the american people. think about it this way. the american people do not get to demand a ransom for doing their jobs.ou don't get a chance to call your bank and say i'm not going to pay my mortgage this month unless you throw in a new car and an xbox if you're in negotiations around buying somebody's house, you don't get to say, well, let's talk about the price i'm going to pay and if you don't give me the price then i'm going to burn down your house. that's not how negotiations work. that's not how it happens in business. private life.it happens in in the same way members of congress and the house republicans in particular don't get to demand ransom in exchange for doing their jobs. and two of their very basic jobs are passing a budget and making sure that america's paying its bills. they don't also get to say, you know, unless you give me what the voters rejected in the last election i'm going to cause a recession. that's not how it works. no american president would deal with a foreign leader like this. most of you would not deal with either co-workers or business associates in this fashion. and w

they are going to demand that the shutdown ends and that the spirit of the american people be recognized. what we need to do, mr. president, is to get the government back to work for the american people of the senate has to send the house a bill that will end the shutdown. the house should schedule a vote for this bill immediately t. will pass. -- immediately. it will pass. we should not be cutting the national institutes of health that is working to fund the cure for cancer, for alzheimer's, for parkinson's and other diseases that devastate families in our country. we should not be keeping our civilian defense workers off the job. we should be coming together to create jobs to build better futures for all americans. and we should make sure that america pays its bills and does not default on its debts. we need to raise the debt ceiling. now is the time, mr. president. let us get to work. i yield back the balance of my time. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from utah. mr. lee: madam president, someone wisely declared, after all is saidand done, muc and doe is said than done. a l

do that? >> i think that he can exercise his rights as a senator. but it will not happen. >> why? >> the american people will not stand for another one of these things. they just won't. >> how can you prevent it though? >> too much damage. >> how do you prevent that? >> i think the american people have spoken and will continue to speak very loudly. i've seen this movie before. it was another many years before we tried it again. and i am very confidence the american people will not stand for another reputation of this disaster. >> can i just talk about the republican party again for a second? there are outside groups here, you know who they are, many with ties to ted cruz who are raising millions of dollars for tea party candidates off of this whole shutdown controversy. and some of them including your fomer running mate sarah palin are talking about primary opponents for mitch mcconnell, for example, the republican leader in the senate. and even for your good friend lindsey gram in south carolina who is running for re-election. so what's your response to that? that they want to primary people who actual

the american people do not want the government shut down. all we're asking for is to sit down and have a discussion and bring fairness to the american people under obama care. >> the house will take up funding for the national weather service as well as some federal programs. just days away from another transition to the new card system. so far the changeover has been shaky. >> spokes people with the chicago transit authority insisted if you look at the big picture, the transition has gone relatively well. of the 900,000 accounts that have already been set up, there have only been a small percentage of glitches. >> i think there have made this a very confusing transition for a lot of people. >> the transportation columnist says that there has been confusion. she has talked to operators who did not seem up to speed on the changes. changes that will start to take effect monday. >> expect delays the your lord shaat your local train station. here's what happens on monday. chicago card users will not be able to load more money on to their cards. y

the american people will always have the last word. this is not over. we have an obligation to fight for the american people. and i do we have an obligation to fight for the american people. and i do not intend to let the american people down. thank you. question republican senator of mike leigh in utah. 18 to open the federal government and funded through january 15, among other things. that measure now moving over to the u.s. house. fox news talking about the possible timetable. the house is now waiting for to start the senate debate. told best case scenario to start is 9:30 p.m. eastern. about a half-hour tonight. a tweak -- -- a tweet -- that measure passed in the senate 81-18. here is what president obama had to say shortly after that vote. >> good evening, everybody. tonight, republicans and -- remove the threat from the to fault from our economy. the senate has now voted to approve the agreement and democrats and republicans in the house have an important vote to take. those forthank getting us to this point. i will sign the agreement immediately and will begin reopening our government immediately. and we can

