bill: bill: to 1993. president bush 41,: powell colin powell. learned about how to think and act strategically. charlie: what did you learn? bill: a lot of the things we have been talking about. how to seize moments. baker, after putting a great deal of effort in developing a coalition helped achieve victory in desert storm. he saw the moment to move ahead to the madrid peace conference and make progress on the arab-israeli issue. in houston, he has a wall filled with cartoons. all of which were deeply skeptical about the first eight of the nine trips we took to the middle east. persistence was really important. charlie: he spoke about this idea, looking at syria. he said, no. we are not getting the coalition. bill: and baker, i admire the way he narrowed down people's choices and stripped away the arguments. he did it with assad, prime minister shamir, the palestinians. he was able to produce something in madrid that few people thought possible when he made the first of those nine trips. i thought it was really admirable. charlie: he also had o

bill: i think it has. large parts of the non-shia population felt alienated and i think the new government is making a serious effort to be more inclusive. it will be absolutely essential. if there is to be enduring success against isis. charlie: the egyptian foreign minister said -- if all else fails, we have to stop isis and we should be prepared to provide troops in that effort. our coalition partners prepared to do that because isis is that kind of emergency? bill: once they are trained and equipped, there is the potential to roll back. it is a much bigger challenge. i think it will be important to look to other coalition partners as well as turkey to see what kind of contributions they can make over time. charlie: what about not being stopped? bill: i think they recognize the threat. it is an encouraging sign and i think it will require that kind of sustained coalition to succeed. charlie: it comes down to the ground troops, doesn't it? and in iraq, you have the iraqi army. susan rice was here recentl

bill's brother, jim, went to the house just hours of bill's body had been removed. >> i'd been told that had killed himself in his bedroom, which was up a set of stairs. and as i got closer and closer, i started hearing music and people laughing and stuff up in the bedroom. and i was taken by that. and about that moment, susie popped out in front of me. and my first words to her were, "what's going on?" and she said, "we're having a painting party." and i was dumbfounded. >> having a party at this point is rather inappropriate. considering -- >> everything had been taken out of the room. all the furniture, even the carpet was gone. but for police the unusual position of bill mowbray's body provided clear indications of foul play. when a high-powdered gun is fired at close range into someone's head, it creates what is called blowback. basically, the force of the blast blows brain and blood matter back onto the hand and arm of the shooter. bill mowbray would have had to shoot himself with his right hand, since his left hand clearly contained an exit wound. but his right hand was lying at h

people don't know what clean bill is. i mean is there a dirty bill? is there a dusty bill? is there a muddy bill? no. what we're talking about is meaning no riders on the bill and in this case, no poison pill -- no poison pill riders. there was no disagreement finally because of the excellent bipartisan work on the funding of the bill. but the senate is locked in a game of parliamentary ping pong on moving this legislation forward where the losers are the american people. look at what's going on in our country right now. we are absolutely relying on homeland security from some of the biggest challenges not facing in the abstract but facing us right now. there is the terrorists and there's cold weather and there's other issues. right now in my chesapeake bay there's a coast guard cutter called chock. it's out there breaking the maryland icy conditions frigid and wyden -- windy and is it they'ring to? this enables commerce to get up and down the bay so people are working and getting important supplies. they even work because the bay is in both maryland and virginia they went

>> hi bill.perts say as long as there's a human component, there will always be a level of unpredictability. despite the sight of an oncoming train with horns, bells and closing gates, many drivers try to push their luck and beat the locomotive. safety experts continue to work on things like high definition camera recording systems and even audio warning systems which would come over a car's radio to give drivers a heads up. the president of the railroad safety equipment manufacturer says the only sure fire way to prevent a crash like yesterday in california or the one like new york earlier is to prevent drivers from coming into contact with rails in the first place. >> from the industry's perspective, best crossing is no crossing at all so we close the road or we have a bridge over or an underpass. >> while he acknowledges that's an impractical solution, he said every crossing is different and requires its own engineered solution to be able to come up with the best possible scenario to allow dri

not our bill, but a compromise bill, a republican reported bill in december conferenced -- conference may overstate it because it was the four leaders, republicans and democrats meeting and they brought out of that meeting to this floor a homeland security bill that could pass overwhelmingly. every day that we delay puts us closer to the february 27 deadline that was set in december. for the funding of this bill. taken out of the omnibus appropriations bill that we passed put on a short-term leash. putting our homeland security at risk. mr. speaker, mr. majority leader, i would ask you is there any plan at some point in time to say we are not going to snatch defeat from the jaws of compromise? i tell the leader, and the leader knows the leader's very astute, understands this body very well, and knows full well that the underlying bill has consensus. if there's anything that is frustrating the american people it is that when we have something that we agree upon that we turn it into something that we can't agree on. i would yield to my friend, mr. speaker, for the purposes of telling me

