the congress has sort of presented him with this victory. congress did not fight.ngress did not put up a fight. it's taught that politics dynasty would carry it forward or politics of right based legislation they brought out. the voters read as part of the politics not rights. >> gandhi we heard him say there we have a lot to think about. they didn't get mobilized. there was modi crisscrossing the country. do you think the congress almost sat? >> modi is perhaps the most -- he's got the largest mandate ever. he's the biggest business figure in politics. we have a group of muslims whether or not they voted for modi will today -- it's safe to say the largest minority in india feels insecure about his rise. there was a lot to oppose modi on. his model of development is also contested. there are questions about it. the point is the congress did not raise those questions or pursue in any manner. >> what happens to the congress party now you think? i said the question looming is whether or not congress has to separate themselves from the gandhi. what do you think? >> tha

we are a creature of the congress. the information should come this way then rather than me telling them what to do so i'm receptive to their ideas. i read all the information from members and talk to them as best i can to keep up to speed. >> host: sunday ideas ideas from congress include fcc reform and management of the commission i guess is one way to put it. do you agree with those efforts in congress? >> guest: i don't want to endorse any particular item but i do think there's room to improve the sec process. chairman wheeler has work to do so and is very aggressive effort in working with diane cornell at the commission so i think that's been moving forward fruitfully and that's a good avenue. i know their number of pieces of legislation that congress will consider and we will take them as they get passed or not. >> host: would you like to be able to sit down and sit with one or two commissioners? >> guest: i can today speak with one. i can speak with two. i leave that to congress and the representing people and w

it didn't have the congress. and it struck me, and again, i'm a big, as you know as speaker of the house, i deeply believe in this. in all fairness, when you look at the systemic changes, when you look at this universal problem with information technology, doesn't congress need to take a really big bite at trying to figure out how to fix these things on a big scale? >> i think looking for the rainbow here because it's a dark period right now. people have died because of denial of care where they ought to have gotten that care. we need to find out why that happened. the end of the day, how can we make this system a better system? that's what it's about. getting the men and women who deserve the system to deliver the health care they deserve is what it's about. in the end we need to find a way to simplify it, make it work in more efficient ways. i thing that's something the democrats and republicans would both agree upon is this is not about politics. this ought to be about getting these men and women -- adding to

congress has declined to do so. i worked on a number of those efforts over the last many years of my time, and they've declined to do so, and so that is something that that would be an indication. >> so you brought up some concern about the sort of broad interpretation of section 706 and how the fcc might start regulating the web companies themselves like google or facebook. >> guest: right. >> there particular examples, or do you have a reason to think the fcc might get involved in that area? >> guest: absolutely. we've already used that authority in a couple different instances. we used it as part of our ip trials earlier this year. we cited it as part of an argument that we may move forward in cybersecurity, an area where the question of authority for the agency otherwise, and we've also, you know, used it, and we're planning to use it in other fronts. so there are concrete experiences where we've used it, and it's been talked about in a number of other fronts going forward. >> so you're pretty skeptical ca, i gu

senatepe congress and that i do hold congress and senate accountable. we realize exactly what you are saying. texas, the colonoscopies would only be approved if the patient tested positive three successive saving -- three -- essive it is inoperable at that time. we are talking about people covering up. we should've rewarded executives for saying i have 1600 veterans who want to get in on an appointment and i do not have doctors and nurses to get the job done. nobody is doing that. your point is accurate. ifse executives learned that they fronted their numbers and gave a different impression of what was really going on, gaming the system as documented by the v.a. it self, they would get bonuses. we have to flip the script and hold them accountable. we are talking about employees we want to get fired by the accountability act. if they can start firing executives they will be honest and demonstrate some integrity. host: you are on with former gunnery sergeant. caller: good morning. i worked and retired in the air force with the department of energy. the sy

