to tell the members -- members of congress can kind of wring their hands and say that the place isn't working very well, but they have shown one skill all 535 members of congress have been able to get elected under this system. so they may not like the system but it works for them. if there's going to be change, i would submit to you it's going to have to come from the grassroots. >> i'm going to give you a couple of examples before we take questiones no one should get too cared we were with the fact there are one or two things that peaced in congress the last couple of months because there's some very, very tough decisions yet to be made and which congress may find itself back in the ditch fairly soon. i'll give you some examples. one is renewal of the export-import bank. this is a financing facility that has been very important for american businesses to be able to sell their products abroad. and you now have the tea party element of the republican party who thinks it's terrible that we're helping big business, and terrible that the government is in any way helping businesses in the

the i.m.f. and you said you continue to speak to members of congress in this country. could you give us an update on that and do you have anything different or positive to report on your dealings with the lawmakers? ms. lagarde: i think the i.m.f. membership continues to be disappointed with the five years' delay in implementing the governance reform that was actually decided back in 2010 and largely advocated by the united states of america. where the only critical step lagging or missing rather, is ratification by the u.s. congress of such ratification. i continue to have discussions with various members of congress on that particular matter. i very much hope that this ratification will take place in due course. i think that in many instances we have demonstrated our ability to mobilize resources, to provide technical assistance to give support as well as the case, for instance, in the three ebola-stricken countries recently. as well as the case in relation to ukraine recently as well. as well as napal. so i very much hope that by demonstrating day after day, country

that's debate we need what are the limits? congress ought to make these decisions in the name of the american people, not the president. because we haven't had an aumf on the floor, we must have this resolution. this resolution is not intended to pull out in six months -- can i have an additional minute? mr. engel: one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. nadler: this resolution is not intended to force a pullout in six months but debate. let us do our job and if the president submitted an aumf that is too strong or too weak, bring up a different one. it's our job to make those decisions and stand before our constituents and say this is important enough to go to war with isis or iran and send more troops there or not and here's why and here are the limitations. we shouldn't have boots on the grouped or should. that's our decision to make. we have had 10 years of war -- 13 years of war. we thought we were voting for three weeks of strikes against bases in afghanistan. the 2002 aumf was to topple saddam husse

the passport could congress do that? s. lewin: yes, justice kagan. there's no restriction on the initial granting of recognition by the president. but by the same token, the congress has the ability afterwards, upon deliberation, to decide if they disagree with that recognition. but in the case that justice kennedy suggested -- justice sotomayor: has that ever happened? ms. lewin: yes. justice sotomayor: in the history of the united states where congress asked the president to declare that it was not recognizing someone, has congress ever recognized it? ms. lewin: yes, justice sotomayor. in 1898, congress passed a joint resolution for the recognition of the independence of the people of cuba over the initial opposition of president mckinley, and that ended up recognizing the independence of cuba. justice kennedy: if you were careful to say at the outset that this is not recognition the court of appeals decision, i think it was in the judge tabor concurrence, said that both parties urge upon us that they that the power of

the plan of reform. some models depend on actions, that future congresses will take my take to reduce the deficit. there's no guarantee what congress will or will not do in the future. a ten-year budget is a fake. you know it and i know it. i believe that, including dynamic scoring will diminish the credibility of the budget process. so i want to start off with an easy one on the affordable care act in terms of what you said and i quickly read over your testimony here. so it's supposed to stay steady as a percentage of gdp through 2018. it's at the lowest point since president obama took office. none nonetheless, the republican budget requires each of the five health-related committees to find $1 billion in savings to reduce the deficit. by repealing the aca would add 200 billion to the deficit. that's a little dynamic analysis ourselves here. so i'm not a mathematician here by any stretch of the imagination, as you are. but, in your opinion, if we repeal the aca and replace the law with policies that save $1 billion, which i just referred to what would the budgetary impact be, dr. hall? dr. hall.

