it's not only a farm bill, it's a trade bill, it's a hunger bill, a conservation bill, deficit reduction bill, it's also a job creation bill. we passed a bipartisan bill twice in the senate. we had the republicans and democrats. we each had to give some but we did it. we assured a farm bill that supports nation farmers, rural communities, alleviates hunger, reforms commodity programs, ends trade destroying policy, creates jobs and saves taxpayers $24 billion. not bad. on dairy, farmers across the country support a margin insurance program. one that has to work in tandem with the market stabilization program. i hear this from the kitchen tables to the high school gymnasiums in the farm areas, agriculture areas in my state. we've done that in the senate bill. farmers remember the dairy crisis of 2009. they know the insurance program alone is not enough. if we don't have stabilization, we're going to cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of additional dollars, virtually guarantee another dairy crisis, will put people out of business. so there's a number of other things, which i'll put in the

that may be in the senate bill, it's not in this bill. i would yield one minute to the vice chair of the energy and commerce committee, the gentlelady from tennessee, mrs. blackburn. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from tennessee is recognized for one minute. pleakbleak thank you, mr. speaker. i thank -- mrs. blackburn: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank the chairman for the superb job he has done on bringing h.r. 3350 to the floor. and i thank him for listening to millions of americans who have been so forthright in saying, we do not want the president's health care law, it is destroying our access to the health care that we like, it is taking away our health care plans. never has there been a federal mandate who has just swept so many people aside and said, you must buy this product. some of you have asked why we're doing this. let me tell you why. we're doing it for my constituentses like caroline and lucie and cindy and wilma, all small business owners, all female heads of households who have written us and have said, we are bein

speaker, this bill is an important bill. it will create opportunity to put thousands of workers to work. creating the infrastructure that this country has needed for some time due to the energy boom in natural gas. i encourage my colleagues to vote yes on the rule and yes on the underlying bill. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. mr. mcgovern: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to thank the gentleman from texas for yielding me the time. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. mcgovern: i also rise in opposition to this rule and the underlying bill. mr. speaker, it appears that this republican-controlled house of representatives is incapable of doing anything that matters in people's lives. when the history is written on the 113th congress, especially as it pertains to the house of representatives, they have accomplished nothing. they have made a lot o

this bill is a 6-year process. you have to pass a background check, pay backfine, backtaxes and speak english. after six years you apply a second time for provisional status, and then after 10 to 12 years you can file to become a legal permanent resident. you have to be in the country the entire time. you have to go through all of these different ways to earn the citizenship and make sure you have not broken any laws. if you have been employed during the entire time, we ought to be looking at a pathway to citizenship to get people out of the shadows and coming forward to be part of her solution on the economy, part of the solution on medicaid and social security. >> you mentioned you are a veteran yourself and you are looking at that component on getting those that served in the military on a pathway. what are you hearing from business leaders, people in the agriculture community and undocumented immigrants living in your california district? >> there has been a lot of uncertainty in california, everything from ag

bill: i'm bill hemmer. we get testimony that 40% of the site on the back end has not been built yet, much less tested? martha: not to worry. just the part where people pay. bill: so the administration blamed many of the sites problems on unexpected number of users. but the email suggests it was expected and they were working on a p.r. campaign to handle the fallout. chief correspondent ed henry broke the news last night. good morning there. you have your hands on the email that suggests that the white house knew more than it led on. >> reporter: right. this is a week before the october 1st launch, september 25th and henry chao, the sort of chief tech guy at cms, the key agency here is emailing on september 25th about a meeting the day before, exactly one week before the october 1st launch and refers to the chief technology officer of the white house, when quote, todd park, and marilyn tavenner, you remember her at r can ns, one of the things todd conveyed was this fear the white house has about hc.gov being

i think bill understood that. and bill all along was an historian. if you look at the 50 odd books he wrote, i added it up and i added up 28 books which either were devoted entirely or partly to works of history. it seems like there's something complete that the final book was the historical book on ronald reagan. i checked with an historian yesterday and i asked him how many books had been written on ronald reagan. you're not going to believe the number. he said as of early last year, 900 books. so, i will submit to you that the reagan i knew is book 901. and if you ask yourself how you can make 901 unique books can the answer is you can't. but this one is unique and my other panelists i'm sure will follow up on this. it is, quite simply, professional love affair between two men. thank you. [applause] >> thank you all for coming out today. i can't -- don't want to lose the lectern here -- i can't be an unbiased commenter on this book. i worked for bill buckley for 39 years. he was my idol, my mentor, my friend, sometimes a royal pain in the ass, but

