annual spending bills. chairman rogers, i commend your leadership. it has been a delight working with you and i, too, look forward to a holiday season where we won't be in constant contact. thank you, it's been a pleasure. this bill makes key investments that will bolster job creation and economic growth. . we should not have federal furloughs again this year. education, head start, new pre-k initiatives will help working families and restore teaching slots. and infrastructure investments will support construction jobs and safety upgrades. other vital priorities fell short. it's incredibly disappointing this package doesn't restore unemployment benefits to the long-term unemployed. in addition, i was very pleased that we received $1 billion more than last year for biomedical research at the national institutes of health, but it is still funded below the 2012 level, forcing scientists to shelf promising research. by not authorizing a change to the quota for i.m.f., the international monetary fund, we neglect

the farm bill is always a difficult bill to pass. i think the last couple of times it was vetoed and had to be overridden. it could be better. i have not yet seen legislation that's exactly what i perfectly like to be voting on at the end of the day. we make huge strides in this bill that were draconian cuts to the snap and food stamp programs that are no longer in here. there were onerous incentives to get people off of food stamps that are in longer in here. for people saying people will be cut as a result of this, that's not up. if they put $20 towards the heating assistance for the low-income folks that need that, they don't get a reduced benefit. yes, it's a reduced benefit. they still qualify for their base benefit in this bill. moreover if they bring their heating and cooling bills in they can still get the expanded benefit. it just requires a little more diligence, puts faith in america that the food stamp goes to those who need it. as far as the subsidies go, hey, you know, maybe we should change that. we should work on that

bill: bill it's a great cause.al up in boston that benefits brain research as well, so you're doing a really good thing. thanks. bill: one final point here. this came up in the documentary here. they talked about he wanted to write a concession speech about how he will earnestly pray for the president and the first lady. what about those principles in america today that endure? have you thought about that? >> they do endure. and, you know, america, it's a wonderful country. it's a great country and we had the opportunity to see the goodness of the american people while we were there. extraordinary. bill: a once in a lifetime opportunity. good luck with the book. you're doing great things, okay? my best to your husband and your whole family. >> thank you. bill: thank you. ann romney here in new york. arthel: food and family, can't beat that combination. >>> coming up, a man who once defended a cop killer is now being considered for a top position in the justice department. what the widow of that murdered police offi

underlying bill. and it has been approved by the house twice as a free-standing bill. indeed, it has been part of bills or amendments sponsored or cosponsored by chairman johnson, senator crapo, senator shelby. i want it thank the authors and managers of the underlying bills for their work. they have are a done an extraordinary job in, wog to in working to e ensure that my amendment quo be considered. i believe that this amendment will add to the goals of the underlying bill and given the bipartisan support thor this concept, i would hope it could be adopted about by a voice -- by a vis voice vote. before i leave the floor, madam president, just another point. another emergencying that is facing up -- emergency that is facing us, unemployment insurance. and i would ask if we could continue this bipartisan dialogue we've had and salute my colleagues on the other side of the aisle who have been principled in their pursuit of this objective and we can move on that issue also. and with that, madam president, i would yield the floor. a senator: madam president? the presidin

this bill does. we've had to make some tough choices but this new bill lives up to that high calling of investing in america's human infrastructure. and again i want to thank my friend and colleague from alabama. we were together on the labor-h. committee until he took this position of being the ranking member on the full appropriations committee, but we always had a good comity, c-o-m-i-t-y of working together and i appreciate it very much, senator shelby. with that, madam president, i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from alabama. mr. shelby: i'd just take a couple of minutes and respond to some of the remarks of my colleague from iowa has said. i think he's right on point that this is the first time we've been able to bring the appropriation process, i hope, back to regular order, is what we need, because no one wants to shut the government down, my goodness, neither side. the american people don't want it, and this is a good bipartisan effort. senator mikulski and other members

bill. let me start by thanking chairwoman mikulski for her leadership. she has put long hours in this over the christmas and new year's break where most people were home with families and doing things in their home state and on vacation, she never stopped working, and her team, her staff on the appropriations committee never stopped working, and the staff as always is kind of the unsung hero around here. they did so many great things to put this together, both democrats, republicans, house and senate. everybody had to work together to get this done. i'm proud that they did. i'm also proud to be the -- one of the appropriations subcommittee chairs that was able to work on this legislation, and as you know, i'm chairman of the agriculture appropriations subcommittee and i have worked with my counterpart, senator blunt, the ranking member of the subcommittee to craft part of this bipartisan bill. again, senator blunt has been really wonderful to work with. we appreciate him and his staff as we