>> the congress is going to have to act. i cannot make a legal decision for csx based on their liability. >> and you can't give relief because of the hard deadline that was the? >> i cannot extend the deadline. >> you talked about in force and penalties. of which is like to get a little insight into the. we are looking forward up and there's a lot of history here, a lot of questions about how we got to this point and now some people are much closer to meeting the deadline than others et cetera. are you looking at penalties that exact funds from the railroad? wouldn't it be better if you mandate everybody put together a schedule that you would approve or not approve in terms of how quickly they can implement, putting benchmarks and to look at assessing penalties going for? >> that would be extending the deadline. it would be argued. the deadline is at the deadline, and if we can communicate to railroads if you don't like the deadline that we have, why don't you come up with a plan that involved in the deadline for yourself? th

the f.r.a. metro is asking funding from congress. on that note i'd like to thank senator lapinky 1405 for p.t.c. which is $200 million annually for the next five years. even though it will not be fully implemented. metro has taken significant steps to provide safeguards for our passengers. for example we have reviewed 2015 all -- and through our g.p.s. system. the system will notify the conductor whether the spread is reduced for 20 miles an hour. it will remind the commuter of the restriction. the c 36rbings rs program in congestion with our labor unions at f.r.a. i wanted to bring to the committee's attention recently a question was raised at the real conference with regard to the commuter rail continuing to operate as it relates to liable. they are currently investigating this matter. is with that said, we ask congress to grant the f.r.a. authority to provide waivers based on good faith efforts and to provide the authority. and i want to thank the community for inviting me here today. and i would be happy to answer any questions. >

that's what the congress passed. so i think we're really in dangerous ground when we get this far away from plain statutory law. with regard to the health care cost, i see in cnn money a recent report from cnn money united health care cost in florida is up 18%. humana up 30% in texas. that's two of the biggest states and two of the biggest insurers in america. i don't know how well it's doing in the practical world. now, mr. grewal let's take another area that i think is even simpler that you raised in your study that the affordable care act provides tax credits to u.s. citizens win comes between 100% and 400% of the federal poverty level. are you aware of anything else in the affordable care act that would alter that number that range, 100 to 400? >> no, for aliens there's an exception. congress decided that for aliens they would come up with a special rule because aliens could not get medicaid. but for citizens there's no statutory exception and the irs has effected that amendment by regulation. >> so by regulation

>> the congress is going to have to act. i cannot make a decision based on their liability. >> and you can't give relief because of the hard deadline set. >> i cannot extend the deadline. >> you talked about enforcing penalties. just like a little insight into that. we are looking forward now and there's a lot of history, a lot of questions about how we got to this point and how some people are closer to the deadline and others comment better. are you looking at penalties that it backed funds from the railroad. wouldn't it be better if you mandate every study puts together a schedule that you would approve or not improve in terms of how quickly they lament -- marks and look at penalties to win forward. >> i would be really extended the deadline. the deadline is the deadline and if we communicate to railroads if you don't like the deadline we have, why don't you come up with a new deadline that would be extending the deadline. so we would not want to go about that. in terms of the penalty is three or four pages of specific sig

the cards. there is our continental congress. now, the articles of confederation sets the rules for the condo congress. that is an idea that comes into this room with benjamin franklin. at the beginning of the war. an idea he dusted off during the french and indian war. he put together this idea of confederation between the colonies so they can work together to defend themselves against enemy such as france. well, he kind of rewrites this first version of the articles of confederation. the day after they chose the committee to write the declaration of independence, they also chose a committee with a member from each of the states to write the articles of confederation. the main writer would be john dickinson. again, dickinson would be famous for kind of trying to slow us down for independence. at the same time he is making those arguments, he is working on writing the articles of confederation, this formal agreement between the states of how the united states is going to operate, where essentially, the congress would run the war r

