going through the 4th congressional district and he's entered the 5th congressional district. >> the problem is that the history of city of chicago hasn't been circles or squares. been black, latino, white. >> the congressman is actually right. having grown up in chicago, that's the way it was. it's a racially divided city, divided almost by streets. you can cross through a viaduct and the color of people just changes like that. it's always been that way. black neighborhood. hispanic neighborhood. in his hispanic district, gutierrez is usually re-elected with 75% of the vote or more. for other democrats around him, it can be as high as 85%. mary shafsma of the league of women voters. >> this is my district. they say that. >> consider this. in the last decade, 78% of all the seats in the house did not change party hands, not even once. that's nearly four out of five congressmen in safe seats year after year after year. david wasserman is the cook political report's district expert. >> we currently rate only 20 races as toss-ups. >> only 20 swing races next year out of 435 seats in the

as a founding co-chair of both the congressional out-of-poverty caucus and the congressional hiv-aids caucus, i rise today to draw attention once again to the ongoing crisis of poverty in america. and today i also want to draw particular attention to the impact of poverty on our national fight to stop h.i.v. and aids. mr. speaker, december 1 is world aids day, and this year marks 30 years after the first discovery of aids cases. the united states and the hiv-aids community globally have made tremendous progress in our collective response to this domestic and global crisis. we have reduced the stigmas surrounding the disease and strengthened education and outreach activities which continue to prevent millions of new cases of h.i.v. worldwide. the scientific community has improved the treatment of h.i.v. and aids with therapies and recent breakthroughs have revolutionized the way we think about aids. we have come a long way in our battle against aids. contracting h.i.v. no longer has to be a death sentence. but we have much more work to do. not everyone who is h.i.v. positive has access

the white house tonight is calling on the congressional super committee to do its jobs and produce a deficit-cutting plan by the wednesday deadline. that's easier said than done because signs of progress are virtually non-existent tonight. while the sounds of partnership are mounting to a roar. whit johnson in washington is tracking the debate. >> reporter: staring down another congressional failure. >> i think we're deep into the fourth quarter, but there's still time on the clock. >> super committee members seem resigned to their opportunity. >> it's not entirely too late. it's still possible to reach an agreement, but it's going to be tough given where the clock is. >> reporter: after ten weeks of closed-door meetings, the bipartisan group tasked with reducing deficits by $1.2 trillion over ten years, came up empty. committee co-chair democratic senator patty murray blamed

i will start by asking both of you we had a very congressional race but we were not surprised with the results but then three will go to the audience a. >> on the one hand as i think more about it i'm not saying that alone ed koch has that much power but combining it with guiliani with double negative they have done a great deal to do divide and conquer he made said that -- division people shopping have not helped because they play the game to make it impossible that the blacks did not trust the progresses' to take strong opposition's an immediate of course, has chosen to champion the colorful blacks shopping always gets the headlines and the media including the near times you do not hear about the movement but those running against her the district attorney in the history of new york state to challenge a police brutality case and she championed the cause but at and all of the black leaders were left come of those that were the leaders they always ignore the traditions in the city. what was the question again? >> [inaudible] >> but ed koch and guiliani also like to see the minority the

the census count determines how many congressional representatives there are. it is used to figure out funding for counties. sometimes it is our own immigrant communities who really need those resources but are in a weak position to negotiate. i cannot emphasize how important it is to understand that your information given to the census is confidential and there are extra safe marks for the information. there is also big penalties for anyone who inappropriately to full does the information. it is never meant to be handed over to the immigration service. absolutely, the commission should encourage everyone to participate. can you imagine if we got another represented in this area? -- rep in this area? i think we could use it. >> last question. we have heard a couple of suggestions on things the immigrant rights commission could do. the last question is, your top three suggestions for the immigrants' rights commission to begin preparing for building capacity in the community to assist immigrants, not if, but when cir happens. >> there is a lot of expertise in the

chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is on capitol hill with the latest. good evening. >> good evening, bret. after the market closed the co-chairs of the congressional super committee ende ended the panel's work writing "after months of hard work and intense deliberations we have come to the conclusion today it will not be possible to make bipartisan agreement available to the public before the committee's deadline. moments ago, president obama made it clear he intends to keep the pressure on congress. >> my message to them is simple. no. i will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts, domestic and defense spending. there will be no easy off-ramp on this one. we need to keep the pressure up to compromise. not turn off the pressure. the only way these spending cuts will not take place is if congress gets back to work and agrees on a balanced plan to reduce the deficit by at least $1.2 trillion. >> in the end, what many said was destined to fail did. after countless small group meetings and capitol hill hide-aways the congressional super

so i think the -- we should expect the unexpected surge early on the congressional side. you know, just sort of -- i don't want to step on anything anybody else is going to say, but it will be to sort of to the charley bottomline. in the house representatives, democrats needed 25 seat net to gain to get a majority in the house. to be honest, that 25 is really hard. i think the democrats are far more likely to pick up and lose seats just because you don't pick up 63 seats as republicans did last year and the biggest game for either party since 1948, the biggest midterm game you don't pick up seats without giving some other and so i think a certain amount of rebounding is to be expected, but do i think it is going to get close to the 25 seats the democrats need for the majority? i really doubt it. you know, the senate again i think it is a rebound election the its rebounding with six year terms in the senate. 2006 and the democrats picked up six seats and to those of six and now they come to this one with 23 seats compared to only ten for republicans. when you look to the v

he represented the 11th congressional district in the house of representatives. the communities were, i guess, brownsville, east new york, parts of flatbush, parts of oak slope and i'm sure i'm missing one or two -- part of bedford. a good central brooklyn part of crown heights. a good central district. he was elected in 1983 and served until 2007. he decided not to run for re-election in 2006. also the author of the book which we'll be talking about and is a professor at medgar evers college in brooklyn. >> bob is slowly becoming a true legend in the political media circuit world of new york city government. he's executive producer and political director for new york one, which we all watch. his imprint is very strong on inside city hall and on all things. so, bob, we thank you for being here today. so what i'm going to do is really just kind of serve as a little bit of a moderator, a little bit of an emcee. and if things get heated, i'll try and control everyone but i don't think they will. so, bob, i'm going to turn it over to you and maybe you can do a little

later today we expect to hear from the cochairs of that congressional supercommittee. they were lking for more than $1 trillion to cut from the budget. we expect to hear that that committee has failed in its mission. >> obviously, nobody wants to quit until the stroke of midnight. >> reporter: the stroke of midnight came and went with no deal. later today, a congressional supercommittee that was tasked to find $1 trillion in cuts is poised to admit failure. >> it wasn't so much a failure as it was a failure to seize an opportunity. >> reporter: they were tasked with cutting $1.2 trillion in debt. now it means automatic cut gos into effect. but not until 2013. that means that the debt will continue to grow. the washington blame game began in earnest over the weekend. >> we have to have on the table the revenue. that is the sticking point today. >> reporter: another breakdown by lawmakers in washington that has many americans saying they have had enough. as we found out at our abc "tell washington" cameras. >> don't go home for thanksgiving before you get a deal done. or

congressional district, and he has entered the fifth congressional district.z is usually re-elected with 75% of the vote or more. for other democrats around him, it can be as high as 85%. consider this, in the last decade, 78% of all of the seats in the house did not change party hands, not even once. that's nearly four out of five congressmen in safe seats year after year after year. a result of district lines drawn to protect incumbents in both parties. >> in general elections, it is almost rigged. >> all right. our thanks to drew griffin. does your vote for a congressional candidate really matter? might depend where you live. is your neighborhood jury-rigged? cnn presents tonight 8:00 eastern. >>> a multimillion dollar virtual payout, how online poker rooms are failing to pay those who win big. officials even calling it a ponzi scheme. but first, with unemployment hovering at stubbornly high levels, a lot of people are wondering should they go back to school? katrina spencer is one of them. she puts that question to cnn education contributor steve perry in

