bill: thanks to both of you. >> thank you. bill: 40% of independents are not happy. >> right. billthat is really -- >> harbinger of ill for the administration. bill: thank you, doug. thank you, monica. what's next, martha? martha: coming up the poet giving a kiss to a little admirer. why the pontiff's mini-me caused quite a sensation in st. peter's square. look at this little boy. plus this. >> obamacare has me worried. i always put my patients first. taking time to listen and get to know them. bill: many believe this win the obamacare election. how ad wars are centering around one central issue. >> my time be spent navigating a complicated system or helping people get well? what will happen to my patients if i have to close my practice? [ fishing rod casting line, marching band playing ] [ male announcer ] the rhythm of life. [ whistle blowing ] where do you hear that beat? campbell's healthy request soup lets you hear it in your heart. [ basketball bouncing ] heart healthy. [ m'm... ] great taste. [ tapping ] sounds good. campbell's healthy request. m'm! m'm! good.® you want a wa

bill: wow, if you don't have to go outside today, don't do it. martha: thank you for doing it. thank you forgoing out there, bill. bill: hazardous duty. day. stay warm and dry. bill: wear a bigger hat. martha: no, we love your hat. see you later. jon: i have one you can borrow, bill. today's top headlines and brand new stories you will see here first. jenna: we don't snead to say it. the storm slamming the south knocking out power to hundreds of thousands is pummeling the northeast. we're live with fox team coverage how it affects everybody in the country. >>> brand new polls released offering a grim outlook on the economy. what it means for your pocketbook and also for politics as well. >>> also a camera falls from a plane and lands in a pig pen. that is the not the most amazing

bill ! - hi, bill. - hi, bill. - hi, everybody. - what are you doing here ? i just wanted to say good-bye before i left for the airport. so i'll see you a week from friday. it's a date. and i'll call you when i get to chicago. you better. don't forget my bear. i won't. is this a business conference or a hunting trip ? - it's for my collection. - you collect stuffed animals ? -yeah. what's wrong with that ? -nothing, if you're a five year old. - rosa, what is today's special ? - chicken mole. - and what about dessert ? - i'm not sure yet. maybe you could come up with something a little extra special ? - are we expecting royalty ? - our landlord, mr. shuster, is coming to have lunch. - we are discussing the new lease. - i'll do my best. good luck. this lunch has acid indigestion written all over it. how do you like the chicken ? it's delicious. rosa is an excellent chef. you have a wonderful restaurant. i hope you're here for a very long time. oh, i'm sure i will be. as soon as i meet with my accountant, i'll let you know about the rent. what about the rent ? pr

dollars over the next 10 years on what should be called a food security bill rather than a farm bill because this isn't a farm bill, this is a food security bill. and the language that we hear from our colleagues is totally parochial or product based. and we hear all the claims that we're thinking about the best interests of the nation. what we're really thinking about is the best interests of the parochial values from our own states. and that's how you get this conflagration of people coming together to pass a bill that i admit has some limited reforms in it. bit i just heard the senator from north dakota talk about how we create wealth. i couldn't disagree more. we create wealth by making sure the risk of capital investment are responsive to market forces. this farm bill is anything but that. there's no response to market forces, because there's no place else in this country where you can go into a business or an enterprise and being guaranteed that your revenue's going to be secure. we've even added a new supplemental low-cost crop insurance program, that all of us, who aren't farmers in america, are going to p

bill: what was that again, that last part? jenna: if brain? bill: oh, the brain. jenna: the size matters. bill: see you, top of the hour. bill: lawmakers taking a look at a serious issue, the persecution of christians. hot spots all around the world, that's next. ♪ ♪ martha: well, another day, another sinke for the people in one pennsylvania town. the latest -- can you imagine if your whole town started sinking into the earth? it has swallowed part of a business. directly across the street, the appropriately-named sinkhole saloon and grill, we hear now from its owner. >> to have done something to it, and just the fact that when water freezes, it expands and contract, that'll make everything move a little. martha: wow. nobody was hurt, thankfully, in that latest collapse. engineers are working on the best plan to fix it. ♪ ♪ bill: christians under attack, the focus of a hearing underway right now. this as we see an escalationing in vicious and often deadly assaults on christians in places like egypt and other places. shannon bream is on that live in washington. how bad or widespread is this now, shannon? >> reporter: well