>> the congress has to act. i cannot make a legal decision for csx on liability. >> and you cannot extend the deadline? >> i cannot extend the deadline. >> you talked about enforce and penalties. i would like to get a little insight into that. we are looking forward now and there is a lot of history with a lot of questions ability how we got to this point and how some people with much closer to meeting the deadline than others. are you looking at a penalties that exact funds from the railroad? wouldn't it be better if you mandate everybody puts together a schedule that you would approve or not approve in terms of how quickly they can implement, put in bench marks, look at assessing penalties going forward? >> that would really be extending the deadline. the deadline is the deadline and if we then communicate to railroads why don't you come up with one that would be extending the deadline to me. in terms of the penalties, there are three or four pages of specific fines and penalties finalized in 2010 going from no

they were without representation in neither the supreme court or in the congress or the senate.me was assured. now our quotation of the evening on the court's interpretation of the four words that required a 21-page explanation in the decision in which justice scalia colorfully called interpretive jiggery pokery, our quotation of the evening -- we know now for the power lies we have only to seek the truth we're coming right back. >>> he stood up for the middle class in congress and the leadership punished him. that congressman mark meadows joins us next. >>> huge forest fires burning out of control, and to top it off, firefighters have a new problem to deal with. coming up. 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 empower cancer researchers. it used to take two weeks to sequence and analyze a genome; with the microsoft cloud we can analyze 100 per day. whatever i can do to help compute a cure for cancer, that's what i'd like to do. when a moment spontaneously turns romantic why pause to take

that's debate we need what are the limits? congress ought to make these decisions in the name of the american people, not the president. because we haven't had an aumf on the floor, we must have this resolution. this resolution is not intended to pull out in six months -- can i have an additional minute? mr. engel: one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. nadler: this resolution is not intended to force a pullout in six months but debate. let us do our job and if the president submitted an aumf that is too strong or too weak, bring up a different one. it's our job to make those decisions and stand before our constituents and say this is important enough to go to war with isis or iran and send more troops there or not and here's why and here are the limitations. we shouldn't have boots on the grouped or should. that's our decision to make. we have had 10 years of war -- 13 years of war. we thought we were voting for three weeks of strikes against bases in afghanistan. the 2002 aumf was to topple saddam husse

right after madison made that comment on public opinion, the u.s. congressave subsidies to newspapers so that in a while 90% of the weight of the mails were newspapers and only 10% of the revenue. so journalism is vital, and it is still vital today. whistle blowers are vital. i mean, i'm just going to make an unsolicited comment about edward snowden, what the congress is now doing to amend the patriot act prove that he acting from patriotic motives actually helped the country. so information coming from the inside and investigative journalists is absolutely vital to american democracy. >> great, thank you. i want to get to questions, but all three of you signed on to strengthening oversight report that the brendan center put out calling for a comprehensive investigation. do you think it's time for that kind of investigation, and what advice can you give to -- >> before we get to that, i want to pick up on that point. i'm a big obama supporter, supported him in every election. i'm proud of him as president, but i don't like what he's doing in the intelligence

we need your support from the congress. the honorable jerry brown, the gevner of california, again i thank you for your participation and for your strong support for the united nations and change on sustainable development and i look forward working closely with you. thank you for your leadership. the honorable edwin lee, mayor of san francisco, thank you for organizing great and historic opportunities to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the signing this great united nations charter and thank you for recognition of the united nations role by honoring me with this key of san francisco. i'll keep it on behalf of all the united nations staff for working day and night for all the peace and security. thank you again for your recognition for this great meeting today. thank you. and i would like to thank and recognize particularly the mrs. shultz. she has worked as the chief protocol of the great city. since i was [inaudible] when i came with my friends of foreign minister, she has always been there and as secretary of general i h