to congress, it has passed. and maybe we need to have mtia toan independent commission evaluate the spectrum that is in the hands of government agencies and see what's excess, see what could be auctioned. and then put that to an up or down vote, that list as produced by the agency or independent body of some sort. it certainly worked for base closing. maybe it will work for this. what i'm suggesting is congress be creative in the way it addresses the need to get more spectrum into the hands of the commercial carriers. and majority of the spectrum that can be made available for that relatively quickly is in the hands of government. do you see atcher some point wireless and internet reclassified as an essential communication services rather than information services? gost: i am not going to there. i do not think it is necessary in order to do that. i agree with jack that congress needs to be very precise in directing the fcc with regard to what congressional intent is and what the role of the fcc in in that is goi

information should come from congress to the fcc. we are a creature of congress. information should come this way. i should not tell them what to do. i am receptive to their ideas. i read all the information from members. some of the ideas from congress include the work or -- fcc reform. do you agree with those efforts? >> i do not endorse any particular i -- item. jeremy wheeler has work to do so. it is a very aggressive effort. that has been moving forward for fully. i know there are a number of pieces of legislation that congress will consider. we will take them as we get them. >> would you like to sit down and talk issues with some of them? privately? >> i cannot speak with one, i cannot speak with to. -- two. worriedme, have i been over the years that that was a problem? perhaps not. i do not think it is a problem today. >> to go back to the spectrum, what about the government controlled as to mark what should be done with that? >> we will need more licenses going forward for all the demands. there is a need for more spectrum going forward. it is multiplying

or is there some real sentiment to that effect among members of congress? >> i think that comment reflected a real sentiment. i think there is a perception while this administration has funding and numerical strength to the border patrol, there is a sense that the administration has back pedaled. there is a sense that the administration has a policy with the removal of illegal aliens with criminal convictions. it's perfectly legal exercise of persecutal of the law. i think things like that and the legalization of the dreamers that the president did, i think that leads to the perception that this administration has a very different approach. >> just before we go to a break, since you know this world so wall, you also know that a lot of people who were classified as quote/unquote criminals, their crime was entering or reentering the united states after deportation. these landscapers, bus boys, guys who did dry wall, they're not felons in the way that we think of armed robbers. they came back to live with their families, aren't they? >> the policy prioritizes

nothing congress. >> the only fair comparison may be harry truman's do nothing congress of the 1940s. which will go down in infamy as the least productive ever. but what do the facts and numbers suggest? here's the thing. according to the library of congress, the current group, the 113th has passed right now about 100 bills and it's on pace for 146 bills. let's look at the previous congress. ♪ ♪ [ barks ] whoo! mmm! ♪ ♪ oh, yeah [ whistling ] [ male announcer ] discover your new orleans. start exploring at followyournola.com. [ woman ] and i love new orleans! start exploring at followyournola.com. [doorbell rings] hey. hey. what's this? it's u-verse live tv. with at&t u-verse... you can watch live tv from your device. hey. hey. anywhere in your home. [doorbell rings] hey. hey. so you won't miss a minute of the game. call now to get a u-verse bundle for the same great price for 2 years. guaranteed. "i wish i'd done this sooner." don't let that be you. you know your teeth are important. so don't put it off any longer. call 1-800-dentist today. ♪ >>> welcome to on the money. i'm becky q

only congress can do that. the fcc cannot realign the structure that is establishestablish ed by statute so you can start with that. we also have a spectrum launched today and rapidly the spectrum is available was being outstripped by the demand for mobile services. carriers are experiencing the order of magnitude increases over a very short timeframe in the demand for mobile data. we have got to find creative ways to get more spectrum allocated from government holders who in many instances have an excess of spectrum through the commercial launching process and into the hands of the commercial carriers. the current way we do that just isn't working. it's extraordinarily slow. the allocation process takes forever and even after an agency is told to vacate a spectrum it can take years for them to move away from it to make that available for commercial auction. so i think congress needs to be really innovative in the way it addresses this. maybe some incentive should be provided to agencies so that spectrum is vac

