retribution. he is not exactly a sweetie pie. host: the washington post describes terry mcauliffe as exuberant and best friend bill clinton in attendance for the seven -- ceremony. "the new york times" out that they were there. guest: i think it was very smart of him to get the blessing for clintons to do just that. ofs he has a gift essentially bringing people together. you would not have known that because he was such a diehard partisan, and such a clinton supporter.

he also had a brief -- a vision for virginia, and what we are seeing is that he is winning over skeptics, ringing people to his side. -- ringing people to his side. people to his side. start outgreat way to on the right foot. out with atarted huge lead, and hot on against a very forward opponent. he hung on by his fingernails to win. he goes back to the age-old question what it'd just -- it just shows how smart the clintons are. to show upough sense because it would generate national coverage, that nobody

if theyve cared much had not been there. -- doember bob mcdonnell you remember bob mcdonnell being sworn in? of course not. they know when to step forward into the spotlight, and went to fall back. i give them high marks for that. in terms of sticking with their friends, i give them high marks. caller: good morning. i've to say that i'm just amazed by the coverage on this chris christie. they talk about the tone. it seems like everything exploded, and everybody is on him. it where is the liberal movie when it came to all of the coverage on irs, and nsa, and all the other candles in the obama white house? -- scandals in the obama white

house? president about obama, it is told to and his administration with that arabic and feel that they can do they things they did? you have the meeting at the white house 150 times. he could tell me that president obama did not know anything about that? the media is biased. the suggest another example of it -- this is just another example of it. guest: it is a good issue to discuss. the liberal media, the conservative media, the mainstream data, hammered the president over the irs scandal. let's not pretend that this was not covert, because it was covered extensively from front pages for a very long time. the people who are surrounding him and setting the tone. we are talking about a distant satellite office in cincinnati that came up with this plan.

absolutely nobody around president obama plus inner circle, and reports have shown that nobody at the white house had anything to do with this, and had any knowledge of what was going on. by the way, it also ended up being i bar partisan -- a bipartisan targeting as we're now seeing. both liberals and conservatives are being argued by the irs. that they wered being targeted. it was a made-up scandal. the reports, and the investigations have really -- guest: it was not a made-up scandal, they just appointed an outside get to -- counsel to dig troll of it -- to take control of it. guest: good. guy, andey appointed a

obama donor. hadimagine if george bush appointed a lead donor to be an investigator in this? yikes. what the caller is saying is these mystical, magical visits every other day by the irs, they were blocks away. earlier,oint of somebody was sending the tone in the white house. apples ands such oranges, and for publicans to have to go there, it underscores the trouble that christie is in. let's talk about how they reacted to it. when this came out, president obama did a press conference today is afterward. and then five days afterward,

ended 10 days -- and then 10 days afterward. and chris christie took 120 days to get to a press conference. guest: the president? guest: the president came out and talked about it two days after the report. you know what he did? he laughed about it, he mocked it, and he was calling the critics ridiculous. big difference in how the things are handled. we are going to have to get down to the weeds here. for 18with the press hours. guest: buddy took him 120 days -- what it took him 120 days.

the president came out as it is there were reports. traffic jamhe happened. we are getting a lot of tweets that same we want to be able to hear both sides of you. i would've put another issue on the table. happening inis alabama and being duplicated in other states around the country. people who want to see policies enacted and see things tried are removing their activity from washington.

there is a sense that you could think -- get things done in the state. guest: i do a lot of work for a guy named t boone pickens, of the pickens plan, into natural gas. we made a decision to move the operations away from congress to the various state governments, because that is where you can actually get to people that make things happen. host: what are you doing? guest: we are helping governors and their appointees understand that natural gas is enormously -- there's no perfect fuel, but given a choice between importing oil to make gasoline to and using domestically produced out of gas which is cleaner, cheaper, and all of the other stuff, that we could not get the congress to move at all. we have been relatively successful in getting states to compact,a contact --

that they will issue orders to buy heavy trucks, and state vehicles that will be likely to use natural gas as their fuel. our hope is that will run across the country. -- i think that people have sensed that, that prices are so stuck that you cannot get anything done. they are moving their activities from capitol hill to the executive branch offices because they are still having people that are connected there. guest: there is this effort by this group called alec about which is focusing on state legislatures. because backfired, we're now seeing that that was where the origin of the stand aws was.und l lawsrigin of the voter id

