craig bosswell, fox news, washington. >>> coming up, they went back in time last night to the 1920s.s. >> cool. >>. and i some classic uniforms, a classic finish for the nets. highlights are next. blam blam  >>> to sports now, bryce harper won't goodbying to the all-star game. he finished third in the voting for the final spot on the national league roster behind david friese and michael board. >> that doesn't matter. maybe he'll be in the play-offs this season. >> there you go. >> the nats again last night won and honoring the washington senators and the champions, they completed a sweep of the san francisco giants, winning 6- 5 and when a.m. laroche's winning-ending inning double grounder and the rookie, bryce learn, scored a winning run and this is the major league-leading seven walkoff victories. >> reporter: don't know at what point in the year it was when it was the first or second month when we realized it was a good team and that is some confidence through the roof. >> and they blow a lead to the angels and mark reynolds and flaherty each homered fo

bosswell. >> no. >> mr. baca. >> no. >> mr. cardoza. >> no. >> mr. david scott. >> no. >> mr. quayer. >> no. >> mr. costa. >> no. >> mr. walls. >> no. >> mr. schrader. >> no. >> mr. kissel. >> no. >> mr. owens. >> no. >> ms. pingree. >> no. >> mr. courtney. >> no. >> mr. walsh. >> no. >> ms. budge. >> no. >> mr. sablan. >> no. >> ms. sule. >> no. >> mr. mcgovern. >> no. >> mr. chairman. >> no. >> mr. chairman, the vote is 13 yays to 33 nays. . >> thank you. >> mr. chairman, point of order. >> the gentleman reserves the point of order. i guess first off, state your amendment number please. >> i've never had a point of order before i started an amendment. >> mr. chairman, i have amendment number 103 at the desk. >> i reserve a point of order, mr. chairman. >> apparently mr. ribble reserves a point of order against amendment number 103. the gentleman reserves a point of order, sponsor of the amendment is recognized for an explanation. mr. cardoza. >> thank you, mr. chairman. this amendment strikes the language in the bill that modifies the title of the fresh fruit and vegetable p

bosswell, yes. >> mr. bosswell, yes. >> mr. baca. >> yes. >> mr. baca, yes. mr. cardoza. >> yes. >> mr. cardoza, yes. >> mr. david scott, yes. >> mr. david scott, yes. mr. kwaar, yes. >> mr. costa? >> yes. >> mr. costa, yes. mr. wallace? >> yes. >> mr. wallace, yes. mr. schrader? >> no. >> mr. schrader no. >> mr. kissel? >> yes. >> mr. kissel, yes. >> mr. owens? >> mr. owens no. mrs. pingry? >> yes. >> mr. pingry, yes. >> mr. courtney? >> yes. >> mr. courtney, yes. >> miss fudge? >> yes. >> miss fudge, yes. >> mr. sublime. >> yes. >> mr. sublime, yes. >> miss sewell? >> yes. >> miss sewell, yes. >> mr. nagbower? >> no. >> mr. nagbower, no. mr. chairman? >> no. >> mr. chairman, no. >> makes sense. >> mr. chairman, the vote is 15 yeas to 31 nays. [ inaudible ] >> mr. chairman i have an amendment that i would offer to withdraw. that would be wonderful. the chair is recognized for both. mr. chairman, i've heard from many food pantries throughout the district that are concerned about the possibility of regulations both at the usda and the food and drug administration

fox's craig bosswell has more. >> reporter: president obama said that congress should temporarily extend bush-era tax cuts for those making less than $250,000 a year but not for those making more than that. >> so i'm not proposing anything radical here. i just believe that anyone making over $250,000 a year should go back to the income tax rates we were paying under bill clinton. >> reporter: the cuts expire at the end of the year. the president said if that happened, middle class family's taxes will increase by $2,500. >> in many base, the fate of the tax cut is by wealthiest americans will be decided by the outcome of the next oh, e -- election. my opponent will fight to keep them in place. i will fight to end them. >> reporter: a spokesman for presumed republican nominee mitt romney released a statement saying president obama's announcement will mean a tax increase for millions of families, job creators and businesses. the gop leaders said tax cuts should be extend forward all income levels. >> he believes that that will stimulate the economy and provide certainty net job market. >> r

