the left leaning national priorities shopped up a dollar bill to show where our dollars go. a large portion goes to military. and you can see why some would like obama healthcare to reduce that amount of money. education gets $0.02 and then you nickel-and-dime down to the bottom. there is outrage about the complexity of the u.n u.s. tax system. and part of that is the progressive tax system. we have agreed as a society that high income earners may a larger portion of their income towards taxes. poor people, you know they spent a lot more of the money they earn than rich people. currently there are several federal income tax brackets. critics say the progressive taxation is unfair. many call for a so-called flat tax where everyone pays the same tax rate. it has never taken off in america. and people on the left and the right degree that the federal tax system needs to be fixed. before we explore where we're going, mary kno snow has a lookt where we've been. >> reporter: flashback to the united states during world war ii. fdr was president and the country was consumed by war.

again, is this a national priority?p but think it's all to rally the -- >> stephen: that's right, obama is clearly rallying want liberal base by releasing drug dealers. it's totally unfair. republicans can't rally their supporters that way. there are no bankers in jail to release. ( cheers and applause ). and-- a lot of banker fans here tonight, too. ( laughter ) and break out the vegan champagne, lefties. because it couldn't be easier for these hoodlums to get out. >> convicts must be serving a sentence under old law that is greater than required under current law. convicted of nonvice president crimes without links to organized crime. have served at least 10 years. have no other significant criminal history. good prison records and no history of violence. >> stephen: oh, sure, they may not have i history of violence but what. a future of violence? because if i'd been thrown in jail for possession of marijuana then got out 10 years later and found out pot is legal now. ( laughter ) i'm pretty sure i'd shoot someone. (

destabilizing the entire country this situation and the east if not adequately addressed as national priority. risks seriously just analyzing the country as a pro. those who exercise influence over the situation should take immediate action to halt the violence the bombing go protest this and its transformation into quasi foreign military forces must be stopped. anyone inside to violence and providing gongs to protest this can be held accountable for the resulting tragic consequences in russia responded to the report by accusing the united nations commissioner of bias. russian troops are currently mask on the border with ukraine various pro russian separatist groups have taken control of some ten regional government buildings in eastern ukraine western countries along with ukraine accused russia of orchestrating the takeover so cool. normally she assisted is russia must withdraw its troops from the border must stop this to the lies and it is a must stop yelling civil war and no one here is taken in it who assisted in kenya. i mean austin again soon. russia continues to deny that it has had an

with pushing new spectrum into the commercial marketplace leastising at $27.95 billion for national priorities. the inspector -- more than 20 billion for deficit reduction and $7 billion for the buildout of a nationwide public broad band network. that buildout makes good on a recommendation, a long standing from the 9/11 commission, that first responders need interoperable communication systems in times of disaster. asideectrum also set 135 million for state and local tolic safety millions, up 300 million for the research and development of wireless public up to communications and $115 million for the deployment generation 911. the broadcast incentive option will be the commission's best opportunity to hit that target.illion at this point my greatest worry about the incentive auction is about participation. in order for the incentive auction to be successful we will robust participation, both by broadcasters and by wireless companies. avoidingin turn means unwise policy choices, which deter participation. my own position on the reverse simple.is prices paid to broadcastes for their spectrum sh

is this a national priority? i can't help but think it's all to rally -- >> if clemency gets your vote back -- >> it's another base rallying activity. >> it's people who were in jail for three to five years on cases of multiple use of marijuana. >> i'm going to leave it right there. coming up the supreme court handed down a major ruling today that involved the state's rights on affirmative action. dana is going to tell you all about it when we come back. >>> today, the supreme court upheld the right of michigan voters to ban affirmative action from the admission process from the state's public university. it was held that it was unusual because it stripped minorities of their rights by doing away with the policy. this is one of those legal decisions, andrea that reads who is on first, because yes means no and no means yes. the bottom line it's probably not as controversial as the headlines suggest. does the state have the right to strip the universities of the right of affirmative action? the supreme court said y

