darity's share was more than ten million dollars when c.r.bard paid more than forty eight million dollars to settle the case. >> there's a self interest in this, if you're successful, this suit is successful, you get a chunk of money out of this, you're not doing this out of pure altruistimotives. >> my primary motivation for this was full vindication. yes, i was compensated, but i worked very hard for the american people, who recovered almost $40 million dollars, then they got all my tax money, which was significant, my lawyers got a nice big chunk of it, and i got what was left. >> reporter: did you get rich off this? >> we're comfortable off of this, but we're living in the same home we lived in for almost eighteen years, i'm still driving my honda civic hybrid, it's a 2005 model, no maserati in my garage. >> reporter: darity's now working for the social security administration helping people appeal disability claims. even though the false claims act worked out for her, a rmer deputy attorney general ss it needs reforming. >> what often fo

the alternative to this bill is a short-term c.r. or a c.r. -- a couple of short-term c.r.'s for the whole year, and i think that is an unacceptable way to do business. and it would cost jobs and hurt our economy in new mexico. new mexico's labs and bases need certainty in their critical jobs to keep our nation safe. communities in my home state rely on funding through the payment in lieu of taxes program to provide basic services like schools and public i service. and i know chairwoman mikulski understands the pilt program, has worked hard to make sure that pilt is funded in this bill and it's greatly appreciated in the rural parts of the west. let me say again, continuing resolutions are descreptive. they're inefficient. they lock in place programs that prevent us from evaluating what is working and what isn't and keep us from rooting out wasteful spending. by trying to move a huge omnibus bill at the end of the year -- by trying to move this at the end of the year is forward from ideal. there was a time not long ago when having to pass an omnibus bill was a sign that work

i rise because i frankly think that pursuing c.r.'s, continuing resolutions, on a continuing basis is harmful to our economy, harmful to the growth in jobs, harmful to our national security and i regret, i regret that the homeland security bill has not been included for a year as well. we undermined national security by that limitation. but nevertheless in a world of alternatives i have concluded that it is better for us to cromnibus as it is referred to than it is to defeat it. so i urge my members to vote for this cromnibus tonight. and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentlelady from new york. mrs. lowey: mr. speaker, may i ask how much time is remaining? the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from new york has three minutes remaining. and the gentleman from kentucky as four minutes remaining. mrs. lowey: mr. speaker, i am very pleased to yield one minute to mr. farr, the gentleman from california, a distinguished ranking member of the committee. t

the short-term c.r. creates uncertainty and will limit the department's ability to make important decisions on procurements, hiring and a new initial -- and any initiatives we all support. i ask unanimous consent to enter into the record a letter from secretary johnson outlining the problems with funding the department through a c.r. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, it will be part of the record. mrs. lowey: my colleague, david price, the ranking member of the homeland security appropriations subcommittee, was unsuccessful in his attempt at the rules committee to restore full-year funding through this bill. i offered an amendment to strike two very controversial provisions. e, to strike a rider for swaps under the dodd-frank law. the other to strike a provision raising contribution limits to political parties. these provisions are divisive and unnecessary. they should be removed. the 11 other spending bills included in this package are a mix of wins and losses. i was very pleased that most of

not another c.r. for a couple of months. i cannot continue to fund our enhanced detention capability in texas with another c.r. that gets me to march. i need the help of congress to support and build upon border security, which i believe all of you support. so, i'm urging that we act on our current appropriations request now for the -- for the purpose and for the sake of border security and homeland security. >> thank you, mr. secretary, for those direct answers. i yield back. >> chair recognizes miss miller from michigan. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. good morning, mr. secretary. appreciate your attendance here this morning. obviously there is a huge divide, certainly in congress, and i think out there in the heartland, as well, about whether or not this is a constitutional overreach by the president. and just listening to your testimony, and i read through your testimony last night, and hearing you answer some of the questions, you obviously had a very, heavy, heavy, heavy reliance on the olc's opinion, the 33-page