congress is tanking. how does it compare to harry truman's do nothing congress. the google buses are inspiring a hot debate in san francisco. the opposition isn't about people over profits after all. the story just ahead. [ wind howling ] [ female announcer ] it balances you... [ water crashing ] ...it fills you with energy... and it gives you what you are looking for to live a more natural life. in a convenient two bar pack. this is nature valley... delicious granola bars made with the best ingredients in nature. nature valley. nature at its most delicious. >>> voter frustration with the capitol hill lawmakers is boiling. is this the worst congress of all time? that's what a poll found. the 113th congress is officially rock bottom. >> this republican 80th do nothing congress toward labor. >> now, the only fair comparison may be harry truman's do nothing congress of the 1940s that will go down as the least productive ever. what do the facts and numbers suggest here? here is the thing. according to the library of congress, the current group passed 100 bills. it's

republicans in congress like it or not. my message to the american people is this -- do not get discouraged by a vote like the one we saw this morning. get fired up, get organized, make your voices heard. rest assured, i will continue working with you and leader nancy pelosi and other members of congress who are here today to raise wages for hard-working americans. it is the right thing to do. [applause] if your member of congress does not support raising the minimum wage, you got to let them know they are out of step. and if they keep putting politics ahead of working americans, you will put them out of office. tell them to reconsider. tell them it is time for $10.10. you can tweet at them. htag #1010means. and while you're at it, tell them to restore unemployment insurance for working americans. [applause] know, extending this lifeline of unemployment insurance would actually strengthen the economy and create jobs. give millions of americans across the country a sense of hope. in the meantime i am going to keep offering m

army is eliminated in indiana by an attack by indians, and congress, the first or second congress, sends a letter to his excellency, president washington, please explain what happened to our army. they eventually send general wayne to handle that. this is the first oversight. basically, what happened to the army, explain. you are the chief executive. we are the ones who report to the people. atis actually a controversy that time. so funny the issue of executive branch not providing records to congress goes back to george washington. fortunately cooler heads prevailed and george washington's initial response was, and you can see this in the papers, i do not owe them anything. i do not give them the audacity of the house to get them records. eventually he prevails and provides the information. oversight is an important function. you madeny tricks have to afghanistan? >> i try to go seven or eight quarters. we have about 60 people over there. i go on a regular basis, try to get over there. lex had you met president karzai? >> no. i have intentionally not wanted to meet the president. is to

guest: it shifts from congress to congress. there are a lot of longtime members who have legislation introduced repeatedly, year after year or session after session. jose serrano from new york is one of my favorite examples. --ce the end of the edmund since the end of the clinton administration he has introduced a bill allowing a third term for presidents. it is a monthly it will go anywhere. -- it is unlikely it will go anywhere. it is something he feels strongly about so he introduces it at the beginning of every new congress. there are a lot of folks like are fewer folks in congress that are the other way, who don't introduce a lot of legislation. to the extent you can , we don't needem to work on a lot of legislation. their work is focused on committee those pieces of legislation that will already be introduced and voted on. you don't see from a lot of the legislation that addresses the concerns. host: off of twitter -- guest: i don't think we really have a good definition of what a productive congress is. we don't have a v

congress? >> guest: yes.d as associate counsel, republican counsel for the house committee and the study of monopoly power. and then there members of the two parties did work together on much legislation. there were high visibility bills where they tended to be much more partisan, but it was a different congress than we have today. >> host: and, of course, the congress that confirmed you to the supreme court, i think you had a unanimous vote as well. >> guest: well, 98. >> host: 98. >> guest: two didn't vote that day. >> host: that counts. hard to imagine that today. what's happened? is partisan gerrymandering partly responsible for the fact that congress is more polarized now? >> guest: i really think it is. i think bill gates, i hadn't heard about that before, but i think he's dead right. >> host: yeah. well, the trick though is coming up with a judicial standard for policing partisan gerrymandering. and you're very sophisticated and specific about what, how to identify an unconstitutional partisan gerryman