bill. bill bill he. will be was. your role be your. b. b do you call that grow up. to be up to. what the people to see you pay money for do give you. the who's. done what you would get up. to say the country is doing the stuff we're soon to be in this city. bridges sitting in the we're. all music over twenty. two. community boards alone more than a way around two hundred children all for them they also found that child abusers convicted child abusers got access to those kids. whole recalling phenomenon and what i'm saying is overall it's an amazingly rosy picture in that adopted kids international as well as domestic are treated better than regular kids growing up in untroubled biological families in the united states. in two thousand and one of those things released by wiki leaks was a secret video recording that actually looked like a video showing two american political actors opening for a dozen people in a row this is going to instill in the soil images of all that's become normal this is what the sense of isolation lack of empathy. when we try and experienced in this. disa

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bill: i'm bill hemmer. martha: yes you are. welcome back, bill hemmer. great to see you. eat to be back with you, martha. documents show that high level officials knew of security risks, serious risks now, with some of these websites but went ahead and approved them anyway 4hours before the launch on october 1. -- 48 hours a top security officer writing the following. quote, the front office is signing them whether or not they are a high-risk, end quote, that from late september. martha: chris stirewalt, fox news digital politics editor and host of "power play" of course on foxnews.com of the good to have you here. >> good morning. >> it is stunning when you take a look at this. documents revealing exactly what their concerns were about these connections. let's take a look at this first one that we have here. let's pull that up. got it? there we go. cms views october 1 connections to the nine states as a risk due to the fact that their document may not be submitted completely nor reviewed by october 1. we all know of course the significance of october 1, chris. >> right. b

the nation to know, that this bill, this mean spirited bill that legalizes -- legally sanctions discrimination, is not the arizona that arizonians here truly want this bill to go away, and we want to focus on the priorities of our state. 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

bill: happy birthday to george washington. >> i'm jamie colby. bill: i'm billday. "happening now" starts right now. jon: today's top headlines and brand new stories you see here first. >> five years ago today as we were dealing with a massive recession the president zioned his equally massive stimulus plan into law. did we get what we paid for? a question we will ask today. >>> disturbing twist in a murder investigation. a teenage suspect accused of luring a man to death on craig's list, claiming there are many more victims. we'll get into that. >>> a pilot hijacks his own plane. what he was demand something all "happening now." jenna: to our top story, democrats going on the offensive on obamacare. hi, everybody, great to have you today. happy presidents' day today. i'm jenna lee. jon: i'm jon scott. democratic candidates hoping to change the narrative on the health care law ahead of the midterm elections. "the new york times" today reports more democrats talking openly about props with the president's health care law but trying to emphasize that they want to

bill: waiting for the animation. jaimie: there it is. bill: republicans working on a new bill action bypassing congress on changes and delays for obamaca obamacare. the best way to stop this is to take away the presidents wallet. >> the best thing we can do in congress is to withhold funds. for congress to exercise its power. james madison seven a president is using this power, the best thingcongress can do is withhold earnings so he cannot hurt the american people. bill: that is the point he was making yesterday morning. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. bill: and we asked is president obama using can rest congressional power. >> they can't find anywhere that the president is allowed to write laws without congress or do something worse as obamacare as they passed a law over the objection the people of congress represents eminent president decides parts of his own law our job destroyers were damaging to america, he simply modifies the law without going back to congress. those are the actions of a dictator. bill: republicans have a big problem with this. do democrat

bill. do you have any sense of why? >> 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. as do cabinet officials and anyone being nominated. >> just to clarify real quick, on your disclosures currently, do you have to disclose that you receive farm subsidies? >> you have to report your income and where it comes from. >> the detail would be very different. between what has been reported in farm subsidies versus what's on the disclosure forms. it would be on the financial disclosure form. we have gone through these forms. if you have a question about where your income is six think. it's not particularly succinct. you have very specific information. it seems to be a stepping back from transparency. i