i'm not blocking the bill. we want to go on the bill. we want to be able to amend the bill to keep america safe. and who's blocking it? it's my democratic colleagues. senator durbin is the leader of the blocking gang. he's the feighansive the offensive line. the center, i guess. he goes on to say "there's nothing wrong with a debate over immigration policy. in account far the republicans now in the majority control the house and senate, could have started the debate weeks ago. they didn't." look we debated senator durbin's vision. it was rejected by congress, his ideas. many supported the bill in this body. didn't come back this fall, in part because of their actions on immigration. president obama had the choice to go from state to state trying to elect people to pass his immigration bill but he either didn't do it or it didn't work. the american people do not want this kind of legislation. and my friends senator durbin, said further "indeed they attached five riders to the department of homeland security appropriations bill and they sa

people don't know what a clean bill is. i mean is there a dirty bill? a dusty bill? is there a muddy bill? no. what we are talking about is meaning no writers on the bill and in this case no poison bill writers. there was no disagreement finally because of the extra bipartisan work on the funding of the bill. but the senate is locked in a game of parliamentary ping-pong on moving this legislation forward where the loseersrs are the american people. look at what is going on in our county right now. we are absolutely relying on homeland security from some thof biggest challenges not facing the abstract but facing us now. there is the terrorist, cold weather and other issues. in my chesapeake bay right now there is a cutter called shock. it is out there breaking the maryland icy conditions. frigid and windy. and what is it they are doing? it enables commerce to get up and down the bay so people are working and they even work because the bay in maryland and virginia they went out to the famous panegyr island to free residents that were iced in and take food and fuel. the

floreal will check in. >> bill: we talked earlier today. >> [buzzer]. >> bill: [inaudible].hey demand excellence and get it. they won it in 1978 in saint louis. >> kevin: he is always here. >> bill: yes. jimmy sparnarkle one of our associates. joe-b. we spent a few evenings together. [laughing]. >> kevin: that catches no one by surprise. keaton miles is in. the junior from dallas. transfer from west virginia. out of bounds it goes. kentucky. they have not trailed for the last 143 minutes going back to their february 17th game against tennessee. >> bill: you have it all! >> [cheers and applause]. >> kevin: 8.3. >> bill: he calls a timeout. >> kevin: bill we are 2 weeks and a day away from selection sunday. >> bill: unbelievable. what a great evening that is. some cases absolute joy. >> kevin: we want to thank all of the people in our truck for a terrific day here in lexington. that's a shot outside. >> [buzzer]. >> kevin: that will do it. kentucky has won its 29th consecutive game. they go to 16 and 0 in the conference. they win the conference championship upright. leading by

the senate passed a clean bill that would fund the homeland security bill. we will be talking your phone calls. and join us on the line. >> joining on the line is with "the hill." . and what can you tell us about how this three-week extension failed and what it means going on moving forward? >> well, in the end, 51 house republicans voted against this three-week extension of department of homeland security funding. and only 12 democrats voted in favor of it. and there was too much of a deficit for the bill to still pass and the deficit was so wide, no way leadership could have twisted a few arms on the house floor to save it. it is complete chaos as no one knows what's next. and the deadline is less than six hours away. >> what do you know or what have you heard about the possibilities of the senate bill that passed earlier? what action could the house take? is that a possible way out? >> well, complicating matters is earlier this afternoon, the house voted on a motion to go to conference with the senate on that clean d.h.s. funding bill that doesn't have la

>> guest: no, there's one bill right now that is the house bill, the $39 billion bill that also has the immigration riders. the question will be whether the senate strips any of those immigration riders out but they can't even get onto the bill right now because democrats are preventing debates from even happening on the floor. >> host: back to politico's piece on in this morning, they write pushing for a continuing resolution for dhsing would bring howls from the right postpone the immigration showdown for only a couple of weeks or months and would most likely fail in the house. speak more about the conservatives and how mr. mcconnell, mr. boehner on their respective sides might get them to ultimately approve something that doesn't include immigration? how will it happen? >> guest: you know one of the ways it could potentially happen is if leadership decides to try to convince the right wing and the rank and file that the better way to fight this is through the courts. remember, we saw this texas district judge last week rule that the president moved unlawfully by taking these 2014 exe

