something that should be seriously considered by the american people and by congress and i think that many in congress even those who may not vote for it on the commission would recommend that it be brought forward for consideration. >>neil: you are deputies -- gutsy guy, senator, you are to be commended. thank you. >>guest: thank you. >>neil: thank you, senator. we are in pittsburgh, pennsylvania, because tonight if movie theaters across the country we will fill the theser with 3,000 people and we will talk about the greatest american car ever build, the mustang. this is what it is, a mustang. we have taken this mustang and put bus parts on it and now it is not running right and people are saying i hate this mustang, maybe we should throw it out. no, before we throw out or

system, capitalism, maybe we should look what it really is. maybe we should decide. we should decide. i personally like the classic, the american classic. capital im. i don't know about you, why don't we look at the engine of america and look what capital e and freedom and our constitution really looks like when it's running right and has been fully restored. now, in a few minutes i will go over, we have an audience with us from pittsburgh and we will have a roundtable here prior to our stage show tonight and we will talk about what has happened in europe. and people that say it can't happen here. we have a lot to do in the next hour, roll up your sleeves.

we are at the beautiful theater in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. i contend the greatest city in the east. this is the one city that i think everybody on my staff says, yeah, i could live there. this is a great, great city. and that's why we have picked pittsburgh, because it is a city that has renewed itself. it was a city in deep, deep trouble and there is also a reason why i'm wearing a sweater with a buffalo on it. buffalo is really one of my favorite animals. it is the ultimate -- it should be over an eagle. it should be the symbol of america. i'll explain why at the end of the program. this program told you, i don't even know when it was, long time ago -- that we were bailing out europe. we were doing it a couple of different ways. we told you that aig, through the aig bailout. we were sending money over to

france. we also told you that the imf would bail out europe. here we were on this program, i don't know how many months ago. watch. >> we're not only bailing ourselves out, but now we're trying to bail out europe as well. the european union, along with the imf is giving $1 trillion to greece. $1 trillion. the u.s. contributes 17% of the imf funds. okay. we told you that and nobody really paid attention. now we find out through the feds that we are going to do almost another trillion dollars, your tax dollars, over to europe. we also found out that we have sent $3.3 trillion in our bailout, a lot of it went over to europe, went over to france, went to germany, spain, et cetera. and we're sending more. we also found out in breaking news today, breaking news, we speculated on this program, the g.e. was getting money. remember we were talking about

what a great investment ge is making with msnbc, falling in line with the president of the united states and having a great cozy relationship with him? well, they got their payment. $16 billion went to ge. i just want to ask you, if news corp. would have gotten $16 billion from a republican administration, do you think anyone would have anything to say about it? we are creating a society -- this will go down as the largest heist, the largest robbery in the history of the planet, our treasury is being raided. the rich are getting richer. where are we headed? we are headed towards a global government. if you don't believe me, i don't really care. i'll show you the facts of what is happening over in europe with greece. i want to talk to kathy because we were having a conversation

before we went on air and you said -- i asked everybody, what are the things that you hear from your friends and neighbors that they just don't buy into, they don't understand? >> i'm continually astounded that people do not seem to understand that a catastrophic problem can happen here in america, that something really bad can happen to this country, in our own nation and i feel like even after 9-11, we still haven't gotten it. >> that was scott, you said that. you said even after 9-11 that -- scott is right here -- that you said after 9-11, we still -- that really didn't affect us. >> it affected people in new york. it affected people in washington, d.c. where the planes went down. the funny thing is, we had a plane go down 60 miles away from here, but it didn't really affect anybody here. i remember calling my best friend who was in the u.s. steel building when that happened, i said, get out of the building. he said, what's the big deal?

