it was an american success and americans were building locomotives. the railroads were spreading across the country. we needed a good iron industry in the steel industry to support it and we know trains opened the whole u.s. to the settlement and really built the commercial system upon which the u.s. depended for most of his life. >> richard ker in the one we are looking at now is this the original? >> this is the original john bull from 1831. let me say this. at the smithsonian we sometimes have fun with things. our curators and scholars study this demand or stan demand or stan what were the principles involved and how did this evolve and how to get else? for the 150th anniversary of the john bull our curators took this out of the museum put it on a track in georgetown near the canal, fired up and stoke up the engine here. it worked and they took off and wrote this train 150 years later. it still worked. >> lets continue our tour. >> okay. >> now richard kurin where are we now? >> now we are in one of the curatorial storerooms at the smithsonian and

let's do more to help americans get ahead. let's help americans save for retirement. today, most americans don't have a pension. social security check often isn't enough on its own. and while the stock market has doubled over the last five years, that doesn't help folks who have 401k's. tomorrow i will direct the treasury to create a new way to help americans start. myira. new savings bond to encourage folks to build a new nest egg. no risk of losing what you put in. if this congress wants to help with me, work with me and fix an upside down tax code that helps the wealthy saveb. offer every american access to an i.r.a. on the job so they can have access to an i.r.a. and the most important investment is their home, protect taxpayers from a housing crisis and keeps the dream of home ownership for future generations. one last point on financial security. for decades, few things exposed hard-working families to economic hardship more than a broken health care system. and in case you haven't heard, we are in the process of fixing that. now, a pre-existing condition used t

there is so little self reflection on the part of both the american public and the american decision makers i wonder why is that we are a continental sized country of three hundred and fifteen million people very self-absorbed we are. slated from the world by two large oceans. we tend to think of foreign policy is something we do to other people rather than to something we participate in with them or that they do to us so there's particularly since the end of the cold war there's been a sense on the part of many americans that we are invulnerable exempt from reprisal and unfortunately that is not the case so if you don't suffer consequences directly and personally for the mistakes you make you tend to not learn from them and to repeat them you know what. deaths many foreigners including russians about these american south images this sounds of exceptionalism a special mission this shining city on a hill and. you know whether people like it or not i think we have to admit that at least in one respect america is an exceptional country and that is its ability to influence the lives of p

americans will support you if you take this on. as the chief executive, i intend to lead by example. profitable corporations like costco see higher wages as the smart way to produce productivity and boost turnover. we should, too, i will require contractors to pay federal employees a fair wage of at least $10.10 an hour, if you cook our troops meals for wash their dishes, you should not have to live in poverty. >> of course, to reach millions more, congress does need to get onboard. today, the federal minimum wage is worth about 20% less than it was when ronald reagan first stood here. tom harkin and george miller ever a bill to fix that lifting the minimum wage to $10.10. it's easy to remember, 10-10 with that it will help families, give them more money to spend. it does not involve any new program. join the rest of the country, say yes. give america a raise. give them a raise. [ applause ] >> there are other steps we can take to help families make ends meet, and few are more effective at reducing inequality and helping families p

let's do more to help americans get ahead. let's help americans save for retirement. today, most americans don't have a pension. social security check often isn't enough on its own. and while the stock market has doubled over the last five years, that doesn't help folks who have 401k's. tomorrow i will direct the treasury to create a new way to elp americans start. myira. new savings bond to encourage folks to build a new nest egg. no risk of losing what you put in. if this congress wants to help with me, work with me and fix an upside down tax code that helps the wealthy saveb. offer every american access to an i.r.a. on the job so they can have access to an i.r.a. and the most important investment is their home, protect taxpayers from a housing crisis and keeps the dream of home ownership for uture generations. one last point on financial security. for decades, few things exposed hard-working families to economic hardship more than a broken health care system. and in case you haven't heard, we are in the process of fixing that. now, a pre-existing condition used to

help more americans get ahead. let's do more to help americans save for retirement. today, most workers don't have a pension. a social security check often isn't enough on its own. and while the stock market has doubled over the last five years, that doesn't help folks who don't have 401(k)s. that's why tomorrow, i will direct the treasury to create a new way for working americans to start their own retirement savings. my -- it's a new savings bond that encourages folks to build a nest egg. my-r.a., guarantees a decent return with no risk of losing what you put in. and if this congress wants to help, work with me. to fix an upside-down tax code that gives big tax breaks to help the wealthy save, but does little or nothing to help middle-class americans. offer every american access to an automatic i.r.a. on the job, so they can save at work, just like everybody in this chamber can. and since the most important investment many families make is their home, send me legislation that protects taxpayers from footing the bill for a housing crisis ever again and keeps the dre

