to to give you because he did not work hard enough. 10-year-old 11-year-old kid. talk about busing her bubble. keep yourself strong. not just physically and mentally but financially. people used to say, hey potluck, cap five dollars? no problem. go ahead and take care of the parking lot. he said, don't worried. i am thinking, financially, the oath of office. my code in january, 2005. grandfather popped up in front of me. keep yourself strong financially. i put all of my efforts. i used every bit of capital of mine.

i said there are two things you don't waste. you don't waste a mandate and you don't waste a crisis. i had a great mandate and i was determined to fix the finance of our state. typing with my administration working hard, that we worked hard and turned the finances. recessionrough the better than most any state in the nation. whenever cut back any education. never cut back on any of our programs for our children and our seniors. we expanded ourselves because we had ourselves financially strong. my number one goal, fix the finances. sooner or later, someone has to fix the debt. that is what i would hope to be able to achieve. i am working very hard across the aisle, talking to everybody.

is there way we can move forward and fix the debt? wasbulls simpson's approach the only thing i saw that was bipartisan. it stayed bipartisan and group bipartisan and did not get a vote. we were three votes short out of that committee. they got 11 votes. five republicans and six democrats. when is the last him we had five and six who could agree on a direction for our country and could not get a vote on a floor? that is what drives me. your wife is here. what is your schedule like? >> my wife is president of the state board of education. she gets that maybe one week a month. we have a little place where we will meet and i will go back to charleston or fairmont where our

home is and my son is there. i have two daughters up in pennsylvania so, we try as a family to get together as much as possible, but it is difficult. i never thought i would be this old and be this homesick. >> with your kids think about their dads profession? >> we have a lot of conversations. my kids are very independent. -- ink >> do debate a lot? >> we talk a lot. the girls in my family are very strong and very opinionated if you will and strong willed and all successful in their own rights as mothers, as business career people, they have all done well. we have some good conversations on social issues, on the skull issues and it is quite a dinner party. >> is there another office you would like to hold?

>> i have not thought of that. that i have so much more work to do here to finish this out. comfortableand very as being governor. i thought i was ready and prepared. there is so much more i need to learn and how do you get through this toxic atmosphere and had to get people to realize we're here for a purpose and that is for our country and our state, not for ourselves or our political parties? i'm a proud west virginia democrat. i'm a very proud american. with all that being said, i just want to put it in proper context and hope i can convince some of my colleagues. >> thank you. a representative from republican

-- a republican from washington state. you are the highest-ranking woman. do have a voice with speaker boehner in the gop leadership? >> yes. i think it is an important voice i bring to that table. daily i am sitting down with the speaker or kevin mccarthy as we are strategizing on what is happening on any given day. -- i and the second woman to hold this position for the republican. proud of the fact that we have for women now who are around the leadership table for the republicans. it is a little different perspective. leave i am heard and that might input is valued as i

presented. >> why politics? why did you first decide to run for the state house? >> i am one of those kids that when i was in high school, i was not sure what i wanted to do, what i wanted to be or major in. andad had always had interest in politics. he ran for office when he was in his 20's. and i had in politics grown up watching campaigns from but out of college i got involved in a family friend's campaign for the state house in washington. that's was kind of my entry into politics. is that this was somebody i could really believe in and get excited about and then when he won his race and offered me a job, it was a way

in which i can really make a difference for my community and the people we were representing at that time. i got a lot of fulfillment in that. and purpose in being a part of something that was bigger than me. i was not expecting to run for office. i really imagine myself being more behind the scenes, but soon after that our state senator retired and my boss was appointed to fill the seat in the senate and he encouraged me to consider the appointment for the state house. i kind of got in the back door, but it was a great opportunity for me and i mustered up all the courage that i had and said, i am going to go for this. once i got the appointment, just committed to being the best representative i can be for the people of northeastern washington.