there was no incentive then and people need the shock. >> this is the opposite of 9-11. the only city that's really thriving right now, that's still really building and you can -- there has been no housing collapse in the city. anybody name it? washington, d.c it's the opposite. now the whole country is being affected, except for where the elite live in the decision makers in washington, d.c i want to bring in david buckner. where is david? you're drooling on my car, aren't you? not like that's my car. is that a beauty? >> how are you? >> good. david, i want to talk to you about the theory that it can't happen here. i want to start with greece because greece is the one that originally they said, oh, nothing is going to happen. greece is fine. right? greece was fine. i was on the air -- does anybody remember a year and a half ago, i was talking about europe and he said, watch europe. it's going to start to fall apart and they're going to start

rioting in the streets and i read the book, right? was i nuts at that time? your friends all said, crazy. right? and greece was the one to watch. greece and france. now, here is greece. greece became the leader. and greece was the one that they said, if it's going to fall, it will pull everybody down. >> they saw potential domino. the economist refer to it. greece is not a huge component of the european community, but it starts it. they're concerned if that starts, then what happens to the other and the dominoes because many of them are insuring greece's safety. so if it starts to roll, it would start with greece. >> come here. greece is a state of the european union. >> it is. >> they're a capital s. it's a state. sovereign nation. so a state in the european

union. tell me about greece. >> it makes up a small percentage? terms of its economy. when we talk about the european community or the european common, it's 2.5% of the overall economy, gdp. >> it's actually the ez. right? >> europe zone. correct. >> the e.u., it's -- >> it's less, 1.8. because it's a -- these are 26 states. -- 27 states. these are 16 states. >> got it? it's 2.5% of the economy. >> not a huge part of it. it's what i want you -- this is what i want to you explain to your friends. follow this, because your friends will understand. by the end of this break, your friends will understand, oh, yes, it can happen here. do all your friends know that europe is on the brink? no? your friends don't know that? you're going to need new friends. so it's 2.5% of the economy. >> small pessage. >> it's the -- >> not a huge piece of the world economy. 27th largest economy in the

world. not big. >> remember, this is a domino. if it falls, it will spread to all of europe, which will make europe fall, which will make all of us fall. got it? gdp represents $300 billion. not a big piece of change in the global economy. then as a part of the overall european community, look at the 300 billion compared to 16 trillion, which this is the largest community, if you're talking about all of them aggregated together, the largest economy -- >> this is what they're worried about stopping. they're saying this 300 billion, if it goes, can significantly damage. what they're saying is they told us and everybody else, you have to bail out, because this $300 billion economy cannot stop. or it will destroy -- >> as far back as 2006, they were saying this can't really fall. then you start to see 07 and 08 and they start to see it move and they got information and said, you got to bail us out now. it's only 2.5%.

no, you got to bail it out, because the connotation, the domino could destroy it. >> if europe fall, how does that affect the rest of the world? >> if you start with the concept that only 2% could impact 16 trillion, you can imagine that if this, the world's largest economy, which europe is, if it falls, it's the large -- not the smallest, it's the largest economy that's falling. >> you understand so far? 2.5% can stop the world's largest economy. so that would then domino into the rest of the world. now, let me show you the small s state. that's t difference, e.u., they got all the stars on the flag just like our original, have all the stars on the flag. they're just capital s state, small s state. but it's the same exact concept. we have 50 of them. california makes up this. greece is 2.5 of the e.u.

economy. are you ready? of the u.s. gdp, this is just california, how much does it make up? 13%. 13%. greece is the 27th largest economy in the world. california, eighth. gdp. >> 1.8 trillion. not 300 billion. >> and the u.s. economy, remember, europe is 16 trillion. the u.s. economy is -- >> just shy of 14 trillion. bigger economy, european, 16 trillion. u.s., 13. greece is 2.5%. california is 13%.

