it does not reduce the deficit, and it does have the support of the democrats in the house of representatives. with that, i yield back the balance of my time. the spker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back. the gentleman from georgia. mr. woodall: madam speaker, i

radio station it was newscast atop the hour and these cast they came out and said the democrats the house of representatives today failed to pass legislation that would extend unemployment benefits and it sounds like it was the democrats' failure and there you know it blame the democrats really was blocked by the republican absolutely who have these bizarre economic theories i'm wondering your opinion. of whether the republicans are blocking things like unemployment benefits that obviously generate massively stimulate the economy absolutely and generate jobs actually. who are they blocking this because they actually want the economy to continue going to tank because that's their strategy for two thousand and twelve i mean there was reference to this two years ago when obama first came in you had several very high profile republicans saying we're going to block everything mcconnell just said to mitch mcconnell just said his number one priority is stopping obama for being reelected if the economy gets better if obama's going to be reelected and i think some of it is about stopping the economy so he doesn't ge

the overwhelming majority of the democratic party in the other body to pass almost anything they want to. because it's almost a political fact of life, whether you have a republican majority in the house of representatives or a democrat majority in the house of representatives they can get -- as long as they stick together, they can get anything done they want get done. and they can ignore the minority. now, they migh may not have beee to ignore the minority in the senate with 41 republicans would stick together -- but they hardly ever do -- do. what a mistake it must have been now for the democratic party not to pass appropriation bills last year so that we wouldn't be going through this, but it wasn't done, i think, now looking back, because probably they didn't want discussion of budget issues before the election. because they didn't want the public being reminded about a $1.5 trillion deficit. in other words, we borrow about 42 cents out of every dollar we spend and we take in $2.2 trillion and spend 7.7 trillion and is that in the neighborhood of a $1.5 trillion deficit. they probably didn't want that talked about. so come october the 1st, pass a continuing resolution until december and then get th

of you. we want to thank chevron for the gas cards. congresswoman nancy pelosi, a democratic leader in the u.s. house of representatives. the filipina women's network. marion chap phil taylor from the friends of the san francisco public library. one of our board members who is our even a share. thank you for putting all of this together. annie chung. she still donated to the reception so all of us could get fed. and srt productions for the photography. they are out there making sure we have a record of the day's events. cindy anderson. are your hair -- are you here? the women's action network also donated to us. and, of course, max's cafe. our cookies were donated by max's cafe. and the staff of the department and the status of women, their dedication and support. they support the friends, so we support all their initiatives of their projects. without them, all this would not happen, so i would like to recognize them. again, thank you to the friends of the board members. oh, and, we do have flowers for the chair of this event, so we have flowers for you. i will tell you, you know how events are. this would not have happ

of feeding frenzy, frankly. it looked bad. now it has stopped. can you talk about that? >> the democrats stop it in the house of representatives when we said no earmarks to private companies. before that, mr. murtha was still involved here we have to do that on a competitive basis. that was the better approach. they have it totally out there on the internet what the request is, and you are limited. we get at this campaign contribution issue, which was clearly a problem. so i think we had a much better approach to this. but remember, congress can still unleash major programs. we can still add an increase or decrease money on that. congress still has the right to deal with all these national programs. it is when it is a specific appropriation that goes directly to somebody's district -- that is when there is a problem. >> right, and there is obviously no constitutional protection for that. >> just like the tanker issue. we just had this victory in our great state of washington, and the three rounds finally went to tanker, and that is something i care a lot about, but it is not an earmark. it is a national program that was in the

we know about these pacs the scart majority pac is designed to focus exclusively on house races with the agenda of restoring power in the house of representatives to the democrats and while we don't know too much about this second group we do know that rodel molineaux a former talk communications aide to harry reid will be president of american bridge twenty first century and we should also note the twenty first century was founded by david brock the same man who founded a liberal media watchdog group media matters so sounds like the dems have been hashing out the details of this politicking technique for a while and grabbing some of the best and brightest from capitol hill and frankly i mean i can't blame them obviously worked in two thousand and ten when the republicans gain control of the house but this is just a glaring example of how our society has changed how our government has changed and it's a sign of accepting this political ideology we're corporations really can't determine who ends up writing and in acting our laws in our country so if you weren't convinced before his know that citizens united really did change everything. now today congress passed