bills. bills, comes to pay the it is our responsibility pay the bills. not negotiate about paying the bills. >> very quickly, back to the farm bill. for those who are not as involved in it as you, what is the tax -- cost to the american taxpayer. it is $900 billion. this includes help for needy families. they find themselves in a difficult position. our seniors and people with disabilities. our disabled veterans are coming home. investment weest make in land and water conservation. there is support for agriculture in the form of help when there is a disaster or a loss. we have not really talked about jobs today, we have a new effort around bio-based manufacturing. we are bringing manufacturing and farming together. we have all kinds of new opportunities to create bob -- jobs in this country. we have research and bio-based manufacturing. these will grow the economy. is $900 billion over five years? >> over 10 years. >> how much is that saving? is $23overall savings billion. that includes the sequestration cuts. we have artie put in place about $6 billion i

speaker, to bring a bill forward to the floor, another bill, we would -- another bill we would bring forward is increasing the minimum wage to $10.10. . just before coming up here to manage this rule i signed a discharge petition to bring that bill to the floor, a bill that i proudly co-sponsor, a bill authored by my colleague, mr. miller of california. raising the minimum wage would help restore fairness for working men and women across the country. would lift millions of americans out of poverty, would fuel demand and economic growth. a letter from over 600 economists said that, quote, at a time when persist tent high unemployment is putting enormous downward pressure on wages, a moig increase would provide a much needed boost, end quote. it's no panacea. but if we are looking at helping americans earn enough so that they don't have to be part of the social safety net or government welfare programs, we need to make sure they can do that in the private sector. you know what? at current minimum wage levels a family working full-time 40 hours a week earns about $14,000 a year. mr. spea

, an innovation bill, an infrastructure bill, a research bill, a conservationl. it's like a swiss army knife. >> here is the downside to it. democrats have been critical of the farm bill because of the cuts to food stamps. it amounts to 1%. do you think it was the best compromise that could reached? >> yeah. there's nothing wrong with compromise. in this case, it did yield a bill. when you talk about symbols, the obama white house invited republicans to go to michigan state for the bill signing. none of them accepted the invitation. obama was flanked by democrats. it shows that the plus is they got a bill passed. the minus is republicans don't want to help at all advance obama's bipartisan story line. >> yeah. okay, aaron, based on that, based on the legislation and optics here, do you think this farm bill is a sign there could be more compromise ahead on other issues, or not? >> certainly, the combination of this and the budget passed last year suggests congress is capable of doing bipartisan things in a way we haven't seen in recent years. the farm bill took

bill clinton was phenomenal. i voted for bill clinton twice. it's not republican or democrat. it's doing sound fiscal policy. flat rate tax, minimal regulations, get the government out of the way. billodier performance. >> he laid it out clearly and that's his job. bill: that's why we brought you upon. enjoy the ice. be careful. martha: a desperate plea to 911 for help after a serious case of road rage. >> he hit me three times now and here he comes again. he just it me four times now. martha: a father's fight to protect his daughter from another driver. bill: he's the top dog. you are wondering what makes this wire terrier the best in show. martha: just ask hip, he will tell you. [ male announcer ] if shaving is a pain in the neck, cheek or chin, we have one word. hallelujah. upgrade to the gillette fusion proglide. our best shave for about a dollar a week. gillette -- the best a man can get. our best shave for about a dollar a week. on beautyrest and posturepedic. financing and save up to $500 get a sealy queen set for just $399. even get 3 years interest-free financing on tempur-pedic. but only through presidents' day at sleep train. bill: america has a new top dog. sky the wire

bill. not an amended bill, this bill. get it done, give a peace of mind to our veterans and our retirees that they know -- and our active military. let me say one other thing. this puts our readiness to some degree at risk. why do i say that? well, if you're thinking about joining the military, part of when you're joining the military, you're looking at the benefits and how it all works. you know you're going to put your life on the line. at some point, you may be called to duty, in a sense of life on the line. so they're looking at what those benefits are, what can they provide for themselves and their families. what's that retirement that they may become a career officer, a career enlist the member, what are they going to do. and now they're questioning should they. i had some e-mails from some folks about their sons and daughters who are currently enlisted and now wondering what did they get in to, when at a moment's notice the commitment, the promise we made, they can -- "we" congress, can change overnight. our readine

