent of hanson s mother. it s important for us to return back to normal operations here at the cat haven and diana would really want us to do that. hanson was cleaning the lion enclosure at the time of the attack. investigators believe the lion got out of the feeding cage and broke hanson s neck with a swipe of his paw. starting tomorrow the conclave of cardinals begins the process of selecting a new pope. we have live pictures out of the vatican. there s not a lot of activity right now. this is a press conference. but the crowds will gather soon as that conclave begins this week. yesterday, the cardinals celebrated mass at local parishes near the vatican. today the cardinals are in their last day of general meetings. the final chance to get to know one another before selecting a new pope. they have now have to talk not about the issues of the church, they have to come up with a name, a person. some of the rumored front- runners include odilo scherer, boston cardinal sean o malley and timothy dolan. japan marks the second anniversary of the largest earthquake ever recorded there. the magnitude 9.0 quake and tsunami left nearly 19,000 people dead or missing. 300,000 are still homeless. about half of those live near the nuclear power plant that melted down. hundreds filed suit demanding suit for suffering and losses. the tsunami did heavy damage to ports in california including santa cruz. they are still trying to recover there. and work is expected to continue all summer long to rebuild a number of destroyed docks, some needing to be demolished and replaced. coming up, the aspirin advantage how the common cure for headaches could cut your skin cancer risk. knives are dangerous. they haven t become any less dangerous since 9/11. and outrage growing over the tsa s new plan to allow knives on planes. how the guidelines have confused a u.s. senator. plus a rescue one firefighter will never forget. how he ended up with a box full of bear cubs: [ male announcer ] you think you know me. i m just warm weather and beaches. but i m so much more. i m movie sets and studio tours. i m family, museums, and world-class art. and that s the point. you ll see things here that you never expected. only be warned: there s so much to take in. it could leave your head spinning. los angeles. endlessly entertaining. plan your getaway at discoverlosangeles.com you score little victories every day. now you can do it with dinner. introducing land o lakes® sauté express®. the all-in-one sauté starter with butter, olive oil, herbs and spices. so dinner really sizzles. it s one step, no prep. and so good, they ll ask for more. and that little victory is a pretty big deal. land o lakes® sauté express®. find it in the dairy aisle. [ male announcer ] stop & go traffic. you can t always avoid it. but you can always do something nice for your car. chevron with techron. care for your car. trained to save lives. but a recent rescue even caught him urprise. a south carolina volunteer firefighter is trained to save lives but a recent rescue even caught him by surprise. though found a box on the road and thought he would find pickup business but when he got closer he heard squealing. i thought it was pigs but it was three baby bears. i wanted to keep one. his daughters didn t get to keep the cubs but they took photos. they are now being taken care of by professionals. when they get bigger there s a problem, though. they turn into big, big bears! very true. hard to keep that in the backyard. they took pictures. they are cute for now. give it, what, two weeks and they will be a totally different story. first let s go towards livermore. we are getting word of what sounds like an accident. a backup is beginning to build westbound 580 approaching north first street. you can see that long line of brake lines from the altamont pass and continuing towards the dublin interchange. so we have a camera near tassajara showing you how the delays are beginning to build approaching 680. so that s going to be a slow drive time from 205 out of tracy all the way towards the dublin interchange. another hotspot is the westbound highway 4 ride. we ll go flying this morning and it is very sluggish from a street to somersville and past that somersville exit, we are starting to see green sensors once again closer towards willow pass things beginning to pick up. this is breaking news this morning, police investigating a man found dead at this intersection. south capitol avenue and murtha drive there are still streets blocked off as they continue their investigation this morning. capitol avenue is a frontage road. capitol expressway is open. so once again it s not causing any major traffic tie-ups. that s a check of your timesaver traffic. here s lawrence with the forecast. got some great news, weather wise. lots of sunshine coming our way with warm sunny skies. patchy fog at the coast and santa rosa area, reports of some fog there too. but that will quickly break up in no, sir spots and mostly sunny skies and warmer temperatures this afternoon. dry warm weather this week, feeling a lot like spring. some of these temperatures near 80 towards