that disenfranchised voters. voteruld have a big backlash if they see that instead of corporations, or right wing conservatives, or gon liberal groups trying to to capitol hill, they're going to the states to try to get their agendas to work. you to be careful of how that is talked about, and how it is that it limited -- how it is and implemented. lines. our caller: you guys are having a pretty good food fight, but i have a question. the policy that bill clinton putting place -- what in place, he cut social programs, don't

ask, don't talk about all of that. review the public strategies of ronald reagan. the question i would like to ask both of these were white residents, reagan won in a landslide. 10 -- nine out of 10 of voters were white. thatid democrats think illegal in can -- hillary clinton can win the presidency? always the blood of the bout hispanics, but the blacks are the ones that turned the alleged to -- turned the election. we came out in the higher percentages of any group.

she has not done anything for us democrats. good: he brings of a very point, which is the importance of minority votes for the democratic candidates. i guarantee you that if hillary clinton is the candidate, that she will do everything that she can, as she has done throughout her political life, and her political career, to get the support of the american voters, of latinos, of women, of the lgbt community. that has always been a focus of the democrats because they thatt win that -- without percentage of voters. barack obama got the lowest percentage of white voters, and that is because this is what we're moving toward, and he represents the face of america today. democratic candidate can win

without the majority of african- american voters. the big question is, what are republicans doing to try to garner more of those minority votes? we side big reimaging after mitt romney lost in a landslide because they know that they can get to the white house without -- cannot get to the white house without additional african- american votes. interestedvery to see what they have to say. mariaoba -- is a blogger. is as well.en

guest: something triggered that. this did not come out of the sky. if i had to bet, i would bet that the we went to the mayor of fort lee, just to feel about going to see if they could get a democratic endorsement for the governor, and he got a bunch of democratic endorsements. it is probably ugly to the men entered the whole thing, because again, this is new jersey. when i was in the fourth grade, i can mobile phone number for storks, and -- a team of with my of my first jokes, and fourth-grade joke was what car did george washington d rive? the answer was a hudson. i got a stern talking to from my teacher. i realized what i wanted to do with my life.

i wanted to be howard morman. [laughter] host: i'm not going to even respond to that. we will leave it there. if the dnc is a nearby the level of hypocrisy you have -- guest: i am not on the dnc payroll. caller: you said the american ready for new jersey style politics. let's talk about chicago style politics because i've discovered the difference between the two. all of the scandals obama has,

all of those people involved, still have their jobs. none of them got fired. guest: as anyone can implicated -- has anyone been implicated in a french prison scandal? -- retribution scandal? apples and oranges. they have been litigated, they have been covered, they've investigated by the hill and other investigated, by the press, and nothing has come to sort of terms of any cover-up, of any sort of issue having to do with his inner circle. republicans have to go to the comparison of president obama and difficult issues against it -- he has had to deal with this year underscores what a big problem chris christie is facing right now. chris christie is in a lot of trouble. host: independent line, thank

you for waiting. caller: good morning. well, when i was going to talk about has been talked on several times. interject aike to few things. statesple of the united are watching all of these things a lot more closely than what you might take. -- think. there very aware that majority of people in washington dc are rich, and have nothing to worry about no matter what happens. thinke one thing that i that washington dc is ignorant of his the united states is really no longer the united states. but thee still america,

united states is being dismantled from the inside out. we are literally being took apart. all -- that is all i have to say. guest: i don't know what that means. i lived in dallas for a long time, and it pretty -- i am pretty familiar with the way texas thinks. i went to a lecture by dan rather in the mid-1990's. he talked about being of the texas soil. aboutnot think that way new jersey, but texans see the world differently. they really do believe it, and they think that the world would be better if it all look like access -- texas. guest: i'm going to take a moment to talk about the issue

that president obama says is the defining issue of our time. that is going to be the coming fight this year. this morning, there was a wonderful report that maria shriver has put out called the shriver report. host: she will be presenting it in washington this week. guest: it talks about how one in three women, 42 million women, and 28 million children live in the brink of poverty. poverty, the way that it looks today, very different than what was 50 years ago when her father, sargent shriver was wet as head of the war on poverty. by the way, those very effective in taking people out of it. the face of that are pretty are low income women and children. -- poverty are low income women and children. we need to make sure that the women that are the engines of our economic growth, and the

children, are put in a position where the american dream is not being taken away from them. --re are ever graphic as well.ic differences minority women are the hardest hit, and they believe that the government needs to be a partner in the type of short -- structures and changes that need to be taking place in the work force. focus oncies that single-family households, more policies that focus on the changing family today. -- more policies that focus on job training, and the ability to give these women education. my hope is that republicans will work with is on trying to figure out what those policies are. not progressive policies, they are not liberal policy for they should be american policies that should uphold our greatest asset, women and children.