terms of american foreign policy. at that time, america was exercising its muscle, and it was getting used to being a world power or aspiring to be a world power. it was looking for an empire, looking for colonies, looking for competing against the european powers to show we, too, americans, were a force in the world. the -- there was a revolution going on in cuba, the cubans were fighting the spanish for independence, and there were people pro and con, and americans liked the fact there was a revolution going on because they didn't -- they wanted spain out of america, and we thought we had a lot of investment in cuba, wanted to trade with cuba, and we sort of would be good if cuba was more open to u.s. influence and exchange. there was pro-spanish riots in havana, in january, and so teddy roosevelt and others sent the uss maine to havana harbor in february, and the idea was the show the spanish sthorts in cuba that america was intent on at least helping these revolutionaryies overthrow the government. maine was in ha

put more americans back to work.let's do more to help the entrepreneurs and small business openers who create more jobs in america. over the past five years my administration has made more loans to small business owners than any other and when 98% of our exporters are small businesses, new trade partnerships with europe and the asia-pacific will help them create even more jobs. we need to work together on tools like bipartisan trade promotion authority to protect our workers, protect our environment and open new markets to new goods stamped made in the usa. listen, china and europe aren't standing on the sidelines and neither should we. we know that the nation that goes all in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. this is an edge america cannot surrender. federally funded research helped lead to the ideas and inventions behind google and smrt phone s and that's why congress should undo the last cuts on reseven from last year so we can unleash the next great american discovery. there are entire ind

and american relations today. but at the same time these men were arabists and they knew a great deal about the arab world and they were surprisingly sympathetic towards it as well. sincerely believe that they had the best interest at heart. so what this book attempts to do is capture the surprising moment when the cia was most definitely pro-arab and asked where did this arabists impulse come from. and where do you go and why did it become part of this and other u.s. foreign policy. well, just a sketch the answers to these questions which emerge from my research, as to whether this originated, to some extent it came from the british who are the dominant western power in the middle east prior to the region of the u.s. during the years of the cold war. the roosevelt cousins were captivated by the example of them, and they both grew up reading the account of his involvement in world war i and they had several pearls of wisdom. roosevelt's father actually knew him and corresponded with him. so they had this tradition

that's what most americans want. for all of us, in this chamber, to focus on their lives, their hopes, their aspirations. and what i believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple profound belief in opportunity for all. the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead in america. [ applause ] let's face it. that belief has suffered some serious blows. over more than three decades, even before the great recession hit, massive shifts in technology and global competition had eliminated a lot of good middle class jobs and weakened the economic foundations that familieies depd on. today after four years of economic growth, corporate profits and stock prices have rarely been higher, and those at the top have never done better, but average wages have barely budged. inequality has deepened. upward mobility has stalled. the cold, hard fact is that even in the midst of recovery, too many americans are working more than ever j

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to extend the unemployment benefits to 1.3 million americans. the senate cleared an procedural hurdle by voting to continue the debate but the ideological arguments are in the shadows of 50 years ago. >> it's only when you believe that government is the answer to your problems, you talk about unemployment rather than job creation, and instead of helping people reach their maximum potential. it's time to give the american people the tools they need to drive the economy that truly works for them and their families. >> letting unemployment benefits for families is wrong. >> reporter: president obama surrounded himself with unemployed americans behind him at the white house. >> we make this promise to our fellow americans who are working hard to get back on their feet because when times get tough we are not a people who say you're on your own. we are people who say we're all in it together. and we know there by the grace of god go i. >> reporter: so the wrestling match in washington how to help americans in need still goes on 50 years after presiden

