coverage. thank you, mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back the balance of her time. the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. waxman: mr. speaker, i yield a minute to the democratic leader, the gentlelady from california, ms. pelosi. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from california is recognized for one minute. ms. pelosi: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank the gentleman for yielding. and i commend him for his great leadership, in helping to pass the affordable care act. honoring the vows of our founders for liberty, the freedom to pursue their happiness. life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. healthier life, freedom to pursue that happiness. you know, it's a funny thing when people talk about washington, d.c., and how people don't get along well. we disagree. we have major disagreements on policy. and one of them is whether health care is a right for all in our country or a privilege

for the few. and -- but it doesn't take away from the fact that we are people and we serve in this institution and we have some areas of agreement one day and the collide scope changes the next day. to the point where people are always surprised when i say to them, i pray for the congress every day and on sundays especially, i pray for our colleagues, our republican colleagues, as well as our democratic colleagues, as well as the president of the united states, barack obama, or george w. bush, or whoever he may be, because the success of the president and the success of all of us is the success for the american people. if we can work together to find common ground for the public good. and when i pray for all of us, i pray -- i have wishes for us. i wish that -- i wish that my republican colleagues could see how successful the affordable care act is in california. i wish you could hear the stories of family after family after family being liberated,

freed from the constraint, a job loss because a family has a pre-existing condition, so now they can follow their passion, not be chained by a policy, follow their passion to be self-employed, to start a business or to change jobs. i wish you could hear all of these stories, i wish you would not close your mind to them, because this initiative has been transformative. and i would have hoped that whatever had been proposed would be to strengthen or improve it all have the humility to know that any bill, whatever our pride of involvement in it is, can be improved. so that is why it's particularly disappointing to come to the floor today to see a bill that says to the affordable care act and all of these people with all of their stories, we are going to unravel this. we are going to unravel all of the good things, whether it's pre-existing conditions, ending that discrimination, whether

it's lifetime limits, whether it's annual limits, whether it's being a woman, whether it's for seniors or four kids, 18 to 26 years old, or for little children, even now before the bill is fully enacted. i wish , and pray and that our colleagues could see the evidence and that the decisions would be evidence-based rather than politically motivated. i think it's really important what this congress does today. each member has to make his or her own decision. this body, is that our words weigh a ton and our votes are even weightier than that. i hope the message that comes out of this congress is, there's a discussion going on, but there's a values decision that has been made in favor of the american people. that if we have to thread a needle to get a result, let's do

that. but let's not unravel the whole sweater, because that would be -- not be a comfort to the american people. so, let's act to strengthen, not weaken, let's vote no on the upton bill. thank you, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back the balance of her time. the gentleman from michigan is recognized. mr. upton: mr. speaker, we have just the close. so, we'll reserve our time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan reserves. the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. waxman: mr. speaker, at this time i yield to the very distinguished member of the energy and commerce committee, the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. doyle, the balance of our time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized for 2 1/2 minutes. mr. doyle: thank you, mr. speaker. let's think about where america was prior to the enactment of the affordable care act. 30 million, 40 million of our citizens without insurance. people with pre-existing conditions either couldn't get insurance or had to pay so much

they couldn't afford their insurance. women being charged twice as much as men. people that had insurance had annual and lifetime caps. did you ever wonder when you see families holding fundraisers to raise money for their kids' drugs so that a kid has a cancer and they're trying to raise money. these were people who had insurance and come up against annual caps or lifetime caps and the insurance company didn't pay anymore. half the families in america filing bankruptcy. people with insurance up against caps, no more payments, families losing everything. we put an end to that with the affordable care act. and how did we do that? we come up with a private system that required everybody to participate. young and old, rich and poor, healthy and sick. because when you put everybody in that risk pool, healthy people help us enable -- help

us, enable the insurance industry to keep rates at an affordable way for people who have pre-existing conditions and chronic diseases. that's how the system works. what my colleague, mr. upton, is proposing today unravels that system. make no mistake about it, if we continue to allow private insurance companies to sell policies that discriminate against women, that set annual caps and lifetime caps, if we continue to allow all of those practices that every american, 80%, 90% of americans said they want in their health care system, then that risk pool goes away. then rates go sky-high and you will have raised premiums for every american in this country. now, i would say to my colleagues, we want to fix -- there are unfor foreseen circumstances we knew whoo -- there are unforeseen circumstances we knew whoo women up in this bill. i told micah cuss, if the

president doesn't come -- i told my caucus, if our president doesn't come up with a fix, if our leadership doesn't have an alternative to this, maybe many of us would consider voting for the upton bill. but the good news is the president has responded, we will have a motion to recommit today that responds and i want to make it clear, there's nothing in the upton bill that mandates insurance companies to do this. this is a shell bill. in the end, just let me say, my friends should have some credibility. you introduced 102 bills, you never put one of them on the floor for a vote. so don't pretend that you care about the american people's health care here, you're just trying to repeal the affordable care act. democrats are not going to let you do that. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman's time has expired. members are reminded to address their remarks to the chair and not to other members of the body. the gentleman from michigan is recognized. mr. upton: may i inquire how much time we have remaining? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan has 2 1/2 minutes remaining. mr. upton: i yield myself the balance of the time. i just say to my friend from

pennsylvania, we would have liked to have had some amendments when the affordable care act passed and the rule denied us any amendments. so why are we here? why are we here this afternoon? you know, most observers of the legislative process would say that the president's health care act would never have passed back in 2010 without the assurance that the president gave, even many times this year, that you could keep your health care if you liked it. if you liked it you didn't have to do anything, period. i don't think it would have passed in this chamber or in the senate without that promise that the president gave. then millions of americans in the last couple of months have gotten mail and in that mail it's cancellation notices. and they're seeing their rates go up 200%, 300%, even 400%. deductibles going up in the thousands of dollars.

and people coming to us all last week when we were home for our veterans events and parades and all the things that we did, bringing those letters to us and saying, hey, what's going on? i thought i could keep this. and you know, until yesterday, yesterday afternoon, when it looked like we were going to get as many as 300 votes, including perhaps mr. doyle's and others, when it looked like we were going to get 300 votes for a bill that we introduced only a week and a half ago, all of a sudden the president felt that he needed to act. it wasn't until this bill that he came to the mike and said, you know what? i made a mistake, i'm sorry, maybe this thing will fix it. but until then he was going to sit on his handles and just watch us, watch millions of americans literally -- literally watch their health care, watch maybe their economic lives just go over the cliff.

he was prepared to do that until we showed that we had some bipartisan zip around here to ry and in fact enforce, make whole his promise that he has said over and over and over again. that's what this bill does. read it. it's not too long. a couple of sentences long. . i demepped our leadership for bringing this bill to the floor. man, five or six days from when it was introduced, that's pretty good. more importantly it got a wake-up call from someone down the street on pennsylvania avenue saying something's wrong. let's restore what we might have said. i yield back my time and urge my >> the house went on to pass that bill to offer insurers to offer plans in 2014.

