e -- conservatives like him. he could have mounted a leadership bid. not interested could he says he is not going to be in congress forever. he has had a testy relationship at times with president obama. but maybe they could agree on some issues, and not many of them, certainly on obamacare they will differ, but on trade issues there is some common ground. host: we are talking to bob to sack of "the hill" newspaper on the 114th congress, getting set to meet 28 hours from now. bob cusack here to take your questions and comments on today's segment in "washington journal." host: want to talk to for a second about steve scalise, the house majority whip, the controversy

aroundrecommend that that might overshadow tomorrow. >> guest: this is something john bennett will have to address on camera. he's put out statements supporting steve scalise who spoke to a racist group and he acknowledged in 2002 also majority leader kevin mccarthy, republican from california has also supported scalise. scully's has said he regrets talking to that group back then that he wasn't sure he was talking to that group at one point blames staff on it. he has been able to weather the storm because while the have been a democrat whether the calls for him to step aside as the leader, republicans have not. anytime you get into this type of controversy as long as your team, members of the kindle call for you to step aside, then you're probably going to survive. at the same time it is something reporters will be asking about this week. >> host: the headline -- track

issues of lacking the republican, the first one in the caucus so that she would not publicly defending scalise. up and democrats have also defended scalise. a democrat from louisiana has also defended the police and says he doesn't have a racist bone in his body. that's why think this story is getting a it's certainly going to be talked about. >> host: register in in today's new times about an willingness to talk to anyone with the nearly his undoing and defines scalise. if you want to read more on that story it's in "the new york times." of course the hill has been covering this for the past week as well. we want to get her thoughts, questions, comments to bob cusack as a to set to kick off the one of 14th congress. david, allentown, pennsylvania. good morning. >> caller: how you doing? good morning. i'd like to start off by saying

i'm really tired of everybody slamming the republicans for the gridlock in congress, always being accused of not working with the president on getting things done. you can't work with someone who everything wants to do is always detrimental to the country whether it be the affordable care act or climate change or his foreign policies. everything he wants to do is always harmful to the country. as far as john boehner goes, i'd like to see replaced with a more hard right republican such as ted cruz or gephardt or any of those guys. >> host: do you mean louie gohmert? >> caller: yes. someone who will stand up more. we just can't let immigration and all this stuff. whatever obama, i'm tired

everything the republicans when they stand up to him they always get blamed because they hate him or it's a racist thing and it's just not true. i mean everything obama wanted to do is just bad for the country. this affordable care act is horrible. there's a lot of people getting insurance that didn't have insurance, but when you look at the people that are losing their jobs and the insurance rates are all skyrocketing, people that are losing their jobs are getting cut to part-time hours and it's just been terrible. >> host: david in allentown pennsylvania. why don't you talk about president obama is going to interact with the 114th congress. and as you do that here's a quote from his news conference he had before leaving. he said -- absolutely sincere when i say i want to work with this new congress to get things done. we are going >> guest: they will have to agree on some issues or the

nation could go in default. the government could shutdown and that something mitch mcconnell said absolutely will not happen. but how they strike a deal remains to be seen. over all there's incentive from both mitch mcconnell and john boehner as well as the president in the last two years in office. he does want to get some stuff done. is going to do a lot administratively whether it's regulation on climate change or on other health care issues. certainly he's not giving up that power but he is said, listen we can disagree on these issues but we can agree on possibly these issues. whether it's striking image of you on a of fiscal arrangement whether it's passing trade authority. so i do think that this congress is going to be better than the last one because we member republicans have control. a guide to show that they can send bills to the president. our goal is try to make obama the party of no. one of the first issues they will send to him is keystone which does not have veto proof

majority in either the house or senate at the time white house a filibuster. they will be able to send keystone bill, barring something a first into the president and i think they will do that quickly. >> host: so let's gridlock is your prediction? >> guest: i wouldn't expect major entitlement reform or major tax reform to another issue that talk about. it's hard to get a tax bill through i think this congress will be better than last. >> host: robert is in milwaukee, wisconsin, line for democrats. >> caller: good morning. with a guy like ted cruz and mike lee of utah where every us from them and all the rest of those people in the republican party who are so anti-obama you know there's not going to be anything done. just like that first caller republican caller who just called. boy, he's taking his keurig from rush limbaugh and fox news. but i would just like to say i think that if anything gets

done, it won't be from the republicans. it will and have to come from the president and the democrats. the republicans only want to do one thing and that is to kill obamacare, or the aca. >> host: robert in milwaukee. talk about the issue of executive action by this president and how those actions have been received by congress. >> guest: just since the end of the 2014 election, you have the immigration executive order and that was very, very controversial. that's something the president said he was going to do, but democratic senators who are in tough reelection races most of them lost their races, they want obama to move forward on it before the election. so he held off and now has done it postelection and that's on of the things republicans want to deal with by the end of february because funding for the department of homeland security

expires at the end of february. this is the real pressure the republican leaders are under that they have to appease their base and they want to defund any of his immigration action. one of the things we wrote about last year i think is important is that even if they do defund these immigration agencies that would be implementing obama's and executive order on immigration which republicans down as amnesty, president obama still has the authority to deem these people essential government employees. that's what some republicans are saying now is we can't our hands, we don't have a strong hand we don't have a vote. the president can do what he wants on deeming certain officials essential and nonessential. >> host: lot of those people are deemed essential but if we look back on past possible shutdown orders. >> guest: and if you look at your back we had the government shutdown, those exact agency officials were deemed essential. that's what republicans will say

