this is the conserve a bill in this farm bill. and in all the discussions of the farm bill, it too often gets overlooked. in fact, it is our nation's largest and most enduring investment in conservation on private lands, which are the majority of our lands in america. this farm bill includes an historic agreement between supporters of traditional commodities and environmental and conservation groups to link conservation compliance to crop insurance. critically important as we eliminate direct payments and ask farmers to manage their risk through crop insurance, we do not want to create unintended consequences of risk for our land and our water resources. at the start of this farm bill process, commodity groups, conservation groups were on very different sides on this issue, but they sat down together, they listened and they found common ground. and it turned out their differences weren't as great as they thought they were. in fact, mr. president, no one has a bigger stake in protecting our land and our water than our farmers. with

this bill is a reform bill. it eliminates direct payments. it links crop insurance to conservation compliance. it has all important things in agriculture policy. ohio farmers are clear they wanted a farm bill that eliminated those direct payments and provided the risk management tools they needed when times are bad without the market-distorting policies that ensure farmers are planning for the program and not the market. unfortunately, that was happening far too often. in the last six or seven years in the senate leading up to the 2007-2008 farm bill on the 2014 -- 2013 and 2014 farm bill, if you will, i had roundtables with farmers and rural development people around my state. working with colleagues senator thune and senator durbin, we were able to streamline the farm safety net and make it more market oriented. it's the basis for the agricultural risk coverage program which was included in the commodity title by reforming commodity programs to better align with the market instead of simply sending out checks even when times are good. in ma

bill: martha.artha: remember the anti-muslim filmed that was once blamed for the dead did i terror attacks in benghazi is back in the news again. we will tell you why this morning. plus this. >> i have a lot of -- >> i have the right to give you back. you. >> hit me in the face. >> get off of my -- bill: we're seeing this once a week now. there is brutal attack on a bus driver caught on video. what in the world started this? martha: whoa. >> [bleep] >> get -- [bleep] [bleep] [bleep] >> get out bill: there's a man in custody after a vicious beatdown of a bus driver the violence caught on surveillance camera on board the bus. a bit after warning. some of you may find this video disturbing right here. >> get. get. whoa. [bleep] [bleep] [bleep] >> get out. >> calm down. bill: on it went. you will need more than one guy to get him off the driver. the beating followed an argument after the bus driver ordered the passenger off the bus for using profanity. they used video to i.d. the man in the state of wa

bill: fox news alert. some 200 passenger and crew members victims of a hijacking and authorities say the copilot commandeered all of it. welcome back to you, jamie. >> i'm jamie colby in for martha maccallum. this ethiopian airline was headed for rome and landed in switzerland instead. >> reporter: it happened overnight at ethiopian airlines flight 702. while it was still in african air space the alert went out that the plane was hijacked. that came from the copilot who locked himself in the cockpit when the captain went to the bathroom. there was a request for asylum and the government not tampering with the person involved in this hijack. then the plane was diverted to switzerland. after -- after several circles he land. then the cockpit window was popped out and the copilot lowered himself down on to the tarmac. bill: why do they think he did this? >> reporter: there is a history of hijackings and attempted hijackings, but rarely by employees. according to authorities in switzerland, the man could get a

bill? it moves -- >> the thing is that it's strengthening so much right off the coast, so it is going to be a big storm for parts of new england. here we go again. bill: thanks, ma ya. you look good in red, maria. happy valentine's day. martha: well, there was ice on an airplane's wing, and that caused a hard landing as wisconsin's airport. the five people on the cessna all survived, but three were hospitalized with minor injuries. the impact broke the landing gear, causing the plane to skid off the runway on its belly. the city's fire rescue chief praised the pilot's skills and how they handled the plane. >> we are very fortunate that there was no fire sparks. gentleman did an excellent job keeping it where he did and making sure everybody on this plane was able to walk away like they did. >> i could hear the plane, planes go by here all the time, and it just came in really low, and it was just really low and really loud. martha: fire and rescue units were on the scene for about two hours.

