the census just came out, the city of youngstown went from 180,000 people down to about 65,000 people. the tax base has been eroded. and in the last few years, youngstown has been cited as one of the top 10 best cities to start a business by entrepreneur -- by "entrepreneur" magazine, "site selection" magazine said it's one of the top 10 cities to start or grow a business. in part the renaissance of youngstown is because of federal investments like this that help us downsize and shrink our community. i find it ironic that our friends trying to redice golvet

this all puts more pressure o the safety services within the town like youngstown. so this bill to repeal this money is actually going to cost cities and rural areas more money because y're not allowing us to reinvest into these places, downsize them, shrink them, make them more manageable and ov time reduce the tax burden on theocal taxpayer. these are critical investments that are needed in the united states of america, this billion-dollar -- this billion dollars of should have been $5 billion, not just $1 billion. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. sessions: mr. speaker, if it worked that way, we'd be for it. i reserve my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman resees. the gentleman from colorado. mr. polis: it's my honor to yield -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for 30 seconds. mr. ryan: i invite the gentleman from youngstown, ohio, and he can see it himself. mr. polis: i yield one and a half minutes to the gentleman from colorado, mr. perlmutter. the speaker pro t

ryan: i invite the gentleman from youngstown, ohio, and he can see it himself. mr. polis: i yield one and a half minutes to the gentleman from colorado, mr. perlmutter. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one and a half minutes. mr. perlmutter: i thank my friend from colorado. i'd invite my friend from texas to come to aurora, colorado, where we've, with the neighborhood stabilization program, had tremendous successes. this country was on its back financially two years ago. two and a half years ago. we're just now getting back on our feet. my friends from the republican side of the aisle want to pull the rug out from under us. you've got to get strong before you do away with programs. let's talk about aurora, colorado. got $4.7 million to buy homes that were vacant because of foreclosures which were causing blight and lots of property devaluation. went in, fixed the homes, sold them to good families. the neighborhood starts growing again. aurora has taken that $4.7 million and turned it into $7.8 million by the sales of these properties. so the

. >> rich from youngstown, ohio. >> jason from north bergen, new jersey. >> jimmy: ah, from new jersey met before, correct? >> never. >> jimmy: okay, very good. and i can see you backstage, that you had to pick a name for your crew. >> yes. >> jimmy: what do you come up with? >> team mustard, like mustard since we're in yellow, but french. mustard. roll that r. >> jimmy: that's a long name. that's a long, long name. thank you for the explanation of the name. a whole wikipedia page based on your name right there. team mustard. and roll the rs. now, clearly you've all been accessorized backstage. let's take a look at your group photo here. there they are, team mustard. [ cheers and applause ] i get it now. very good. looking hot, looking real hot. all right. very good. welcome, you guys. what are your names and where are you all from? >> i'm kelly and i'm from new york. >> jimmy: hey, all right. [ cheers and applause ] >> i'm julie, i'm from wayland, massachusetts. >> jimmy: very good. [ scattered applause ] >> i'm david and i'm from nashville, tennessee. >> i'm eric from philadelphia. [

the kid youngstown, ohio. look at detroit. look at buffalo. african american families do not have a mom and dad in the house. governments become the father. how do kids realize their talent or what they're capable of when all they get is a check from the government wants a month? host: that is something that president obama has also discussed. guest: i would see it more as a generalization if you want to see the important role that parents can play in the family structure, i would go to youtube and go to the video of alan west, the congressman from florida, of talking about the role his family played in his upbringing. one of my old home state senators was centered -- was senator patrick moynihan. he was a democrat, yet he wrote about what the programs were doing to the african-american community. it is a serious issue that needs to be addressed. if it goes back to my earlier statement that sometimes the best thing the federal parliament can do is stay out of the way. host: kathleen has this point. guest: well, i know my wife is watching this,

youngstown, florida. sam is a republican. caller: stan. how are you doing. ? my heart goes out to everyone with diabetes. i live with a diabetic. but i have realized that there are some symptoms to being borderline diabetic. i spent the last three weeks in a pretty big learning curve. i went from 424 on the sugar scale. i am down to 122. i walk 5 miles every morning. i do everything i can. it is a different lifestyle that you have to pick up quick. what i want to know is, at this point, if i am averaging between can and 140 aferter meal, it be reversed? i keep on moving and moving. guest: and let me ask you some questions -- host: i apologize, i let him go. guest: well, let us try to answer it. the question was reversing diabetes. there are words used like that -- nobody is saying care. at this point in time, diabetes is not curable the best thing to do, as he describes -- certainly paying attention to your food intake, physical activity, but you also need to be sure you are getting some assistance on your support network. diabetes is a 24/7 disease. it is imp