>> born in salem, oregon. when did your family moved to washington state? >> when i was a junior in high school. both sides of my family have deep roots in the pacific northwest. they came out to the northwest on the oregon trail and my mom's family was in the timber .ndustry i have grown up involved in agriculture. my family owned an orchard and fruit stand where we raised cherries, peaches, apricots, where i really learned a good work ethic and had the experience working alongside my brother, my parents, and building that is ms.. at success of that business was a great experience for me and i am grateful to my parents. my dad has a high school had aion and my mom

scholarship to go to oregon state but dropped out as a freshman when her dad passed away. she was determined that her kids are going to graduate from college. i am grateful for the sacrifice that my parents made so that i could have an opportunity for a better life. >> are they still alive? >> they are. they have sold our orchard and they actually divorced. and we oftenarried reminisce that neither of us ever imagined that one day cap he would be serving in congress. that one day cathy would be serving in congress. the american dream is alive. in america, you can be anything that you want to be. i have lived that. know, when i was going to

college, for as long as i can remember my parents had me saving my money so i could go to school when i had animals and sold them at the fair. you saved those dollars so you can go to college one day. i worked at mcdonald's in the drive-through. had housekeeping duty when i was at school which was .ot anyone's favorite i worked a variety of other jobs so that i could go to school. i've seen in my own life what a difference that made. i went on and had my mba from somersity of washington. of the student loans we have been debating here in congress recently, i am still paying off those loans but i'm grateful this is a country where no matter who you are or where you come from, you can come here and

pursue your dreams work hard, and really see what you can do with your life. >> on your twitter account you have been tweaking out pictures mcdonald's uniform. how old were you? that would be probably 1986, my freshman year in high school -- college. >> the national journal says you're one of the top 10 republicans to follow. how often do you tweet? >> michael is for me to do it once a day. it is a combined effort between my staff and myself. sometimes they are tweeting and sometimes i am tweaking. i find it is beneficial for me just to see in the course of the day that i can easily check my twitter on my blackberry and get a sense as to what the hot

topics are and what is on peoples minds or what their reaction is to what's going on in congress. media enjoyed the social and the ability to have a real- time conversation with people that i represent as well as others. >> let me ask you about your district because before you got together, the speaker of the house, do you have any interest in serving as house speaker? >> i am here to be the best representative i can be. i think john boehner is doing a great job as speaker. he has my support. i did not run for congress thinking that i would ever be in leadership and i am here because my colleagues encouraged me to run for leadership. people back home will remember

that tom foley was speaker and here that i'm in the leadership and ask that question, but my focus is just to be the best representative that i can be for the people that i represent. >> sometimes down the road the opportunity arises. would you be interested? >> it is hard for me to say. it is always a balancing act because i am a mom, to the below. taking into consideration the demands of having two kids and a third on the way, as well as my responsibilities here on capitol hill, those are all decisions that you have to make at any given time and decide what is best for you and your family. >> you are the worst woman in congress to have a baby twice. your son cole was diagnosed with down syndrome. how has that affected you over the years? >> i was single when i was elected to congress.

for me, the best thing that has meeting brian rogers and getting married, becoming a wife and the than a mom. and then our oldest, cole, was born with down syndrome. it is not would you expect. it isn't what you dream. but i sit here today and i'm a better person because of coal and what he has taught me. i'm a better legislator. he has given me a whole new passion for what i do here on capitol hill. >> how so? >> well, when you first get the news, it is some of the most difficult news that you receive as a parent. now. look back on it i was immediately welcomed by the disabilities community. people all across this country who have been through similar experiences reached out and said, it is going to be ok.

that meant everything to us at that point. having different people contact me. just decided, first of all, we are going to do everything we can to maximize coal's development. we want to see what he can be. you go to work and learn everything you can about down syndrome or whatever disability it may be and then i quickly became grateful for so many who had walked this path before me and the opportunities and the resources that are available today that were not available that long ago. you think about early intervention, early education, all of the commitment that we have made through the individuals with disabilities act. education so that now children with disabilities are in the classroom k-12.