bill: i am bill hemmer, good morning.he very people who would benefit the most from obamacare. low income americans living beneath the poverty line. but they are apparently victims of a gap in coverage. martha: as many as 5 million americans who make a little bit too much to get medicaid, even if it is $100 per week. but make too little to qualify for the subsidies. the writer for "the hill." good to have you here. explain to us who is falling into this cap and why. >> these are a lot of childless adults more than 20 states around the country that have chosen not to expand their medicaid programs under obamacare. this became optional for stays as a result of the supreme court's decision in the summer of 2012 and a lot of at that point a lot of people praise the supreme court because they said states should have the option to either expand this program using mostly federal dollars or refuse not to if they oppose it. now what we are realizing is a lot of people will not receive government help even though they are destitute

bill: all right. brave man. pay the bills. >> i try. bill: will you go.here a moment ago, and we were talking about the show coming downsideways. and when you catch that gust, i mean, you really have to duck out of the way. smart idea in new york, carry an umbrella on a day like today, because you can just shield enough snow away there your eyes so you can see where you're going. here it goes, it is here. does it last another ten hours? if it does, it could be a record storm. ow. that's brutal. see you in a moment. martha: get out of the middle of the road. you're making me nervous. [laughter] bill: see you in a minute. martha: back to bill in just a moment. >>> so despite u.s. protests, hamid karzai's government did something thought to be unthinkable, released 65 detainees that america considers to be very dangerous to us. what this could mean for our security as we try to negotiate an exit from afghanistan. this is not a good situation. >>> and it's never good to be in the hole, especially like this. dramatic images from a museum that houses vintage ca

bill: really?ld be inexpensive way for police departments to get robots. bill: on the cheap, right? >> totally. bill: the biggest challenge, christina, is what here? >> the biggest challenge how well this would work in practice. this would work well to augment existing police strategy. you have an officer and have the robot that can act as a second pair of eyes but the challenge is going to be, making sure that it can manuever itself around and accomplish what it needs to accomplish. bill: talking about disabled veterans or injured police officers getting opportunity to go back to work? >> right. bill: i see other advantages here. do you? >> absolutely. you could do all kinds of things with this. could be a great way for people to monitor, certain parking areas or look over to areas and say, hey, this is a problem right now. you could have 24-hour guard command for different people come in and look through the camera system. bill: so long as they're not writing tickets, i think that is clever idea.

turns out these bills are like the trendy new right-wing bill all around the country. in missouri, a republican state senator just yesterday introduced a bill that would allow missouri businesses claiming a religious objection to refuse to serve customers on that basis. in ohio, a bill like this has also been introduced there in the house. in nevada, a bill like this is making its way through pea. same story in idaho. a republican bill has been moved back to committee. republicans in oklahoma have proposed a bill like this. republicans in hawaii have proposed a bill like this. republicans in mississippi have already passed a bill like this through the state senate and it's now on the way to the mississippi house. republicans in utah are trying to pass this measure as an amendment. republicans in oregon are trying to get it on to the ballot. republicans are trying to pass legislation like this everywhere in the country and at lightning speed. so far, at least, though, it has not yet worked. it's interesting, for a while it sort of seemed like these bills were going to p

i will not vote against the bill but i certainly hope that if this bill or a similar bill moves to the senate that the majority in the house will keep the commit. s that are made to representative duckworth and the democrats on our committee to find a satisfactory resolution to the legitimate concerns that were raised. mr. speaker, i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from virginia reserves. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. farenthold: thank you and i would like to take a moment to recognize the concerns of the gentleman from virginia before yielding to the author of the bill. during the markup, representative duckworth was concerned about certain agencies, like the v.a. and the department of defense, and during the markup, we did add a provision at the minority's request that allowed the office of management and budget to implement regulations in exactly how this is going to be done. it certainly does not prohibit paid for by the army or paid for by the veterans administration, it would simply add paid for by the army at taxpayer expense