i'm craig bosswell in washington. that is coming up.  [ obama ] i'm barack obama, and i approve this message. [ female announcer ] every woman who believes decisions about our bodies and our health care should be our own is troubled mitt romney supports overturning roe versus wade. romney backed a law that outlaws all abortion -- even in cases of rape and incest. and that's not all. i'll cut off funding to planned parenthood. [ female announcer ] for women, planned parenthood means life-saving cancer screenings and family-planning services. but, for mitt romney... planned parenthood. we're going to get rid of that. . >>> a race to the white house took president obama to the state of texas and mitt romney to the swing state of pennsylvania. both men are focusing on the same topics. craig bosswell has the latest. >> reporter: they separated by more than 1,000 miles but president obama and mitt romney landed a lot of jabs. they pummeled romney on outsourcing. >> he invested made money that was pioneers of ou

craig bosswell has the latest. >> reporter: president obama takes his middle-class tax pitch to cedar iowa. >> doesn't it make sense for us to agree to keep taxes low for 98% of americans who are working hard and can't afford a tax hike right now. >> reporter: today's rally comes a day after the president called for a temporary extension of the bush era tax cuts. they expire at the end of the year and he wants them kept in place in 2013 for those making less than $250,000. >> the republicans in congress, mr. romney disagree with me. >> reporter: this is the fourth stop in the hawkeye state for the obama campaign this year, a state in the president's colnumb 2008, and considered a tossup in 2012. mitt romney is back on the road, too in colorado and that presumed republican nominee immediately jumped on the president's tax cut proposal. >> for job creators and small businesses, he announced a massive tax increase. [ booing ] >> reporter: it's romney's sec visit to the area in three months. for the first time, he publicly hit back at the president's charge has he outsourced jobs. >> and

washington, craig bosswell, fox news. >> mitt romney could be close to picking his running mate. chording to one report, condoleezza rice is emerging as a vp front-runner. in the past, rice said she is not interested in the job. you know, it's hard to argue with her resume. she moved from academia to the height of washington's foreign policy establishment becoming secretary of state under president george w. bush. >> condi is very interesting and skilled in foreign policy. she is very charismatic. a lot of people like her. she's not seen as a political figure, which is a plus. also, she's never been a candidate, which is a minus. >> another potential peenus -- minus here, she was at the center of a number of bush administration controversies. when it comes to social issues, she may have left the party's base. most running mates are not chosen until before the party convention, which is still a month away. so, is all of this hype about condoleezza rice just that? hype? republican strategist jack burkman joins us. jack, it's great to see you. >> great to see you. happy friday. >> h

craig bosswell has that story. >> reporter: the flurry of activity is the result of a looming deadline. >> we're looming into the face of a sequester. >> reporter: that is a term for automatic across-the-board spending cuts. there are $1.2 trillion cuts that kick in on january 2nd if lawmakers can't commyself on deficit cutting measures. five hundred billion will be slashed from the defense budget. >> secretary panetta said that the sequester, quote, will do real damage to our security, our truth, and their families and our military's ability to protect the nation. >> reporter: both agree the cuts are bad and can't agree how to replace them. republicans insist on reductions and democrats re70 on cuts and increased taxes. >> we should deal with the revenue side of the equation if we're serious about the deficit. >> reporter: the debate was not about replacing the cuts but requiring the obama administration to spell out how it would implement them. >> it's unfortunate to put a another bill to accomplish what should have been done months ago. >> reporter: the house voted 414-2 to require

and fox's craig bosswell has more. >> reporter: in his first address to the naacp as vice president, joe biden ran down a laundry list of obama administration accomplishments, including the affordable care act. >> he reprialed -- prevailed where no president had done before and he was right. he was right. >> reporter: biden's rousing recession is in contrast to the boos that mitt romney received on wednesday when he repeated his promise to repeel what he referred to as obama care. they may benefit the presumed nominee. >> i think the speech did him a lost good and sent a message to independent voters that he's willing to reach across the aisle. >> reporter: president obama didn't attend the annual meeting this time and did sent a pretaped message. the president won 75% of the black vote in 2008. while polls show support at or near the level, romney could cut into that support in some battleground states. >> i don't know that the polls we're seeing are correct. many say they will stay home and that they will not cast their vote for obama. >> reporter: some pollsters believe that there

bosswell. >> no. >> mr. chairman. >> yes. >> mr. chairman, the vote is 27 yays to 19 nays. >> the number 89 carries. the gentle lady from maine seeks recognition. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i am the co sponsor of amendment 3, it's at the desk and i would like to call it up. >> amendment number 3 will be distributed by the clerk and the gentle lady is recognized for five minutes for explanation when she is ready. >> thank you very much, mr. chair. this is a very simple co -- no-cost amendment that would give a little more control to state and local communities by authorizing their schools, those schools who have low annual commodity entitlement values, mostly small rural schools, to start making more of their own food purchases. the basic idea behind it is to allow for more local purchasing of food, more fresh food from the area to be included in school lunch programs. these would allow the usda to implement a small program that would implement some of their program dollars from the food distribution program to make their own purcha