this is an important bill because it is a reform bill. we are going to reduce spending in this bill by a significant amount, and we will be eliminating dreck, which is a significant reform. -- direct payments, which is a ignificant reform. >> let me give you the last uestion. >> about the agricultural economy, when you're looking at the production trends in the next two years, we have had very high economist rices -- prices, record exports, we are staying at -- are seeing a situation now where the prices are starting to plateau bid they're getting more competitive, but the crops are etting larger. could we be on the verge of a ust? >> i do not think so. we are still having a robust x board year -- export year. that will continue. e are continuing to look for new and creative ways to look for ways to use the agricultural technology in the economy. our flute -- food inflation rate has been just historically low. congress gives very little of that food dollar, which surprises people. congress gets about $.15 of every food dollar spent. there

that could dispose of this bill and pass this bill he today. very straightforward, expeditious way of passing this bill with no delay. mr. president, i said i had a second choice, path forward which i think is very, very reasonable as well related to the national defense authorization act so let me propose this unanimous consent. and i would ask unanimous consent that all remaining time on the motion to proceed to h.r. 3204, the compounding bill, be yielded back, that the senate proceed to h.r. 3204, that the bill be read a third time and passed and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table. i further ask that the senate then proceed to the consideration of s. 1197, the national defense authorization bill, that my amendment which is at the desk be called up and that not withstanding rule 22, my amendment remain in order, that no second-degree amendments to my amendment be in order, and that the amendment be subject to a 60-vote affirmative threshold for passage. sproeup -- the presiding officer: is there objection? mr. h

and so that's why i filed this bill. that's why i'm pushing for a vote on this bill. and getting a vote on that proposal will be a key priority of mine, particularly when we consider the drug compounding bill in the near future and when we consider the department of defense authorization bill. it's going to be my key priority to get a simple vote on that simple proposal. again, i believe that should be a no-brainer that this information, which does involve how taxpayer dhars are being created, which does involve how congressional offices are handing the information, that information one way or the other be made public. don't need to editorialize about it. everybody can make up their own mind about what they think about the underlying issue, about what they think about obamacare, but shouldn't that information be made public? we need to vote on that proposal, and i urge us to move and agree quickly to a vote, either in the context of the drug compounding bill or the defense authorization bill over the next few weeks. those are probably going to be the only opportunitie

sdmshgs i am gregg jarret in for bill hemmer. it is not only for those who lost them but anybody who wants to buy them right now. here is michigan congressman fred upton just moments ago. >> our straightforward one page bill if you like your current coverage you should keep it and the president should heed his own advice and work with the congress as founders intended and not around the legislative process. nchris is our host of power play on fox news.comlive. hi, chris. i have that hr"3 strikes and you're out" 50 in my hands and i need your help understanding it. it allows americans to keep the health care plan even if they don't meet the rules but does it reinstate the cancelled policys for the 5 million people? >> no one can do that except for the insurance companies and the state level regulators and perhaps not even them. perhaps it is too late because you had more than 5 million cancelled policies and it may be too late to turn around. the president got immediate blow back from the partners in the insurance industry what sa

this bill codifies that. but also it says that if you are going to challenge or protest one, this is not the opportunity for citizen input that you have along the process chear step. but if you're actually going to do a challenge of this, you should also pay a fee because this challenge requires extra work and extra expense by the part of the department and that is put at a $5,000 fee. $6,500 to request the permitting process to start, $5,000 if you want to protest it. in my state, unfortunately, we have seen examples where on what i consider to be a whim the president of the administration or department of interior has withdrawn leases that have gone through all those steps i indicated and were effective and were put into motion. first thing this administration did is withdraw 77 leases in utah. it had a catastrophic effect upon the basin in my home state where unemployment skyrocketed immediately after that was done not only because the leases were withdrawn but the private companies that were doing their w

the bill almost certainly will be challenged. bill: thank you.nions make it out of paying a key obamacare insurance tax. we will explain why and how the white house got involved. bill: the reverend billy graham celebrating 95 years. in a new fox news special. >> he is preaching a method many of those who have heard him have heard in one form or another but he does it so compellingly, he makes it seem real in a way that has not been explained to them before. @?? you haven't gotten a hearing aid, because of what you think about hearing aids. but you haven't met lyric. lyric is a completely different way to hear better. it's the world's first and only hearing device that's 100% invisible from any angle. there's absolutely no way anyone could see it, even if they get right up to my ear. lyric's also the world's first and only extended wear hearing aid. it lasts 24/7 for month's at a time. wake up, go to sleep, showering, running. lyric sits comfortably close to your ear drum so you get clear natural sound, not background noise. until you experience

