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reid mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be terminated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask the chair to lay before the senate a message from the house with respect to h.r. 3230. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the amendment. the clerk: resolved that the house agree to the amendment of the senate to the title of the bill, h.r. 3230, that the house agree to the amendment of the senate to the text of the bill

with an amendment. resolved that the house insist upon its amendment to the senate amendment to the text of the bill and ask for a conference with the senate on the disagreeing votes of the two houses thereon. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the senate insist on its amendment, agree to the request for a conference with the house and authorize the chair to appoint conferees with a ratio of eight democrats and six republicans, with all of the above occurring with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. the chair appoints the following conferees. as members of the conference committee on the part of the senate. the clerk: senators sanders, rockefeller, murray, brown, tester, begich, blumenthal, hirono, burr, isakson, johanns, mccain, coburn and rubio.

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unanimous consent that the call of the quorum be terminated. officer without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that the senate now proceed to a period of morning business, senators allowed to speak up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent we now proceed as a body to calendar number 352. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 352, s. 1237, a bill to improve the administration of programs in the insular areas and for other purposes. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the committee-reported substitute amendment be considered, the murkowski amendment be agreed to, the substitute amendment be agreed to, the bill as amended be read a third time and passed, and the motion to reconsider be laid on the table, with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i now ask the -- with the direction of the chair, the clerk to report s. 2491,

which is due for its first reading tonight. the presiding officer: the clerk will read the title for the first time. the clerk: s. 2491, a bill to protect the medicare program under title 18 of the social security act with respect to reconciliation involving changes to the medicare pravmen program. scried for its second reading but object to my own request. the presiding officer: objection is heard. mr. reid: mr. president, this bill is -- the presiding officer: the bill will be wred for a second time on the next legislative day. mr. reid: mr. president, this bill is long overduement i appreciate very much the work done by the author of this legislation, the senior senator from arkansas, senator pryor. i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today it adjourn until tomorrow morning at 9:30 a.m., june 19. following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the journal of proceedings be approved to date, the time for tbot leaders be reserved for their use later in the day. following any leader remarks,

the senate be in a period of morning business for an hour. senators be allowed to speak for up to ten minutes each with the time equally divided and controlled between the two leaders or their designees, with the republicans controlling the first half and the majority the final havment following that morning business, the senate resume consideration of the motion to proceed to h.r. 4660 and all but two hours of postcloture time be considered expired. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: mr. president, if there is no further business to come before the senate, i ask had a it adjourn under the previous order. the presiding officer: the the presiding officer: the

>> the thesis of the book is very a whole swath of america bad is being ignored, left behind, not included in the discussion i thought from either party. particularly although i would argue the republican party and i

call the conservatives, the folks out there that are working people most of whom did -- whom don't have college degrees, folks that still understand the value of work and the importance of work and responsibility and people who understanunderstand the importance of family and faith, believe in freedom and limited government. you say wow those are conservative republican voters in many cases they are not. in fact a lot of them aren't voting at all because they don't really see either party talking to them about the concerns they have been trying to create an opportunity for them to live the american dream.

british prime minister david cameron at eight members in the house of commons on the escalating violence in iraq and the decision to reengage in talks with iran. he also announced that the u.k. government would increase humanitarian aid. he made the comments at this morning's question time. it's about a half-hour. >> order. questions to the prime minister. mr. kennan brennan. >> thank you mr. speaker. the prime minister. >> thank you mr. speaker. minister colleagues and others in addition i shall have further such meetings later today. >> thank you mr. speaker. i spoke yesterday to my constituent thompson who let constituents across the house was anxious because of his sons

passport had arrived on time. she was quite shocked to find that the passport agency returned a surplus of 73 million pounds. what does it say about the values of his government that the chancellor is made into profits over her constituents misery? >> first of all what i would say to his constituent and indeed any other constituent in this house this is an important issue. it is a difficult issue. we must get it right is this. anyone who needs to travel within the next weekend who has waited more than three weeks through no fault of their own will be fast-tracked at no extra cost of a can get a passport in time because i don't want anyone to miss their holiday because of these difficulties. in terms of what has happened we have seen a 15% increase over the last week in the number of passports being processed that we need to go faster. the home secretary will be updating the house this afternoon.