on the books. so congressf two things, take him off the books -- take them off the books, or enforce the law. we live now in in in between. nobody knows what they want to do here. let the congress do or not do what they are saying their position is before all of us weigh in. i will tell you this. i think that this, ethanol, or other alternatives, need to be evaluated with a price of the overall energy approach in our country. we need to do things like, further exploration for oil and natural gas. we have a 100 year supply of natural gas underneath the u.s. and we should use every tool we have to exploit that in it the safest way. now they are saying that fracking does not hurt the water supply. we need to be doing that. we need to be lifting the oil

they were still valid during the congress. when he talked about are found restructuring, the fact that he doesn't feel that he has the support of the football planet, that is the fans, the players, the clubs, that was true to during the congress. deciding now to resign and it is a hit of the ministry about the actual reason. some are speculative because his right hand man has been accused of knowing about a $10 million transfer between the south african world cup committee and jack warner. the president of the north america and caribbean's. this is a big surprise and obviously very few people expected it. one very important reaction. it was a difficult decision, a brave decision, and the right decision. host: what other reactions have there been in the world of football? reporter: one reaction from england, clearly there is a smoking gun somewhere. corruption has been rife for years. he was one of bladder's -- blatter's prime opponents. even spoke of a possible boycott of the 2018 boycott -- of the 2018 world cup. one rather am

they were without representation in neither the supreme court or in the congress or the senate.as assured. now our quotation of the evening on the court's interpretation of the four words that required a 21-page explanation in the decision in which justice scalia colorfully called interpretive jiggery pokery, our quotation of the evening -- we know now for the power lies we have only to seek the truth we're coming right back. >>> he stood up for the middle class in congress and the leadership punished him. that congressman mark meadows joins us next. >>> huge forest fires burning out of control when heartburn comes creeping up on you... fight back with relief so smooth... ...it's fast. tums smoothies starts dissolving the instant it touches your tongue ...and neutralizes stomach acid at the source. ♪ tum, tum tum tum...♪ smoothies! only from tums. hey america, still not sure whether to stay or go to your people? ♪ well this summer, stay with choice hotels twice and get a $50 gift card you can use for just about anything. go you always have a choice. book now at choicehotels.com

the congress passed a hugely controversial bill. and then they elect a republican to stop the bill from moving forward. the president decides to rewrite the law and didn't include what congress actually wrote. now you have them explaining how they arrived at this. these are the actions of an executive branch willing to bend the law for political purposes. many times president obama showed disregard to the law and this is just one example. last month there was an article with the elite ucla law review and how his rewriting of the law has certain constitutional effects. i'd like to just quote from that article. the president's obligation to follow the law was not honored. the constitution doesn't give the president the right to write and rewrite laws. the power lies with congress. and until congress amends the statute they are bound to that. i asked that that be entered into the record. >> without objection. >> i'm glad we have some panelist that can talk about this. obama care provides no such authority to provide subsidies. i wish th

on the books. so congress, or the president needs to do one of two things take him off the books -- take them off the books, or enforce the law. we live now in in in between. nobody knows wants -- nobody knows what they want to do here. let the congress do or not do what they are saying their position is before all of us weigh in. i will tell you this. i think that this ethanol, or other alternatives, need to be evaluated with a price of the overall energy approach in our country. we need to do things like, further exploration for oil and natural gas. we have a 100 year supply of natural gas underneath the u.s. and we should use every tool we have to exploit that in it the safest way. now they are saying that fracking does not hurt the water supply. we need to be doing that. we need to be lifting the oil export ban in the country so we can use what we have to help ourselves, help our neighbors and help ourselves geopolitically. in new jersey, 53% of our electricity is generated by nuclear power. in new jersey,

do you think the congress will play? >> either of you want to jump into that? >> sure. congress -- is that on? >> yeah. >> congress has the responsibility and it took upon itself the responsibility when it passed the bill to take a vote on any ultimate agreed -- agreement between us and the iranians. i'm not confident we're going to get to that point. i think there are tremendous benefits to the regime to spreading things out. they get the sanctions relief as michael said they get all of the dessert up front and don't have to eat the spinach. but the congress has the responsibility now has taken it upon itself to vote. unfortunately the way they passed the law is that the bill goes before the president and if the congress turns down the agreement and the president then perhaps predictably vetoes it. congress must muster a super majority two-thirds vote to overturn the veto. it's very high hurdle they set for themselves but they have the responsibility. this is a bad deal no matter how you look at it from what we're hearin