is this a national priority? i can't help but think it's all to rally -- >> if clemency gets your vote back -- >> it's another base rallying activity. >> it's people who were in jail for three to five years on cases of multiple use of marijuana. >> i'm going to leave it right there. coming up the supreme court handed down a major ruling today that involved the state's rights on affirmative action. dana is going to tell you all about it when we come back. predicting the future is a pretty difficult thing to do. but, manufacturing in the united states means advanced technology. we learned that technology allows us to be craft oriented. no one's losing their job. there's no beer robot that has suddenly chased them out. the technology is actually creating new jobs. siemens designed and built the rto get the job done. why relocating manufacturingpany to upstate new york? i tell people it's for the climate. the conditions in new york state are great for business. new york is ranked #2 in the nation for new private sect

priorities. ofmunity security, in terms state and local. of course national security, and then oversight and accountability in terms of spending dollars wisely. to uphold the rule of law, protect civil liberties and communities. there's a request in here for $2.2 billion for state and local government that puts cops on the beat, puts away child abusers, processes rape kits, all those at the local level. we will be getting your views and insights about how those partnerships are working, and once of the funding process we can actually strengthen them to get better results and better enforcement. we also want to know that that thin blue line and the local community that protects us, like our local police officers, have equipment that they need. we also want to take a look at the issues related to our prisons. we know that you are leading a review on appropriate sentencing and how we can reduce the prison population without increasing risk to our communities. you have looked at everything from compassionate parole for those prisoners that are now under -- in the

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if you have a project back home in your district, if you see a national priority and you want to spend a penny more than we spent last year, come to the floor of the house and make your case. make your case. for pete's sake, i'm a huge supporter of federal research. the work that goes on at the c.d.c., the work that goes on n maryland at n.i.h., it's amazing. it's amazing. and nobody is going to do it except here in this body. i don't need a baseline. i don't need a bureaucrat. i don't need any washington math to come and make the case that we need to spend more on n.i.h. than last year. i believe it. because my constituents elected me stand on up for federal research. we came here to make these tough decisions. back in the day before the class of 2010, before the class of 2012, back in the day there's good reason to assume that federal spending was going to go up every year. why? because every year since the end of the korean war that's exactly what had happened. i watched it. every year we spent more than we did in the last, but something has changed in this town, madam speaker. and

the result would we less spectrum, less funding for national priorities, a higher budget deficit and increased chance of a failed auction. under the law we have only one option, which is success, because we only have one chance to get it right. the second issue i'd like to discuss briefly is the universal service funds $2.4 billion schools and libraries program. better known as erate inch many ways erate has been a success, just last year, for instance, 87% of educators responding to an independent survey reported they had, quote, adequate band width for robust instructional needs in all or most classrooms on a school campus. but erate has had its share of difficulties. the probation process is so complicated the majority of the universal service funds entire administrative cost is focused on erate. many schools and libraries feel compelled to hire outside consultants to manage the complex advertise. others don't bother applying. services like paging are prioritized over next generation services like connecting classrooms. money is wasted. one brooklyn school, for instance, has recei

but on a policy level, this should be our number one national priority right now.s is a phenomenally stupid waste of human capital. it's bad for individuals because with unemployment is about the worst thing that can happen to you in a modern society short of death or dismember bement. but it's also further economy. we're already losing labor force participation because baby boomers are losing the work force, we cannot afford to have these people out of work. >> i want everybody to come up with a question in a minute, but my last question for you now, megan, so everybody contemplate, mull your question. you talk about blame in the book and sometimes how it's almost instinctual for us to blame people. i think that in my mind that ties in with kind of the american mindset that made us so upset about the bailouts and about other things is you did something wrong. you ought to suffer. and sometimes i wonder in a lot of my ideological come pate rats who are, you know, conservatives, if that's part of their opposition to a generous safety net. they think if, as herman ca