of congress turfed out. that personal phone call from president clinton asking her personally to make that vote. she had told him apparently that she would do it if he absolutely needed it. he called her and told her he it absolutely need it. everybody knew full well it would cost her her seat in congress. she kept her word and she cast that vote. she did what she told the president she would do and that's why she only served one time. tonight in pennsylvania she made her move to try to get back into congress. and in the interim 20 years between then and now, between bill clinton asking her to sacrifice her seat in congress for him and today when she wants back in in, what happened in those interim 20 years? her son married bill clinton's daughter. marjorie margolies' son is married to chelsea clinton. bi bill clinton, frankly, already owed marjorie margolies big time even before they became related by marriage. but now that marjorie margolies wants back into congress she is one of the only, if not the only

congress was not -- last time you testified before congress, they wanted a contingency plan.pace x think they can do it by 2015. i think a possible contingency plan if we could give them additional fund sog they're not flying their own crews. >> it's one of the providers, then i would be able to do that. we haven't selected a provider yet. they haven't provided any human rated vehicles yet. but they're in competition. there's a blackout now. i don't know how they're doing. we're going to set the potential providers and then we'll go with them. they may be ready for 2017. our goal now is to be ready by 2017. as i told the congress two weeks ago, the contingency plan for having a capability is $850 million next year and three years away. there is no instant access to space on american rocket. it aint going to happen. because we didn't pay attention -- >> that was part of congress fault. >> i don't want to get in position where i'm blaming congress alone. it's been a number of administrations. i'm going to help people here who don't remember history. the decision to start this p

when congress is increasin paying attention to. after a decade of four lawmakers are tightening their grasp on the purse strings. decreasing the minimum defense budget for twenty fourteen to five hundred billion dollars city and demanding accountability not an easy mission the pentagon is the only agency that cannot produce a budget that can be audited and presented to the american people. every other agency passes. those tests in terms of financial audits. in fact the department of defense has never been on a date even though the d o d complete some one hundred fifty million financial transactions easier and makes up one fifth of federal spending issue that happened years ago said two of our minds homeland security which also has an unaudited it's ludicrous that it's our taxpayer money and it seems he can't account for its fiscal hawks like senator tom coburn from oklahoma i have been attempting to force the pentagon scanned for years now. like previous bills which offered incentives to the cod are getting its fiscal house organiz

many of them have gone to members of congress, to senator mccain, other members of congress and made complaints to them. some of them say they got help. many more of them say they didn't get any help at all. i've talked to the congressional liaisons for many members of the delegation here in arizona, and they tell me they're overwhelmed with complaints. they do what they can. if you listen to what members of congress have said in the house and senate hearings, repeatedly, there's no transparency, there's no cooperation and there's no accountability in the va from their point of view. so what they're saying is, they do what they can, but the va's not really responsive to them. >> you're saying essentially that they're reporting at least from veterans who have spoken to you, is that they feel the responsiveness was wholly on the part of the va and not from their member of congress, or do they have complaints about the response from their representatives? >> there are quite a few of veterans who are very upset with their members of congress. it's hard for us to penetrate that, because c

congress, i think the first or second congress, sends a letter to excellencecy, president washington, please explain what happened to our army. they eventually send general wayne to handle that. but this is the first oversight. it's basically to our army, you're the chief executive and we're the ones that report to the people. it's actually a controversy at that time. the whole issue of executive branch not providing records to congress goes back to george washington. fortunately cooler heads prevail and george washington's initial response was, i don't owe them anything. then he eventually -- cool heads prevails -- he provides the information. >> how many trips you made to afghanistan? >> i try to go every quarter. it's about my seventh or eighth trip. we have about 60 people over there. i go on a regular basis. >> have you met hamid karzai? >> no, i have not had the pleasure. i intentionally not want to meet the president. my mission is to report to the president of the united states and the congress and the people of the united states. i meet with lower officials. >> back in 2012,

congress told the i.r.s. not once but twice small aircraft offering sightseeing services should not have to collect the excise taxes, and still the i.r.s. thumbs its nose at congress and says we'll do whatever we like, in clear contradiction to the plain meaning of the statutes that were supposed to be upheld. mr. president, that's not the way this country is supposed to work. agencies like the i.r.s. don't get to go it alone. they're bound by the constitution to enforce and follow the laws that congress writes. i was pleased about a letter -- a recent letter to the air carriers in alaska, the alaska air carriers association in which the i.r.s. acknowledged their guidance was unclear and inappropriately enforced. the i.r.s. offered to give refunds to companies flying small aircraft on sightseeing tours, but while it's a step in the right direction to recognize they got it wrong and try to make it right, they refuse to back down completely. the i.r.s. is still reserving the right to go after these same compani