i haven't seen a bill work more intensely than the immigration bill. i haven't seen the border security work more intensely than republicans and democrats working together to make sure that we had a homeland security that would secure our borders. that's the first time i really saw the senate work, if you will since i've been here, and saw what the potential would be if we work together. and i was very excited about that and i thought for sure we would get a vote, and now we're back to the same, putting together who's for what and how we're going to posture on this one. but i just believe -- and i've said this. i believe that this is not the place and this is not the bill for us to get into political squabble. i really don't. i know the house put us in a difficult position. it came over here, had to be voted on. it was. and now we've got to get on to the serious business, how do we take care to make sure that our department of homeland security has the necessary funding through an appropriations bill that both democrats and republicans worked on. not,

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i said no we're done with the bill. this is the end of this bill. and at that stage i called them and this is where things moved so rapidly. i called david brockway, who was then the chief of the joint tax committee said give me three bills, 25, 26, 27 percent. he says 25% you'll have to get rid of mortgage interest. and bill i remember you saying how much trouble mortgage interest on your bill. so i asked him what about 26%? that's friday. the following tuesday he comes and he gives me three, not bills. they weren't bill form but three plans as to how you could get 25%, 26%, 27%. and i looked at them and then i was delayed for 2 1/2 days because at this stage, up came fast track for the canadian free trade agreement. it's one of those things where the president can't move unless you give him fast track authority, and there was a deadline. if congress had not acted by this is tuesday, the next wednesday at midnight, he got it. the house had not acted. fell on our side to take care of it. i thought it was a slam dunk. i was sure we were there. turns

the bill? and we're all sitting in seattle. so everyone making airplane reservations. and we call the white house and said he can't just sign the bill. this has to be a public ceremony. and we'll all fly out and we'll get everyone there. so they said, okay, we'll make it a signing ceremony. and they said we'll do it at 11:00 in the morning. so everyone was flying -- just racing around trying to get reservations on the airplane to get from seattle washington to washington, d.c. everyone on the red eye and we all get to the white house and we're all bleary-eyed and we're all there watching the ceremony that president reagan signed the bill. there's a picture of the president signing the bill. i said hey, pat, look at that signature there. that was my signature on the bill as speaker protestimony on what they call the redline copy of the bill that the president signs because president pro tem of the u.s. senate, me as speaker pro tem of the u.s. house and president reagan signing the bill. and the

i said no we're done with the bill. this is the end of this bill. and at that stage i called them and this is where things moved so rapidly. i called david brockway, who was then the chief of the joint tax committee said give me three bills, 25 26, 27 percent. he says 25% you'll have to get rid of mortgage interest. and bill i remember you saying how much trouble mortgage interest on your bill. so i asked him what about 26%? that's friday. the following tuesday he comes and he gives me three, not bills. they weren't bill form but three plans as to how you could get 25%, 26%, 27%. and i looked at them and then i was delayed for 2 1/2 days, because at this stage up came fast track for the canadian free trade agreement. it's one of those things where the president can't move unless you give him fast track authority, and there was a deadline. if congress had not acted by, this is tuesday, the next wednesday at midnight, he got it. the house had not acted. fell on our side to take care of it. i thought it was a slam dunk. i was sure we were there. turns

rogers bill. the republicans pledged to not mingle controversial issues and allow each issue to stand on its own merits or demerits. that was their pledge to america in 2010. this action is inconsistent with that pledge. the senate has just voted of madam speaker 68-31 to pass the rogers-mikulski -- ranking member on the republican side of the senate -- shelby bill. this is not a partisan bill we are talking about. this is the bill we have agreed upon republicans and democrats, and we cannot even pass that. with a knowledge that if we do not, the future funding of america's homeland security will still be in question. yes, we could do it for three weeks. i call it the cold a sec -- cul de sac strategy. going in there over and over again and feeling somehow the pathway will open. the senate is now voting on the collins amendment. as i understand the strategy of the republican party in the house, it is to add the bill that has been rejected of four times on the floor of the united states senate. it

this bill, we were accepting the senate bill, yes, they finally passed this bill. let's pass this bill this afternoon. let's send it to the president. let's hope that he might reconsider a proposed veto on this bill and let's deal with shoot and let's get it done. there's a reason why better than 65% of americans support this. they understand it. they understand supply and demand. we want gas prices to stay stable, we know that this oil that we get from canada will displace oil coming either from the middle east or from venezuela. why is that not a good thing? . where house speaker john boehner slide -- john boehner signed a legislation. the bill is not expected to be sent to the white house for another week. that is according to a top republican aide. the reported reason is so president obama can not to veto the bill while congress is in resort -- in recess. he will have 10 days to sign it or issue a veto. we will show you the signing ceremony on capitol hill with speaker boehner and other lawmakers. >> in a few minutes i will sign senate bill one partisan legisla