we are open for business, bill. >> where do you stand on the bill? >> i opposed the bill. was part of the coalition that owe pose i had it in the house of representatives on the floor. we want to attract more men and women. this is a state that's having the arizona comeback, we're coming out of a recession. we want people to know that we are long past s.b.1070. we want people to come to arizona, feel welcome come here and be our neighbors. >> when you talk about a bill as this one and people on both sides hear the phrase optics, that means we didn't want to look bad as far as the rest of the world is concerned, but what about the moral issue on this. >> i'm not what part of the moral issue is being challenged when we talk about optics. >> both sides. >> this bill was watched closely. we go into session every january and people start watching all of our controversial bills, there's always a few. this bill got on people's radar quickly and it was important. i'm getting emails, phone calls, letters from people. again, the absence is conspicuous for the support. what we're hea

this bill will not end that. instead of moving forward, it blindfolds the referee and ensures that predatory financial institutions can take advantage of the american people without a watchdog. this bill has serious flaws. it would add additional bureaucracy to consumer financial protection bureau, replacing a director with a commission. the gentleman from texas said somehow this bill meant that there wasn't big government, this bill establishes more big government, more commissions rather than having -- guess how most private companies are run, madam speaker? there's usually a c.e.o. in charge. they don't have some director or commission. it sounds more like the soviet union than the united states of america what the republicans are proposing in this bill. this bill would also prevent the consumer financial protection bureau from offering salaries or benefits to employees that are competitive with other financial regulators. guess what, madam speaker? the financial industry pays well. the big banks pay well. tha

bill: and i'm bill hemmer.ting to tighter rules on drone strikes imposed by president obama and america's intelligence chief, james clapper, is said to update lawmakers on current and future threats to the homeland. martha: john bolton joins us now, former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. and a fox news contributor. ambassador, good to have you here this morning. >> good morning, martha. martha: a couple of things at play here, and the most important is whether or not this person poses an imminent threat to american lives overseas. what's your understanding of how, how bad this guy is and what he may be planning? >> well, i don't think it's an issue at all whether hek]xñd pon imminent threat. if we have information that an american citizen or anybody else has joined in taking up arms against the united states, he is a legitimate target in our war against terrorism, a war the obama administration doesn't like to talk about. it's not a question of whether he's an imminent threat. if he's on part of the enemy's side, h

bill: 2008.re all familiar with that. >> i had a glimpse into the uaw and what they were all about and i think workers, the great employees at volkswagen that are building outstanding vehicles understood that the uwa -- uaw was not going to be something that was constructive. bill: i have a lot to go through here. first from berlin. this is part of the works union out of the volkswagen there. on screen now. the conservatives stirred up massive antiunion sentiments. it is possible that the conclusion we draw this interference amounted to unfair labor practice. what do you think about that? >> let's describe what happened at the plant. the uaw tried to do this through card check. instead of having a secret ballot vote, they organized for two years inside the plant and tried to do so through again, through card check without giving employees a chance to vote. since we encouraged that not to occur, we ended up having an eight or nine-day quickie election but only people that were allowed to be inside

bill. and they seem to have plenty of facts backing them up way beyond senator reid's assertion that all of them are untrue. they are not all untrue. in fact, i have ever reason to believe they're all true and there are many more stories out there to be told. in fact, today i wanted to talk about the changes in medicare advantage and had to have some discussion with our team. well, how many of these stories are you not going to tell this week if you just tell the stories about medicare advantage? if you're in senator reid's view of the wocialgd world, i guessk the active imagination of missourians is just running wild because they're contacting our office constantly talking about higher premiums, higher deductibles, insurance they used to have that worked and insurance that doesn't work, and it doesn't work because the federal government, without thinking through the goal of trying to be sure that more people had access to insurance, didn't think about all of the unintended things that coul

ellison: this is a bad bill. among the cfpb's many accomplishments, they have refunded more than $3 billion -- billion with a b -- to more than nine million consumers. that's good fiscal stewardship. now, the cfpb oversees industries that previously were not regulated by the federal government, including credit reporting agencies, nonbank mortgage providers, debt collection agencies and payday lenders, all of that consumer protection was in. if this bad piece of legislation were to pass. resoundingly say no on this bill. the chair: the gentleman yields. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. hensarling: mr. chairman, i'm now pleased to yield one minute to the gentleman from indiana, mr. stutzman. the chair: the gentleman from indiana is recognized for one inute. mr. stutzman: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise in support of the consumer financial protection and act. the cfpb is disgracefully unaccountable to the american people. richard cord ray and future direct dwhroferse bureau are virtually unchecked by cong

