a heated exchange between texas congressman michael burgess and secretary sebelius. can you think of a reason why health and human services secretary sebelius should stay? facebook or tweet me at judge janine. >> i said i think the launch was flawed and failed and frustrating for millions of people, unacceptable. we want to both figure out the chain of events what went wrong to help do this investigation. >> wait a minute. wait a minute. kathleen sebelius, hundreds of millions of dollars to do it with, who lied to congress saying it would be ready on october 1st, when every expert knew it could never be ready, and who said she was not concerned with faults but with fixing the problem who still hasn't fixed the problem, now, wants to know who is at fault? are you kidding? this is like the fox watching the hen house. like the court driving a stolen car. and your now key demanding, demanding to know who stole that car? or, better yet like hillary and benghazi accountability review board the one she appointed? you never questioned heshgs then exonerated her? by the way i

congressman burgess, stick around. when we come back, i want to know your thoughts on sebelius' so-called investigation request. >>> texas congressman michael burgess is back with us. all right, congressman, you questioned secretary sebelius at a house hearing this week and it got quite heated. were you satisfied with the answers you got from her? >> no, absolutely not. i mean, here's the problem and you try to get her to answer a straightforward question and she's very good at not responding in a responsive way. the fundamental unit of a business transaction is where you pull out the money, you put the cash on the dash. you cannot do that with their website in purchasing insurance. i know because i have been trying to purchase my individual insurance since the 1st of october. i'm still not through the process yet. and i can just imagine what poor people are going through all over the country who are losing their current insurance and are trying to do the right thing to replace it but the system is so broken and so fla

burgess: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to rise to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from texas is recognized for one minute. mr. burgess: i thank you, mr. speaker. four, five years ago when health care reform was being talked on the floor of this house, one of the ideas the republicans put forth is increasing competition, sell of health insurance across state lines. we see with the sell of automobile insurance, 15 minutes could save you 15%. everybody knows that. why not afford that same cost savings for people buying health insurance? but the democrats would never accept it. but now the affordable care act requires that some of my constituents in texas purchase their insurance in the d.c. exchange. clearly that's selling across state line. the problem is it's not lower cost. it's higher cost. it doesn't increase your access to a physician. it decreases your access to a physician. high deductible h

cheryl burgess is here.o you. >> you're going to tell us what you think are some of the biggest advancements of this year that people might want to include in their new year's resolutions. tell us about number one on your list. >> number one was i have to say vanquish, a radiofrequency device that covers the abdomen area and melts the belly fat. so that was available since the beginning of the year. so that is one technology device that has been in the news lately in our offices. >> and you really think it works. >> it does work. actually, i've been using it on myself and some really close people -- >> i won't ask you to stand up and show us but -- >> it works. it works. and i test things before i bring them into my office. and so i think this one is the real deal. >> okay. and what's number two on your list? you talk about two other things. >> i would put number one because it's a filler but it was just fda approved a month ago. but it's rolled out like gangbusters. it is a midface volumizer, which actually

catastrophe or the fact that there has been this catastrophic loss, people comparing it with maclean, burgess, philby, that comes down to the original leak. the 29-year-old who was one of hundreds of thousands of people had access to information. i'm sure that is something that everyone must not be considering what to do about. >> in respect to our sister committee, the sick -- the intelligence and security committee, you were criticized, or your newspaper was, in the decision you took. this is your opportunity to answer questions. as andrew parker describe what you in your newspaper did, "a gift that our enemies needed to evade us instructors that will," and i'm sure you've heard "our adversaries were rubbing their hands with glee." all heads of the security services were clear in their evidence to the intelligence and security committee that you had result this country as a of what you had done. clearly, other editors may differ decisions. we know it is been in "the washington post" and "the new york times." do you recognize what you have done? do you accept that this has damaged the countr