this has not changed over the last year and a half. the single biggest determinant of unlimited level of education. it is a straight line from people over 25, without a high school degree, are likely to have well .1% unemployment -- 12 .1% unemployment. a professional degree, their unemployment is about two percent. we need to keep going back up the food chain, and fix the root of this. why people are dropping out. guest: i lot of these women regret having not reorganize their education more. and interestingly enough, g ing married, and being

happy when they were able to get a divorce. what policies can we put in place so we can support these women and children? host: we're going to focus on the war on poverty in the second half of the show. tweet -- guest: everyone is going to put their face on this issue to video where they come from -- depending on where they come from. it is not about chris christie, it is not about president obama. chris christie has prided inself in being able to play new jersey politics better than anybody in the sandbox right now. aura that he is underscore himself, that he has been very proud of, that he has invited

critics to come after him, i do get is coming back to haunt him. when he paints himself as the big them -- the victim, as for me, i was blindsided when he related, lied to, instead of i'm going to find out what happened, i would to find out why this happened both wire those traffic lanes closed? we did not hear any of that during the press conference. ofst: given the number issues that maria has brought back to chris christie, that tells us the challenge that he faces. one of the reasons there is such --alue for interparty interparty value for taking over , dan isis has your authority to look over everything to and they have subpoena power, and whether it is republicans or democrats

for they love getting in there to see what they can do. guest: no one has come up with thetan --, with anything substantial on the so- called candles for the president -- scandals for the president. featuredk being in the washington post. a lot of attention about what he said about president bush and obama, and also vice president biden. it also said this about testifying before congress -- " sitting atquently,, that wind is typical of the exit lights are on the tip of my time frequently, sitting at that

witness table, the exit lines were on the tip of my tongue" -- guest: let me go back a step. i room for how angry i was at the press secretary for george w. bush who wrote a kiss and tell book about the president while he was still in office. i feel the exact same way about this. they are far less concerned about getting the truth, then ir good quip for the next morning. another quote --

guest: you mean president obama? host: president obama, and bush. guest: that is been one of the big criticisms for president obama. i do wish that he would spend more time reaching across the, and actually having and developing those kind of relationships. it is what it is. he has talked about this himself, he is talked about how he wants to focus on his family life, his two girls come first for him, their young, so they need a lot of time. as a mother, i understand that. these are criticisms that, in

the book, that at the end of the day, i do not think they diminish what this president has accomplished, both domestically, as well as internationally. on givingalso focuses the president and a lot of kudos on the decisions he has made on the world stage. gotten -- hillary clinton and a lot of kudos on how she handled herself and her leadership style. the one thing that i don't agree with, and the white house is come out to defend, is where he ends up with joe biden. i think joe biden has been an face, and heblic is served the country well. that is what we have seen, the one big pushback from this white house in terms of that book. host: democrat like, good morning. line, good morning. caller: good morning. i'm going to get back to chris christie.

i do not know how all of this is going to wash out. but when president obama took kind of consider myself a moderate. after george w. bush, if you dictionary under democrat, liberal, i was there. aorge bush could barely put sentence together. i also read an article yesterday on yahoo! about 14 potential gop candidates. i cannot remember all of them, ,ut i look at chris christie and i think that i think he is -- and i think that he is a moderate.

republican will win the next election unless he is a moderate. both reagan and robbie -- romney both ran as democrats at a certain point in their life. republicans don't get rid the extremearty, or part of their party, i do not think there could have much luck. host: thank you for the call. guest: i agree. --t is great, the tea party the republicans have to say, if you want to put up candidates against them, republicans -- against incumbent republicans, and it is hard for your own party to go up against you, because of the distractions and expenditures to defend against another republican or another democrat. they're going specifically out

there to defeat tea party renegades in some of these primaries. host: let me ask you about been set for my candidate for senate in nebraska. he is featured in the latest edition of the national of you. here is an ad on the air number grasso -- in nebraska. ♪ >> that's it. to cureto ensure -- everything in washington. to move the capital to nebraska. we have to choose, the most conservative voice to send washington. host: why is he getting so much attention?