most importantly, the american family and the face of the american workforce has changed.hat is where i see the greatest potential for reviving a middle- class, and opportunity for all those fighting to make it there. the new faces of our workforce over the last decade are now women. women are increasingly the new family breadwinners. women are the primary wage earners for a growing share of homes. in 1960, only 11% of families had the mother being relied on for her wages to provide for the kids. today, that is 40%. 40% of wage earners in america are mothers who are the primary wage earners to provide for their kids. 40% of the families with children under 18 rely only on the mother to pay the bills, make those tough choices at the kitchen table, and feed their kids. you wouldn't know that by looking at american workplace policies today. they are stuck in the past. congress and state capitals across the country simply have failed to keep pace with the new economy and the modern american workplace. the key to creating a growing economy and the key to an american middle clas

what do americans tell, you know, egyptians on the ground, you know, as americans, you know. what is the message that should be given. >> i think that it's clear that the message that we should be sending is one that president obama said when he gave a people in 2007 about the uprising. he said, "we should look upon the changes in the region without abdickating our value", the president and others have not been as vocal about principles. >> that's not suggesting that it would fundamentally change the situation on the ground. egypt would have unfolded as it has, had the president said those things. we would not be in as difficult a position with egyptian public opinion, had we stuck to the principles. i want to respond to the video. he's giving too much credit to the united states. the president obama administration has been surfing the news cycles, accommodating to outcomes that egyptians have been producing. my message is, "it's in your hands. we effect things at the margin. we don't have the influence we believe we do. this is about your country, you need to pave the way fo

a restaurant where americans would likely be. we obtained the image of an american who died. lexy camerota and she worked for the privately run american university of the afghanistan. and they have gave fox news a statement. first of all the world called her lexy, she was smart, strong and beautiful and stubborn and kind and fearless. she took the job in the american university of afghanistan to help the young women of that country get an education and take their rightful place as leaders in the afghan society. as can you can guess her death is a shock to us all. you can't imagine a moment going forward where she will not be missed. that is from her aunt tonight. it is the deadly violence in that country against civilians since the war began. it happen in a heavily guarded area. the lebanese restaurant, popular with diplomats and foreign nationals and the taliban said that is why it was targeted. this map shoes some of the embassy, denmark and norway and belgium and uk and u.s. embassy a few blocks away. the first bomb went outside of the restaurant and two gun men went in th

ordinary americans. chronic unemployment. who's suffering? ordinary americans. stagnant wages. who is suffering? ordinary americans. gaping inequality? who's suffering? not the few at the top. disappearing pensions. who's suffering? ordinary working americans. on and on. like a busy highway system, our free marketplace only really works for all when all the players obey essential rules of the road, rules put in place by government to avoid crashes and bubbles, to rein in wasteful and dishonest money manipulators and, yes to provide for social and economic justice. and there are some things, big national undertakings that the private sector simply is not capable of doing. at critical junctures going back to the beginning of our republic congresses and presidents have acted decisively to spur economic growth, foster innovation help create jobs and no question that is where we're falling short today. members of congress and elected officials across america can learn from the successes of the war on poverty and the great society. we need a new generation of leaders with lyndon john

because we escape to seek refuge. >> host: or we wanted to be part of the american -- >> guest: the american dream and opportunities. that is america's promise and any people most recently patriots take it to heart. it's a promise that means a lot and that's very dear to our families. those words are not rampant. they are values we live by every day, freedom of expression and the freedom to worship. we rely on them as american muslims for that dignity and for the opportunity to assimilate for quality and respect under the law. that is first and foremost what i teach my children is this country has been built and continues to thrive on those ideals. equally so whether one is from a muslim or seikh background the synergy is there. no religion is built on hate. if it cannot survive. gods truth is absolute and beyond the nuances of the different traditions. whether we approach god through the seikh christianity or islam, rituals are not to use themselves. i-80 is not morality. morality is bigger and larger than our various traditions and the diversity within the traditions that we are all equall

to see americans. the warning comes amid a growing wave of bombings linked to sectarian violence to the war in syria. at least a dozen people have died in a pair of deadly bombing in the last two weeks. >>> fox weather alert now on the dangerous cold gripping a large swath of the nation. records could be broken in the coming days across the midwest, north east and even parts of the south. windchill warnings from minnesota and stretching, let's go meteorologist kate rin roth of wtxf in philadelphia. it is not as bad in some areas as we thought but it is still record-breaking. >> it is. and that is why it is being called a historic outbreak because it is literally over half of the country and extending into the southeast. and even if you don't break a low record temperature, the wind values are so extreme and some of us tomorrow morning will be digging out of several inches of snow. snow across the upper midwest from detroit down through chicago and indiana, detroit could pick up over a foot of snow by t