the middle of the week. outside now, mostly clear over the bay. still chilly in spots inland some of the numbers in the valleys 30s, 40s elsewhere now. toward the afternoon this huge dome of high pressure very strong ridge going to send any threat of rain well to the north of the bay area so again we re keeping it dry so enjoy that sunshine. other than a couple of patches of fog at the coastline, looking nice, sunny and bright the next few days. traveling around california looks good today, lots of 70s into the central valley, 67 in yosemite. the snow will be melting in a hurry there. along the coast we may see a couple of patches of fog from time to time. but more of an offshore wind in the interior valleys and inside the bay means clear skies. overnight patchy fog at the coastline, otherwise looking nice and clear elsewhere. temperatures will be the story again today numbers warming up over yesterday s highs. about 73 degrees in morgan hill. 71 campbell. of the redwood city. cool at the coastline mainly in the 50s. 69 in redwood city. east bay temperatures, sunny, 74 brentwood, 73 pittsburg and 73 in the napa valley. inside the bay mid-60s into oakland, 63 alameda, 71 santa rosa. next couple of days more sunshine on the way near 80. wouldn t be surprised to see a couple on wednesday. thursday we start to cool down, much cooler and a few more clouds this next weekend. of course. the weekend is cooler, right? yes, cooler for the weekend but this last one was great. it was. 80? we like that. 6:18. a growing debate about the tsa s new plan to allow small knives on airplanes. lawmakers are joining the fray. in particular, in new york, their senator charles schumer is critical of the policy changes. under the new guidelines, knives with blades less than 2.36 inches long and half inch wide will be allowed on board and must have a retractable blade that doesn t lock in place. you don t have to be albert einstein to know that these items are dangerous. but a knife like this can be used to hurt flight attendant, passengers. it turns out the knife the senator held up similar to those sold in office supply stores will not be allowed under the tsa s new policy. box cutters and raise blades are still banned. the new guidelines go into effect on april 25. president obama plans to make three visits to capitol hill this week hoping to build bipartisan support for a plan to roll back $85 billion in budget cuts. the visits will include two separate meetings with republican lawmakers who have refused to consider any plans that include tax increases. meanwhile, the senate today will unveil a plan to keep the government funded past march 27. it s unclear whether it will include an extension of the federal pay freeze. and you can find first lady michelle obama on twitter today. she will be answering questions on her let s move initiative. the program is celebrating its third anniversary this year. the let s move initiative aims to solve the problem of childhood obesity within a generation. another life-saving use for aspirin. researchers say it may lower the risk of a certain type of skin cancer. the study was published in the journal cancer, looked at nearly 60,000 women over 12 years. scientists found women who used aspirin had a 21% lower risk of momentum and the longer women took aspirin, the better women who used women who used it for five years or longer had a 30% lower risk. researchers didn t find the same link with other pain medications like acetaminophen. several nail biters for bay area sports teams. it s do or die the u.s. and canada in the world baseball classic. how did it end? we ll tell you coming up. high pressure now building in along the west coast. lots of sunshine coming our way. you will be surprised how warm these temperatures are going to get. we ll talk about that coming up. here we are. yes. in the world baseball classic the u.s. played a must- win game against canada yesterday. the canadians got on the scoreboard first. but in the 4th inning, ben bunts, taylor green rushes the throw and it pops wildly in the air. joe mauer scores to make it 2- 1. then adam jones in the gap with a two-run double in the 8th. united states wins 9-4. now headed to the next round in miami. well done. let s go to the ice where the rough ride for the sharks just continues. we are going to colorado in fact. last night san jose s logan couture tied the game up at 2 in the third period. there was hope and then with just a fraction of a second left in overtime matt dushane scored the game winner. colorado won 3-2. the sharks woes continue. a new star for the stanford women with the play of the day. sophomore amber orrange drives, spins and lays it up and in against uc la off the backboard. that s the winning bucket. the cardinals women win the pac- 12 tournament for the 7th time in a row. orrange came up big career high 20 points. stanford beat the bruins 51-49. and they will likely be a top seed in next week s ncaa. pretty good. 6:25 right now. coming up, not just a paycheck boost. how san jose s minimum wage high will benefit local businesses. plus, disturbing discovery here. how a man ended