as a parent, i am so grateful so those who have fought that coal will have more opportunities and as a member of congress, it makes me think that it is my turn to carry that baton and to continue to work for more opportunities. have made tremendous progress, but there is more to be done. whether it is the transition to or individual living, independent living, there is more that needs to be done in that area. they estimate that between 70% to 80% of people with disabilities are unemployed. many of them have a lot to offer and would like to be employed. onave been working a lot addressing those barriers to

employment. working with senator harkin. that is another thing. cole opened up doors for me and relationships that i would have never had otherwise. , house andaisle senate. when he was born, kennedy shriver calls. she says, you need to get coal into the special olympics when he gets old enough. you to come over and have a cup of tea one of these days so that we can talk about all of these issues. i would've never had the opportunities to build these relationships or to understand these issues the way that i do if it had not been for all. >> as a mom, were you nervous going a second time? >> sure. you give it a lot of thought to what might happen, but yet the odds, you look at the odds, just based on your age, first of all.

i was told that because we had one child with down syndrome, which is a duplicate 21st chromosome, it is the most common chromosome abnormality. there are a lot of different chromosome abnormalities, that i would have a one percent greater risk. my husband and i gave it a lot of thought. but ultimately concluded that we were -- we didn't want to look back one day and say, we wish we would have gone ahead and try to have more children because we and that being parents is -- we want that in our lives. we decided that we were going to go ahead knowing the risk and have a second. now we have grace blossom who

was born in 2010. she is doing really well. we have number three expected this year. it is a tremendous blessing in our lives. cole and grace get along great. i can already see where coal is having a very positive impact on grace and she is having a positive impact on him. it is good. in washington, d.c. your district is in washington state. wife, aa mother, a representative. how do you juggle it all? >> it is a whole team of people, i often say, that make it possible. i might be out front, but first of all it is the tremendous support of my husband. he is retired from the navy. he had never been married, never been a dad. was dreaming of that happening in his life. he did not necessarily imagine

living in washington, d.c. and being mr. mom, but he is embracing this as of this time in our lives. i could not ask for more support. >> how did you meet him? >> i met him at a campaign barbecue. it was the summer after i was elected to congress. his sister had worked on my campaign. campaigned him to this barbecue to introduce into another volunteer's dr.. at the end of the evening, he said i think i would like to meet cathy. that was how we met. just started corresponding. at the navale was academy. he is a naval academy graduate. he invited me for a tour. he thought i should see the naval academy, go to a football game.

it has been just a great, special blessing. it is having the support of my family and our extended family. my mom. brian's family. brothers. and they offer a lot of support for .s when we are home great team. i have a great staff. it is a whole bunch of people who make it possible for me to do this. job andd that it is a the balancing challenges that i face on any given day are not that different than millions of other working moms. high profile more and people may see me on the camera, but they in and day out, the challenges of getting the kids ready for school and helping them with their homework, and the stress of

wanting to be a good mom and a good wife, but also the demands of a job, some days you handle it better than other days. i think that is normal. i am grateful for the opportunities i have been given and the people that make it possible for me to do what i'm asng here on capitol hill well as having a tremendous blessing of being a mom. >> how often to get back to the district and had you maximize the flight time between here and washington state? time.t is some of my the rest of the hours in the week have didst for those hours. i have really come to enjoy the flight. trip. 7, 8 hour there is no direct flight. and then fly someplace

get there. it is quiet time. it is time for me to do some reading or catch up on notes i want to write. i enjoy that time. ofet home and it kind berries in the course of the year, at least two or three times a month. we have at least once a month home for an can go entire week. i just hit it. i maximize those days. i get around the district. it takes a while to get around the district. we are making it work. at the beginning, brian would travel back and forth with me. even after cole was born, we tried having them.

i was just going back and forth which it was a long trip to make every week. i still have limited time with the family. i find that it is working better to have the family based here in washington dc where i can go home some evenings and have -- and to be with them. we have our time to be together in the morning and then travel around that. when i do go home to the district i'm not trying to spend time with the family. we are making it work. i think every family, every member of congress has to decide how best to organize that. >> let me ask you some policy issues because you have been a leader in the republican party. you made a comment that the

party does not need to be more moderate. give specifics. how so. >> i don't believe the republican party needs to change what it stands for, the principles and values that we believe in as republicans. that have been a long standing. i do think republicans have to do a better job of connecting our policy positions with how people live in the 21st century and also using 21st century communication tools. the days of just issuing a press release or going off and raising the money to do television ads, that is not connecting as much. it we talked a little bit earlier about social media. at the 2008 election when president obama was able to