>> is the prime minister aware of the growing sentiment that is the publication of the report has been so long delayed the ancient but -- back insures to commence the procedures of impeachment should now be activated to bring mr. tony blair to account? for allegedly misleading the house on the necessity of the invasion of iraq in 2003. >> i would say to my right honorable friend and father of the house it's important that we see the results of the iraq inquiry and have access to all of the papers to all of the officials, to all of the ministers and frankly what i would say is if the iraq inquiry

had started when this party and indeed when the liberal democrats suggested it that actually we would have seen the iraq inquiry published by now. but members opposite including incidentally the leader of the oppositiooppositio n voted against starting the iraq inquiry on three or four occasions. >> ed miliband. >> mr. speaker all of us are appalled by the images of the brutal aggression of isis spreading across iraq terrorizing its citizens undermining his fragile democracy. iraq is facing fundamental threats to its ability. can the prime minister provide the house with his latest assessment of the situation in iraq and following the welcome appearance yesterday of prime minister maliki with kurdish and sunni representatives calling for national unity can he say far more can he believe can be done to encourage a more inclusive and representative

government which is essential for the future of iraq lacks. >> first of all the leader of the opposition is absolutely right that one of the crucial things that needs to happen is for the iraqi government to take a more inclusive approach towards shia-sunni and kurd as the importance constituent parts of iraq critic until the house of the latest reports indicate the fighting is continuing on the front room samarra to baqubah. the oil refinery in tikrit is currently under attack by i still an the peshmerga are fighting isil three there's a large-scale improvement of other young recruits the iraqi armed forces and it's vital that precedes and isil is pushback by the iraqis. the absolutely key thing to recognize here is that when you get this combination of poor governance of ungoverned spaces and support for extremism that provides an opportunity for the terrorists and we have to address this on each of those three fronts supporting the iraqi government.

>> ed miliband. >> i grew the prime minister this crisis is not only affecting ike rack that has consequences for the world including u.k.. contemplating including the border agency in the home office to ensure british cannot return here and engage in violent extremism or terrorism waxing can you say what the government is doing to prevent people in this country becoming radicalized and traveling to the region in order to fight? >> i believe this is the correct focus as i said yesterday our approach to this issue must be based on a hardheaded assessment of our national interest and most important of all how to keep our citizens safe here at home and the leader of the opposition asked specifically about the actions we are taking. we will be legislating the session of parliament to make the planning of terrorist attacks overseas illegal here in the u.k.. we will be making sure security intelligence and policing resources are focused particularly on this part of the world and the danger of british people traveling there becoming

radicalized and returning to the u.k.. we have already stopped a number of people traveling. we have taken we passports including using the new powers who we legislated for in the last parliament and we continue to do everything we can to keep our country safe. >> ed miliband. >> are there further measures as we look at those. i want to talk about iran and its role in this crisis. we support the announcement made yesterday by the foreign secretary to reopen the british embassy in tehran and the dialogue started in the foreign with his counterpart at the challenge we face in iraq is that although iran opposes isis the iranian regime in the past is shown that it does not support the vision for inclusive democratic state in iraq so can he get the house's current assessment and the governments of the willingness and intent of the current iranian regime to play a cousin's construct tip rather than divisive role in helping to resolve the iraqi crisis?