we have worked and worked with states and worked with the congress. ere are a number of bills here up on the hill right now, three basic areas we need to focus. one is prescribing, a big part of the rob as you can see from that number is prescribing. what we need to to there is we need to provide new prescribing guidelines for pain and pain medication that will help the problem, but also in the prescribing space states need to do what are called prescription drug monitoring plans. they are almost in all 50 states and they are the means by which a physician has the opportunity to look up and see that a controlled substance was already given to you and control it that way, same thing with pharmacists. so prescribing is number one. number two is the use of meloxone which is a very important drug that actually stops death when there is overdose and making sure that first responders have access. that is a very important part of that picture. nick christoph had a piece about it this week. number three is the issue of medicated assisted treatment combined wit

to fight back against the letters that would be a good starting point if congress can move this forward. in any cause, charles sawyers, thank you. for coming on. >> you thank you very much. >> the transpacific partnership is back on course and it is an unlikely source that rescued this presidential priority. >> we have an exclusive story tonight, and we go live... >> president obama's top trade priority which seemed dead only a week ago is now back on track. the senate today passed fast track authority. this has been a long bumpy road for the president. he has been campaigning hard for fast track so he can negotiate the transpacific partnership also known as tpp. the democrats have been opposed to any trade deals calling 40% of the american economy is vitamin uh vital to this business. this time it's his own party that's been trying to block him. one of the diswra democratic mef congress, james onile-ere, this is over you've lost, do you agree? >> no, i don't agree. the president and republicans have had a victory here in approving fast track but the fact is congress i

and this is the point of no return. congress either had to decide to back down, or it had to decide that it was going to defy the coercive acts and put up a united front be against great britain -- front against great britain. and it did so knowing that if it defied great britain almost certainly that meant war. and at the first continental congress, i think the colonists decided that they were sufficiently unified. they had a man there who was a soldier, had been a sold doppler virginia for five years george washington, who might lead their army, and they thought that they were capable of resisting great britain. not declaring independence at this point. this is still almost two years before independence. but they could force great britain to back down, to repeal the coercive acts and all of the other objectionable acts that went back to the stamp act in 17635. 1765. and when the ministers in london realized, when they learned in december of 1774 that the continental congress had defied their rule and their policies then the mi

the negotiations. this bill does not do that. we in congress, despite all the rhetoric, all the rhetoric, we in congress will be in the backseat not in the falsely claimed driver seat. this is what this is all about not protectionism versus free trade, not reflective opposition as sometimes claimed to expand a trade. i've worked for expanded trade. quite the opposite. i want a t.p.p. that is worthy of broad bipartisan support. as to t.a.a., proponents of t.p.a. they're the ones who linked the two together in a single bill. t.a.a. should not be a bargaining chip to get a deeply flawed t.p.a. across the finished line and that's how this has been set up. this t.p.a. should stand on its own feet. even in its best form t.a.a. was a modest program and i was one of the authors supporting it. but this t.a.a. bill includes a number of shortcomings compared to the high water mark of the program. despite the fact that the need in this country is growing and trade is expanding. the truth of the matter is we need to do far more to train and educate our work

to the congress by the irs. we removed the obvious spam e-mails and additional duplicates that we found during the manual process. at the conclusion of this review, we determined that over 1,000 e-mails that were recovered from backup tapes were not previously provided to congress. using the analysis of e-mail transaction logs, we estimate that there may still be 23,000 to 24,000 e-mails missing. another potential source of e-mail that's i will highlight is the decommission new carolton e-mail server. our agents identified a8 new e-mails not previously produced to congress. the final source i will discuss is the backup tapes for the decommissioned e-mail server. as the ig stated, during our investigation, we obtained the 424 backup tapes associated with the decommissioned new carolton e-mail server and it is important to note that server was in operation until approximately may 2011. we determined that 422 of the 424 tapes were degauzed or magnetically erased and, therefore had, no data on them. this was done by