i'm proud of the bill, i'm proud of our work. i urge our colleagues to support the bill. . the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. without objection, the gentleman from oklahoma reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from minnesota is recognized. mr. peterson: mr. speaker, i'm now pleased to yield two minutes to the gentleman from north carolina, mr. mcintyre. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from north carolina is recognized for two minutes. mr. mcintyre: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from north carolina is recognized for two minutes. mr. mcintyre: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise in support of this farm bill. this is a strong, reform-minded bill with bipartisan support. it will grow our economy, create jobs, provide certainty, reduce our deficit and save the american taxpayers $16 billion. the bill reforms the farm safety net, strengthening crop insurance and commodity programs. these risk management tools assure farmers that help is there when they need it. the bill

bill: good to know. thanks, doc. >> thanks, bill.ill: the warning needs to go out especially after this. the polar vortex rolls on. mark, thanks. martha? martha: outrage across latin america. a beauty queen was shot dead along with her ex-husband with their young daughter in the car in a country where murders are very sadly, very common. bill: there is new push for answers and accountability. sean smith's uncle what he wants to do before he believes it is too late in benghazi. i talked to sean smith's mother about that very topic yesterday afternoon. >> i'm acting as a mother, asking what happened to our son? why wasn't, why didn't they have his back like they promised? that's what i want to know when you have diabetes like i do, getting the right nutrition isn't always easy. first, i want a way to help minimize my blood sugar spikes. then, a way to support heart health. ♪ and let's not forget immune support. ♪ but now i have new glucerna advance with three benefits in one. including carbsteady ultra to help minimize blood sugar spik

and this is a bill. it's a bipartisan bill. it's >> lot cheaper to suppres suppress -- it's a lot cheaper to suppress fires at the beginning than to let them get out of control. it's also a lot cheaper to prevent fires from happening in the first place. i want to talk more about that. if you look at current projections, they only suggest that fires are going to increase in intensity and duration and it underscores the need for us to get ahead of this growing threat to our communities. again, not just in colorado but all our country. there are fiscally responsible reforms in this wildfire disaster funding act which would help us confront the skyrocketing threat that modern fires pose to our state's fiscal health as agencies work to protect life and property while being responsible stewards of taxpayer dollars. and that's just one of the many reasons i'm going to continue to lead the fight, it's a bipartisan fight, it's a bipartisan cause to see if we can't get this approach in place. this is a plan that w

this bill does not move us forward. it moves us backwards and inserts the government into the most personal decisions a woman and family can make. . i urm my colleagues to vote against h.r. 7. the speaker pro tempore: the the gentlewoman from north carolina is recognized. ms. foxx: thank you, madam speaker. i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady reserves. the gentlelady from new york is recognized. ms. slaughter: madam speaker, i yield a minute and a half to the gentlewoman from the district of columbia, who was not able to testify before those 12 men, ms. norton. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized for a minute and a half. s. norton: i thank the gentlewoman for yielding. i particularly appreciate the opportunity to speak since i was denied the courtesy of speaking on a bill that targets my own district. madam speaker, the only thing worse than tarring thing the reproductive health of the nation's women is reaching beyond that to do even greater damage to the women of a local jurisdiction,

we had a farm bill, an immigration bill, a wrda bill. they all had one thing in common, mr. president, and that is the chairman and ranking member agreed on a proposal. when the chair and the ranking member agree on a proposal, or a large group of democrats and republicans agree on a bipartisan proposal -- and immigration would be a great help from the chairman but senator mccain and i, neither chairman nor ranking member of judiciary came to an agreement with the help of senators menendez, durbin, bennet, graham, flake and rubio. but we can get something done and we can shepherd even the most controversial and difficult pieces of legislation through the floor. but there are many instances, these days more than ever, because the parties are farther apart than they used to be, less overlap, there are instances where the chair and ranking member, or there doesn't seem to be a bipartisan agreement. what do we do in those instances? well, i've discussed this with many on the other side of the aisle and there's been a tradition around here. i'm here sort of a middle level amount