california, is there anybody here, is there anybody, any of your friends, they don't know about europe. does anyone think california is going to fail? is there anyone that doesn't think that california has to get a bailout from the federal government? right? okay. let me show you, flip your chalk board over, will you, david? does anybody remember when i talked about mutually assured economic destruction? patricia, could you explain it? do we have a microphone over here? do you remember it well enough to explain what it is? go ahead. >> originally it was with weapons, nuclear weapons, if one country does it, let's all build up our arsenal so it causes other countries not to move. kind of freezes it. >> we'll blow each other up. >> it's the same thing with the economy. if one country goes down, others will follow. >> right. and it was instead of nuclear

weapons, they celebrated this in the early 19 # 0s. they announced wars would never have a real finale. there would never be a big victor because there would never be a real destructive war like world war ii ever again because they knew if the united states fought an all out war with russia, the economies would all be tied together and it would pull all of us down. instead of blowing each other up and destroying the whole planet, they would just destroy every economy. so now the whole world would have to come to the table and negotiate. what they didn't understand was, what happens if somebody creates a cdo? out of just greed? what happens if people just started racking up bills that they couldn't afford? what would happen if one giant country or even one small country like europe, like greece

in europe decided they were just going to retire at 56 years old? everybody was going to have pensions that you couldn't afford? what would happen if that one country did it and it spread to all the other countries, mutually assured economic destruction. let's just go over, i want to show you this. your friend says it can't happen in the united states. it's more likely to happen in the united states -- correct me if i am wrong -- than europe. europe is just a head. europe is a head and europe is already taking action with austerity that the united states has not even begun to imagine the potential or the necessity to engage in. >> okay. let's look at europe. these are the problem states. okay? spain, 1.4 trillion of the gdp. portugal they're saying is next. 233 billion. greece, 330 billion. okay? $1.96 trillion of 16.

if those three happen, is europe over? >> well, we're already seeing right now, you're watching the riots and everything taking place in europe and the austerity programs are devastating the economy over there. people are terrified. you're already watching the domino starting from what's not the largest, if this one goes, which it's gone, and then this one, which is really the next one to go, even before portugal because of its size, that's devastating. devastating. >> let's look at the united states. these are the top four states that are on the verge of collapse. new jersey, $474 billion. illinois, $633 billion. new york, $1.1 trillion. california, $1.8 trillion. that is out of $13 trillion. if these states go down, there is no way for the country to

survive. >> you got 4 trillion, glenn, of 13. you've got just under 2 of 16. you see what's happening in europe when they're only dealing with 2 trillion of 16, what could possibly happen in the united states if you're dealing with 4 trillion of 13. >> i think america is beginning to understand why me and you have lost a lot of sleep. in the last two years. i saw this coming about four years ago, david? first time we met -- >> you were talking about it then. >> you were identifying this is the domino. >> the first time i met david, it was at a social function and he's a snot from columbia and he said to me, do you remember the first thing you said to me? >> i do. >> what did you say? >> i said i like the way you think outside the box. you're not educated and could not have had formal educated because you think beyond most

formal educators. >> the first thing he said is, where did you get your education? i said, i didn't have one. and i thought he was going to be a snot and he said, i knew it. and i still thought held be a snot and he said, i can't get my students to think out of the box. that's the problem that everyone in america has, is they just keep thinking in the same box. they keep thinking, oh, well, it can't happen here. oh, well, there is systems, there is nothing! there is no system for this. this is catastrophic failure. now the question is -- hang on, yes? >> why don't we just say no to california? why don't we just say no to greece and their overspending and social commitments? >> david? >> the very thing that we are most afraid of and you're watching congress act on, the too big to fail concept is the very thing that california is depending upon for its survival, that they will be too big to fail, the eighth largest economy, they will say,

americans cannot afford to let us go down. the only problem with that is, nobody is changing. if you watched even the last elections and the dialogue around it, it's not aboutisms and politics, it's about putting people in there who are promising to take care of everybody without any issues related to the fact that they're broke. >> okay. this is why we're in pittsburgh tonight. this is why we're trying to wake you up. we have a solution. in fact, is it janet? you're the one who is actually working on one of the solutions. we talked before hand. we'll get into that in a little bit. there is a solution to this. it's just not a comfortable solution. but it's a realistic solution. we're going to take a break. when we come back. before we get to that, i want to come back to europe for a

second. because what they're suggesting is a giant bailout. forget about the united states. let's go back to europe. what they're suggesting is a giant bailout and it all comes down really -- correct me if i am wrong -- to one country in europe. do you know where i'm going? to germany. we're going to spend a few minutes on that one next.