this bill fixes that. i hear a lot on this floor about the warnings of days gone by and the fear mongering attached to trying to instill accountability on this bureaucracy in washington. i don't think any of us on either side of the aisle wants to defend overzealous democrats and imposing unnecessary burdens that have clogged this economy. now, america doesn't work when special interest groups use the courts to impose backroom regulations that destroy jobs and reduce take-home pay. this bill before us fixes that. make no mistake, excessive red tape hurts working middle-class families. for example, it was reported that a proposed osha regulation would impose costs on the growing domesticic energy sector equal to 1,120 per affected employee. these employ yes, sir should not have to -- employees should not have to worry about smaller paychecks and another emerging practice of washington regulators that hides the real impact that excessive regulation has on jobs. under the pretense of minimal regulatory impact

>> it was not removed from the bill. it was not in the senate bill. it was in the house bill. the decision was made that we already have financial disclosure forms as to where we get our incomes. this is done through other committees and ethics committees and rules committees. this is beyond our jurisdiction. we indicated that if there is anything to be done there, that should be done over there. i support that. but we already have to disclose where our income comes from. anybody been nominated has to do it. disclosures, do you have to report that you have farm subsidies? >> you have to report your income and where it comes from. >> the detail would be very different. financiale on the disclosure form. we have gone through these forms. if you have a question about where your income is six think. you have a very specific information. it seems to be a stepping back from transparency. i like to follow this up further. sayet me to stop you and that was not in the house version. i would support doing more on. it was not something that it was done in this bill. >> understood. othera

again, arizona does not need or want this bill, and we are asking the governor to swiftly veto this bill. >> we do know there are some, albeit some now willing to say

, and that's because there is so much more in this bill than what we would call a farm bill. really, 12 different pieces of legislation from farm to research to fruits and vegetables to energy across the board all put together in something we call the farm bill. this is most importantly a major bipartisan jobs bill that makes sure that 16 million people who work in agriculture from michigan to mississippi to oklahoma and everywhere in between have the support they need. this is an exports bill that will help expand opportunities for american agricultural exports. one of the few areas where our nation maintains a healthy, robust trade surplus. this is a research bill that will make a permanent long-term commitment through a new public-private foundation and other investments that will allow us to find solutions to pests and diseases and focus on innovations for the future. this is an energy bill that will help create the next generation of biofuels to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and will help farmers and rural small business owners generate their own power to improve

anti-homosexuality bill of 2009, known as kill the gays bill.sentence of life in prison just for being gay. called for a sentence of death by hanging for the death of being gay and hiv positive. could be sentenced for three years in prison for knowing somebody was gay and not reporting them to government. the kill the gays bill landed with a thud on the world stage and almost as soon as it did, the american activists who had been in uganda earlier that year urging zero tolerance for homosexuality were claiming they were shocked by this legislation, had nothing to do with it and opposed at least the capital punishment part of what was called for in the bill. we did lots of reporting on this at the time and learned that even though these american activists were trying desperately to distance themselves from the kill the gays bill when it came out, prominent ugandans aware of how the bill came to be were crediting the same americans for helping with and inspiring the legislation. one priest we spoke with said members of the ugandan parliament prese

clearly that bill is an extremely important bill. as we've said we've made progress towards our accreditation and we continue to work hard but clearly without the financial accreditation we faces a cliff. it's gratifying to see the support from senator leno and mayor ed lee pr the mayor has lent his support in all kinds of ways and now we're going to get support in stabilization that puts us on a road to maintain accreditation immediately. i thank all of them and especially senator leno for sponsoring this bill (clapping.) well, you truly it's a pleasure to be able to stand here and tell you that city college is still open and still extraordinary and it's my goal to sustain that for generations to come. with the help that we're being given by the city i want to thank the mayor first and foremost he's been a wonderful partner and perhaps i'd like to call him my new best friend he was the second person who called me when wee i took this job. he is teaching me about how wonderful this city is. i want to thank senator leno and the state

