>> bill: which i absolutely did, mike. >> bill: but everybody knows that mike.oing for the subtle deals. not everybody knows about mary tyler moore, things like that. >> bill: if you buy pinheads and patriots for your dad you get a free keychain, seals 1, bin laden 0. i love the keychain, i love the bumper sticker. >> bill: i appreciate that father. to round out your collection, i'm sending you the patriot polo shirt so you can keep cool during those hot arizona summer days that is a nice shirt. i have two, really nice. >> bill: none. i have to draw the line somewhere. >> finally pinheads and patriots actor james arness died last friday he was 88-years-old. we had the last interview with him. you are on tvland and you still gemayel, right? >> we get e-mail that you wouldn't believe. it keeps increasing. we get maybe 100 e-mails a week. >> bill: do you know why? because people need heroes these days mr. arness. and you're a hero. as an actor on the screen and as a real guy, fighting for your country. mr. arness was a patriot. full interview with the actor now pos

bill?ll: technology in crime labs is so sophisticated as we all know from watching csi and these programs they can pinpoint exactly what chemicals were in the car. what exactly was in the car? have they made that case? >> you know, that is what they were arguing over all day today. in my opinion, i think that they had a very strong case. you know, more than 200 chemical compounds that were pulled out of the trunk. and then they ruled out a what could have been gasoline. what could have been groceries and some other things in the trunk. he said that the strongest elements that come across as being human decomposition that there is seven of them and all seven of them were found in the car and couldn't be cross-referenced with anything else. >> bill: that's pretty damning. >> i would have to agree with you. >> bill: you are watching the jury listen to all of, this right? that's part of your job. >> um-huh. >> bill: you have got to take the measure of the jury. when i covered the simpson trial

bill o'reilly is next. good night from washington. >> bill: "the o'reilly factor" is on. tonight: >> i am deeply regretting what i have done and i am not resigning. >> bill: how much damage is congressman anthony weiner doing to the democratic party? is it substantial? karl rove has some thoughts. also, should republicans back away from the weiner scandal? charles krauthammer will weigh in on that. >> we have set a path that will lead us to long-term economic growth. but we have still got some enormous growth to do. >> bill: president obama meeting with german chancellor merkel today. there is very bad news for the president in a new abc poll. we have the numbers and some of them are shocking. >> the media says breitbart lies. breitbart lies. breitbart lies. give me one example of a provable lie, one? >> bill: the guy who broke the weiner story andrew breitbart has been savagely attacked for doing. so mr. breitbart will be here. caution, you where to enter the no spin zone, the factor begins right now. captions by closed captioning services >> hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thank

not just on the patent bill but on the e.p.a. bill as well. and so when i come to the floor and hear folks talking about cut-go, i wonder what happened to the serious conversations that we were going to have here on the floor? i wonder where the seriousness about improving the bills that are coming to the floor went? because as you know, mr. chairman, this cut-go issue is one that was created solely because, solely because the way the bill was reported out of committee and the way the manager's amendment impact it create a technical cut-go violation. technical cut-go violation. ask a freshman member of congress i'll tell you there is a technical cut-go violation in the manager's amendment. does it spend one dollar, does it spend one dollar that the federal government wasn't going to spend anyway? no. does it cost the american taxpayer $1? the answer's no. i'll be happy to yield to the ranking member. mr. conyers: $1.1 billion. that's not technical, my friend. it would spend $1.1 billion. mr. woodall: reclaiming my time. that's what tubbles me

we are in this bill, in all the appropriations bills, mr. chairman, brought to the house for the first time, this new republican majority, this conservative majority is for the first time, money that has been left in the treasury unspent in previous years was just spent in other areas. for the first time, under the leadership of chairman hal rogers of kentucky, our subcommittee and other subcommittees are returning that unspent money back to taxpayers to reduce the deficit. chairman rogers and the leadership of the house, speaker boehner, our republican leadership, all of us are committed to bringing the nation -- doing everything in our power to get back to a balanced budget, to reduce federal spending to bring the size, scope, and cost of the federal government back under control. while we recognize our responsibility to fully fund and take care of our troops in military construction of our veterans through the veterans' affairs, through the hospitals, through the v.a., we also have an obligation to manage the money in a way that's fiscall