he's not even the nominee. guest: whoever wins the nomination is going to be a pickup for the gop. he has gotten -- guest: he is good looking. guest: he has gotten the support of the tea party national groups, and is building a consensus among the traditional republicans. if he wins this thing, that may be the model that other republicans look for. probably some of the democrats with a good turn it upside down, to look forward to bring some sort of cohesion to it otherwise splintered party. i think he could be the nominee, and the senator. guest: i want to go back to wanting the caller said about christie. he would not be happy to be called a moderate. he has tried to push back against that, because things seem -- being portrayed as a

in terms ofa death winning the presidential primary. white house officials are upset about the book, but they should use it as an opportunity to examine the deeper questions about how foreign policy got so damaged and what they can do to repair it. fair criticisms? tost: you couldn't do good -- you could do well to look at seee tell-all books, and what it says about the processes. this white house is not obsessed with what is in this book. they are focused on making sure ith making sure they

acknowledged by gain's service, and then they're going to move on. what is coming out in this book is that president obama campaigned on, and has taken us toward ending the war in iraq, ending the war in afghanistan. ofbe sure that the standing this country on the world stage, which was so damaged after george w. bush, actually improves. that is exactly what it has done. guest: i think that a lot of ohorting about the employer -- imperial presidency, where so much of the executive branch has been concentrated in the president is a very long-term problem. host: that will be coming up tomorrow, as the u.s. supreme court hears the arguments on the

recess appointments. you will of a jazz of friday on c-span radio to hear out the judges questioned both sides. we will -- we were told that mitch mcconnell will be inside the court. -- from oneof from tweet -- wers, i ta last call for our roundtable. good morning. i hope that both heller gotten an chris christie get knocked out of the nominations. if they do not, i will not have vote. guesthost: why? caller: if christie is not a bully, he is a smart alec.

and you are good is just another barack obama, and we are as close to communism as we need to be. thet: this is reflective of dissatisfaction of what we have with washington. the inability that we've received to get anything done. cores itler understo with the people who are seen as front runners and their parties. me to hearable to about the bureau presidency when this president has tried to do so much, and has tried to work with republicans in congress. we have some daylight mitch mcconnell saying that his very first priority was to make sure that president obama was a one term president, that is not somebody focused on making sure we actually solve this country's problem's. if you have to look at a way to go around progress, jackson get things done that are -- to things done that

are good for the american people -- it goes from dislike about all the way to disdain. i think everybody knows that. guest: he has tried to work with and time again, and a slap them -- and then slap to the face time and again. host: we will leave it there. ,aria cardona >> the future role of the united states in iraq and afghanistan. talk about health care spending in a lower income america. admiral defender talks about the

program and the more the 50 year history of providing free legal counsel for poor people charged in federal cases. "washington journal" is a live with your calls. >> this week of the house will be debating a temporary spending bill because the measure covering the budget year is not ready. currently spending authority runs out on wednesday. next, eric cantor and house minority whip steny hoyer talking. this is 20 minutes. r, on monday the house will meet at neen for morning hour and 2:00 -- noon for morning hour and 2:00 p.m. for legislative business. votes will be postponed until 6:30. on tuesday and wednesday the house will meet at 10:00 a.m. mr. hoyer: mr. speaker, the house is not in order. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is correct. the house will be in order.

the members will please remove their conversations from the floor. he house will be in order. the gentleman is recognized. mr. cantor: on tuesday and wednesday the house will meet at 10:00 a.m. and noon for legislative business. thursday at 9:00. last votes expected at 3:00 p.m. on friday no votes expected. the house will consider a few suspensions next week. a complete list of which will be announced by the close of business today. in addition, the house will consider two bills next week to fund government operations. as you know, mr. speaker, house and senate appropriators are working towards a bipartisan agreement on an appropriations package to fund the government for the end -- until the end of the fiscal year. i expect an agreement to be reached soon and the house will consider this package next week. mr. speaker, to facilitate this, we will need to pass a

short-term c.r. to allow the senate time to process the bill. i expect to pass this under suspension of the rules early next week. finally, i expect the house to consider h.r. 3362, the exchange information disclosure act, sponsored by representative lee terry. this bill requires full transparency and accuracy from the administration on data reported from the obamacare exchange. and with that, mr. speaker, i yield back. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman for that information. i note he indicates that we probably will not be able to accomplish the omnibus by the end of next week and therefore a c.r. may be required. i know that all of us feel that that needs to be accomplished as quickly as possible. i'd point out to the gentleman in conversations that he says it's going to be on suspension.