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 every place 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 melinda gates foundation or bloomberg or lots of other generous people have invested, hasn't done anything -- that is just not true at all. 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, or

bill, world war ii.tate governments and the national government got together and made higher education available to all the people. we should learn something from that. it is the most important factor that we have in the world markets. we are still doing very well. we are number one in the nation here at the university of oklahoma of all the public universities in the national merit scholars we have on board. last year we had a rhodes scholar in our student body, a marshall scholar, a goldwater, the fulbright. the odds of that are 20,000 to one. we are holding ourselves accountable. it is very discouraging, especially for students and their families to see the state governments cut back. tour ofspan is doing a the big 12 colleges and today our bus is at the home of the university of oklahoma. aboard the bus is our guest, david boren, the first person to serve as governor of the state, a senator, and now president of the oklahoma university. you talk about state budgets and cutting back. that means that s

bill: hang in there.martha: check this out, city of lincoln nebraska tackling the winter storm had done with an emergency parking ban. 70 plows working to clear the major roadways. they have emergency vehicles, bus and school roots are being reorganized and reporting over 20 accidents on the very slick roads in nebraska. bill: who have heard this story of a lot of places in the country especially michigan facing a shortage of road salt. driving up the price as this winter goes on and on. >> just yesterday the price doubled, actually. now it is $600. bill: homeowners facing the same problem, not just michigan. talking about new jersey, new york as well. when i was a younger man, they would call me salt pile willie because out always go out to see how the stock was doing. salt pile willie. martha: we have seen sports stars, pajama boy with his cocoa, and now a new ad campaign for obamacare. ♪ martha: i don't know what to say about that. resorted to using pets. are things that bad commie have to listen to yo

this bill is not about benghazi. this veterans bill is not about iran sanctions. it is not about hillary clinton. it is about protecting the needs of our veterans. so senator burr's bill does not go anywhere near as far as we need to go in terms of veterans issues. it brings the iran sanctions issues into a debate where it should not be brought into. i object. the presiding officer: objection is heard. mr. graham: i'd ask a minute -- the presiding officer: the senator from south carolina. mr. graham: thank you. in addition to the burr amendment 2752, therer many amendments on our side of the aisle waiting in the queue to be offered. further parliamentary inquiry. is it correct that no senator is protectived to offer an amendment to this bill while the majority leader's amendments and motions are pending? the presiding officer: the senator is correct. mr. graham: okay. in addition to the burr amendment 2752, there are many amendments on our side of the aisle waiting in the queue to be offered. further parliamentary inquiry: if a motion to table the reid motion to c

rights bill by supporters. if she signs it, businesses in her state could deny services to lgbt customers based on religious grounds. she is xpekexpected to travel b today and sources tell nbc she'll likely veto the bill, something she wasn't willing to commit to yesterday. >> if i have to look at what it says and what the law says and take that information and do the right thing. >> but there's already building opposition to this. three republican state senators are expressing remorse for voting for the bill. there's also three major businesses, marriott, american airlines and now apple who are calling on the governor to strike it down. a growing call for the nfl to pull out of super bowl xlix, which is hosted in arizona, if the state signs this bill precipitating a lot of this tension was delaware governor jack markel. >> the nfl should be looking to move the super bowl out of that state because there are so many places around the country that are welcoming to everybody. >> the nfl issued a statement just mom

>> i don't think there will be a bill. i think there will be a series of bills. obamacare was a lesson-learner for a lot of people. >> i guess my question, is will we have immigration reform in 2014? > if nancy pelosi and dick durbin, the the democrats, if they are right, they will not accept anything other than a path to citizenship, i don't think the path will pass. i don't think the house will pass that. i think what most immigrants want is to come out of the shadows, raise their families and go on. >> you don't sound optimistic that there will be an overall bill passed at the summit this year. >> if anything, i think that the house will demand to series of bills. if that series of bills has to have a special path to citizenship, i think you will see in the house bill probably -- and i can't predict that. my impression is that people who are involved with so-called dreamers, i think they probably will get a special path to citizenship, and that's awfully good policy. >> you have been a supporter of governor chris christie. you criticized some of his critics, i