this bill insists upon real reform. reform in how the department justifies its budget, reform on how fema manages first responder grants and reform on how fema, the department and the administration budget for the cost of disaster relief. number two, on security the bill includes nearly $150 million worth of targeted investments above the budget request for security operations. the frontline programs that are among the most critical at keeping our nation secure and these activities that directly counter recent terrorist attacks and address known threats. on disaster relief i have seen firsthand what natural disasters can do over the past few weeks and i can tell you that my constituents in alabama are expecting fema to get it right. so this bill picks up where where we left off -- up from where we left off and provides an increase of $850 million above the request and within the budget for fema's disaster relief fund to address the known and expected cost of disasters in f.y. 2012. and as we added with unanimously in ou

bill. bill: steve, thank you. alisyn: turning to forensics in the casey anthony murder trial, what the prosecution plans to introduce just moments from now. we're going to ask an excellent expert legal panel about all of this. bill: they're living in the country illegally. but california is giving them a big break on a college tuition. today, the supreme rules on a controversial immigration law. we'll hear from the court. alisyn: she set out for a friday night on the town with friends. twenty-year-old lauren spier has not been seen since. >> when is -- this is what it takes in a situation like this, when someone is missing, we know that someone, somewhere, had the information and knows what happened. one, they are either going to maybe tell somebody or mention something to somebody, or someone that was with them, let thembuilt bye know. bill: we have now found a tkpwroeft town where a small american city used to be, residents fleeing hamburg, ohio, fearing the river might be about to burst and the army corps of en

to pay that bill. that is what the debt ceiling is. it needs to be raised. president obama did not take a dime from medicare advantage. it is like hmo. insurance companies were dispersing the medicar advantage. he took the waste from the insurance company and put it back into medicare to expand medicare for an additional 12 years. guest: i think you made my point. you said that president obama did not take a dime out of medicare advantage. he did not take a dime. the speaker pro tempore: on this vote theys are 233. the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 234, the noes are 183, the question of consideration is decided in the affirmative. without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. the speaker: the house will be in order. the house will be in order. the gentleman from new york. is recognized for one hour. >> thank you, mr. speaker. for the purposes of debate only, i yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from colorado, mr. polis, pending which i yield myself such

to work on this bill, five years, in the time that it has taken to work on this bill, the company that has the lease right now, has drilled 400 wells around the world. not in the united states, not creating u.s. jobs here, not creating u.s. energy, but working abroad. and if we are going to set this country toward energy security, i've said it before and continue will say -- to say it, we have to recognize the national importance of allowing exploration to occur. exploration permits, activities that will take 35 to 45 days. >> will the gentleman yield? mr. gardner: i'll yield. >> i think you have a very good point on the balkanization. we have these federal waters, the outer continental shelf, we have a lot of oil reserves and we're trying to explore, trying to produce more oil. mr. whitfield: if this amendment is adopted, different states can have different rules so that will complicate things. and we already have a situation where we have different agencies of the federal government issuing these permits. in some areas we have the department of interior. in other areas we have e.p.a.

those bills are important. even in a state like california, when they thought they had it right the first among financial data, they had to come back later and deal with medical bridge notification as well. thank you very much. >> thank you. as a student of john dingell, i will recognize myself for the first five minutes with a yes or no required at each of you. mr. goldman, if the existence of so many state standards -- is the existence of so many state measures an impediment to notification? >> yes. >> yes. >> yes. >> should not be. >> would a single federal standard lessen the risk of unnecessary notices sent every year? >> yes. >> yes. >> yes. .> no >> do you think consumers can be desensitized to risk if they receive thune notifications? >> yes. >> yes. >> yes. >>. >> even airing on the side of caution? >> yes. >> yes. >> no. >> do businesses ever air on the side of the fighting -- do businesses ever err on the side of caution? >> yes. >> yes. >> i do not know. >> repeat the question to request should comp