joining us now is democratic minority leader from the ohio house of representatives, armand budish. thank you for being here. >> it's my pleasure. thanks for having me. >> it seems from a national perspective that democrats and the democratic base are getting really fired up by what republican legislators and governors are doing in the states. what can you describe to this national audience about the mood in ohio right now? >> the mood is angry. the mood is somewhat fearful but very angry because people in ohio are understanding what's happening. senate bill 5 decimates, decimates collective bargaining. and i don't really get it. collective bargaining. that's people coming together and negotiating with their employer. it levels the playing field. it's basic fairness. and that is being stripped away. and people are getting it. and people are understanding what the impact of that's going to be. especially combined with the 7, 8 billion dollars of cuts that this governor is now proposing in his budget. and he's putting the cuts on local governments and on schools. most of that money is

it does not reduce the deficit, and it does have the support of the democrats in the house of representatives. with that, i yield back the balance of my time. the spker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back. the gentleman from georgia. mr. woodall: madam speaker, i yield myself 30 seconds just to remind the gentlelady that article 1, section 7 says all bills for raising revenue shall originate in the house of representatives. we failed to do that in the last congress and that's why the gentleman stands here today with this bill proudly. with that i yield two minutes to a very good freshman, my coeague, the gentleman from la, mr. landry. mr. landry: when i firs elected, i declined my health care benefits because i don't believe we can fixa system we are not a part of. i declined my retirement benefits because our social security sysm is broke. . i support this bill because if the american people have to endure a government shutdown, which is the result of the failure of the senate democrats, then none of us, including the president, should expect the american people to continue our pay. unti

the first photojournalist to be elected chairman of the radio television correspondents association, jay mcmichael. [applause] down on the left, mike wright, we are going to start with the democratic whip of the house of representativeseny hoyer is with us here tonight. he is sitting with a longtime board member and super producer, joe jackson of cbs. larry wilmore is tonight's entertainment. we will hear from him as well tonight. john wallace from fox news is with us tonight. congressman ben quayle, republican of arizona will also be speaking this evening. we are missing one guest, but he will be here. that is cedric richmond. he is a freshman from louisiana. then we have someone from alaska public radio down there sitting with kevin smith from john boehner's office. thank you for being with us. down there at the end it is our good friend aldo, director of the house radio tv gallery. thank you. i want to make a special mention. we want to thank mike and olga for all of their work in dealing with the media and our multiple personalities. more importantly, we need to a knowledge of their staff. we will start with olga's staff. her right hand -- sometimes are left -- and the from the radio and tv gallery. olga works wi

but i do believe that the president is trying to the best of his ability to work with a republican house of representatives, a democratic senate and without triangulation and without snuffing out one of them, trying to get to a situation that is reasonable. we need a reasonable debate on the budget of the united states and that means priorities. i think your priorities are probably closer to my priorities. but that doesn't mean we can demean or minimize ideas that come from the other side. i think there are great ideas that come out of your party. i don't think it is necessarily courageous but i would say paul ryan is a great patriot. host: we have this comment about the 2012 budget. it with pass the senate or be acceptable to the president but it puts the burden on the democrats to present their own plan for dealing with the long-term deficit. the budget plan? it would be nice to review it? guest: we are going to place and we startedrd that process. the president introduced a budget at the start. someone would say that is a starting point. i think with the republican budget now voted out of committee by 22-15 we will t