build on that moving forward and everybody's working for the weekend everybody on the so-called congressional super committee if we use the latest on the fiasco that is the gang of twelve and later in our second half hour we'll take a look back at the prophetic conversations with great minds that predicted the rise of occupy wall street. you need to know this as the dust settles on occupy wall street today of action across the nation yesterday the numbers are coming in a new york city alone there are estimates that somewhere between thirty five thousand and fifty thousand patriots took part in the demonstrations from the march to wall street to the occupation of foley square so the march across the brooklyn bridge so now how does the movement build off yesterday's successes moving forward we'll use the question in just a moment but first today the guardian newspaper released this video around oakland shot back on november second the day of the occupy oakland general strike showing a demonstrator peacefully protesting by standing in front of a line of riot police look at what happens next. i t

after months of negotiations, the congressional super committee is expected to officially throw in the towel. aides say republican and democratic leaders of the bipartisan panel will announce today they have failed to reach a deal to cut $1.2 trillion from the federal definite set. >> the wealthiest of americans, those who earn over a million dollars every year, have to share too and that line in the sand, we haven't seen any republicans willing to cross yet. >> reporter: democrats blasted republicans sunday for refusing to budge on tax hikes for the wealthy. the gop argued democrats are more interested in raising taxes than trimming entitlement programs like medicare and medicaid. >> there was an unwillingness to cut any kind of spending at all, unless there was a huge tax increase. >> reporter: the panel must come up with a proposal by midnight eastern tonight in order for members to vote on it by wednesday's deadline. >> nobody wants to give up hope. reality is, to some extent, starting to overtake hope. >> reporter: congress formed the committee last summer to end the bitter debt c

. >> time is running out for the congressional super committee. with members still deadlocked, the panel looked like it's on the brink of failure, the deadline for the committee to come up with a pran to slice more than a trillion dollars off the deficit is wednesday. but under committee rules, any plan would have to be unveiled tomorrow. i'm shannon bream live in washington. molly henneberg has all the details. hi, molly. >> shannon, the timing is getting tricky for the super committee. here's why. they have to vote on any deal by the last tick of the clock wednesday night. but before they can vote, two things have to happen. number one, they have to get the proposal to the congressional budget committee or cbo with enough time for the number crunchers there to estimate the deal's effect on the deficit and then number two, the super committee by law has to have 48 hours to go over the cbo's calculations. that means that the super committee has to get its proposals to the cbo by tonight or tomorrow morning depending who you ask on capitol hill in

the congressional supercommittee is coming down to the wire with just nine days to find $120 trillion in cuts. meanwhile, president obama has gotten out of dodge. he hosted a conference in hawaii for asia pacific nations and then heading to asia and indonesia. joining me today on "now" are john heilman, new york magazine, and senior writer for politico, maggie haber man. thank you, guys, for coming on the "now" show. let's first check in with senior correspondent chuck todd who is traveling with the president in honolu honolulu. chuck, how is the weather? can i ask you first -- >> it's always good. >> it doesn't look bad over there. can i ask you first, in between meetings, has the president been sitting on the beach writing po postcards like this to congressional republicans? >> not much. what he did was on the way on friday, when we left for san diego and he attended the basketball game that took place in the aircraft carrier, on the u.s.s. carl vinsomem, he made a couple phone calls to the co-chairs, and he basically said -- it was frankly a political move, alex, to try to duck the

you are arguing for a superior congressional power.you are saying whenever congress says the president has to comply with. now that's quite different from saying they both have the authority in the field and if they both have of 40 in the field and they are exercising it in different fashions i frankly would not be in plight to intervene. i would let them conduct the usual interval ranch hand rustling that goes on all the time if congress cares enough, chris will win because as you say it has an innumerable number of plugs with which to beat the executive if it is a key legal power and they are with exercising in a different way why don't we just let them go at it why is it any of our business which is the bitter foreign policy position? >> the court is not being asked to determine what is of the better foreign policy decision. >> that is your position, not that congress has coequal of 40 with the executive but congress is supreme. the recognition power if it exists. congress has it together with the president. with regard to the quest