not another c.r. for a couple of months. i cannot continue to fund our enhanced detention capability in texas with another c.r. that gets me to march. i need the help of congress to support and build upon border security, which i believe all of you support. so, i'm urging that we act on our current appropriations request now for the -- for the purpose and for the sake of border security and homeland security. >> thank you, mr. secretary, for those direct answers. i yield back. >> chair recognizes miss miller from michigan. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. good morning, mr. secretary. appreciate your attendance here this morning. obviously there is a huge divide, certainly in congress, and i think out there in the heartland, as well, about whether or not this is a constitutional overreach by the president. and just listening to your testimony, and i read through your testimony last night, and hearing you answer some of the questions, you obviously had a very, heavy, heavy, heavy reliance on the olc's opinion, the 33-page

not another c.r. for a couple of months. i cannot continue to fund our enhanced detention capability in texas with another c.r. that gets me to march. i need the help of congress to support and build upon border security, which i believe all of you support. so, i'm urging that we act on our current appropriations andest now for the purpose the sake of border security and homeland security. >> thank you, mr. secretary, for those direct answers. i yield back. >> the chair recognizes ms. miller from michigan. >> thank you very much. good morning, mr. secretary. appreciate your attendance here this morning. obviously there is a huge divide, certainly in congress, and i think out there in the heartland, as well, about whether or not this is a constitutional overreach by the president. and just listening to your testimony, and i read through your testimony last night, and hearing you answer some of the questions, you obviously had a very, heavy, heavy, heavy reliance on the olc's opinion, the 33-page opinion that they issued in he

we cannot engage in new start while we are operating under a c.r. i cannot pay for less summer's surge of resources to deal with the spike in migration in south texas last summer. there's still a bill for that. we asked for a supplemental. we have not received support from congress. that bill gates to be paid and we need to pay for sustaining those resources going forward, at the new detention facility we opened this week. we cannot pay for new investment in border security technology until we have an appropriations bill, and we cannot find a majority of dhs non-disaster grants until we have an appropriations bill. and there are a number of other respects in which we are on in terms of some of our very important homeland security initiatives. it is key we get one. the good news front, a year ago there were a number of vacancies in the department of homeland security in senior-level position. we now have including myself over the last 12 months, thanks to the hard work of the white house, the senate, 13 senate -confirmed presidential appointments to

it includes a continuing resolution, a c.r. >> what they're looking for is practical governance and willingness to compromise. that's what this bill will do. >> others criticize the concessions made to get the bill passed in time for the deadline. >> this is not about partisanship. this is about fairness. this is about accountability and responsibility. this is about preventing another financial collapse that could again wipe out millions of jobs and take down our whole economy. >> senator elizabeth warren of massachusetts is particularly upset over the loosening of bank regulations born out of the 2008 financial crisis in the form of the dodd-frank laws. but other so-called policy pork can include relaxing rules on campaign financing, exponentially increasing the amounts individuals can give to financial parties. $5.4billion for u.s. embassy security worldwide, including new money to implement recommendations from the bengahzi accountability review board. the department of homeland security will only get funding until february. an amendment that could be seen to challenge president barack obam

that latest c.r. could be approved by the senate either today or tomorrow and be delivered to the white house for the president to sign before saturday night's deadline. the president spoke about the $1 trillion federal spending bill today during a meeting on ebola at the white house. here is what he had to say. >> let me say a few words about the bill passed last night to keep the government open and make sure our agencies are funded until the fall of next year. this by definition was a compromised bill. this is what is produced when you have the divided government that the american people voted for. there are a bunch of provisions in this bill that i really do not like. on the other hand, there are provisions in this bill and the basic funding in this bill that allows us to continue on the progress in providing health insurance to all americans, to make sure that we continue with our evidence to combat climate change, that we're able to expand early childhood education that is making a meaningful di

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the short-term c.r. creates uncertainty and will limit the department's ability to make important decisions on procurements, hiring and a new initial -- and any initiatives we all support. i ask unanimous consent to enter into the record a letter from secretary johnson outlining the problems with funding the department through a c.r. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, it will be part of the record. mrs. lowey: my colleague, david price, the ranking member of the homeland security appropriations subcommittee, was unsuccessful in his attempt at the rules committee to restore full-year funding through this bill. i offered an amendment to strike two very controversial provisions. e, to strike a rider for swaps under the dodd-frank law. the other to strike a provision raising contribution limits to political parties. these provisions are divisive and unnecessary. they should be removed. the 11 other spending bills included in this package are a mix of wins and losses. i was very pleased that most of