if we want to reverse this trend, we must realign our national priorities. it is imperative we build upon the recent compromise and further reverse the current trajectory to mitigate the permanent damage to our national security. the reality is we cannot keep going back to did d.o.d. to cut spending. we cannot ask our men and women in uniform to balance our budget. it's time to address the real drivers of our debt. in addition to replacing $274 billion in scheduled defense cuts, this budget promotes job creation streamlining career training programs and encouraging pro-growth tax reform. additionally, we relieve hard working americans from the costly burdens of obamacare. so i'm proud to support a budget that lowers taxes and reprioritizes our national defense. i yield back. >> thank you. at this time i'd like to yield two minutes to the gentle lady of indiana. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i hear daily from hoosiers in the 2nd district asking me to support policies to create jobs and boost the economy. reduce our more than $17 trillion debt. they want me to s

is this a reflection of where this fits in a national priority as it concerns the administration? and what are you doing and what do you plan to do? i am going to give you a break. you have been here two weeks. in your capacity. what are you going to say to the president when you have that face-to-face meeting on the policies of this administration as it concerns something that now outnumber as drug overdoses, now of numbers gunshot victims. >> i think, again, when you look at some of the new additions and the proposed 2015 budget items that there are some additional items included in that budget that are specifically focusing on the opioid abuse. our substance abuse and mental health services administration has an additional $15 billion to get out to states and local communities to particularly focus on patricia drug abuse issues and a pure and over those issues. contained in that budget is also an additional $10 million for the centers of disease -- center of disease control to support state level actions as it relates to overdoes prevention to read it as clearly been a priority

in many parts of europe corruption aids to be a higher national priority to protect and defend democracyand protect and defend the state sovereignty for chris to look to shore up what is so vital fighting corruption and must be a more central line of the effort and it will be going for her. some of the the ukraine crisis is a wake-up call to accelerate other work with the more prosperous transatlantic committee and the renewed need runs along the native eastern border beans the european allies must first city the downward trend in the defense budget has revitalized we must also strengthen the economic ties and a solid growth and job creation of both sides of the atlantic by completing the ambitions partnership agreement. green bus to march together as a transatlantic committee to strengthen the independence and internal energy market to guarantee reverse flows of energy to build in sure connecters throughout the continent. it has intensified the focus on a broad set of transatlantic security challenges and opportunities john tupper wrote to a europe of peace. i'll look forward to your qu

this goes back to national priorities. if you realize the budgets for the national endowment for the the endowment for the arts is $150 million in this year's budget. the budget for the national institute for health is in the tens of billions. the budgets for the national science foundation is $79 billion, -- $7 billion, $9 billion, something in that range. there is no president of a major college in the united states who would say to me it is far cheaper to hire five humanists than the one scientist they are going to bring and, looking at the start up costs alone. not of the job is, we are going to win the battle in washington. i have talked to people there. it is the space between the public and the universities where we can continue to begin educate, and where humanists at vanderbilt and elsewhere become more engaged in their communities, to explain the ways the emancipation proclamation example is one. there are local versions here. learning and teaching. think about things as fundamental as this. -- we alreadyw know b

ofother words, in many parts europe, fighting corruption needs to be a higher national priority in order to protect and defend democracy and protect and defend state sovereignty. as we look to shore up security prosperity -- security, prosperity, and the values that -- vital, fighting corruption must be a more central line of effort, and it will be for rpo going forward. the ukraine crisis is a wake-up call to accelerate other work we've been doing to promote a stronger, more prosperous transatlantic community. discuss --etary will the assistant secretary will discuss, there is a renewed need for vigilance along ukraine's eastern border. european allies must reverse the downward trend in their defense budgets. as we revitalize the transatlantic security tight, they must also strengthen our economic ties and accelerate the growth and job creation on both sides of the atlantic by completing an ambitious, transatlantic trade and investment partnership agreement. as you said, mr. chairman, we must do more together as a transatlantic community to strengthen europe's energy independence and it

we need a national plan from the government to help make autism a national priority. >> one of the thingsentary and people, i think as you said, when they think of autism, they think of little children. what this documentary does is show that it is life-long. michael rosen with autism speaks, thank you for being here. >>> thanks to you at home for watching. melissa harris-perry will be back here next saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern. >>> alex? >> jonathan, thank you for that. i'm live in california where today the clippers will soon be taking the court in their nba play-off game. but will the team's owner, donald sterling, be there in attendance, investigating racist comments reportedly said by sterling. nbc news has not verified it. the story has certainly set off a firestorm. >>> all in, msnbc's chris hayes joins me for an all-new office politics. his take on the rancher cliven bupdy, and what the government should do. why hasn't chris broke open the bottle of scotch by the window right there? >> the list is so long. i regret calling on you. because now i'm going to be telling everybody m

