uestion 6. let me share your briefing with you. how will you stop question 6. how will you stop companies just increasing their prices once the freeze ends? and here we have the great labour answer. the public would take a dim iew. let's have question 9. this says it all. labe labour's briefing. this is what it says. isn't he to blame for rising bills? and we all know the answer. yes, he is. >> i'll tell him what happened mr. speaker. when i was energy secretary energy bills went down. since he became prime minister they are up by 300 pounds. the prime minister says these price rises are unacceptable. he says he wants to act. now he is the prime minister. heaven help us but he is the prime minister so he can act. but i've got suggestions. he should implement labour's price freeze. we can amend the energy bill and we can bring in that price freeze right now. two parties working together. let's do it. >> mr. speaker, i think he has been following too his own advice. let's bring in this price freeze right now. he knows perfectly well it is not a price freeze. it i

uestion is, is detroit will motown be allowed to go bankrupt? >> it is midday here in london, 2:00 p.m. in athens, 10:00 p.m. in sydney, a city under pressure from bushfires raging around australia's famous harbor city and over much of new south wales. the good news is the big risk to the area of the blue mountains is now fading, as those fires have been largely brought under control. but 73 fires are still burning across the state. around 30 of them out of control. and a sense of exasperation. state fire authorities said the worst blaze of all was the result of a military -- the military firing explosives. the training exercise responsible for a fire that burned out more than 46,000 hectares. jon donnison has this report from sydney. fire inhose fighting the blue mountains, today had been billed as a difficult day. by the end, the authorities were saying a crisis had been averted. but at times, it was touch and go. strong winds gusting over 50 miles an hour saw a number of fires intensify. people doing what they could to defend their houses. >>

pursuant to clause of rule 20, further proceedings on this uestion will be postponed. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? mr. sessions: pursuant to house solution 373, i call up h.r. 3273, deficit reduction act and ask for immediate consideration. the clerk: a bill to establish a bicameral working group on deficit reduction and economic growth. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to house resolution 373, the bill is considered read. the bill shall be debatable for 40 minutes, equally divided and controlled by the chairman of the committee on rules. the gentleman from texas, mr. sessions, and the gentleman from florida, mr. hastings, each will control 20 minutes. mr. sessions: i ask all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materials. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. sessions: it has been one week since the federal government shut down and house republicans have passed several appropriations bills designed to provide funding for numerous

here's the uestion, deal or no deal, becoming a and show.sident to hammer out their own plan as we adjust now six days from hitting the debt ceiling deadline. we are live from the white house and we are going to hear from juan williams who has an opinion on all this. a quarterly loss for the largest bank in the country, reeling from massive legal expenses. we will break down the numbers in the report and wells fargo as well as adding some issues. and new needs government regulations? we will speak to a nonprofit that says it is better and faster helping consumers in the fight against deceptive advertising. we have this and more in this hour of markets now. it is friday and the dow is up 73. we are not selling off. dennis: the dow was up 400 points on a slender wrist little promise that maybe they extend the deadline for all of six weeks, shows you how much markets want to rise lately. cheryl: with the media like it. dennis: let's get stocks every 15 minutes, nicole petallides at stock exchange. we are actually up. how about that? nicole: i a

pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, further proceedings on this uestion will be postponed. for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? grace grace mr. speaker, i rise to offer the resolution -- can mr. grayson: mr. speaker, i rise to offer the resolution previously noted. the clerk: on october 1, 2013, in england, published the following. for most of the world a government shutdown is very bad news. the result of revolution, invasion or disaster. even in the middle of its ongoing civil war, the syrian government has continued to pay its bills and workers' wages. that leaders of one of the most powerful nations on earth willingly provoked a country sis that suspends govern services is astonishing to many. whereas the state-run news service, on october 2, 2013, in china published the following, with no political unity to redress its policy mistake, a dysfunctional washington is now overspending the confidence in its leadership. whereas the news of mexico on september 25, 2013, in mexico published the following. they squabble over the consequential accom

if you will resume the platform here, we'll ask for the first uestion. >> my question for the junl is, in -- judge is, in looking back, are there any decisions you take greatest pride in, any that you would like to call to our attention tonight? >> i suppose the first opinion that would come to mind would be coalition of equality versus wilson. that was the prop 209 case in which the voters of the state of california voted by a very eliminate margin to preference he ises in state employment based on race and other considerations. that case came up through my court, the ninth circuit court of appeals, and we determined complication of the equal protection laws. there is some interesting language in that case. manny, you can probably recite certain parts of it. remember that case very well. specific about cases because there is a lot of collateral decisions around it. >> thank you so much for a brilliant talk. -- youtioned a story couldn't enforce the natural law at times the times he used it to apply -- how did he negotiate that line? that passage -- he identifies that the law of natio

uestion to senator ma cass kill and others, -- mccaskill and others, we recognize. >> i think the bigger issue of taxes paid is taxes paid is pretty basic. what else is going on out there that's slipping through the cracks on security clearance because taxes, that's right in front of our face and we're missing that. mr. chairman, just to follow-up with senator coburn's comments. i think we have pushed through this committee the revolving dollars to be made for more transparency, more audit, more accountability. the house committee passed that. i would encourage you to do what you can do with your counterpart over in the house to make sure the full house takes that up because it's critically important. there are two pieces of that bill that senator portman, senator mccaskill, senator johnson and others are part of, plus some others, that deals with accountability and it deals with the number of clearances that are out there. i think we should push to try. negotiations are going on, but you have to set a level of expectation. i think that's what that does in part. i want to follow up a lit

pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, further proceedings on this uestion are postponed. the pledge of allegiance today will be led by the gentleman from arkansas, mr. womack. mr. womack: please join me. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the speaker: the chair will entertain up to 15 requests for one-minute speeches on each side of the aisle. for what purpose does the gentleman from south carolina rise? mr. wilson: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker: without objection. mr. wilson: mr. speaker, president john f. kennedy once said, quote, let us never negotiate out of fear but let us never fear to negotiate, end of quote. house republicans are willing to negotiate. house republicans have been proactive in preventing a shutdown in passing four pieces of legislation that keep the government functioning. unfortunately, the president and senate democrats

the speaker pro tempore: the uestion is on passage. the speaker pro tempore: the house will come to order. please clear the aisles. please remove all conversations. he house will come to order. he house will come to order. for what purpose does the gentleman from massachusetts seek recognition? >> i have a motion to recommit at the desk. the speaker pro tempore: is the gentleman opposed to the bill. mr. tierney: in its current form. the clerk: mr. tierney of massachusetts moves to recommit the bill to the committee on education and work force and the committee on financial services with instructions to report the same back to the house forth with with the following amendment, add at the end the following new section, section 4, protecting retirement savings from investment fraud. nothing in this act shall limit the authority of the secretary of labor to issue regulations to, one, prevent fraud in regard to pensions, 401k plans and other retirement savings accounts of seniors, veterans and other american workers, two, require that finan