-- farm bill so they can plan accordingly. my district has one of the highest numbers of snap recipients in the nation. most of these recipients are elderly and young, and we cannot allow a chopping block approach to snap to deprive this country's elderly, young, and needy of very basic human sustenance. again, there is a lot of work to be done. i look forward to working with everyone and getting a farm bill reauthorized for the next five years. >> the gentleman yields back. the conferees have before them copies of house bill hr 2642 and the senate amendment. the legal language comparisons in the section by section comparison. as we are about to conclude our business today, does the chairwoman have any concluding comments? >> mr. chairman, i just want to thank you again and thank all of our members. i think we are off to a great start. it is very clear to me that everyone wants to work together and get this done. so we will. i look forward to continuing and completing this process. >> the chairman recognizes himself. i think t

you should this bill. -- under this bill. nothing, nothing by the way, in this legislation, stops individuals from filing lawsuits. that's important in this debate on this amendment. but, h.r. 1965 simply implements a cost recovery fee for the formal process of filing protests of oil and gas leasing. these formal protests require a direct b.l.m. response using staff time, energy, and resources to address what is simply often a delaying tactic. this paperwork recovery fee will ensure that b.l.m. has the resources necessary to address the protest, but has the necessary resources to carry out the functions of the bureau of land management which is for pultpl purpose use in this country. it's for these reasons, mr. chairman, i oppose this amendment because it does not add anything to what people already have a constitutional right to do and i reserve my time. the chair: the gentleman from washington reserves the balance of his time. the gentlewoman from texas is ecognized. ms. jackson lee: i take issue with my good friend from wa

it's not only a farm bill, it's a trade bill, a hunger bill, a conservation bill, a reform bill, innovation bill, deficit reduction bill. it's also a job creation bill. we passed a bipartisan bill twice in the senate. we had -- republicans and democrats, we each had to give some, and we did it. it reforms commodity programs, ends trade distorting policy, creates jobs and saves taxpayers $24 billion. not bad. and on dairy, farmers across the country support an insurance program, but one that has to work in tandem with the mark stabilization program. i hear this from the kitchen tables to the high school gymnasiums in my -- in the farm areas, agriculture areas of my state. we've done that in the senate bill. farmers remember the dairy crisis of 2009. they know an insurance program alone is not enough. if we don't have stabilization, we're going to cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of additional dollars and virtually guarantee another dairy price and put people out of business. so there's a number of other things which i will put in the record. we have to have strong nutrition programs. i th

that's what the bill says. and as for whether there is any damage done, i would point to my friend, this picture. maybe you have little trouble seeing it. but essentially it shows burning tap water. no, this had is not a staged picture. this happened in a residence. this is methane flaming. because the water is full of methane. now, i know my colleagues will say, oh, but that's not because of fracking. there must be some other reason. there must be. well, they haven't found it. they have blamed it on all sorts of other things, but it happens where the fracking is occurring. so if it's a case where the practice has gotten ahead of the science. the practice has gotten ahead of our regulations, has gotten ahead of our understanding. and the idea to reduce regulations and understanding o that we could do it faster is preposterous. this is not the way you protect public health. this is not the way you protect public safety. it is not the way you stimulate the economy. it is false to proceed in disregard for the prot

with this bill the first defense authorization of this bill, we are doing exactly that. we are taking historic action to help service members access the resources they need to seek justice without fear. and, mr. president, one way this bill will do just that, how it will protect our service members and assist victims and punish criminals, is through the inclusion of a bill i introduced across party lines with senator ayotte. our bill, which is included in the base bill, creates a new category of legal advocates called special victims counsels. they would be responsible for advocating on behalf of the interests of the victim. these special victims counsels would advise the victim on the range of legal issues they may face. for example, when a young private first class is intimidated into not reporting a sexual assault by threatening her with unrelated legal charges like underage drinking, this new advocate would be there to protect her and tell her the truth. since january now the air force has provided these advocates to over 500 victims through an innovative new pilot p