it is imperative that you look beyond the headlines and you see what is coming in europe and how it plays out because i think europe is ahead of us and the same exact seeds have been planted here in america. i ask you tonight, look to the future of greece and of europe so we may prevent it from being our future as well. >> i have to tell you, just looking at jeff -- come here. jeff is our stead cam guy. he worked with me at cnn. do you remember what i was saying when i was there, i was saying all this stuff and everybody, this guy is crazy! they still say that, don't they? >> yes, they do. >> all right.

we're back with full professor at columbia university. congratulations on that. >> thank you. >> david buckner. we are here in pittsburgh because here is a city that reinvented itself. i'm doing a stage show so you can see live in movie theaters all across the country. go to glennbeck.com/tourist attraction. we're talking about what's happening in europe and how it's coming to the united states, these united states as owe mowed to the united states. these united states. tell me what is really in the end, the bailout all goes to one country. >> there is one country that has the largest driver, that's germany. the entire government there is having to deal with the issue of internal forces, saying we are a state unto ourselves, and the external forces saying, no, no, these states, you have to be part of the game. they're fighting those on both ends. do we protect ourselves or do we run the risk of cannibalizing our self to insure the help of others, which really may not be insured? >> right.

so germany knows -- david, is there anybody really in the dead of night that knows, you know -- they might say one thing during the day, but at night they know, you can bail out all you want, it's over? >> they know that it's over, which is why they're enforcing austerity programs which is why the riots are there. they know the game is up. they're trying to put 5% interest rates on loans they're going to give them and they have to demonstrate austerity approach or efforts to get that 5%. there is a quid pro quo. >> if germany is the one in the end that, because they're the big industrial might. they're the, what, texas? they're the texas. >> they're the ones that are really chugging through. they're not doing, you know, france and hey, you can retire when you're 17. they're actually working hard and doing it.

what do you think, think -- no, don't think like a german, that usually ends up usually horribly. what happens in the end if they are now having to ship all of their money, all of their success off to greece and to spain and to portugal and every place else? what do you think the germans think? anybody? what do you think happens in the end? >> scott? >> germany takes over. it's my country. i just bought you. >> okay. anybody else? >> patricia? >> they just have so much money to give. that's it. their economy goes down. >> okay. betsy? >> i would say they start to become -- they stop working. if they feel like it's not helping us, it's just going... . >> anybody else? how about this? you have to really think out of

the box for this one. that germany says, we are germans! and we were the ones that had the right idea we lived our life? and they start to do the exact opposite of what they're now being forced to do, join or die, and they get pissed off at the rest of europe for forcing them to lose their lifestyle, and you start heading in towards nationalism again. anybody think that's a possibility that germany might head to nationalism? yes! david? >> there is the potential. the politicians are giving lip service to the rest of the european community 'cause they wanted everybody to be one and yet the people, the people are the ones rising up and say, wait, wait. what about us? what about the fact that we've been prudent? >> let's get back to the united

states analogy here. germany, what did i say was a state in the united states? you know texans. they're like, we're texas. we're texans. you want to do that little thing in california, you do that little thing in california. we'll kick your ass. that's the way they are. they're not bad people. they're proud of texas. now, if we force texas to bail out new jersey, illinois, new york, and california, do you think texans are going to say, you know what? i'm cool with that. or are they going to say, i don't want anything to do with you guys? it's not nationalism. it's statism, if you will. it's self-preservation. it's self-preservation. then you add on top of it the thing in europe, it's the same -- does anybody remember the railroad track show that i did, where i drew out the railroad tracks? what did i say the left track of

european politics was? do you remember? communism. the railroad track in europe is communism. on the right rail is national socialism. facism. if you get nationalism in germany, where do you think they're going? who is doing the riots now in greece? the other rail. communists. revolutionaries. this is the 1930s all over again. all over again, except this time where is the united states? this is why i am asking you, i am begging you, begging you to think out of the box. if all of this is crazy, let's all get together and have a glenn's crazy party in two or three years. let's do that. you can pin the tail on me and dunce cap and everything.