the bill is offset over ten years. it relies on a budget gimmick that assumes that the congress would not raise the nfib cap. the program would delay payment of insurance claims until additional resources became available. so in reality this bill will add another $2.1 billion in debt to the nfip while making no dhiengs addressing affordability issues. even the administration states that delaying implementation of these reforms would further erode the financial position of the nfip, which is already $24 billion in debt. this delay would also reduce fema's ability to pay future claims made by all policyholders. nfip is unaffordable as the current program is already more than $24 billion in debt. madam president, i -- the pending makers a bill to delay the implementation of certain provisions of the biggert-waters flood insurance reform act of 2012 and to real estate form the national association of registered agents and brokers would violate the senate paygo rule and increasing the deficit. therefore, i raise a point of

bill: i'm bill hemmer. hello to you. control over your data records and records of hundreds of millions of americans. white house correspondent ed henry waiting on this speech for a week there. ed, how big are the changes expected to be if at all? >> reporter: i think it will be medium, frankly by they will tout this inside the white house as very significant reform. on one hand it is because the president's officials are suggesting this morning, will say in the speech about an hour from now, basically the government should no longer handle the bulk collection of these phone records that have caused such a storm in part because of revelations from edward snowden suggesting that these nsa programs, whole series of them, not just the phone collection but how they're tracking text messages and the like, is growing much more out of control than the administration has suggested. that is the pressure on him. but that he, the president will then punt the decision about what it do with those phone records, to congress and others

i rise to discuss my bill and briefly -- my amendment and the underlying bill. first i want to thank my cosponsors, senators coats, mcconnell, kirk and johanns. and i want to thank the bipartisan coalition of senators who are supporting my approach. mr. president, there is a real problem with our flood insurance program as a result of the reforms and it needs to be addressed. and the problem is that in the process of reforming this program so that it would actually be sustainable, so that it actually could become solvent, in the process of making those changes, some people's premiums go up very, very dramatically and pretty suddenly. the phase-in is very quick and the increase is very high. and that's a huge problem and it needs to be addressed. the menendez bill addresses it the wrong way. what this bill does is it does kill the meaningful reform. it completely suspends for four years; there is no adjustment of premiums towards an actuarially sound market-based level of premiums that don't require taxpayer subsidy. so we'll be going back -- it busts the budget,

this bill does not do that. we are simply ensuring that hardworking americans who pay taxes and oppose abortion don't see their taxpayer dollars going to fund abortion. we've had legislation similar to this bill in place for over three decades. this legislation is not a new idea, the majority of americans have long held that taxpayers should not be forced to foot the bill for abortion practices that they do not believe in. i would ask everyone to support passage of h.r. 7 and, madam speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from kansas yields ack the balance of her time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from virginia's recognized. >> madam speaker, i yield myself such time as i may dume -- consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. goodlatte: however stark americans' difference of opinion can be on the matter of abortion generally, there has been long bipartisan agreement that federal taxpayer funds should not be used to destroy innocent

bill: good to have you. martha: fox news alert on the water contamination crisis going on in west virginia. nearly 300,000 people are going without clean water for five days, following a huge chemical spill in the river near where they live. they are using bottled water for drinking and washing and cooking now. the state's governor telling them that the water tests are, quote, encouraging, but they did not offer anytime table when people might use their running water again. >> our team has been diligent in testing samples from about, from throughout the affected area. the numbers look good. like last night, they are very encouraging. i believe that we're at a point where we could say that we see light at the end of the tunnel. i ask all west beginnians to continue to be patient as we work to restore service to affected areas. martha: peter doocy is on this in washington. peter, how are the local businesses holding up? >> reporter: martha, some of the small businesses are having a hard time surviving on day f

if it is his intention to gut the bill, the bill with the -- the bill will not be gutted. if it is his intention to help us strengthen the bill, that is a definite possibility. but people are desperate, desperate, to get an answer from congress now. we should have done this four months ago before these rate increases. escrow accounts are being collected now from people that got bills that they were paying $500 a year. now they're paying $5,000, according to the biggert-waters law, the banks have to go get that $5,000 and put it in the bank now to pay that insurance. that is a real hardship on people. we need to stop that, figure this out. and i'll finally ask -- i'm going to ask for another one minute. i think i've extended my time already. another one minute. thank you. we have delayed this fix too long and we need to go ahead and take care of this. so i'm going to stay on the floor this morning. i'll periodically bring everyone up to date. let me just close with reminding people what we are talking about. these are the new flood maps in the united states that are either