spending caps to push policymakers to be more thoughtful about what is working and what our national priorities are. i do not want to be held responsible for making these tough choices until people in cutting part of the budget. we will do across-the-board cuts. revenuesway we raise -- when you raise tax rates, innings people will work less because the incentive to work is less. there's a huge opportunity for a plan to reform the tax code. we could bring down rates, but you could have people pay more revenue if you want to close the deficit, which i think we need to do. it all needs to be shored up. we are doing this country an incredible disservice by pretending we can sweep those problems under the rug. at some point on the road, when it is too late to do in a smart way, someone will get around to fixing these programs. we need to shore them up and strengthen them and fix them. nothing is being done. that is my biggest concern. what other thing -- the fastest one part of the budget is interest. this is the biggest, wasteful item of the budget. people would say they're wasting money here and t

if we want to reverse this trend we must realign our national priority. build uponative we the recent compromise and further reverse the damage to our national security. >> we cannot ask our men and women in uniform to balance our budget. it is time to address the real drivers of our debt. seeing ion to reduce -- it encourages progrowth tax reform. we really youth hard-working americans from the burdens of obamacare. i yield back. >> i would like to yield two minutes to the gentleman from indiana. >> i hear daily from hoosiers in the second district asking me to support policies that will create jobs and boost the economy. this commonsense budget resolution does just that. it promotes economic growth and creation. it moves our country toward energy independence. it rolls back federal red tape that has been stifling business expansion and growth. this protects seniors and low-income americans. protecting the programs for the americans who depend upon them. it provides state flexibility and medicaid. it strengthens the work requirements and make structural

on the policy -- to be our national priority right now, this anomaly stupid waste of human capital. it's bad for individuals because of plant has about the worst in the can happen to you in a modern society short of death or dismemberment, but we're already losing labor force participation people are retiring. baby boomers are leaving the work force. we cannot afford have these people out of work. >> i want everyone to come up with a question and a minute, but my last question for you now call everybody contemplates and all your question. the talk about blame in the book. sometimes owl it is almost instinctual for us to bring people. i think that in my mind that ties in with kind of their -- the american mind set that made us so upset about the bailouts and other things. you did something wrong. you want to suffer. sometimes i wonder, a loss of compatriots who are conservative, if that is part of their opposition to a generous safety net. they think if you're not rich is no one's fault but your own. let yourself. is that a natural thing, an american think? is the problem at that we

nation's future. it's a statement of our priorities as a nation and it should provide a path forward that we can all be proud of. my constituents in las vegas, and our constituents all around the country, deserve better than this rehashed ryan budget which slashes programs for children, dismantles health care, eliminates the safety net for seniors and defunds education and needed research and development. this budget is not a road to prosperity as representative ryan calls it, it's a road to ruin. and as someone said recently, it's like giving the middle finger to the middle class. instead, we need a balanced plan that protects women and their families while making investments in our future. let's work on that kind of budget. so again, i want to thank my friends who have come to the floor tonight to point out these problems. i yield back to ms. edwards. ms. edwards: thank you very much to the gentlewoman from nevada pointing out the many ways in which the ryan budget impacts the women of nevada and the -- and impacts the women of this country. the gentlewoman mentioned something that i think again bear

i think the third part, and this really goes back to national priorities. so if you realize the budget for the national endowments for the humanities, the national endowment for the arts at about $150 million, $154 million in this year's budget, the budget for the national institute for health is in the tens of billions. and the budgets for the national science foundation is about $7-$9 billion, somewhere this that range. you realize there's an order of magnitude. there's no president of any college or university in the united states who would say to me it is far cheaper to hire five humanists for the one science colleague they want to bring in just looking at the start-up costs alone and trying to sort it out. part of the job is we're not going to win the battle in washington. i've been in washington and talked to folks there. really it's the ground level here. it's that space between the public universities where i actually think we begin to continue to educate and where humanists at vanderbilt and elsewhere really become more engaged in their communities