confusion norris plant has been near record of mr neville burgess and and he's an evil and human rights defender he always calls for peaceful movement amnesty international and other organizations as well as our has been pressuring the bahraini government to release and there is no cooperation from bahrain's the government to respond. to or these letters being sent or calls or joint statements or whatsoever in. saudi arabia that is the focus and crosstalk coming up in a few hours after the recent iran nuclear deal the saudi monarchy has expressed doubts on the loyalty of its old our lives and his gas debate the shifting sands. the saudis are furious over western dealings with iran disappointed that obama didn't bomb syria and determined to export its radical form of islam can the house of saud afford what it calls an independent foreign policy so are you arabia for years isolation they really cannot carry out independent foreign policy because of their regimes limited strength and durability every government the middle east except turkey in israel because their democracies every single

and elaine stewart burgess weighed in as well.ous issues that need our attention. i'm proud to call you friend. so people there supporting him fred. >> so the president came out and made the other that everyone should lower the flag but it wasn't an order where there was a penalty behind it. he is not going to be reprimanded. it is more of a guideline than a mandate. lyinden johnson did it. and bill clinton did it for the prime minister of israel. but his sheriff doesn't think that it should be an honor for nelson mandela. >> over seas nuclear inspectors are in iran today. iran is denying it is trying to build a nuclear weapon. cnn has more. >> reporter: this one day inspection of this heavy water reactor is over. iran says it is not going to shut it down and not part of the secret weapons program and inspectors are welcome to see for themselves. iran is not after nuclear weapons. iran's invitation for the iaea to visit it's heavy water reactor is part of that campaign. this is the third visit to the reaction te reaction. it could

incredible whatever you call it this is cleve diving the sport we have big three burgess on the art of survival there was ultimate platform for high diving daredevils is the red bull world series the combination has traveled across the globe for the fifth consecutive season decide who is the best on the planet in two thousand and thirteen he was russia's the term solution. for such a long journey to this victory through injury stuff entries and now is completed i reached the pinnacle of the sport is an incredible feeling. demonstrating one of the most spectacular and complicated i diet claiming the highest scores the combination has ever seen and regarded as one of a kind the twenty nine year old russian had achieved it all within the last five years before finally clinching the world series crown in thailand in november. i needed to gain experience of very tough competition in the last couple of years skill wise i caught up with the level of the school's elite like the two thousand and nine champion orlando and last season everything went pretty well that's when i tried my new dive th

that is building to the southern portion of the area, from frederick burgess deford, and this is in thedistrict right now. we are trying to figure out if there are some snowflakes mixing, that is possible. we are going to talk about the possibility of a few rain showers, baby simple -- no flurries or snow showers, especially in the upper air disturbance in the leading edge of the next batch of cold air that is across southwestern virginia. the track is like this, so some of it could affect part of our area tonight. snow showers and some spots possible, awesomely some -- possibly some sprinkles. 36, 39 right now in the nation's capital. it is going to be colder -- 29t, 21 degrees degrees by tomorrow morning. does, 50's in some spots. much colder in boston about very cold temperatures, but that cold air is good, and go starting tomorrow night. it will warm up on the day on thursday and friday, saturday, sunday we are off to the races. here is what the weather is across the country right now, 20's 30's and teens. boston logan has had about an hour and a half delay because of the snow and l

cheryl burgess joins us with her best ideas for shopping for people who want things for their face, skin. >> yes. but it's more less how to choose gifts for others. >> oh, okay. >> so when you're looking at your sister or your mother and there are certain things to take into account, i'm going to explain some of these products. facial cleansing. everyone has to cleanse their face. there's a number of cleansing brushes out there. some are a couple hundred dollars and some are $20. >> is there a difference? >> there is a difference. >> now, let me just show new one first. this is just a rotary brush. and you'll see it rotates in a circle. for just basic cleansing, it's great. you can use it in the shower. but, say, for instance, the person you're buying a gift for wears a lot of makeup, then this is going to kind of move it around the face. actresses or models or people who like to wear a lot of makeup, you want to use something like a clarisonic brush. this oscillates. as you can see the difference, it doesn't move in a circle around the skin, it oscillates into the pore. so you're moving