the american people tell us. at a 10% favorability rating, it's a good idea too -- to do that. way are the american people telling us? in poll after poll after poll, what they are saying is do not cut social security, do not cut medicare, do not cut medicaid. that's what all the polls are telling us. the last one is the national journal saying 81% of the american people do not want to cut medicare benefits at all, and 76% of the people do not want social security benefits cut, and 60% of the people do not want to cut medicaid at all. what else are they saying? they say, yeah, deficit is a serious issue, and as senator crapo said, we have the deficit in half, not bad. what else we want to do, in every poll i have seen, what is the top issue? the economy and it is jobs. representative black made a good point. real unemployment in the country is not 7.4%, but close to 14% if you include people who gave up looking for work and are working part time. youth unemployment, and the pope, by the way, talks about this a lot. youth up employment is close to 20%, and african-american youth i

the article -- they are only doing hunt to the american people. the president cannot pay ransom in exchange for conscious to do -- congress to do its part. >> what did you tell senate republicans this morning? they said it was a predictable lecture. >> i saw some other senators speak positively about the meeting. the president felt that was also a constructive meeting. about senator co rnyn's comments. he ought to expect the president's views on how to move forward. i do not think either side held back. the whole point is we need to have constructive negotiations and notr budget choices under a cloud that threatens to default or continue government shutdown. you mentioned the administration's concern with the republican from both sold. -- republican proposal. what is the white house putting on the table in getting something done? >> it is our position that there is no acceptable reason to keep the government shutdown. all it does is harm americans who are out there trying to make ends meet and harm the economy. the government ought to be reopened.

the american people do not get to demand a ransom for doing their job. neither does congress. they do not get to hold our democracy or our economy hostage over a law. what voters say they want somebody to do something. >> i would like to see action in washington. i needed to agree on things. >> houston the credits are trying to force a vote on a clean spending bill using discharge petition. to do that a need 18 republicans to sign on. >> bipartisan is a lot to ask for. the questions about the affordable care act. residents of prince george's county gathered at laurel high school for informational sessions on the new health care ball. >> what i'm hoping to learn all the alternatives of health care that i can possibly sign up for. departmentwith the of social services help residents enroll in the program. the government spending the weekend trying to fix glitches that slowed tuesday's launch of the program. the shutdown forced the defense department to dismiss spend -- to suspend sports. the navy game went on as planned. >> game day in annapolis. excited more than usual. the big

the gallup poll, 28%. senator, how low do the gop's poll numbers have to go before your party realizes the american people do not approve of what republicans in congress are doing? >> i don't think the american people approve of what the president is doing, refusing to negotiate. i don't think they approve of what senator reid is doing by rejecting every republican passed bill. the house has passed four different bills. each in which they move closer to the democratic position, and senator reid chooses not to take them up. look, i'm as frustrated as anybody is. i never thought it was a good idea to insist on the complete defunding of obama care in return for funding the government. i never thought that was achievable, but it's obvious this bill is badly flawed. speaker boehner is right when he points out that the president has granted all kinds of waivers to other groups. so is it really unreasonable to ask for a delay for individuals and families who are subject to that? i don't think that's unreasonable. >> i don't think the american people think that trying to alter or improved obama care is unreasonabl

the second thing that we need to do, ed, is we need to come forward with an agenda that makes sense to the american people is clear the american people do not want cuts, social security, medicare, medicaid. if you want to deal with social security you know what you do? you lift the cap. >> yeah. >> so that people who are making millions of dollars will start paying their fair share into the social security trust fund. then it lasts for another 75 years. >> and that pencils out the solvency big time. >> they want to discuss entitlements, let's discuss lifting the cap. second thing we need to do is bring forward an agenda which talks about creating millions of jobs, rebuilding our infrastructure, dealing with the crisis of global warming. raising the minimum wage, dealing with pay equity, making college affordable. right now the american people are sitting there and they're saying these people are crazy. they're talking about whether we're going to pay our bills or not. meanwhile, i don't have a job. we've got to rally the american people around an agenda that speaks to their needs. >> i think john boehner