the measure also grandfathers current plans and allows for them to be sold to new buyers. favor ofants voted in the bill, while four republicans voted against it. the measure goes to the senate. the house returns live monday at noon for morning our speeches and 2:00 p.m. for legislative work. watch it on c-span. on our facebook page, we are asking how you feel about the u.s. house changing the health care law. all on to share your opinion and leave comments. cebook.com/cspan. walden spoke, greg at the christian science monitor on the health care law and spoke about the 2014 elections and what issues he believes will play a role.

here's a look. start in my role as nrcc chairman and talk about 2014 and what we see. i want to start by recapping what i said when asked about what i saw 2014 would look like a year ago, and i believe that 2014 will be about the ,resident's health care law obamacare, and i believe it now more than ever, and now it has become a category five political hurricane that is not just causing havoc in certain regions of the country, it is ripping apart every region of the country, in tiny hamlets and towns to major cities where people are fighting confusion, chaos, calculation, cost

increases, all of which were aredicted as if you had noa was reporting the storm is coming three years ago and the administration and the democrats in the house were in denial, they were misled, and did nothing to prevent what is now unfolding. going tothink 2014 is be a referendum on the failures of this administration and its notion and philosophy that big government has the answers, big government can do things better, and americans now fully appreciate and understand that that is not the best approach, and, further, that they want a check and balance on the obama administration and its big government ideas. now, they did not have that check and talents when the health care law was passed, only

with democratic votes, and speaker pelosi shut out every single amendment in the house that was tried to be offered in the rules committee on that fateful day. the president has apologized to the american people in different ways. i think it is time for the democrats who voted for this law, and for the speaker of the house -- and today would be a apologize as- to well, because the american people feel misled and a bond of trust has been broken, with the the president, the democratic leadership in the house, and when you lose that trust come a it is a difficult and to get back. >> that was a portion of an event held earlier today i the christian -- i the christian science monitor. you can see the whole thing tonight at 9:20 p.m. eastern on c-span or any time at www.c- span.org.

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relief efforts in the philippines. roughly dirty 600 people were and thed dead and estimatedcasualties to increase. this is an hour. >> today we are pleased to have with us the director at the you and offers for the coordination of humanitarian affairs, and the unicef director of emergency programs. they are here to provide updates on the efforts in the philippines. they will speak first and then take your questions. mr. king? >> thank you very much for the opportunity to update you. we are now one week into the response to this tremendous crisis as we have all been following it over the past week. it was important to update you on the latest situation and the

latest status of the response. the first thing we have to express again is our sadness and condolences to all who have lost their lives in this tragedy, and i also have to say how much our colleagues on the ground inspire us, our humanitarian colleagues. they have been really facing an overwhelming situation, but they have faced it with huge determination and resolve. a week into the crisis, we see the fruits of that labor. as they allee it had hoped in the first days, but they were working very hard. there were there from day one and the morning after the storm. they were on the ground in the affected areas. and trying to do what they could do. we have currently now over 13

million people affected i this crisis -- by this crisis. the latest figures on the displaced are now at 1.9 million. there he are sheltering in over 1100 evacuations centers across the affected areas and there have been at least 287,000 houses severely damaged. overf that, we estimate 160,000 have been completely destroyed. as of today, the national disaster risk reduction and management council of the philippines reports that the 3600.toll now is at these figures are changing all the time, of course, as you can expect, and they expect that they will exceed 4000 very shortly. of the response, as i

said, as of saturday morning, humanitarian organizations mobilized a response in terms of humanitarian aid staff to get out into the affected areas. they came up against phenomenal obstacles of infrastructure and destruction. and as i mentioned, the housing infrastructure, but also all the other infrastructure -- the roads blocked with debris, the electricity network also the other and also things that we need to mobilize a response -- transport networks, trucks, fuel depots. found ourselves in

a wasteland, trying then to navigate through all of this debris and abstractions to get the road -- and obstructions to get the roads open and get the aidin to to the people -- in to the people. as you have seen, it has been slow from the perspective of the patiently, have been frustrated leave waiting for the support that they so desperately need. activitiese of our on the ground has been phenomenal. our system has worked in terms of being able to mobilize the people and the support that they need. we will circulate after these meetings some maps that show how the roads have been systematically cleared over the past week. and again, that logistical a principaleen

focus of our humanitarian colleagues on the ground, to open up those routes, and they have made very substantial progress in doing that. has also been a partnership. very generous support internationally for this huge crisis. the money has been rolling in, and we have been desperately needing that. i said in other briefings that we have to recall that as a humanitarian community worldwide, we do not have warehouses packed full of huge quantities of supplies. we are hand to mouth in so many crises about whether in the sahel, where over 500,000 children are dying every year over the past years, through

malnutrition, through syria, which is not funded, through all these crises./ we are stretched to the limit, and that means when certain crises like this occurs, we need very fast mobilization of additional resources to enable us to get the supplies that we need to respond to this crisis. and it has been, again, a phenomenal response by humanitarian organizations who have all declared this crisis as their top -- they call it level three, they have activated the top emergency response each of theithin organizations to release money, to release supplies, to redirect supplies, so that supplies that are intended for other crises that we have elsewhere are all in many instances being redirected to this crisis about because this one is so urgent

and hours matter. again, this mobilization is now what you are seeing on the we speak. as i say, in partnership with our donors, i want to commend them. they have responded very generously to an appeal that the emergency relief coordinator launched earlier this week, on tuesday, where she asked for $301 million. already we have received $72 million into that appeal. of $153s been a total million donated that we have been able to track, which is additional in not just for our appeal, but also for the likes icrc and other humanitarian partners who are not art of our consolidated

appeal. $104e have also registered million in pledges. these pledges have yet to be assigned. whether they will come to our appeal or other art organizations -- or other organizations, but the money is being mobilized. so this is a lot of money, very quickly, and we thank our donors for that. the other partnership that we have is with the terry partners, -- is with the military earners, both developing military, but international militaries, and we are so grateful for their rapid mobilization, because they create logistical capacity which is absolutely essential for us, particularly on air assets and the fixed-wing and also the helicopters. again, we have seen a very fast

response by all partners on this. having said that, we have to keep our foot on the accelerator about because too many people have not received assistance, but they should know that the assistance is on the way, and that is evidenced by every day significantly more people receiving the support that they so desperately and urgently need. we are focused in the first people freshetting and clean drinking water. that means water few purification -- that means water purification tablets, food, high energy escapes is the product been shipped in in very large quantities by the world food program, as well as other food

items. shelter, support to help people, just to protect themselves from the elements. and there unhcr has been mobilizing its assets, and ion, in particular, on this, but not exclusively either. full have of course .pectrum of the response the water situation, the sanitation situation, my colleague ted will speak to the huge mobilization from unicef, which is the biggest agency when it comes to the leadership of the different clusters for intervention. so i will let him speak to what unicef is doing. say,he final thing to which maybe i should have set up front, is this is a nationally- led response.