the congressional research service estimates that revenue is simply unrealistic.the $191 billion over 30 years projection assumes a 50/50 cost split between the state and federal government. current law says that 90% of that goes to alaska and 10% goes to the federal government. crs also sent a 33% tax rate for oil and gas come means. according to citizens for tax justice and the companies he looked back, nobody paid that way. in fact, exxonmobil with $9.9 billion in pretax profits only paid .4% tax rate over the last two years. finally, the estimate is over 20 years, which begins in 20 years, which is highly speculative. a better bet is simply have been existing on gas tax giveaways, which would save taxpayers over $300 billion in the same period. without damaging the art date. other tax breaks and tax credits fall outside of the jurisdiction, increasing royalties followed in the committee's jurisdiction. submitted legislation to the super committee to fix a rookie creek oil and gas in the gulf of mexico could raise more than $53 billion. simply raising royalty r

congressional legacy. the reality, bottom line can not -- >> eric: they won't say who is in congress? >> bob: you can't come up with the number without revenue. >> eric: 3%? >> bob: yes. >> eric: it doubled in three years. >> bob: take $3 trillion out of domestic spending. >> greg: kimberly? >> kimberly: harry reid agrees with bob. american people are tired of the elected leaders listen to extreme voices in the party instead of voices of reason. disappointed that the republicans never found the courage to ignore the tea party extremists and millionaire lobbyists like norquist and -- >> bob: exactly. >> dana: this is my point. the democrats poll tested this line to death. toomey, kyl and portman put on the table is defiance of grover norquist. >> bob: defied it, true. >> dana: what is harry reid saying? it doesn't make sense. >> bob: can i get the poll to show what the american people think of this? do we have that? i want to show how american people think of millionaires. >> dana: oh, please. >> bob: you i

asked the relevant congressional committee to figure out how to do it later. a panel democrat said he is fine with that. >> i'm open to a two-step process. a multistep process. >> erskine bowles, cochair of the president's commission sounded pessimistic about the chance for success. >> if you haven't thrown up yet, you are getting ready to. >> if the super committee fails, $600 billion would be cut from defense. leon panetta warne warned in ths letter to senator john mccain, "rough estimates suggest after ten years of these cuts we would have the smallest ground force since 1940, the smallest number of ships since 1915, and the smallest air force in the history." yet, the president's budget director says he is still hop hopeful. >> this has been written off prematurely. >> but reid sounded negative and tucked about the super committee being in headlock. >> both sides agreed failure is bad for the country but there is not a clear path to success. >> the start of the primary season is closer, the republican race for mt. is getting tiger. a new survey today showe

. >> with a dead lean looming, members of the congressional deficit cutting super committee seem to have agreed there will be month agreement. and the other side is to blame. >> nothing new came out of this. from the democratic side, it was the same thing. raise taxes, no entitlement reform. they think they're going to win the senate, win the presidency and they want to wait until next year and write their own deal. >> reporter: the bipartisan committee has to agreed on $1.2 million cuts by monday evening to meet a deadline. republicans are standing firm on tax increases. >> it's not about assignment blame. we are unaware of any democratic offer that didn't include at least a $1 trillion tax increase on the american economy. >> democrats are drawing the line on medicare and medicaid. >> what we will not put on the table is the end to the guarantee to those entitlements. >> without an agreement, deep, automatic cuts kick in, slashing domestic and defense spending alike, but not until 2013. a crisis for the next congress. brian moore, nbc news, washington. >>> occupy wall street protesters

later today we expect to hear from the cochairs of that congressional supercommittee. we expect to hear that that committee has failed in its mission. >> obviously, nobody wants to quit until the stroke of midnight. >> reporter: the stroke of midnight came and went with no deal. later today, a supercommittee is poised to admit failure. >> it wasn't so much a failure as it was a failure to seize an opportunity. >> reporter: they were tasked with cutting $1.2 billion in costs. the country's debt will continue to grow. the washington blame game began in earnest over the weekend. >> we have to have on the table the revenue. that is the sticking point today. >> reporter: another breakdown by law make ners washington that has many americans saying they have enough. we found that out an tell washington cameras. >> don't go home before you get a deal done. or else go home and don't come back. >> wake pup you work for us. you don't work for yourself. >> we seem to want to be right rather than come up with a solution. >> reporter: market analysts don't expect a huge selloff on w