the white house issued a statement saying the president agrees with representative ryan's ultimate goal. tomorrow night we'll talk to the ranking democrat on the house budget committee, representative chris van hollen of maryland. the president disagrees, though, with paul ryan's approach. >> brown: still to come on the newshour, negotiations for a surrender in ivory coast; a preschool program aimed at low- income children; and unrest spreading from the arab world. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: libyan rebels were on retreat from the oil port of brega today. moammar qaddafi's forces battered them with sustained rocket and mortar fire, pushing them back toward benghazi. the battle happened on the road outside the strategic oil town, and burned out trucks littered the area. rebel fighters tried to salvage ammunition from the scene. a rebel military leader charged nato is not doing enough to protect the opposition, even though, by nato estimates, nearly a third of qaddafi's military power has been destroyed. at least three people died in clashes in yemen today. ibesmen loyal to president ali abdullah saleh fought with soldiers whose commander has sided with

of the radio television correspondents association, cnn's own jay mcmichael. [ cheers and applause ] >> and down on the left, my right, we're going to start here with the democratic whip of the house of representatives, steny hoyer is with us tonight. and he's sitting with long time rtca board member and super producer jill jackson of cbs. >> larry wilmore tonight's entertainment. we'll hear from him as well. john wallace, current vice chair of the rtca. and congressman ben quayle, republican of arizona will also be speaking this evening. we're missing one guest, but he will be here, that's cedric richmond, another freshman from louisiana. and then we have libby casey of alaska public radio down there. sitting with kevin smith from john boehner's office, kevin, thank you for being with us. and down there at the end is our good friend olga ramirez cornacki, director of the house radio tv gallery. thank you. and i want to make a special mention, we want to thank mike and ol ga for all their work in dealing with the media and our multiple personalities, we appreciate it. but more importantly, we need to acknowledge their two staffs. we're going to start with olga's staff down here, her right hand, some

it does not reduce the deficit, and it does have the support of the democrats in the house of representatives. with that, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempe: the gentlelady yields back. the gentleman from georgia. mr. woodall: madam speaker, i yield myself 30 seconds just to remind the gtlelady that article 1, section 7 says all bills for raising revenue shall originate in the house of representatives. we failed to do that in the last congress and that's why the gentleman stands here today with this bill proudly. th that i yield two minutes to a very good freshman, my colleague, the gentleman from la, mr. landry. mr. landry: when i first elected, i declined my health care benefits because i don't believe we can fix a system we are not a part of. i declined my retirement benefits because our social security system is broke. . i support this bill becse if the american people have to endure a government shutdown, which is the result of the failure of the senate democrats, then none of us, including the president, should expect the american people to continue our pay. unti

it does not reduce the deficit, and it does have the support of the democrats in the house of representatives. with that, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back. the gentleman from georgia. mr. woodall: madam speaker, i yield myself 30 seconds just to remind the gentlelady that article 1, section 7 says all bills for raising revenue shall originate in the house of representatives. we failed to do that in the last congress and that's why the gentleman stands here today with this bill proudly. with that i yield two minutes to a very good freshman, my colleague, the gentleman from la, mr. landry. mr. landry: when i first elected, i declined my health care benefits because i don't believe we can fix a system we are not a part of. i declined my retirement benefits because our social security system is broke. . i support this bill because if the american people have to endure a government shutdown, which is the result of the failure of the senate democrats, then none of us, including the president, should expect the american people to continue our p

of opinion that touches each other, that overlaps. that is the way coalitions are built. every now and you will have an election were the democrats control the white house, senate, and house of representatives. it did not work very well. a few years before that, the republicans control the white house and house and the senate. it did not work very well. i would like us to be a nation where a party leads and a second party has constructive criticism, but they work together to build america. i don't know right now. that is why my issue is money. to me, the power of money, special interest money, has way too much influence in washington. i saw in "the wall street journal" recently a home price list. it was memphis, st. louis, new york, tampa, washington d.c., atlanta, chicago. the price of homes over the last year in this country have dropped in chicago to 7.5%. in atlantic it was something like 8%. it dropped every place except one, washington d.c. it is a boomtown, steve. all the lobbyists, all the big check holders, all the special interests come here. they come here to get their way in the government, because they note that average people in america are trying to work at their jobs. they d