the philippine authorities have been really in our view outstanding. their infrastructure, their up in have been caught this crisis across the affected areas. and yet they have been able to mobilize to compensate for that. of course, it has been incredibly difficult. it has been incredibly challenging. and the consequences of those faculties and those challenges is that we are not as fast as we need to be and we want to be, but it is not for the want of effort or commitment on the part of anybody who is involved in this response. seeing thenow philippine authorities also focusing on getting the law and order situation under control, because we are very concerned about particularly those who are

using weapons and attacking the in theations and people affected areas. we are very concerned, and i'm sure ted will speak about that about those who are most honorable, particularly women and children. myh that said, a week on summary would be that a phenomenal crisis, unprecedented in many ways in terms of its scale and the complexity of the logistical side, is being met with a phenomenally -- a phenomenal response. phenomenally generous on the part of the donor community, phenomenally committed on the part of humanitarian organizations who have mobilized

in a very large way, with a lot of expertise to respond, and then the partnerships, which are , particularly with our international military partners, to get us the asset that we need to get to the areas that we need overcoming these infrastructure obstacles of the roads being destroyed and the other communication networks being so badly damaged. all the combination together is finally really coming together and mobilizing on the scale and at the speed that the people so desperately need. and finally, to say, the resilience of the people. valerie has been out there for a number of days, and i was

speaking to her this morning. and, you know, she at the human level really has been inspired by the resilience, the stoicism, the courage, the fortitude of the people who have lost so much and are suffering so much. feel that no matter ,hat we do, it is not enough and, again, that is a message that she has sent back to all of us -- two more, to fester, do better, the people need it, and that is a message that we are absolutely acting on. ,hat i do salute our colleagues as she does, on the ground, because they have really in the face of overwhelming challenges, they have not allowed themselves to be overwhelmed, and they are working through this in a very

commendable and courageous way. so i will stop there and hand the floor over to my colleague ted. >> thank you. i joined john in expressing our condolences to the government and the people of the philippines, and as john has said, we have been incredibly impressed by the resilience of the population on the ground. people say was there and i prepared this done? there was an enormous amount done by the government, but when you get something this large, you are going to have the kind of initial difficulties that we faced in the philippines. haiyanyphoon affected 5 million people, and these children require immediate support. -- unicef's effort is up and running around the clock.

where we areiduals setting up field offices. we think, as result of declaring this a level three emergency, assisted did, we have the eight- team on the ground, they're onng -- we have the a-team the ground, and they are getting a clearer pitcher of them massive needs in the affected communities, food, water, medication, and sanitation. the first priority is getting clean water and sanitation and hygiene facilities to people and reestablishing the water treatment plants that were operating in some of the big urban centers like -- and then focusing on sensation so that we do not have a situation in major urban settings where the major way of dealing with sanitation is open defecation, which has the risk of contaminating the groundwater. and the response to the situation has been work on the

wiser -- the water supply system, and we can say that it has been partially restored in one city, with both repair of generators, repair of some of the urban water infrastructure, secured,piping, and the different military on the ground has been assisting in the operation, with the philippine and u.s. military arrived at some fuel to restart some of these generators. we can say that there is partial ,000r resort to about 200 of the city's population. there's is a long way to go. we can also -- this is work being done with the government of the philippines, organization like oxfam and unicef working to get this up and running. -- our had our one which

water sanitation supplies on the ground, water ladders, hygiene kits, and water purification tablets for 45,000 people come and much more is on the way. what is sick of it is these supplies are arriving by road from us so we do not have to lie -- to rely on planes. i was speaking to colleagues this morning who were in a city, and representative is on site him to i was speaking to him, so the mobile phones have been research. secondly, he got from the airport to town in a half hour, whereas today's a good -- two ays ago it took an hour and half. things are improving in terms of getting more people on the ground, more supplies in. you looking at emerging challenges, challenges around child protection, risk of export and she, concerns about separation, and getting them back with their families as quickly as possible. hygiene,n, water,

issues related to child protection, preventing disease outbreaks -- those are the immediate priorities. overall i'm a it is clear -- overall, it is clear much more needs to be done, but it is clear we are starting to open up the logjams, and we are beginning to turn the corner. there's still see them get risk, risk of disease out rates. we have to prevent against things like diarrhea and cholera. we are starting to see the turning of the corner. this is thanks to the final moral work of colleagues -- the phenomenal work of colleagues on the ground, also thanks to the leadership of the filipino authorities and the wider partnerships that john mentioned , with the military. 's request for the immediate phase of the requirements, and we does remember it is an immediate phase, but we have to think recovery and reconstruction. the requirements are six to $1

million for unicef. we of extrem -- we have generouseceived some contributions from the public, and we hope to continue this momentum and be able to say that enough will be on the ground children oft the typhoonfected by this can return to a sense of normalcy, can get back to school, and be reunited with their families. thank you. >> thanks for a much. we cannot take some questions. if you can identify yourself and use microphones. >> thank you very much. disasters,hear about with the first thing we hear it is difficult to get to the victims, and that it is money. if you can change one thing in order to ease these problems, what would that be? >> money.

we are chronically underfunded worldwide, and we are also just now rightly on the immediate urgency of this disaster. children are dying in the sahel because we do not have the money to provide with them with the therapeutic feeding and other life-saving support that they need. these are not small numbers. 500,000 children have died for the last number of years every year across the sahel. community,tarian operationally, we are chronically underfunded worldwide, and that means people are dying needlessly and they are needlessly suffering. we are now in the spotlight and we are very grateful for the spotlight on this crisis, which .xposes our capacity to respond i would suggest to you that we have the people, we have the

systems, we have proven that because they were there the day after the storm, on the ground, flying in from all over the world. we have mobilized, as my colleague ted has said, we have mobilized the best of the best to respond to this crisis. but i have said also that our warehouses, nowhere do we have warehouses full of supplies ready -- for what is a predictable crisis. we know every year around the world, somewhere, there will be a large crisis like this, earthquake, if loving, whatever , whatever, and if we have the resources, and first and foremost, i cannot say and recommend that we put supplies into a warehouse hitting for something to happen am a when the children and others are dying for the need of those resources. the first thing that has to happen is you got to be funded properly across the globe.