one to you passed a two-day c.r.? to. hope we don't have question (.e >> i've had conversations with the congresswoman that district. the and i'm opposed to what the house is trying to do. there, it'sit in going to be hard to take it out. one last question. tria, i don't think it's going in the omnibus. okay, thanks, everybody. john kerryy of state was asked about the senate report on c.i.a. interrogations senate hearing. secretary kerry testified tuesday about the use of force against the militant group, isis, that's next on c-span. this morning's "washington journal" we'll talk more about the c.i.a. interrogation report, calls, facebook comments and tweets. "washington journal" is live at 7:00 eastern. >> this week on q and a, bresnahanraju and share sores about being on the campaign trail with senator mcconnell. >> he had planned for four years this campaign. this started in 2010, right after he saw what happened in the republican primary for rand paul, the kentucky republican senator. rand paul beat mcconnells hand an

the c.r. would be a short-term homeland security.acicallyhat he said realizing we have six or seven legislative days left this year probably the best we could get. encouraged by what he said on both of those. >> jim carol? itso have both of you here is tempting to spend the whole hour talking about your majority ands minority leaders and you could write a book about it and in you have.of thinking ahead to how mitch mcconnell is going to go vern, we don't know yet, but he says he wants to find common ground. advice oned for your becoming majority leader and what that is like? shouldond of all, what be his takeaway -- if you haven't talked to him what you give to him? >> i haven't talked to him since he attained the new position but obviously had hundreds of conversations with him over many years about this. i'm encouraged that one of his clay.eros is henry henry clay has always by iconic as a great compromiser, somebody who could bring sides together and if that is mitch in modern times, i'm encouraged by that. would also go back to h

but this bill is so much better than a short-term c.r.it would have been -- when i mean short term, i mean three months. over and over again, threatening the government to shut down, especially at about the same time we have to raise the debt ceiling again. so i want to end by saying this would never, ever have happened about -- unless we had had the good work -- i'm sorry. let me say this would never have happened but for barbara mikulski. tomorrow should be a very interesting day. with a little bit of good fortune, we could complete the spending for the country for a fiscal year that's fast upon us, we could finish the defense bill and then look to doing the tax extenders and completing the work on tria, whatever that might be, and from that point forward, we would work on nominations and be out of here fairly quickly, but everyone's going to have to work together to get this done. ms. mikulski: thank you very much, leader reid, for your very kind words and your support and assistant -- oh, ahmadinejad? the presiding officer: the senato

no long-term c.r." third last night, "our entire constitutional structure is at stake. the new obama power grab is the greatest threat to freedom since king george iii." close quote. newt gingrich. i'm telling you, this is not a little bitty matter, and we have to fully understand the nature of what's happening here. congress refused to pass what the president is enacting right now by executive order, and he has no power to do it. he should not be doing it, he may well be stopped by lawsuits in years to come, but congress has the power to stop it now. we don't have to allow money to be spent in arlington, crystal city, virginia. to hire a thousand people to process these applications. now, how are things going in our immigration system today? i wish i could report better circumstances than we have. the situation is grave, even before this action. may 20, last year, national citizenship and immigration services council president representing thousands of uscis workers issued this statement. colleagues, we need to know what's happening. it's unbelievable really, but this

we would receive a vote on a spending limitation amendment that we could have in connection with the c.r. omnibus when we reconvene. mr. reid: -- the presiding officer: mr. leader? mr. reid: i am unable to do that. mr. lee: i object. the presiding officer: objection is heard. ii.u.d. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that when the senate complete by the business today it adjourn until 12:00 noon tomorrow, december 13. following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the journal of proceedings be approved to date, and the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day. following any leader remarks, the senate resume consideration of the motion to concur in the house amendmen amendment to thee amendment h.r. 83. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. so ordered. mr. reid: madam president, let me just say that i understand the sincerity of my friend infrastructure utah. -- the sincerity of my friend from utah. so my -- i'm unable to agree with him, but it doesn't take away from the sincerity of his q mr. president -- madam pres