because the bills that are before us today, the underlying bills, i am opposed to. because my district is impacted by the superfund. the d ask that we -- gentleman's very kind. the three superfund bills, no involvement of the federal government, taking authority away from the federal government, having the states override the federal government on superfunds. there are neighborhoods who are still suffering. and then, with respect to this issue of privacy, i support the idea, but what i would say to my friends, and thanks privacy with health care.com -- and this is about privacy with healthcare.gov, we cannot continue to chip away at a bill, the affordable care act, where millions of people have received health care. let's work to ensure all of the privacy sites or the sites of the federal government -- let's not pick away at the affordable care act, which has been documented that it is secure. healthcare.gov. if the republicans wish to help make all of the government secure, we're ready to do that. but what i would suggest is that this bill is not going in the right

last may he opposed the bill. we couldn't even get to the debate because he wasn't happy about the direction we are going in. so that happened in may. it's now -- what is this month? january. we're in january. so he opposed the bill in may. it set us back seven months. we tried to explain to the senator from pennsylvania that 74,000 people in his state have these policies and that they, too, need help. whether he has been able to reconcile that with his constituents i don't know, but we literally after asking and asking and asking for his comments, his thoughts, his input, please let us know what we can do, we'll be happy to meet with you, the home builders will sit down, the realtors, we finally at the last hour get a draft of his amendment in the last hour. so we're literally reading it for the first time. i don't think that's cooperation, but he may have a different definition of it. so we're reading that amendment now. i don't believe that amendment is going to help our cause. i think it is going to undermine

she said, bill clinton is going to be president some day, and i'm going to marry him. >> from bill clinton's perspective, obviously there were a lot of women who were interested in him. during that time, his roommate he wouldould say prepare and prep them for times when hillary was coming over because he wanted to impress her so much. not put up with what she called his arkansas palaver. she was the one who had the guts to say come off it, bill. they actually did have a lot in common. they had the same ambitions. they thought they could get places together that they could not get to a park. they share a love of politics and movies and books and intellectual things. there was a spark there, that i think hillary from the beginning was head over heels for bill. i think he just saw her as someone different and someone who could really help him and be a partner. >> how long did it take from that first meeting to marriage, and how does the relationship progressed? >> it took several years. what happened in between was quite fascinating. when bill was running for his first congressional race, the c

bill: yeah, why?c after the super bowl. >> i believe because there's a lot more gray here than black and white, and we've talked to everybody involved. listen, i wasn't there. i wasn't in that homer room. but i could tell you -- locker room. but if you read these text messages, they're in the story, they paint a fairly different picture of bullying. they paint a picture of two using vulgar, coarse language with each other. they show martin to be a very troubled guy when you start parsing through. i mean, he admits, it appears, that he's using, that he smokes pot. i mean, he admits in one of these e-mails that he's seeking mental counseling. bill: all that stuff could be made public. five seconds, does this change anything about the game? does it change anything about the league? >> um, i don't know. i will tell you this, this changes this story. richie incog knee know is -- incognito is now fighting back. he'd love to play this miami, but he wants to come back in 2014. bill: thank you, charlie. good r

bill: big ice storm. martha: america's olympians are speaking out about their security concerns as they and their families in many cases get ready to head to so -- to sochi. ski jumper jessica jerome saying this. despite the fact i love how patriotic americans are, my family's safety is a huge concern for me. i said at appropriate times we can scream go america! but other than that be safe and be smart. jonathan hund is here. interesting comments from a congressman just back from russia. >> reporter: congressman william keating just got back from a fact finding trip to sochi. he arrived back in boston. just last night he said the russians are mounting a huge security operation. but what his concern is what planning may have gone into any terrorist attacks years ago giving that it was known the olympics would be in sochi 8 years ago. >> the concerns i have is the concern something was embedded before some of these things were in place. whether it's resources or individual. there is always concerns with the

it is a good bill. an important bill. that takes critical steps to protect the lives of the innocent unborn and the conscience rights of millions of americans. before discussing the bill i think it's important to recall some important history that was discussed previously. on saturday, march 20, 2010, the president of the united states announced a so-called agreement on his affordable care act and in part because of this agreement, supposedly protecting americans' conscience rights, obamacare narrowly passed and was signed into law. mr. speaker, -- madam speaker, the agreement, the so-called stupak agreement, was a charade. it did not protect our conscience rights, it did not stop the federal funding of abortion. in fact, it did the very opposite. hidden behind a veil of secrecy and accounting gimmicks and because of that charade we're here today. h.r. 7 is very simple. it does exactly what the administration hoped we would believe they would -- they were doing in the stupak agreement. and it answers the fundamental quest