what about bill philips during this? bill never defended himself. he never believed the interpretation of the curve. he said it's an interesting correlation. he always said it's a rush job. there's even some evidence that colleagues published the philips curve paper without his commission while he was on sabbatical. he never took it seriously. there was another reason which is by the time the shock hit and the curve disappeared, bill was dead. had a stroke. he died young. i think that's sad not only because it's sad whenever anybody died before the time. because it was a great man. he was a practical thinker. he was pragmatic. and yet linked with an idea that was proved to be wrong that he never really believed in. what i really feel we need to keep of the spirit was this strange balance that he had. on the one hand saying we don't understand what is going open. it's just a correlation. don't overrate your ability to understand the -- but at the same time he wasn't willing to give up. wasn't willing to say it's too hard. i don't understand it. bill

this bill repeals it. the bay delta conservation plan which my friend referenced is over if this bill passes because the premise of that plan are co-equal goalers in environment and water supply reliability and when you preempt and repeal that there's no basis for that plan to move forward at all. you better include some funding for the federal courts if this bill passes because instead of a solution, you're going to be unleashing a wave of litigation unlike anything the state of california has ever seen. it's going to hurt the san joaquin valley and every other part of the state that needs constructive solutions not a new water war. we have deference to state of california and all other states in administering our water system. that was made clear by chief justice rehnquist. the principle under the public trust doctrine as part of the california constitution and the california supreme court has made it clear that that is a bedrock of california water law. the california legislature in hat 2009 package cal

bill was about. as a result, many of the veterans -- manufacture our nation's veterans -- many of our nation's veterans must use loans to cover this difference and in the process become indebted with large school loans that will take them years to pay off. my office has heard from a number of veterans and veterans organizations about this problem. we heard from sky barkley who lived in florida prior to joining the u.s. marine corps in 2006. after serving her county, sky decided to -- country, sky decided to remain with her family in north carolina so her husband could finish serving his military obligations. less than a year later, they moved to sky's hometown in florida to transition back to civilian life and finish their college education. sky and her husband changed their residency immediately, started renting a home and ensured her car registration was up to date. however, the school they chose to attend could not consider either of these veterans as in-state students. as a result, they were forc

first of all, the bill -- the bill that we're discussing right now is not the bill that was in place since 1999 because your language expands it to individuals. it expands it to -- no, it does not. it expands it. here's the thing, i can make this very, very simple. when you're talking about the right to discriminate, which is what this bill is basically all about, the right for somebody to discriminate based on their religious belief, there are three types of discrimination that you need to understand. the first one is personal discrimination, which is constitutionally protected, by the way. i personally have the right to discriminate in my choices around my personal life. i can discriminate against certain men who aren't methodist, for example, because i don't want to marry a methodist. that's constitutionally protected discrimination. second form is private association. if maia, the woman who was in that clip when she was asked, would you let a gay christian business owner in because there are a lot of open and affirming christian churches in this country, and she was like uh -- uh

jan brewer has vetoed this bill. this is important for arizona, it's important for the myriad of republican controlled states that are considering this legislation even right now. it's also important for her republican party and for the conservative movement which right now -- and it's a fascinating thing to watch, they have not figured out what they're going to do with their own deep divide on cultural issues broadly, but specifically on the issue of gay rights. she's got some republicans polling her from the legislature this way. some changing her mind. she's got republican u.s. senators pulling her in a different direction. the conservative media pulling her in yet another direction. what do conservatives believe on this issue. what are they evolving toward? and that relates directly to the other major news today on this same issue. which is that the great red state of texas has just joined the great nonnortheast liberal hippie states of utah, kentucky, oklahoma and virginia as states where federal judges have jus

both david wildstein and bill baroni asked them to cover those bills.n no decision announced about baroni. wildstein was eventually denied. they said in effect our policy covers you working for the port authority and we don't think what you were up to qualifies. >> stlerategically it's an interesting issue because it's going to be hard for them to say no to wildstein, you're on your own and protect bill baroni. if you keep cutting the guys off, there's no reason for them not to turn on everybody else involved in the issues in order to save themselves. >> there you have to consider the people making the decision, they're not discussing the rationale. they work for the port authority of new york and new jersey. they don't necessarily work for the christie administration. they don't necessarily have loyally to either of these guys or anyone but the port authority. >> ted mann, "wall street journal" transportation reporter covering the new jersey bridge scandal from the very beginning. thank you for being here. stay in touch. thanks. >>> there was the news