they sort of pre-empted that by putting this firmly in the hands of congress. esident saying repeatedly that this would be an easy fix for congress to just change those four words. now we see that's not necessary, that the justices have ruled as the white house boldly predicted they would rule. >> they not only predicted it sylvia burwell, the secretary of health and human services repeatedly said there was no plan b as far as the obama administration was concerned. they simply assumed that the continuation of obamacare would go forward and they weren't going to start worry being what would happen if the supreme court ruled the other way in this particular case. they were right. the supreme court just to point out, ruling 6-3 in favor of the continuation of obamacare without any changes imposed. michelle i want to have you stand by. i believe you're right, we will be hearing i assume from the president of the united states. he'll be speaking out on this i'm sure sooner rather than later. of course we'll have live coverage of that. gloria borger, john king with m

elengthed by the fifa congress mr. er is the independent chairman of our audit, and compliance committee. he is also the chairman of the electoral committee so in this he will supervisor the election of my successor. enjoys the trust of brood sway of the people, within the corporation and he has tremendous knowledge and experience necessary to contribute to the implementation of these reforms. ands my profound attachment to fifa and it's allies, interest which is are very mere to my heart. that have made me take this decision. i would like to thank all those who have always supported me, in a very loyal way, as president of five. and who have done so much for football which we all love. i would like to repeat once again, that what counts much more than me is the institution of fifa, and world football. thank you very much for your attention. >> there will be no questions directed at mr. blatter on stage in zurich, it appears that the message loud and clear is i am quitting. sepp blatter to go as the head of fifa. we wil

that's useful to the congress. it's intimidating to the person in the role which means if you give advice you have to report it to the congress. and so it has a complicated kind of reverb. nonetheless, it is useful to the congress that wants a fire alarm they can say wow is this the kind offish thu somebody gave advice on? so you get sentence that's said even the internal office of whatever said they shouldn't do that. en that actually turns out to be quite useful to congress. so i think that -- i think that, you know, congress is a they, not an it. the executive is a they not an it. everybody, it's all about this complex web that, ecosystem of action and reporting. the idea is real but it's not an either/or. it's a both/and. they help congress do its job better. >> michael? >> i was going to say. i think something to understand and appreciate is how different alex's office and my office s we're both in our agencies. but, for example i don't have a seat at the table. i don't want a seat at the table. i have monthly

that the president has or descend up to congress. ere are some steps that we could implement that required congressional authorization that could make not just the federal government but also the private sector more noble and effective in communicating with one another to make sure that we are doing everything we can to protect the computer networks and data of the american people. let me give you one example. it is one of the priorities when dealing with these matters and being nimble, information sharing. one of the thing that we can do is if a private sector entity had been the victim of an intrusion, sharing information about how that intrusion was detected with other industries and with the federal government can be a an effective way to make sure other computer networks can be shored up to protect against a similar intrusion. that's one of the reasons that we are aggressively advocating congress to pass this piece of legislation, and it would have a tangible impact on the ability of this country to protect the data of the americ

today we begin taking the next steps forward by examining how congress can have a better and broader understanding of how the policies we put forward will affect our budget our economy important programs like medicare and medicaid, our national security and other critical areas of interest and concern. today's hearing will allow this committee to hear firsthand from the very agency that assists congress in that effort, the congressional budget office. i want to welcome cbo director dr. keith hall. director hall, this is your first time hear since testifying on april 1 and we want to welcome you. you bring a tremendous amount of expertise and experience to the job and i want to thank you for agreeing to serve as director. we look forward to your testimony and the insights that you can share about how cbo works with congress and how it arrives at its conclusions and how we might improve trans parn transparency and more broadly what that means for the economic challenges facing our nation. the reports that cbo has provided to congress over the past several years has shown a steady and tr