i don't care. i want to be wrong! but i'm begging you to consider the possibilities because there is something you can do that will help and this seems overwhelming. does this seem overwhelming to anybody? yeah. take your breath away. this is bigger than -- this is the biggest event in human history. if it happens. but the answer is ronald reagan said, there are no easy answers, but there are simple ones. this is not an easy answer, but it is simple. it is so simple, just like this is so complex that everybody dismisses it. the answer is so simple that everyone will dismiss it. you must not. i'll share it with you next.

>> this is a fox news alert. you are looking live at the floor of the u.s. house where lawmakers are voting on whether or not to proceed to a vote on a censure resolution against u.s. congressman charlie rangel. the new york democrat was found guilty of violating ethics rules

over financial misconduct. an ethics panel has already voted 9 to 1 in favor of censuring him. earlier he appeared on the floor admitting he had made serious mistakes, but also asking for fairness. he also apologized for putting the house in what he called this awkward position. the results of that vote, we'll give them to you when they're in. first bret baier previews "special report." >> the incoming house speaker calls the outgoing speaker's moves nonsense. what's next? in an extremely dangerous city just across the border, please join me in 25 minutes for "special report." now back to glenn b. hello, america. we are in pittsburgh, pennsylvania where tonight in just a couple of hours, 8:00

o'clock eastern time, i'm going to be on this stage with 3,000 people here and we are going to do a live town hall meeting. i'm going to explain some things in greater detail, not only what's coming a little bit of history, but also what we can do to change it. what we can do politically to change it and what we as individuals can do to change it. we are having a conversation in the break and -- let me start with scott. scott was saying that the answer is self reliance. >> absolutely. a lot of people tell me we have -- we have our own business, my wife and i and we have 35 employees. we make sure that we pay ourselves last. but we're making sure that our business is open and we're taking care of ourselves. we're not waiting for other people to give us hand outs. we support ourselves. a lot of people say that's selfish. but it's not selfish because we have 35 employees. we take care of them and their

families and we take care of what we can take care of. >> you actually hear from your friends that that is selfish. right? >> yeah. i hear i'm being selfish that i'm insensitive, that wanting to do away with entitlement programs will end up disenfranchising people. that's the big word. >> oh, it will. >> the progressives use that. >> hang on. before you go any further, oh, it will. it will. people will be -- because we have all grown into this lie that we are entitled to certain things. we are entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. you can not round me up on the streets and just take me and throw me in jail. liberty. you can not just kill me without a trial. life. so i can go and pursue happiness. your job as the government, the only thing i'm entitled to is my life and my liberty so i can go and pursue happiness. but progressives totally changed that and we have adopted the european file and they're right.

the riots, as they called me crazy for saying -- now your friends are saying, oh, it's going to cause problems. yes! the riots are coming here as well. they already started in san francisco. they almost beat a cop to death. grab his gun? san francisco. did anybody see that? beating him with his billy club and saying, grab his gun, grab his gun. he finally got up and said, back off! it was all over free education. so your friends? >> yes. it's hard. i'm a resident physician. then people say you're insensitive. how could you not want to help people? that's your life's work? but i believe in self-empowerment, individuality, like our founding fathers said. they talk about thomas jefferson promoting individual rights as opposed to collective rights. it seems we've fallen into this trap of collectivism that people can't find their way out. >> what's the problem with collectivism? >> no motivation. right. and what else?