we still have a met increase in this bill. -- net increase in this bill. there is going to be a lot of discussion on lots of different accounts and one is the w.i.c. account. the women, infant, and children account. something that i'm very concerned about. something that all of our committee has always supported on a bipartisan basis. but last year there was some money taken out of it $562 million to settle a lawsuit which had nothing to do with school nutrition. a lot of the critics are going to be saying, w.i.c. has never been cut. last year the obama administration cut w.i.c. $562 million. madam speaker, i yield myself two more minutes. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. kingston: i yield two more minutes. the chair: additional two minutes. mr. kingston: usda numbers show that w.i.c. participation has dropped 300,000 from february, 2010 to february 2011. yet we are still funding it at 8.7 million people. we do not intend for anybody to fall through the cracks. if there is a shortage, there are three discretionary accounts that we can draw

it is a bill. i have seen it. she's asked me to cosponsor it. i have dekhraeupbd. it is -- i have declined. it is a bill. it is a major bill that has jurisdiction, that will find its jurisdiction in not one committee -- not the small business committee -- but in five committees, have jurisdiction over the aspects of senator snowe's bill. one of the reasons that we shouldn't vote favorably, not because we're not for reg reform, is because this bill has ramifications that go far beyond the small business committee, of which i chair, and it goes to about five or six other committees that need to have a look at the provisions in her bill. that's one reason. we've asked to go through the committee process. number two, there are at least, to my knowledge, four other bills that attempt to fix this overregulatory reach, which i agree with senator thune, i agree with senator coburn, and i agree with senator snowe needs to be tapped down, harnessed. not eliminated, but tapped down and harnessed and made less

the position on the bill, we have been very active on this bill, as have our c.c.a. alleys there in sacramento. as you all know, the sfpuc has a strong lobbying presence in sacramento, particularly as one of the water agencies. when we speak, they do listen. the long i was describing before, it was very, very broad, and we were aposed. i let the legislators know that as it was drafted, it was a disastrous bill. that language has been change, and as i noted, it doesn't affect us anymore. our current position is neutral, and does not mean support. the legislators know that. we are watching it very closely, and should the language get modified to a point where it would start to adversely effect the c.c.a., we can change our position and start weighing in more heavily. right now we are working extremely hard on the bill that we have sponsored of sb-970. supervisor campos: are there other jurisdictions opposed to the bill and seeing this as the bill potentially having some detrimental impacts, is there anything wrong with us sharing those concerns, or is it the fact that

bill is a jobs bill. it was created as a jobs bill. it has been a jobs bill since 1965, signed by every president, passed by every congress, never loaded down with amendment after amendment that's not germane, that weighs it down. and i hope that the people at home will pay attention to this. and i will say this, this is a p-t tenure. this isn't the first bill. toiled you the -- i told you the small business bill same thing, f.a.a. bill sitting over there, no conferees. patent bill no action and millions of skwrors are at stake -- millions of jobs are at stake. i just found out about the small business bill they killed here a few weeks ago. over the lifetime of the program it's provided assistance to 26,000 firms to help them get started. and that bill was filibustered to death. i don't get it, except if what i say is true, and that's what the motivation is -- it's all i can come up with. i have looked into the hearts of my friends and wondered how could they do this. they voted for this bill in committee. why would they load it up lik

that battle continues, bill. >> bill: sure does. breaking news now, we've got the picture, the former imf, now leaving court only moments ago, he walked in side by side with his wife and he leaves with her as well, after entering a plea of not guilty. he will now go back to house arrest in lower manhattan, where he has spent the last several weeks, several different charges read against him, the judge asked how do you plead, he said not guilty and with that, the man known as dsk and his former country of france and former head of the imf, a hugely important job for globe at economics, now since resigning from that position, will await his trial, which is expected to get underway in mid july. that was the request from his attorneys only moments ago. dsk enters his plea moments ago in new york city. alisyn: extreme weather to tell you about, a second partial breach now opening on a levy along the swollen missouri river and evacuations at this hour are underway. the new breach is located in northwest missouri, near the state's border w