if we want to reverse this trend, we must realign our national priorities.it is imperative we build upon the recent compromise and further reverse the current trajectory to mitigate the permanent damage to our national security. the reality is we cannot keep going back to did d.o.d. to cut spending. we cannot ask our men and women in uniform to balance our budget. it's time to address the real drivers of our debt. in addition to replacing $274 billion in scheduled defense cuts, this budget promotes job creation streamlining career training programs and encouraging pro-growth tax reform. additionally, we relieve hard working americans from the costly burdens of obamacare. so i'm proud to support a budget that lowers taxes and reprioritizes our national defense. i yield back. >> thank you. at this time i'd like to yield two minutes to the gentle lady of indiana. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i hear daily from hoosiers in the 2nd district asking me to support policies to create jobs and boost the economy. reduce our more than $17 trillion debt. they want me to su

and then to support obama is quoted as saying he knew some basic eighteen of the abduction nation as a top priority the key. you are young will assess each of the balm of the families of the anti squat concrete action from the united nations he says he asked the last house. we do more. he told the president hit the i wants the united nations security council to adopt a resolution on the abductions. to make action to impossible. thus as obama told the hill was listening to japanese need as a psychiatric assessment has been spent as a contact. he knew this day. you can think of it. he said he thinks the abductions errand to get the bowl is apparent. he said he'll make a big gap that help. sissy of the session piled up on its promise of help in the rain came. obama spent the evening and the company of royalty the emperor and empress posted this thing conquest that can add ten pounds. i knew i knew i couldn't help couple welcomed obama and the one hundred seventy. i think the key into the atm lankans for the aid operation in an appeal launched in japan three he has to go after the quake and tsunami he

ultimately i'm a bit is about making autism a national priority. it does not have to be the highest priority, but it has got to be a priority. one of the things most , one of the things is bipartisan support in washington for the most important priority legislation we have right now. we have the head of the democratic governors association , pete from vermont, governor ,hris christie from new jersey both saying we have got to have a strategy for this. then under mcconnell and editor reed came together. senator menendez, marco rubio. it says a lot. i do not have to tell you. you are living their everyday. we are at a point where there is no turning back. >> here is jamie from michigan. go ahead. good morning. this --i have a grandes grandson and great-grandson with asp burgers. burgers -- asperger's. our grandson was not diagnosed until he was eight years old. ands very capable everything. he needs occupational therapy to find out what he is in, because they have to have a structured .ife that is all i have to say. thank you for calling. there is st

two prongs of that, one is an executive order, make this issue a national priority.g 22 people a day in combat, everybody would rally behind it, right? >> that's right. >> what do you want the executive order to do? >> first of all, he's got to prioritize it. he can issue a national call to action and issue a national director of veteran suicide to integrate the services because too many people get lost in the cracks. the president taking this issue on would be a powerful statement as a public health challenge. when it comes to congress, we need comprehensive legislation. as of yesterday we've got a bill number, 2182. senator walsh, the new iraq vet in the senate from montana stood with us on the mall to introduce this bill and now we're asking everyone to stand behind it. we want this to be like the g.i. bill where republicans and democrats all got along and passed comprehensive legislation to make this happen. >> we need to stand together. at 22 suicide as day -- you made an incredible point. if these were 22 losses a day in combat, we'd be doing something about th

nation. billion dollar a day. priority. then we go through. mount isa when i was in twenty oh nine total and washington. and france japan us coming back on. i don't have to read as expressed strong clues and all of our time in three kb and into south china sea. the owner so i agreed to act on security cooperation with south east asian nations recent years but at the end we would like to request help from countries that have interest in the south china sea. we've got the moves by japan and the us as positive. i made it a napping and eat in peace my friend disappears. it's pushing the economic also to both japan and the us. three nations that she and many of this and consonants. aikido is higher on any scale aren't going. it will wrap up our place and i'm sure the attacks on warming can call. us economic growth appears to have slowed over the first quarter of this year the harsh winter weather hit capital investment in housing construction. the us department of commerce has released preliminary gross domestic product data for the jaggery to marc

