>> thanks to bring with us, as always. >> you can see "washington a.m. eastern.at 7 the house is about to gavel them for a pro forma session. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker's room, washington, d.c., march 10, 2014. i hereby appoint the honorable andy harris to act as speaker pro tempore on this day, signed, john a. boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. chaplain conroy: let us pray.

eternal god we give you thanks for giving us another day. we thank you once again that we, your creatures, can come before you and ask guidance for the men and women of this assembly. send your spirit of peace, honesty, and fairness upon the members of this house. may their ears and hearts be open to listen to the hopes an needs of those whom they represent. bless the people of this great nation with wisdom, knowledge, and understanding, that they might responsibly participate in our american democracy. please keep all who work for the people's house in good health, that they might faithfully fulfill the great responsibility given them in their service to the work of the capitol. bless us this day and every day, may all that is done here this day be for your greater honor and glory, amen. the speaker pro tempore: the chair has examined the journal

of the last day's proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approved. the chair will lead the house in the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. without objection, the house stands adjourned until noon >> the house ending this brief pro forma session. we spoke with a reporter about the week ahead in congress. host: on the phone with us this morning is the reporter who

covers capitol hill for cq roll call. thank you for being with us. guest: thank you. host: what can we expect today? start to thea slow week, but the highlight, certainly for the c-span audience is the senate not coming in until 4:00 this afternoon, but once they start, they plan on spending all night in session. senators, at least 28 members of the democratic caucus so far, who plan on giving for speeches around the clock, basically, on the subject of climate change. this has been in the works for a few weeks. this thursday they finally locked it in and finalized it. they are going to be in session all night, probably until at

least 8:00 or 9:00 in the morning on tuesday with speechmaking about climate change, as they burn through some unrelated to big-time on a circuit judge nomination. are the biggest votes you're watching this week in both the house and the senate? side, over on the house there are two highlights of the week. one is a set of bills that are address what house republicans view as an undue overreach by the obama administration in not enforcing laws. they want there to be more transparency when the officials opt against enforcing statutes, particularly at the justice department. they want to be able to have

standing in order to sue to try to get laws to be enforced if possible. the other thing that is big in the house this week is that i weeks and they are supposed to wouldp legislation that maybe once and for all resolve fix.o-called doc is an issue of doctors treating medicare patients for long-standing situation where they face a cliff of payment on a basically annual basis. they want to resolve that, and that is on the agenda for the week. now once the senate is done with the climate change speeches, and once they're done confirming a few judicial nominees, we might well be already at wednesday.

it is a week leading into a recess. it is not clear how much we will get done. in theory, they will do a child care and development block grant reauthorization, but that seems like it could all get pushed .side right before he came on, you were discussing the situation in ukraine. the senate is looking to do something probably before they authorizationg an of additional aid to ukraine, and maybe something on the realm of russian sanctions, anti-russian sanctions. that would probably trump everything. how contentious is that? is that expected to pass easily? what are the politics there? guest: it will probably pass easily once it is put together. mature --eem for

chair members men and this and corker would get easy passage. on thursday, secretary of state john kerry is supposed to be making his regularly scheduled appearance to review the state department budget and the foreign aid budget with the state and foreign operations appropriations subcommittee which is chaired by patrick leahy of vermont. --re is a kerry citing i wouldn't be surprised if that veered off topic into news of the day.

we have been talking >> again the house returns tomorrow for short speeches at noon eastern. the senate begins their day at 4:00 eastern today with a vote on the final passage of legislation involving sexual assault in the military. an all-night session on climate change gets underway. you can watch the senate live on our companion network c-span2. young up, we will bring comment from senator bob casey. he is expected to comment on the afghan security agreements and next month's presidential election. right now though, a discussion on the recent jobs report and anti-poverty initiative

supported by both parties. from this morning's "washington journal." host: joining us this morning, nancy cook, and economic reporter for "national journal." tell us what this report means. an ok report. it was better than we had seen in the last few months. the average hourly wage has gone up. there were some great jobs added in professional business services. the bottom line is that if you don't have a job, you are still really at a disadvantage. the economic recovery is still really slow. there are 3.8 million people who have been unemployed for six months or more. there are still a really high --mployment rate among teams among teens and african-americans. if you're doing ok, you're still doing ok. there are a lot of people being left behind, but that is what the job support continues to

show. there are close to 4 million people who basically have been out of work for six months or more. that means skills deteriorate heard it is a lot harder for people to reenter the workforce after that. it means that economically it has a huge impact as it means is people are not working, they are not paying taxes as high as he normally would. it also means they are not contribute into the economy in a productive way. that is not great for us over the long run. host: let's talk about the specific sectors that are adding jobs. ,pecial business services 79,000. what do you see in those numbers? guest: those numbers are pretty good this month. special government employment has been dropping over the past year. as you have seen federal spending going down, the fact that jobs of an added is a great