bill: take us back to the beginning. what inspired you and how do you make the initial moves, what did you do first? mr. han: i do actually teach about the impact of technology like the internet or online social media on elections, politics, and democracy, and syracuse university, where i teach, you know, we had very historical project working with one north korean project supported by the american and korean governments and we actually were able to help them establish the digital library for the first time in north korean history. and when i ran the lecture series named after the korean ambassador who founded the korean embassy in 1948, i invited korean war veterans in syracuse and they brought their own pictures that they took. i was thinking how we can preserve this memory forever you know, there is a shortage of the spaces in the physical museum, but if we put it in the cyberspace, there's no limitations whatsoever for temporal and spatial limitations, no. i began to propose, then, why don't we build this cyber shrin

bill: i'm bill hemmer.t expected to come early as today and coalition forces pound isis targets in syria and iraq. when the request arrives will the president face a tough sell? lawmakers debate details. mike emanuel is there to listen for us. live on the hill. what are the details? good morning there? >> reporter: while we wait to see the formal request from the obama administration some top democrats expressed their concerns. house democratic leader nancy pelosi told reporters late last week there are concerns about the length of time for military authorization. geography, what countries would it allow u.s. forces to conduct military operations and the question of boots on the ground and enphrases like enduring combat. pelosi was hearing from her consultations three years may be a likely timetable but we are hearing from sources that consultation between the administration and members here on the hill are still ongoing bill. bill: what are republicans saying ahead of this request, mike? >> reporter: house

and our bill. but that just wasn't to take place because of the rush to judgment. i yield now three minutes to the gentlelady from ohio, the ranking member of the early childhood, elementary, and secondary education subcommittee, ms. fudge. the chair: the gentlelady is recognized. ms. fudge: thank you very much, thank you, mr. chairman. i strongly oppose h.r. 5 the student success act. the elementary and secondary education act reaffirmed the supreme court decision's in brown vs. board of education that every child has the right to an equal educational opportunity. h.r. 5 undermines the laws -- the law's original intent, turning back the clock on ex-- equity and accountability on american public education. as we commemorate the 50th anniversary of esca republicans have chosen to honor the anniversary by bringing a partisan bill to the house floor that tears apart the historic federal role in education. h.r. 5 should be known as the ensure students don't succeed act. the bill is a backward leap in o

fund homeland security efforts and then immediately the republican leader can call up a bill any bill he wants on immigration, and we will have that debate. unfortunately, what is happening is with terrorist threats all around us, republicans are willing to shut down homeland security. in west africa, they are hoping to inspire acts of terror against americans. we know what they have done. and yet here we're debating whether or not homeland security is going to be shut down. mr. president, in the months to come, we will need all of the hardworking men and women that work in every part of that agency to be on full speed to protect us. but unless republican colleagues are willing to support a spending bill and get that done right away we're going to see the department of homeland security management and headquarters stop functioning or some 30,000 employees will be flowgd people being asked -- furloughed, people being asked to work without pay. talk about jobs for people. in detroit alone i mean, we all over michigan get firefighter grants and right now the budget has already started. a

we don't need a bill. we need money to go to our police, our firefighters and the people protecting us especially during these times when security is at risk. >> a year year and a half ago the republicans shut the government down. the entire government down because they were holding the funding bills hostage to a political issue. they found out how that works for them not well. we need to do today what we did last time fund the government only this time it is a critical agency that protects every single american that they are holding hostage to a political issue. we are willing to debate political issues that we are not going to hold funding bills hostage to those issues like we did last time or this time were in the future. the issue is very simple. fully fund the department of homeland security and now it's up to speaker boehner to make sure that he does just what he did a year and a half ago, fund the department of homeland security. >> if the speaker says he can get the votes he will let the senate get

this bill does, and these two bills that i speak to this rule and in favor of these two bills we are going, h.r. 50 and h.r. 527 is actually controlling government. instead of letting it get in the way and put unnecessary or quicker burdens on those again we are simply saying, whoa there is a proper place. there is a proper place for regulation. there is a proper place for a government limited role that our founders made. however, when that role steps over and begins to not only burden business, but instead of the man or woman who wants to get up in the morning and chase a dream of starting a new business, as i once did, when we started the scrapbook store, just to get a little bit of money, we were able to to so. others who want to get a loan, they have to go through the bureaucratic red tape is that now keeping them from starting the small business jobs, that employ people on a day-to-day level we are simply saying, government it's time to take a breath. it's time to step back and see the impact that you are having. granted, some regulation is good. i'll give that to my democratic