we have put out the appeals. it is only for very basic life- saving support. and then if we are probably funded for our current operations, then we need to have the reserves in warehouses, strategically located across the world, to be able to respond to these predictable sudden crises about because they are predictable because we know they're going to happen. what is not known is where. so we can strategically be prepared for that, and then the logistical support. -- itthe same situation is predictable what we need. we need aircraft, not just fixed-weighing, we need helicopters in the early days of a crisis to overcurrent cash to overcome the infrastructure crisis we will see. in the latter, we have seen and effective mobilization of support from military partners

on this. you can see on the television screens all of those aircraft that are coming in hour after hour, helicopters that have arrived that are getting out into the remote areas. but i'm a yes, if i had one request as a humanitarian, it is that we give greater priority in funding to humanitarian action. when we look at the funding that is provided internationally in terms of what countries contribute in terms of military budgets, security budgets, and other budgets that they are involved in, our requests -- ours, and i would also say our development earners, are quite -- moment partners, are quite modest when they put into that international partner for me, and we also need right now, today, while we have the spotlight of your attention, we need to say our development

partners also need hundreds of billions of dollars -- in fact, the cost of this will probably run into billions -- to help people rebuild their lives, to rebuild their houses, roads, to rebuild the rest of the infrastructure and also to take them out of their former ability to cause there will be more storms -- there vulnerability, because it will be more storms in the region. so the government is supported to relocate people into safer areas when we know where the paths of these storms are going, where the low-lying lands are, and so forth. all of this takes money. but the good news is coming if you invest in humanitarian, if you invest in development, then you save lives. it is as simple as that. thank you, john. what is there -- is there a figure of how many millions,

--lions, would be needed that are underfunded right now for the needs come and what would be needed for a reserve? -- -- yourcolic colic from unicef, is the $61 million that you're asking for part of the overall $300 million u.n. hasyou and -- the requested for the typhoon immediate aid? on the second question, the answer is yes. it is part of the overall appeal. .e all worked closely together it is for immediate aid. as john has said, this is what we need now for the immediate requirements. but very quickly, we will be looking at recovery and reconstruction, and that will require significantly more resources.

we did keep the momentum going on the very generous concretions that we received today. >> on the question of the overall figures, let -- because we have them up on our website -- the overall total for the consolidated appeals across the numbers, the funding as it stands today. i will not give you the figure because it is on our website and i can get it for you immediately after this meeting, not to mislead, but it is a significant gap. talk a bit more about the security situation in the philippines, in terms of your military partnerships. what is the need there? there is concern that law and order is not being established, when it comes to fuel distribution centers or gas stations, so will you appeal to the u.s. and other militaries that are hoping with security -- that are helping with security?

side, it is arity philippine authorities that are stepping up and providing the security for law and order. their crest of a -- the request is international militaries on the logistical and the air assets, as i say, and particular, but not just that. they are generously supporting us across the spectrum of the logistical effort. you're absolutely right in that in the immediate aftermath, again, as the security staff of the philippines security forces were at themselves caught up in this terrible tragedy, there was a breakdown in certain areas with law and order because there was nobody to enforce the law and order. very earlyin the hads after the storm, you

this as a very high priority for the philippine authorities. our colleagues on the ground were feeding back information to them as well off the priority that the should begin in, and they did give us the priority, and that is why very quickly you have seen the redeployment of large numbers of security forces from within the philippines to these disaster-affected areas, and we will continue to be very concerned about the vulnerability of the population until we see the full frustration of law and order -- the full restoration of law law and order across the affected area. our message on this is we really see a response that is very effective from the philippine authorities, given all of the

challenges that they face, and we see it improving on a daily basis. but it is an issue, and it is an issue that the philippine authorities are here -- are concerned about and it is an issue that we in the international organizations are very concerned about, in particular for those that are most former bull and -- the most vulnerable, and in this circumstance is, women and children, and particularly children who are horrible in these circumstances. thank you. >> [indiscernible] usually the secretary-general visits disaster-affected areas. [indiscernible] >> the secretary-general immediately consulted with the emergency relief coordinator,

valerie amos, and they agreed she would he pull you immediately, and she has done so. this is to provide her support to the teams on the ground, to connect back with the headquarters at the executive time, tol, in real ensure that the mobilization is as effective as it can be, feeding in her first-hand experiences, engaging with the leadership, including the president of the philippines and to make sure that we in the international community are focused on the right priorities, are being as responsive as we can possibly be . she has been working around the clock am a and i have personally experienced it because i am willg to figure out when her e-mails stop, so i can see she is resting. she has not. she has not rested

in days. she is there on the ground. and number of other heads of humanitarian organizations are also en route, but they have discussed also among themselves the necessity also to curtail high-level visits to a minimum. whyu? == why? because they take away resources, they take space away from aircraft from staff that are going out to actually do the work that needs to be done, and they take away time. time is incredibly precious, because they have to be attended to in terms of meetings and so and and so on. so to get the balance on this the executive heads up all of the humanitarian agencies who all want to be there -- they all want to be there -- the secretary-general himself --

everybody, all of us want to be there -- but that is not where we should be. we all have to be where we can be most effective in interpreting the response to this crisis. so the secretary-general has been incredibly effective in where he has been in terms of what he has been doing, and it is reflected also in the amount of money that has been mobilized, because he has been on the phone, getting us the resources that we need, and so forth. the plans going forward, the secretary-general and valerie amos have discussed next steps and actually valerie fulfillt yesterday to commitments in the gulf countries. again, these are very important bishops that we have there, both countries being -- very

important relationships that we have there, both countries being very generous. she will go back to the philippines on monday, the follow-up on what she was doing this week, to make sure that everything that can be done and a number of other executive heads will be there at the same is aso that, again, there maximum use of time and resources in the most efficient and effective way. and so i do not understand that pointis any plan at this that the secretary-general can do anything by his physical presence out there. we have certainly not asked him to go because you asked him to help us with other aspects of him and he has been doing that very effectively. thank you. >> george? car spotted for jewish

newspapers in north america. as you have heard, there is an israeli humanitarian mission that has been deployed, and if i read the story correctly, and moreaft and 140 two or medical and specially trained rescue personnel. i was wondering what either of you know about this, what you can tell us about it, and how it has been deployed and used. >> thank you. yes, i can confirm that. all of the military support or support that is coming in from military's internationally -- militaries internationally is being coordinated through a logistical coordination cell t ensure that, again, the assets that are available are being deployed in a way that actually meets the most urgent and

immediate needs. obviously that is in close harmony and connection with the government. the government is in the lead, as you know, and, therefore, the prior authorization -- the prioritization is established with the government agreement. on the specific deployment of the israeli medical capacity, i cannot tell you off the top of my head what location it has been deployed to, but i can get that to you after the briefing, but it is a very welcomed commitment because, again, as we know, the field hospital capacity that the israelis can mobilize is top class, and we have seen it very effective in many other crises as well. >> in the center here. so you have commanded the

military assistance on the e,gistic and humanitarian sid but i am curious how many countries have offered their militaries in a two-minute syrian and logistic capacity. >> we have a long list of countries. i do not have it in front of me, but i can tell you from the top of my head it is the united states of america, it is the united kingdom, israel, as we heard already, malaysia, -- no,ia, japan, china sweden, and i can get you the logistics. it is a very impressive list of countries that have mobilized very quickly. again, very essential military assets to support our humanitarian operations, but we can most definitely get you that

list very quickly after this briefing. >> thank you. , a belated welcome. one of the most critical needs obviously is hospitals, and you may have mentioned this, but the lack of electricity and water. there is this field hospital that has arrived, the vessel. are you met he backing anyone medevacking you anyone out? i yes, there is medevac ssued, as you have seen on tv reports as well. this is one of the indispensable capacities that are being provided by our military partners, that they have the helicopter assets for moving at