intent -- and yet of the bill. we built -- the general intent of the bill. this concludes my statement. >> thank you, madam chairman. i appreciate the opportunity to provide comments on some of the related bills wanted a's agenda i am accompanied by mr. walter hall, who is the general counsel. i apologize for the tardiness of our oral statements and appreciate your indulgence. va supports the extension of eligibility for health care coverage for children until the age of 26. this would bring va's health care benefits for children in line with coverage available by the private sector under the affordable care act, which was enacted last year. this is an important program that will benefit all the 60,000 children of veterans. we appreciate the intent of f666, the dramatic brain injury and care act of 2011 which would require the secretary to provide a report. we appreciate the concerns about making these viable services available. i am pleased to report that we are expanding our service is by establishing enhanced su

so there is no way to make this bill better. and the bill, as written, mr. speaker, in my opinion, is morally indefensible. instead of making investments in our nation's agriculture and anti-hunger programs, this bill slashes funds for w.i.c., csfp, and the food safety programs. those aren't just meaningless acronyms. c.i.c. is the women, infant and children's program. funds from w.i.c. provide food and nutrition education to pregnant women, newborn children and kids up to 5 years of age. csfp is the commodities supplemental food program. it helps put food on the tables of america's senior citizens. there's the emergency food assistance program, providing assistance to food banks dealing with decreased donations and increased demands? these difficult times. pl-480 prvidse american grown food to hungry and impoverished people around the world. it's known as food for peace. and the food safety programs protect our citizens from food borne bacteria like e. coli and salmonella. taken together, cuts in domestic antibiotic hunger programs total more than half a bi

bill. either way, zach is graduating this weekend sunday in the middle of exam week. so we appreciate the fact you stand 24 hours to make the trip down here to hear this testimony. i'm pleased to report that this bill now has 25 cosponsors equally divided between democrats and republicans. as was reported in one main newspaper, zach and his classmates each assigned to place a social issue and act upon it. on january 5 at this year, to raise awareness about the imperatives of proper decorum and respect of military funerals and this is when the supreme court case pending with snyder versus wealth, arranged a public seminar that true 400 individuals on a cold night and brought attention not just in maine, but nationwide. i went to partially thank you for your patriotic initiative and being with us today. your inspirational love of country and advocacy is a uniform speak well, not just of you in your generation, that the future of america. factor in his classroom project into a strong statement

he's no bill clinton. he doesn't have that sort of charm. bill clinton was the come back kid. i'm not sure that anthony wiener is. >> howard, quickly compare wiener to clinton. >> well, i guess if anthony wiener's forced to resign in the history of sex scandals nobody will have gotten less for greater sacrifice. >> howard fineman and eugene robinson, the line of the night. so far it belongs to howard fineman. thank you both for joining me tonight. >>> later in the show, we will unveil a new segment, the media circus that msnbc missed. we will travel back in time and imagine what it would have been like if this network existed when jennifer flowers had her bombshell news conference about her relationship with presidential candidate bill clinton. >>> also, the republican lies about taxes. now that tim pawlenty has come out with a crazy tax plan, will mitt romney be forced to come out with an even crazier tax plan? former michigan governor joins me next as the romney campaign heads into her state. this is the aarp... >>> coming up in one early and therefore meaningless poll, mitt

but i mentioned before, this bill is primarily an administrative bill. it is delegating to the state lands commission, making these trust exchanges. ultimately, there will be a lot of staff work and tidal research to verify the status and get them from this map to the second. this is not really a matter that needs to be written into state law, the mechanism where the land commission can address these issues as they go by. this is particularly important as we move forward with the development initiatives we have, the waterfront site that we're negotiating before the city development, and for the 20th street building. these are mechanisms that will help us finish those processedes. there are sort of two issues that we are looking at, that have to be resolved before this is finalized. they both have to essentially do with the trust money and historic buildings. the first is some of these lands seem to be non-trust land, but they're still held by the port, and the harbor fund is essentially a trust assets. so what happens with this money. at the land commiss