the court deciding that 6-3. that congress had overstepped its boundaries when it approved the law in 2002 and that the president has exclusive power to recognize foreign nations. here's the oral argument in the case that was heard by the court in november. it's about an hour. >> we'll hear argument first in case 13628, zivotofsky v. kerry. ms. lewin: mr. chief jr. and may it please the court. how an american is identified in his or her passport or u.s. consular birth abroad, including the place of birth designation does not amount to formal recognition by the united states of that designated location's sovereign status. this is a principal reason why congress' law authorizing jerusalem-born citizens to carry passports that say they were born in israel is a legitimate congressional exercise of congress' power to regulate foreign commerce -- >> suppose that -- suppose that the president and the secretary of state put on the passport the place of birth -- and i've written it out -- the place of birth on this jerusalem-born's pas

to the text congress passed. now, i ask consent for the article to be entered into the record. senator cruz: without objection. senator hatch: i'm glad we have a second panel with us today who can talk about the administration's path to determining that subsidies can be offered on federally established exchanges. even though obamacare provides no such authority. now, i wish the administration would take this as seriously as we do. let me just say that that whole obamacare matter, and heard all sides and really got tremendously involved in it naturally because i've done an awful lot of health care legislation over my 39 years in the congress. and i have to say that one of the principle arguments was by some that -- that, you know, that the -- the people would have to go, the exchanges would have to be set up by the state. the argument behind it was that's the only way you're going to get people to really sign up for it because that's where the money goes. and that argument was used on more than one occasion and all

the gentleman in the blue shirt. >> is there anything congress can do to either stay or contain the lifting of sanctions,. >> congress ultimately if they're willing to put their next out on the line control the purse strings and that gives them a great deal of leverage. when it comes to the existing sanctions, sanctions, there's two problems. i'm saying this as an analyst, not as an advocate. number one, some of the most biting sanctions going back to the clinton administration in 1995 and 1996 were executive orders. that's number one. executive orders can be changed and can be waived. number two, it's been traditional in congress to provide waivers to the white house so that the president would be able to waive certain elements of sanctions. i'm not sure they ever expected that they would have a commander-in-chief who would become so disassociated from the national security protection of the united states that he would waive those willy-nilly. ultimately that is willy-nilly. ultimately that is what we are seeing. ultimately the question is what lessons learned will congress have so when ne

in terms of what you're feeling about this that we just went through the congress created in the commissionthere were many centralized event it seemed 150th went by with things going on but it was much more sort of sporadic. >> it was low-key. congress didn't pass the civil war, national civil war centennial commission or sesquicentennial. my feeling about that is it wasn't as important in terms of the commemoration of observation as the centennial or the bicentennial. of course talking about the bicentennial's in 2009 was the bicentennial of lincoln's birth and there was a lot that went on then there was a national bicentennial commission. so, my feeling is that the fairly low-key observation of the centennial which centered mostly on the state activities and virginia was most active. i thought that it was appropriate. lots of good books by the authors like my colleague that came up during the period and the result to the good. >> there's been a lot of scholarship and knowledge we expect in the reconstruction and as we think about the period of the reconstruction -- talk about why the civi

that is the way it has been for decades. i think congress could improve its openness and transparency but we are trained -- we are trying to be as transparent as we can along the way. before you -- it applies to the executive branch. matt: it is used to shield certain activities. the media cannot access police reports on the sort of things because it is shielded by congress' exemption. i'm wondering if there's hypocrisy that congress has extended itself and is going after agencies were being less than transparent on the freedom of information act when congress itself is not subject to those same sorts of rules. rep. chaffetz: the judicial branch also falls into that category. i don't think there has been suggestion that that include congress. there are places and ways to get access to a lot of information but the current law, as it is, the executive branch is not living up to those standards. stephen: one of the other agencies you had at that hearing was the irs. an observation about the number of the folks you have, i found in my experience