more of a memorial inside as well, bill or you'd bill: adam, thank you.dam housley, lots of questions at los angeles today. 10 minutes past the hour. martha: this is a miracle in midair. two airplanes full of skydivers crashed into each other but the ending is nothing short of amazing. bill: also, this pregnant woman attacked in her home while a soldier watched in horror. how he captured the attacker. martha: during their darndest to defend the law as new questions emerge on whether top administration officials lied about the rollout. we will talk about that. >> before obamacare we were having-- >> will those people be able to keep their coverage? i got this. [thinking] is it that time? the son picks up the check? [thinking] i'm still working. he's retired. i hope he's saving. i hope he saved enough. who matters most to you says the most about you. at massmutual we're owned by our policyowners, and they matter most to us. whether you're just starting your 401(k) or you are ready for retirement, we'll help you get there. martha: two planes collided in mida

bill: all right.ite later and president's poll numbers at all-time low and why that word is now vanishing from use, hmmm? martha: two teenage girls accused of bullying this girl who was their friend at one time to death. we will speak live with one of the girls who is going to be here with her attorney, jose baez. bill: plus remembering the moment today, 50 years since the assassination of president john f. kennedy. in a moment the effect of that event today on our nation and the world. >> the president of the united states is dead. i have just talked to father oscar hubert of the holy trinity catholic church. he and another priest tell me that the pair of men have just administered the last rites of the catholic church to president kennedy. president kennedy has been assassinated. it is official now. the president is dead. ♪ it's going to cost me an arm and a leg. you shoulda taken it to midas. they tell you what stuff needs fixing, and what stuff can wait. high-five! arg! brakes, tires, oil, everyth

bill: a fox news alert. kathleen sebelius answers questions before a senate committee this morning and you will see live. good morning. it's going to be a big day for this law today. martha: lawmakers are releasing 100 pang -- 100 pages of notes. the documents show what happened at administration officials started to scramble when they realized healthcare.gov had more problems than they realized. >> reporter: a week into this rollout none of the known fixes were working. they were basically calling audibles behind the scene. here is something from october 8 dealing with the identity management system which is one of the first things users deal with. it says the idm fix is taking longer than expected. it's a new take on how to fix the problem implemented today. yesterday mayor taken -- yesterday marilyn tavenner explained none of the fed saw this coming. >> we anticipated high volume, then we ran into the issue with the establishment of the e-mail accounts. so we had a problem solve for that. those were two t

bill? 2 happened very quickly. they got their warnings. a lot of people got down in the basements to safety. there is a tale of one man who said he covered up his daughter and in an instant the house above them was gone. we heard from other people they were off at church. they heard a tornado made a direct hit in this neighborhood. they returned home of the scene people wander and searching through their belongings. here is what one of them had to say. >> we were one of the lucky once. on the way i saw people blood dripping. people yelling, are you in there? people with axes, knocking stuff to get to people. >> reporter: and as you reported, six people from illinois now reported dead. the hospitals are saying they treated dozens and dozens of people with wound like lacerations, head trauma. most of them battered with all the debris flying through this neighborhood. bill? bill: sometimes when they hit during the day they get more warning as opposed to the middle of the night. how much warnin

our farmers deserve a farm bill. america deserves a farm bill. but i will not support a farm bill that makes hunger worse. and none of us should do that. with that i yield back the balance of my time spent the gentleman yields back to bounce of his time. the chair recognizes the gentleman from montana, senator baucus. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. i deeply appreciate it. all of us spent last week and their home states with the people we work for, and the message was clear that they're not happy with what we are doing here. lost faith that congress can work for them. to our chance he is to begin restoring some of that lost faith. the farm bill is about jobs. we've seen prices, weather -- faced enough unpredictability. they want more certainty and we can deliver it. tomorrow, montana voters will deliver the first shipment of heifers to south dakota ranchers wiped out by the recent storm. i'm proud of that generosity but we shouldn't have to do it alone. -- critical come one of the many areas i think where we all agree. still, our difference

bill: i'm bill hemmer. good morning.t of marines arriving in the philippines, a city of 200,000 flattened by the typhoon. the first outside help to arrive what is shaping up to be a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions. the confirmed death toll nearing a thousand but some 10,000 are feared dead. thousands upon tens of thousands survivors, packing what is left at the airport now. hours now turning into day, waiting for a way to get out. martha: awful situation for people on the ground. we have complete fox team coverage. claudia cowan on the massive relief effort underway in the united states. but first we go to david piper in bangkok. good morning, david. >> hi, martha, yes, the u.s. military is making good president obama's pledge that america will come to the aid of the philippines at this difficult time. as you said a detachment of marines arrived in tacloban, the city devastated by the typhoon. we understand a lost u.s. military planes and ships are used in a massive relief operation. the at same time vietnam woul