priorities for the budget. i know i speak for the members when i say i am impressed by your nativity and management, which is essential to usaid reform into your agency's pursuit of an national development priorities in ways that focus on best practices and result. and so as we have discussed on numerous occasions before i do as i have said to the secretary when he was here, i remain deeply concerned about the resources for the western hemisphere and they are insufficient to meet the challenges of the region and it is an important factor to our props dirty and shared interest in health and development. and so that is something that we look forward to continuing to engage iran. so while this poses a strategy for the region, the law is fundamental. i believe we can do better in the mr. and i think that we can do better in meeting within that context or international development priorities within the hemisphere. i look forward to an ongoing conversation with you about how to get the best results. .. for the taxpayers and now i would like to recognize senator corker. >> thank you, mr. chairman and those passionate comments. we appreciate you being here and all of the work you do

law enforcement and national security priorities, the main central mission of the department, i believe take a back-seat. this approach is evident in the cuts required of nearly every component within the department of justice. the 2015 budget requires cuts totaling more than $500 million. they are characterized as miscellaneous programs and administrative reductions and will be identified once the funds are appropriated. congress made a conscious decision to return to regular order to put a stop to in discriminate cuts your budget requires. a budget proposal that uses smoking mirrors doesn't provide a way to safeguard security, reduce crime, prosecutor criminals or support state and local partners. i do not support the approach this budget has taken and i look forward to working with you, madam chair, to make sure the department of justice is funded. i want to touch on the topic of concern that chairperson mentioned and that directly impacts the inspector's general ability to conduct much-needed oversight of the department of justice. since arriving in 2012, they have worked to investi

meanwhile, law enforcement and national security priorities, the main mission central mission, of the department, i believe, take a backseat. this approach is evidence in the indisci's crime nant cuts required of nearly every component within the department of justice. the 2015 budget requires cuts totaling more than 500 million. these cuts are characterized as miscellaneous programs in administrative reduction, and we'll be identified once funds are appropriated. in short, it is the department's own version, i believe, an arbitrary sequester. mr. attorney general, congress made a conscious decision to put a stop to, as you know, the indiscriminate cut that your budget requires. a budget proposal that uses smoke and mirrors does not provide a stable foundation to safeguard national security, reduce violent crimes, prosecute criminals, or support our state and local partners, calling into question the department's commitment to the requirements. i do not support the approach this budget has taken, an i look forward to working with you, madam chair, to ensure the department of justice i

national reconciliation agreement. two joint meetings were held over the past two days in an atmosphere of understanding, con sillation, and getting prioritynational interest, and we have agreed upon the following. first to reiterate and emphasize to honor all of the agreements reached, including [ inaudible ] together with the [ inaudible ] agreements, the doha document as the soul reference upon implementation. second, the government, the president, shall initiate discussions and consultations to form a national unity government as of date which government will be announced -- formed and announced within the time limit, namely five weeks, based on the [ inaudible ] and the doha document, whereby the government will shoulder all its duties and responsibilities. third, elections. we reiterate that both the presidential parliament and provincial elections will be held simultaneously. whereby the president will be obliged to fix the dates of election in consultation with the national and provincial leaders, provided that the elections shall be held not more than six months from the formation of the government and this will be put to further

and, instead, we should demand that washington refocuses its priorities on fixing the national debt. getting our economy going again. and holding government programs accountable for results. >> all right. >> people are sick and tired of the politics and social issues come from both sides of the aisle. >> give me an example of how the democrats have discriminated against you based on your sexual orientation. >> well, we have seen that attacks are coming at my campaign. when i ran for mayor, for example, bob filner, what kbbs said gay baited in his campaign by attacking my partner in numerous press conferences. >> he had a lot of nerve doing that very sar sarcastically we know a lot about bob filner he had a lot of nerve attacking anybody but go ahead. >> during the campaign, we saw a suspicious group come and attack sending mailers to african-americans and elderly male republicans pointing out the fact that i was gay and putting in photos of me that were photo shopped of me with drag queens and hugging men and whatnot. >> do you know that is a democrat though? >> we found out later on