the bill is here. it's passed in a strong bipartisan way in the snafment every house democrat has endorsed the bill. we'll vote it with other parliamentary options that are available to us. how much better as we come together as the senate republicans and democrats did come together to to support certainty in our security. otherwise, the question is, why , why not, why are you not taking advantage of this great opportunity? the courts saved you face. what happened in paris added to the urgency. the examples of people being picked up in our own country make matters worse. stop the drip drip drip of funds week to week. let's get the job done for the american people by doing it right, following the lead of the senate republicans and the nat democrats. i urge my colleagues to vote no on this legislation. i appreciate the concerns we all have about a shutdown of government. we can't let that happen. but this is not the way to go. with that, again, i commend congresswoman lowey, congresswoman roybal-allard,

funding bill. it will pass in a heartbeat. send it over here. we'll pass it. we'll turn to immigration and have it out on that subject. i think it's worthy of a debate. but you don't hold an important funding bill hostage to that debate. it is ridiculous unnecessary destructive and cruel. and with that, i would yield the floor and i would note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: quorum call: quorum call: quorum call: quorum call: mr. cardin: mr. president, i ask that the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. cardin: i rise today to celebrate the life of hair yet tubman and the establishment of the harriet tubman underground railroad national historical park. harriet tubman was an american hero who championed freedom most famously known as the leader of the underground railroad whose roots were on the eastern shore of maryland. harriet tubman was an iconic figure in our nation's history for who

funding bill, we have to be allowed to proceed to the bill. the truth, of course, is the delay is in fact coming from those who won't allow us to take up the bill, debate it and consider amendments and pass it. the presiding officer: the senator's three minutes have expired. mr. hoeven: with that, mr. president, at this point i would yield to my colleague. the presiding officer: the senator from new hampshire. mrs. shaheen: thank you very much mr. president. mr. president, in a few minutes the senate is going to cast yet another procedural vote on the department of homeland security's funding bill. the bill that's before us, the house-passed version of the funding bill, can't become law. we've already heard the president reaffirm yesterday that he's going to veto the house-passed bill that's before us. and that means that we could face a shutdown of the department of homeland security and, at this point given the threats from terrorism given the work that's done by the department of homeland security, that's just not a tenable position to be i

the bill? and we're all sitting in seattle. so everyone making airplane reservations. and we call the white house and said he can't just sign the bill. this has to be a public ceremony. and we'll all fly out and we'll get everyone there. so they said, okay, we'll make it a signing ceremony. and they said we'll do it at 11:00 in the morning. so everyone was flying -- just racing around trying to get reservations on the airplane to get from seattle washington to washington, d.c. everyone on the red eye and we all get to the white house and we're all bleary-eyed and we're all there watching the ceremony that president reagan signed the bill. there's a picture of the president signing the bill. i said hey, pat, look at that signature there. that was my signature on the bill as speaker protestimony on what they call the redline copy of the bill that the president signs because president pro tem of the u.s. senate, me as speaker pro tem of the u.s. house and president reagan signing the bill. and the

pass the bill. go sit down and do their job and get this comprehensive immigration bill and pass it so we can move on. because we've gotten mies out there. >> leroy may have been referring to the measure that passed in the senate 11th congress which was a bipartisan immigration bill that never came up for consideration in the 113th in the u.s. house. james who is in ohio on the republican line. >> yes, sir. i would like to know didn't we elect a republican senate? i know that we did. harry reid in a nuclear option where it could pass with 51 votes. why don't we republicans we put in office and do what harry reid did, go back to the 51 votes. also, why don't the republicans get something on board to get obama out of office? also it's one thing right after another with obama. one thing pops up, they try to take care of it. before that is fixed, something else pops up. you can't run a government like that. obama needs to be impeached. >> linda from the independent line in georgia. what do you think abo