create this network of 12, 13 million people of americans and e-mail addresses, that was a wake-up call to me. we have seen where technology has revolutionized so many areas of our lives. it is also revolutionizing the way that members of congress representatives connect with the people that they represent and that republicans need to embrace these tools that we have for communication. when i first ran for leadership, i was focused on bringing the republicans into the 21st century as it related to social media. when i was first elected, 30% of our members that were on twitter or facebook, this was after the 2008 election. today we have 95%. members who are still using pagers rather than converting to

the blackberries are smartphones. transition.at members who had been here for many years recognizing we needed a change. i remember jerry lewis, a congressman from the los angeles area described it as the difference between when we went from radio to television. that is the same kind of communication transition going on today where people get their news, they interact both personally and professionally. their communications are very different. it's digital. election, i concluded that it was not about the republicans needing to moderate, but we do need to modernize. part of it is on the communication side of it. that is where my focus is.

i am charged with the communication strategy for the house. a lot of my work has been taking our message to every corner and engaging people from every walk of life and we have started asanizing meet ups republicans on capitol hill sit down with millennial's and talk about issues that are on their minds. done that with vietnamese americans, korean americans, hispanics. we have another one coming up with indian americans. it is to build relationships and two, as republicans, talk with people from all different backgrounds as to what is on their minds and hear from them. i think that was one of the takeaways from the election. a lot of people did not think the republicans cared about them.

it is pretty fundamental. we have been doing more of that. and then using digital tools to take our message to every corner and highlighting the talent in our conference. we were younger than the democrats on average in the house. yearsadership team is 16 on average younger. most people think of the republicans that we are the party of the old rich white guys who in reality you look at the young people are, the republicans, we do have women. we have hispanics. we need to present a broader tastes and really demonstrate to people in this country that republicans represent them and that there are republicans in office who represent them. heart of it is just the communication side. the other part is on these issues in particular where we just need to

do a better job of making sure that when we are talking about balancing the budget in 10 years, that is a goal that we our and we are challenging friends on the other side of the aisle and the senate and the administration to join us in this effort to balance the budget in 10 years, but take it to the next step. why is that important? to recentt important college grads and hard-working families? in my mind, that is when i say, that is part of modernizing it. it is really talking about issues in terms that people in and theyrelate to it are around their kitchen table, .n their home those aspirational goals that we have for every american.

>> as an institution, is congress working, is the house working the way you expect it to be? >> there is room for improvement. i think people recognize this is a difficult time for the country. we have difficult issues that we face. when you look at congress from an outsider's perspective, you think it is pretty simple. houseuse is supposed to -- is supposed to pass this bill and then you go to the committee and you put on the president's desk. well, in reality, that is not the way it has been working most recently. it is too much of congress right now being based on crisis management where we just go from one crisis to another. >> how do you fix it?

>> that is where i have really appreciated speaker boehner and the leadership he has brought in the house. when he became speaker, one of his goals was to restore the institution itself and return to what he called regular order, but it is to restore how the institution is supposed to operate. he was a committee chairman, said he understood the important role that committees have in this process. as simple as it may sound, it is important that a ill start in the committee and that you have the hearings and you have to debate and that republicans and democrats both have the opportunity to offer the amendments and through that process actually get a better is all done if it in the speaker's office with a

small group. so, speaker boehner has really wanted to empower the chairman and encourage them, you need to take the lead on these issues. you need to put together the legislation when it comes to the floor, it is up to you. this bill isok, ready to go, mr. speaker, now you need to come up with the votes, are over. having said all of that, you still have to figure out how to get to 218. that is where the leadership, i think what i see right now in the house is up to us to be figuring out, ok, how do we find that sweet spot, 218 members that are willing to support a particular bill to move forward? that has to be in conjunction with leadership. >> you have been in the minority and now you are in the majority. why is there such red lot?