and on the bus spending bill, the farm bill? >> it's possible. in the past, unemployment insurance have been attached to other bills. they're working to finish up the farm bill and there's been some talk on the democratic side in the house of using the savings from the farm bill with cuts to food stamp and farm subsidies to pay for the unemployment benefits, because that money matches up pretty well across -- costs about 26 bundlers to extend emergency unemployment insurance for the full year. so that is a possibility. it's also -- the other bill that you mentioned that is definite eagle that would move forward, probably in the next few weeks is that on the bus spending bill. so it could be attached to one or the other or if it's attached to the farm bill that will likely be combined, some of the money from the farm bill would be used for the. >> in the article you write for thehill.com, you wrote about the democrats hoping to change the conversation in 2014 away from discussion on health care reform law, and how, in addition to the bill, might b

bill: i am bill hemmer. good morning.work wherever you are watching us today house leaders set to speak after cutting a new spending deal of more than a trillion dollars. that is 1500 pages. would fund the federal government through the month of october. martha: 1500 pages of spending. unbelievable. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel on capitol hill. we understand we'll hear from speaker john boehner. what will he say this morning? >> reporter: speaker john boehner told republican members, a turning point has been reached and research suggest that is the republicans have upper hand on jobs. he will hammer on the jobs message. it worked for years blaming lack of jobs on the economy on the bush administration. late last year there is research showing that turning point had been reached. boehner said to house gop member, quote, for the first time a majority of americans believe the troubles in our economy are more the results of the present than the policies of the past. you can expect boehner to hammer away at j

good morning, bill. bill: do you see the change in that number?> i think it shows the american people have a real and growing grasp' on the reality of the international terrorist threat. the administration's problem with its been gatsy story this past 16 months has been increasing awareness by people that it simply doesn't fit with reality. the administration says the war on terror is or. usama bin laden is dead. therefore in september 2012 was not terrorism. it was a mob excited by the famous mohammed video. the evidence has been that story about benghazi was wrong and more importantly the administration's line that the war on terror is over and we can handle terrorists by indicting them and trying them in federal court is wrong. benghazi is the tip of the iceberg but there is more. bill: among independents you are will at 60%. that's a critical number to observe. do you think they have been stonewalling? will they continue to be successful if you believe that is their strategy? can they? >> i think they will be unless in the house we move toward

bill is 100% right. there are fewer people starving, fewer people sleeping without a roof over their head. fewer people that are illiterate. life expectancy is generally longer. by any rational measure, things are better. that doesn't mean everyplace or every person and there will always be a bottom 20% and we will always redefine what that means, but to say that all of the foreign aid and the moneys that the bill and linda gates foundation are bloomberg or lots of other generous people have invested, hasn't done anything that is just not true. we have a guy, a doctor in africa, who is trying to get numbers and find out what people are dying from. if you can't measure it, you can't manage it. we don't know. a lot of times you look at birth certificates that will say act of god. that doesn't tell you where you want to put your money to save people's lives. bill and melinda working on polio, this is the chance of really eradicating this disease like smallpox or both of us working on malaria, things like vi

>> you could lend her a couple pounds, bill. pounds, bill. check it out. mom has a mom cave! today i have new campbell's chuy spicy chicken quesadilla soup. she gives me chunky before every game. i'm very souperstitious. haha, that's a good one! haha! [ male announcer ] campbell's chunky soup. it fills you up right. >> money might be tight put reports are saying the queen is down to a million. they are placing the blame on the advisors for overspending. >> wow. >> they will have to sell off the palace. or they sold off the yacht. >> we could auction one painting and they will be fine. >> i think she is going to be okay. >>> former secretary of state hilary clinton changing her tune the tape obviously of the quote we mentioned, what difference was it make, will be used against hilary clinton if she is trying to run. is she trying to float a different tone to see how it goes? >> of course, she is. she really regrets that she has the blood of the four dead people on her hands. the fact is she was negligent in not listening to chris and not recognizing that th