and the bill after that and the bill after that and the bill after that.nd you then caused $600 billion in deficit spending that your kids and my kids will have to pay for because we're too old to be around long enough to pay for it. so i rise against this bill, not because i'm against fighting hunger. everybody ought to be against fighting hunger. mr. levin: i yield the gentleman an additional two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman has another two minutes. mr. hoyer: when you talk about hunger, don't cut food stamps by $40 billion. don't cut $125 from food stamps over the next 10 years as the chairman did. i disagree with that policy and i respect the chairman. i like the chairman. mr. kelly: if the gentleman will yield? mr. hoyer: no. mr. speaker, this is one of two bills that we're considering on the floor this week to make tax cuts permanent. and it's unfortunate that neither of these bills is paid for. one year or permanently. together they would increase the deficit by $93 billion. nobody's suggesting we're going to pay for that so our k

funding bill. that is chertoff, ridge napolitano all said former heads of d.h.s., two republicans, one democrat, it is quote, imperative that we ensure d.h.s. is ready willing, and able to protect the american people. to that end we urge you not to risk funding for the operations that protects every american and pass a clean d.h.s. funding bill. i think it's preposterous that republicans could even suggest that a lapse in d.h.s. funding men and women charged with protecting our homeland at a time when such vigilance is of the utmost necessity. do we need to bring up the three jihadists in new york city and brooklyn? and the continuing threat that the head of the f.b.i. tells us exists in every state of the union? and this is a time when we are discussing that we are not going to fund the men and women on the frontline at the department of homeland security? protecting our nation? this is no time for political trickery and manufactured crisis. this is a time to put america first t. the safety of ame

bill. bill: what happens to the plane now, alicia? for it. mel chrysler has since passed and his grandson, tim crowley, is trying to find a museum to take the plane. and there are plenty of museums that want it but it's going to take about $1.5 million to restore it. so now it sits in a field in the airport just outside of tucson. mel ended up using the plane for spare parts because the landing gear actually was bad, and it wasn't until he received a call from the smithsonian in 1980 that mel knew he had a piece of history. >> our atomic presence in the united states was formed during his administration, and the atoms for peace speech was written onboard this airplane. >> reporter: now bill, the plane has been in arizona for about a decade, and it will stay there unless someone helps pay for its restoration. bill: we'll figure out what happens then. alicia acuna cool. interesting story. patti ann? patti ann: two sets of airstrikes against isis targets in libya after the savage beheading of 21 christians. i am totally blind. i lost my

utility bills, still do. grocery bills, still got to eat. but paycheck sorry. yeah, it's true. if a crew of a ship faced trouble in washington state's water, the coast guard would still swing into action, but that crew wouldn't get paid for their work and some of their support staff might not be back at headquarters to help them. i've already heard from members of the coast guard, spouses of department employees and everyday citizens worried about how they will impact our communities and our national security because in my home state of washington there are more than 6,000 department workers and we have five coast guard stations alone in my region. shutdowns like this have ripple effects into our local economies too. when workers aren't getting paid or their pay is delayed sacrifices are made. less money spent at the grocery store, friday dinners night out stopped, family vacations canceled or delayed. impacts local restaurants, local hotels small businesses. we've seen this movie before. businesses everywhere took a hit when the customers they rely on aren't sure when exactly

she is a gifted bill manager. she worked hard to manage varying amendments and competing priorities. no matter how they voted, every senator owes senator michalski a debt of gratitude i proving a functioning senate was possible. a new majority is grateful for her work and many democrats are as well. one of them deserves a mention even though they didn't vote for keystone. we are certainly grateful for her as well. where we are, as others have indicated, we are hoping common sense will prevail and the president will sign this extraordinary jobs bill. >> when the president spoke during the state of the union address, he said the united states must aim higher than a single pipeline. under his policies domestic production has shut down on federal lands, yet has increased by 35% everywhere else. that has led to more money in the pockets of hard-working americans. the keystone pipeline would go through western south dakota. for those counties it would be a good shot in the arm. for many the property taxes would fund sch

bill: the u.s. government has not taken away passports and some of the european countries have. >> that's right. it was a big debate here last year and it sort of cooled off. i suspect it will cool off on what steps the government should take. the government has the atability to strip citizenship on a limited case-by-case basis. they say it's not necessarily feasible. and they say it could ruin their tools. when you find somebody, detect them you try to turn them and use them. they say doing that could harm their aability to get inside and fight back that way. bill: peter congress was holding hearings on this issue and a lot of people watches this thought he was wrong. >> the democrats on the committee asked him to cancel this set of hearings and muslim groups accused him of being discriminatory and raising this issue of muslim radicalization. here we are four years later. he was correct it's unclear if we paid more attention they can where we would be on this right now. it's probably true the islam