but at the same time, that's what louie gohmert is running pretty feels like john boehner has not applied to much pressure on the president on immigration. is also concerned among the republican base and service the conservative talk show host the republicans would move forward on some type of immigration reform but i don't think to move anything close to the senate passed bill of last congress. they are going to but i think smaller bills that have bipartisan support but still that will attract controversy. >> host: we mentioned the stevscalise story. marie tweets if only the gruber story was given more airtime than the silly story but that's typical of our democrat-controlled media in the united states. can you talk about the impact of the jonathan gruber story on health care debate? >> gue: i think it's very significant. i think it got a fair amount of coverage certainly when he came up to capitol hill to basically apologize for what he said of calling voters stupid and are able to move obamacare through

because voters weren't paying attention to the details. the other aspect of the effect of gruber's comments is that there's a supreme court challen of obamacare yet another when dealing with federal subsidies. and gruber's comments will be used against this administration. now, gruber says he was not an architect of obamacare. he certainly was in the room. he was in white house meetings. i looked at many of his television appearances where he was described as an obamacare architect and certainly didn't tell the producers not to call him back. but we couldn't put any situation where he called himself that but clearly jonathan gruber was in the room when they're making these decisions and i think that that could come back in a supreme court decision which should be decided in june. if the administration loses that gives a lot of people say without the subsidies obamacare crumples. >> host: we are talking with bob cusack. user to take your questions d comments for about the next half hour or so. anthony kim newport, tennessee,

independent. good morning. anthony are you with us? >> caller: yes i yemen. i have two things i would like to see. i was a veteran of the vietnam war. my father was a veteran also of 20 years come in the korean war, and the second world war. but i want to first start off with what you said about congress. i watch tv i don't really follow too much of the politics. i can remember the fst two weeks he was there, congress stood up and said we are not going to absolutely get anything for this president. and then he was called a liar when he stood up. my father, he died in the '80s. congressman howard gave us a lot of help because he went 21 days

out of 28 days at fort dix. we took them on the 22nd by invalids to the veterans hospital. they turned around and told him to go home. we took him to john f. kennedy in new jersey. they did what the needed to do operated on his lower spine which the army called arthritis. then they had problem with bleeding so they did a test and found that he had a blockage. they operate on them found he had a tumor the size of a football but they called muscle spasms. is high blood pressure was cautioned that. we have letters from congressman howard, pulled his medical records and we have been. we turned around and gave them to an expert to go through. even then, there are copies which you can barely read that

said the shadow was getting darker. >> host: thanks for sharing your story. anthony is not the only code today to talk about veterans care, prospects for further efforts on that anyone at 14 congress? >> guest: i think it will be some sort and that was the big issue in the last congress and we did see a bill passed on va reforms and it certainly we're seeing that continue because those investigations are ongoing and led to the resignation of the secretary shinseki. there are some bills i was looking at what you think about what the publisher going to do in this congress, you have to look back at up at the house passed in the last congress. a lot of them republicans note were not voted overwhelming majority were not voted in the senate. there are over 380 bill. i was looking at the list of those and there's a fair amount of bills that are bipartisan, some on veterans issues i think will get bipartisan support in the house and will be voted on in the senate.

they ae not controversial bills but that's what republicans have to show that they are, this congress is very unpopular. at least the last congress was so they go to change the dynamic of that and show a foray of activity. one issue that affected the military that could come up is whether congress will vote on an ice's authorization to go after them. we have not seen that yet. speaker boehner says he's he's open to pretty put the ball in obama's court and says if you want congress to vote on going after isis a formal authorization for you should crafted an sent to us. 's biggest be a new authorization of use of military force that would replace the one that was passed just after the september 11 attack? >> guest: exactly. i don't know i that's going to happen because president obama has repeatedly asserted okay, we could vote on a it but also the authority to do what i'm doing right now. is isis is not on the front pages anymore but but certainly there would be some immersing the lame duck is over, some people are saying we shouldn't,

this important of the vote should not be voted in the lame-duck session to issue the vote in the new congress. we will see if they do that. >> host: to talk about comparing the old congress to the new congress. there's not much of the bar for this congress been better than the last congress. jane is up next south carolina line for republicans. good morning. >> caller: good morning. actually i've been listening to you and will one of the follow-up questions, i have another question but can i follow up to what he just spoke about? congress being unpopular. and i thought the shutdown of the government actually help them because they stood up to obama and they pick up all those, more seats this time from two years ago. they took the senate. so that shows me that people are tired. they might have reelected him on obama's on a platform that he ran, any gain changes his mind and said it is going to go my

way and ignore congress altogether. entity that makes more people mad and that's why they picked up more seats in congress. now they have taken the senate. my thing is they need to piecemeal this and my call was because i think through the affordable care act i think it's great that people got insurance and the subsidies that i think one of the things that they need to go back and look at when they take these things through, and of course, he will veto it but it will make the american people feel better is if they think that because i think it's unconstitutional, now it's considered a tax on our taxes if we don't have insurance. and i think that that's an individual right for a person to either have it or not to have it. i think when they send these things through and that's going to get us a republican president. if they send these things through and he keeps, you know, saying veto tito it's going to make it really hard when 2016 comes a. do you agree with that?