speeds from remote locations people who are in each of medical attention -- who are in urgent need of medical attention. >> [indiscernible] >> military partners. i have been listing the different countries who have provided them and it is a long list of countries. if you have answered it, i was going to ask, there is a stakeout at the african union who could have coordinated it under. in previous cases, you have spoken of a need to have some separation between military presence and unitarian. i wonder -- this is a crisis, so all offers are welcomed -- but how is this different than situations in which you have said there should be this dividing line between military and unitarian? i want to use your response to this. u.s.eport says that

marines were instructed not to let philippine government officials and politicians such the relief goods that will arrive in samar. supposed to arrive carrying goods from the u.mn. n. does this ring any bells? is this a totally false account? >> on the first question, when we talk about working in partnership with military, we have very strict guidelines for doing so. these have been worked out. in essence, in essence we do not in ato be engaged humanitarian response within anybody who is a party to conflict. and that is what we endeavor to then work through. so on this one, we are

responding to a natural disaster, and not in a conflict, not in a conflict zone, and again, we have strict guidelines that have been agreed between us and military partners about inspecting humanitarian principles and so on. are not just for us in terms of guidelines, but also for our military partners, and they have been agreed. so they are called oslo principles, ok? you will find them on the world wide web. on the second question, i do not know what the specific details of that report are, but what i will say is that again, you know, in a crisis, you come up against so many dynamics. there is a chaos to the crisis.

there are bureaucratic obstacles . everybody out there is an differing to break down any obstacle to delaying the delivery of aid to the people who desperately and urgently need it. i think we have to be careful differentng from instructions out of the context and so on without commenting on the specifics of this particular report, but the bottom line is for us humanitarians, we have a long and deep partnership with the philippine authorities. it is one of the best relationships that we have in the world. in my job, and i have been in this job now for coming up on three years, and i have traveled to so many countries in the

discharge of my duties, i cannot think of a country where we have a better relationship. and that is before this crisis and for a long time, and terms of true partnership, mutual respect, easy agreement on how we should work together it is exemplary. , thee midst of this crisis relationship holds true. there is no tension touching the humanitarian community on the ground and philippine leadership. openness among the philippine leadership to our engagement in a way that is commendable. they are under pressure. we are under pressure. everyone is under pressure. in that dynamic, we are still finding that the dynamics are

overwhelmingly positive. we are sorting out issues as they come up. there will always be issues on both sides were things are identified and things need to be done differently and better. in the relationship that we have with the philippine authorities, it is very constructive. it is resulting in an optimal performance between our partnership. on the ground, we are working together and to do better and do faster and do more. we have reached everybody everywhere with all of the assistance that they need, we will not rest. that is the message. >> if i could add -- sorry. all of the solutions we are talking about, restarting the departmentms and the

of public works and highways, uniting children with their , i mean, it has to be a partnership. it is a partnership. it is one of the strongest relationships we have got, as john has said. >> ok. >> you mentioned that the gulf countries have been very generous. can you please be more specific as to which countries and what they have provided and how it has been utilize? >> yes. the gulf countries are very generous internationally in all of the appeals that we are putting out there. ,t is not just for this appeal but for our appeals worldwide. on this particular appeal, i

know that the united amaranth have come uptes with a sizable amount of money. let me check. $10 million. that is one of the gulf countries that i have on the list of the larger donors that have contributed so far. , a visit is to mobilize more support. >> in the background. speak into the microphone please. >> sorry. times.m the new york a couple of quick questions. can you provide clarity on the conflicting information about the death tolls?

.ou mentioned 3600 today i believe the president of the philippines had his own estimate that was lower. there's a 10,000 estimate that has been contradicted. i believe the osha website had something like ordered 400 and 60 deaths reported. 3600?are you getting a any clarity you can provide on how we are getting these numbers would be helpful. >> absolutely. i also mentioned kuwait? they have given $10 million as well. numbers, we have been working on estimates. in terms of when the initial figures were put out there, they were estimated. just a myth that we had were that the death toll -- the estimates that we had were that the death toll would be around

the 10,000 figure. not aas estimate and scientific basis. it is an extrapolation based on the numbers that we have been finding thus far and extrapolating out from there and so forth. ensure that now to , we have't confusion been asked by the philippine authorities to report insistent with them. they're not reporting estimates. they are reporting actual numbers. sadly, the numbers are going up. it was the secretary of defense that put out the figure of over 4000. he did so as an estimate. figure.hat the figure today is the actual death toll that has been issued

by the national disaster risk management council. they say the actual death toll today that they have been able 3,600.tify our but we all know that figure is going to rise. there are even places we have not been able to still get to. we stopped putting out an estimate on what the ultimate death toll would be. as you have highlighted, the figures start to become confusing. i did not think it was confusing myself when you say estimate an actual. the actual keeps rising toward the estimate. we are horrified but the actual statingare -- we were what the actual figures are.

john, just to clarify yesterday's figure of i believe it was 4,460 -- that was an estimate? >> from the ministry of defense, yeah. to be ant clarified estimate. that is why we have updated you on the official the looking authority figure of 3600. >> it did not come from the department of social welfare and development as we were told yesterday the 4,460 figure? it did not come from the department of social -- >> i'm sorry. i had a figure yesterday. i didn't do a public -- i did not put any figures out in any press statement.

so, i do not know where your 4,460 comes from. >> that is what was on the osha website. >> ok. that is an error. that is a mistake. we apologize. mistakes are made. it the wrong figure was up on the osha website, we apologize for putting it up there. it is a fast-moving situation. getre reliant on what we from our sources. we take the point about being very clear about those figures. -- very clear about the source of those figures. yes. >> one follow-up on the

curtailing of visits. are you actively discouraging visiting leaders from or just being rational? >> with the leadership of the partnerscies and ngo have decided is that they would be judicious about curtailing their instinctive reaction that they want to be out there. everybody has that instant reaction to get out there and to be with the people. it is an expression of solidarity. it is also important for the overall management of the operation. leadership has been carefully calculating how they can best choose their engagement in the most effective way.