but in this complex and rapidly changing global environment, we also know our national security interests are priority number one, and they cannot be jeopardized. the $40.3 billion for the department of state, equal to the 2014 enacted level provides solid footing. and the $5.9 billion for oversees contingency operations allow us to continue to address iss issues in other areas. we also need to make sure our budget is structured so our nation is capable of meeting the new challenges and opportunities of today's world. and we face many realities, most recently the threat by russia to the ukraine. we will continue to stand with the ukrainian people. in addition to authorizing a billion dollars in loan guarantees for ukraine and other areas in the region, we have also given you tools to respond to russia in the form of sanctions and our message to president putin and his cronies must be robust and swift. on syria as we commemorate the third anniversary of though uprising, i'm pleased that the united states is providing assistance. but this leads to a broader question, that we can demonstrate u.s. leaders

lord, if we as a people and as a nation were to make justice our aim, how would this change our priorities? could we change that much? in every age, your impeling spirit called our ancestors beyond their wishful thinking and beyond themselves to move ever closer to our national calling of equal justice under the law. send that same spirit upon the members of this people's house, that they who have been entrusted with ensuring this great calling might fulfill that great promise and it will truly come to pass that justice would roll down like a river and righteousness like an ever flowing stream. amen. the speaker: the chair has examined the journal of the last day's proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved. the pledge of allegiance today will be led by the gentleman from florida, mr. garcia. mr. garcia: i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, e nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the speaker: the chair will entertain up

priorities. our correspondent is at the united nations headquarter in new york. she tells us what the u.n. chief might do about it. do.here is not much he can he keep saying how concerned he is about the situation. the security council can really take action to stop the killing. we do expect the security council to vote next week, tuesday or wednesday, on sending a peacekeeping mission to the ca are. they are expected to approve such a mission, -- to the central african republic. they are expected to approve such a mission, but it could take six months despite the fact that many of the soldiers who will make up this mission will from the already existing african union led forces. an extra setback for that mission to stabilize the country. we got news that the chadian soldiers are withdrawing. >> jessica reporting from new york. two other news now, an attack on the military post in northern yemen has left five people dead and five others injured in. this is in the oil-rich area of the country. the attack was with rocket propelled grenades and machine guns. no one has claimed responsibility.

budgets are moral document this is a reflect our priorities as a nation. mr. veasey: republicans have outlined their priorities in this budget, raising taxes on the middle class, cutting taxes for multimillionaires and hurting seniors by ending medicare as we know it. the budget plan introduced this week offers no real solutions. if your thing is massive cuts to nutrition, health care and other critical support that give lose income children and families a decent chance at life, then the ryan budget is your deal. instead of making these hits on the middle class, we should focus on improving education, investing in domestic manufacturing and paving the way for a good future. also troubling is that the ryan budget rejects the opportunity to enact immigration reform, raise the minimum wage and extend unemployment insurance that will create jobs and strengthen our economy. as elected leaders we owe it to the american people to invest in them, not cut the safety net from under them. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what pu

this is a high priority national security issue that i know is of interest to you as it is to the fbi. the fbi, indeed, is working hard today on programs related to home-grown violent extremism, online radicalization and countering violent extremism. let me share with you briefly some observations from my own academic study of radicalization. the variety of terrorists who have surfaced over the years evidences that there is no one path to radicalization. the reason why someone picks up a gun or blows themselves up are not personal. born variously of grievance and frustration, religious piety or the desire for systemic socioeconomic change, conviction or commitment to revolution. and yet though there is no universal terrorist personality, nor has a single broadly-applicable profile ever been produced, there are things that we do know. terrorists are generally motivated by a profound sense of, albeit misguided, altruism. deep feelings of self-defense, and if they are religiously observant or devout, an abiding, even unswerving commitment to their faith and the conviction that their viol