this is something new in my bill and also it's new from the rush bill. how do you see this provision playing out for members or people who don't understand, this is basically forcing industry to get rid of information that perhaps they would like to keep. it's not a decision they make. it's a mandated mandate, that is included in the bill as i understand it. so the question is, how do you see this provision playing out? what what role, do you believe, if any, the f.t.c. should have in ensuring companies are complying? you have the mandate. companies may not agree. if they don't do it, how are you going to check it and how are you going to make them comply? >> what the commission advocates is companies that retain information that they have a legitimate business need to retain. >> who determine that's? >> and they -- >> whormes that? zi think we apply a reasonable standardness -- >> kind of standard? >> reasonableness standard that the f.t.c. employed throughout the course of its enforcement in this arena. >> so this reasonable standard in your mind has b

and the reason i bring it to this bill is because this is a bill for rule changes. and it requires 67 votes for this to pass. i understand that we have heard some concerns from the congressional research service, but with the work that the government accounting office has done and will do, it will be very easy for them to look at the results of the government accounting office and their list of duplications -- and it's very straightforward. it's less than 100 pages. and they can see and then they can advise the congress on what we have. if we cannot depend on the congressional research service to tell us where we have multiple programs when that is available from the government accounting office and list what their intentions and what their budgets are, then we need to relook at the government -- the congressional office and what it does. they do great work for me. we ask them for things all the time and they do great. this is something that they can accomplish. it is going to get easier as we go forward. but without this knowledge of what we are already doing we wi

from the health care bill. they now are saying well, it's good for all of you folks but it's not so good for us. that should raise red flags so i'm so pleased to be here tonight with my colleagues to be able to have this conversation with the seniors, mr. speaker. they need to know the truth. they need to know that we want to preserve medicare. we want to make medicare better for us, for our children and their children and that's what this is about and i yield back and thank you for this time. mr. roe: i thank the gentlelady for yielding. and who more than anyone that the health caucus and physicians caucus wouldn't want to maintain medicare, and what one of my frustrations i've had in this body is how do you solve a problem if you can't discuss it? and right now we're not even able to discuss in a logical way how we reform medicare. and those medicare changes, we've only mentioned a few of them, i might add. there are many others in here in 2012, that will be just next year. there will be medicare cuts to dial

based on the delay and finalizing the 2011 bill and the resources provided in that bill for d.h.s. headquarters construction activities the cost of the headquarters has grown. it's grown by $20 million from a cost of $3.4 billion to $3.6 billion. the decision to deny another $159.6 billion in 2012 to finalize construction of the first phase of the new headquarters project and to begin construction on the second phase will result in yet higher costs. in the outyears. and delay by at least two years. when the coast guard can move into its new headquarters facility, which is already under construction. similarly, the bill doesn't provide $55.6 billion requested for lease consolidation activities. last year this subcommittee held a very informative hearing with d.h.s. and the general services administration on this activity. we heard testimony about the significant financial benefits of reducing the number of leases d.h.s. has from 70 buildings across 46 locations in the greater d.c. area to six to eight buildings. witnesses testified that this massive footprint disrupts the effectiven

we don't even have a method of collecting taxes and paying our bills. and the national debt at the time of the country, wait for him, was a staggering $50 million. i know you can't conceive of a government deal, that kind of national debt. that was their problem. they didn't have a national debt, judiciary, cabinet, they said why don't we -- we're a vessel just launched. why don't we see and wait and see what works and what doesn't work to consider the bill of rights. they were from states where they didn't have very strong anti-federalist present. they didn't appreciate the threat that the constitution posed by government that didn't protect these rights. >> now in your book "founding rivals" do you discuss george mason? because i understand george mason is the father of the bill of rights. is that not correct? >> he certainly can claim some sort of parentage to the bill of rights. when virginia is a first state to become independent, they blare independence a couple of months ahead of the national government. they have a virginia convention, they inst