the rules in oversight that govern us ensure we do what the american people want us to do which is protect our nation's security and our people's liberties. i'll repeat: we do not spy on nip except for valid, intelligence foreign purposes and only work within the law. now, to be sure, on occasion, we've made mistakes, some significant. they are caused by human error or technical problems, and whenever we found mistakes, we reported and corrected them. the national security agency specifically, as part of the intelligence community broadly, is an honorable institution. the men and women who do this sense of work are honorable people, dedicated to do their mission lawfully and appalled by wrong doing. they, too, are citizens of the nation who care just as much about privacy and constitutional rights as the rest of us and should be commended for the crucial work in protecting the people of the country, made all the more difficult by the torn unauthorized damaging disclosures. that all said, we are ready to work in partnership with you to adjust foreign surveillance authorities to further prot

the debate begins. >> he know s my phone number. all he has to do is call. >> game on. >> they are forcing the american people to buy a product that they do not want and cannot afford. >> the speaker appses the call of

why does a group of people that always loses elections or tends to do lately, why do they call themselves the americanthree fifths of a vote? worried about, like we're more american than the rest, so we should get a higher waiting than we are? i think it's dangerous. it goes with the birther stuff and all the rest of it. >> you know, why do you have to play that? >> i don't think there was any we involved in what he just said. i think he was standing alone on an island with that up with. >> no kidding. we've seen it a million times. >> you don't like their philosophy, they won an election. you don't like the fact that they came up from the masses organically from the grassroots, then you shouldn't have passed obamacare because that was the one piece of legislation that binded together a group of americans who said, that's enough. we're spending ourselves into oblivion. let's form not a part of the republican party, but let's form a party. they see more eye to eye with the republican party. where does race come into what they're saying? i don't see anything brought up about race. >> it's a desperate at

listen to this. >> it's a law the american people do not want and cannot afford. 's going to raise the cost of health insurance premiums. obama care, all these regulations coming out of the administration are threatening the future for our kids and our grand kids. they give big businesses. >> this is why we can't get a clean vote here. he is actually following a strategy run by these billionaires and these washington insiders like niese who have laid this out. >> and here's the thing, rev. the most ironic portion, i think, of their talking points is the one where they call this particular bill, this act obama care a train wreck. everything that the koch brothers touches is a train wreck. you know from your work, your advocacy work with alec, the koch brothers are right there. whether it's the stand your ground laws, the voter i.d. laws, all of these things are train wrecks. the train wreck is not obama care. the train wreck is actually everything the koch brothers touch with their money. dollars cannot make this make common sense. >> patricia, talking about the koc

the problem. and what we need to be doing in my opinion, my prescription for us is the american people don't let us get out of the box by letting us raise again the shackle as that are going to be increased by an increasing debt in this country. because if we do, when we -- and we will -- what will happen is we won't perform, we won't make the tough decisions, we won't make the sacrifice -- there will be no sacrificial leadership on the part of members of congress. their sacrifice will be, "how do i get reelected?" rather than, i don't care if i lose, our country needs to be fixed and we need to be about addressing that, even if it costs me a political position. when it's all said and done and america's blown through and we see the real results of our profligate spending and the hyperinflation and the marked decrease in standard of living in this country, what they're going to remember about us is there was a challenge and we didn't rise to it. we didn't rise to the occasion. we saw short term and we forgot and ignored the long-term consequences of our action. my hope is, is that would change, both

stop peddling factual misrepresentations to the american people to cover your legislative malpractice. let's get back to doing the business of the american people. i yield back to my good friend. mr. horsford: thank you. i thank the gentleman from new york. i know we are coming down to the end of our time. i do want to extend time to the gentlelady from california, representative lee, at this time. and i would yield to her the floor. ms. lee: thank you very much. let me first thank you both for continuing to sound the alarm and to really conduct these special orders. so, the american people can know the truth. about what's really going on here in washington, d.c. so thank you, mr. horsford, thank you, mr. jeffries, for your remarkable leadership and for what you're doing tonight once again. and as i was listening to what we've been talking about, there are two things that i want to drive home. one is, many of us did not want to -- and will continue to oppose sequester. what sequester has done is really gutted many of our safety net programs. such as head start, where 21,000 young people cannot have access now