i want to say of willy brown, yes he had the dream, the civic pride but came to the the congress to the money to get city hall done so we all take pride in this. thank you for your leadership willy. i want to acknowledge how proud we are of our ambassador to the united nations. the secretary general honors us with his presence but he honors us doublely by having mrs. ban being here with him. thank you so much mrs. ban. to all your honored ambarsders representives and general, thank you for being here today we are gathered in commemoration and celebration of one of the great moments of history. a great moment of histfry the world, a grite moment fl history of our country, a great moment for our city. 70 years ago as yous heard the delegates of 50 nations gathered in san francisco opera house to open a new era for humanity. here in san francisco the hope of president wilson and vision of president roges velt and congratulations of president truman were fulfilled and when president rose velt was here said if you want to do something right, do it in san francisco. here in san francisco dipl

[applause] brian: comedy and the congress. donald: there was a speaker of the house who said it was a god-given right by every american to look down on their members of congress and make fun of them. he said that in 1925, so this is nothing new. mark twain said the same thing back in the 19th century. he said suppose you're an idiot and suppose you are a member of congress, but i repeat myself. members of congress are the people we elect. people really like their own representatives, but they know they are really working tough for them and representing their interests. it's everybody else's representatives they don't like. it is a reflection of our nation and our divisions. it is a subject of a lot of ridicule. brian: all the times you are around congress or even since you left in 1995, who is the funniest member of congress? raymond: oh gosh. brian: who used humor more than anyone you can remember? raymond: some of them were quite funny on the floor. i'm trying to think of the name of the one who was particularly funny when i

so we have to do the amount. if congress doesn't act on ipab's recommendation, the cuts will automatically go into effect. to make matters worse, the board is exempt from administrative or judicial review. and on the projections between 2024, the c.b.o. can't tell me from year to year within tens of billions of dollars what the budget deficit will be each year. i don't put a lot of stock in that. if the president does not nominate individuals to serve on the ipab board or it fails to recommend cuts when required to do so, the secretary of health, human services has the power to make the changes unilaterally. one person will make those changes for the entire contry. bye ghi that for a second. one person would have the ability to reshape a program that has 55 million enrollees. whatever you may think about the president's health care law this just isn't right. after practicing medicine for more than 30 years, i can tell you that no two patients are the same. and the different approaches are required for different needs. ipab i

the meaning of the necessary and proper clause that marshall said congress has the pride slices taken taken a means of are convenient to carry all powers so for example, congress has the power to do whatever is convenient to regulated post office so for example, it can make it a crime to rob the mail it is possible but it is convenient and helpful to make it a crime so congress can do it but if he were going to require insurance companies to write insurance for people with pre-existing conditions nobody doubts that common then it can make that effective but also said never betty castor have insurance to make sure those with pre-existing conditions can buy insurance we just cannot achieve of retry to achieve with the statute there for everyone has to have insurance the argument for the mandate was simple. >> wide you think john roberts ruled the way that he did a? spirit there is a lot of speculation to a his motives. no way to know for sure but there is one possibility that i think has not been given enough attention that he honestly was trying to do his job the best that he could he

the first of which involves congress. i do think this very intense debate we're having about the fast track for potential trade agreements has required the administration to send a significant amount of political capital, coming just a few months thereafter to have another very difficult heavy lift in congress where there's significant substantive skepticism and concern would be even more difficult. so i think as i said, i think the 60 votes would be there to get to 67, that's -- you know that's hard. but i think you would be within two or three votes of such a thing, maybe a vote of such a thing. so i think this trade debate that's taking place and the internal dynamics particularly in the democratic party over that, do affect this to some extent. the other thing i would say is i think the most effective argument made by the administration and their allies is something along the following lines. look, who are we kidding here? the chinese and the russians and possibly some others are about to head south on the sanctions an