congress -- >> so he's clecking contempt. >> congress has issued these contempt citations against five officials in history. dating back to the reagan administration. two were top white house officials during the bush administration. two were under the reagan administration. one went to jail. rita lavelle, for six months. but you know, the white house officials under bush didn't go. eric holder, the top law enforcer in the country, is still not only not in jail, but actually sitting at the justice department. so if you really think this is going to, you know, the wheels are going to start churning on this and lois lerner is going to be indicted and end up in jail, i don't see that happening. >> does this mean anything? >> holder gets to decide whether it means anything. lawyers are split on the legal meaning of that statement. i think you're right. it seems silly to put your client in that kind of jeopardy. >> when there's a gray area, you err on the area of protecting your client. you don't roll the dice. >> it means something as a precedent for the house. you're in big trouble if you

he was in congress from 19 75 to 2011. spoke with him about his career just before he left congress. >> i want to start with partisanship. all, let's stay with the home state. >> is hard to put those two in the same arena. of awas a unique year national wave of reaction against a number of national issues, but they did converge in next door in the state of wisconsin. anger, lackence of of understanding, to a great that thisrception country was off course, off-track, just came together. -- we lostister otis minnesota state senate for the since- for the first time -- similarly in a minister minnesota's statehouse. district, sort of a fringe area around the portions thise district, there was swing. all the state legislators to the dfl state legislators lost in that area. yet, we elected a democrat to the governors office. ,t was quite a curious outcome but it affirms the independence of minnesota voters. >> in your own case, did you see coming? >> oh, i knew from the very beginning of the year, right after the obama inaugural

so the question is how can congress and the house do away with it? it has to do very drastic measures. troop reductions, program reductions. everybody is complaining about it. nothing has been done so far to solve the problem that's coming up. how do you see that resolved? how can you with your committee make sure that the defense department does not have to resort to those very drastic measures? >> that's a critical question. the sequester in 2016. i would hope and trust that the budget committees, house and senate, will recommend to the bodies of the congress a way to deal with sequestration, at the same time a giving us a number to appropriate to. that would prevent that undue harm to particularly the defense department. suspects>> are you seeing any efforts being done so far, work behind the scenes, to try and figure something out? >> some general talk but no concrete action or plan at this point. >> i was wondering if you might open up a little bit about your relationship with chairwoman mikulski. you seem like a bit of an odd couple, quite fran

it is important to note the makeup of the congress, 80 seats in the congress were allocated to partylist. 120 were allocated to individual candidates. of the 80 allocated to party list, the more liberal-leaning party, the national forces alliance, won the majority of seats out of the 80. the muslim brotherhood -affiliated justice and construction party won the second largest of seats -- . but what was key was the 120 individual candidates. the headlines in july 2012 that were based on the results from the 80 party list candidates declaring libya as a liberal landslide, were extremely misleading. independentthe 120 individual candidates, we saw there were far more were far larger component of what is referred to here as the islamic current than was previously set. this was bolster later on by the controversial passage of a law known here in libya as the political isolation law, which affected the national forces alliance that men its leader was banned from holding political office in libya for 10 years. this law affected people who had worked for the qaddafi regime in some form. it wa

congress?>> guest: yes i worked as an associate republican counsel for the house committee and their members of the two parties did work on legislation. there were high-visibility bills where they tended to be much more partisan that it was a different congress than we have today. >> host: the congress confirmed you to the supreme court did i think you have a unanimous vote as well. >> guest: well 98 and there were two that didn't move it forward that day. >> host: that counts. it's hard to imagine that today. is partisan gerrymandering partly responsible? >> guest: i really think it is. bill gates had heard about that before but i think he got it right. >> host: the trick though is coming up with a judicial standard for policing partisan gerrymandering and you are supposed -- sophisticated about how to identify unconstitutional parties. you have an amendment and i will read it again because the text is important. districts represented by members of congress are members of any state legislative