up getting crushed to death by a bart elevator. we ll have a live report. and we re following breaking news in san jose. police are investigating the city s ninth homicide of the year. what they re saying about the latest victim. dad: you excited for your first day? yeah. dad: you ll be fine, ok? girl: ok. dad: you look so pretty. i m overprotective. that s why i got a subaru. love. it s 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are calling it the charm offensive. the president reaching out to members of congress in both parties. time to start leading and the way you do that is quit poking your finger in people s eyes and start building relationships. and san jose workers get a bump in their paychecks. very, very happy about that. from across the bay to around the world, the stories that matter on kpix 5 news this morning. your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com good morning. it s monday, march 1 1. i m michelle griego. it is monday. hi, everyone. i m frank mallicoat. it is 6:30. and we have an update on that breaking news out of san jose. police are on the scene of the city s ninth murder of the year. kpix 5 reporter elissa harrington is on the scene. reporter: good morning. it s still a very active crime scene. police have closed off capitol avenue between capitol court and murtha drive where a man was found dead two hours ago. he was shot in the chest. police got the call around 4:30 this morning from some neighbors. a woman driving to work saw a man on the side of the road thought he was passed out. she called her husband. he also saw the man and called police. when officers arrived they pronounced the victim dead at the scene from a gunshot wound. his name hasn t been released but they say he is 30 years old and are speaking to neighbors to see if they heard or saw anything. we are doing a canvas right now. i believe we have one person saying they heard a disturbance, a fight between two people a little after 2:00 in the morning. reporter: police have made no arrests and say that they will not speculate at this point if this could have been gang-related. they say they don t know a motive because it s early in the investigation. the lieutenant did tell me, however, that they have made contact with the victims in this same neighborhood in the past. he would not say for what. but they do believe he probably lives in the area. in san jose, elissa harrington, kpix 5. thank you. this was san jose s ninth homicide this year, just last week a suspect was arrested for one of the earlier killings. new this morning, bart police are trying to figure out how an apartment homeless man got into an elevator shaft. the man s body was pulled out of the shaft early this morning after it was crushed by the elevator as it was going up. kpix 5 reporter cate caugiran is at the montgomery bart station this morning with more. cate. reporter: michelle, this will be an ongoing investigation. bart police are still trying to figure out how the man got into the elevator shaft in the first place. we see the elevator door is boarded up with wood and we saw the last of the crime tape was taken down moments ago. this was after the man s body was pulled out of the shaft early this morning. this happened just after 9:30 last night. bart police, san francisco police, and fire got a report a muni rider was stuck inside the montgomery bart elevator. the rider in the elevator told police he says he heard a crunching noise and then someone shouting in pain as the elevator stopped. when emergency crews got on scene they found a homeless man dead inside the shaft. one officer says this is the first incident he heard of in decades. i have been a member of the bart police department for 28 years and this is the first such case that i have been made aware of where someone has been killed inside of a bart station elevator shaft. police say the homeless man was wedged between the elevator and the wall of the shaft. officers say it appears he was sleeping and at the top and may have been crushed to death. now, authorities did find personal belongings at the scene at the top of the elevator, bedsheets among other items and still don t know if that belongs to the deceased man. live in san francisco, back to you. cate, is this affecting bart or muni service at all? reporter: when we were just there, michelle, it didn t appear it was affecting service at all today. and officers say it didn t affect service last night. thank you, cate caugiran live in san francisco. some developing news in afghanistan. two american servicemembers died today in an insider attack. u.s. officials say an afghan police officer opened fire inside a police station while u.s. forces were visiting there. three afghan policemen were also killed in the gun battle. also afghan officials say united states troops have shot and killed two afghan civilians as their truck was approaching an american convoy outside of kabul. north korea s main newspaper says the country has nullified the 1953 armistice that ended fighting in the korean war. the communist government is upset by last week s united nations vote to impose