i'll support it on suspension, urge my colleagues to support it on suspension. can the gentleman tell me, however, how long that c.r. will go? that will affect us somewhat. mr. speaker, -- mr. cantor: mr. speaker, i'd say in response to the gentleman, the expected termination, if you will, expiration of the c.r. will be saturday the 18th of january. so giving a week really, mr. speaker, is for the senate to act, because we will be acting next week in the middle of the week, we hope they will finish their business by september -- i mean, january 18. . mr. hoyer: i hope that was another freudian slip of our confidence to get that done as quickly as we would like. in any event i think that's appropriate and i'm hopeful we can accomplish that.

i want to tell the majority leader from my perspective of that -- we don't get that done in the short term, then i would be very reluctant to support continuing resolutions at the level which has now been substituted for the agreement that was reached in the budget, the bipartisan budget agreement. substantial difference as you know in the 302-a allocation, the allocation of discretionary spending. 967 t 1.012 trillion and $ billion so there is a substantial discrepancy between those figures. we reached agreement on the higher number, the senate came down about 45. the house went up about 45. and reached a compromise. i think america was pleased that we reached a compromise. i would just -- want to be on

the record as saying that if we went to longer term c.r.'s i would want to have serious discussions about the level of those c.r.'s in terms of the operations of government. the other issue i wanted to ask the gentleman about, as you know we had a previous question yesterday. that previous question had it been defeated would have allowed the house to consider the extension of unemployment insurance for three months consistent with what the senate has proposed. now the senate has not reached agreement on this issue. but, unfortunately, that has not been considered on the floor this week. as the gentleman knows, 72,000 people a week are losing their unemployment insurance. that adds to the 1.3 million that have already lost their

own insurance on december 28. i know it's not listed on your sheet nor did you mention it in your comments on the floor, can the gentleman tell me whether there is any prospect of the unemployment insurance bill coming to this floor? mr. tierney has a bill that he's introduced that i think probably enjoys at this point in time well over 150 democrats, and i think all democrats will sign on to it, and i would hope that we could, together, as we did in the bush administration -- when president bush was president we did it five times, i would hope that we could extend unemployment for those people who are relying on it to put food on their tables. i yield to my friend. mr. cantor: thank you. mr. speaker, i thank the gentleman. just for the record make clear that the bill or the measure that the gentleman is speaking to is a bill that would extend beyond the more than six months

that unemployment benefits insurance is available now. as the gentleman knows, we have been trying to focus this congress on getting back to a more optimistic view of what the economy can do. it is about jobs. it is about growth. our focus is about wanting people to get a job. it's on employment, not unemployment. so i would say to the gentleman if we could work together and try to reject what, unfortunately, has seeming to become the new norm for many, instead let's talk about the things that we do, maybe skills training, those who are chronically unemployed, frankly, could find a job if they had the skills necessary to do so. we would love to be able to

work with the gentleman in a bipartisan fashion to perhaps do those kinds of things. unfortunately, this congress, this house, has passed the skills act and there was no bipartisan support for that. we need to be focused on growing the economy and getting people back to work. and know that there's a lot of pain out there right now. the best response to the pain some are looking for some hope for the future is a job. i would respond to the gentleman we are watching what the senate is doing and i think the reports today indicate that the senate's going to have some difficulty in passing what it was thought to have been an easy thing to pass a few days ago. i would ask the gentleman to join us in looking towards a more optimistic future for this country and economy and focusing on employment and those who have been chronically out of work. i yield back. mr. hoyer: i thank the