the recovery of employment. that we have the the republicans who control the house of representatives all. subscribing not just a deficit hawk language but beyond that beyond that and many democrats including many innocents ration talking that way you've said the deficit hawks and don't know what they're talking about or how an economy works. can you speak to that. well there are a couple of basic points one is that i think people people have forgotten that the government is part of the economy that government spending is private income the government writes a check to private individuals those individuals that have money to spend that they don't otherwise have and so when you go to ruthlessly cutting government spending just for the sake of cutting and indiscriminately you're going to be shrinking the private economy as a result people have some idea that if the government goes down the private economy will sort of automatically spontaneously grow to take up the slack but that's just not the case the private economy can lapse into under employment and stagnation and that's very much the risk. i think beyond that there is a very ancient notion which actually has a strong basis in

attracted japanese descrirks he knew that the commitments i had made as a republican governor he would pull fill as a democratic leader of the house of representativest he would continue as a democratic governor. it was a seamless transition. the same was true with the automobile industry when it began to cam come to tennessee. people looked around for a central location with a right-to-work law and good working people. and through a succession of governors, republican, democrat, republican, democrat, we worked together to do that. and of special interest it might be to washington, d.c., right now, through all those democratic and republican governors, we agreed that our state would have almost no debt. that's right, under governor mcwherter and speaker mcwherter, our state had almost no debt. if we wanted something, we paid for it. he was one of the finest public servants that i've hfer a chance to work w he may have a close friend. he had an indpek schuss personality and a great sense of humor. the last visits i had with him included the inauguration of the new governor, bill haslett. ned mcwherter and the new governor are the best of friends. the

housing wealth that they've lost. just on the part that they've lost. not the whole house, just the value that they've lost. this represents four times the amount of money being debated by democrats and republicans in washington d.c. four times. more than times. they're looking for $61 billion in cuts, republicans are. now, let's talk about the depth of this jobs crisis because this is a real crisis. this is a deep and painful and sustained crisis, and i've interviewed a number of economists who tell me i don't know how we're getting out of it. there is no obvious engine of growth absent really large-scale public intervention in terms of either a direct jobs program or a green energy program or something else. they don't see any new, new wonderful engine of economic prosperity that's going to be taking over. and i want to just talk about this because it's not getting the attention that it should be. yes, we see stories about, oh, unemployment is 9.5%, unemployment is bad. companies aren't hiring. but i think that we don't really grapple with just how severe it is. we have 16% of the work force right now is either unemployed or underemployed which means a lot of people have given

happened in the form of this continuing resolution that's coming over from the house of representatives. and, in fact, it passed the house today with 247 votes, including a number of democrats. there were a number of democrats who voted with the republicans in the house to pass a continuing resolution that takes on the issue of out of control washington spending, which has been very clearly documented. we need to get spending under control. we are adding to the federal debt at a rate of $4 billion every single day, which means by tomorrow night at 6:30, at 6:30 on friday, we will have added another $4 billion to the debt. that's the debt meter that we're running. every single day, we add add $4 billion to the federal debt that we pass on to future generations. we are borrowing over 40 cents out of every single dollar that the federal government spends. we cannot continue to do that, mr. president. we'll take in $2.2 trillion this year, spend $3.7 trillion. that's $1.5 trillion in deficits in a single year. you add that up, year after year after year, and you end up with a $14 trillion debt which is where we are today. it's growing at a trillion, a trillion and a half every