came back from two fronts and protected by american people so i have some something to give to americanpeople interesting and i notice that much of your advice is centered around the negative aspects of american food culture for example you recommend smaller portion sizes. mindful eating social eating avoiding of snacks how much of an influence do you think american culture has on the rest of the world not just in america but how powerful it is incredible they succeeded two things with me and the world and then with the food they did all the countries worldwide do you think that influence is mostly positive or negative mostly negative because for example two. cheeseburger you need to have. a twenty percent of it and this is negative for yourselves and also because the model of the american food is a very individual and there's no sharing and you eat alone and you lost a part of the pleasure now france has long been famed as the land of the slim and you use this image a lot and promoting your diet but your fans hasn't been immune to this spread of. you can call it american or convenience

you point out more than 40 million americans owe student loan debt. 7 million americans are currently in default of their loans. now, is this one of the issues? because we have the problem with the interest rate is going to double and they took care of that problem, so maybe they don't address those incredible numbers that you just talked about. >> look, advocates on this issue and ordinary americans dealing with those numbers were heartened last year when he gave this prominent billing. he got in front of congress in the state of the union and said skyrocketing education costs and skyrocketing debt burdens are not okay. we need to change it not just for the students, but america's competitiveness, because this is shackling a generation that could be productive. my hope is he'll return to that. over the last year, he's showed promising signs of carrying forward that charge. he gave a speech in august, this is an opportunity to follow up on this and it would be ashame given how fraught his relationship is with this congress, he backs down from that commitment. >> this is a profit enter

our love affair with the automobile changed the american landscape. more and better roads brought the country closer together while simultaneously isolating us in separate communities. we're continuing our conversation now on the complex impacts of sprawl. still with us john norquist, chris klemek and robert brugman. you heard robert bruman put atlanta under the pack. should it operate normally on most days or when it's under stress? >> i think there is a distinction, two different arguments going on here. should there be giant grade separated freeways in the middle of cities, do they help cities function better? the answer to that is no. if they had to spend their own money, cities wouldn't build them in the first place. it comes from outside, from the state and federal government and so they build it. and when they need it the most, it fails. so what you have is a malfunction of the system. and it gets heightened by the fact that atlanta's a warm weather state for the most part so they're not used to dealing with snow. i really -- you know, i think

to realize the american dream. in order to aleave this disincentive, there must be a better coordination between benefits and how they are phased out. instead of reducing this disincentive to work in recent years we have actually made it worse. the premium tax credit and cost sharing subsidies that were enacted as part of the affordable care act will increase marginal tax rates by an average of 12 percentage points. moreover, according to an analysis by the joint committee on taxation, when the premium tax credit is fully in effect, some workers could experience -- quote -- "infinite marginal tax rates." infinite marginal tax rates. end of quote. some of you may wonder what is an infinite marginal tax rate. to put it -- to put this into more understandable language, this means some workers could actually face marginal effective rates exceeding 100%. for a worker in this situation, it means that if they decide to put in a few more hours of work or get a second job to earn extra cash, they could actually end up worse

this is about american labor. american jobs across the board. >> it is about the secrecy. why can't they show this bill to the public, to congress? >> it is finally starting to get the attention in congress that it absolutely deserves. we can get president obama thinking correctly on this. >>> good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. we did a poll on this program last night and asked folks, do you think you're next door neighborhood knows about the tpp and fast track? over 90% of the respondents said no, which doesn't surprise me. we just illustrated we've been talking about this for months on end. boehner just the other day said this election in 2014, the midterm, is going to be about jobs and health care. hey, i'm all about it. i'm ready for round two of health care and i'm all about seeing this country create jobs and everybody get a better chance. if that's what it's about, don't you think we can get some job creation numbers from mr. boehner? have you seen your local news where it says such and such factory has come to our town to bring in 200 new

as americans, that's what we should expect. after everything we've done to recover and rebuild from the crisis this past five years, after all your hard work and sacrifice, that's what you deserve. thanks. have a great weekend. >> hello. i am a united states senator for mississippi. the beginning of the new year is a time when many americans decide to make positive changes in their lives. it can be a time we decide to adopt healthier lifestyles or take a fresh look at the family budget. unfortunately, as this year begins, many people are worried about how the so-called affordable care act, also known as obamacare, is affecting their health and personal finances. republicans in the senate inc. we should repeal or defund the program because of its cost and complexity. the affordable care act was supposed to be fully operational by january 1 of this year, but here we are, two weeks at the administration continues to implement the law's burdensome mandates. the law is not living up to the promises made by its supporters, and it is