>> guest: i certainly agree that the republicans here they are setting up the 2016 nominee but if republicans did a good job of managing the congress, sending a bill to president obama, winning these showdowns then that's going to bode well for whoever their 2016 nominee is. as far as the shutdown, i think ceainly republicans and polls show privately and publicly john boehner has acknowledged that he thinks it was a misstep and polls do show that republicans were blad for the. right after that shutdown happened to all the attention go from the shutdown to the nonfunctional government website of obamacare and that really took off the momentum of the democrats head and took it away. others say, republicans needed to take a stand. but they had to get it out of the system. they have and that's what republicans say we're not going to shut down the government began, and that's where h. mcconnell, the new majority there, it will be fasting to see

how he runs the senate. he is a deal maker. he wants to get stuff done. india said repeatedly since the election that the people want to get something done, and he has struck deals, which is true, on a number of issues, specifically fiscal showdowns with this white house. not so much with president obama but with vice president joe biden. >> host: at different take on twitter. can you talk about wall street and legislation impacting wall street or changes to the dodd-frank legislation? >> guest: i think it's an interesting dynamic were elizabeth warren who is certainly eyeing a presidential bid, she said she will not run for president but she has been so outspoken on the congress which have some changes to the dodd-frank law the barney frank ended up coming out and saying i

of poses that indicated some support earlier but elizabeth warren said listen we need to stop giving away to the wall street guys, the k street lobbyists who are looking for changes on this. a lot of controversy on that. i think that's where we will seek more division of on the left and we've seen before. we said a lot of said a lot of the tea party first the republican establishment. that will continue going on for years. but at the same time now we are seeing elizabeth warren wing of the party going up against treasury nominee as well, al franken coming out recent against the treasury nominee whose ties to wall street to that's what people are looking for and that's what everyone is reading and parsing every word in elizabeth warren says. if there's any major threat on the left to hillary clinton, it's elizabeth warren. at the same time you to look at hillary clinton's poll numbers, over everybody including warren. she's up by 40 50 points but we

are still long without. >> host: we we have about 50 ms. lithwick bob cusack, talk about politics, policy of the incoming 114th congress at's on the table in the coming months and also of course the politics and elections always looking ahead to the next election as well. in terms of policy stories incoming senate majority leader jobs, keystone and regulations top the agenda. if you want to read more the hill.com. in the meantime, connecticut ally for democrats. good morning. imac hi. john and bob, happy new year to you both. i just want to say this. the republican, i think the president, president obama, i will use his title, president he will be in command inspite of the majorities of the republicans, okay? because i think the republicans

are on the same train to nowhere. if they bring up the repeal of the health care law and also if they don't deal with immigration. when we talk about immigration, we should think about people. because it involves millions of looking nose asians from everywhere in the world. and it's as though the republicans are saying we don't have to deal with that at the moment. in the same manner that they are saying we are going, the first thing we're going to do is repeal the health care act. if you have ever been sick, if you have ever had a chronic illness, cancer, diabetes something that the doctors don't even know about, you need health

care. i think this country needs to look to people like angela merkel in germany who provides a decent minimum wage for the employees. and also health care for everyone in the country. >> host: you talked a little bit about the politics and policy of the affordable care act. cammy go to immigration and some of the comments about immigration? >> guest: republicans have to be a lot more active on what they're going to do then you're in the 2014 cycle. republicans knew that the present was unpopular in 2014 so they could just run basically against it. now it's different and congressional leaders know that. they will have to be more active. they have been promising a replacement obamacare bill for years. did not come up with one but will they present that to the

public. on immigration, too. if you talk to republican leaders the wing of the party that is quote-unquote and the immigrant, that's not going to play out in 2016 if republicans are going to win the election. we saw mitt romney, he won the republican primary in 2012 by going after rick perry on immigration to rick perry was more of immigration reform side of it and he attacked his record. romney didn't have a strategy in the general election on immigration and was pounded by the hispanic vote in 2012. so republican leaders know that and certainly seen some republicans who are think about running for president like jeb bush says we have to do companies of immigration reform. it remains to be seen whether the nominee is going going to say yes, we need to cover his of immigration reform or no that's playing into the democratic candidate we don't want to do that. republicrepublic ans are divided on both of those issues and they'll have to come up with

some solution for everybody with on immigration is they will take bits and pieces of what is popular on h-1b1 visas that get democratic support, present to the president and the present will be forced to say wait a minute, i want the whole thing not just pieces of it and then he will either veto it or cited. >> host: jeb bush actively export a presidential bid. mike huckabee leaving his fox news chocolate into a presidential bid. is it a good thing for republicans that this private field is starting to take shape so early in the 2016 cycle transferred i sort i think it could be a problem for republican leaders on capitol hill, because whether you're running on the left or the right if you see a deal in congress that's going to be basicallya deal in the middle. if you're trying to appease the left based on the right base you're more likely to criticize whatever president obama and mitch mcconnell are striking. i think that could be kind of in an easy alliance. there is no front runner on the