bill? >> bill is -- bill focuses -- bill has a laser-like ability to focus on a single problem. kind of more of an affinity for business-related things than -- especially in the early days than i did. so i would -- i would spend my time more thinking about where's technology going, what's the future going to be like? i used to say follow the chips. wherever the chips are going to evolve to we need to have products to take advantage of the new chips that were coming down the pike. bill was more focused on the competitive side of things. and bill is -- and steve ballmer are both both super competitive people. >> more competitive than you are? >> well, i'm thinking about the future. and i want to -- i want to create an outcome. but some people are just -- they have competition in their blood. they want -- they thrive on being involved in competitive business atmosphere i guess i would say. >> and you don't have that? >> no. believe me, i'm competitive as anybody when it comes to sports. but being a sports franchise owner. but i'm just -- i'm just trying to communicate that some peo

, you realize the bill is so vague, that it's going to lead us down a slippery slope. for instance, this bill, house bill 89 allows for us, or anybody to pull out a firearm and fire into a home, a vehicle, a crowd. it doesn't stop. it doesn't stop where anyone can use deadly force. it simply gives them the authority and the immunity to use it. >> so you can fire into any of these places if you think you're in danger. it doesn't have to be actual danger. if you feel you are endangered. >> if you feel you are in danger based upon this particular language you have a right to fire a gun into a home, into a vehicle, or into a crowd. and the one thing about this bill, reverend sharpton, is this. if you fire a weapon in this particular case, under this particular bill, if the bullet hits someone else, the question is will the shooter be liable for the person who was hit who was not the intend target. >> right. >> the bill doesn't even speak to that. those are the complications that this bill would lead to. stand your ground has already divided this entire country. >> wow. >> now, this particular bill here will

bill: you have to save the receipt. proof of purchase. martha: they will be really excited. bill: welcome back. i hope the trip with the family is great. i'm out of here tomorrow. martha: we're ships passing in the night. we'll hold down the for the. bill'reilly. we'll get out the cots and we won't leave. yeah. have a great day, everybody. martha: happening now starts right now. bi, everybody. jo fox news alert with the deadly violence in ukraine. protesters refuse to give up despite fiery battles breaking outovernight. riot police using water cannons and tear gas among other things. two dozen are dead, hundreds and hundreds are injured today. we have a live report. ambassador bolton will join news a short bit on this topic. >>> first right now. breaking news on today's top headlines and brand new stories you will see here first. jon: tragic case of a missing 10-year-old. a man charged in relation to an amber alert issued yesterday. the latest details ahead. >>> thieves smash right through the front of a store taking off with just one thing. you will be shocked with what they're after. >>> plus john travolta opens up as he reaches a new milestone, reflecting life as he hits the big six-oh. it is all "happening now." jenna: we start off

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 the billsave to have a special path to citizenship, i think you will see in the house bill probably -- and i cannot predict -- but my impression is that people who involved with the so-called dreamers, they probably will get a special path to citizenship and that is awfully good policy. >> you have been a supporter of governor chris christie. apart from the particulars here, this is not going to end soon. it seems that is clear. whether it should or should not, we are not commenting on it. is this debilitating to his presidential prospects? >> the news media is chasing surround like it is the lincoln assassination. if there's anybody that makes any kind of people has any credibility or not, it is air time, particularly on certain channels. he did what he was supposed to do. his administration screwed up, and he did what harry truman said. the buck stops here. he is certainly knocked back in the poll. maybe the lesson is, don't be ahead of hillary in the polls before christmas of 2013. >> do you

bill. bill: better be long stem. >> reporter: of course, sir. martha: jonathan, thank you. billust as millions are digging out, we could get several more inches of snow over the next 24 hours. maria molina is still in the fox weather center again. maria, what's next? >> reporter: oh, we have another storm we're tracking, and this one has more than two feet of snow across portions of virginia and also in the state of maryland. and in new york city officially 12.5 inches of snow, and it is the snowiest season as far as snow accumulation goes that we have seen in recorded history here with the national weather service actually retweeted their tweet earlier today. take a look at the radar, the storm system finally is moving on out of the northeast, and it really is falling apart. we do have lingering snow across portions of new england. heavier batches here and there moving through parts of the state of vermont. but farther west we have our next clipper system, and right now it's going to be impacting parts of illinois, moving into indiana, and it's a very quick mover, so we're not