catastrophe or the fact that there's been this catastrophic loss, people compared it with mclean and burgess, philby, all kinds of things. that was done to the original beat and that was the 29 year-old who was one of hundreds of thousands of people had access to information and i'm sure that something that everyone must now be considered what to do about it. >> in respect to what was said to her sister committee the intelligence and security committee, you were criticized. your newspaper was and the decision you took by the heads of the security services, and this is your opportunity to answer them. mr. andrew parker described what you and your newspaper did as a gift that our enemies needed to evade us and to strike us at will. and i'm sure you've heard this phrase before. john's lawyers, the head of mi6, said that our adversaries were rubbing their hands with glee. all heads of the secure the services were very clear in their evidence to the intelligence and security committee that you have damaged this country as a result of what you have done. clearly other editors took the decision as

jefferson served in the house of burgesses, then in congress and while in congress, 15 months in congress, the principal author of the declaration of independence. almost immediately after independence was declared, jefferson left congress and returned to virginia because he was interested in reform. the continental congress was simply going to be a managerial body that managed the conduct of the war and the conduct of the army and hamilton wanted to return -- jefferson wanted to return to virginia and carry out as many reforms as he could. he didn't always succeed, but he pushed for reforms in the land laws of virginia so that land would become more available, at one point he even proposed that all landless men, all landless free men be given land, something that didn't fly with the virginia assembly. but he did push for religious toleration, reform of the criminal statutes in virginia, and many of his reforms were eventually realized. in 1779, with the war effort really suffering, washington came to the conclusions that the best man who once served in congress, men like benjamin frankli

>> they mostly did stick to the navigator issue, but for instance, michael burgess took the opportunity to tell a story of how he's tried to sign up on healthcare.gov and has not been a able to complete the process and submit a payment and just kind of highlighting that aspect that had nothing to do with the focus of the hearing. but they all stuck to the guns pretty much. >> joining me now is esra kline, jarrett and the obama administration now a fellow at the brookings institution. you have done training of these terrifying community organizing vanguard of obamaunism, what is the secret to their takeover of the american state? >> it's a really well kept secret, chris, they're really just trying to sign people up for health care. it's been really interesting to talk on the ground, i'm from texas, full disclosure, born and raised there and talking to actual navigators a and people who are actually doing the work that we have all been talking about, which didn't really come out in the hearing to be honest, they went through the requisite -- not even just the 20 hours of training, the nav

though, but on the topic of his stage fright, he gave his maiden speech in the virginia house of burgesses in 1759. so now we're talking 100 years, 100 years and more before the civil war. >> uh-huh. >> and he gets up, and what does he say to his fellow slave owners? he says abolish slavery. he says it is, he says on prudential grounds it's not good for us to have other people do the work while we sit around. and furthermore, it's going to breed all kinds of strife in future. and furthermore, if we're christians, how can we think that our fellow creatures are not created in the image of god as well as ourselves? and entitled to liberty and freedom? so this is, you know, we have a complicated history here. one hundred years and more before the civil war here is one of the representatives of one of the great slave-owning plantations in virginia making statement. amazing, huh? >> uh-huh. >> then i have three paragraphs on the great george washington. >> a chapter, surely. >> three chapters. it will feel like three paragraphs, it reads so beautifully. [laughter] and i fell in love with him. an

burgess? >> thank you, mr. chairman. dr. gingrey referenced an offer from the health to the president to provide a platform for the market exchange, and i would like to submit his letter for the record. and i will make this part of a question for the record that i would to a follow-up. >> without objection so ordered. ranking member? >> one is for my constituents in piscataway, anthony weill, that i referenced. another is the one that ms. schakowsky reference. you know, these are the different individuals impacted by the aca. >> without objection spent and then a third one from ms. schakowsky. >> without objection, so ordered. thank you, madam secretary, for your patience, for respond to all of our questions. i remind members they have 10 business days to submit questions for the record, and that means they should submit the question by the close of business on tuesday, december 31. another important hearing. thank you, madam secretary, for your indulgence. with that, without objection the subcommittee is adjourned. [inaudib

burgess? >> thank you, mr. chairman. dr. gingrey referenced an offer from the health to the president to provide a platform for the