>> i am bank -- grateful for the cross party approach. i think it's important to reengage with dialogue with iran and that is why we are planning to reopen the embassy. think they should be done on the step-by-step basis. as they said it should be done with a clear eye and a very hardheaded because we know of the things that happened to our embassy in 2011. two people who say there's they're some sort of inconsistency with having dealt with iran about the same time recognizing how much they have done to destabilize the region i would say when wendy's take a consistent approach with all the players in this region which is to say that we support the voices of moderation, the voices that support democracy inclusive government pluralistic politics under the rule of law and we need the iranian government to play that role as well as everybody else. >> ed miliband. >> the broader context is the rotter schism across the region. as he greets me that is not just

iran but other significant countries across the region that have a huge responsibility not to take steps or further fuel the sectarian conflict and mr. speaker that includes support from extreme mix group including isis. will the prime is to make clear in his conversations with all countries in the region that apple simply fuel the conflict? >> i think that's absolutely right that whatever we are looking to do whether it is to support the voices of moderation and democracy in syria, whether it is trying to help the iraqi government closed down this ungoverned space in iraq more indeed the conversations we have with other regional players it's very important we are consistent with an engagement and we oppose extremism terrorism and violence. let me just reassure the house that when it comes to the support that we have given to rebels in syria that we do that through the official syrian opposition who are committed to those things and not to extremism violence and terrorism

and our engagement with the saudi arabians with emirates and others is all on the basis that none of the should be supporting those violence terrorists or extremists. >> ed miliband. >> the humanitarian situation in the region and the consequences that is happening in the arab rack we have jordan who is dealing with the huge refugee crisis and events in iraq than to make that worse. britain is doing a good job of providing a wealth of humanitarian support in the refugee camps but mr. speaker there are more refugees outside the camps and inside the camps. what further practical measures to as the prime minister believed he can take to support countries like jordan and lebanon affected by this crisis? >> first of all we remain when it comes to syria and the syrian refugees situation remained the second largest financial aid donor anywhere in the world which i think is something britain can be proud of. we are providing shelter or food clothing and support for millions of people who have been

made homeless by that conflict. when it comes to supporting the neighboring countries we have given some direct help to jordan because the increase in the population and jordan and indeed in lebanon is equivalent effectively if we think about it in our own terms of 50 million people coming here to the u.k.. in terms of the iraq humanitarian situation where there is an emerging humanitarian problem because of people being displaced because of the isil murderous regime we have already announced 3 million pounds of aid, humanitarian aid to people displaced in that region and i can announce we will be increasing that to 5 million pounds so yet again britain will play its role for those who through no fault of their own have been displaced by conflict and face a very difficult situation read. >> i hope you will continue to look the more they can be done for the infrastructure in countries like jordan. let me say this by my mr. speaker everything we are seeing across this region begs

the fundamental question whether it can develop a politics where people live alongside each other citizens rather than dividing along sectarian ethnic or religious lines and the sea for any agree with me that while the can and should provide assistance to make that happen in the end it's about the political will of those in the region that will determine whether this happens or not. >> i agree with the right honorable gentleman but i think it would be a mistake to believe that the only answer to these problems is the heart attack of direct intervention. we know that can create problems in itself but i also disagree with those people who think this is nothing to do with us and if they want to have some sort of extreme islamist regime in the middle of iraq to affect us at will. the people in that regime as well as taking territory are planning to attack us here at home in united kingdom so the right answer is to be long-term

hardheaded patient and intelligent with the interventions that we make and the most important invention of all is to make sure that these governments are fully representative of the people who live in those countries that they close down the ungoverned space in the removed the support from the extremists. if we do that not just in syria but we have to help in iraq in somalia and nigeria and mali because these problems will come back and hit us at home if we don't. >> mr. speaker. this week construction begins on the university temple college sponsored by miller education trust and in its students will receive first-class academic education but also real preparation for real jobs in the real world. with the prime minister encourage young people to explore there'll are tenants in this wonderful offer? >> what i can say to my honorable friend is i then that we are doing all we can to help