>> no incentive. >> it destroys people. it destroys people. exactly right. you just become this little brick and you don't ever -- let me tell you something. i'm a recovering alcoholic and i didn't really start to live until i bottomed out, until i had lost everything and then you have a moment of choice. are you going to live or die? america, that's where you are. that's where you are. not yet. not yet, but you're close. you going to live or die? i'm going to live. i want the republic to live. i want man's freedom to live. so we're going to have to apparently crash and then pick ourselves up. but there are going to be people who try to stop us. people who are trying to take europe -- correct me if i am wrong, david, if you disagree with this assessment -- take europe and make it one united front, lose all flags, just one

state. same with the u.s. take all 50, erase the borders, we're all in this together. one state. that will fail as one state. this will fail as one state. and then they will say, okay, good. we'll push everybody together and create new one new global order. which will also fail. but that's what they're trying to get us to do. they're trying to pit us against each other. trying to. i feel bad for the cops and the teachers and the firefighters. because they're going to lose their pensions. and already their unions are blaming it on us. is there a person here who hates the cops? is there a person here who doesn't want to pay teachers? we were all buying into a lie and we were played. it's going to end, either in a horrible way or good way. and janet, you have already started on the answer and we're going to go to her next.

okay. hello. we're in pittsburgh and we're doing a special movie theater event tonight, a movie theater all around the country.

go to glennbeck.com for all the details. this is a group of people from pittsburgh that we randomly selected and janet, i asked before we went on the air, has anybody seen, done anything on the 40 day and 40 night challenge and has there been any difference in your life and what happened? >> well, you really motivated me with this because i was starting to feel a little hopeless and what was i going to do? what could i do to make a difference, one little person in pittsburgh? what could i do to make a difference? you did convince me that it has to start with us individually. and so i took the 40 day and 40 night challenge, which is based in faith, hope and charity, and one of the things that it did is made me focus on my faith even more. i thought i was a pretty good christian. i thought i was doing the right things until i actually looked at it on a day-to-day basis and said, you know what, i think i can do better. and so i did get on my knees to

pray every day and it really makes you think about what is it that you're praying for? what is it that you're saying to god? what is it that you want him to do in your life or how can you best serve what he wants you to do? and so it really helped me to focus on those things. once i did that, the hope became a little better, it became a little brighter. >> have you gotten to the place of acceptance now, that you know the country is going to change, you know the world will change, but it will be okay? >> yeah. i've gotten to the point, i'm doing my food storage. >> good for you. >> and then -- >> when did you start that? >> i started it about maybe a month ago. >> okay. i talked to a woman today on the radio. she had six kids. she lives in colorado. she called me up and she said, i thought you were nuts. she said, but i thought i'm going to do it and at the time, two years ago, i said, buy extra

clothes. if you see them on sale, buy clothes for your kids in advance. you know what size they're going to be generally, buy in advance, get these things and have it all ready to go. she called me and she said, i want you to know, my husband lost his job -- after we finished a year's worth of food storage, i learned how to can. i bought clothes, she said my husband lost his job. she said, he's been out of work for 17 months. she said, we haven't had a sleepless night. and she said, now he's going back to work and we're helping others. she said, we have been in the position of teaching others how to can, how to food storage, how to save. she said, with six kids, it's not easy. but there was such peace in her. that's the deal. you can call me nuts all you want on the food storage thing and people do. but that's what you have to do. when the world is panicking, we have to be the leaders of, it's

okay. it's cool. you can make it. you know, i wish i had the book -- i found this book about ten years ago and it's called -- yeah, i was a drag even ten years ago. it's called "on thermo nuclear war." it was an old book produced from the late 50s, early '60s and it was a study done by the government and it was, okay, so, we blow up the world? how many people survive? how do you restart? and the thing they found that was the most surprising is most people survive. we're talking about mutually assured destruction, launching missiles and they said, in the study, the most surprising thing is most people survive. so if we're talking about catastrophic economic destruction, the world is going to change, but we're all going on. it still goes on. it's just what are we pushed one way or another, or are we strong enough as individuals?