but to come up with bill after bill after bill, 56 times repeal repeal, it's getting old. it's getting boring. people are sick of this. and let me just remind my colleagues about what this bill has accomplished. just because this is no longer a theoretical abstract debate, these are some real things that have changed. the number of insured americans has dropped by -- uninsured americans has dropped by 10 million people. i think that's a good thing. i think most americans democrats and republicans, think that's a good thing. three million young adults have been able to gain coverage through a parent's plan. i think that's good. insurance companies can no longer discriminate on the basis of a so-called xisting condition, like, say, being a woman. i think that's a great thing. i'm sorry my colleagues have a problem with that. lifetime limits and caps on coverage have been eliminated. that's wonderful. seniors have saved more than $11 billion in prescription drugs, an average of $14.-- $1.400. we know this is a flaw in the doughnut hole. this is prevented. solvency of the medi

in order to pass the dhs funding bill, we have to be allowed to proceed to the bill. the truth, of course, is the delay is, in fact, coming from those who won't allow us to take up the bill debate it and consider amendments and pass -- >> senator's three minutes have expired. >> with that, mr. president, at this point i would yield to my colleague. >> senator from new hampshire. >> thank you very much, mr. president. mr. president in a few minutes the senate's going to cast yet another procedural vote on the department of homeland security's funding bill. the bill that's before us, the house-passed version of the funding bill, can't become law. we've already heard the president reaffirm yesterday that he's going to veto the house-passed bill that's before us. and that means that we could face a shutdown of the department of homeland security and at this point given the threats from terrorism given the work that's done by department of homeland security, that's just not a tenable position to be in. let me just say i very much appreciate the efforts of my colleague, my

bill has failed. to you go from here? the house is in recess now. what's plan "b"? >> the speaker has run out of excuses for not bringing that bipartisan senate bill that provides full funding for the department of homeland security not for one week not for two weeks, not for three weeks, but through the whole fiscal year. that bipartisan senate bill is right here in the house of representatives. all the speaker has to do is bring it up for a vote and it would pass tonight and it could go to the president's desk for the president's signature. >> why didn't he do it? why didn't he bring up that clean bill? >> he didn't do it because he wants to keep this uncertainty going with respect to the department of homeland security. he has a lot of members in the republican caucus who want to play games with the funding. he was catering to his most extreme wing. now that that didn't work and the funding expires at midnight all the speaker has to do -- very simple -- bring up that senate bill for a vote. we coul

bill. i'm sympathetic to that. but to take that position when we know that there are members of this body who take grave reservations in the constitutional overreach of the president, that's an abdication of the constitutional responsibility of this body. all or nothing is not legislating. signs are not legislating. press conferences are not legislating. legislating is reaching a compromise between two sides of the aisle with very different views of this. and i will tell you, this process has not gone how i would have wished it to go. but i know this. the nation is better and the congress is better when we have regular order and when we legislate the way the constitution has ordained. we cannot abdicate our constitutional authority to recognize that we have a bicameral bipartisan congress with a disagreement. and what we owe the united states constitution is the opportunity for us to find a compromise and so i'll ask you this. what if daca was removed from the d.h.s. bill the daca provisions. does that get us votes

bill: i'm bill hemmer.hours after the death we learn of the death of american aid worker kayla mueller and after murders of jordanian pilot and several western journalists. they will talk about what the is the most dangerous threat america faces since 9/11. con aggression correspondent mike emanuel is on the hill. good morning. what are lawmakers saying about the request from the white house? >> reporter: some top democrats are praising obama administration about the possible authorization of use of military force. there are concerns of no geographic limitation. adam schiff the top democrat on the house intelligence committee, he says the new authorization should put specific limits on use of ground troops that we do not authorize another major ground war before the president coming to congress to make the case for one. we heard from senate republican leader majority leader mitch mcconnell, about the president's request just moments ago. >> the senate will review the president's request thought fully. indiv

bill. every democrat has co-sponsored legislation to fully fund this department without trying to overreach and get through the appropriations process that which the majority is unwilling to do legislatively. if you were so interested in immigration policy, the majority would long ago have brought comprehensive immigration reform to the floor of the house. have we seen that? no. neither have we seen any legislation that the american people are really looking for, legislation that would put america back to work, build new infrastructure, create jobs in this country. this has gone on far too long. we've got to get this essential function of government fully funded and get back to the business that american people sent us to do. mr. speaker -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. kildee: i'd like to ask unanimous consent that the house bring up h.r. 861, the clean department of homeland security funding bill that would keep the department open so it can carry out its