get the wall for university technical college to open stores in september so that the students can start to benefit. what i would say these technical colleges i think they were resent filling in one of the missing links in our education system that was left off in the second world war where ironically we help the germans establish good technical skills but didn't put them in place here in united kingdom. i'm very proud of leading a government that puts that right. >> tasha angle. >> thank you mr. speaker. three large practices in the most deprived area are facing crisis. in england we are least 10,000 gp short of what we need so it's no surprise that people can't get an appointment. labor is posting a 48-hour wait to see a gp. >> what i say to the honorable lady is first of all in order to provide more gps we need to

provide money and this government has increase spending on the nhs when we were told by the party opposite it was irresponsible and what we see in rhs today is 7000 more.there's, more nurses, more midwives that 19,000 fewer bureaucrats. i think that is absolutely vital in providing the health services that we need. >> the prime minister knows the detailed response from our consistency. just up the river rea in the midst of volunteering action and redbaiting the historic land grant since 2009. [inaudible] will will he welcome all the jobs that will bring? >> i'm delighted to welcome that and of course recommend that they take advantage of the one cut not just in this budget for

the previous budget. i know my hats off unacceptably from this air pollution problem and they are happy to discuss that with her. in terms of community i think we are seeing growth and i think that's also to the good and welcome of course if we introduce the community right to bid that is enabled a number of communities to take hold of these facilities and operate them for the use of the public. >> thank you mr. speaker. in his recent report on the elizabeth hospital in woolwich the cq seeds praised the staff are remain kind caring and respectful of high-handed serious capacity constraints in the aea department. as a premise or remember a year ago before being stopped by judicial review his government propose to close the a&e department in the neighboring hospital on the already overstretched queen elizabeth? what lessons are being learned from that serious error in

judgment? >> the most important thing with their health services to praise good service when we see it but to recognize when we see poor service it has to be turned around and we are very clear about the turnaround for that is being done in many of our hospitals that were left year after year under labour labor. the house might be interested to know that the average amount of time you wait at a and e. was 77 minutes when labor was in power and it's now 30 minutes under this government. >> thank you mr. speaker. can the prime minister advice my constituents what action the government is taking to ensure that regeneration received the necessary public service infrastructure to support the increase in population? >> my honorable friend makes an important point. they're they're obviously things that have helped to make sure the local authorities can put in place infrastructure. we have revised and strengthened

planning guidance to ensure the infrastructure is provided to support the development and my honorable friend will note in honor of the tensely franchise there will be growing stock on line and by the end of 2018 there will be more seats on trains running on time which i hope is welcome to his constituents. >> nicholas brown. >> does the premise or believe the underlying causes for the 2 billion-pound deficit forecast for the english national health service trust for next year and what are his remedies? >> the estimates being made today are being made on the basis that we have set challenges for the nhs in terms of making efficiencies and while i can report to the house after four years in government is they have met those efficiency challenges every single year under this government and that money has been plowed back into better patient care in our nhs. the great question for the nhs

in british politics today i would argue is why is it in wales when labor are under control 8% cuts were made in the nhs budget? they are stuck on waiting list desperate for treatment. >> thank you mr. speaker. will my right honorable friend join me in congratulating the england women's party collects the success in the world clock -- qualifiers on and off the pitch women are delivering for england. more women in employment more women setting up businesses so will the prime minister confirm that in our long-term economic plan will he be sure that the women can continue to score the goals and nobody is left behind? >> i'm very happy to join my honorable friend as a fan of not

just the england football team but the end when cricket team. i actually have a the great pleasure of having representatives of the women's football and cricket team recently. i've made a point to them they seem to put us through considerably less heartache stress and worry when they are qualifying for these major competitions and when they're winning the ashes. there's good news to celebrate which is female employment is at a record high in our country and there are nearly 700,000 more women and work and we are seeing more women entrepreneurs starting businesses. we are making sure it's fair for women. i believe this government has a good record but their size more to be done. >> mr. speaker exactly 20 years ago to the day gunmen gunman went into a pub and mike constituency and killed six men and widespread claims about