bill: a fox news alert. president obama rewriting his most memorable promise that was stated at least 29 times, whether americans can keep the health plains under obamacare. martha: you heard it over and over, both before and after the healthcare overhaul. >> if you like your healthcare plan, you will be able to keep our healthcare plan, period. if you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. [applause] martha: period, right? doesn't seem to leave too much room for interpretation. bill: there are a lot of web sites that link every one of the times it was spoken this way. it was 24-30. listen to what the president said last night in washington, d.c. >> if you had or have one of these plans before the affordable care act came into law and you like that plan, what we said was you could keep it if it hasn't changed since the law passed. bill: there is an f there. how does the president just d there is an if there. >> reporter: this came after weeks of republican complaints that the promise

so we consider this bill. but i would hope that we would defeat the previous question and if we defeat the previous question, then we will bring to this floor a resolution which will say, we shall not adjourn until we have done a budget conference that precludes fiscal crisis, shutting down government a refusal to pay america's debts. that we pass an immigration reform bill that fixes what a broken knows is system, until we bring a farm bill to the floor which will preclude farmers and consumers and those who need nutritional help being put at risk. one additional minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. hoyer: thank you, mr. speaker. i have in my hand a letter, this is not a letter from democrats,s that letter from 13 republicans, leaders, chairs, of subcommittees of the appropriation committee that say to the budget conference committee, bring a solution to the floor before the thanksgiving break and no later than december 2. and yet, ladies and gentlemen -- and yet, l

thanks, bill. bill: 9:00.deral agency responsible for implementing obamacare now saying that they see more problems coming for the troubled enrollment web site. during a conference call, the centers for medicare and medicaid service which now everybody knows as cms, announced that they see some further, quote, stresses on the system downstream. we have the ceo of vital springs technology, a privately-held enterprise software company. welcome. good to have you back on the show. >> thank you. martha: and you have studied these kinds of technological issues with web sites like this. what do you make of that statement that they think it's going to get worse before it gets better? >> the statement is very true, martha. because what oracle and google and this tech surge have been called in to fix is only going to be the user experience in terms of helping them log in. but once you lock in, there's got to be integration between cgi, the company building the web site, the data hub, between federal and state systems to

it's an bill for the high tech industry, it's a worker bill and a bill with components of work verificationverify, border security bill. if you want to take it in parts, but remember one thing, one caveat. give us the main plate we want 11 million lyleizeed. >> to go further with your dining metaphor, don't the courses have to go with one another? when you pass something as comprehensive as immigration reform don't the pieces have to go operative. e verify, going along with taxpayer identification or social security numbers. isn't this better done as one bill than several? >> sure. but guess what, ray, when we controlled the senate and the white house, my party didn't take the matter up. that's the fact. the fact is that we had a referendum on immigration, republicans lost that referendum last november 6th. they should understand that. and democrats have come to the realization is that the reality is they're going to set the agenda. i want to get immigration done. in the end, they have to coordinate with one another. we can do that in parts and pieces as long as in the end there is a full m

this bill, by right, is not only an energy and commerce bill, it's a ways and means bill. but the ways and means committee doesn't get any time to debate this bill. one hour. you mean, we couldn't have two hours of debate and a few amendments, or three hours of debate and a few more amendments or five hours of debate or a whole day of debate, given the fact you didn't hold any hearings on this bill? give me a break. this is not the way to run the house of representatives. this is not the way you promised you would run the house of representatives. and by contrast, the affordable care act, we had hundreds of hours of debate and markups in which republican amendments were actually accepted. now, you may not like the affordable care act, but it went through a process. now, this went through no process. this was just brought up to the rules committee and we're told to bring it right to the floor. this is not a serious attempt to fix the affordable care act. this is a political statement. and i understand the temptation behind it. believe me, no one is more frustrated by the pr

and we and phone bill. do you ever notice the strange charges that pop up on your bills?they and where do they come from? michael finney takes on gray charges. >> mystery charges are costing americans billions of dollars a year. one estimate goes as high as 14 billion. you may have noticed them. charges for $10 and less on your credit card and cell phone bill. >> have you ever figured out what the charges were for? >> no, sometimes there are strange descriptions. >> the taxes or the city, something like that. >> and sometimes it will say texting charges. do you ever receive one of those? what do you do? >> let it go. >> often the charges are not even from the phone companies, but from third parties who pay the phone p cs -- phone companies to do the billing. on phone bills those questionable charges are called cramming because they are crammed on the bills. they are called gray charges because they fall in a morally gray area. >> it is not fraud, but it is not right. >> they started bill guard, a free app that keeps track of your bills looking for these types of charges.