gentleman for his comments. irst i would say there's nothing to disagree with in what the gentleman has said. we do want to focus on jobs. we do want to focus on creating jobs. we do want to focus on growing the economy. the gentleman is absolutely correct. as a matter of fact as the gentleman knows, he and i have discussed an agenda that democrats have been talking about for 2 1/2 years, and it's called make it in america. that make it in america agenda focuses on manufacturing and growing opportunities in this country for good jobs, for skilled workers and unskilled workers, frankly. but mainly skilled workers in the new manufacturing environment in which we find ourselves. that ought to be our long-term objective. but i would say very candidly, mr. speaker, we ought not in the short term forget those who

have been deeply damaged by the economic dislocation that has occurred in our society, in our country and frankly globally over the past five years. actually starting in december of 2007. we ought not to forget those people because while a future investment is very interesting to them, and i'm sure important to them, their critical interest in putting food on their table today, tomorrow, and the next day. and i think the richest country on the face of the earth can do both. i tell the gentleman. and i think that we ought to do both. and we have done both in the past. now, we had some job figures that were out today. apparentlyly -- aparnle 84,000 jobs, 87,000 jobs in the

private sector, that's not enough. we lost 13,000 in the public sector, apparently, for a net of 74,000 appreciation of jobs. that's not nearly enough. the gentleman would agree, i know, to solve the problem we have. the gentleman talks about the skills act. that bill would freeze the work investment act frame punding for fiscal year 2014 to 2020. so we would make no more investment in doing what the gentleman has said we want to do. it has already been cut by half since 2001. and would also consolidate or eliminate 35 programs, most of them work incentivize programs to state block grants they could spend on things of their choice. i'm not saying some states wouldn't make good choices. i think they would. other states would make different choices and we may or may not agree with those, but i certainly tell the gentleman,

he and i have had the opportunity talking together, the make it in america agenda or jobs agenda or whatever that agenda is called is certainly something we ought to pursue. let me transition if i might, mr. leader, to talk about another issue which analysis of almost every economist and the congressional budget office says will help grow the economy and that is comprehensive immigration reform. we continue to believe that that's one of the most important issues that this congress and this second session of the congress ought to deal with. can the gentleman indicate whether there is any possibility of either as i said in weeks past bringing four, the four bills that came out of the judiciary committee or the border security bill that came out of the homeland security committee. i might say unanimously. none of those five bills has been brought to the floor. the speaker said just the other

day, and i quote, i'm trying to find some way to get this thing done. thing being immigration reform. he said, as you know, it's not easy. not going to be an easy path forward but i have made it clear since the day after the election it's time to get this done. the speaker said that on november 13, 2013, a couple months ago. we are very, very hopeful that the speaker will pursue that. the house will pursue that, and the majority leader will put on the floor legislation on which we can act. we may or may not agree with the legislation brought to the floor, but we think it needs to be given attention consistent with speaker boehner's observation and c.b.o.'s assertion that that would have a substantially positive effect on growing the economy and creating jobs. i yield to my friend. mr. cantor: mr. speaker, i thank the gentleman for yielding. if i could just revisit the issue of the skills act. the gentleman speaks to the

amount of money called for in the bill, and i would say to the gentleman the thrust behind the skills act was to try and refocus the program on actual effectiveness and results. i think the gentleman will agree that the job picture right now is not as bright as it should be. as i indicated earlier, a lot of the folks who are trying to access skills training are unable to do so. there's evidence that the existing programs are not results oriented like we'd like them to be. and the purpose is behind that bill to realign the focus of the skills and training programs across the country with job availability and openings in the different regions of the country. so rather than insisting on spending more money on a one-size-fits-all washington approach, we provided for the flexibility for the regions so

it could be tailored, the training programs could be tailored to the job openings in these specific regions of the country. and they are different. they are different in my region of the country than they are in the pacific northwest. they are different in the midwest than they are in the northeast. we know that there's diverse knit this country and we should allow for those differences and the improvement reforms necessary to make it so that we are not accepting the status quo. so i would ask the gentleman to take a look at that again as something that perhaps we could work on together. and i would also say again the jobs numbers, the gentleman is completely correct that these job numbers, this latest report this morning, reflect the lowest number of jobs added since january of 2011. that doesn't speak well about the track record of what's going on here. so let's focus on jobs