well, we still have people that are saying, though, you know, in a c.r., in an omnibus, we really can't put restrictions on the federal government in there and yet here's a report regarding the last omnibus highlights where there were 17 different restrictions on agencies' use of fees in the last fiscal year. and this was done with the help of the congressional research service. the review previous spending omnibus and senator jeff sessions, dear friend, great guy, he's been able to identify 17 separate restrictions. one was in section 543 on the united states citizenship and immigration service that said notwithstanding section 1356-n of title 8, u.s. code, of the funds deposited in the immigration examination' fee account $7,500,000 may be allocated by immigration services for the purpose of providing an immigrant integration grants program. and there's one for the department of agriculture, department of justice, transportation security administration, nuclear regulatory commission, federal communications commission, securities and exchange commission, transportation security adminis

we can write language in the next appropriation bill and it should be a very short c.r. that gets us into next year and that language must shut off the funding to the president's lawless act that he committed and knew what he was doing. we need to do it now. it's a matter of principle. you don't get to decide when you're called upon to keep your oath of office. you don't get to decide there's going to be another time, a better time. if we vote to fund the president's lawlessness, mr. speaker, if we do that, we don't get our virtue back in january, february, march -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. king: so with that i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. members are reminded to refrain from engaging in personalities towards -- personalities towards the president. for what purpose does the gentleman seek recognition? mr. king: mr. speaker, i move the house do now adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to adjourn. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the a

we need a short-term c.r. to get us into the first of the year. and we need, for example, the house has defunded ourselves over about a four-year period by over 20%. we cut our own budgets over 20%. nobody noticed, nobody cared except those of us in the house. we had to make real adjustments. well, if we can make those adjustments, i think the white house ought to be able to make those adjustments. maybe they can do with a few less czars, maybe we defund all the czars. but there are smart ways to defund the waste, fraud and abuse in the executive branch and i don't think it's a good idea to start with homeland security. and at the same time what happens when those folks are able to save millions of dollars, who are employers that hire the five million people that have just been given am nest j? what happens to them -- amnesty? what happens to them? they're going to make more money than ever and that's during a president's administration who has presided for the first time in our history over a nation where 95% of all the income's gone to the top 1

that's a short-term c.r., continuing resolution. when it comes to national security, it's not a responsible thing to do. but against let's look at the full package. i'm not saying anyone of them is a dealbreaker but i'm saying these are an array of concerns that we have. clean air, good food standards can workplace safety, fairness to the district of columbia, how for top dollar, topline dollar is allocated within the legislation. and as i said i have -- yesterday i had confidence in our ranking member in the negotiations she brings device of our caucus to the table, but we even shouldn't be talking about that many of the same because they don't belong on an appropriations bill. the structure of the bill is meant to be seen, let's see what -- i think they have a sense of responsibility about our national security and hopefully this short-term extension will not be as harmful as it could be. but we don't know because we have not seen the language. >> do you feel like it most of the cards a? >> it's not a question of the. they have th

talk about a c.r. for three months should scare everyone. so, mr. president, we're not there. we're going to have a bill that funds this government for the next fiscal year. we can be satisfied that we left our priorities better funded and more security and our government on more sound foundation than when this congress began. mr. president, i'm going to take just a minute. time is running out, to talk about a couple of senators. i rise to honor senator mark pryor of arkansas upon his departure from this institution. i've been in the senate for 28 years and worked for senator pryor for 22 of those years. i first worked with his dad david pryor. david pryor left this institution because he had quite a significant heart attack. what a fine senator. i've said and i'll say again, the best legislator i ever served with in my experience in the state of nevada legislature or here. david pryor. he was really very, very good. but six years after david left, mark came. what a good legislator he is. he's just such a fine person. but it's no surprise to me that he followed in his dad's fo

now, if you follow the lead of the senator from massachusetts and bring this bill down and do a c.r., which is the worst possible way to run the government, i'll tell you what comes your way -- it's what came our way -- people are not going to believe you're mature enough to run the place. 70% of the democrats in the house voted against this bill and three out of four republicans voted to get it over here. a level of maturity and judgment i haven't seen in my party in whitquite awhile. speaker boehner and your team, well done. to the 70% of the democrats, i'm sure on msnbc you're going to be well thought of and on the liberal version of talk radio you're a hero and you'll have your moment with that crowd. i can promise you this. there are people on our side that are having their moment on other channels. but one-third of the almost democratic party resisted that temptation and i know how they feel. some of them will get a primary. i had six primary opponents. i am glad i did not follow the lead of people who were trying to get me to shut down the government because i felt i was wronge