stunts, beneath the legislative dignity of any previous leader of the house of representatives, more responsible members of congress are moving toward a compromise. reports indicate that democrats and republicans have agreed on a $33 billion cut package, approximately half the amount of cuts house republicans have been seeking. but in an interview in the last hour, congressman cantor shot down that number to cnbc's larry kudlow. >> nobody is rallying around that 33. that number is not a number that i ascribe to. >> the tea party members of the republican caucus literally did rally today, and it was a rally around a number. >> 61.5 billion. that's where the fight came down on hr 1. the first cr. all right. so let's fight on that, then. that's ground we've taken. let's hold it. >> this is a defining moment for the new majority in congress. not that $61 billion in cuts is anything to write home about. >> cutting 61 billion in my opinion is a starting point. it is not the goal. >> joining me now is a tea party republican lawmaker who spoke at that rally today. congressman joe walsh of illinois. thanks for joining us tonight, congressman. >> lawrence, good to be here. >> congressman

here in the congress and considering the fact that there is only one body of the congress that's controlled by the republicans, the house of representatives, the democrats control the senate here and set the agenda, and we've got a democrat administration, a democrat white house. you would think that to do something of this consequence and this magnitude, it would take a bipartisan effort. you would siewsm that -- assume that this would be a discussion, a bilateral discussion that would be occurring here between the white house and congress and not just the democrats in congress and the republicans, but none of that seems to be occurring and there doesn't seem to be any interest on the part of the president in stepping forward and putting forward a plan that actually does deal with this massive debt and gets serious about putting people back to work and growing the economy and creating jobs. this budget, mr. president, as i said, increases spending about about $400 billion, increases taxes by $1.5 trillion, and adds somewhere on the order of over over $12 trillion to the federal debt. that's the president's budget. the republican budget that was put for

has been passed out of congress to prevent what happened a year ago from happening again democrats offered many solutions many of them actually passed through the house of representatives last year but the republican party in the senate went to great lengths to filibuster every single one of them so is this the result of a government and in particular the republican party being completely captured by the bill big oil lobby it's also the case that we haven't had another oil spill of this magnitude now there's never a way to ensure that we have and i'm not the oil i'm just there for everything five no it should have been done i mean i'll let you know that. these are all over again there are let you go what i was going to suggest is that there are other incentives for companies to reform and to be more careful and part of that is public outrage it doesn't we don't this really need to resort to regulations and to regulatory methods in order to stop what you're already just going to change the law for others but yet i think i think if you're b.p. and you realize how how much money they have spent to clean it up how much money that is but you're going to make sure that you'r

the status of things in that regard what is the likelihood of your being able to continue? >> we are funding under h.r. one in the house representatives. was preserved in the democratic senate alternative but of course you know now there's a deal so we expect to learn what the number is today and early this week we've been gratified by the support of the defense of the commanders and colleagues here and usaid and others in support of the mission that we hope to continue that mission for the american people >> another question, we kind of touched on this in a number of rounds to explicitly get your views on this, kind of a threshold question is whether stability has to precede the development for there to be sustainable and are we wasting money and putting contractors at risk by working in more dangerous areas. it seems you've had success in those areas, so what are your views about this question mr. paulson? >> i would say there is a continuum, so it is an all out battlefield you have to be held in the compound. we don't do that. but if it is an area where which is insecure when you are able to work out access to communities and receptivity on the part of the communi

the conversation about today's documentary are facebook and twitter pages. >> house republican leaders talk about today's budget bill about separate floor debate on the 2012 budget proposal. after that, democratic leadership talks about the vote. the house of representativesr 2012 budget plan. we will show you the floor debate on that resolution in a moment read prior to that, and john boehner met with reporters to discuss the budget plan. the budget introduced by paul ryan faced a series of votes on amendments that saw to replace it with ultra plans, including one proposal supported by a group of conservative republicans. those alternatives were defeated on the house floor. the speaker was joined by other members of the republican leadership. it is about 10 minutes. >> this budget will bring more certainty to the american people. it will show the american people that we are serious about cutting spending. i am hopeful that the president will begin to get serious about long-term fiscal crisis that our country is facing. it is serious. it needs to be dealt with now. we owe it to the american people, we owe it to our kids and grandkids, to begin to cut spending and to begin to transform these programs so that we can save medicare, medicaid, social security.