together. and as for the question about immigration, mr. speaker, i think the gentleman's right. immigration reform could be an economic boon to this country. we've got to do it right f and along those thrines -- right. and along those lines the speaker has said we are going to look for the release of a list of principles of our position in the majority here in the house of what we believe is an appropriate path forward for immigration reform. there are plenty things we can agree on. as the gentleman knows, i have been a strong proponent of the kids act, the working with the chairman of the committee on. because i think all of us can agree in a we shouldn't hold kids liability for the misdeeds -- libel for the misdeeds or illegal acts of their parents. this country has never been about that. there are pent of things like

that. strong border security and making sure that occurs first so we don't see a continuing problem of illegal immigration. i think there are plenty of areas for agreement. hopefully, mr. speaker, we can see after the release of a set of principles much our side that there could be some productive discussions, bipartisan, with the white house so that it is not my way or the highway and that we can see a proper way forward. i yield back. mr. hoyer: i thank the leader, mr. speaker, for his comments. certainly we are not proponents of my way or the highway. and we are glad and i believe hopefully the majority is not either, briefly on the skills act we have legislation, of course, on our side of the aisle, a number of of legislation, which deal with training, job skills, and we are certainly prepared to work on those. unfortunately as the gentleman knows, that bill passed out in a partisan way. there were two democrats who

voted for it. partisan way, but i am certainly willing to work with the gentleman and i think our side of the aisle is willing to work with the gentleman to invest and to get give flexibility so that we can recognize, obviously, what may be needed in my district or the gentleman from virginia's district is different from the district in washington state or california or texas or florida or maine. so that i want to assure the gentleman we are prepared to work on that. lastly, but not lastly but can i ask you when those principles that you talked about might be expected? because i think that would be a very positive step forward. but in my view if we wait long comprehensive immigration reform will not get accomplished as i believe it should be in the next few months. i yield to the gentleman. mr. cantor: i would say to the gentleman, mr. speaker, that the -- there is an expectation

that the list of principles will be released in the near future. hat's about as definite as i can be. again the sense is that there is common agreement on certain issues. i think that there are, unfortunately, thus far, given the track record around this town, very little room for discussion, negotiations, and hopefully this could be different. but thus far, mr. speaker, all i can say is we are looking for the release of those principles in the near future. . mr. hoyer: we welcome moving ahead on the omnibus. we think that's very critical. we hope that we can address the unemployment insurance issue. not as a substitute for focusing on growing jobs and growing the economy, essential, t as recognition that some 1.3 million people, growing by

72,000 people a week, are in deep distress and we want to help them. we think that's the right thing to do. and we think america can do both, grow the economy and help the who have been hurt by rundown or the decrease in the availability of jobs available. and, lastly, i might say that we also hope that we can get to immigration reform as quickly as possible and we look forward to seeing those principles. and >> both chambers return tomorrow. the house is back at noon. on the agenda is a short-term continuing resolution to keep the government funded past wednesday. you can watch live coverage of the house here on c-span. on senate to gavels back in

2:00 eastern to continue work to extend unemployment benefits that expire in december. they will consider a vote on the nomination to be the u.s. circuit judge for the d c circuit. live coverage on c-span 2. >> the aereo case is one the biggest court cases that could transform the communications sector. michael powell, former chairman abc, said the biggest thing that will change our space is in the aereo case. we will see -- potentially the supreme court take it up and find out one way or another if the service is legal under copyright law. what the fec doesn't this year is going to be determined to buy a brand-new, very dynamic chairman with tom wheeler.

we use of the wireless and cable association host up he is not afraid to come out swinging. >> one of the biggest issues is going to be surveillance reform. for was a big year surveillance with the snowden leak. that will continue comic. we have been told. by the end of january, president obama will address. they'd put forward recommendations. some of the white house are likely to accept. on top of that, some that are getting more contentious and will lay out where the white tent -- white house dance. >> the communication issues facing lawmakers this year on monday night at 8:00 eastern. "q&a," with-span, dr. david bobb talking about his book that focuses on the life stories of five prominent figures from american history.

after that, prime ministers' questions. politicalook at the strategies that republicans and democrats might use in the 2014 midterm elections. ♪ >> this week on "q&a," author and educator david bobb discusses his new book titled "humility: an unlikely biography of america's greatest virtue." >> david bobb, in your book on humility, you say humility is a wimpy virtue. what did you mean by that? is often seen as that. i make the argument that it is a virtue of strength. i think humility has fallen on hard times. it is seen as a