. >> the short-term c.r. for the department. i'm wondering if the white house holds similarly strong views and disease that rise to the level of it -- and does that rise to the level of it being enough for the whole package -- [inaudible] -- on homeland security. >> this is one of the benefits of cabinet secretaries testifying before congress. they can make sure the members of congress are acutely aware of the concerns that they may have, the steps that congress may be considering. there are a wide variety of proposals being bantied about by republicans and democrats on the hill. i know this is a proposal that many house republicans are pretty focused on today. so it is our view that congress should fulfill their responsibility to pass a full-year budget for the full federal government. there are some proposals that are being considered that would stop short of that. and we'll consider these proposals when -- if and when they're passed by either the house or the senate or both. but weble that it's important for congress to -- we

host: for viewers who are tuning into this, it might be helpful to explain what a c.r. is and what an omnibus is. guest: it's a combination of continuation resolution and appropriations. the achievement here is that the appropriations committee in both houses ha pursuant to this budget agreement, this ryan murray budget agreement have written in a cooperative fashion appropriations bill. with some of the domestic bills, the numbers are so low that it's hard to write good bills. and so we're really not doing ourselves any favors in the areas of health research and so on. but still, you do have appropriations bills that are better, i think, almost uniformly. and putting the government on automatic pilot. and that's what a continuum bill is. you enact a continuum resolution. it means you don't shut things down but you don't make nuances that you make in an appropriations bill. host: as we've seen in headline this morning, this g.o.p. proposal to fund most to the government through september of 2015, except for d.h.s. has hit a snag as the headline in "the washington post"

trajectory of things and are you more confident than you were, let's say, thursday or friday, about the c.r. being resolved narge nationally if not all on your terms and the national defense authorization act, getting done by the end of this week in terms that may not be perfect but acceptable? >> i can tell you i have in the grand scale of things have not worked at the white house that long but i've worked here long enough to know that i shouldn't be making predictions about the outcome of the legislative process. >> there was a lot of conversations going back and forth. [inaudible] >> i guess what i would tell you, you would have a better sense of that than i would based on the conversations that you have with members of congress and their staff. what i can tell you is we've been really clear about how we believe those processes should be resolved, but i'm not going to predict how they're going to be resolved. >> ok. one last thing. can you tell us why antonio weiss is the best nominee for this position at the department f trishry, undersecretary of finance. -- treasury, undersecretary of

discussions about what form that bill will take, whether it will be an omnibus, whether it will be a c.r., a continuing resolution, whether it will be a combination of those two. there is concern on our side of the aisle, mr. pryce, who is ranking member on the homeland security committee, is very concerned that some of the security needs of the country will be put, if not at risk, in doubt if there is a short-term unding of that part of the 1/12 of the appropriation bills. does the gentleman know whether or not we're going to have an omnibus, which will cover all 12 of the appropriation bills and departments or whether or not it may be a combination of some shorter term funding and longer term funding, and i yield to my friend? mr. mccarthy: i thank my friend for yielding. as my friend knows that negotiations are ongoing between the appropriations, the house and the senate. as soon a conclusion of those negotiations are done, we'll notify everyone and post what comes out. and i yield back. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman for his information. i had a brief discussion with mr. rogers wit

host: for viewers who are tuning into this, it might be helpful to explain what a c.r. is and what an omnibus is. guest: it's a combination of continuation resolution and appropriations. the achievement here is that the appropriations committee in both houses ha pursuant to this budget agreement, this ryan murray budget agreement have written in a cooperative fashion appropriations bill. with some of the domestic bills, the numbers are so low that it's hard to write good bills. and so we're really not doing ourselves any favors in the areas of health research and so on. but still, you do have appropriations bills that are better, i think, almost uniformly. and putting the government on automatic pilot. and that's what a continuum bill is. you enact a continuum resolution. it means you don't shut things down but you don't make nuances that you make in an appropriations bill. host: as we've seen in headline this morning, this g.o.p. proposal to fund most to the government through september of 2015, except for d.h.s. has hit a snag as the headline in "the washington post"