collusion and police cover-up. the families have never received truth and justice. only two weeks ago the place ensured that the police investigation was stalled. doesn't prime minister read with my -- agree with me that all u.k. police services must cooperate fully with their oversight authorities both to the letter and this bread to ensure that families that i represent in laughland island received truth and justice? >> i agree with the honorable lady that everyone should cooperate in i believe the police system in northern ireland is a multiple that other countries are looking to follow something i discussed quite recently in terms of what happens in the republic of ireland. i very much hope the working continue between the parties to discuss the house principles in the house ideas for flags

parades and the pass and i hope everyone can come together and sort these issues out. >> thank you mr. speaker. youth unemployment is down business creation is up and what i would say to the prime minister is does he not agree that this clearly shows their long-term -- and will the prime minister join with me in welcoming the new creation of university technical college which will ensure that our future generations have the right --. >> i'm delighted to say to the honorable gentleman that youth unemployment which is none too high for too long in our country is down by 25% this year in his constituency and long-term youth unemployment is down 41%. he makes a point as well about university technical colleges. i want to see one of these in every major town or country say we really give young people the

opportunity of a good technical education to if that is what they choose in those schools are well-funded well-resourced and also partnering in his case partnering with a good organizations. >> how is the campaign going to stop mr. yunker? >> it's a simple issue of principle. much more connected to the principle than the name and the principle is this and i think it will be shared on every side of the house that the members of the european council who are the elected prime ministers and the elected presidents under the treatise we should choose who runs the european commission. and i don't mind how many people on european council disagree with my i will fight this right to the very end. and what i would say, what i would say to my colleagues on the european council many of whom have expressed interesting views about his principle and

his person if you want reform in europe you have got to stand up for it. if you want change in europe you have to vote for it. that is the message that i will take and that is the right message for our country. >> thank you mr. speaker. last year cabinets officers ministers set relocation of staff out to expensive london offices to other regions continues to be high on the agenda to deliver the savings needed. will the prime minister looked to move some of those jobs to cleveland where we have low-cost offices affordable housing people ready to work and the great lifestyle? >> my honorable friends makes an important point about jobs and of course we want to see that develop developed. i know it was disappointing about the changes to the

insolvency service and stockton last year but one of the reasons that happened is because there has been such a sharp fall in bankruptcy and company closures which is a welcome development. overall as he knows rising in the northeast by 47,000 last year but we need to make sure we generate not just private-sector jobs but where we can public sector jobs to different parts of the country and we continue that. >> thank you mr. speaker. how many people in this country are fighting for isis and what rest is opposed to the u.k.? >> estimates that having given so far is that around 400 people from the u.k. have taken part in fighting with isis but those numbers are much more based around what is happening in syria rather than what is happening in iraq where we have considerably less information. what i can say to the right honorable lady is together with the home secretary and others

with a series of meetings in whitehall to make sure policing services are focused as sharply as they can on to this problem. the estimates are now but this is a greater threat to the u.k. than in return of foreign jihadi's are fighters from afghanistan or pakistan region and we to make sure we are doing everything i we can as i said to keep our country safe. >> thank you mr. speaker. while it is good news that the deficit has been cut by a third they're still way of helping our country is to set back all the convicted criminals who are foreign nationals and costing british taxpayers hundreds of millions of pounds each year to keep in our prisons. all too often attempts to send back these criminals are -- by human rights legislation. what plans of the prime minister have to put an end to this ludicrous state of affairs? see what i would say to the

right honorable friend as i absolutely agree we need to do more on this front. we have removed around 20,000 foreign national defender since this government -- i have a lot of individual territories particularly those with the highest number of foreign offenders in countries like nigeria, jamaica, vietnam, china to make sure we make progress on returning these prisoners. we also need to use the prisoner transfer agreement within the european union because that could lead to a large return of prisoners not the least poland but we have to keep our pressure on this and i also believe if we have a conservatism after the next election we will have a substantive reform to their rights act which is not working. >> mr. speaker last month the national house service missed its target for the very first time. what does the prime minister have to say to patients and their families who had to put