-- a number of executives from agencies are now en route. their leadership are required as it has been calculated. that is how we will continue the calculation going forward. thank you. ging, i wanted to ask one thing -- any date or progress on vaccinations -- any update or progress on vaccinations? >> there has been progress in the sense that the government of sudan has agreed to have further meetings. appreciate the

demonstration -- the demonstrating that even in their view there is no need for a meeting, they are prepared to do whatever is necessary to get the assassinations underway. i am very -- to get these vaccinations underway. i'm very grateful. we appeal to both sides. would prioritize getting this campaign underway. i'm hopeful that this will happen. hope is not enough. intoed to see it translate the operation on the ground. progress since i was last year and hoping that progress will translate into finally our colleagues on the ground led by

unicef being able to do what they had been ready to do for a long time. it will take a couple of days to from ate these children scourge that should be eliminated. thank you. >> thank you. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> here is a look at our primetime schedule. eastern, a bill that would allow people to keep their health insurance plans. on c-span 2, and briefing on recovery efforts after a typhoon hit the philippines. span 3, senate hearing on surveillance transparency and oversight. as we mentioned earlier today, the house passed a bill of health insurance coverage

allowing consumers to keep their current plans in 2014. after the vote took lace, jay pasty responded to the bill and explains why the white house is not supported. here's a look. >> the president said in his wantss yesterday that he to work with lawmakers of both parties who are engaged in good faith efforts to make improvements to the affordable care act. >> on this particular issue -- >> that would include on this particular issue. we do not support the upton bill. , i thinkthe intentions the intention was the affordable care act was clear, but whatever ,he intention of the bill fixing the problem potentially of those who received consolation letters, but allowing insurers to sell new

policies to customers that don't meet the standards is deliberately designed to undermine the affordable care act in the long run. insurers, ito would have serious problems with something like that. it would undercut the marketplace and it would create a situation that would be hard to sustain. >> that was part of today's briefing at the white house. you can see the entire event any day online at her website c- span.org. -- our website, c-span.org. weekend, wrote to the white house 2016. governor o'malley. followed by representative paul ryan. span 2 book tv coming here

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sunday -- muckrakers -- c-on c-span posing " "q&a." congressman greg walden spoke on the 2014 elections. this is an hour. here we go. thank you for coming. we have representative greg walden. his last visit with our group was in may 2012. we welcome him back. he was born in oregon where his family came to the state by wagon train in 1845.

he grew up on an 80 acre cherry orchard and graduated from the university of oregon. early on he was a distraught he and a talkshow host and worked as a press secretary and chief of staff for a member -- as -- remember of congress. he was elected to congress himself. in 2010, speaker been asked them to be chairman of the republican leadership. a chair.ected as he also works on the telecommunications subcommittee. as always, we are on the record. orase note live blogging tweeting while breakfast is underway. span haveds at c- to give reporters time to file. if you would like to ask a

question, please send me a subtle, nonthreatening signal and i will do my best to calling you. we will move to questions around the table. thank you for coming. [laughter] >> good morning, everyone. i'm delighted to join you. i appreciate that warm welcome and introduction. i would also ask you -- let you know that my wife and i were in the broadcasting business. d at have ally worke degree in journalism. it is good to be with you all. let me start with my role as n rcc chairman and talk about 2014. i want to start by recapping what i said when asked about what i saw 24 look like a year

ago. i believed then as i believe now that 2014 would be about the president's health care law, obamacare. i believe it now more than ever. has become a category 5 political hurricane that is not just causing havoc in certain regions of the country, but ripping apart every region of the country in tiny hamlets and towns and major cities where people are finding confusion, chaos, cancellation, cost increases, all of which were predictable as if no one was reporting the storm was coming and the administration and the democrats in the house were in denial. they misled. they did nothing to prevent what

is now unfolding. to so, i think 2014 is going failuresrendum on the of this administration and its notion and philosophy that big government has the answers, the ,overnment can do things better and americans now fully appreciate and understand that is not the best approach. further, they want a check and balance on the obama administration and its big government ideas. not have a check and balance when the health care law was passed with the only democrat votes. speaker pelosi shut out every single amendment in the house that was attempted to be offered in the rules committee on that fateful day. the president has apologized to the american people in different

ways. i think it is time for the democrats who voted for this law and for the speaker of the house to apologize as well that the .merican people feel misled a bond of trust has been broken. with the president and the democratic leadership in the house. what do you -- when you lose that trust, it is a difficult thing to get back. no one wants to see what is happening out there. i did a day straight on the road in my district last week. 36 meetings. what the reported agenda for a meeting was, it always got to obamacare and the cancellations. very personal and specific examples of people who have not only lost their coverage, but also we are now finding out

their preferred specialists are no longer in their network and that their deductibles had gone $1000 or 2000 of to an thousand dollars or $15,000 for a family. some had cancellations of the personal policies that are now being replaced with force participation in medicaid, something they did not want. there are a lot of other issues involving the economy. i will touch on one and i will be happy to open it up to your questions. the other thing that came about as a subtext of a discussion of the failures of the rollout in the health care law broken promises is an insidious thing showing it is affecting real people in their everyday lives. employers are holding news conferences to announce, but i tell you it is going on in every town.

it is employers who cannot afford the costs of the mandated health insurance. they are reducing the hours of tople who work for them under 30 hours are getting their total workforce under $50 in anticipation that the penalties will apply in a year and they will get ahead of it. that is a really tragic thing for people who are trying to hold a job and seeing their jobs held back. hours have been cut from $40 -- 40 hours to under 30 hours. she can no longer live by herself as a result. she was moving back in with her three-year-old into her father's home. that is why they wrote me to seek help. it is a real and serious problem. in terms of the political

landscape, all of this is boiling at the surface. it is a big problem. hostinghank you for this. with that, i would be happy to take any questions you might have. expertabout to quote an at the back table there. on their website, they summed up the situation this week as "not many targetable feats." for the democrats, you picked a good time to be a chair. to take backrats the house, they would have to take all of the tossups in the republican districts. it looks like a good time for the republicans. what is your sense of whether the health care kerfuffle causes see a or do you still

swing either way? >> i think we clearly have the ability to gain seats in 2014. if you look at the lay of the --d and read independent that put an enormous amount of time into this, i believe there is an ability to gain seats. >> a handful? >> i will not get into specific numbers. i believe we can get a net increase. we put a real emphasis on recruiting women candidates. datave reconfigured our and analytics department creating the biggest digital department in the republican politics early on. grassroots, the data, the digital components necessary to do more highly targeted voter identification

and turnout. with our recruit's and the and history on our site, we can gain seats. repeat itselfot automatically. you have to earn the seats. we know that. that is why we have been laser focused not only making sure our incumbents go through the patriot program, which has been , oure feet to our success numbers are doing great job. more thanaising money. it is the mechanics behind it that use them the team and the strategy and the plan to win. >> one more for me and then we will go to caitlin. let me talk about risk to your rosy scenario.

and 2014, there will be at least 18 house republican primaries. ,arly this week at the atlantic karl rove talked about the republican coalition being in a state of flux. he says now they are starting to sort out. i think we're past the point of greatest warfare. see the warfare affecting your job? >> i think the democrats have a number of primaries that are causing in-party warfare. nearly everyone of those faces are solid republican seats. -- you cannote say that about the democrats. look at the chalice to mike mcintyre. a candidate has been picked that

did not get into the runoff last time. they pick someone else. and former member of congress is a third candidate. it is a jungle primary. republicans are not the only party that has primaries. them,ats, where they have -- i think that is a serious challenge in a primary. they will be weakened as a result. care, theth republicans have to unite around alternatives? b, we can lay and a patient-would have centered health care system. that welenge we have is

have a law on the books that the president has made clear he has no intent of ever repealing. or even modifying. attempts to suspend it and appeal it has met with pretty unified resistance from most emigrants and certainly the majority leader of the senate. at some point, you say, we have tried to warn you. it is pointed out that individuals would lose their lands for cancellations. was in theirber own documents. even then it did not get much attention. they have seen this coming for a long time. i think the key now is how it will play out. they have waited too long.