-- omnibus spending bill.weet, not enough time, the house will vote on the on the bus -- omnibus. could you read this that quickly? you can see a picture of all 1500 pages of this spending legislation. michael. theer: i am calling about extending the unemployment. that the senate and the house could get together. they just passed a trillion dollar spending bill, i don't see why they can't help the people that really need the help. not looking for a handout. i am a registered republican. i wish they could work with the democrats and come up with something, even if it is short term. i only collected 30 weeks, i know it sounds like a lot -- i can't find a part-time job anywhere. your thoughts. thank you. brian, st. paul. democratic caller. do you think this spending bill is large enough? the economy is -- we have barely even trudged forward. do think it is big enough to get it going? think it is large enough. i don't think it has been large enough for a while. our deficit is huge, but in comparison to deficits af

healthcare bill to begin with? >> we heard from the president pretty consistently that he believes the government should be in the business of covering all of women's health, including birth control and abortive fashions. in the end abortions themselves if they had their way. this is the argument the president during the argument about the passage of the affordable care act and he made it consistently ever since. bill: on the screen weep defer to the department of justice on litigation matters but remain confident our final rules strike a balance of providing women free contraceptive coverage while providing non-religious employers with religious objections for contraceptive coverage. you expect this to go to the supreme court, right? >> we'll hear this discussed in terms of the hobby lobby case. i think the administration has a difficult case to make that this is not a violation of the freedom of religion restoration act. bill: there is a case in oklahoma that you think will be featured prominently. does that have

that interim bill, it's the best bill possible right now. and as we all know, the leaders on the agricultural committee in the house and the senate have spent a long time trying to bring this bill together. if it was easy, they would have done it quicker. they didn't come back earlier than everybody else did after the recent break because they wanted to be back early. they came back because that discussion had not brought itself to a final bill yet, but this is the bill and it does some good things. it provides a certainty and a safety net for farm families. very few farm families at some point in the productive cycle of a year don't have to go to the banker and say we need to borrow some money to make something possible in this -- this planning year that we couldn't do without borrowed money, and here's how we're going to pay it back. well, here's how we're going to pay it back is a whole lot better if you say -- and here is the safety net. here's what happens if things that we don't expect to go wrong go wrong. here's what happens if we ha

fine, but they don't get the bill. there is no problem with the bill. it is the republican side that we are waiting for clarity. again, i know how busy everyone is. i know the senator from pennsylvania is working hard on the -- he was just your speaking about it on the unemployment insurance. i know that's an important issue to the people he represents and louisiana. if he could get a little time to work on this amendment that we think he was offered whenever he can, we're happy to have the men it will vote on it. decide on when and how what the numbers, 51 are 60. what i believe, let me to speak for myself, it does not matter. we have the votes to not allow -- if the intention is to get the bill, the bill will not be gutted. if the intention is to help us strengthen the bill, it is a possibility. but people are desperate, desperate to get an answer from carson now. should have done this for months ago before these increases, as correct house are being collected now from people that have bills that they were paying $500 a year. now they're paying 5,000.

bill? bill: speaking of lawmakers, what are their biggest concerns now when they come back next week? certainly they will be talking about this, in what sense? >> reporter: not long after the house is getting back in session it will take up legislation pertaining to security concerns of the site. their proposal is to require the government to contact customers, if any personal information has been compromised on healthcare.gov. majority leader eric cantor just this week is accusing the administration down playing the threats of in fear of scaring buyers. this isn't the first time lawmakers brought up security issues. in a number of hearings both the house and senate questioned officials about security gaps. this is just one example of the administration's response back in november. >> when consumers fill out the online application they can trust that the information they're provided is protected by stringent security standards and that the technology underlying the application process has b

, their transportation bills, their child care bills, utility bills, they have very little left over to save for emergencies. you add to this the high unemployment rate today and the folks that have just all out given up looking for work. and you quickly see the effects of this administration's policies and the pain the american people are going through. that's why republicans are stressing today and every day, our better alternatives, our view for a positive future for americans to put more money in americans' pockets, to get people back to work and to stimulate this economy. we join the president and expecting this to be a year of action, but if this is going to happen, he needs to put down his pen and his phone, work with us, not work around us, to make this country the great country that it can be. >> tonight, we are looking forward to hearing from the president and from our colleague catty mcmorris rodgers. she will deliver a conservative message about our desire to empower the american people. this has been the house focus. we passed dozens of jobs bills that continue to langui