their lives on hold waiting for vital treatment to start? >> there is no family in this country that isn't affected by cancer and the difficulties in making sure you get the treatment they need as fast as you can. we have a series of targets for cancer treatment and we are meeting almost all of them. we have seen an increase in 15% in terms of the number of people that are being treated for cancer and of course we have introduced something that never existed under the previous government and that is the cancer drug. she will probably know people in her own constituency just as i know people in my constituency who are getting medicines that they need that they have never gotten before. >> the prime minister will not have the economic coverage is being led by the private sector creating thousands of new jobs and exploding across the globe. will the command businesses who support their efforts to ask for

more but on our plans to upgrade infrastructure across essex? >> as i said before where it essex leads the rest of the country follows in terms of economic recover their growth entrepreneurism employing more people. that's exactly what the economy needs. that is what our economic plan is delivering. last week we saw that increase in employment. this week we have seen inflation fall to a five-year low and i had very successful meetings yesterday with the chinese premier signing 14 billion pounds worth of important deals that will bring jobs growth and investment to this country but we have got to keep working on every aspect of our plan including improving exports to the fastest-growing countries. >> thank you mr. speaker. the prime mission made a strong case for making constitutional arrangements whatever outcome in september. will he accept that there

evolution and angwin outside of england is unfinished business. it will require radically reformed funding structures and strategically elect did --. >> yes the honorable lady knows i'm a fan of directly elected for ayers that the people of buckingham had their chance to elect a mayor and they didn't elect a mayor. in london liverpool and bristol and other parts of our country and they will see their benefits from that but where i agree with her is even if we don't move to a mayoral system there's more we can do through city deals through local enterprise partnerships through evolving some of the funding in whitehall further down towards cities and regions all working to the good and i think what is worthwhile and welcome is the fact that her party has not decided to harass pins policy review partnerships but in stead to extend them and

i think it's good we have cross party agreement on how to drive this devolution to our great cities around the country. >> on behalf of my constituents may i thank the prime minister for his swift and effective action in giving what is an effective costume is honor to my constituent stevens someday. with the economic plan now working well how can we build on that and how can we build on the legacy for giving to charitable purposes? >> stephen was an absolutely inspiring and his zest for life even as he was suffering from a very difficult progress of cancer was completely extraordinary and very inspiring. he raised a huge amount of money for teenage cancer services and raised it around the world as well as the u.k.. i think it's right right that are on our system does properly

reward people that give to charity to give of their time and from the very bottom to the very top. i think is probably more we can do to make sure that our honor system really reflects what the british public wants which is t. see given and generosity rewarded. >> thank you mr. speaker. the prime minister may recollect a few months ago i asked him to meet the victims of the drug chemicals. there are over 50 of them coming to parliament today and i would ask if you would see them and look at the document we produced to show that -- new this drug was causing deformities in babies and no one has done anything about it. >> i don't think i will be i'm afraid today to see constituents and in the people people she is brought to the house of commons and i'm happy to have another conversation with her about what can be done and to understand what more can be communicated to these people so perhaps we can set that up.

>> mr. speaker welcoming the chinese premier mr. lee to this country and recognizing that china is one of the greatest export -- can i asked the prime minister to use his good offices to unblock the barrier to the exported pigs feet for human consumption which will bring thousands of pounds and insure the long-term economic growth? >> i will certainly take up my right honorable friend on that issue. i recall in a previous visit to china we unlocked the exported seaman to china so we made progress. i seem to remember the press release referring to the society sorry about that one. i will look very carefully at pigs feet and it exports can be allowed in if jobs can be promoted or that i will be very happy to help. >> mr. speaker notwithstanding serious problems elsewhere does

the prime minister share my concern about the crisis in south sudan where 4 million people are facing famine? what steps are being taken to implement the peace process? >> in discussing this issue yesterday with a archbishop he had himself been with the local church leaders in the town which had been the subject of some of the most serious fighting in a way is a very different part of the world than what we were discussing earlier but some of the same rules apply. we need a government that governs on behalf of all the people in that country and is not trying to divide the country along ethnic lines. we will do what we can again and from a talk about intervention in this country intervention through diplomacy. aids through assistance or advice and we will continue to do that good work. >> you sir william cash.