the storm has hit. you control the house and have controlled it for three years, but are ineffective. nothing is getting done. instead, you will be number 46. give me one example since january were the house of representatives has passed legislation were you can go out there and say we have been effective. >> let's back up. the reality of the city is we are in the minority. when it comes to passing legislation. get up and have the president of the united states and harry reid on the other side -- people don't like to hear that, but that is the reality of legislating. we have passed legislation and we passed legislation and we pass the debt ceiling increase

earlier in the year. we passed the fiscal cliff year with the tax policy and permanent statute. i can go back to legislation i worked on in a bipartisan bill that will be part of creating hundreds of thousands of jobs in the high-tech world. there's legislation that we are working through. we pass some appropriation bills. , there isl disrespect a dissension within your own caucus. then carrier bill never even made it to the -- i just the effectiveness of the address and effectiveness of the house. >> when the leader of the senate says he will not take up any bills that house sends overcome, is there not some responsibility there?

dance.s two to for four years, i know you do not like this, but for four years, the senate -- are three or four years, did not even vote on a budget. we did each year. they may not have liked our budget, but -- >> again, it is your caucus. go down the list. plan b. gooding get support within your own caucus. you guys are ineffective. >> we look at this and say we passed a budget and e.g. we have been in the majority. we are going caucus that passed a budget that balances. we are the only caucus that passed a budget that balances. the budget -- no budget, no pay to get the senate to even vote on a budget. how can even have a discussion with the other body when they do

not vote on a budget? at least we are having a discussion. maybe we can get this back on track. i do not disagree with that. wait. i'm sorry. christina. >> talk about the dynamics of the immigration and that primaries. is there a sense that it will be easier to do after the deadline? >> we have a different approach in the house than the senate as you well know. the american people are very skeptical of big, huge, comprehensive bills. they're looking at real reform that is done a piece at a time, you can have it be transparent and so the people can have a chance to understand each step of the way and how it is sequenced. the speaker has said on more

than one occasion that this is a federal problem. it needs to be dealt with but the federal government. i think you'll see it will come into a matter of timing in part because of everything else that has not been done yet with the whole government funding issue and all of that. my guess is that it comes later this year. isn't hard to do it for your members during an election season? people know their districts pretty well and what they can and cannot support going into it. i do not think it is that big of an issue. you have primaries all the way into august. >> ok. we will go to alex, cameron, david, and emily. alex.

>> all of the momentum with obamacare, without be squandered if the government is shut down in january? >> to think about obamacare is that it continues on. it continues on. the government got funded and back up and running. ground in the countryside , shut down wasn't that well received by many. there were others that probably liked getting the overarching government to have a research and specifics shut down forever probably, but obamacare affects everyone. it continues to. it will continue to affect them. i think it will be the dominant issue. >> if it comes to a second shut momentumcould hurt the

if that happened twice within a few months of each other? >> it shouldn't. we should keep the government open and operating. >> cameron. >> what can you do to make sure the caucus does not get divided focus? and vocus -- you yourself voted against the bipartisan [indiscernible] curious if there are any internal pressures from the caucus on this. >> there are, obviously. people have strong opinions. had an our members equal-opposite reaction to a government that was spending like there was no tomorrow. these members are reflecting a

view in the country that is thatgly passionately held if we do not get control of deficit spending soon, all will be lost here -- lost. these deficits are racking up at s.illion if somehow that is celebrated as a great reduction, and yet the are not goodecast in the next generation pays the bill. we need to do more. partner on thea other side of the capitol and at the white house that worked with us to get that done. situation, the kind of brinkmanship that is a distraction from the problems of obamacare -- >> i think we will work through

it. said that the house on immigration prefer the piecemeal approach. judiciary sent five bills in the summer. the house never voted on those. how can you say that you want to handle it in a piecemeal approach if you will not consider the regular order during the bills and going to conference? you know, different bills get work to a certain point in the process and then you have to get the right time and happens in both chambers. with everything else that happened this fall, he kind of alters the schedule. when nextiguring out year make sense to have time to work this through in a thoughtful way. we need real reform. i think you'll see it come forward. >> tom.

i'm sorry. tom. >> mitch mcconnell pushback against the far right. -- he noted eight tea party candidate who he mocked was naïve. tea partyd a candidate who he mocked was naïve. should we expect house republican leaders to push back against the far right? >> so, my job is to defeat democrats and elect republicans. republicans that are chosen by republicans in their districts of this -- as the nominees. that is where we are focused. can have ourat we

wide range of outside organizations focused on that, we will be more successful at growing our majority in the house. i words of encouragement always of the bill buckley line nominate the most conservative person that can win in the general election. that is, can critical. focus our attention on beating democrats -- that is critical. focus our attention on beating democrats. that is my view of it. as the caucus moves further and further to the right, making it more difficult for speaker in any to lead it specific direction, is that part of the equation in electing republicans to the house? in the majority, you have the responsibility to

govern. we are a center-right majority. we have to be able to govern. many people who come here and will fight as hard and tenaciously and thoughtfully as possible. at the end of the day, we still have the responsibility to govern. >> david. a few race specific question. democrats say they have a great a candidate. a candidate.eat have six all, we retirements on the republican side, including two sophomores on the which is unusual. there are fewer it in the credit retirements and how so far. do anticipate more on your side saying this sucks, i am out of here? [laughter] >> could you use that phrase? >> no.

[laughter] >> oh, david. '13, our hearts are still broken. what a great public service for many years. relationshipecial with his constituents in that district and that district had changed over the years. serving,o longer was that district would be a competitive district. it is the numbers. analysis. of the having said that, we will be competitive in that district. the filing deadline has not closed yet. there are a lot of people who are rallied around one. again, our job is to pick the nominee.

there will be some explaining to do about her tenure in florida. she has to move across the bay to even show up in the district, which i think has some set of issues associated with it. we plan to be on full offense there. she was an early entrant advocate for the president's health care law. if you have to sweat how it is into take money and put it -- she is an obama bot. they are lining up and going in the same direction. there is a reason she did not win the governorship. >> and retirement? >> yes. no one ever likes to have retirements on their watch, but it is a natural evolution.