that is just efficient in this bill -- deficient in this bill. i would urge this -- i know down in the weeds, it's a little bit nerdy, we've spent many years talking about this in the judiciary committee, i'm just so regretful that this bill, after so many years, has gone sideways in the last two days and is something that we cannot embrace and -- embrace and lebrate. i would reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentlewoman reserves. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. smith: i yield two minutes to the gentleman from arkansas, mr. griffin, who is also a member of the intellectual property subcommittee of the judiciary committee. the chair: the gentleman from arkansas is recognized for two minutes. mr. griffin: thank you, mr. chairman. i rose today in strong support of h.r. 1249, the america invents act, and i urning my colleagues to support it. make no mistake, the america invents act is a jobs bill. at no cot to taxpayers, this legislation builds on what we as americans do best. we innovate. bolstering american innovation will

spending bill. some information about our live coverage tomorrow, and environmental committee, we will hear about the nuclear regulatory commission safety review. there are five members of the commission including the chairmen. at 7:30 eastern time, it is a republican leadership conference. speakers include newt gingrich, who is running for the republican presidential nomination. we are expecting the house shortly for more debate on agricultural spending. >> as we wait for the house to come in, a story from the associated press. house leaders will meet to discuss the next step with anthony wiener, who will not resign. they could strip him of his committee assignments. the new york congressman has taken a two-week leave from the house. he is in treatment at an undisclosed location. he is charged with sending sexually explicit photographs of himself to women. more debate on agricultural amendment spending. the chair: the committee will be in order. the house is in the committee of the whole house in t

this is why it is so inexplicable that the underlying bill as well as bill after bill brought by the republican majority to this floor make cuts after huge cuts to people's programs, not corporate programs, not programs that hit wall street, but people's programs. and again, today, in this agricultural spending bill we are targeting cuts that hit women, infants, children and seniors in hawaii and nationwide. in my district in hawaii 19.5% of our residents experience food hardship in the last year. let me repeat. nearly one in five people in my district did not have enough money to buy food that they and their family needed in 2010. today's bill will cut crucial nutrition programs for thousands of hawaii's most vulnerable and hundreds of thousands of -- across the country. and while the richest in our country continue to get billions in tax breaks and the oil companies continue to get their billions in tax breaks, why are we balancing the budget on the backs of women, infants, children and seniors? first today's bill makes a $650 million cut to the women, infants and children, w.i.c.,

intense discussion with bill. steve i talked to and he basically says, hey, you know, the book portrays, you know, the ball i know and, you know, the events that you recount there, you know, did happen. >> no one has challenged any facts in the book? >> no, no. no one has gone on record. >> now, when you meet with bill, can we tape it? [laughter] >> can we just tape it and see what happens? >> what channel is that the going to go on www.app -- i'm kidding. i'm kidding. >> this is good. this is good. [laughter] >> and not to get all bill gates about this but let me just ask you this question, can you take us back, you know, at that moment when -- you were in tenth grade. he was in the eighth grade and he was in the lake side school, north seattle. >> right, yes. >> what was it like -- why did you think you guys would click? what was the thing that you thought, all right, this guy is interesting? >> well, there's some picture of bill and me slaving over a teletype and there's some examples downstairs here in the mus

40-page bill? 29-page bill. we have a 29-page bill that will create tens of thousands of jobs, and we have the first amendment offered by my good friend, 700 pages, not one hearing, and it repeals all kinds of protections for the public health. i don't get it. there's only one thing that i can get with all these amendments. we have amendments on the debt ceiling that have nothing to do with this bill. this bill will create income for taxpayers because when jobs are created and people work, they pay their fair share of taxes. this bill does not deserve to be treated this way. when it passed almost unanimously out of the committee and it is totally bipartisan and it's been in place for almost 50 years. but yet and still, that's where we are. every senator has the right to do what he or she wants. they can play games, they can have fun. but you know what i care about? the people i represent. and, mr. president, they need jobs. i care about them whether in kentucky, california, or maryland. any state in this union.