the core functions of the government for the year. last year democrats had a supermajority in the house of representatives. they had a filibuster-proof majority in the senate. and of course they had the white house. but they were so tied up with pressing matters like passing a $2.6 trillion health care bill that the american people did not want that they never got around to passing a budget. and then in the fall as the bottom fell out of the public support for the democrats, they were too interested in salvaging their majority and trying to spin obamacare that they never funded the government. that's why we're here. we're debating a spending bill for fiscal year 2011 and it is april of 2011. fiscal year 2011 started in october last year. it is very seufrp. -- it is very simple. democrats did not do their job and so they left it to the new republican majority in the house to fund for fiscal year 2011. the republican-led house got to work. they passed h.r. 1. i know that is in the democratic talking points to call this bill extreme. but what exactly did it do? when you strip away the ideology and the rhetori

as is very evident by the response to your remarks and prai of father coughlin there is one thing the democrats and republicans in the house of representatives agree on is that god has truly blessed us with the service of father coughlin as our chaplain for the past 11 years. when we talk about him being our chaplain, it's not just he's the chaplain of the members, he's the chaplain of the staff, the staff for the carpenter that we see in the hall, service employees who are here. we ministers to the needs of all of us here. metimes in a very ma crow way when 9/11 struck -- macroway when 9/11 struck or tucson, an thanks, those kinds of things had an impact on all of us and father was there for us as a group and individually. we never know what joys or pain our colleagues or our workers here are undergoing or suffering. father coughlin, father dan knows more than most of us and his discretion is something that we all value and respect. father dan has served minister to the needs of the poor with the missionaries of charity in calcutta, india. he has meditated with monks in the monastery and i think he's going to go back and do some of that aga

the nation is stronger when there is a diversity of opinion that touches each other that overlaps. you have an election or the democrats control the white house, the senate or the house of representatives. i remember a few years the republicans have an election they can change the white house and it didn't work very well. i would like us to be a nation where a party leads and a second party has constructive criticism but they work together to build american. i don't know. that is why my issue is money. to me, the power of money, special-interest money has way too much influence in washington. i sat on "the wall street journal" recently the home price list over the last year. it was memphis, st. louis, new york, tampa, washington, d.c., atlanta, it was chicago. they've dropped in chicago 7.5% in atlanta i make the number 8% or something like that. everyplace it dropped except for one. you know what that was, washington, d.c., 3.6%. it is a boom town. all of the lobbyists, all of the big chair calders, all of the special-interest come here not for the big government, they come to get their way in the government because they know the plea in people, the average people in america are tryin

so this was dumped on to the laps of the new majority here in the house of representatives which, as we all know, if we look at the challenges ahead of us, we still have a democrat in the white house, we still have a democratic control of the united states senate. so of the three levers of power legislatively, we have control of only 1/3 of those. and in light of that, we are trying to do the best that we can under somewhat challenging circumstances. last november 2 the american people sent a very strong and powerful message to washington, d.c. my party happened to see the largest gain in nearly 3/4 of a century, 1938 is the last time we saw the kind of change in favor of the republican party that we did last november 2. and so in light of that, there is a powerful message and i'm happy to say that that message has been heard by both democrats and republicans. why? because with the 82% increase in nondefense discretionary spending that we saw under speaker pelosi, the american people said, we need to bring an end to that nonsense. guess what? we have democrats and republicans alike talking about the need for spending. since we passed h.r. 1, we have had $2 billi