but there needs to be a bill, mr. speaker. there needs to be a bill. if there's not, let's move forward with the one we have, which would pass tomorrow on the floor of the house. i am honored to yield to a leader in the fight to reform immigration, a co-chair of the new democratic coalition immigration task force, my colleague from florida, mr. garcia. mr. garcia: i thank the gentleman from colorado. there should be no question by now, immigration reform is good for america and americans want immigration reform. nearly 80% of americans agree and up to 70% of republicans support reform with a pathway to citizenship. the issue is not simpley about justice and fairness. it's about ensuring america's economic prosperity. in florida alone, legalizing all the currently undocumented immigrants would generate $1.3 billion of new tax revenue and reate 97,000 new jobs. mr. speaker, fixing our broken immigration system will help small businesses expand, foster innovation, increase productivity, raise wages, and help create thousands of jobs. comprehensive immigra

and budget bills. although things aren't looking so great for things like immigration and the debt ceiling. del, the president giving a mini state of the union there, hitting some of the high points. raising the minimum wage, put more money into education, and putting a positive spin on the jobs numbers, which by all accounts if you talk to the experts was a mixed bag today. certainly a far cry from the highs -- the double digits highs it was at the outset of the obama administration. one thing i thought was interesting in that regard. the president will always issue a caveat when he is talking about jobs numbers. i didn't hear much of that today. and he said this could be a break through year for america. so the are the is expected to announce some orders, increase exporters and facilitate that. that's what he is going to be talking about here at michigan state university, and then ultimately back to the house with. >> mike in 30 seconds of your wisdom, speaker boehner saying that the immigration bill

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there's no doubt about this bill. be offering, or legalizing i should say, state-sanctioned discrimination. and as george pointed out, it's a very heartbreaking bill for many of us that are arizonans. i'm a native of the state, been here my whole life, and it's been eight years, my time in the legislature, and that was probably one of the worst votes i've had to make in terms of the severity of the bill. and i do want to say to george's call for boycott, though, there are millions of arizonans that oppose this bill. the business community has come out against it. we have a wide range of people that are opposing this bill. so don't hold us all to the same standard, george, i beg you, for that. and don't think that we all are not open to everybody coming to our state and spending money here and living here and enjoying themselves here and raising a family here. and you know, really i would make the offer to george, come out here and let's work together and change this state this year. it is an election year. we can elec

bill: and i'm bill hemmer. the relationship between the united states and russia going through one of the arguably roughest patches we have seen since the fall of the soviet union. tensions rising in ukraine's crimea region to, ukraine calling it a military invasion. the ousted president just an hour ago speaking from inside russia. listen. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: russia has the right to act. i think that russia has to and must act, and knowing the character of mr. putin, i'm surprised at the fact that he is still so reserveed and keeping silent. martha: just moments ago. joined now by bret baier, anchor of "special report." bret, welcome, good morning to you. >> morning, martha. martha: yanukovych, nobody knew where he was. he has surfaced and held this press conference. he says he's surprised at the silence of vad anywhere putin on this so far. what do you think about these developments? >> yeah, it was really interesting seeing the write-ups and the whole thing about the press conference.

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session, not one of them was a jobs bill. not one job created. do we set ourselves up again for the kind of regulatory wild, wild west that got us into trouble in the first place? with that, i will reserve the balance. the chair: the gentleman from georgia reserves. the gentleman from virginia is recognized. mr. goodlatte: at this time it's my pleasure to yield one minute to the gentleman from alabama, mr. bachus, the chairman of the subcommittee. the chair: the gentleman from alabama is recognized for one minute. mr. bachus: let me say this. the gentleman from georgia has talked about these regulations all being necessary. but the president himself on the campaign trail said we need to repeal unnecessary federal regulations. he stood right here in the house when he gave two state of the unions and said we need to eliminate some of our federal regulations. and he charged the congress to do that. it's been part of his agenda. it's been part of what he's campaigned on. it's been part of what he's brought to the congress in his