and opposition to this bill. h.r. 672 would eliminate the one federal agency that's focused on finding best practices for elections. that will make it that much harder for the supervisor of elections in palm beach county, florida, to learn that the registrar of voters in fresno county, california, figured out a way to process paper ballots so they would run more smoothly, representing a 25% savings in election costs. in my home, bear county, the elections administrator learned from an e.a.c. instructional video, a new tuck neak -- video a new technique that will save our county $100,000 per year. that's $100,000 in savings from one county, from one e.a.c. instructional video. and we have more than 8,000 election jurisdictions in the united states. but the savings don't stop there. the recount for minnesota's 2008 senate race was estimated to cost the state as much as $5 million and the candidates around $20 million. worse, the people of minnesota were deprived of one of their senators for six of the most turbulen

the bill allows the p.t.o. to set or assess all of its fees, including those related to patents and trademark, so long as they do no more than reasonably compensate the agency for the services performed. the choice that we are abandoning the oversight of our process, i urge the members to review the oversight mechanisms in the bill. for example, prior to setting such fees, the director must give notice to and receive input from the patent or trademark public advisory committee. the director may also reduce fees for any given fiscal year, but only after consultation with the advisory committee. the bill details the procedures for how the director shall consult with the advisory committees which include provides for public hearings and the dissemination to the public of any recommendations made by either advisory committee. fees shall be prescribed by rule. any proposed fee change shall be published in the federal register and include the specific rationale and purpose for other purposes the proposed change. the

the american legion supports this bill. it recommends that a provision be added to the bill. this concludes my statement. i will be pleased to answer any questions you may have. >> thanks. >> members of the committee, on behalf of the disabled american veterans, please to be here today to present our views. we impact almost every be a business line -- va business line. many bills under consideration address important gaps in services. numerous legislations weren't passed mandating support on many issues under consideration by this -- were passed mandating support on many issues under consideration by this committee. it is essential but they do so in a manner that doesn't have a negative effect on the existing programs and services. the veteran affairs cannot be all things to survivors and members if some forces are not stable. and must allow v.a. the time and resources to properly plan how best to deliver the services authorized by congress to a deserving population. our members are acutely aware and grateful veterans programs have been evident from generous increases and hav

the bill is adopted. the bill is passed. without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the unfinished business is the question on agreeing to the speaker's approval of the jurem which the chair will put de novo. the question is a greigg to the spomplee of the journal. so many as are in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the journal stands approved. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. please clear the floor. please cease your conversations. please clear the floor. the house will be in order. please remove your conversations from the floor. please cease your conversations. remove them from the floor. for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that the committee on house administration be discharged from further consideration of senate joint resolution 7, and ask for its immediate consideration in the house. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the

not on this bill. move the house appropriations bill on homeland security immediately. thank you. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan rise? without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, i rise today to express my growing concern regarding the events unfolding in syria. president assad has repeatedly refused to usher in democratic reforms for his people and instead has chosen to continue his indiscriminate killings of innocent men, women, and children. his ruthless campaign of brew tality has shifted to northern syria where syrian security forces led by president assad's brother have instilled fear in the residentsment many of those innocently protesting for reform and freedom have been gunned down and many more have fled their homes, leaving all belongings and possessions behind. mr. peters: with a complete ban on the entry of foreign journalists into the country, it is nearly impossible to determine just how dire the circumstances are. however with the thousands

if the bill does not achieve that threshold, the bill be returned to the calendar. upon disposition of the matter, the senate proceed to s. res res.116, and relevant amendments be in order. finally, the senate proceed to vote on adoption of the resolution, as amended, if amended. the presiding officer: is there an objection? without objection. mr. reid: madam president, this means that senators will not need to obtain unanimous consent prior to setting aside pending amendments. i would also say i wanted to hold off saying anything about this until we got this agreement, but madam president, the work done on this bill by senator schumer and alexander has been work that has been ongoing for years, and it took their partnership working together as the two men that were on the rules committee, to move this forward. it has been very, very hard to get from here to there. i have every bit of confidence that we will move forward and do for the first time in decades a streamlining of how presidential nominations are approved. this is good. this is what we talked about doing