no congress did more than congress in 1965. no congress has ever done less than the one we have right now. and yet when they return to washington in january, the leadership of this current congress, the house majority leader released his agenda for what they said they were going to do this year. according to eric cantor, majority leader, one of the things he said they planned to pass this year was legislation on the issue of immigration. and nobody thought they were going to do something as sweeping as what happened with johnson in the great society or what happened under ronald reagan, no one believed this republican led house is capable of big things at all. they can barely keep the lights on and sometimes not even that. they did promise on their own terms that they were going to do something on immigration this year. they made this promise in writing. eric cantor made that promise in writing on january 3rd, 2014, and three days later a glowing profile of this never before seen economics professor from virginia. they profiled

second, someone who cannot only work with congress, but when necessary cajole or beat congress into submission in terms of providing the resources the department needs. there is a reason then that everyone starts looking towards senior retired military officers. we've heard colin powell mentioned, admiral mull land, because they have managed those organizations and department with the politics that will be central to what happens over the next 18 months to two years. >> we're going to take a short break. when we come back, we'll talk more about how this could have happened. general serb shinseki is a very well respected and even celebrated man around washington. how did his career come to this end? >> al jazeera america presents the system with joe burlinger >> the dna testing shows that these are not his hairs >> unreliable forensics >> the problem the bureaus got is they fail, it's a big, big deal... >> convicted of unspeakable crimes did flawed lab work take away their freedom? >> i was 18 when i went in... when i came out i was 50... you don't get it back... >> shocking truths revealed >>

after washington who delivered the address, madison who was the leader of congress, wrote the congressnse to the inaugural address. and washington thought madison was so good at this he asked him to write the replay back. it is hard to imagine how his voice was echoing off every wall. i am not sure there has been another time in history when one man has been so influential at the beginning of the administration like he was with washington. >> when you talk about the constitutional convention there were battles over provisions and we ended up with article 1, 2, and 3 and it took a long time with many hours and days of work to put it together. can you sight the specific comp compromise and were able to resolve? >> it was the thing we learn about the big state and the small states. the big states wanted them to be represented according to their population. the small states wanted them to be representative states. we know the compromise represented states in the senate and half in the house. and madison was appalled by that. he went into the constitution convention thinking the great threa

congress funds va.gress has increased the scope of responsibilities of va without increases in funding. congress oversees the civil service and refuses to reform it so he can fire the kind of people that chance gres. they promote from getting intelligence technology -- sorry, information technology and goes on and on and on. >> that's the thing, it will be the reforms now and serious reforms including making it easier to fire people. i know in your specific case, you have been jumping up and down about this for years but what about the charge that congress should have done more and on a go forward basis needs to do more? >> interestingly enough, the reports that a lot of people talk about were directed by congress. we went to secretary shinseki and asked him had he implemented the things they recommended. they told us yes. that he lied to us about the numbers. >> shinseki? >> yes, yes. because his people were lying to him. >> so he wasn't actively lying but delivering that information. >> delivering inf

and that approach is congress, not a presidential commission, but congress, having the ability to determine in a bipartisan way who serves on the commissions to review these museums and do a feasibility study, which is something those of us in business always do before we embark on any project. it's appropriate that the federal government do that also. this is a fiscally conservative approach to addressing the cost of a museum. now, the duties of the commission, my colleagues are going to find on page 4, and you will see there are several things that will be covered in the feasibility study. the availability and cost of collections, the impact of the seum on women's regional history-related museums, potential locations in washington, d.c., whether the museum should be part of the smithsonian, the government, organizational structure, best practices for engaging women in the development and design of the museum and the cost and construction of operating and maintaining. in other words, they got to have an endowment. they got to pay their operational costs, their upfront costs. all of it with

