First 45 minutes, reaction to the decision to hear two cases regarding gay marriage. One with the defense of marriage act and the other looking at proposition 8. The first 45 minutes, if you want to weigh in on the decision of the Supreme Court, here is how you can do so. The numbers if you want to send us a tweet here is the front page of the oakland tribune. That is the setting for one of the cases the justices will hear. It gives a little bit of the text put into place when it was signed into law. This is part of section 7. And determining the ruling regulation of the bureau and agencies of the United States, the word marriage means only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife, and the words bouse refers only to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or wife. One of looking at a state militia and the other looking at a federal issue, two cases, and a decision expected by june. If you want to wait and, the numbers are on your screen. If you want to weig
Attended of any subcommittee in the Natural Resources committee that wasnt a loaded partisan title full of loaded partisan content with a loaded partisan agenda. This is an important subject. We can all be interested and gauged and might get something done together that can help the country. We need more hearings like this. And as much as anything, i wanted to be here to express that and thank you for it. With that, ill yield the balance of my time to Ranking Member holt. I thank representative huffman. Let me make two general comments. First, following on the line of our Ranking Members comments. The mentality here in washington is a very pessimistic mentality, and mr. Defazio points up one aspect that have. Here in the richest country in the world, by far, undenially, doesnt act as if we have a future. What invests, one builds infrastructure, one sponsors research. When we believe we have a future. Instead we talk about cut, cut, cut here. It is a fundamental problem. The chairman sa
Another five minutes of questioning. Mr. Huffman of california. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I wanted to be at the hearing because i represent earthquake country, tsunami country. I think its an important subject with some helpful testimony. I want to thank the witnesses for their contributions. Mr. Chairman, i also wanted to be here to thank you. As a new member of congress, thing is the first hearing ive attended of any subcommittee in the Natural Resources committee that wasnt a loaded partisan title full of loaded partisan content with a loaded partisan agenda. This is an important subject. We can all be interested and gauged and might get something done together that can help the country. We need more hearings like this. And as much as anything, i wanted to be here to express that and thank you for it. With that, ill yield the balance of my time to Ranking Member holt. I thank representative huffman. Let me make two general comments. First, following on the line of our Ranking Members
So those puzzle pieces now are coming together and they add up far more to dangerous behavior not just nuisance behavior. Rose from tragedy in washington to chemical weapons in syria we talk to david sanger of the New York Times and gary sam mortar of harvard, he is a former proliferation expert in the obama administration. As we get into this agreement and as we get into the destruction phase which is supposed to take place in november i can imagine the Assad Government saying wait a second im not going to give up my chemical weapons if youre sending weapons to the opposition. So this whole thing could become very complicated for the administration if it interferes with what i think is an effort on the part of the white house to step up support for the opposition. Rose tragedy in washington and chemical weapons in syria. Next. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose we begin with the tragedy in washington. Investigators
Sam mortar of harvard, he is a former proliferation expert in the obama administration. As we get into this agreement and as we get into the destruction phase which is supposed to take place in november i can imagine the Assad Government saying wait a second im not going to give up my chemical weapons if youre sending weapons to the opposition. So this whole thing could become very complicated for the administration if it interferes with what i think is an effort on the part of the white house to step up support for the opposition. Rose tragedy in washington and chemical weapons in syria. Next. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose we begin with the tragedy in washington. Investigators look for clues as to why fworpler u. S. Navy reservists opened fire inside a Washington Building inside the Washington Navy yard on monday. The f. B. I. Has identified the shooter as 4yearold contractor aaron alexis. Yesterday he walked