mike burgess on a medical procedures in the u.s. has. he has a cell phone or smartphone, but if smartphone had at that does cardiology. phillies got an electrocardiogram on a smartphone. easier to guess we're going about were trying to accomplish. a great congressman from arkansas clearly knows the general direction were trying to go. there's enough to be hopeful about. >> mr. speaker, we are taking questions from youtube. we've been online all week. so we have some good people had e-mailed in. we will start now with the first one. because you can't see the screens, i'll read it to you. how would you rate president obama's foreign policy compared to that of richard nixon? this is from kevin jacobsen in redlands. [laughter] >> qaeda now. without getting myself into much trouble it would be like how would you compare a bunny rabbit and a german shepherd? [applause] i really do worry for the country for the next three years. if you watch the theory and fiasco come you watch with happening in libya appeared there were 300 people killed in ir

burgess was changes that would eliminate and narrow networks are caused by the affordable care act. and i'm just wondering in your research, i know with part d it's important to check every year to make sure that the formulary is the same. with medicare advantage, aren't changes likely in the network or something prior to the affordable care act as well? >> yes, i think there is a lot of volitility in this private marketplace swems in the part d marketplace. so every year we are very clear with beneficiaries if they have a part d plan they need to check that coverage because the formularies change every year and provider networks change every year. and it not just the plan that drives changes, providers also decide to leave the network or to no longer be involved. >> but this is not new? >> no, this is an inherent part of the medicare plan that was around in the mid 190eu's and before. this is an ongoing issue, this instability is inherent and is a part of the risks of the medicare advantage plan that go along with some of the benefits we've talked about as well. >> also mrs. gold,

he's a manufacturer who is elected to the senate in wisconsin and that's a good example and mike burgessa medical doctor in carrying this around and he has a smart phone. but his smart phone has an application that does cardiology. you can really put it up when he gets us with his smart phone and he gets where we are going. and tim griffin is a great congressman from arkansas and he knows the general direction we are going. and there's enough to be hopeful about. >> mr. speaker. we are taking questions from youtube and we have been online all week so we have some that people have e-mailed to us and we will start right now the first one. since you cannot see the screens, i will read it to you. how would you rate president obama's foreign policy compared to that of richard nixon? system kevin jacobsen and red buttons. [applause] [laughter] [laughter] >> without getting myself into much trouble, it's like how would you compare a bunny rabbit and a german shepherd. [laughter] [laughter] and i really do worry for the country for the next two years. because if you watch the syrians just go and

burgess? >> thank you, mr. chairman. dr. gingrey referenced an offer from the health to the president to provide a platform for the market exchange, and i would like to submit his letter for the record. and i will make this part of a question for the record that i would to a follow-up. >> without objection so ordered. ranking member? >> one is for my constituents in piscataway, anthony weill, that i referenced. another is the one that ms. schakowsky reference. you know, these are the different individuals impacted by the aca. >> without objection spent and then a third one from ms. schakowsky. >> without objection, so ordered. thank you, madam secretary, for your patience, for respond to all of our questions. i remind members they have 10 business days to submit questions for the record, and that means they should submit the question by the close of business on tuesday, december 31. another important hearing. thank you, madam secretary, for your indulgence. wi [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] [caption

propose using economic areas, but some argue this would make it too difficult for smaller carriers to burgess paid in the auction. our goal should be to allow as many carriers as possible to bid, whether they be nationwide, regional, or rural. so i am pleased to see alternative proposals, such as the newly-coined partial economic areas. if technically feasible, these proposals deserve serious consideration. aside from the incentive auction, there are many other opportunities when it comes to spectrum. in the auction next month, the possible clearing of aws three, and the greater unlicensed use of the five gigahertz band. i hope we seize all these opportunities in the near term. the second issue i will discuss is the universal service fund school and library program, better known as e-rate. has been as, e-rate success, as my colleague pointed out. it has also had difficulties. the funding process can stretch for years. many schools and libraries feel compelled to hire outside consultants to handle all the complexities. others don't bother -- father applying at all. there is no meaningful trans