more sanctions because of north korea s nuclear activities. this comes as south korea and u.s. troops hold their annual military drills which north korea regularly claims are preparations for an invasion. san francisco s city leaders are condemning ads running on the sides of several muni buses in town. many refer to arabs and muslims as savages. the ads are paid for by the american freedom defense initiative. the sfmta has added disclaimers on the bus ads and the board of supervisors is expect to approve a resolution officially condemning the signs today. a popular berkeley restaurant will resume taking reservations today just days after it was damaged by fire. chez panisse canceled all reservations through march 23 but starting today plans to start taking new reservations for after that date. thousands of people in san jose will get a raise today, now makes $10 an hour. the $2 increase is because voters approved the pay hike in november. san jose mayor chuck reed is concerned though that some businesses will not be able to handle the hike in pay. he is concerned about the people who say they are likely to lose their jobs. as the minimum wage goes up, small businesses in particular will make accommodations, some will absorb the costs, some will pass it on to their customers and some will decrease jobs and lay people off. campaign is kicking off today to encourage people to spend extra earnings in san jose. so make a couple of extra bucks. stay right here at home. hi. why not? why not get out there and enjoy, right? we have plenty of sunshine coming our way and patchy fog at the immediate coastline and a few patches in the north bay but looking good as high pressure is kicking into gear for the next few days, the jet stream headed well north of the bay area now. so we are going to keep things dry. so enjoy that sunshine while we have it. looks like it is going to stick around and that means these temperatures will be heating up although starting out chilly in spots this morning, 36 in santa rosa, who in livermore, 41 in concord, 40 in livermore. sunshine and 73 degrees in morgan hill. 70 in san jose. 70 degrees in sunnyvale. east bay temperatures up in the mid-70s in some spots. 73 in antioch, 74 brentwood, 72 pleasanton. inside the bay cooler, a sea breeze, 50s into san francisco, mid-60s into oakland. more on your weather coming up. let s check the roads with elizabeth. and we re watching what sounds like a serious injury crash. police have already started shutting down streets through downtown half moon bay. in fact, both directions of highway 92 are shut downright now between highway 1 and highway 35. police are calling this a major injury crash possibly fatal. it was first reported around 6:00 this morning. so in terms of alternates, you will have to go a long way around this mess. highway 84 all the way down towards la honda or sharp park road is your best bet until they reopen streets in the area. quick look at westbound 580 backed up through the altamont pass and livermore. an accident is now in the center divide approaching north first street. they finally turned on the metering lights at the bay bridge toll plaza. so it s starting to stack up behind the pay gates but it looks good past the metering lights on the upper deck. that s traffic. back to you guys thank you. today is the second anniversary of the 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that killed nearly 19,000 people in japan. 300,000 people are still homeless two years after the quake in that devastating tsunami. an estimated 1.5 million tons of debris washed out to sea and some of it continues to show up on beaches around the pacific. there s still plenty of work to do at the santa cruz harbor, heavily damaged by the tsunami that came from japan. they expect to work through the summer to rebuild several of the destroyed docks. some docks at the harbor still have to be demolished and then replaced. 6:39 now. the conclave of cardinals will soon begin the process of selecting a new pope. we have a live look at vatican city where all the attention is on choosing a new leader for the roman catholic church. it could happen this week. today the cardinals are in their last day of general meetings, their final chance to get to know one another before selecting a new pope. they have now got to talk not about the issues of the church but who. they have to come up with a name, a person. some of the rumored front- runners include odilo scherer of brazil, and angelo scola of italy. and even two americans may have a shot, a long shot. boston cardinal sean o malley and new york cardinal timothy dolan. and there could be a victory today for the gay rights in the british empire. queen elizabeth is due to sign what s called the commonwealth charter today. it declares opposition to all forms of discrimination. sources suggest that gay rights are implied in that statement. the queen has tenant unusual step of asking to have television cameras on hand when she signs that charter today. time now is 6:40. coming up, tougher gun laws. the ambitious agenda being laid out by state lawmakers. plus, caught on camera. the blast that rocked a new jersey apartment complex coming up. 