and phone bill. do you ever notice the strange charges that pop up on your bills? what are they and where do they come from? michael finney takes on gray charges. >> mystery charges are costing americans billions of dollars a year. one estimate goes as high as 14 billion. you may have noticed them. charges for $10 and less on your credit card and cell phone bill. >> have you ever figured out what the charges were for? >> no, sometimes there are strange descriptions. >> the taxes or the city, something like that. >> and sometimes it will say texting charges. do you ever receive one of those? what do you do? >> let it go. >> often the charges are not even from the phone companies, but from third parties who pay the phone p cs -- phone companies to do the billing. on phone bills those questionable charges are called cramming because they are crammed on the bills. they are called gray charges because they fall in a morally gray area. >> it is not fraud, but it is not right. >> they started bill guard, a free app that keeps track of your bills looking for these types of

i'm bill hemmer. martha: when thanksgiving comes that late november 30 comes faster than anybody thought. you remember that idea of the tech surge that would make all the difference in this. the president promised they would bring the best and brightest in. it would be done by the end of the month. on a conference call with reporters, the centers for medicare and medicaid affectionately known as cms. the system will not work perfectly on december 1. but it will operate' better than it didde -- than it did on octo. bill: stuart varney, how many will the website be able to handle. >> reporter: 50,000 simultaneously. 800 thousand a day. what is handle. 50,000 people simultaneously will be able to log on to the website but that's a far cry tr from 5,000 or 80,000 a day enrolling. bill: you need the he will rollee -- you need the enrollees. >> if it's not tblight money, then enough money doesn't go into the understand pools. you need 2.4 million young, healthy people to sign up. bill: democrats are express

as such to the bill. i hope we have a strong vote and i'm going to yield the floor and, again, pay my compliments and my highest respect to senator alexander for his leadership on this, his state was hit very hard by this. i know he's very sensitive to that and i know that -- just from my talks with him i know that it pained him a great deal to see so much suffering and deaths in his own state and senator alexander got on top of this and pulled us all together and basically said we got to get it done. so senator alexander, thank you very much. i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mr. alexander: on behalf of the people of tennessee that i represent and i think the american people as well, i want to thank the senator from iowa for his leadership on these two bills but particularly on the compounding pharmacy bill. our differences of opinion in the united states senate are well advertised on obamacare, on debt, on syria, a whole vartd of matters. you would say the reason we e

if we don't adopt this bill, we won't require -- these are in the bill. these protections are -- just let me finish this paragraph, then i would be happy to. we won't require commanders to immediately refer all allegations of sexual assault to professional criminal investigators. we won't restrict the authority of senior officers to modify the findings and sentence of court-martial convictions. we won't require higher level review of any decision not to prosecute allegations of sexual assault. i would be happy to yield. i will put the balance of my statement in the record. the presiding officer: all time has expired. mr. inhofe: i have a parliamentary inquiry. we were to be given equal time for the last ten minutes. i had three minutes and all i want to do is ask a question. am i -- mr. levin: i ask unanimous consent that that be allowed. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. inhofe: everything that my chairman has said i agree with. he's making my speech for me. it's critical that we get the bill. all i'm

bill: lets analyze that. how are you, good morning. >> good morning, bill.ill: it was an interesting interview. she hits on four different things. executive hypocrisy, the elite media bubble, depends on the target, and conservative women. what did you think of her comments? speaker you can't argue with sarah palin saying there is some sort of double standard going on at msnbc because all you have to do is look at the comments about the altercation with a photographer for the antigay slur, msnbc bounced him for a couple of weeks, not clear if he is coming back. he did a lot more than call the former governor of alaska and idiot, comments involving defecation, it was filthy, disgusting and yet he has apologized but no action taken. bill: he is still on the air, he did not lose a day, did he? baldwin will not come back. >> there is no great hunger to put him back on the air. bill: nail this down now, with that point sarah palin makes, she is right about it depends on who the target is. and this tag it was her. >> here is another example. went on the air accusin