bill we pass perfect? . >> how did you vote for this? >> i voted for this. >> how? >> let me tell you, this has been a debate farm bill after farm bill after farm bill. the fact is that americans have the most reasonably priced food and fiber of any people on the face of the earth. i think the farm program is part of that. i also like the fact that we do reduce food stamp fraud. not as much as i wanted to but we made a stab there. the alternative would have been to go back to an ancient program, gas prices would have quadrupled if we hadn't acted on this. i'm glad we came together. it is far from perfect. far from something that i really, really like. it was a bipartisan accomplishment. >> i love that word bipartisan. >> so do i. >> at least you guys are coming together on some things. we have the farm deal. let's talk about the next deal which is the clean debt ceiling that needs to happen so we don't ruin the full faith of the country. if we do this crazy thing we often do and run to the wire the public is saying they are going to blame gop and congress 54% if we crash into the debt ceiling. so given the bipartisan spirit with the

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 pass everywhere, kind of under the radar. but in all the places where these bills have gone far enough to seem like they might become law, in all of the places where that's happened and they've attracted national attention, they have then gone away. it's like sunlight makes them fizzle up and die. earlier this month kansas republicans passed one of thes

bill o'reilly yesterday. >> and when you look at the videotape of this whole thing unfolding, this is not some systematic, well-organized process. you see -- >> heavy weapons used. heavy weapons. >> bill, bill, listen, i've gone through this, and we have had multiple hearings on it. what happens is you have an attack like this taking place. and you have a mix of folks who are just trouble makers, folks who have an idealogical agenda. you have some who are affiliated with terrorist organizations, some that are not, but the main thing that all of us have to take away from this is our diplomats are serving in some very dangerous places. >> this is the finding of the democratic chair senate intelligence committee. quot assessment of the ic, the intelligence community, remains that the attacks were deliberate and organized. and that their leithality and efficacy did not necessarily indicate extensive planning. tonight, catherine herridge looks at how a top cia official shamed the post-attack narrative. >> the bipartisan senate intelligence committee report sheds new light on the role of michael morrell, the former cia deputy director, in the talking point controversy. >> i think given what was s

and here we have another bill to raise that, raise the spending again, and it won't be the only one. we're going to see bill after bill after bill, and it's part of the president's strategy. what is it, the era of austerity is over. he signs ryan-murray, signed the budget control act but he had no intention of complying with it, he will not support enforcement of it and that is a failure of leadership of a monumental proportion. it is a stunning event. swrng judge why we have a congress, pass laws that say we're only going to spend so much money and then waltz in a few weeks later and spend billions more than we agreed to. and we'll just waive the budget we just passed. this is important. but everybody knew when we passed the limits on spending that there were going to be important bills. i'm actually shocked, even by senate and congressional standards how blase this body has been about these laws. i thought at least people would pretend to honor them. there is no pretense here. and it's a failure of responsibility in this body if such spending were to pass. but let me just say -- so my colleagues voted to cut the ret

bill? >> bill is -- bill focuses -- he has a laserlike ability to focus on a single problem. and kind of more an affinity for business related things especially in the early days than i did. i would spend my time about where is technology going and what is the future going to be like? i use as they follow the chips. wherever they are, we need to have products to take advantage. bill is more focused on the competitive side of things. bill is and steve ballmer, they are super competitive people. >> more competitive that you are? >> i am thinking about the future. i want to crate and outcome. some people have competition in their blood. they thrive on being involved in a competitive business atmospheres i would say. >> you do not have that? >> no, i am as competitive as anybody in a sports stopped -- in sports. i am trying to communicate that some people when it comes to one-on-one competition, it is very much more focused. certain people like michael jordan, bill gates -- you must know others that have that level of competition. i am more of, i am competitive if i am in a compet