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[ male announcer ] call to get u-verse tv starting at $19 a month for 2 years with qualifying bundles. rethink possible. explosion injured five firefighters in new jersey. the fire broke out yesterday morning in a powerful explosion injured five firefighters, this is in new jersey over the weekend. the fire broke out yesterday morning in harrison and burned for hours before it was brought under control. the backdraft that caused the explosion is dangerous for even the most experienced fire crews. a battalion chief was badly injured. when that glass blew out, he got it all in his face and body. so he was bleeding profusely. the fire apparently started in a restaurant on the building s ground floor and spread towards a nearby apartment building. no civilian injuries were reported. but that battalion chief is still recovering. gun control now remains a hot button issue here in the bay area and sacramento in the wake of the sandy hook shooting. there s a number of new gun laws proposed at the state example. melissa griffin joins us. good morning. reporter: good morning. all right. so california already has some of the toughest gun laws in the country and it will get stricter, it sounds like. reporter: it is. the way it works in sacramento is all the bills that are going to be considered have to be proposed by the end of february. and then they spend the rest of the year figuring out what they are going to do with them. so this year the bills are in and there are 22 that relate to guns. here are some examples. number one, a law that would restrict gun shows from taking place at the cow palace unless the board of supervisors in san mateo and san francisco approve. good luck on that ever happening. attacks on bullets. a funding of $24 million to take guns away from people who have them unlawfully. we actually know who they are. we had need to go get them. tax credits for guns so people who give them away in time for april 15th. and various locking requirements for people who have criminals or people mentally incompetent in their homes. so that s just an example. there are plenty out there that the legislature is going to be considering. i would say that s an ambitious agenda. do they have a shot at getting some, all? reporter: they have to be democrats have with the extraordinary amount of power they have this year and such political will behind this you have to believe that they are rolling out their laundry list they wished they could have passed in prior years and trying to pass them this year. some of the republicans are feeling the heat and saying okay, we give. absolutely. reporter: just last week, an emergency measure was passed by republicans and democrat, not a single no vote to fund $24 million so the department of justice could take people who lawfully had guns or had restraining orders or committed crimes so they can t have them anymore. there are about 40,000 of those guns in california and they just passed emergency funding to enforce the law. that was passed without a no vote. republicans are going to oppose some things but with the democratic majority, there is no way even a coalition of moderate democrats and republicans can stop these things from happening. what will gun advocates do when these pass? reporter: some it won t make any difference for the law- abiding citizens but when you tax ammunition you have to believe that the folks in nevada are very excited about the prospect of people just crossing the border to buy cheaper ammo. so you will feel it. we already know people are going to these gun shows and buying up everything right now. gun sales have tripled in california in the past three years. they went from 500,000 to 1.3 million in the last year so people are definitely stocking up. you can bet if these laws pass they go into effect in january of next year, so when they pass, you may see a run on a number of different types of ammunition, et cetera, in order to get everything in the door before these take effect. all right. thank you, melissa. remember, you can find more of melissa s segments on our website, cbssf.com/mornings. have a good week. wall street s rally can t last forever. the dow is coming off a week that saw a number of records and the futures are down. let s kick it around. kcbs radio s financial reporter jason brooks on a monday. good morning. reporter: good morning. we knew the good times would end at some point but what a week for the stock market at last week. the dow with four straight record closes finished at 14,397 on friday. getting big help from the february jobs report which came in much better than expected with a gain of 236,000 jobs, going down from 7.9 to 7.7%. other positive reports helped out last week. better-than-expected court earnings and the fed maintaining its stimulus plan to keep rates low and buying up mortgage-backed securities and bonds fueling the market. nothing on the calendar today so the market is opening up lower. let s see. dow down 14, nasdaq down 5, s&p lower by 2. back to you. thank