>> thank you mr. speaker. is my right honorable friend aware that at the conference this weekend in athens the national chairman of the european select committees, the delegates from both parties but also chairman of the european parliament committees as well, that the british delegation defeated an attempt to treat the word euro skepticism as an equivalent to xenophobia and racism and furthermore the unprecedented procedure relating to the opposed appointment or election of mr. -- that the conference also agreed with the british delegation that this was an unprecedented and unacceptable and unsuccessful procedure?

>> no surprises that my verbal friend was successful in this very important negotiation on behalf of britain and there is support right around europe for the concept of the ministers making these choices. but as i say it requires elected prime ministers and presidents to vote the way they believe. we have been slightly delayed but there are commendations that i want to make. >> thank you mr. speaker. on the prime minister's watch five gp surgeries face closure my borough and 98 nationally. is this what the prime mr. meant winning promise to protect the nhs? >> when i -- what i meant was just that. we are spending 12.7 billion pounds on the nhs nhs which labour said was a responsible. we have 7000 more doctors and nhs and 3000 more nurses. we have over 1000 more midwives and nhs but there's something we have less. we have 90,000 fewer bureaucrats

and that has been piled into patient care including primary care around the country. >> the people of newark had a chance to get better quit it with the prime minister this past month. i regret to inform the prime minister that the town of southwell in my constituency was again flooded last week. with the way the prime minister confirm his commitment to those in nottingham severely affected by the floods of 2013 receives similar grants to those elsewhere in the country flooded at the beginning of this year? >> first of all can i welcome my honorable friend for what was a long arduous but very positive election campaign. my honorable friend makes an important point that in nottingham and also elsewhere

that flooding in 2013 award eligible for some of the payments made subsequent to the flooding in the turn of the last year to support farmers and other sorts of proposals. we are looking at this whether we can put back to the 2013 financially the eligibility criteria for that flood work. i will look at very carefully and talk with my right elbow friend the secretary of state for the local government and communities and see if we can resolve this issue for my right honorable friend. order. >> the thesis of the book is there's a whole group of people in america and the big swath of america that are being it nord, left behind not included in the discussion i think for our either party particularly though i would argue the republican party. i call them blue-collar conservatives, the folks out there that are working people

most of whom don't have college degrees, folks that really still understand the value pork and the importance of work and responsibility and people who understand the importance of family and faith, belief in freedom and limited government. you say well those are conservative republican voters and in many cases they are not. in fact a lot of them aren't voting at all because they don't really see either party talking to them about the concerns they have been trying to create an opportunity for them to live the american dream.

eric cantor stepped down as majority leader on july 31. house leadership elections gop elections are thursday. we are joined by daniel neuhaus on capitol hill a reporter with cq roll call. the majority leader kevin

mccarthy versus psychocongressman labrador what are the efforts on both sides and tour the major supporters? >> kevin mccarthy is the maturity with said he is the natural successor to cancer. he ramped up his operation early with some top committee chairman appropriations committee chairman hal rogers and ways and means chairman dave camp and other people from his whip team. raul labrador got in a little bit late. he took the weekend to really get into his campaign but he has tapped and his conservative insurgency this feeling among a lot of members particularly the younger ones the newer members who feel their voices haven't been represented in leadership and that is what he promised to represent for them. he said that he would try to empower the process, try to make members important again and said that the leadership staff but