that center is located at burgess park: it's scheduled to host the 25th annual tournament of roses rosesequest fest. >>> if you have a big ticket item, like a nice cardboard box displayed in the front of your house for pick up you're basically telling the suspect, hey, here's my 55-inch flat screen tv. >>> good point. so instead of announcing to potential thieves what you got for christmas, police say to turn the boxes inside out when you break them down and hide any logos. police also suggest not setting out any boxes until just before pick up day. and better yet to drop the boxes at the recycling facility yourself. >>> christmas took an unexpected turn for a teenager. carmen lopez had asked her parents for a pair of those beats head phones so they bought her a pair from wal- mart. wrapped it up and put it under the tree. but come christmas morning when lopez opened the box, instead of the head phones she found right there, four cans of tuna. fortunately an executive from beats head phones heard the story, gave carmen a new pair. wal-mart says its investigating exactly what happened the

it is devastating to me that steve burgess' -- burgess wasn't able to see this happen.to offer my thanks to steve burgess and his father fur their lifetime of commitment to the people of the community. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, the weather outside is frightful and if you listen to certain conservative media networks you hear something not so delightful. you hear that because it's snowing there must not be climate cheage. this is unscientific and reductive but that's what they say this year. winter happens every year and the fact that it's snowing simply means that it's snowing. instead of looking at december snow flakes we should be looking at the science. since 1970, not that long ago, winter temperatures encreased an average of .55 degree pers decade, redeucing snow packs and ea crew -- creating water s

though, but on the topic of his stage fright, he gave his maiden speech in the virginia house of burgesses in 1759. so now we're talking 100 years, 100 years and more before the civil war. >> uh-huh. >> and he gets up, and what does he say to his fellow slave owners? he says abolish slavery. he says it is, he says on prudential grounds it's not good for us to have other people do the work while we sit around. and furthermore, it's going to breed all kinds of strife in future. and furthermore, if we're christians, how can we think that our fellow creatures are not created in the image of god as well as ourselves? and entitled to liberty and freedom? so this is, you know, we have a complicated history here. one hundred years and more before the civil war here is one of the representatives of one of the great slave-owning plantations in virginia making statement. amazing, huh? >> uh-huh. >> then i have three paragraphs on the great george washington. >> a chapter, surely. >> three chapters. it will feel like three paragraphs, it reads so beautifully. [laughter] and i fell in love with him. an

burgess will begin with five minutes of follow-up. >> i wanted to follow-up with talkingff we were about. there is a crisis of confidence. the president has sold the affordable care act on a raft of us premises. you can keep your plan, false. you can keep your doctor, false. these are broken promises and easily the opportunity cost that americans are paying for for the a quarter will -- affordable care act. there was a promise made to seniors. medicarese your dollars as a payee bank and we will improve medicare and allow seniors to keep their doctors if they like. do you have an opinion as to whether or not this was another row can promise? >> it is. -- fixable?sical >> it is the problem. should be a medicare damage in the ways we described earlier. their promises. the regulations and the funding are at odds with the promise. the promise cannot be held true. >> fixing it would involve alteration in the funding. do you see any way or any mechanism by which that could happen, is there anything to give you optimism that that funding can be restored? >> under current law, it will not happen.

thank you and i will yield the remainder of my time to representative burgess. >> thank you for calling the hearing this morning. we see the headlines and everything going wrong in healthcare. but sometimes we forget that there are some things that actually are going okay. there are things this committee and previous congresses have worked on, and that's one of the things we are going to be discussing this morning. sometimes we are so busy triaged and that we don't allow ourselves the luxury of things working as intended. my opinion is medicare advantage is working, and it's important to hold hearings like this to learn from those successes and see where we can build upon those successes and where the potential threats that are undermining the benefits and services that now over 25% of seniors are experiencing and how those might be threatened. medicare advantage allows integrated care coordination to community font to bring in for medicare. athe plans are lower in cost. they are bringing management to the care coordination to patients lives and encouraging wellness activities and actua

essentially zero and that required us to use other methods most prominently forward guidance and asset burgesses neither of which is entirely new but clearly unless you put aside the depression where monetary policy was on the whole pretty passive, this is the first, one of the first examples of monetary policy taking place in the near zero interest rate environment. now we are seeing of course japan and the u.k. and other countries taking similar types of approaches and i think that will be an issue and an area that monetary historians will be interested in exploring as well as monetary theorists at and journalists. >> jason lanning with reuters. chairman bernanke today with one hand you are getting the economy something by signaling that you may keep interest rates lower for longer than we previously thought but on the other hand you are taking something away by reducing the large-scale asset purchases. if you think that overall this is maintaining the level of monetary a commendation steady is that a sign that the decision to reduce the asset purchases is relatively less about an improved out