he's german but now an american. he wanted to come to an entrepreneurial, open society where he could do exciting things but he thought you couldn't -- it was too stuffy, too closed to new ideas. he started working on artificial intelligence at carnegie. he participated in the earliest experiments that building a self-driving car as a project that research project agency set up a prize. they didn't go very far. they were in the mo vaf -- mohave cease earth. he moved to google. he decided he would teach a course on advanced computing. and he and the vice president of research for google announced they were going to hold the future course at stanford and make it available online. they had 400 students in the classroom. they had 151,000 sign up. drove the stanford administration crazy, was how do you regulate it? and how do you know they are getting a stanford-quality course. why aren't they paying tuition? [laughter] they had -- i don't know the exact number. i think it was 43,000 completed the course. on the final exa

and younger, healthier americans. now we come to find out that this younger cohort only makes up 24% ever enrollees, that's 15 percentage points below their goal. the definition of success keeps changing. that is exactly why we need representative terry's bill to require h.h.s. to give congress and the american people solid data. we cannot trust officials who keep moving the goal post and keep assuring us that everything is fine when in reality it keeps failing. it's time we remove the rose colored glasses and get to the facts. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from new hampshire seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. >> one of the most common stories i hear from my constituents is the struggle to survive from paycheck to paycheck and to short their families. ms. kuster: maria shriver's report detailing the economic challenges for women in america is

, if not all americans. so with that, mr. speaker, i will say i would urge my colleagues to oppose this unnecessary bill and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new jersey yields back. the gentleman from pennsylvania. mr. pitts: mr. speaker, some have argued that requiring h.h.s. to report a data breach that is known to have resulted in a loss of personal identifiable information within two days is too burdensome for the department. in fact, the administration opposes this legislation for, quote, paperwork requirements, end quote. i'm frankly shocked that any member of this body would put workload concerns of h.h.s. ahead of their constituents' right to know if their data has been breached when many of our constituents are essentially being forced to shop through these exchanges. in addition, c.m.s. has stated that states and other nonexchange entities are required to report data breaches to the department within one hour to h.h.s. if h.h.s. believes one hour is e

aren't happy nobody is happy i'm not happy i think americans are looking at the future of health care and they're saying oh my god i'm not going to be able to afford prescription and surgeries and treatments and my old age my children aren't going to be able to afford health care when they get married and they start families i think i think washington has created a mess and if i could have my way the whole thing would be scrapped and start from the beginning with with the american people and affordable access to health care in mind ok that's a very good which we do you know how about you know we can go international relations here how high on the list for your wish list if we see a meaningful agreement with iran. well it's absolutely essential and let me link into it kelly said because i think i can find places where we can save a lot of money to put into a really good health care system in the in the united states and that would be to have the zero option in afghanistan bring all the troops back home to have a agreement with iran as you say to start bringing back the soldiers from th

there is so little self reflection on the part of both the american public and the american decision makers i wonder why is that we are. country of three hundred and fifteen million people. so sore we are. slated from the world by two large oceans. we're trying to think of foreign policy is something we do to other people rather than but something we participate in. what the american public hasn't really understood is that this is not a normal banking scandal and that these banks like h.s.b.c. have the blood of american soldiers on their hands that i.e.d. going off in afghanistan killing and killing an american or borg you know allied soldier that is being financed through our banks that's a problem. with us president barack obama's public opinion ratings are in the doldrums to make finishes days in office as one of the country's worst in least effective presidents how do story ins and the public determine the success or failure of an american president and why are some presidents rehabilitated years or even decades after they leave office. did you know the price is the only industry

we are talking about providing a quality of life and the american dream for each and every american who deserves it. they all deserve it because people are working hard or they want to work. so that's the political speech. i hope the public really understands the democrats are really up here fighting to increase the minimum wage and increase -- extend emergency unemployment compensation. until we can get republican support to engage in a real debate and real policy for economic growth, which create more jobs. host: let's go to david in oklahoma. independent caller, hi, david. caller: i want to just say one thing. i was in the marine corps a long ime ago. i can tell you how they can pay for all the unemployment, all the older people and all that, they need to cut the military budget and quit messing around and trying to kill people all the time. i think that would solve a lot of the infrastructure in the united states. that's all i got to say. thank you. host: all right, david. guest: thank you, david. you know this deficit and the real economic crisis began, really, under the bush admin

