how this budget impasse will resolve itself and earlier i spoke with democratic congresswoman carolyn maloney and i asked her what she's hearing on the hill about any resolution to this shutdown standoff. i hope it'll be resolved immediately but no one has a clue we're hearing all kinds of rumors that will be here this weekend some say up to the debt ceiling day which would be october seventeenth there are lots of rumors and none of them good last in this debate is the actual spending number associated with the spending bill to reopen the government democrats in the house and senate have given in to republicans and agreed to this low spending number that republicans wanted one that preserves the sequester so no matter how this issue is resolved if it's result in the next few days americans are sure to see more austerity coming down the pike what effect is this austerity now persisting for about two years having. we've certainly lost the g.d.p. we've lost numbers of employment because of sequester ration they have laid off numerous people we've cut spending on on medical research and on our in

here's carolyn maloney. >> what are you ensuring to make sure a scam doesn't continue, that a complete fraud said he was a distinguished member of the cia and no one even bothered to check? it's almost the -- the incompetence is beyond belief. >> beale is facing up to 37 months in prison. he's dwroet be sentenced, bill. >> he said he was working for the epa or working for the epa, but how is the epa sclaping what happened? >> they say he was very convincing, living out an alternate life, ing to call from pakistan. they would later learn he was calling from his vacation home in massachusetts. here they want to call out gina mccarthy who should have known better. >> what is it going to take. i think we have no choice but to hear from administrator mccarthy. she was involved in this. she went to his retirement party. he didn't show up to work for years. >> yeah. the facts show he was absolutely absent from work about 2 1/2 years of 13 years he worked for the epa and he wasn't on any covert assignments. >> what a story that is. shannon, thank you. shannon bream in washington tournament. >>

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speaker, i now yield to representative carolyn maloney of new york, who is the ranking democratic member of the subcommittee on capital markets and is also the former chairman of the financial institutions subcommittee on the financial services committee. i yield her three minutes. the speaker pro tempore: does the gentleman from georgia claim the minority time? mr. scott: yes, i claim the minority time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized, and the gentleman yields to the gentlelady from new york, mrs. maloney, for three minutes. mrs. maloney: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i rise in support of h.r. 992. this bill passed overwhelmingly out of the financial services committee earlier this year with broad bipartisan support with a vote of 53-6. the whole point of the dodd-frank reforms was to improve the safety and soundness of our financial system, and h.r. 992, the bill before us, will help us do just that. this bill does not expos the taxpayer to -- expose the taxpayer to any additional risk. in fact, it includes a ban on taxpayer bailout of any swaps or any use of