republican side but you can say jeb bush is one of the front runners, but there is no clear favorite on it and he is being attacked by the tea party already. jeb bush knows he's in for a tough ride, and can he survive it? we will seek. >> host: let's go to tennessee where divorce is waiting on her life for independents. good morning. >> caller: good morning. i just wanted to say with the republicans being in there now, there's not going to be any change at all. i call obama came but they act like kings themselves. they say lies about him. they just won't do anything to help the poor. i believe that the republicans are oppressing the poor. i am 72 and i worked all my life. i retired for a little while at 62. and i went back to work because i can't live on $13,000 per year. and now that i've been working, it has taken me five years to

make it up to $8.6 an hour because our employers give us 11 cents an hour raise every year. i work hard at my job and now that i am making $18,000 a year i still have a hard time but i managed, but i think that they need to raise the minimum wage so that people can live decently. now, we have a republican governor, governor haslam. we have a republican congressman congressman, lamar alexander angie of bob corker. they don't do anything to help by raising the minimum wage in our state. they don't care about us. all these people are making big money, living like kings and they don't live in our shoes and know how hard we work to try to make a living. groceries are going up. i'm so grateful gas has gone

down. but groceries are so expensive now and they're getting higher. every time i go to the grocery store i go oh, my god $4.28 for a pound of butter but how are people supposed to live? >> host: bob cusack on potential number of the issues of wages and the minimum wage. >> guest: income inequalities you hear a lot from the left. something bernie sanders is also considering a run for president has called the issue of our lifetime. overall come it's going to be interesting to see if this white house continue to push for a minimum wage because now if republicans controlling both chambers, there's very little chance if not no chance for the minimum wage to go up come and listen as part of some type of fiscal compromise for each side gave each other something. over although on social security issues, that's another issue is with warren said and we need to expand social security benefits

and that's something that is hillary clinton decides to get income and i think it's a matter of when she gets in she's going to have to wait and on both under criticism of her speeches in front of wall street groups as well as how much she's willing to move to the left and embrace an expansion of social security benefits. >> host: head down to texas where james is waiting on online for republicans. james, good morning. >> caller: morning, bob. good morning john. just listening to my fellow americans but it seems like you've got two democrat lines there. it's a great morning to wake up and yu know that as republican you're responsible for just about every single evil that is in the world, and all the lies that have been told. the reason why i called is to reasons and they are related to the first one is, i'm not here to complain about obama. i do think he is the key but i'm

really here to complain about our own republican leadership. speaker boehner, for six years that man has had ample opportunity, four years in the leadership of the house to oppose this president, and he has been a failure. he's been zero. the same thing can be said for mcconnell. he won his election but you are this is a problem for? it's for ted cruz and marco rubio and, bob, youcan talk about presidential ambitions. ted cruz and marco rubio do not have a record in the senate. that's the reason why i called it a. >> host: before you go we were talking about changing leadership for house republicans. who would you back? .. gohmert have put their names forward as possible replacements for speaker boehner. would you support either one?

caller: i'm glad you asked. i do support mr. gomer -- gohmer t. i'm in a rezoning exile in the state of texas, chasing the oil boom, which i think has been busted. i have been following louie gohmert for the past couple of years, listening to him speak. quite frankly, i have been listening to him and his ideas are more in accord with mine. that is my mind on it. i don't know the other two gentlemen that you spoke of, but i am about fed up with these folks in d.c. when you elect a democrat, you know what you are going to get.

higher prices, you are going to get screwed. when you get the same from people of your own party, that is unacceptable, in my opinion. guest: a lot of the dissatisfaction with washington -- and that includes republican and democratic lears and theesident and we have seen that poll after poll and that's something that republicans have to be concerned about. they have to be concerned about a sean hannity who called for a friend of louie gohmert so maybe you'll see him come out and support publicly louie gohmert. i don't think it's going to change the vote count but whether it is on the conservative shows there is a dissatisfaction so republicans have to start deals and get things done and sometimes challenge obamacare. they are going to have a vote on

the repeal but do they use a budget maneuver called reconciliation where they could only meet a majority of the votes to pass in obamacare repeal that would get get a veto that he would make it under the rules under the reconciliation of the budget tool. it would make it to the desk and that would be the first time that it's gotten their. >> host: scott on the independence line. good morning. >> caller: the affordable care act the idea that came out of the heritage foundation in 1980 when hillary clinton ran her 93 health care the only thing she left out of it was the individual mandate. if the republicans lock it down you can listen to newt gingrich from 93 to 95 and all he talks about is individuals taking the

responsibility of buying health care. >> we believe this segment to go live now to the california state capitol building in sacramento where governor jerry brown will be sworn in and give his inaugural address. he won the election in november getting nearly 60% of the vote against republican. governor brown is the longest-serving executive in california history previously serving from 1975 to 1983. at the age of 7016 is the oldest [inaudible conversations]

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everyone please take your seats the inauguration of the honorable edmund brown junior will begin and if i could ask everyone who uses violence to your cell phones and do it at this time.

the 39th governor of california the honorable edmund brown is in the chamber. please join me in welcoming governor brown and first lady special counsel as they come forward to the roster. [applause] [applause]