bosswell. and, you know, there's a difference of opinion between different regions of the count rry and i don't know what the best safety net is. in my part of the world, you know, they're not too hot on this average crop revenue idea a and, you know, i think it will be inadequate to take care of the inevitable situation which is going to happen and that is when these prices go down. we heard back in 1996 when we were on the farm that the prices would never go down again and we were in a new paradigm and we had all these export markets and we had all of this stuff going and so we didn't have to worry about prices going down and we could get the government out of agriculture and phase out the programs and as i said earlier, two years later the prices collapsed and we spent four or five times as much as we say we're bailing everybody out. these prices will go down again. these target prices that we've put in, we've updated them and so they're more realistic and they're not at a level where anybod

craig bosswell, fox news, washington. >>> len, i know that you fought d.c. traffic to get here.blabber on while you catch your breath for a second. >> okay. >> and seems like president obama is excited about this new line of attack and attacking former governor mitt romney and particularly his private life of being a business man and setting a -- sending a lot of jobs overseas and do you think that will be resonating in ohio? >> seems to be. looks like mitt romney's numbers are dipping a about the, unfavoritable numbers are climbing the he's portrayed as a cold blooded capitalist who doesn't care about the people or money, that is a hit for the governor and the president is the gaining because of that. >> can't mitt romney turn it around and say maybe that is what the country needs to work both sides of the angle. he knows what it takes to shift jobs overseas because that is making businesses profitable. >> reporter: think he wants to do the latter rather than the former and say that we will put people to work and does not want to emphasize act fact that some of his decisions hu

craig bosswell reports. >> reporter: president obama made the rounds in a downtown cincinnati restaurant before attending a fundraiser followed by a town hall. >> and hello, since 98y. >> reporter: the president's eighth trip this year and comes during an escalation of attacks during the obama and romney campaign. >> governor romney said he would extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest americans indefinitely. >> reporter: days after the campaign accused mitt romney of misleading the public, the president added two outsourcing charges. >> is a new study out bunon- partisan economists say the the economic plan would create 800,000 jobs. and there isom one problem. the jobs wouldn't be in america. >> reporter: mitt romney began the day firing back with charges of political payoff. >> and this is a tough time for the people of america. if you're a campaign contributor to barack obama, your business may stand to get billions of dollars or hundreds of millions from the cash from the government. i think it's wrong. >> reporter: the presumed republican nominee said that the president's attacks ar

in washington, craig bosswell, fox news. >>> things got hotted in poland as mitt romney wrapped up the weeklong trip today. take a listen. [ indiscernible ] >> reporters were shouting questions. when we walked back to the car, one of his predicts can be heard telling the reporters to, quote, shove it and have respect. the press criticized romney for barely taking any questions during his trip. >>> a bombshell report out on the failed fast and furious program. a republican correctional report found that five atf officials are mo blame -- to blame for what went wrong with the gun-smuggling probe. the report said under attorney general eric holder, the special agent in charge reverted back to usings risky gun walking tactics. the operation was designed to track guns to major weapon's traffickers and drug carels on cartels. many have the weapons wound up at crime scenes in mexico and the u.s. >>> it made drivers do a double take. some people called 9 lynch. coming up, the navy is giving the public a sneak peek. >>> and it's a bicycle found 92 miles from home and that is bringing great joy

bosswell, yes. >> mr. bosswell, yes. >> mr. baca. >> yes. >> mr. baca, yes. mr. cardoza. >> yes. >> mr. cardoza, yes. >> mr. david scott, yes. >> mr. david scott, yes. mr. kwaar, yes. >> mr. costa? >> yes. >> mr. costa, yes. mr. wallace? >> yes. >> mr. wallace, yes. mr. schrader? >> no. >> mr. schrader no. >> mr. kissel? >> yes. >> mr. kissel, yes. >> mr. owens? >> mr. owens no. mrs. pingry? >> yes. >> mr. pingry, yes. >> mr. courtney? >> yes. >> mr. courtney, yes. >> miss fudge? >> yes. >> miss fudge, yes. >> mr. sublime. >> yes. >> mr. sublime, yes. >> miss sewell? >> yes. >> miss sewell, yes. >> mr. nagbower? >> no. >> mr. nagbower, no. mr. chairman? >> no. >> mr. chairman, no.