bill at the desk titled s. 1982, due for a second reading. the presiding officer: the clerk will read the title of the bill for the second time. the clerk: s. 1982, a bill to improve the provision of medical services and benefits to veterans, and for other purposes. mr. reid: i object to any further proceedings with respect to this bill at this time. the presiding officer: objection having been heard, the bill will be placed on the calendar. mr. reid: mr. president, last night, i had the good fortune to spend some time with the president along with michael bennet and -- michael bennet and others, and it was worth commenting on that meeting with the president about his address that he gave a week ago to the congress and to the nation. he addressed congress and the nation and described the challenges facing families in america, wages that are far too low, cost of education far too high, and simply there are far too few jobs. each of these challenges places another stumbling block in front of americans striving to enter the middle class and also middle class trying to do their best to hang onto their status as part of the middle class. the middle class is

bill. three state senators that voted in favor of the bill last week say they now oppose it. >> it was a mistake and a miscalculation. we had no idea there would be the fallout like there has been, because, frankly, we voted on the same bill a year ago and sent it up to the governor and she vetoed it. >> then, there is this, the arizona super bowl host committee has come out against the bill and so has marriott and apple. >>> the high-profile trial of kerry kennedy, daughter of robert kennedy, charged with crashing into a tractor-trailer in july, 2012 after taking a sleep medication. one witness said she was swerving on the highway before hitting the truck. a second witness said that after the accident, she was slumped over the wheel. her mother, ethel kennedy, and other members of her family, attended the trial north of new york city. >>> the world has lost a comedy icon, harold ramis died monday of complications from an autoimmune disease. he brought us national lampoon's vacation, animal house and groundhog day. you may have heard of caddie shack, considered one of the greatest comedies of all time. bill murray who worked with ramis on multiple movies. he said, harold earned his keep on this planet and god bless him. y

bill. bill, little bill. do you notice that president did not say fox news. he said you and your station. ave been demoted from a network to a stion. lou: at least, our president took note of us. >> right. >> with all due respect to mr. o'reilly who i like, i actually wish it was mr. dobbs, the president of the united states was given a opportunity to weasel out, such an air dpa arrogant response. so ai arrogant. >> i have to tell you -- well i agree with you, i could have done good but i think that bil conducted without question the best interview of president obama. i think that is why he was very upset. and notice ibly off his game. >> yes. >> he was tough, and the one thing i'll say about bill eo'reilly he does not back down, when you throw ai arrogance at him he responds with a sensible i'm not lets you get away with that, answer my question. you have to remember the ren venue, presuper bowl, people are sitting pack at parties, you have to strike the right balance there i think he did. lou: a balance you have to strike too. it is the president of the united states. >> correct, fact fu

but whatever one may think of the bill, madam president, whether you like the bill or you don't like the bill, you think the bill is too expensive, you think we should have done more, the one thing i think most americans understand is that it is totally absurd to be bringing forth extraneous issues into a debate on veterans needs in order to kill the bill. so i say to my colleagues exactly what the majority leader said this morning: if you have amendments dealing with veterans' issues, we welcome them. and we have a number of democrats who have come forward with amendments. we have some republicans who have come forward with amendments. we welcome amendments that are relevant, germane to the needs of veterans. what we do not welcome are extraneous amendments that are designed only -- only for partisan political reasons, exactly the process that the american people are disgusted with today. now, interestingly enough, that is my view. i mentioned earlier today that the iraq and afghanistan veterans of america just sent out a tweet yesterday. it is what they said. these are the folks who represe

bill. the bill in uganda died after a wave of international outrage and condemnation. that 2009 billn the shelf. it did not go away entirely. at the end of last year in december the parliament in uganda quietly took up the bill again. a revised version of the bill that doesn't include the sentence of death for being gay this time but does include lots of the other prison sentences that attracted so much international outrage years earlier. the ugandan parliament passed this bill in december and then earlier today, earlier this afternoon, you uganda's president signed the bill into law, calls for lifetime imprisonment for the crime of -- for being in a same-sex marriage, seven years in prison for attempting to commit homosexuality. this bill at various times over the last few years has appeared to be dead but today it officially became the law of the land in uganda. upon signing the bill, uganda's president announced homosexual behavior was learned and could be unlearned which is after all something ugandan legislators have been told for years. five years in fact. exactly. hold on. th