[applause] >> good morning governor. [applause] [applause] i'm delighted to welcome everyone to the chamber for the inaugural of the edmund g. brown

junior. i know that is a great way to start the new year by being on hand to see someone who's been such a strong partner in office for a record fourth time. last year the assembly presented governor brown with a commemoration noted that he had spoken here two more joined more joined conventions of the legislature than any other and while not a joint convention today's ceremony adds to the record. but the best thing about governor brown isn't the history that he made. it's a history that he's going to make. governor brown has been a leader putting the fiscal house in order and today the next chapter of the leadership begins. governor brown has been a leader making major investments in high-speed rail and local k-12 education and today the next chapter of the eadership begins. governor brown has been a leader boosting the business climate and confronting the climate change that printed out for this economy and environment and

today the next chapter of the leadership begins. governor brown has already taken steps to advance the future including another appointment to the supreme court, a diverse court that will help ensure thoughtful justice for decades to come. i know we will hear more from the governor today than when he delivers the budget about california's future. the past four years provided a foundation which to build and i want to hank you all for being part of this historic event and here is to in here is to today's history that by working together we will all have a role in making. please stand for the presentation of the flag of the united states of california and the oakland military institute as they come forward the institute was founded in 2011 by governor brown to offer a rigorous academic and athletic program for youth.

the color guard is a highly decorated group that fought numerous trophies and authors and competitions across the western united states. the color guard please present the colors. please join me in the pledge of allegiance.

i pledge of allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justic for all. the oakland military institute, the color guard is dismissed

colleagues, please be seated. it is an honor and a pleasure to be with each a few madame speaker. thank you for hosting this event before the inauguration of the historic governor of the eighth largest economy in the entire world. i also want to echo some of the similar comments my colleague speaker toni atkins. this is an amazing state and a beautiful mosaic and a beautiful tapestry of the ethnicities and that is the fabric of who we are as a society and as a state. it is the strength of who we are as californians. this is historic in nature because we have incredible man come and credible governors that will lead the economy in the entire world when it comes to diversity in higher education

affordability, when it comes to dealing with the scourge of climate change how it impacts us in california and not just in california but nationwide as well as globally and how we grow this economy and to develop in such a matter that it provides opportunities for all individuals. this is a very exciting time for each and every one of us and it doesn't make a difference whether it is demoats or republican first and foremost. it's to introduce a very special individual special moment. she's our first lady and she's also not just the first lady of the special counsel to our governor in the state of california is an honor and a pleasure for me to introduce the first lady and a special counsel to the state of california, the honorable and brown -- anne

brown. [applause] >> thank you all so much. how to introduce jerry brown. he's obviously someone known to all of you and he has been in the public eye for over 40 years, maybe even longer than that. i'm sure you can correct me on that. soap i guess i can only say what does he mean to me, and when i

first met jerry brown the first thing that struck me immediately with his mind. my god this mind that runs at 100 miles per hour. it is restless seeking it's creative, and frankly for all of us to work with him is exhausting. so but it is so stimulating the mind of his and i'm sure that most of you have already experienced this because if you are around him even for a few minutes, this is something you can't fail to see. that's what many of you may not know as well is his heart and his soul which have come to know so many over the years and that i would say it's very firmly grounded in principle and in the past.

i think jerry more than anyone looks to the past. he's one who keeps close friends in elementary school, high school law school. as many of us know he has been really probing his ancestry from hi great-grandfather who came here in the 18 hudreds and he looks to god for guidance and principles. and i think that is a many ways why he entered the seminary at the young age of 18. because for him that as a place that was a perfect combination where he could pursue his eternal quest for knowledge and do so in an environment where it was embedded in all of the eternal verities. and i think that was perfect for

him. i think these characteristics frankly make a perfect husband for me because his mind expan endlessly interesting and yet his heart makes him committed and it's been perfect being with you. [applause] more importantly for california especially in this time and place, this combination makes them a perfect governor because he's someone that he is someone that we know well and whose he asked that we and creatively forge a new and bold future for us and yet he will do so grounded enough in the wisdom of the past that we won't drive off a cliff and i think that's what we will need especially in the

next four years. so with that, i would like to call up the chief justice and my husband covered by governors to take the oath of office. and i would say that again in a little bit of tradition he's going to take the oath on a bible puts more that were in the family tradition most of this is about brown these days. but this bible is a bible that we got married with. you were in nigeria could as governor and now this time and i want to read it because this was gen to my parents from my grandfather on christmas of 1951 and he said i'm very happy to

present to you the word of god the eternal foundations are not found in property or power. man looks to the hills for strength. the st. james version not only is a source of strength and comfort, it is english literature at its best. i hope it becomes warm with use and will exist in your heart affectionately. and i can't say for sure whether my parents wore it out and you are doing so on their behalf today. so welcome. >> i jerry brown do solemnly

swear that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states as a constitution in the state of california against all enemies foreign and domestic that will bear true faith and allegiance to the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of california that i take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or prpose of evasion and that i will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which i am about to enter. thank you for your leadership. [applause]

>> members of the legislature the judiciary constitutional officers, the family of my pioneering ancestors and fellow californians i want to point out by the way [inaudible] all came in the 1850s.

stand up and let everyone know how massive we are. [applause] and also the second newest justice. [applause] into the last new justice moderation is always a special occasion but today it is particularly special as we think about the day 40 years ago when my father and my mother watched me take the oath of office as

the 34 governor. the state was deep in debt 26 billion. now the state bdget after the decade of turbulence is finally balanced. california has seen more than 1.3 million jobs and the unemployment rate has dropped 7.2. thanks to those in the legislature for cutting spending. the economy for the recovery and the people. we also have to thank the people for water and money and prepare us for the uncertain future. these are measures nearly every democrat put on the ballot and nearly 70% of the voters ultimately approved. i'm proud to support at the end of the year we've been investing

in the long overdue projects seeking 2.8 billion in the states protected fund. [applause] and we are not stopping there. we've will make the last payment on the $15 biion of borrowing to cover the budget deficit dating back to 2002. [applause] also a billion dollars borrowed from the schools and community colleges and another 533 million to the local government. california has made a bold commitments to sustain the environment, health and build for the future. we are leaders in efficiency and extend health care to millions and transform our educational criminal justice systems. we are building the nation's only high-speed rail system.