texas congress member loses seat and now congress will no longer have any world war ii veterans as members. there is more to the story. 91-year-old ralph hall lost the primary in texas last tuesday. he and john dingell were the remaining world war ii veterans in congress. congress was comprised of majority veterans. it is not just we are losing men of the greatest generation. there is something congress member hall pointed out. when he joined in 1981, these were men of shared sacrifice and we had a common bond. we could pass anything in the nation's best interest. i think he speaks to yet another cause of the partisan gridlock in washington. the headline which said texas congress member loses seat. now congress will no longer have any world war ii veterans as members. i would have written, the last of putting nation first. the next headline from the times. the cia's deadly rouse in pakistan. anybody who has seen the movie "zero dark 30" in an effort to determine whether bin laden was behind the wall of the compound, was a rouse. the real purpose was to try to get dna from the individuals b

congress? >> guest: yes. i worked as associate counsel for the house committee on the study of monopoly power. and then members of the two parties did work together on much of the legislation. there were high-visibility bills where they tended to be much more partisan. this was a different congress then will we have today. >> host: of course, the congress of confirm due to the supreme court was by a unanimous to try unanimous vote as well. >> guest: 98. >> host: that counts. what has happened? >> guest: i then that it is. bill gates, i have not heard about that. >> host: the trick is coming up with a judicial standard for policing partisan gerrymandering you are sophisticated and specific about how to identify an unconstitutional partisan gerrymandering, and you have an article proposed. distance represented by members of congress are in a state registered body should be compact and composed of contiguous territory with the state having the burden of justifying in a departure from this requirement with neutra

this week in congress, pretty busy week. he have benghazi, lois lerner, appropriations, surveillance, x the pipeline. caller: please don't cut me off. the gop has done nothing to help american people. all the talk about his scandals to bring the president down. no president has ever been treated like this in the white for godd the gop stands opposing people. tyrone, what would you like to see them do? caller: i'd like to see them be more productive and help this president get some more jobs created. look at all the people who died in iraq. nobody is saying anything. it is all about politics and trying to take over the congress. public -- all the republicans want us to run everything. thanks for calling in. jed is calling in from virginia. what city is that? i personally believe that holding someone in contempt of congress sets a dangerous precedent, because they all have their own corruption. if we hold one in contempt we have to hold the mall. deborah, manassas, virginia. caller: i'm calling because i'm so disgusted with th

today we've read accounts of members of congress to proposed doing just that. the second way, the second way is to make the united states a more desirable location to headquarter one's business. i believe the latter is by far the better way. that would mean lowering the corporate tax rate and having a more competitive tax code. under current law u.s. corporations are taxed on their worldwide income but foreign corporations are subject to tax only on income arising from the u.s. itself. in other words, we subject our own corporations to a worldwide tax system while subjecting foreign corporations to a territorial tax system. it's strange that the u.s. government treats foreign corporations more favorably than american corporations but that's nonetheless what we do. there is a danger if the relatively unfavorable treatment of american companies is ratcheted up which seems to be the effect of some of these anti-inversion proposals that american companies will become even more attractive targets for takeover by foreign corporations. i don't know when my liberal fri

signed, sincerely, luke messer, member of congress. the speaker pro tempore: without objection the resignations are accepted. for what purpose is the gentlewoman from north carolina seek recognition? ms. foxx: mr. speaker, by direction of the house republican conference, i send to the desk a privileged resolution and if -- and ask for its immediate consideration. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the resolution. the clerk: house resolution 589. ms. foxx: i ask that the resolution be considered as read. the speaker pro tempore: without objection the reading is dispensed with. without objection, the resolution is agreed to and the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i move to suspend the rules and agree to conference report on the bill h.r. 3080. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 3080, an act to provide for improvements to rivers and harr tpwhoferse united states to provide for th

couple of years from now, congress still hasn't enacted. it doesn't make more sense to spin them off as private entities again or would you be continuing in limbo and not taking any steps in that direction? >> you're asking them about things that are not in the space that have been given to me. i know it's frustrating when i say that to people but i'm totally focused on the responsibilities that have been given to me. i don't think about what might happen two years from now or five years from now. i'm totally focused on what are our responsibilities today. if we don't do those responsibilities today, there won't be a housing market. people don't understand how critically important the housing market is to the country. somebody has to keep that housing market going and right now the major players in that space are fannie and freddie. now, if somebody says, fannie and freddie are out of business, then they will tell us how to unwind fannie and freddie. i don't think that's my role to make that determination. >> fhfa every quarter allows fanni