i am convinced, i am absolutely convinced the footprint of the glenn beck program or whatever we do with all the books and everything else we do is 30 million people every single month. 30 million people. if these 30 million people are the ones who say, it's okay. it's okay. we're going to make it. here is how you survive without reaching out for a handout. here is how you give a hand up. it's not selfish. it's the exact opposite of selfish. you are saying be self-reliant so you can help others become self-reliant and we don't have to freak out. that is the answer, america. i know it sounds ridiculous. it may sound stupid, but i'm telling you that the answer is the smallest. our founders new on government, it's local. not national. i'm telling you the answer is individual, not collective. strengthen in the individual so you can be the life raft for

someone else. back in a minute.

i'm bret baier. this is a fox news alert. the house has just voted to

censure congressman charlie rangel. the 80-year-old harlem democrat will stand in the well of the house as the house speaker reads the shine resolution. let's listen. >> the house resolved that representative charles rangel of new york be censured. the representative forthwith present himself in the well of the house for the pronouncement of censure. that representative charles rangel be censured with the public reading of this resolution by speaker, that he pay restitution to the appropriate authority for any unpaid estimated taxes outlined in exhibit 066 on income received from his property in dominican republic and provide proof of payment to the committee.

>> the gentleman from new york asks unanimous consent to address the house. without objection? >> so ordered. >> i fully recognize that constitutionally that this body has the full jurisdiction to determine the conduct of one of its members. my predecessor suffered because they didn't allow him to be a member before they decided that he should be expelled. but notwithstanding that, we do know that we are a political body and even though it is painful to accept this vote, i'm fully aware that this vote reflects perhaps the thinking not just of the members, but the political ties and the constituency of this body. having said that, and having my opportunity to do what i wanted to do initially and that is to make certain that this body and this country would know that at

no time has it ever entered my mind to enrich myself or to do violence to the honesty that's expected of all of us in this house. i think that has been proven and that has been what i've been asking for and that's why i've admitted to mistakes and was prepared to do what i've done. i understand that this is a new criteria and a breakthrough in order to teach somebody a higher lesson than those that in the past have done far more harm to the reputation of this body than i. but i just would want all of you to know that in my heart, i truly feel good. it's not all the commitments that i made to god in 1950. a lot of it has to do with the fact that i know in my heart that i'm not going to be judged by this congress, but i'm going to be judged by my life, my

activities, my contributions to society, and i just apologize for the awkward position that some of you that are in, but at the end of the day, as i started off saying, compared to where i've been, i haven't had a bad day since. thank you. [ applause ] formal censure resolution read and there you hear the 80-year-old harlem democrat, representative charlie rangel, addressing the house. his 40 year congressional veteran now is the 23rd

member of the house of representatives to face censure and be censured. censure is a formal vote by the majority of the members present in the house that expresses disproval of a member's conduct. it generally requires that the member stand at the well, as you saw representative rangel do of the house, to receive that verban rebuke, the reading of the resolution by the speaker of the house, as we saw nancy pelosi do. the term does not appear in the u.s. constitution. there have been 22 censures of house members. rangel is the 23rd. the majority occurred in the 19th century. there have been just four in the last 100 years. michigan democrat charles dig, junior for mail fraud and lying. california democrat, charles wilson for wrongly accepting money and taking campaign funds for personal use. massachusetts democrat, jerry studs and illinois republican, daniel crane, were censured in 1983, most recent use of the punishment for having sexual relations with teenaged house pages.

james rosen, correspondent, is standing by, been following the story all day. >> a verdict just rendered by the full house tonight, closes the chapter on a 2 1/2 year period of scandal and disgrace for a man who was once one of america's most powerful politicians, the former chairman of the house ways and means committee. and final obstacle to reaching this was removed when the house voted overwhelmingly, 267 to 145 with more than 100 democrats in agreement not to downgrade congressman rangel's punishment from censure to a mere reprimand. it's been two weeks since the law maker was found guilty by the house ethics committee. they include rangel's failure for 17 years to disclose income from a villa he owned in the dominican republic. his use of official letterhead to solicit funds for a center named in his honor, his use of a rent controlled apartment as a campaign office, and as a result of all that conduct, unbecoming of a member of theou