really it seems too little too late as mccarthy looks to run away this in thursday's vote. >> have outside vote grass -- groups weighed in on this that will be voted on by the gop conference? >> they don't play much in this. it's a secret ballot election so these votes won't be publicized so they can whisper in members ears but i haven't heard from anybody that they are playing implicit all. >> the headline on your 218 blogged on roll call says mccarthy cruises with ray still a tossup and steve scalise the rnc chair and the now chief deputy whip peter roskam in the race where the majority whip position. tell us about each of those candidates and who's behind them. >> sure. roskam is you mentioned the chief deputy whip. he has been mccarthy's key lieutenant for the last couple of years helping rangel votes on

the house floor. scalise is the conservative republican study committee chairman and he has been trying to portray himself as the conservative alternative to roskam and then stutzman is a member of the 2010 class of the historic class lots of members and he like labrador has been trying to tap into that feeling and he is portraying himself as the even more conservative alternative to either the guys roskam and scalise read so that looks to be a real tossup race. i would guess that scalise is probably ahead at this point but it will probably have to go to more than one ballot and it really remains to be seen if anybody can run away with it. >> this gop leadership election on thursday held behind closed doors. tell us about the location where the vote will be held. they want any c-span cameras there but how about the process itself? with a light?

>> if only there could be c-span cameras. it will be in longworth house office building. all the members made no staff allowed. they cast their votes by secret ballot and whoever gets to the magic number 117 wins outright. that's the majority leader race between two people who ever gets to that number first wins wins. the width race like i said might have to go to a couple more ballots of the first number everyone is looking for a 78. you have to get at least 72 advances second ballot. whoever doesn't get that number has to drop out of the race and their followers and supporters will have to decide again in a second round of voting who does a boy. that is real where the real question is. if as expected marlon stutzman ball short of that 70 numbering has to drop out of the race where do his supporters go? tobago with scalise who is viewed as the next most conservative guide or do they go with roskam who is viewed as the status quo guide the person who

can allow the leadership to run intact as it goes through the final five months of the legislative year. >> it seemed important last week that some members said we have to get a leader from a red state. is that still important as weak? >> it is and that's a lot of the feeling that scalise supporters have been putting out there. he is from louisiana. all of the members of leadership right now are from blue or purple states and roskam is from illinois said he is not really helping people vote for him if they are looking for a red state guide. but he did say has his chief deputy he would appoint somebody from a red state so he is trying to sort of quell some of that attention between the north and south to. >> viewers can follow the tweets on the leadership election tomorrow from daniel newhauser at d neuhauser and of course at roll call.com. >> transparency and freedom of

information i think my colleagues in journalism would get a similar grade whether liberal or conservative. the freedom of information processes become a joke. it was already well on its way prior to the obama administration but this administration has perfected the stall that delayed the reductions in the excuses and really that shocking because i feel very strongly that the information they withhold many times belongs to the public paid we own it there's no sense that when you asked for it. they covered it as it they were a private corporation defending their. trade secrets read trade secrets rather than an trade secrets read and then understanding what they hold is information they have gathered on our behalf. >> the idea between 250/250

instead of telling tying the entire history of st. louis as a timeline or era by air or we would miss vitally important thing so instead of trying to do that in failing we decided would have we just gave snapshots of st. louis history that would give people a glimpse of all the diverse things that happen herein they can use their imaginations to fill in the rest so we chose 50 people, 50 places 50 moments 50 images and 50 objects and try to choose the most diverse selection we could. we are standing in the 50 options and this is what most people would call the real history. this is where the object is right in front of you. brewing is such a huge part of st. louis is history. it's an amazing story with lots of different breweries and of course the most famous became anheuser-busch the largest in the world. and in the era of lush talking

about millions of barrels produced each year, they are producing so much beer. this is from an era when things were a bit simpler and it's fun to show people this object in kind of gauge their response. in the days before they had cans or bottle caps they put corks and the tops of bottles and somebody had to sit on this thing and do it by hand. you can see it's got foot pedals on the bottom. that's where the operator would push down at his feet to give the cork court the enough force to go into the bottle and it's got three holes for three different sized bottles. ..