[applause] ladies and gentlemen, the honorable cathy mcmorris rodgers. ms. mcmorris rodgers: good afternoon. it is an honor to join everyone and thank you for being here. i certainly want to recognize later for lizzie as a trailblazer herself, as the first woman female speaker. [applause] five, grandmother of nine, and it is an honor for me to be able to be here with the first lady michelle obama and dr. biden, and i have the pleasure of cochairing the military family caucus with san ford bishop and we spent a lot of time together as we were thinking through priorities and it is great to be on the stage certainlyoday and recognizing general baught. to miss the reminders of great women before us. we follow their lead, remember their struggles, and enjoy the rights and freedoms that they have helped to secure. so often we talk about the past but women's history month provides us an opportunity to challenge people to think about those who live today and create history for the next generation. today, we honor women who dream and accepted the call to serve our cou

the devotion of cathy mcmorris rodgers -- that cathy mcmorris rodgers has to her family and to parents of special needs children has brought about important legislation that is good for parents and special needs children all over this country as we celebrate this women's history month. i want to acknowledge our colleague, cathy mcmorris rodgers, for her important role in this congress as a leader on this issue and many others. i also want to acknowledge our colleague, jamie herrera beutler, who is from the state of washington. jamie, during pregnancy which occurred while she also was serving as a member of this congress and as she still does, experienced a pregnancy that would have brought about the death of her child. but because she was courageous nough to test and like laura's law would allow a rather experimental treatment where e was injected with a saline solution in utero that allowed that baby to continue to mature until its birth. at which point it was allowed to grow, had dialysis and then at a point at which that child had become big enough and healthy enough could receive a

cathy mcmorris rodgers, it's been an inspiring hour just thinking of these three women who are standing before you and what they've accomplished. gosh. thank you, mrs. black, for being here and making this an important hour, an important message on so many different levels. mrs. black: well, thank you, congressman zeldin. i thank you for yielding to me a brief period of time here where i will have the honor to recognize someone that mentored me when i was back in the state senate and had the honor of serving there with a lieutenant governor that was a very fine man and he is retiring and so i thank you for yielding a few minutes for me to recognize him and to let him know how much we have appreciated his service to the state of tennessee and to thank him for his mentorship of me as a young senator back at the state level. mr. zeldin: well, i can only imagine how many stories you might have along the way of people we come in contact with. for me, my parents were divorced and remarried so i grew up with four parents. went through a few divorces with them. my grandparents were married for

guest: it is in cathy mcmorris rodgers braille -- bill. appropriations would not be in effect anymore so you would have to go through the process. about the is talking mandatory side of the budget where the funding and appropriations continue automatically. the $300 billion is all discretionary. go through the appropriations process each year. a lot of people want to have congress take a stronger look at yearly reviews on the mandatory side -- medicare, medicaid, social security. those go automatic each year. the bill wouldgs do would set up a commission that would look at these mandatory programs in more detail. host: what's the level of support for her bill? would not expect action anytime soon. there is significant support among the republican caucus. in the house budget committee report that came out last week they included a section on unauthorized appropriations that said these are a problem and we need to take a closer look at them. the problem is there's not a ton of bipartisan support around it. democrats are not quite interested