thing. those tend to be higher wage jobs. what you have seen over the last five years is a lot of the jobs being added are in lower paying sectors like retail or hospitality, tourism. those are more hourly wages. they are not salaried, they are not high enough to support a family. that is a problem over the long run. join in our conversation. the numbers are on your screen. you can also find us on twitter. where is that debate on uninsured -- an unemployed workers now? it is a great political talking point. it really puts republicans on

the defensive and makes them look like a party that is not paying attention to this problem . democrats will continue to push it. there is really not a huge area of compromise their right now. those benefits expired on december 28 or around then at the beginning of the new year. it just means that there are a lot of people who stopped receiving those benefits and will continue to stop receiving them this year. will we see new people on that list? guest: yes. if you lost your job four months ago, you're not going to get as generous benefits. those benefits will get cut off. host: talk about income tax credits and how president obama has opposed expanding that. guest: this is an interesting area and a place of compromise. the earned income tax credit is basically a refund that goes to people.

you have to be working, it goes to a lot of families. what president obama talked about was expanding it for people who do not have children, people who do not have children can receive the benefit now, but they really only receive about $500, whereas a family will receive an average of about $3000 a year. by expanding it, just means that these childless workers will be able to get a more tennis benefit. it is really an acknowledgment that a lot of working people who have low-wage jobs, the economy is not working for them. this will give them a boost to those low wages. host: we're going to throw up a couple bullet points about that. let's take our first call in this segment. flow, new york on

our line for democrats. you're speaking to nancy cook. will put you on hold and try to come back to you. next up is chris in memphis, tennessee on our line for democrats. caller: i disagree with your speech.ctive i am unemployed and not by choice. looking at my social media, things made of several billion dollars for people. they are not offering one opportunity in return. in closing, our president himself and his committee.

i think you should make a correction to your comment anduse people are tired people like you are honest. i am so sorry to hear you are unemployed. i think it is a terrible situation. i wasn't meaning to imply that people aren't trying to find jobs. a lot of people are sending out dozens of resumes all the time. there've not been able to find work are depicted as a problem that the parties are really trying to work on. they're going to need to work it on before the economy and get back to its full health. host: our next caller is ellen in saint augustine, florida on the line for independents. caller: i think it is government regulations and government

overreach. there is no incentive to hire an american. if you want to make money, you can't do it here. you have to go somewhere else. maybe we could get everybody working again if we get the government out of the way. that is think definitely a viewpoint that a lot of republicans are try to get at with these anti-poverty pushes and their economic ideas. for instance, senator marco rubio later this afternoon is going to unveil some of his economic proposals to boost the economy. some of those are things like lower taxes, less regulation, as a caller talked about. representative dave camp of michigan is the chairman of the tax-writing committee in the house. he has also unveiled a tax plan that is not good to go anywhere, but it has a lot of interesting ideas in it that would lower tax rates. ideasare a lot of those that the caller has talked about circulating. in aberdeen and we have a

caller on the line for . dependents, caller: i work out of north dakota. comments onall your snowden. i guess i am -- how would i say this. i appreciate c-span and but i haveyou do, worked my tail off. i am 52 years old. i have been on my own since i've been 16. my body is feeling the pain. i've done nothing but physical work. i guess my comment is that our congress, democrat and i have listened to

everyone's comments. they come to work when they want to come to work, they do what they do when they want to do it. there are people hurting in our country. we are sending $1 billion over to the ukraine. where does it end? when we start taking care of us and our families? to recess now after this week for two weeks. we have 4 million people out of work here. when the snow melts i will go back to work hopefully in may when all the ice is -- if you watch the weather channel you all know what is going on in the world. we do what we can do. guest: i think what the caller is talking about is a sentiment that a lot of people are very frustrated with as well. a lot of people feel like congress is not doing anything right now. they go on recess a lot.

the fact of the matter is that they're probably not going to do a lot this year. it is a midterm election year. you go to score political points in those parties -- in both parties. there are a lot of ideas being thrown around. they're talking about senator and paul ryan. a lot of americans are extremely frustrated because the economy is not where it should be. ryan,you mentioned paul the chairman of the budget committee. he recently started discussing poverty. guest: he hasn't put out a budget yet. in past years he has put out a budget rapoza for president obama. he did put out a long report detailing a lot of different problems with different poverty programs that he saw. he is going to talk more about different programs to combat

anti-poverty. that is what he is saying he will do in his budget. we have not seen it yet, though. that is a push that he has been trying to make sense to 2012 presidential campaign. i think it goes along with what a lot of republicans saw after the threat of the government shut down this fall. their government approval rating really took a huge hit. house republicans in particular are trying to say that we are not just a party that wants to cut spending and argue about budget battles. to say they are a party that proposes new ideas and he is a part of that. host: we have a call from california on the line for democrats. caller: manufacturing will return to america and how housing index is up. spending is down.