burgess for five minutes. >> welcome back to the committee. an opportunity to go through everything on the list, we have not received answers so let me encourage you to respond to previous questions because they are important and constituents are asking at the town hall earlier this week, single mother earns just over the amount so good for her, she has a good job, work for small employer, lost their insurance in a small group market, now she is being hit with a premium, and subsidize premium, not eligible for subsidy of $1,500 a month for her and her child. when you were working through the nuts and bolts of establishing this what did that situation come to mind? were you concerned about that individual? >> i am concerned about all individuals having affordable health coverage. >> apparently she doesn't have affordable health coverage. she lost her employer, small group market coverage. >> her employer chose to drop the coverage. >> because of the expense involved with that. you were here in april, april 18th. you received two weeks prior a r

catastrophe or the fact that there's been this catastrophic loss, people compared it with mclean and burgess, philby, all kinds of things. that was done to the original beat and that was the 29 year-old who was one of hundreds of thousands of people had access to information and i'm sure that something that everyone must now be considered what to do about it. >> in respect to what was said to her sister committee the intelligence and security committee, you were criticized. your newspaper was and the decision you took by the heads of the security services, and this is your opportunity to answer them. mr. andrew parker described what

high school in the 19 70s in new york city, i read maybe not the historians, you know, dunning and burgess and others that duboise was writing against, but with i recall very vividly in my social studies classes reading accounts of the civil war that basically replicated the dynamic that duboise was talking about. everything was the cause of the civil war except slavery and the circumstance of african-americans. everything else was something that drove this. that's the history that i learned in high school. but i had enough counterexamples, and so maybe this is a reversal in a way of what my father encountered in little rock, i had my father's story, i had other people, seem like bye yard rustin a. a. philp randolph were people i knew by name, and they were able to tell me nothing that was significant in u.s. history that so concerned the welfare of african-americans could not have not only had some reference to african-american lyes, but some -- lives, but some direct impact in steering in relation to it coming from african-americans. so there are all sorts of ways in which we can touch o

burgess, we'l we will bn with five minutes of follow-up. >> dr. holtz-eakin, i want to follow up on the stuff we were talking about earlier in that first round. it appears in washington today there is a crisis in common. the president has sold the affordable care act on just a raft of false premises. you can keep your plan. false. you can keep your doctor. faults. these are broken promises and these in fact are the opportunity cost that americans are paying for the affordable care act. there was a promise made to seniors as well, the promise was that we're going to use your medicare dollars as a piggy bank to fund the affordable care act, and in doing that we will improve medicare and seniors to keep their doctors if they liked. so do you have an opinion as to whether not this is yet another broken promise? >> it is spent and is it fixable? >> it is fixable in medicare advantage. i don't believe -- it is fixable. it is the problem but we should be on fixing medicare advantage in the ways we described earlier, and -- >> but the promises are -- just

. >> jennifer burgess's young daughter was born deaf. >> having a daughter with special needs, stuffnto a winter wonder land. 77 kids will receive over 400 gifts, all donated by local businesses, restaurants and friends. there are crafts and cookie decorations. and what's a holiday party without a visit from santa. but the moment everybody has waited for has finally arrived. >> there you go, buddy. >> crown for your head, yes. >> oh, yay. >> they have everything they wanted. >> the most meaningful part to me is to see that they get what they want. >> it may not be christmas morning, but it sure feels like it. >> can you say thank you? >> thank you. >> the angels for kids foundation donated more than $16,000 worth of gifts this christmas. if you want to find out more about angels for kids you can head to today.com and really where ever you live in this country, there's ways to help out kids that need it this holiday season. >> absolutely. seeing the kids rip open the wrapping paper and the smiles on their faces, nothing beats that. we're back right after this. what does that first spo