martha: we don't use teleprompters, do we bill? bill: bill: adam housley is at the same show.ith live tv. what are the gadgets you're seeing, adam? >> reporter: that is what we get paid for. mobile mood trackers because this is about health. anything will tell you about anything you have going on inside of your body. this is june. you wear this on your wrist. it will tell you put on hair color, eye color, basically tells you the skin type. after so much time in the sun it tells you to get out so you don't burn. this is from arcos one of the heart monitors. there are some different monitors. this is watch that tells you stress left, how well you sleep. tracks everything from calories steps. bill, everything here is pretty much health-based. they have this here, track dot to track your luggage. it is really light, and if you lose you can go on computer to find it. this is about mobility and getting more and more affordable. bill: i liked the speaker you dropped in the water. that was cool. what else are you seeing? >> reporter: we'll do this again, this is from fugu. this is $22

annual spending bills. chairman rogers, i commend your leadership. it has been a delight working with you and i, too, look forward to a holiday season where we won't be in constant contact. thank you, it's been a pleasure. this bill makes key investments that will bolster job creation and economic growth. . we should not have federal furloughs again this year. education, head start, new pre-k initiatives will help working families and restore teaching slots. and infrastructure investments will support construction jobs and safety upgrades. other vital priorities fell short. it's incredibly disappointing this package doesn't restore unemployment benefits to the long-term unemployed. in addition, i was very pleased that we received $1 billion more than last year for biomedical research at the national institutes of health, but it is still funded below the 2012 level, forcing scientists to shelf promising research. by not authorizing a change to the quota for i.m.f., the international monetary fund, we neglect

the farm bill is always a difficult bill to pass. think the last couple of times it was vetoed and had to be overridden. it could be better. i have not yet seen legislation that's exactly what i perfectly like to be voting on at the end of the day. we make huge strides in this bill that were draconian cuts to the snap and food stamp programs that are no longer in here. there were onerous incentives to get people off of food stamps that are in longer in here. for people saying people will be cut as a result of this, that's not up. if they put $20 towards the heating assistance for the low-income folks that need that, they don't get a reduced benefit. yes, it's a reduced benefit. they still qualify for their base benefit in this bill. moreover if they bring their heating and cooling bills in they can still get the expanded benefit. it just requires a little more diligence, puts faith in america that the food stamp goes to those who need it. as far as the subsidies go, hey, you know, maybe we should change that. we should work on that s

let me tell you what this bill does. it's a commonsense bill. it's going to require that the administration, that they promptly inform individuals within two business days if their personal information has been stolen or unlawfully accessed through an exchange. . and the thoughtful oversight we have uncovered troubling information regarding the security of the health law's exchanges. so what this bill does is preventive medicine. do we want to wait until the horse is out of the barn before we take action? i don't think so. we found that the administration did not perform a full security control assessment before healthcare.gov opened for business on october 1. we also learned just days before healthcare.gov went live, senior officials at h.h.s. expressed serious concerns regarding the protection of personally identifiable information that was entered into their website. these facts on top of the fact that the administration is repeatedly misrepresented the functionality and the readiness the health care law raise significant questions regarding

bill: that is bao bao? martha: bao bao. bill: that is cute. flight cancellations almost 1700 across the country by flightaware. close to 100 at laguardia and close to 150 in philadelphia. the storm's path likely to push number of canceled and delayed flights much higher as the day goes on. we'll keep you alerted. >>> four people dead after industrial explosions in two different states. one dead after a steel furnace exploded in oklahoma. two people dead there the second at an animal feed plant in omaha, collapsing and bursting in the flames. people there described hearing a loud noise and hearing a fireball seconds before the building came down. >> it was crazy. i just turned on my phone. turned on my phone to see visibility, because it was pitch black. fire on the, i thought the building was on fire and everything, so i tried to get to another exit. bill: both accidents are being investigated. officials say the omaha company has been fined at least twice for safety violations. that goes back with record of 12 years back to 2000 two. martha: e

