you just heard chris van hollen.rrent days that the house and senate -- excuse me e -- four concurrent days that the house and senate are in session together before january 15th. where are we? >> well, remember, they don't actually have to vote on a deal by december 13th. that's the deadline they were given in the legislation for the conference committee. if they come up with something by december 13th, congress could still stick around to vote on it in december if they wanted to or more than likely come back in january before the 15th when the continuing resolution will expire. >> all these guys are so burned out from having spent every single december all the way up to the brink, i think we're at four decembers in a row, i know there is no appetite to do that this time. >> my point would be get over it. you caused this yourself. it's the same problem. the fact you're around in december is only because you didn't pass the appropriations fwils earlier in the year. >> sticking point one is just agree on a number. >> r

joining us now is democratic congressman chris van hollen of maryland, ranking member of the house budget committee. good afternoon, sir. >> good afternoon, martin. >> the budget process that you've been arguing for for several months came to a crashing halt even as it started with congressman paul ryan saying he will not budge on tax cuts, and yet fitch last month said the reason it may downgrade the u.s. is because people won't budge on the budget process. so how do you negotiate with a man who states his uncompromising position from the absolute beginning? >> well, martin, you're absolutely right. look, the good news was after eight months we finally got our republican colleagues to the negotiating table. the bad news is that the first thing they did was start taking things off the negotiating table. as you said, the sequester, which are these very deep, immediate cuts in important investments, are hurting the economy. the nonpartisan congressional budget office has told us that we will have 800,000 fewer jobs in this country this time next year if we keep that in place. so what we've

. >> joining me now, democratic congressman chris van hollen. thank you for your time.m now hear numbers that have been speculated and reported on. we'll hear the facts. we do know kathleen see breel yus, secretary sebelius has already said they are going to be low. what does that do to the discussion in moving forward with this deadline looming of november 30th and today the testimony being that the vast majority of people will be able to get on the website but we cannot guarantee 100%. >> i think everybody agrees the website situation is absolutely unacceptable. even if it was running perfectly, we would expect the enrollment numbers at this point in time in the affordable care act through the exchange to be very low. we know that based on the experience they had in massachusetts where at the state level they implemented a very similar plan. it shouldn't surprise anybody even if the website were up and running perfectly, most people take a little bit of time to shop around and don't need their final selection until the deadline gets near. so yes, we've got to get this

. >> joining me now is democratic congressman chris van hollen of maryland. sir, it's good to see you this morning. >> it's good to be with you, thomas. >> you were once a staffer on the senate foreign relations committee that dealt with weapons of mass destruction and you say this plan is a good first step. we keep hearing that phrase "first step" but some of your democratic colleagues are more skeptical about that. i want to play what elliott engel, new york's congressman had to say about it. take a listen. >> it's disappointing to me that iran is still going to be allowed to enrich while they're talking. i would have thought that that should be a prerequisite to any kind of talks. i do think sanctions should always be hanging there, because that's what brought iran to the table in the first place, and i don't think you make them bargain in good faith by going squishy. >> so majority leader eric cantor said this morning that this plan weakens the sanctions, takes the heat off iran to abandon their program. is the obama administration giving up too much in t

maryland democrat congressman chris van hollen says, quote, the public has a right to know who is spending millions to influence the outof our election and we must put an toned the flow of secret money. but karl rove said democrats didn't have a problem when it was groups backing them. >> it is hypocritical. and it's interesting it only started to happen when conservatives started to do what liberal have done for decades. >> reporter: it's clear these rules are going to be a huge fight. it's thought they won't be in place for the 2014 cycle. but will likely be a factor in the 2016 presidential election. doug? >> mike emanuel, thank you, mike. >>> stocks headed into the holiday on a high note. the dow gained 24.5 for another record close. the s&p 500 up 5. nasdaq gained 27. >>> up next, new images and documents from last year's benghazi terror attack. but here is what some of our fox affiliates are covering tonight. fox 5 in las vegas on a judge's decision to reject o.j. simpson's request for a new trial. simpson contended his defense was inadequate in his robbery trial in 2008. fox 4 in da

let me bring in chris van hollen of maryland, top democrat on the house budget committee. thank you for your time. >> good to be with you. >> ed just reminded us, cyber monday. you've got a lot of things happening online at once. where is your confidence level right now regarding at least 80% of the people getting on and being able to access it properly, the website. >> you have confidence in jeff zienst, the guy brought in with broad experience. we've got to get this thing working. obviously it's gone off to a very bumpy start, very important they get it up and running so people can access health care plans and find out that in fact a lot of these plans are much more affordable than the plans they have today. >> there was a quote in ed's piece, a democratic party chairman, and she said that democrats elected officials and activists need to buckle down and take a breath. that was in reference to some democrats choosing to support the republican bill that we -- 39 of them that we discussed on friday. >> well, tamron, the whole show overwhelmingly that the american people wa