are the two parties not talking to each other? >> well, i think for the republicans in the majority right now, we believe that this a critical time economically for the country. we have to get people back to work. the fact that we have the lowest workforce participation rates since 1978 is unacceptable. we are on the wrong path. stand firm on some policies are going to get this economy growing. that is where you hear us talking about the importance of tax reform, the importance of balancing a budget in 10 years. ,n torrance of spending reform spending reduction before just raising the debt ceiling and yet there is resistance. in fact, on the other side of the aisle, you have president obama saying raise the debt ceiling with no condition. just to clean vote to raise the

debt ceiling. the reason we find ourselves at gridlock is because that is never going to happen. that is never going to be the republicans to just raise the debt ceiling without their being some conditions. even president obama when he was senator said that it was irresponsible for us to continue deficit, addo the to the debt, have these records deficits. that we needed to take action. and yet, it is a lot easier to talk about what needs to be done versus actually doing the hard work of getting it done. the reason that we find ourselves where we are right now is because these are very politically difficult decisions that we have to make. it means that we are not going to be able to just continue the

current path. that america has been spending way beyond its means for many, many years. we have reached that point where we cannot just continue down this path. it is impacting our economy. it impacts our military, our readiness. it impacts our children and the country they will inherit. the reason it is difficult right now is because these are difficult decisions that we have to make. these are very important. they may not be politically popular back home when you start talking about reforming programs or reducing spending at the federal level, but it needs to happen in order for america to be strong and moving forward. there is the tug-of-war right

now between what politically popular versus what really needs to happen. >> let me follow up. dislocation. this is part of the original capital here? >> yes. bes wall right here used to part of the outside wall of the original capital. and then when they expanded it in the 1850's and 1860's, this was all added on when they added on the house and the senate wing. it is pretty special. i have a great view of the mall looking west. >> your bio says you have a passion for history. somebody in talk to american history, who would that be? right now i think it would be george washington. i have so admired him.

talk about important leadership that he brought for a difficult time that this country. he was someone who was highly regarded, steady as you go type actually was put in a position that he did not necessarily seek, but that people said, we need you and we need your leadership at this time. those were difficult decisions they were making. they did not always agree. very passionate abates, sometimes with your friends and sometimes withes your friends and allies. i think there are some parallels there. i would love to sit down and talk with george washington and with they wereit facing when they were founding this country and any perspective

he could give us today would be especially helpful to rid >> would you recognize congress? >> i hope so. don't think our founding fathers ever imagined the legislative ranch would be necessarily as weak as i see it right now. they set it up so the legislative branch would always be the most powerful branch within the three branches of government. but the struggles between the branches of government, between the executive, judicial, and and their foresight to know you want to have that balance of power, you do not want to have one person in charge. you want to separate power and have checks and balances, i and it hass so wise served an important role. on behalf of the people that we represent, the legislative branch needs to stand up to the

executive branch and the judicial branch at times. >> do you have a chance to read? >> it kind of depends. >> which are you reading now? >> i picked up peggy noonan's book about her time in the white house under ronald reagan and i am almost done with that one. i am enjoying rereading. that and my baby name book which i read almost every night because we are trying to come up with a b names right now. >> no decision yet. >> no. >> what is next for you? any desire to seek higher office, some said you might run for president, leadership in the house? u.s. senate? >> we will see. representingto be the people of eastern washington hearing congress. i don't have any plans to be

running for any of those other offices. i am honored to be here. ,'m committed to working hard being the best representative i can be for the people of eastern washington, and then also working with my colleagues around the leadership table to provide important leadership for the republicans in the house right now. hopefully providing some vision and clarity as to where we want to take the country moving forward. >> thank you very much for your time. >> thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] >> monday, the mortgage bankers association will hold a meeting in d.c.. consumer financial protection bureau, richard cordray, and others.emarco among

we will have that live on c-span 2 at 8:30 on -- eastern. jeb bush will be honored with the leadership award. past recipients include paul ryan and marco rubio. at the ceremony will take place in washington, d.c. with house speaker john aynor and tim scott. begins on c-span 3. >> the courtship of beth wallace and harry truman began here at her home in independence, missouri. >> when my grandfather visited independence, this is in 1910, he often stayed across the street at the nolan house which is where his aunt and his two cousins lived. one afternoon he was over there with his cousins and the family and his aunt brought in a cake plate that my great-grandmother

madge gates wallace had given her a cake and mrs. non-had cleaned the cake plate and asked if anyone would take it back. moved at ther speed of light, grabbed a plate and came over here and rang the bell in the hope that my grandmother would answer the door and she did. she invited him in and that is the beginning of their courtship in 1910. >> beth truman as we continue .ur series on first ladies the remarks from former secretary of state hillary clinton. she spoke recently at a center for american progress conference.

