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the chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. iller, for five minutes. mr. miller: mr. speaker, i recently returned from a trip to bangladesh where more than 1,100 garment workers died and ,000 were injured in the plaza building collapse on april 24. many americans may remember the horrible pictures of workers being buried under tons of concrete from the collapsed building. i learned a great deal about what must be done to improve safety conditions and garment industry there. bangladesh is the second largest garment producing nation, employing over four million skilled and industrious workers, mostly women, at a minimum wage of $37 a month. i learned that many factories continue to operate in unsafe residential or multistoried commercial buildings even after the building collapse. i learned more about poor conditions created by a mire of middlemen hired by retailers to pit one factory against the next, squeezing out the last few pennies for garments. i learned that
the romney sons open up about their dad, the pledge for the when you say and what they plan to do to win. why one of them calls him goofy. jersey shore meets georgia pine. newt gingrich and snooki together at last. good morning from washington, d.c. thursday, july 19th, 2012. this is the daily rundown. let s get to the first reads of the morning. president obama s sunshine state swing comes today as three new polls show the race is razor tight and declining confidence in the economy remains a president s biggest challenge. new polls of the new york times and cbs news and fox news and npr show it s margin of error race. 47% to 46%. 47% to 45%. the president s job rating underwater in two of the polls and the npr poll that shows him doing better than the other two still has him under 50%. why is obama facing such a tough environment? voters feeling the sluggish economy and the new york times poll 39% said they approve of the handling of the economy. 55% disapprove. th
didn t build that. somebody else made that happen. my father s hands didn t build this company? my hands didn t build this company? my son s hands aren t building this company? but the negative stories on romney s taxes and his time at bain are not going away. the l.a. times reporting bian capital started with offshore investors and tapped a roster of investors raising a third of the first $37 million investment fund from wealthy foreigners. most of the foreign investors money came through corporations registered in panama. and then known for tax advantages and unusual banking secrecy. in an interview with abc news this morning, anne romney was asked to respond to thebain attacks and she came out swinging. i was beneath the dignity of the office of the president to do something as egregious as that. to attack somebody on that level is i believe beneath his dignity. nbc s senior political editor mark murray is here. he joins me now. and mark, fascinating numbers on
delight you. show you how that went. first, let s get to the news live at 5:30 a.m. trafalgar square in london on this tuesday, april 26th. the u.s. state department is now urging american citizens to leave syria as soon as possible. also asking them to defer all travel to the nation. the travel warning comes as syria s government ramps up its attacks against pro-reform demonstrators. witnesses say thousands of soldiers backed by tanks and sniper have open fire on the city 60 miles of damascus. reports say at least 11 people have been killed. some estimates put the death toll at clashes at more than 350 people since mid-march. while the obama administration is facing criticism for not doing enough to stem the violence while doing plenty in other places, press sect carney says the white house is readying a response. we are pursuing a rarng of possible options including targeted sanctions. we re looking at different ways to make clear to the syrian government how appalling