. >> joining me now is congressman donald payne, democrat from new jersey, and jared bernstein, an msnbc contributor, and former chief economist for vice president biden. thank you both for being here. >> good to be here. >> thank you. >> congressman, what do you make of your republican colleagues who would rather help the rich than the unemployed and even kicking them down or kicking them while they are down and putting all kinds of requirements on them to receive their benefits? >> well, it really shows that the republicans are not serious about trying to deal with the whole question of unemployment. they have put more unrelated issues into this bill which really makes no sense at all. there are some issues that should be debated on their own such as pipeline, but this is not an area that should be put into an unemployment bill where people's benefits will be expiring in a couple of weeks. >> now, congressman, explain to me what is -- what was the mood like on the floor? i mean, you're talking about requiring people without a high school diploma to go in ged to get your benefits and dr

donald payne for any opening comments he might have. >> thank you very much, chairman.ommend you for calling this very important hearing on the international community's progress toward eradicating malaria. i would also like to think our distinguished panel who is here with us for agreeing to come to testify here and to give us an update of the current state of the epidemic. i think you have heard the statistics given by the chairman, 25 million cases and 181,000 deaths come over 100 countries. it is an area that we wonder why it took so long for the world to really get serious about malaria of course we know that the cause malaria impact on areas where there was not considered to be a return on investments, many pharmaceutical companies just did not spend time trying to, with a cure or prevention because they figured that if they did who could pay for. and so we have seen a change in what is going on in the world today. we have seen many organizations now changing the manner in which they do, in fact, is still every 45 seconds malaria claims the life of an african chil