host: youngstown, ohio. good morning, bill on the line for independents. go ahead.ler: i just wanted to make some comments about the system we are in under the federal reserve. it will not mathematically allow this country to balance its budget. the last person mentioned something to that order. you cannot borrow money to get out of debt. i wish everybody would educate themselves to some of the documentary's at moneymasters.com and some other information that's out there about the federal reserve system. it's common sense. to get out of that, you do not borrow money. that's what we do. it is irrelevant. democrats or republicans and -- it's all relevant until you fix the system. host: starting to cut you off. i did nothing to do that. "the new york times" this morning takes a look at the new representative for the united nations for libya. this is from the nicaraguan government. host: steven city, virginia. mike on the line for republicans. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i think more cuts should be made then what is proposed now. host: republican

if there's a problem in youngstown, it hurts in columbus. pull together. now, look, republicans and democrats are going to have their differences, and i want to tell you the thing that's most stunning to me when i first came in was the level of partisanship, but the clouds part the when we did jobs ohio. we're going to have our differences as parties. we're going to have differences in terms of my lossty, -- my lossty, but we wake up and think about that person who snort smith and i were just the greatest of friends now. we agree on like 1%, okay? [laughter] you know what? 1% may get the felony law changed. 1%, okay, let's fight like cats and dogs. the budget is about philosophy. we can fight. let's realize you never want to poisen the well that doesn't allow somebody to come back. some people call it not come back and do it a, but i see it differently. it's an opportunity to bring improvement to people's lives, and i saw it. i participated in it. i tell you the great story of teddy kennedy, pat and bill clinton. millions of lives were saved because we wor

in ohio, we are lucky to have project.hub one of the line goes from cleveland to youngstown to pittsburgh. imagine the sports fans being lectured -- getting liquored up and go into a game? >> i believe these are issues of regional, multistate significance. these corridors are expensive. we need to have a harmonizing approach to dealing with them. federal money can help do that, provide a boost that otherwise would not be available and to do it in a way that is systemic in nature. 42% of the airline trips in the united states are 350 miles or less. we talked about gasoline prices going up. when fuel costs are predicate on petroleum at $100 per barrel or $150 per barrel, this ceases to make sense. it is much more efficient for the 350 mile trip to be higher speed rail. we have simple technology to have 110 miles per hour. that is in our capacity. it will not take much for people to log on and support it. my hope is it is in the context of broader legislation so that we are dealing with freight, we are dealing with passenger movement, we are dealing with the intermodal connections rather tha

youngstown, florida. sam is a republican. caller: stan. how are you doing. ?y heart goes out to everyone with diabetes. i live with a diabetic. but i have realized that there are some symptoms to being borderline diabetic. i spent the last three weeks in a pretty big learning curve. i went from 424 on the sugar scale. i am down to 122. i walk 5 miles every morning. i do everything i can. it is a different lifestyle that you have to pick up quick. what i want to know is, at this point, if i am averaging between can and 140 aferter meal, it be reversed? i keep on moving and moving. guest: and let me ask you some questions -- host: i apologize, i let him go. guest: well, let us try to answer it. the question was reversing diabetes. there are words used like that -- nobody is saying care. at this point in time, diabetes is not curable the best thing to do, as he describes -- certainly paying attention to your food intake, physical activity, but you also need to be sure you are getting some assistance on your support network. diabetes is a 24/7 disease. it is impor

the kid youngstown, ohio. look at detroit. look at buffalo.an american families do not have a mom and dad in the house. governments become the father. how do kids realize their talent or what they're capable of when all they get is a check from the government wants a month? host: that is something that president obama has also discussed. guest: i would see it more as a generalization if you want to see the important role that parents can play in the family structure, i would go to youtube and go to the video of alan west, the congressman from florida, of talking about the role his family played in his upbringing. one of my old home state senators was centered -- was senator patrick moynihan. he was a democrat, yet he wrote about what the programs were doing to the african-american community. it is a serious issue that needs to be addressed. if it goes back to my earlier statement that sometimes the best thing the federal parliament can do is stay out of the way. host: kathleen has this point. guest: well, i know my wife is watching this, so i