i feel pretty good about where we are at. you never won an open seat. in most cases, we are in pretty good shape. again, i would rather be us than them. we have more members. they have got to go win on red territory. they have to pick up seats that romney carried. we need to be on game. we need to be on message. we need to have the right people in the right places. >> a few questions. one patriots on a number of -- one pivots on a number of -- you are probably going to keep the house for a while barring something very unusual. how do you make sure that does forwork across purposes

republicans to be competitive in the national election? as everyone has talked about, your majority now is probably more conservative than what you need to be to win other elections. is that part of your sensibility? -- responsibility? >> no. my responsibilities to make sure there is a check and balance and not a runaway again. we saw the impacts of that when speaker pelosi and senator reid and president obama with no one to raise questions like things like that irs and benghazi and whatever else. my focus is the house. has the focus of the national party and all of that. we represent individual districts and not whole states. on occasion, we have house members seek the presidency.

it is rare that they get their. -- get there. we really are a different entity. we need to lead. i think our leadership and the way we speak and help the republican party, we have had initiatives in partnership on the growth agenda and to recruit more women to run. we are trying to mechanical he filled out. stay on message of china create private sector jobs and have positive alternatives owing forward in these areas. about onetions are side versus the other and people make a choice. they have a clear choice in this cycle about big government run takeovers and how that plays out in their daily lives. when the president continued to talk about if you have a plan,

you can keep it, i think this election -- a friend of mine said yesterday if you don't like your democratic house member, you don't have to keep him or her, is how this will play out. >> you mentioned [indiscernible] in boston. do have any hope of winning seats in new england beyond that? >> i think so. we're not done recruiting for some of those seats. have some interesting people who are looking at running very seriously and are working issues, familywn issues. it is important to have your family fully supportive when you venture down this path. you can go up to new hampshire. frank is running again. richard, as you well know, is running again. i think that we need to be

competitive in new england and can be competitive in new england. we can grow. out at 2010 with the biggest majority since world war ii. he held the second biggest majority disrobe or two in 2012. -- we held the second biggest majority since world war ii in 2012. and that we go through this discussion of the senate and all of the things that happened there. i have responsibility for the house. most people realize we are the second reduce majority -- biggest majority since world war ii. they have to go to the chiropractor because their neck snaps around like, what? we have figured out how to do our job. we have a great team and candidates. i think we will grow the

majority. >> emily. you recruit sometimes in districts where people have a primary. i'm sure you help those candidates out. >> we don't spend money. moneynot go in and drop on the races. sure, we are out there recruiting. , peopleself-starters who do not know that are out there. it happens. we are open to work with every one of those candidates. we have a program that reaches out to them. we will give those candidates counsel confidential that we would give to someone else that we recruit if they seek it.

theant wherever he comes nominee, whoever is chosen by the people of that district, to be as capable and confident as possible so that they can win. certainly as we go out in the country, we are trying to identify ourselves and encourage them to run. we have got some great ones. i do not know if you are tracking student mills in minnesota -- stuart mills in minnesota. farm co-op sort of store chain. office, but he oversees 5000 employees and benefits and he knows obamacare inside and out. i would check him out. we have got some good people that are out there. look at martha. mia love.

retooled in terms of her campaign and how to run her campaign. another.t raising would have interesting, dynamic folks were up and running. the republican candidate will have trouble because there is no from the housel to lease. -- at least. what is your take on that particular race, especially since it is a moderate district? the independence are gaining ground. >> i think voters are more motivated when something is

taken away from them. rightfullyers are angry at maybe even times of the president's health care law. i think that will be the now andng -- between election, i think the house will take up immigration legislation in a piece by piece approach. those are decisions made by others in the leadership and not me. that being said, obamacare will increasesth the cost and confusion and cancellations. i think that will be the dominant issue. that affects everyone. thateveryone figures out they can no longer see their doctor, that will be the next lesson -- less than truthful

promise. what i'm here for my constituents that have been canceled is that they get the providers and some they have entrusted the health care with and have a relationship with is no longer in the network. it is true they can't see them, but they will have to pay full price out of their own pocket -- it is true they can see them, but they will have to pay full price out of their own pocket. .actically speaking, they won't technically, i suppose they always can, but they can afford it. , it is alays out hurricane of mammoth proportions that will strike everywhere, including california. state, you have -- there is a lot of discontent about obama care.

[indiscernible] what do you make of these moves? are there legitimate reasons to be really concerned? >> this is kind of like the guy who robbed the bank and has a bag of money and goes to the car and gets caught. you guys the money. sorry. it does not work that way with voters. i have watched this play out with a friend. he was chastising the president for not being truthful. or if there have been pointed out that he had the same claim on his own website. people that are getting caught red-handed and her co-conspirators in this. you cannot get away from that. you cannot get away from your votes are your statements. -- tos this thing called

document all of that. hold them accountable, as you should. i think they are in real trouble. that told me panic had arrived. >> we will next go to francine, lauren, and stephanie. francine. >> if you look at the latest developments strictly from a policy point of view, whether it is the president executive order or whether it is the upton bill are what mary landrieu is working on, wouldn't allowing people to have these individual plans to keep their plans, wouldn't that mess up the concept of obamacare? supposedly those people in the individual plans are more healthy and if you remove them from the overall population, it messes it up. allowing the of

certain segment to keep its plant, wouldn't that have a negative effect overall on the affordable care act? true, but it be think the bigger, broader effect is on the individual lives of people who now marketing getting plans they can no longer afford. , look at premium increases that are going up hundreds of dollars per month. sometimes $1000 per month. some people will get subsidies and payless. there is this thing in the middle where they just get enough and have no subsidy. dramatically. deductibles that are at a level -- unless you have a catastrophic health event in not havely, you do

health insurance because you are paying upwards of $15,000 where it was 2000 or 3000. they might go without. you can does go to the emergency room, right? -- i think this is the chaos i'm talking about on the ground in communities all across america. >> a quick follow-up. has there been time to figure out as this legislation has been going on which is the worst a case? these folks whose premiums are happens to thet whole system as a result of this? i would argue on the side of the individual whose plans are being terminated and they do not have access to the website to even figure out what their

alternative is or what their subsidy will be our what the costs are. that is the world we are in now. it is a more important role to the individual than the sort of global effect on obamacare for the long-haul. you have got a situation in my home state. we have a high risk pool of people who have pre-existing conditions. in legislature back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, we worked on these things that people had a place to go to get coverage. at thegh risk rule ends end of this year. the cost of down to replace it with cover oregon. it has signed up zero people. the government will hire 400 individuals that will manually go out and sign people up by paper. but still, they'll have to figure out how to run that through a computer system that they admit will not work why the end of the year. in terms of real people's lives,

this is happening in fast time. that is why i equated to a hurricane. category five hurricane. i held a town hall tuesday night a week ago. a couple of people said it is working great. and these cancellations, that is not true. here is my letter. i got canceled. the replacement policy is that is what we have to worry about first. x you mentioned your conversation with the donors. the democrats have done an unusually good job.

it has been fueled by large numbers of small donations. and the rnc doing on that front? are you reliant too much on large donors? is it possible for a republican party apparatus to activate grassroots donors at this point? >> i won't buy into that last piece at all. at the biggest digital team in republican politics this year. these people are creative and brilliant. they have grown our presence online dramatically. they can give you all the , our facebook "likes,"