and also kim roosevelt was an american aristocrat. a grandson of theodore roosevelt, and head of the cia -- early head of the cia's middle east division, thus his field command in 1953. a coup which, of course, is a sort of -- a classic case of blowback. it might have averted a cold war crisis at the time, but it led to later to years of u.s.-iranian hostility. so i guess right away, even before i started out, i had two questions. first of which was: what was the cia doing funding this proarab, antizionist group, not perhaps one would expect the cia to be doing, and why was kim roosevelt the enemy of -- or known as the enemy of nationalism in iran, why was he backing this group which, among other things, advocated for arab nationalists like the egyptian master. well, i did a lot of research in government records, not so much the cia's own records because they are-remain classified or destroyed, but if you snoop around in other records, especially the state department and go to british public records as well, you can learn a surprising

is fundamentally misleading the american character. americans do want to work. and there's satisfaction in job well-done for c.e.o.'s and people who make sure the floors are really spotlessly clean late at night in the hospital. so we hope that the vote today indicates that your republican colleagues will negotiate in good faith. we are open to such negotiations. we believe it would be, i believe, i think most of my colleagues believe it would be better to pass unpaid for, if we can't come to an agreement or even if we could because it stimulates the economy. we want to get this bill passed. it's too important, too important for the average american family not to. >> the negotiate that these negotiations are going to be offsetting -- >> i would prefer to pass this 90-day extension so that we could assure millions of americans they are going to get their benefits without disruption. my preference, frankly, and i think senator schumer said the same thing, because we want to also grow jobs as well as take care of unemployed that typically this is emergency spending

the american people effectively have forfeited ownership over what used to be called the american army. that army has now become washington's army. but in the use of that army, civilian and military elite in washington have proven to be both reckless and incompetent. the world's best military can certainly we are told we have the worlds best military and by many measures there is no question we do have the worlds best military. the worlds best military is supposed to win wars and indeed supposed to win wars quick we can decisively. the end of the cold war along with operation desert storm back in 1991 read that expectation of the military that would win quickly and decisively. the defense of those states, particularly even 9/11 have told a radically different story. we know how to start wars. but based on the evidence presented in an and iran, we don't know how to win and. we don't know how to end them. once begun, wars tend to drag on indefinitely. and it is important i think for us to back nice and acknowledge the extent to which the american people are complicit in this outcome, and

the american people know it. they're doing everything to stop the agenda that the american people voted for twice. here's how i see tonight's state of the union address. the republicans talk about tone. the white house and the president, they're talking about action. okay, we're ready for action. last year the president asked for corporate tax reform. he wanted to move on climate change. he didn't get any of that. this year it is unemployment benefits to be extended, it's also the minimum wage, there's something about jobs in there obviously. this beyond all of what the president's wish list is going to be in tonight's speech, i view tonight as someone who is an ardent supporter of the president. number one, i believe that the president has to realize and liberals have to realize -- who support the president, as i see it -- that you just can't continue to try to lead people that are simply never going to follow. how much never do we have to have in "never"? the president can set the tone for this year, can motiva

is fundamentally misleading the american character. americans do want to work. and there's satisfaction in job well-done for c.e.o.'s and people who make sure the floors are really spotlessly clean late at night in the hospital. so we hope that the vote today indicates that your republican colleagues will negotiate in good faith. we are open to such negotiations. we believe it would be, i believe, i think most of my colleagues believe it would be better to pass unpaid for, if we can't come to an agreement or even if we could because it stimulates the economy. we want to get this bill passed. it's too important, too important for the average american family not to. questions? >> the negotiate that these negotiations are going to be offsetting -- >> i would prefer to pass this 90-day extension so that we could assure millions of americans they are going to get their benefits without disruption. my preference, frankly, and i think senator schumer said the same thing, because we want to also grow jobs as well as take care of unemployed that typically this is emergen