[applause] and we are confronting the drought and the water issues and last but not least we have the protections for the hard-working immigrants including the issuance of the long-awaited driver's licenses. [applause] in the 2011 sms in the solid steady work we turned it around. we haven't reached the promised land we have much to be proud of as we embark upon this unprecedented my thoughts turned to the time long ago january 5 1959 it was for my father's inauguration. i said right there in front next to my 81-year-old grandmother feeling rather awkward.

my pespective is different then. the previous august living in what was then the seminary i had taken vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. for me, the crowd and the applause was jarring. that was 56 years ago. i've grown to like it since then by the way. [applause] the issues my father raised in the inauguration resembled those of the still grapple with today discrimination and quality of education the challenge of recruiting and training teachers to realistic water program, economic development, consumer protection and overcrowded prisons so you see these problems never completely go away and it remains a challenge.

over the next four years and beyond we must dedicate ourselves to make what we have done work and to see the massive changes in education, health care and public safety are actually carried out. the financial prizes we have already made so they are properly funded. the health of the state depends on it. educating that generation is fundamental towards the collective well-being and the issue that has plagued the schools for decades is an enormous barrier for the low income families. when my father was governor he sought to remedy under different school districts by calling for the equal funding. his efforts were not successful. now decades later we finally created a fair system of school funding called the local control funding formula.

under the provisions of the law of the state funds track the school districts based on the needs of their students the districts will get more funds based on the number of students from foster care, low income families and non- english-speaking parents. this program also breaks with decades of increasing centralization by reducing state control in favor of local flexibility. the goals are set into the enforcement is entrusted to the parents and local officials. this puts california on the forefront before him. on the funding and borrowing from the local schools to state has significantly increased its financial support for education. next year schools will receive 65.7 billion. a 39% increase in four years. [applause]

the tasks ahead are daunting making sure that the new system of local control works and the recruiting and planning mastering the common core curriculum and fostering the creativity needed to inspire students. teachers need to be held accountable but never forget they have a tough job to do. they need our encouragement not endless regulations, and micromanement from afar. [applause] with respect to education beyond high school it serves a vast degree of interests and affordability as timely completion is there imperative. we will not make the students of california the deep financiers

of the colleges and universities each separate institution cannot be all things to all people but the system in its threat and diversity through real cooperation among the segments can provide what california needs and desires. what health and human services comes at a major part of the government does. which will inquire the full extent of which is not yet known. the example two years ago california breaks the affordable correct dramatically increasing its health insurance coverage under the medicare program during the budget year of more

than 50% increase. it's the right thing to do but it isn't free. although the government will temporarily put much of the bill the new state costs now and more so in the future will run into the billions. it's the system of crime and punishment. and here i refer to my father's address. he worried than about california is dangerously overcrowded prisons and talked about identifying those who should never be released to pray again on an innocent public that he also said we should also determine whether some prisoners are kept after punishment served its purpose. we finished the same questions today.

what purpose should punishment served and for how long should a person be confined to jail or prison a few days or years or life? the large increase in crime legislature and the people through the initiatives dramatically lengthened the sentences and added a host of other crimes. today's california's legal code contaed more than 5,000 separate criminal provisions for 400 penalty enhancements and a complex mix that only the most exquisitely trained specialists can find. it's ground portion of the bitterness of in these we had 12 prisons holding fewer than 30,000 into the corrections spending was 3% of the budget. the system grew to 34 persons within inmate population of

173,000 more than 10% of the budget dollars. four years ago the united states supreme court held that the prisons were unconstitutionally crowded with strict limits for below the number of inmates being held. clearly the system of the crime and punishment had to be changed into through the court, the legislature and the voters themselves from a number of far reaching reforms had been enacted. the biggest places tens of thousands of lw-level offenders under the supervision. more recently the federal panel ordered the measures to increase the crowding and the voters are in the proposition 47 modified the approval to the scope of strikes law and certain felonies and misdemeanors.

all these changes attempt to find with extensive, more compassionate and more effective ways to deal with crime. this is work that is as profoundly important as it is difficult. yet we must never cease our efforts to ensure liberty and justice for all. the task is completed by the diversity and the divisions and by shocking disparity. since humankind has no envy and violence that's why public safetynd respect for law are both fundamental to the free society. as we oversee these important changes to education, education of care and public safety, we must not lose sight of the long-term liability. we have to face the enormous and ever-growing burden of the commitments we've already made.