[applause] birthday.appy it is exciting for me to come at the end of what has been, by all accounts, a fabulously stimulating and exciting day, filled with leaders and thinkers about what it means to be a progressive in our country. i am delighted to share this stage with two people who are particularly important leaders in the progressive movement. i have had the pleasure of yearsg with her for many and i have seen her intellect and energy in action on so many occasions. she brings a passion for problem solving and ideas for serving

that is inspirational. of course, i have seen her grow from a 27-year-old staffer into an accomplished leader. if so, i really think we owe another round of applause and appreciation to her. [applause] saywhat can i possibly about john that could do him justice? inre is no one like him washington, d.c. or probably anywhere else. when my husband needed a sure hand to steer his second term in the white house, he turned to him. equal part thinker, dewar, fighter, facilitate or, really levelet always modest and headed. when president obama needed a respected leader to oversee his

transition, he again turned to him. whenever i need advice, either on grand strategies or day to him astics, i turn to well. he is our indispensable man and oneone who has carried cap his shoulders for so long. i am deeply grateful to him. i know the voice of god introduced him, but i think we should also show our appreciation to him. [applause] we have been discussing what it means to be a progressive in america and the world for years now. we may have different experiences and backgrounds, but values thatet of animates our work and our lives. the values of justice, freedom,

opportunity, and equality that everyone the world over deserves to have in their lives and their society who deserve to have the chance to live up to their god- given potential to participate fully in the economic political social lives of the places where they were born and live. and so when you look at these values and how much of the united states had to do in thrusting them into human and nurturing them and protecting them for so many years now, it is always a little to keepng that we have fighting so hard on behalf of them to make the case over and over again. but near a, and john, and so many of you roll up your sleeves every single day to told the case for a progressive agenda. it is based on data, evidence, not ideology.

that a fight for policies will actually achieve results and better people's lives. i do remember where john and sarah first came to see me about this new idea they were working on. a progressive think tank that back inand up and fight a city that had a lots of think tanks on the other side of the aisle, that would champion our values, develops smart policies based on sound research and scholarship. would advocate and engage in the public debate. at the same time, we had been talking about how we could see this happen. we were working on the very same idea and at the end of the clinton administration, i knew that if we did not have an infrastructure in place to continue to build on what had been accomplished and uphold the line on any effort of retrenchment or not we would not be doing our job.

we began to talk. that they joined cap was born. if there were skeptics back then. many people in washington thought it would be him possible to raise the money and build the top-notch staff that could compete with the more established institutions, especially on the right. -- they under estimated underestimated the talent of the team and the hunger of the country for bold, new, progressive policies. incredibly fast. it attracted scholars and began quickly influencing the important debates, about both foreign and domestic wallace e. putarticular, the efforts

because of affordable quality health care back on the national agenda and that was essential. the idea is that it's began influencing the debate and it no longer seemed unusual or a little bit of a novelty to have cap at the table, making the case for progressive policies. progressive values and evidence-aced formulation and force felt advocacy has made it unique not only in washington and america, but around the world. as i travel as secretary of state, it was not uncommon for me to be asked about cap, particularly by leaders who are hoping to have an infrastructure to support their views in their country. we have seen what happens when you marry the importance of

ideas with activists who know how to carry those ideas forward . the movements in our history for civil rights, for organized labor and clean air and water have been advanced by men and women who gather the data, likeal the arguments, just cap. we have seen, unfortunately, what happens in our public debate when they occur in what i do call and evidence free zone, where people make claims and arguments that have no basis in evidence, but are ideologically motivated. when politicians choose scorched earth over common ground. families have felt the consequences. iskers per load, business suffering, children thrown out of head start programs, mother's