to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle this idea to create a very limited regulator while having 59 votes in the senate and 60% of the house of representatives and a democrat president is absurd. they're bragging about how powerful this regulator was until after the election. we are trying to fix this problem and go back to a more balanced approach in the cfpb. >> thank you. i'd like to recognize mr. pierce for one minute for purposes of an opening statement. >> thank you, madam chair. i just want to address some of the comments coming for friends on the other side of the aisle that innovations need to be somehow controlled over dangerous innovations and i think growing up in a family where the innovations, the phone industry were stop for decades. the we grew up with this one black phone, big everything. as soon as that was deregulated, though scary changes began to come onto the market and cell phones and ipods, ipads, whatever. and so as i think about choking down the financial sector, it is going to do exactly what one of my other friends on the other side said, it's going to limit access to consumers for the situations where someone does cheat or take

as is very evident by the response to your remarks and praise of father coughlin there is one thing the democrats and republicans in the house of representativeshat god has truly blessed us with the service of father coughlin as our chaplain for the past 11 years. when we talk about him being our chaplain, it's not just he's the chaplain of the members, he's the chaplain of the staff, the staff for the carpenter that we see in the hall, service employees who are here. we ministers to the needs of all of us here. sometimes in a very ma crow way when 9/11 struck -- macroway when 9/11 struck or tucson, an thanks, those kinds of things had an impact on all of us and father was there for us as a group and individually. we never know what joys or pain our colleagues or our workers here are undergoing or suffering. father coughlin, father dan knows more than most of us and his discretion is something that we all value and respect. father dan has served minister to the needs of the poor with the missionaries of charity in calcutta, india. he has meditated with monks in the monastery and i think he's going to go back and do some of that again. he has b

of opinion that touches each other, that overlaps. and that's the way coalitions are built. every now and then you'll have an election where the democrats control the white house, the senate and the house of representatives. it didn't work very well, did it? i remember a few years before that the republicans had an election that controlled the white house and the house and the senate. it didn't work very well, did it? we -- i would like us to be a nation where a party leads and a second party has constructive criticism. but they work together to build america. i don't know right now. that's why my issue is money. to me the power of money, special interest money, has way too much influence in washington. i saw in "the wall street journal" recently a home price list over the last year. it was memphis, it was st. louis, it was new york, it was tampa, it was washington, d.c., it was atlanta, it was chicago. the price of homes over the last year in this country have dropped in chicago, it was 7.5%. in atlanta i make a number, 8%, but something like that. just every place except one. do you know where that was? washington, d.c. 3.6%. it's a boom town, steve. i mean, all the lobbyists, all the big check holders

the house of representatives organ congressman peter de fazio congressman de fazio welcome back to our program reshape the opportunity first you know kind of a setup question here why didn't the democrats deal with the budget last year when they held the house. so it's kind of a said tale you know after we were marched over the cliff accepting the first we did the stimulus with three hundred forty billion dollars of tax cuts having a limited bunch of investment in education transportation infrastructure real job creation by the democratic leadership so obama could get three republican senate votes then we were marched over the cliff and accepting the senate version of health care reform without at least national exchanges certainly without a public plan option you know and then and then came the cap and trade bill the dream of wall street let's monetize the carbon emissions and and begin gambling in the multi-trillion dollar market. the house was at the point of saying look you know we're not passing any more bills unless they're actually going to come up in the senate in a form where we can have a meaningful discussion and the senate just couldn't get there because of the unconstituti

of things in that regard? >> thank you very much. our funding was the root out under h.r.-1 and house of representatives. it was preserved in the democratic senate. but now there's a deal so we expect to learn what our number is today. or early this week. we have been very gratified by the support of the department of defense, military commanders, our colleagues here, state department, usaid and others in support of our mission, that we hope to continue that mission for the american people. >> i do too. another question. we kind of touched on this in a number of rows but i don't think we've drawn it up explicitly to get your views on this, but kind of a threshold question is whether stability has to precede development for development to be sustainable. are we wasting money and putting contractors at risk by working at more dangerous areas? it seems to me a number of you have had success rather in dangerous areas. what are your views about this question? anybody. >> what i would say i think there's a continuing. if it's an all out battlefield where you have to be holed up in a compound, we don't do that. but if it's an area which is insec