among these are the costs of pensions and retiree health care healthcare and new obligations under the affordable care act the growing government cost of dealing with their aging population and if they're in debt at this and prefer to maintenance on the infrastructure. these specific reliability's reach into the hundreds of billions of dollars. my plan is to then take them one at a time to do deal with the teachers pensions and those of public employees. for the next effort i intend to ask the state employees to help fund the obligation. [applause] we must also deal with infrastructure changes and finally grapple with long-term sustainability of the water supply through recently passed initiative and california water

act. deeply important is having the roads, highways and bridges in good enough shape to get people in commerce where they need to go and it's estimated that the state has 59 billion and the upkeep and maintenance each year before the further and further behind. and we must do something about it. as for so calling on the republicans and democrats to come together we came together on one when many said it was impossible. we came together unanimously to create a solid rainy day fund. we can do it again and find the painting highways and roads. [applause] finally, in california there's the growing assault on the great systems of nature on ich human beings and other forms of life

depend. edward wilson, one of the world's preeminent biologists and naturalists offered this sobering thought. surely one moral precepts we can agree on is to stop destroying our birthplace. the only home communities will ever have. the industrial pollution as a principal cloud is now overwhelming. it's a rapid disappearance of tropical force and other habitats while most of the diversity of life exists. without these global changes we are needlessly turning the goal that we have inherited through our forebears and for that we will be despised. california has the most

far-reaching and the most integrated policy in the climate change of any political jurisdiction in the western hemisphere. under the law that you have enacted in the goal of one third of our electricity from the sources. we have the clearance and energy storage. recently both the secretary-general of the united nations and president of the world bank made clear properly pricing the carbon is a key strategy. the cap and trade system -- and is doing just that insuring the market can generate what we need. they are forging agreement with others in the region so that we don't have to stand alone in the claim and objectives. these efforts and present as they are are not enough. the united nations intergovernmental panel on

climate change backed up by the vast majority of the scientists set an ambitious goal to 2 degrees celsius by 2050 through the drastic reductions of greenhouse gases. california as it is done must show the way. we must demonstrate that reducing carbon is compatible with an abundant economy. so far we have been able to do that and in fact we are well on our way to our goal of the carbon pollution and limiting the mission of heat trapping gases in the 431 million tons by 2020. but now it's time to establish the next set of objectives for 2030 and beyond. towards that end i propose three -- its goals in the next 15 years.

first, increase one third of 50% from electric renewable sources. [applause] number two, and even more difficult to reduce today's petroleum by up to 50%. three, double the efficiency of the buildings and make fuel cleaner. we must also reduce the relentless release of methane from a black carbon and others across the industries and we must manage the forest and wetland so they can store carbon. that means we continue to transform that you like charcoal grid and the transportation system and communities. i envision a wide range of positions more distributed power, the rooftops energy and

balance market battery storage, the full integration technology and electrical distribution and the millions of electric and low carbon vehicles. how do we achieve the goals is a great thought and imagination mixed with pragmatic caution and it will require enormous innovation with search investments and need active cooperation in every stage of the scientists, engineers contravened hours, businesses and officials have all levels. taking significant amounts of carbon out of our economy without harming its vibrancy is exactly the sort of challenge which california excels. it is exciting and bold and it's absolutely necessary if we are to have any chance of stopping potentially catastrophic changes to the client -- climate system.

[applause] california since the beginning is undertaken tasks and obtaining ideas but fitting the state of dreamers builders and immigrants we have not hesitated to attempt what is called impossible or foolish. in the last four years, the last 40 years marks along the kings highway california's adversity with faith and courage. we've had setbacks and failures but also in the end of the indomitable spirit of california through it all through good times and bad california has been blessed with a historic trajectory that carries each generation forward. whether these explorers came from gold or for god the rest

is history. the founding of the missions, the devastation of the need of people, the discovery of gold the coming of the 40 niners, the transcontinental railroad the universities, the planting and harvesting of the fields oil production, movies, the industry, the first three ways the freeways, the state water project aerospace, silicon valley and ends with new companies and nobel prize winners. [applause] this is california and we are sons and daughters. yes california feeds on change. but the path of wisdom counsels us to ground out results and nurtured carefully all that we've started. we are on rock not stand so when the storms come our house stands. we are at across roads with big

important programs now launched into the budget carefully balanced. the balance is to build from the future not steal from it, to live within our means and keep california ever golden and created as our forebears have shown and we would expect. thank you very much. [applause] [applause]

>> governor brown starting a fourth term as california's governor and is the longest-serving and oldest governor in the state. and by the way, you can see the swearing-in inaugural and state of the state addresses again on the website later today. the 114th congress will have an hundred and two members who served in the military six west man than at the start of 113.