you. what goes up has to come down eventually. thank you, jason brooks. time now for a look at what s coming up later on cbs this morning. and norah o donnell has made the trip to vatican city. she joins us live now with the very latest there. good morning. or good afternoon, i guess, right? reporter: that s right, it is afternoon here. good day to you, frank and michelle. we are right near st. peter s square an unbelievable sight since we are talking about choosing a pope. with the excitement building here in vatican city, we ll show you how it will all unfold. plus we have clues behind who are the top contenders including some americans. also, former sitcom star valerie harper opens up about her incurable brain cancer. you will hear a message of courage and hope in her first television interview since being diagnosed. the news is back in the mornings. so we ll see you guys live from here in vatican city at 7:00. we look forward to. cbs this morning starts at 7:00. a rare comet will be racing across the bay area this week. and you wouldn t need a telescope to check it out. pan-starrs, that s what it s called, will be visible by the naked eye just after sunset tonight but the glow of the twilight could make it hard to see. astronomers say just look at the left of the setting sun. you will see a fuzzy star with a little bit of a tail. it will be easiest to spot on tuesday and wednesday and twilight because it will be near the moon. so that should be fun. i know at least one person who will be out there watching. yes. those are one of the most amazing things to see it. i remember one that was more spectacular and there will be a better one at the end of the year as bright as venus. lots of brightness in the bay area sunshine just about for everyone and temperatures heating up. high pressure now building in overhead. and even a weak offshore wind has brought with us mostly clear skies except we have some patchy fog at the coast. lots of sunshine by the afternoon. and some warmer weather. and dry and warm weather as we head in through the middle of the week feeling like spring outside which is really not that far away. over the bay looking good so far. the temperatures running into the 30s and 40s early on. but by the afternoon, just going to be a beautiful day a very strong ridge of high pressure now setting itself up. that will send the jet stream well to the north staying dry as it looks like we are going to see that ridge strengthen for the next few days. out of sfo today no delays there, mostly sunny toward the afternoon. across the country not too bad either as we ll see some sunshine and clouds into houston at 66. 53, mostly cloudy into denver. rain in chicago and 53 and cloudy in new york. around the bay today we are looking at temperatures running into the 70s into san jose, 73 in morgan hill, cool 57 degrees in pacifica, sunshine and mid- 70s into brentwood. 71 livermore. 70 vallejo. as you get inside the bay mid- 60s into oakland. upper 50s into san francisco. and 71 in santa rosa. next couple of days these temperatures really heating up near 80 degrees by wednesday. then cooling down a little bit much cooler and cloudy over the weekend. liz? unfortunately we have some major problems right now getting into and out of half moon bay. they have shut down about a five-mile stretch of highway 92. there s a major injury crash just east of half moon bay. so again that direction both directions of 92 between main street and highway 35, this is about two miles east of main street where the accident happened near lima farm near the turnoff for the landfill. so traffic is being turned and. they are being detoured around the area while police investigate. unfortunately, there s a pretty long way around this. you can head south on highway 1 towards highway 84 near la honda or go north by sharp park road in pacifica. we are also following some super slow traffic this morning at the altamont pass and livermore because of an earlier crash that was approaching north first street. it s backed up through the area even beyond the earlier accident. towards airway boulevard so heads up if your commute takes you anywhere near that area. let s go towards our live traffic cameras. we have more cameras near 880 in oakland near 66. there was a small grassfire at northbound 880 near high street. it s minor. no lanes blocked. and once again, this is a live look near the oakland cal seem. that is your timesaver traffic this is a live look near the oakland coliseum. this is your timesaver traffic. for the first time in three months gas prices dipped, 6 cents. nation wise average is 3.74. the average in san francisco is 4:15 a gallon. in oakland it s 4:10. in san jose, 4.11. the low he was average gas price in california is in sacramento the low he was average gas price in california is in sacramento at 4.02 a gallon. look how much more we pay than the national average. whatever. 6:54. coming up, we ll have a final check of your top stories. plus, a fire breathing octopus on the streets of san francisco. we ll explain. coming up after the break. 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