and i, too, wanted to speak today on this compromise bill, this bipartisan bill, this bill, this farm bill that has such a long history. in 2012 the senate agriculture committee was the only committee in the entire united states congress with a bipartisan deficit plan. it passed the senate, the house didn't take it up, it was an enormous disservice i think to rural america we didn't pass this bill two years ago particularly when folks in my region, farmers and ranchers are facing an unprecedented drought. i remember distinctly being out during the summer of 2012 on the eastern plains of colorado and the western slope of colorado right before the presidential election, and while this town was completely consumed with who is going to win that election, people in colorado weren't talking about it at all. they were asking why in the world can't we pass the farm bill through the united states congress and get it to the president's desk. now, finally after a series of extensions and hatch measures, we've actually got to conference committee. i think it may be the only conference committee i

sky high medical bills.thousands of dollars depending upon which was believed to. well, one was a blower is filing suit against te hospital chain saying it skin for years to inflate patient bills. joing me now with the very latest colors senior fellow at the manhattan institute. it's great to have you here. a total of eight whistle-blower lawsuits. the department of justice is getting involved, and all of this against the company called health manages the seeds that appears to be scheming against the very patients the said there was servd. what's going on? >> basically what they did was admitted people to the emergency room read things that did not to -- did not need to be handled in the emergency room. gerri: we have a couple of examples. committing a child with afever of 987. having someone stay overnight for escape underneath. this is outrageous behavior. ou know, threatening, penalizing doctors ago paid by their rules, don't try to inflate the prices. is this the tip of the iceberg? >> it is an incredibl

bill. only after the bill has passed that people start sifting through this, looking for suspicious things. officially, the republicans killed theearmarks but there are ways in which provisions still get in that benefit very narrow interests. interested,'re there is a complete list of all the signed legislation from 23rd he and w athitehouse.gov. we are focusing on what congress did and did not accomplish last year. wisconsin, independent line, good morning. caller: i really enjoyed your show. i would love to hear comments from lee about gerrymandering. oldcially comments like the and baracktom delay obama use that as far as their technical skills and understanding of the electorate vs - that has a a city city council form of government. government -- if you get elected there, the whole community elect you. gerrymandering has been around forever but it seems like it is to a heightened science right now. i just wonder what your thoughts are if it is poisoning the system. other point is that

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but those aren't in this bill and didn't belong in this bill in the first place. i want to commend our new subcommittee chair, ken calvert, carry the very high standard set by mike simpson. we like to work together when we're given a reasonable allocation. that's the way this congress as a whole ought to work. i want to thank chairman rogers and ranking memberlow wie and all of my colleague -- ranking member lowey and all my colleagues and i want to thank the appropriations staff. they worked every day through the hollidays. one member of the staff had a gallbladder operation and she didn't ms. any work. they were in every weekend. they deserve a round of applause and let's give it to them. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from new york reserves. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. rogers: i yield one and a half minutes to the gentleman from idaho, the chairman of the energy and water subcommittee on appropriations. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one and a half minutes. mr. simpson: i rise in support of this incredibly i

pallone's, floor sfamente on this bill -- floor statement on this bill. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's statement will be covered by general leave. the gentleman is recognized. mr. engel: thank you, mr. speaker. this important legislation, which passed the energy and commerce committee by unanimous consent in december, re-authorizes the national toll free phone number, media campaign and grant program, which have helped make poison centers an incredibly successful program. first passed in 2000, national poison center legislation was championed by our current energy and commerce committee chairman, mr. upton, and our former colleague, ed towns. since then the national poison center legislation has been re-authorized twice and i'm proud to say it remains a very bipartisan product. . chairman terry i thank you for your leadership on the issue over the years and hard work on this re-authorization. this is a good bipartisan bill and i am pleased to have had the opportunity to work on it with you. poison exposure is the leading cause of unintentional i

bill: yeah, we are. looks like fun, right? martha: yeah. bill: breaking news right now. the deep south in a deep freeze. a rare winter storm slamming multiple states down there. now millions reeling from the extreme weather. that's a look in atlanta where the freezing rain and snow literally shutting down highways. look how many miles that backup extends. people stranded on the roads, some of them overnight. many flat-out abandoning their cars and causing more chaos after that. look at the map here. states of emergency declared in georgia, alabama, mississippi and louisiana. you will into the carolinas, south carolina and north carolina. all governors saying we need help. good morning, everybody, that's where we start. i'm bill hemmer. welcome to "america's newsroom." martha: they're in a world of hurt. good morning, everybody, i'm martha maccallum. how about this part of the story. meanwhile house thousands of children were forced to stay in their schools overnight. that is what we call the opposite of a snow day. fifth graders were stranded in the halls of indian sprin