and the bill is budget neutral. these are important security and reliability issues and the last congress -- and former defense secretary, national security advisers and cia directors. they feel the changes made by this bill are critical to our national security. i look forward to hearing from today's witnesses though we are likely to hear some against providing authority to address these serious threats. we work across the aisle in the last congress to develop legislation. i hope today marks the beginning of a similar process in this congress. the grid act is too important to allow special interests to weaken its effectiveness. the committee needs to act to protect the electric grid. cyberattack and direct physical attack and electromagnetic pulses and solar storms. thank you. >> thank you. today we have three panels of witnesses. on the first panel we have two members of congress, trent franks of arizona and mr. jim langevin of rhode island. we appreciate both of you being here very much. i will recognize trent fr

i submit almost in every case your water bill, your cable bill, your garbage bill, your utilityity bill, certainly the price of gasoline now is a lot higher than it was in 2008. nonetheless you got the same amount of money. so it's going to have draconian impact, this bill, and underlying bill, on the department of agriculture and food and drug administration. so i'm concerned, i think the gentleman is very intended to protect the programs that i care a great deal about, but i think the 5.8% across-the-board cut on top of what we have already cut is just too much. yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from pennsylvania. so many as are in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the noes have it. the noes have it. the amendment is not agreed to. the gentleman from pennsylvania. mr. holden: i ask for the yeas and nays. the chair: the gentleman ask for a recorded vote? mr. holden: question. the chair: pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from

if i pretended the one dollar bills were hundred dollar bills and we did the math i discovered i'd need to get a hold of one hundred ten thousand and one dollar bills to make that stack it was pretend hundred dollar bills to show the salary of that guy from from blue cross blue shield to back across the street and frankly my bank account can't really handle it the stack that the average worker earns would have been a bit over an inch high but the stack of the earnings of the health insurance c.e.o.'s would have been over thirty six the clear up through a couple floors above us in this building i then thought about using these tried blocks to make the point. that the toys r us don't have eleven million and or even one hundred ten thousand white blocks. so instead we're just going to go with this graphic and it looks like our graphics engine can't even illustrate the pay disparity between these two minimum wages keep in mind one inch of hundred dollar bills vs thirty six feet of hundred dollar bills horse these two stacks are more than just numbers and pictures they translate into a lifes

we moved and we passed the bill. what we have before us now is a continuation of a very misguided policy by the republicans. let me remind you of this same scenario that was carried out to cut medicare. it's all been cutting programs, cutting efforts to respond to the basic needs of the american people. now, my issue is this. if my republican friends were very sincere about what they were doing and let me qualify that because i don't want my words taken down, but sincerity is a very important word here. and my sincerity point is this, if they were sincere, why would they advocate cutting the very programs that the american people need at the time, and at the same time saying we're in such dire budget consequences but yet, we can give billionaires and millionaires $2.5 trillion, but yet, we cannot adequately fund the cftc to go in and have the power to put forward the very controls needed so that we will never have the kind of meltdown that we had before. that is the hypocrisy here, mr. speaker. that's what the americ

paying your bills. they ran up the debt and now they don't want to pay their bills. january 19, 2001, bill clinton said goodbye to the country. a $5.7 trillion surplus onhand. $2.3 trillion in tax cuts, a war in iraq over weapons of mass destruction, a drug prescription benefit called part d, and they're talking about who owes the bill. this is about responsibility. this is about those v.a. centers. this is about their men's and women in iraq that needs to be equipped with the best possible weaponry. this is about paying the credit card bill that has come in for what they did for all of those years. i would debate any member of the republican party, you choose the forum. in the house and the senate. and we'll go through what those eight years were about. count me in. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from michigan, mr. levin, reserves. the gentleman from michigan, mr. camp, is recognized. mr. camp: well, thank you. i'm certainly concerned about the last eight years but i'm more concerned about the last two. i think we have the t