guest: thanks. it is great to hear optimism from a caller and that you feel good about the way things are turning out. next is richard from florida on the independent line. caller: i just got through listening to donald trump earlier this morning. claiming actual unemployment is somewhere around 22%. from what i've been reading from several different sources, unemployment amongst college graduates, 33% argue unemployed or underemployed -- this is the lowest percentage of workforce since the great depression.

if the economy is good -- guest: there are a lot of things to pick apart. thecaller is right unemployment rate is twice as high for babel who just have high school degrees as it is for college degrees. another key point is that the federal reserve is trying to figure out how long to keep pumping money into the economy when it is not sure how healthy the economy is ma unemployment rate is so high. that is a debate right now. what should be the benchmark they should use to measure the health of the economy since the employment rate is not quite the investigator. host: next from burlington,

vermont, on the line for democrats. caller: good morning. i want to understand why the current administration does not attack business and outsourcing jobs overseas. jobs americans do at home. they are outsourcing them overseas. that is having an impact. not understand why they don't tax these corporations. theof the problems unemployment is so high in this country. that is one of the major i like to ask. the federal government

cannot really force employers to keep jobs here. it is the nature of the global economy at this point. president obama and the chairman of the tax writing committee in the house has talked about extensively reforming the tax go to get at some of these issues of how do you tax these global companies that do a lot of work .verseas it has been an issue both parties have looked at. there is not a lot of political well. huge undertaking that would require a lot of politically unpopular decisions. looming,2014 elections people will not do that. the policy ideas are so -- floating around. us about a plan recently released. crisis plan was very interesting.

it had a lot of different ideas, substantial ideas, and some of them surprising for a republican. one idea he talked about that got a lot of attention was an to tax big banks a little more. he would lower tax rates is getting rid of a lot of tax reductions people use for so peoplestate taxes would not necessarily be able to take reductions they had. this is an interesting proposal he put forth. it not get a lot of traction. house republicans really distance themselves from it including john boehner. nothing about the policy proposals is they come out and can inform the discussion for years ahead. it will be a benchmark for which

people talk about other tax ideas. >> florida, on the line for republicans. you are on. are you with us? we will put you on hold and try to come back to you. next is michael in new york on our democrat line. caller: two points. there was a gentleman speaking about companies and jobs because of high taxes. -- bushhe books administration, they got a tax break extension for 10 years and created no jobs. this was before 2008. , articles written about these billionaires stashing their money from swiss banks, and i was wondering how that is coming along. release thee to

being sassy?people i will take my answer off the air. >> thank you. a lot of good questions. write aboutically tax dodgers overseas. there is a great reporter who has written a lot of great things about the tax system. i would check out his work. the tax system is something a lot of people are concerned about. a huges just not really amount of political will at this point to tackle that. but there are a lot of discussions. >> next is greg in virginia on the democrats line. >> good morning. thank you for this discussion. callers really hit on one of the main problems. america the most powerful purchasing market in the world still. not put terrorists on some

of these foreign companies to allow them access to the market and great purchasing power. not as individuals, we're buying american-made stuff. it is hard to find things, but everybody is going to walmart and buying crap from china. you see a great economic shift from our middle class to china and that is just the latest. part of the problem is exactly like you say, there is no political will. 435 people up on capitol hill. everybody says kicks -- kickbacks are illegal and they are the ones and their friends who are benefiting from this policy were people at the top are stashing millions upon millions of dollars we are sitting here and allowing it to happen. people do not vote or pay attention to the issues. a vote on social issues such as gay rights, which, what do i care what a gay person does, it

does not affect me, but they vote against their economic interests. >> the caller is making a lot of points that a lot of people in this country feel. the callere themes expressed will come up during this election year. the caller talked about was the anger against congress, which has an all-time low approval rating month after month, and also the caller just talked about disdain for the gap at this point between the rich and the poor peer that continues to grow. a lot of lower and middle class people feel like they have lost a lot of ground in the great recession and they really have not recovered it. haveains economically really gone to the top income earners. and just the top one percent of the people who have money in the stock market that has rebounded, investments, who own a lot of homes and things like that. those themes will continue to come up this year.

there has been so much discussion about social mobility and economic income equality and trybos part -- both parties to resolve those issues. we will continue to see both parties talk about that on the campaign trail. >> i want to talk more about the earned income tax credit. mikeng at a statement bloomberg said, today, i join president obama where we discussed this budget proposal and his initiative to help young black latino men realize their potential. -- >> we will leave "washington to remarksre to go by senator bob casey. he is a member of the foreign