but chris van hollen, on the budget committee, said republicans have a one-note agenda. at least antonio carlos' song one note have -- they have a single melody, don't they? >> no, now paul ryan said obama care is here. i'm so glad he has finally, finally figured that out. because it passed three years ago. that's okay. no big deal. now that paul ryan is excited to come from the 20th century to the 21st century, maybe he will bring along his elephant party, with him. here's my problem with what paul ryan is saying. this is just like the gay stuff, okay? they're saying we believe in equal rights. but not for gays. well, obama care is here. but you know what, i'll be daggone if we're not going to try to do everything we can to undermine t hold hearings, aggressive oversight. speaker's words. i mean, again, i just said it, and so did van hollen. where is their health care plan? i don't know of any bill that's been introduced that addresses what's wrong with our health care system. i do not have insurance. on january 1st, i will be able to get insurance. now is the website s

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i notice you are an intern for chris van hollen. that speaks volumes. host: what do you mean? e the synonym for progressive, chris van hollen is exceptionally liberal. he mentions foundations, being supported by foundations, and i am his website glancing the various organizations, and to use the synonym for progressive, they are all exceptionally liberal. then i go down to the organizations that support them. them are ultra-liberal. i look at the center for community change, at one point, morphedt called acorn into an most of their people went into the center for community change. of the people are involved there our former acorn people. host: all of that said, what is the point? he announced his views. caller: my point is the view he exceptionallys one-sided as far as what obamacare will get. he said go to kentucky, it is working well. well, thousands are thai -- signed in -- signing up in kentucky, that a majority went into medicaid, and not into the so-called obamacare or the affordable care act. have yourink we point, enough to respond to. mr. smith, anything you want to sa

congresswoman, when we quote from a letter we wrote to congressman chris van hollen. discretionary spending spending, if those reductions were eliminated, that 6%uld increase real gdp by 0. and would raise full-time employment by 800,000 people i the fourth quarter of 2014. much.nk you very the stakesmplifies of our conference committee's work. i hope our committee will begin working in earnest toward an agreement to prevent the economic damage that hires and -- that partisan politics and sequestration has caused. and senatoran cole coons. that myt to assure you good friend and i did not coordinate our remarks. i was going to ask that that letter be placed in the record. speaking order was just random. >> a couple points and then a question. i want to quote from that letter. we ask at the budget committee endeavored to agree on a common discretionary number no later than december 2. november 22 is nine days away. we do not have any scheduled meetings between the 22nd and december 2. this is a matter of some urgency. our colleagues on the appropriations committee inclu

-- republican subcommittee chairs of the appropriation committee sent a letter to paul ryan, chris van hollen, patty murray, and senator sessions. it said, we need to have a budget. we need to have a compromise agreement. we need to have a sequester number 11 in it. , and irrational number replacing it. a number that can work for america. they said, if you don't do it, we are going to have a meat axe, verbage, not mine, mr. speaker. not only on the education side of the budget, but also on the national security side of the budget. we all know how the budget really achieves balance. severe cuts, in the same vein as the irrational sequester that targets the most vulnerable americans and place our economic recovery in jeopardy. it is ironic that on the front page of the washington post, we see mr. ryan is not focused on the budget. he is focused on the poor. that is a proper focus. this congress ought to be focused on that. but it is interesting that the ryan budget does exactly the opposite of what we need to do to make sure that the poor are reduced in number and the middle class are expanded

-- republican subcommittee chairs of the appropriation committee sent a letter to paul ryan, chris van hollen, patty murray, senator murray and senator sessions and said we need to have a budget, we need to have a compromised agreement and we need to have a sequester number eliminated and a rational number replacing it, a number that can work for america. in fact, they said, if you don't do it we're going to have going to have a meat ax, not only the domestic side of the budget, education, health care, environment, law enforcement but also on the national security side of the budget. we all know how the budget really achieves balance, offered by mr. ryan, severe cuts in the same vain of the irrational sequester that targeted the most vulnerable americans and placed our economic recovery in jeopardy. somewhat ironic that on the front page of "the washington post" today we see mr. ryan is not focused on the budget, he's focused on the poor. that is a proper focus, and this congress ought to be focused on that, but it is interesting that the ryan budget does exactly the opposite of what we need

that was representative chris van hollen.e says by narrowing the scope of the challenge, we may be up to make some progress. it is too early to tell. our last call from jersey city, new jersey, independent line. caller: it is great to speak to you today and to the rest of c- span about this topic. it is great to note -- hello? it is great to know that this in which the gettysburg penned, its panned -- was put together at the last moment. it was on a rail train, writing the gettysburg address suffering from a cold or he was trying to bring to the remembrance of the american people what the forefathers had initially republic.n this new it brings back today all the veteran all that lincoln suffered at the hands of the people who called him a tyrant. they called him a dictator. in the newspapers he was called so many different things. when the gettysburg address is as important today, you must remember the concept of the americans, of what our words stand for. the lady that's moe -- spoke just a moment ago, yes, the reconstructio

we're going hear the latest from the top house democrat in the budget haggling, maryland's chris van hollen