bill. that would be pending there is $2.5 billion in grants, in fema alone. federal emergency management. they range from $100 million to protect ports, but they also have $680 million for assistance to fire grants. five grants in local communities that are won competitively. i am really partial to this program because i created it. not only do i like it because the fire departments like it and need it. when president bush came in, i worked with president bush -- president bush came in in 2010, i worked with senator bond. we have been traveling down mutual states, missouri and maryland, and then we have been meeting with national fire chiefs associations. they were saying to us there is so much need for equipment, for a fire truck, for a water truck for breathing apparatus. we can't do this on fish fries, pancake suppers. these equipment cost a lot of money. can you help us? ken and bash teaming -- barb teaming up with hoyer in the house passed this bill. i announced the first fire grant in

bill: apparently it did not happen.mes to the defense budget there is room for negotiations? >> sequester is not the perfect way to reduce our spending. people are learning to get by with less. washington needs to do the same. i would rather do that through targeted cuts. our world this turmoil. we have more and more threats every day. we need to keep our men and women armed trained, ready to go to keep us safe. heather: a double shot of extreme weather causing major problems for people all across the northeast and beyond. first, it was the blizzard that blasted the region and now frigid temperatures turning that snow into ice. we are live with the latest. plus this. >> whether it's warm out oral just absolutely freezing. that's a great time. patriots fans braving the cold. sunday's game is making history and we'll tell you why. >> 1963. long time. it's like a dream i have been living. the real question that needs to be asked is "what is it that we can do that is impactful?" what the cloud enables is computing to empowe

>> it could be another energy bill, an infrastructure bill or even maybe an appropriations measure. >ld that happen? >> well we'll see. i expect that he'll veto it very soon here. we'll talk to our colleagues in the house as well as our colleagues on the other side of the aisle about a veto override and then make a decision as we go that direction or in fact attach it to other legislation. >> we'll stand by on that. you know canada did their deal in 2009. that was six years ago. you've been waiting this long and it looks like you will continue to wait which begs the question as to whether or not this pipeline will ever be built. what do you think of that? >> you know it will because we need the right mix of pipeline rail and road to make energy safely and cost effectively and because we're producing more energy and working with canada we're creating energy security for this country and bringing prices down at the pump. when the president vetoes this legislation, opec wins. it puts them back in the saddle because it hurts our ability to produce more energy here at home and work with ca

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bill actually supersede the pilot that san francisco has? the way i read it it will not it will allow only ann on a volunteer y basis they enter into the agreement so the agency 2, 3, 4 my reading provide that assess they wouldn't be compelled to be >> i would certainly make a motion that we take up a formal position opposing this bill. >> just a followup question would ab 61 is there any language that prevents local control in terms of setting up a fee for using our - >> it's a sketchy bill no restriction on fees or direction as i read it for an imposition of fees i've been in touch with the office in case they're making expansions or clarifications so you think the eater will be in late march i think if you're considering taking an opted position at this point in time that will give me time to work on your behalf on the measure in sacramento. >> for me the main issue is it is the privatization of public space allowing those private companies to use public space without requiring any kind of payment obviously led it up to the jurisdiction b

bill. i wrote the g.i. bill before i was sworn in. i sat down with the committee counsel and wrote the bill. we worked across party lines. in 16 months we got the most , important piece of veterans legislation since world war ii through the congress, and the bush administration opposed this the whole time. this was not an easy lift. so we know how to work across lines. you know, i haven't read the a. -- article. i don't see what we're doing is trouble. i see what we're doing is trying to show that you can have a formative leadership that's independent of this -- these financial processes and maybe get something done for people. host: our guest is jim web who served one term in the u.s. senate. he is here to take your calls and comments. let me read a portion of what bob moser says about you. he is an incurable romantic with an old-fashioned sense of patriotic duty. it may sound crazy -- it may be crazy -- but jim webb seems to believe he's being called to duty one last time. he was a save a

this bill, we were accepting the senate bill, yes, they finally passed this bill. let's pass this bill this afternoon. let's send it to the president. let's hope that he might reconsider a proposed veto on this bill and let's deal with shoot and let's get it done. there's a reason why better than 65% of americans support this. they understand it. they understand supply and demand. we want gas prices to stay stable, we know that this oil that we get from canada will displace oil coming either from the middle east or from venezuela. why is that not a good thing? . please vote yes and i the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to house resolution 100, the previous question is ordered on the bill. the question is on third reading of the bill. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the clerk: an act to approve the keystone x.l. pipeline. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does gentlelady from california seek recognition? mrs. capps: i have a motion to recommit the bill. the clerk: mrs. caps of california moves to commit the bill senate 1 to the com