congress reported as winning one.we're a long way from finding out the full make up of 543 up for grabs. it seems by early projection leads, the party led by modi have, we think, got 266 seats in the league there giving them in essence a majority to rule here in india. when we were looking at press conference, it was interesting some of the lines of information he said the bjp are the only party to exceed more seats in congress, referring to 1984, the complete sweep by the then prime minister gandhi. he made certain there would be crossing religious cast and political divides. the reason that's so important is because the politics of the bjp and in particular their leader modi have been in the sp spotlight the past last few weeks. he's the leader of the group rss and also rhetoric of bjp we see has been hard line. people are fearful if those politics will be divided or include all the party. they mention women, empowerment of women and how they address issues. we should say women turn out in elections and have outnumb

it's important that congress watch this congress throughout. the department of defense gives us a fire report every six months. we need a better insight into what's going on on a more relevant basis quicker so we don't wait until the end of 2017 and suddenly discover that the department is not achieving that goal or we don't get to the end of 2018 and can't audit the books and records of the department of defense. this is a stunningly difficult problem to fix. for decades the department of defense has had an accounting system set up to meet its need and the needs of mission support. it was not set up to be audited. consequently, in order to be able to audit something they have to rebuild the legacy systems that are out there it is hard work and a lot of it. the department of defense this is one of the largest enterprises on the face of the earth. it takes good, hardworking people to get it done. our congress needs to have the insight into that process to make sure they do it and get it right. this effort doesn't fall really within the structure

is this a congress that can do stuff or is this a congress that will want to get home and campaign andstay in the trenches? >> on that particular point, i am not as optimistic that they are going to do anything big. i think they will do some incremental things around the margin. i do think that we have a huge opportunity to be setting the stage for the next election. and to make the case that, ultimately, and tom alluded to this and i think jay did as well, we are talking about fundamental security issues as well. you talk about homeland security challenge. something happen, we know this, our transportation, our water. if we do not have water, we are going to have a week before people start dying without water. also presenting this is much more core to national security is very critical. i am not as optimistic. my colleagues are. >> are you still optimistic? >> i am optimistic. if you look at eight period of time from now until the elections, there are some things we have to do or are getting set to do. everybody talks about lame-duck deals. every now and then, every three decades or s

congress has the authority to do so. it is time for congress to step up and do it come even though the white house, the president is pushing back and saying to stay out of it. that is why we need to move forward and act. >> an issue about oil trains, something that is happened in the last few years. the whole issue of pipelines has come up. they have been transporting oil on trains now. we have had several accidents, including one in canada were 47 people were killed. this week and last week in lynchburg, virginia, oil came from north dakota. what do you think about that in terms of, the dot has not really been pushing these regulations to make the cars more rugged. what should be done about that and what can we do? >> over a year ago, i contact the department of transportation and said, you need to get updated regulations so the industry knows what they need to do to get tank cars out on the track. you need to give them certainty. i have been working on this for a long time. it brings up the importance of the comprehens

this is very similar to what congress did on a bipartisan basis a decade ago. then-senators baucus and grassley jointly declared that they were working on legislation to stop abusive tax inversions. the bill, along with chairman wyden -- this bill that we're introducing along with chairman wyden's announcement two weeks ago should make clear to companies that considering a tax aversion is a mistake because they are now on notice. it's not going to gain them anything if a bill that prohibits the tax avoidance through inversion passes because the chairman of the finance committee has made it clear that such a bill is going to be effective as of may 6 of this year, regardless of when the bill passes. so companies are on notice. there is no use rushing to the door to invert, leaving the country to invert. it won't do them any good if the finance committee chairman has his way in either of these bills or other bills that set an appropriate date such as may 6 pass the congress. these multinational companies benefit from the safety and security that the united states

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