this bill, by right, is not only an energy and commerce bill, it's a ways and means bill. but the ways and means committee doesn't get any time to debate this bill. one hour. you mean, we couldn't have two hours of debate and a few amendments, or three hours of debate and a few more amendments or five hours of debate or a whole day of debate, given the fact you didn't hold any hearings on this bill? give me a break. this is not the way to run the house of representatives. this is not the way you promised you would run the house of representatives. and by contrast, the affordable care act, we had hundreds of hours of debate and markups in which republican amendments were actually accepted. now, you may not like the affordable care act, but it went through a process. now, this went through no process. this was just brought up to the rules committee and we're told to bring it right to the floor. this is not a serious attempt to fix the affordable care act. this is a political statement. and i understand the temptation behind it. believe me, no one is more frustrated by the pr

bills. a third of us get them and it costs those of us that do get them on afnlg -- on average $215 over the course of the year. what are they and just where do they come from? >> mystery charges are costing billions a year. one estimate goes as high as 14 billion. you may have noticed them. charges for $10 or less on your credit card and cell phone bills. >> have you ever figured out what the charges are for? >> no. sometimes there are strange de scripters to them. >> sur charges or taxes or the city, something like that. >> sometimes it will say texting charges. have you ever received one of those? >> ye >> yes. >> what do you do? >> let it go. >> often they are not from the phone companies, but the third parties paid to do the billing. on phone bills those types of questionable charges are called cramming because they are crammed on the bills. on the credit card they are called gray charges because they fall in a morally gray area. >> it is not fraud, but it is not right. >> they started

who opposed bill. or you wait two years and have a an even bigger majority. right now you have manchin, sheehan, you have durbin, there's a growing number of democrats who favor obama care in general but who are saying this is a disaster. let me share with you one poll, quinnipiac came out today and said that the deadline for signing up for coverage without facing a penalty is march 31. would you support or oppose extending this deadline. 73% of the american people now support extending it. now the administration, that's not just, you know, some small clique of republicans. >> there's two really important points here. when republicans talk about extending it, they're talking about extending it for year, year and a half, two years, which would be enough to kill it. a lot of people are saying extend it for a month or two until you can get the website fixed. there's a whole world of difference in this thing. >> i want to ask you a question. the president has said since we passed the law in 2009, 2010, rat

telecoms this is not synonomous a reform bill it's in a say entrenchment bill senator mark udall who's been critical of the n.s.a. argued the n.s.a. is ongoing and base of surveillance of americans private information does not respect our constitutional values and needs fundamental reform not incidental changes unfortunately the bill passed by the senate intelligence committee does not go far enough to address the n.s.a.'s overreaching domestic surveillance programs. senator udall instead supports a bill introduced earlier this week by senator patrick leahy and by congressman jim sensenbrenner in the house that would all together end the n.s.a.'s ability to conduct bulk collection of phone records which means in the coming weeks or in the coming months there will be a showdown in congress over what n.s.a. reform should look like and just how far it should go earlier i was joined by elizabeth the co-director of the liberty and national security program at the brennan center for justice and she started by saying where senator feinstein's bill ranks with other n.s.a. reform efforts coming

upton upton bill -- the bill is a dangerous bill. what it does, not only does it undermine the affordable care does so might as -- it by disrupting the pools and expanding the market of people who can buy into these plans that people had grandfathered in. so it's completely disruptive. i don't know how much republicans support it has. they are not of one mind on the subject either. but we will have a proposal for our members to vote on something on the nor -- floor tomorrow that addresses the problem, it is a fix. we don't have the likelihood of passage. we don't have a likelihood -- we'll see what form it takes. we will see what the rules committee allows us. we will love for them to give us an alternative. we will see if they are likely to do that, but we'll exercise our parliamentary options with something tomorrow. so think of a belt and suspenders. do any of you wear belts and suspenders? >> i wear a belt. >> ok. [laughter] >> well, think of a belt and suspenders, what the president will put forth will be one and what we will do

. >> the upton bill. >> the upton bill is a very dangerous bill. >> is not a good bill. >> john boehner has called the upton bill a targeted strike. >> what is unacceptable is what the republicans want to do. >> what is it that you want to do? >> scrap this law once and for all. >> we can't go back to the status quo. >> the website will get fixed. this will get better. >> it is going to work. >> the health care law has survived a lot. >> the bill is passed. >> well, wait a minute. wait a minute. >> it can be upheld. >> i am your father. >> the health care law has survived a lot. >> the mood among democrats has gone from nervous to panicked. >> is that it? is it over? is that your understanding? >> absolutely not. we've got to move forward on this. >>> president obama gave an emergency state of the union address today, which was all about the state of the affordable care act. nothing the president says in his next scheduled state of the union address will matter, if the problems he discussed today are not solved before then. >> we fumbled the rollout on this health care law. this is some