the congressional medal of honor expresses -- the congressional gold medal expresses the nation's gratitude. the first recipient was george washington. we will present a gold medal on behalf of the united states congress arto the hon. john gle, the first human to orbit the earth, neil armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon, michael collins, pilot of apollo, and dr. barnes aldrin, pilot of apollo and the second -- buzz aldrin, pilot of apollo and the second man to walk on the moon. the most recent ouster by class graduated not of ago. -- astronaut class credit not long ago. before we have the presentation of colors, let me draw your attention to the flag here on stage. it was a tradition for returning astronauts to appear before a joint meeting of the congress. senator glenn did so on february 26, 1962. september 16, 1969, the crew of apollo and 11 presented the speaker with the flight they carried to the moon. today it is under the care of the house sergeant at arms -- sergeant at arms. he holds an affection for the flight it and i'm told even hold a birthday parties for it. i appr

you are arguing for is superior congressional power. you are saying whenever congress says, the president has to comply with. that is quite different from saying that the book of authority in the field. and of the above have authority in the field, and they are exercising in a different fashions, i frankly would not be inclined to intervene. i would let them conduct the usual banter-branch and rustling that goes on all the time. that probably means that if congress cares enough, congress will win, because, as you say, it has an innumerable number of clubs with which to be the executive. if the power is a co-equal power and they are but exercising it in a different way, might we not just let them go at it? why is it any of our business which is the better foreign- policy position? >> the court is not being asked to determine what is the better foreign policy position. congress has determined -- what congress is supreme. that is your position. not that congress has co-equal authority, but congress's supreme? >> there are two aspects to th

they plan to keep it going until wednesday of the that's the deadline for the congressional committee to decide whether to keep the extension of the bush tax cuts. those only help wealthy americans. >>> congress has passed a compromise spending bill in order to avoid another government shutdown. the house passed the bill first by 128-121 marvgin before it cleared the senate late last night 70-30. it will fund five cabinet agencies through the rest of the year and fund the federal government through december 16th. it doesn't include president obama's stricter nutritional guidelines for school lunches and includes more spending than they wanted. >>> while you were sleeping, we learned that secretary of state hillary clinton will head to myanmar next month. it will be the first official visit by a secretary of state in more than 50 years. president obama auns noed the trip in abay, where he is attending a summit of east asian nations. the u.s. hopes to seize what could be a historic opportunity for progress in that historic country. there has been a flicker of progress over the last seve

the congressional super-committee meeting its deadline on a deficit deal.w levinson on the reality now setting in >>> tomorrow a blue print, wednesday a vote. drew levinson on the reality now setting in. >> reporter: the nation's debt ticks upwards time is running out for lawmakers to figure out how to cut the deficit. >> nobody wants to give up hope. reality is to some extent starting to overtake hope. the 12 p.m. bipartisan supercommittee is charged with cutting trialons of dollars over the next decade. >> we are deep into the fourth quarter but there is still time on the clock. i don't think anybody wants to let the time run out without trying everything possible to get there. >> reporter: they need a deal by monday. the congressional budget office has two days to review the proposals before the committee must vote. in a statement the white house said congress needs to do its job here and make the kind of tough choices to live within its means that american families make every day. democrats and republicans on the committee are deadlocked over taxes. >>

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gregg has said that he violated no congressional rules.ing to powerful members of congress. another is the access to initial public stock offerings, the opportunity to buy a new stock at insider prices just as it goes on the market. they can be incredibly lucrative and hard to get. >> schweizer: if you were a senator, steve, and i gave you $10,000 cash, one or both of us is probably going to go to jail. but if i'm a corporate executive and you're a senator, and i give you i.p.o. shares in stock, and over the course of one day, that stock nets you $100,000, that's completely legal. >> kroft: and former house speaker nancy pelosi and her husband have participated in at least eight i.p.o.s. one of those came in 2008, from visa, just as a troublesome piece of legislation that would have hurt credit card companies began making its way through the house. undisturbed by a potential conflict of interest, the pelosis purchased 5,000 shares of visa at the initial price of $44. two days later, it was trading at $64. the credit card legislation never

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