gave viewers a look at the building and its history. here's a quick look. >> the rotunda abridges the house and senate side of the capital. it is from here that you enter into the oldest part of the capital and into the senate wing of the building. as you make your way from the oldest part of the capital into the extension built in the et and 50s you see a stark contrast in the decorated nature of the old and new as the senate of the 1850s the fire to showcase their part of the

capital to the visitors from around the world. it is into this artistic architectural design where you find the current senate chamber surrounded by the decorated halls and open in the winter of 1859. i'm always enthralled by the senate chamber itself. if they could speak what they tell us? i think of the great men and women who have served their. there is something special. it's an empty theater. there's a feeling there is a feeling you stop and look around at their desks and imagine the people who stood there, lyndon johnson huberhumphrey, barry goldwater the peopl that have

a huge impact on this institution or not, american political history. this is the chamber which they fought their battles and there's a certain tribute is paid to these people and their actions in the chamber. >> the senate is almost like a living creature. it has a temple and atmosphere to it and it's almost like a person and if you treat it like he you would treat another person, i think that it responds well. even when you try to make it do something you didn't want to do. the role of the senate, each is equal in its its representation there are two senators from every state. each senator is equal to a degree with any other senator. each senator can speak as long as he or she wishes to speak. there is freedom of speech. freedom of speech runs deep in

english history roman history and colonial history and american history since the constitution came along. the senate chamber opened on january 4 1859. on that day members of the senate as a body (-left-paren of the chamber which is now the old senate chamber they walked down the corridor and into the new chamber. there was excitement and intimacy as him and you go into the senate chamber today and it's a little bit hard to evoke the way the chamber would have looked in the 19th century. it has changed so traumatically. when not chamber first opened the room was very victorian, highly ornate floral pattern

carpet and wonderful stained glass ceiling. the senate chamber was expanded during the 1850s and it opened because as new states joined the union, more space was needed. so in the 1850s congress appropriated $100,000 to build two new wings for the house and the senate and later also the capitol dome. when you look out from the galleries into the senate chamber, there's a variety of things that are going on. and really have a layout that you see today is similar to the layout in the old senate chamber. while the decorations change, the same formality, the same layout has continued so what you have in the center of the om is the dais of the presiding officers desk it would have been the vice president would have been at the desk. nowadays the residing officer is me frequently a member of the majoty party.

they are overseeing what is going on in the chamber. you also have in the gallery's above the presiding officers desk up there on the third floor. so again the press can look down and see what's happening. around as you look into the chamber of their visitors galleries, diplomats galleries and even the members. so it is to view what is going on on the floor and of course the brew is divided into the republicans and democrats. if you were at the presiding officers desk looking out towards the senate on the le-hand side with the republicans and on the right would be the democrats. the majority leader and minority leader are front and center at the front of the room in the center aisle. >> when i walk into the current senate chamber and icy 100 beautifully parched desks i have

a lot of different thoughts. one is that the desks are occupied by the elitist in the long unbroken chain of senators. there have been over 1880 members of the senate and they have reflected all different kinds of shapes opinions with lots of american life. the senate chamber desks that you see today are the most important pieces in the collection as far as decorative art furniture. the reason being is that 48 of those were purchased in et 19 at a cost of $34 by the cabinetmaker. there have been deaths prior to that of the british marched on washington and part of the war of 1812 satire to the capital.

all of the furniture was destroyed. they were after the period in 1819 they needed new desks and acquired these desks. they are beautifully made mahogany and there's even gross on the site of the feet of the desks. these were used for air conditioning. the earliest air-conditioning system was here in the capital. its cold ice it's called ice brought in underground to chill the cambridge debate could chamber to ventilate the room on the bottom of the feet of the chamber to allow it to come in on the floor. ask your readers as curators we try to preserve the history. it adds another layer to the end of the members started signing the desks so we have a signature of not every member but the signature either in ten or often

they just carved it with a knife inside the desk drawer. >> i used my father's desk. you carved your name like a schoolboy tradition it's gone on for years. and that the senator was the first. and i've kept that for it for a quarter of a century. he was such a tightwad when it came to public spending he wouldn't have a little top of the desk that gave extra office space. and what occurred after was significant.

>> they recognize a number of these as president of the united states lyndon johnson, richard nixon and gerald ford, george bush senior but they are not president of the united states. they are there because they are president of the senate. they were vice presidents. the constitution provides the vice president even presiding officer of the senate and also vote in the senate and for much of the history that is all the vice president stayed from the very first vice president john adams up through here each woman's vice president of the prominent and primary role. beginning in the 1890s the senate commissioned to be made by each of the vice presidents. the first are in the inside of the chamber into some of the vice president of the united

states left office under a cloud in the 19th century henry wilson and schuyler colfax were both in the 20th century spirit of agnew had to resign from office when he was accused of accepting bribes. so there are a number of the people whose careers were less than stellar but that presents the office of vice president said the successful or the unsuccessful are here and they are quite fascinating. some of them are quite spectacular. theodore roosevelt is very dynamic as you would expect he would be. >> above the doors of the chamber are last chamber are latin phrases as well as the symbolic imagery. the marble by the artists were done in the early 1950s as was

the latin motif. basically it was all part of the renovation in the 1940s and early 1950s. the imagery that you see his patriotism, courage and wisdom. we don't have exactly why they selected those three images but he was given a lot of latitude to define what he thought would be appropriate to go in the senate amber and that these are quite lovely pieces. the latin phrase god has favored our undertakings. the decor him that it is a new order of the ages. then you have in god we trust and in the presiding officers desk is one out of many. >> the hold in the senate has become a fundamental problem and

i don't know how anybody could support the concept. >> why did he win the house and the senate to play an active role opening up the chambers? the >> i don't want to get too sanctimonious about this but i do belief in openness and government. i generally don't like secrets of any kind. others think things are a lot easier as an open book. i thought it was part of the modern era. covered by the media if it was only ten at pencil. it was electronic age. audio, radio and powerful medium television. ..