most would agree that a nation's budget reflects its priorities. well, the majority's budget is a clear sign that economic prosperity for all is simply not that important, that equality is not that important. many of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are focused on shrinking the government at any cost, at all cost. even if it means doing so on the backs of the most vulnerable among us. the cbs -- c.b.c. substitute budget offers a different approach by reducing the deficit and eliminates the harm from sequestration in a responsible and fiscally sound way. it is focused on making our government work smarter and programs operate more efficiently. it provides a plan to turn our country's economy around and opens the door of opportunity for future generations. e c.b.c. substitute includes items like extending emergency unemployment insurance and raising the federal minimum wage while also mapping out a long-term agenda for future economic growth. it reinforces support for critical safety programs, rebuilds our transportation infrastructure, a

administration has taken apart from legislation to make the immigration system more responsive to national needs and priorities. he will be followed by mr. jaime farrant, the executive director agencya, a nonprofit that helps immigrants with outreach in the pc, maryland, and virginia areas. he will be speaking about the many ways that ayuda together with his clients face is the broken immigration system on a daily basis. sometimes it unites and sometimes brings long-lasting peace. seesany other times, ayuda firsthand how it keeps families apart, at risk of harm, and in dire need of services. will speak.orloff she is the director of the national immigrant women's project here at american university and is an adjunct or fester here. she is going to be speaking about the impact of the immigration system and its current rules and regulations on victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking. after she speaks, mr. peter assad, who brings his insight both as an immigration attorney directly representing families and businesses, and his experience as the past president of the d.c. hispanic lawyer

prepared to support the search for as long as we require and as long as the national government tells us that that's their priorityot no intentions of bringing the airplane home at the moment. as i say, we're rotating crews through to be able to potentially support a sustained effort. so that's still a long way here, so to speak. >> and you say the air search is about the size of the state of west virginia. is that what you're saying? >> every day the several area that they search is about the size of west virginia. so it's a sizeable search area and that search area continues to either be refined, due to the ocean currents or the movement of that search and the potential debris field or as you've alluded to, the more information that we get, we can refine and go to the various areas. so there's a lot of search aircraft. there's nine search aircraft and three coordination aircraft up here today. a lot of ships in the area. we're very confident that if something is on the surface, our airline will find it. >> kevin mcevoy from the royal new zealand air force, good luck to you and all of the men and women that are p

priority. in san jose we know the come by nation of more calls an fewer officers created problems.hat's why tonight we investigate. [ phone ringing ] >> hello. san jose emergency. >> it's a call that comes in roughly 100 times a week. 5,000 times a year. >> we have been robbed. >> taxpayers asking for service from the police department they fund. >> there's a brick that somebody threw through my kitchen window. >> reporter: in what was once the so-called safest city in the country. >> i walked in the house and just looked over that way and i saw that my tv was missing. >> reporter: back in february, burglars broke in to chris hen hennessy's home in south san jose. >> i looked over here and there was glass everywhere. >> reporter: he dialed 911, calling for help. >> is there anybody inside that should not be now? >> i don't know that. i was in there about five seconds. >> he knew someone entered his home and took some of his valuables. he wondered if they were still on the property. >> all right, chris. we will get out as soon as we can for you. >> reporter: how long did it take? >>

the other party with national ambitions is the priority bjp, hindu nationalist, headed by a ranker roadie, the chief minister of one of india's most dynamic state. bodie is a guy with a lot of package. good package has done a very good job in developing the home state of gujarat. he is a decisive guy. the bad packages is also an autocratic guy. he comes out of the partisan line part of the bjp and most importantly, he was chief minister at the time of ethnic riots in gujarat 12 years ago, which left over a thousand people dead here at the own the court case that was ever brought him on those charges was dismissed for insufficient evidence to convict. moe dee is the darling of the business community now, which mostly tells you a lot about how far congress has fallen. there is a third possible outcome, which is actually in my judgment more likely. the third possible outcome is there might be a rickety coalition of regional parties. india has a number of parties represented in only one or at the most two states. which basically run on local issues and if the bjp doesn't get enough seats to p