. >> the american people do not get to demand a ransom for doing their jobs. you don't get a chance to call your bank and say i'm not going to pay my mortgage this month unless you throw in a new car and an xbox. imagine if a democratic congress threatened to crash the global economy unless a republican president agreed to gun background checks or immigration reform. i think it's fair to say that republicans would not think that was appropriate. we can't make extortion routine as part of our democracy. democracy doesn't function this way. i know the american people are tired of it. and to all the american people, i apologize that you have to go through this stuff every three months, it seems like. and lord knows i'm tired of it. >> the long and short of it is there's going to be a negotiation here. in times like this, the american people expect their leaders to sit down and have a conversation. i want that conversation to occur now. the president said today was if there's unconditional surrender by republicans, he'll sit down and talk to us. that's not the way

last election as that being part of his major manifesto so it isn't something that much of the american people do want to see. well i think at the head no the health care law is very unpopular what the republicans are concerned with is that it become popular once the subsidies start flowing to various constituencies and that's why they're making a last ditch effort to stop it but other republicans tell them that they won't be able to do that and it's pointless to try so it's very it's a very complex law and not everybody understands it and i think that's why the republicans are taking advantage of that to try to kill it but they're not going to be able to kill and i don't think obama can really compromise too much on it since it's his signature accomplishment if you want to call it an accomplishment some people don't but it's his signature for isn't ministration so i don't think he's going to he may give them a token. bit of. you know compromise on some of the most of it he just can't do it or he'll end up looking like a fool thanks for this one from independent from washington d.c. thank you tom

. >> the american people do not get to demand a ransom for doing their jobs. you don't get a chance to call your bank and say, i'm not going to pay my mortgage this month until you throw in a new car and an xbox if you're in negotiations around buying somebody's house, you don't say, let's talk about the price i'm going to pay and if you don't give me the price, then i'm going to burn down your house. that's not how negotiations work. that's not how it happens in business. that's not how it happens in private life. in the same way, members of congress and the house of republicans in particular don't get to demand ransom in exchange for doing their jobs, and two of their very basic jobs are passing a budget and making sure that america is paying its bills. >>> just ahead on al jazeera, why music lovers in guinea hope the new government will revive traditions in danger of being lost. >>> it's good to have you with us. these are the top stories from al jazeera. leaders from arrived in brunei for the annual asean summits. disputes over territorial waters will domi

[applause] we are descendents of the american revolution but there are people in america today you dot to be those descendents anymore. line of ancestry as corrupt, bigoted, racist. go on down the list of the indictments against america. very different revolution that occurred at roughly the same time as the american revolution. that was the french revolution. the french revolution was based on equality, liberty, and fraternity, not paternity. they were based on rights coming from the people, your brothers, not from god. anti- an anti-clerical, god revolution. they killed clergy and establish a secular government that turned into mob rules and an emperor that institutionalized the french revolutionary secular rule in europe. that is who they want us to be. in the things they do even now. they are subtle, they are little. they do not hit on most people's radar screens. look at obamacare. you can say, all they are trying to do is provide cost a section to people who should have access to them. is that all they are trying to do? let's take them at their word. what would be the easiest wa

the american people. think about it this way. the american people do not get to demand a ransom for doing their jobs. don't get a chance to call your bank and say, i'm not going to pay my mortgage this month unless you throw in a new car or an xbox. if you are in negotiations around buying someone's house you don't get to say, well let's talk about the price i'm going to pay. and if you don't give me the price i will burn down your house. that is not how negotiations work. that is not how it happens in business and that is not how it happens in private life. in the same way members of congress and the house republicans in particular don't get to demand ransom in exchange for doing their jobs. and two of their basic jobs are passing a budget and making sure that america is paying it's bills. they also don't get to say, unless you give me what the voters rejected in the last election, i'm going to cause a ha arecession. that is not how it works. no american president would deal with a foreign leader like this. most of you would not deal with either co-workers or business associates in this fashion and