now the bill as amended makes improvements in the bill as reported by the judiciary committee. the new language in the bill makes it clear that the sole purpose of the bill is to allow unlocking in order to switch carriers. this bipartisan legislation enhances consumer choice and cell phone market and accordingly, i urge my colleagues to support the legislation and yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from virginia yields back his time. the gentleman from virginia. mr. goodlatte: at this time it's my pleasure to yield two minutes to the gentleman from utah, mr. chaffetz a member of the judiciary committee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. chaffetz: thank you and i thank chairman goodlatte for his leadership on this issue. we woke up one day, mr. speaker and the library of congress -- the library of congress -- decided that if you unlock your cell phone, that that would be a felony. a felony. you go you buy a mobile phone, it's your phone, you own it. the current law on the books today if you go to unlock that phone, you have comm

bill is not just about helping farmers. secretary vilsack calls it a jobs bill, an innovation bill, an infrastructure bill, a research bill, a swiss army knife. it's like mike trout. it's like for those of you who know baseball. it's somebody who's got a lot of tools and multitasks. it creates more jobs. first, the farm bill lifts up our world communities. over the past five years, thanks to the hard work and know-how of america's farmers, the best in the world, we've had the strongest stretch of farm exports in our history. when i'm traveling around the world, i'm promoting american agriculture and as a consequence we are selling more stuff to more people than ever before. 1 million american jobs, what we grow here and what we sell is a huge boost to the entire economy but particularly the rural economy. here at michigan state, by the way, you are helping us to do even more. i just got a tour of a facility where you're working with local businesses to produce renewable fuels. you're helping farmers grow crops that are healthier and more resistant to disease. some students are even raising their own pig lets on an organic

this is the final amendment to the bill, which will not kill the bill or send it back to committee. if adopted, the bill will immediately proceed to final passage as amended, and as the motion indicated, it addresses secret money in elections, trying to make sure we end that secret money and also deals with the issue of extending unemployment insurance, which my colleague, mr. levin, will discuss in a minute. but i want to focus on this issue of secret money because this resolution, what we're asking our republican colleagues to join us on, is to vote on a very simple statement. to say that nothing in this act shall limit, restrict or prohibit the secretary of the treasury from issuing regulations, requiring the disclosure of secret political donors. our republican colleagues all afternoon has said this is about the first amendment. this is about protecting the right of people to express their views. that's not what their bill's about. everyone's in favor of people being able to express their views. as i indicated earlier, you can form what's known as a 527 organization and whether you're an individual

bill in the 2015 water year. i did this because the bill's authors stated the bill is intended to be a short-term measure. and yet my amendment to limit the duration of the bill was prevented from coming to the floor for debate. i offered another amendment which was actually proposed by the bill's authors, a few weeks ago, the speaker, the majority whip, and the bill's authors held a press conference in california where they bemoaned the fact that the senate would not come to the negotiating table to address long-term water shortage issues. i agree with them that a bipartisan discussion in both houses of congress is appropriate. and that's why i offered an amendment using their own suggestions to establish a joint select committee to address drought issues in the west that would be comprised of 10 members just as the bill's author recommended and would work out a comprehensive solution. that proposal, too, was rejected as was a similar amendment by my california valley colleague mr. cost tasm we wanted to bring the house -- mr. costa. we wanted to bring the bill to the table but are being denid tools we ne

bill? >> bill is -- bill focuses -- he has a laserlike ability to focus on a single problem. and kind of more an affinity for business-related things, especially in the early days, than i did. i would spend my time about where is technology going and what is the future going to be like? i used to say, follow the chips. wherever the chips go, we need to have products that take advantage. bill is more focused on the competitive side of things. bill, and steve ballmer, they are both super-competitive people. >> more competitive than you are? >> well, i am thinking about the future and i want to create an outcome. but some people have competition in their blood. they thrive on being involved in a competitive business atmosphere, i guess i would say. >> you don't have the -- that? >> believe me, i am competitive as anybody when it comes to sports. being a sports franchise owner. but i am trying to communicate that some people, when it comes to the one-on-one competition, they are very much more focused. certain people, if you interviewed michael jordan, bill gates, you must know ot