bills.hird of us get them and it costs those of us that do get them on afnlg -- on ave $215 over the course of the year. what are they and just where do they come from? >> mystery charges are costing billions a year. one estimate goes as high as 14 billion. you may have noticed them. charges for $10 or less on your credit card and cell phone bills. >> have you ever figured out what the charges are for? >> no. sometimes there are strange de scripters to them. >> sur charges or taxes or the city, something like that. >> sometimes it will say texting charges. have you ever received one of those? >> yes. >> what do you do? >> let it go. >> often they are not from the phone companies, but the third parties paid to do the billing. on phone bills those types of questionable charges are called cramming because they are crammed on the bills. on the credit card they are called gray charges because they fall in a morally gray area. >> it is not fraud, but it is not right. >> they started bill guard, a

bills. a third of us get them and it costs those of us that do get them on afnlg -- on average $215 over the course of the year. what are they and just where do they come from? >> mystery charges are costing billions a year. one estimate goes as high as 14 billion. you may have noticed them. charges for $10 or less on your credit card and cell phone bills. >> have you ever figured out what the charges are for? >> no. sometimes there are strange de scripters to them. >> sur charges or taxes or the city, something like that. >> sometimes it will say texting charges. have you ever received one of those? >> yes. >> what do you do? >> let it go. >> often they are not from the phone companies, but the third parties paid to do the billing. on phone bills those types of questionable charges are called cramming because they are crammed on the bills. on the credit card they are called gray charges because they fall in a morally gray area. >> it is not fraud, but it is not right. >> they started bill g

that's a ok under this bill. remember the insurance company stopped paying when the consumer came down with an expensive illness? that's back, too. what about small businesses? facing double digits hikes in their premium costs. if we want to take up targeted legislation helping those whose policies are being discontinued, then let's do that. but let's call this bill what it is. a return to the days when insurance companies preyed on working families. and the 36th attempt to -- 46th attempt to repeal the affordable care act. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back. the gentleman from michigan is recognized. mr. upton: mr. speaker, i would yield one minute to the gentleman from west virginia, mr. mckinley, a member of the energy and commerce committee, one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from west virginia is recognized for one minute. mr. mckinley: thank you, mr. chairman. i rise today to be the voice for the citizens of the first district of west virginia and support house

nhk world tomoko kamata has more information. >> this bill is closely related to another bill the upper house is debating right now. prime minister shin doe abe is trying to coordinate foreign affairs and defense policies and this is called a japanese version of the u.s. national security council, but the americans have been reluctant to share sensitive information with their japanese allies, so members of the ruling coalition hope that these bills will show that they can control such information. japan has the national public service act, and it already prohibits public servant from sharing secrets. and those who leak classified data face up to one year in prison. but members of the ruling coalition say that for some information, they need stricter regulations. they say this bill will allow them to freely exchange sensitive intelligence with the u.s. and other nations. some members of the oppositions, journalists, writers, and lawyers, are urging the administration to reconsider the plan. the country's lawyers group argues the bill could allow government officials to classify informati

a bill now before the u.s. senate -- of course, the bill we're currently debating -- would update those employment laws at long last to protect workers against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. we urge employees to support the employment nondiscrimination act and we challenge the house of representatives to bring it to the floor for a vote. protections that promote equality and diversity should not be conditional on someone's sexual orientation. for too long, too many people have had to hide that part of their identity in the workplace. that, again, was a letter from tim cook, published in "the wall street journal," tim cook, the c.e.o. of apple. so we see this long arc in pursuit of a vision of liberty and freedom from our early settlers of north america to the declaration of independence to the opening words of our u.s. constitution, to our leaders through a scope of time who recognized the power of liberty in fulfilling the potential of the individual and the potential of the na

this bill is urgently necessary. americans understand that we need to give due wait to privacy on the one hand and national security on the other, but americans are also naturally suspicious of executive power, and when the government does things secretly, americans tend to think that that power is being abused. this is the exactly the place where congressional oversight is useful and necessary. for months now, there have been a steady stream of news stories about the nsa surveillance programs, and yet right now, by law, americans cannot get really the most basic information about what's going on with these programs. consider this. it's been months since the prison program and tfn call records program were revealed to the public, and yet to this day, americans don't know the actual number of people whose information has been collected under those programs. they don't know how many of those people are american, and they have no way of knowing how many of these americans have had their information actually seen by gove