worrying they will not get the help they need to buy formula and food for their a beast. we are careening from crisis to plan, instead of having a ringing people to that plan, focusing on common sense solutions, and being relentless in driving towards them. as much ifd today not more than it ever has been because as we look ahead to the next 10 years, there are very big challenges facing us, facing our country and facing our world. we will need your help. there are so many examples that you discussed during the day. there are so many issues that you work on every day. i am just grateful and that is what i came to say erie it i am grateful that -- what i came to say. i am grateful that cap exists and attracts such talent and

incredible energy, determination to make a difference on behalf progressivery. ideas have helped make this force fore greatest human liberty, dignity, and opportunity the world has ever known. will continuep leading the way, helping to renew america's promise of greatness to come. so, happy birthday, thank you, and let's keep going. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] both chambers of congress are in session tomorrow. the house gavels and for general speeches for considering a suspension bill. votes on those pieces of legislation will not occur until

6:30 or later. the senate gavels and at 2:00 p.m. eastern. there'll be time for general speeches for national relations board or general counsel. as always, you can watch both chambers live. for more on the week ahead in congress, including two scheduled hearings on the health care law, we talked to a capitol hill reporter. >> it will be a short week on capital hill. one of the things happening, the two hearings looking into the health care law. what will committee members here about next week? >> it is usually not the case that the hearings are bigger than the floor stuff. it will be more on obamacare implication or non- implementation from as a look -- as a lot of republicans would

put it. kathleen sebelius will testify at the house energy and commerce committee on wednesday. she has been in the sight of a lot of republicans as the person not only responsible for the website rollout, which by all accounts seems to not have gone well. i think 10% of people are trying to find out -- she is going to get an earful. she will be grilled, probably, at the hearing. people will look for questions -- answers to questions like didn't shoot no, who is in charge of the whole operation, things like that. before that the ways and means committee will hear from marilyn tavener, she's the administrator at the cms center for medicare and medicaid services. that was the agency that correlated the construction site. she will probably be grilled at a hearing all week.

>> your blog is writing about next week's house budget meeting. revenues are on the table and budget talks, they are talking about republican tom cole, what is the deadline facing that conference committee? >> this is because of the build ended the shutdown and extended the debt ceiling. they have a december 13 deadline to find some agreement. there are some high hopes -- a lot of people have high hopes we can reach some grand bargain, the thing everyone is looking for that ends the fiscal debate for a while. that is a quick deadline. we arty have democrats saying we need to do this before thanksgiving because they do not want to get through thanksgiving and come back with a week or two left and maybe there are still problems and there is no deal and it creates a crisis again. democrats are even saying what stood by mid-to-late november.

that seems to be putting them on a track to a short-term deal that would give us some funding for 2014. it may mean we do not have things like entitlement reform. we may not have much in the way of taxes, not in any big scheme sense of it. they are up against a faster deadline than we thought given the democrats want to do it by thanksgiving. >> we are hearing about a couple of bills intended to roll back some of the dodd frank financial reflation loss. -- financial regulation loss. -- regulation laws. >> these two ideas don't seem to be as controversial. dodd frank is the financial reform law. there seems to be some measure of bipartisan support. to become simply, one would expand the ability of banks to do swaps trade, that is an instrument that lets them hedge risk.

many people think hedging risk is what led to a lot of risk in the financial crisis from five years ago. the closed on the ability of banks to do certain swap trade. ben bernanke in the federal chairman thinks we should expand on them. there is a never bill up that would limit the ability of the labor department to impose new standards for financial advisors, it is going to make them wait for the fcc to act first. -- for the sec to act first. the part i would like to call the "new bipartisan to work," we have seen in new that we have seen some new bipartisan bills come up since the advent of the debt ceiling. you seen a lot of from your stuff. >> covering it more on "the hill."

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washington congresswoman, mcmorris rodgers. ♪ ," filmmaker on "q&a jonathan goodman levitt discusses his latest documentary film titled "follow the leader." >> jonathan goodman levitt, documentarian -- did you know when you studied psychology and got a masters in social psychology, that you wanted to go into this kind of work? >> i did not know initially, but i knew at the end of my time at stanford that i did not want to be in a lab, and i was able to apply for and albright scholarship.