bill, bill -- >> just as an american, i'm confused. >> i'm trying to explain it to you if you want to listen. in fact of the matter is people understood at the time something very dangerous was happening. that we were focused on making sure we did everything we can for the protectment. in the aftermath, what became clear is that the security was lax, that not all the precautions that needed to be taken were taken. and both myself and secretary clinton and others indicated as much. but at the moment, when these things happen, bill, on the other side of the world -- >> it's the people. >> people don't know at the very moment why something like this happens. when you look at the videotape of this whole thing unfolding, this is not some systematic, well-organized process. you see -- >> heavy weapons used. heavy weapons. >> bill -- bill, listen, i have gone through this. and we have had multiple hearings on it. what happens is you have an attack like this taking place. and you have a mix of folks who are just trouble makers, folks who have an idealogical agenda. >> all right. >> some who are afulliated with terrorist organizations, some who are not, but the main thing all of us have to take away from this is our diplomats are serving in some very dangerous places. >> there's more than that. >> and we've got to make sure that not only have we implemented all the reforms recommended by the independent agency, but we also have to make sure that we understand our folks out there are in a hazardous, dangerous situation.

bill makes it easier. they vow to fight for anyone. >> the veto of that bill does not end the debate of bills nationwide. gh arizona's bill did get further, it was one signature away from becoming law. other bills either stalled or were thrown out for failed to pass in other states. 13 states now gearing up for a battle over the very same issue from the northeast to the midwest and the deep south, in the west, there is now a push in california and oregon. they want the issue on the ballot. they say that the voters are the ones that should decide this very contentious issue. georgia could be the next battleground, say the senators could vote monday on a similar bill to the one in arizona. delta airlines is against it, howard in atlanta. delta's website noted that they sponsor gay pride events around the country and the bill could harm people and result in the loss of jobs. a federal judge in texas striking down that state's ban on same-sex marriage saying it violates constitutional rights, it did not mean same sex calms can marry in the state, the judge staying the mowing pending appeal. governor rick perr

if you're a politician who has had the opportunity in recent years to vote for bill after bill after billffice says it would create jobs by investing in infrastructure, by cutting taxes for businesses that hire new workerers or that hire unemployed worker, by giving money to state and local governments who have cut massive number of jobs and you have said no to every single bill but your job strategy is repeat the healthcare bill for people who already have jobs and would like to work fewer hours, that is a >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. well, chris christie was in front of the press today, but he was not in the mood to answer

bill isn't a solution. this bill is a call to arms. this bill is the clarion call of yet one more battle in the great california water war. and we're all -- we're all veterans of that war. my colleagues on the republican aisle my colleagues on the democratic aisle, we're veterans of the water war. unfortunately, this bill doesn't solve the problem of california. there are solutions available. we really need to get to them. we really need to sit down and work with a bill that passed the house and the senate and signed by the presidentless than two weeks ago, the omnibus bill in that omnibus bill there's a restoration a re-authorization of the federal drought emergency program that has some 16, 17 different provisions that provide for specific things that we should be funding. there's no money in this bill for funding. we're going to have to fund this this is a problem that reaches across many, many states. it's going to take all of us working together to help each individual state, each community and every water district deal with a very real pro

while the resources committee has considered some of these bills, not every bill made it through the committee process. two of the measures in this bill were never reported out of committee and no committee considered this omnibus bill. so much for regular order. madam speaker, we have a number of major time sensitive issues we should be tackling here in this congress. we should be extending unemployment benefits for the 1.6 million americans whose benefits expired on december 28 and the 72,000 more who lose them each week we fail to act. we should be raising the minimum wage to help the too many americans who work two jobs and still struggle to make ends meet. we should be finding common ground on comprehensive immigration reform to finally fibblings our broken immigration system. and we should be bringing to the floor a clean bill to raise the bt ceiling which yesterday treasury secretary lew said we'd hit by the end of the month. default on the national debt risks another downgrading of our credit rating but we are not considering any of these items today. instead we have before us another cobbled together lands bill that goes much

bill is about. what this bill is about is a narrowly tailored bill to protect people's religious freedoms, the as human dignity bill, a human rights bill, so people of faith have a safe place in arizona. that's all it is. >> human rights, human dignity, mel, is that what this bill is about? >> i try not to laugh. the words you're using, persecution, safe, anti-discrimination, it's a joke. 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 ar