amy, over 80% of the american people support giving the american people a raise. $10.10 an hour. are you supportive of that initiative? and if so, what will you do to help the president get this initiative under way? >> well, this is the thing, donna, we're playing political small ball here. why don't we focus on the big issue? and that is putting people back to work. getting the economy going. i disagree with you that the economy's doing good on all these jobs. they're part-time jobs. obama care is the biggest job killer. here you're trying to increase the minimum wage. we're talking about minimums here. why don't we talk about the american dream and opportunity and, you know, put forth some policies that washington, everybody can get behind and businesses will have confidence in washington again and they'll invest in their companies and they'll create jobs? it is not the president tore federal government's responsibility to create jobs and increase the minimum wage and do all these little gimmicks like -- >> the studies show that raising the minimum wage will boost the economy,

that's what the american people want. let's talk about security and safeguards for consumer information. again, you have the germ of a good idea. there is, of course, when the government has our personal information we need to make sure that there's adequate safeguards that goes for the i.r.s., it goes for military personnel files. it goes for the affordable care act. just as we want to make sure when the private sector and companies have our personal information that they institute the proper safeguards. and there are examples of failure. mr. burgess mentioned target, a private sector example of failure. we certainly hope and hope that we have the infrastructure and security in place to ensure that there is not a failure of security with regard to the affordable care act, but when we are talking about identity theft and how to address it, we need to look at where the real problem is. what's the leading cause of identity theft? is it the i.r.s.? is it the affordable care act? is it the military? no. one of the biggest cau

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let's empower the american people instead of the american government. let's not kick the can are spending down the road any longer. let's take some votes. not all of them will be easy votes and they should be. after all, that's a we are elected to do, take tough votes. diesel today today though can make a real difference in peoples lives. let's start today. let's pay for this legislation. let's lose -- let's use these that are bipartisan, that are sensible, that can be supported on both sides of the aisle and both bodies. let's ensure that we put in place programs and policies so we aren't just giving people a little more unemployment insurance for a few months, but giving an opportunity to get a job and the dignity and self-respect that comes with the. i urge my colleagues to support my amendment, pay for this legislation. put politics aside and get to work for the american people. yield back my time, mr. president. >> senate minority leader mitch mcconnell spoke wednesday about the state of the senate in front of about 35 of his gop colleagues. no dem

the american people want an extension for unemployed americans. the president wants an unemployed americans. the democrats want an extension for unemployed americans. the republicans are the only ones stopping an extension in the hall of congress. nobody is going to get taxed anymore. no one is going to have money taken way from them. the wealthiest americans will live the same as they did yesterday, tomorrow. do you want the republicans want a recovery before the midterms? do you think they want another nine months of private sector job growth going into the midterm? they don't want any of that. they're trying to butcher this economy. they're trying to torpedo it. they're trying to bring as much anguish as they can on americans so they can blame the democrats and president obama. he's the failure, right? i find it hilarious that the republicans are now coaching the unemployed in this country on what their tone should be. their tone should be one of tremendous anger, i think, because there have been nothing but concrete walls put in front of the d

to cross-talk the worst american presidents i'm joined by my guest samuel put the leakey zero in moscow he is the president of the preparing global leaders foundation and a visiting professor at georgetown university in washington we have doug he is a presidential historian and a former white house advisor to two american presidents and in boston. we cross to robert near he is a core lecturer in history at columbia university all right gentlemen welcome to the program crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i'd like to go to doug first in washington you know lot of people when you look at presidents the history of the presidency it's either thumbs up or thumbs down or you forget everybody else where is barack obama standing these days lot of people call me a lame duck already we know his public opinion poll numbers are low is he going to be in the bottom rank. it's too early to say he's going to be a very significant presidents because he's the first african-american president so it's going to be a real linchpin in history so i don't know that historian

believed in americans. he gave americans an opportunity and he let them know, if i can give you this opportunity, i know you'll do the rest. i want to recognize someone who was a former colleague today as well because she's a fighter and she believes in america and that's gabby giffords, former colleague from arizona. this is the anniversary of the day she was gunned down and nearly died in arizona. she was doing her work as a member of congress. talking to her constituents. she continues to fight. she believes in america. and so for all those different reasons, whether it's l.b.j. or gabby giffords, we have a reason to believe that we will win this fight against poverty, to give every american a chance. we want to thank all those americans who are working very hard to do that. i have good news for so many americans who are trying to have not just job security but also hate security -- health security. some nine million americans we can say today don't have to worry about health security and that's because