housing. and our neighborhood taking its share of dealing with it and helping out. but after hearing the testimony, you would tend to think that the idea and understanding is they know as much about real world living space as they know about life -- about life and the solar system. it is not healthy for the youth to increase density as planned. to cram 24 10 foot by 12 ft. refrigerator-style rooms into this place might be forward thinking for the developers and planners, but it is not for the youth. i ask, how many of the planners and developers have their own young adults planned into this scheme even one month? that is without a car to escape. anybody with common sense knows to put 24 people in a 7-by-10 foot kitchen to make a meal is insensitive to normal human scale. that are better places in our neighborhood and the edward ii. i don't know if you have ever seen a chicken coop, but increasing the density as planned amounts to taking a small chicken coop and cramming it to the roof with cag

the housing element identifies preserving existing housing as the best way to provide affordable housing and to make the priority to discourage the demolition of existing housing. the sound housing of over 50 units. sound housing that is not condemned or eligible for a certificate of occupancy. i think the item that we just had, it is very important that we preserve affordable housing as much as we can. our rent-controlled housing perhaps the biggest stock of affordable housing. supervisor kim: if i had known this was going to be an issue, i would have prepared for this issue. >> rent-controlled housing is now a bigger source of affordable housing and we need to preserve its. we're seeing a lot of rent- controlled housing through a variety of measures. mergers, condo conversions, we have a limited supply of that housing stock. it is just going down. if we do not take measures to preserve rent-controlled housing, we will continue to make san francisco a city in which people who are of low and moderate income will find it difficult to find affordable housing and we will end up being homele

you get the idea the white house, the extent that bill was talking about the white house, the white house just has said that there is some republicans who just arens transjent, stubborn, stureb born to making a deal on any circumstance because they don't want added revenue. they don't want the tax hike. what we saw this week from the democrats, you talk about the white house, the democrats flew over to the white house to say what are you talking about? you are willing to make significant cuts in terms of medicare, medicaid, social security, you are putting our political fortunes at risk. this is not what we want. you saw move on. you saw aarp. you saw afl-cio. >> ceiu. engaged to zoom on congress can w. phone calls and lobbying to say stop the president from giving up everything to the republicans. one last point here. you heard the speaker of the house say we moved the goal post in terms of a president who doesn't want to make significant cuts who is now willing to make significant cuts, why don't republicans just say we have won this fight. it's time to move on and not push the country

the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. let the house be in order. all members, take your seats. cease the conversation. the gentleman may proceed. mr. duffy: let's be clear. after nearly 20 hours of hearings and debates in our subcommittee and in our committee, this issue specifically has not been risen by my friends across the aisle. and then today, we spent nearly three hours on the floor and not once was in specific issue raised. this is not no more than political theater. but i have good news to my friends across the aisle, because -- order. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the gentleman may proceed. mr. duffy: i have good news for my friends on across the aisle. because in our committee, we dealt with a similar issue, one where i made a motion to designate one of five commissioners to specifically deal with the protection of our seniors. the bad news is is that every democrat voted against that amendment. now let's be clear. everybody in this house wants to make sure that our friends, our family members, our neighbors, our c

we debated them all and the house diseased -- and the house decided on one. the house budget. in april of this year. and we sent it to the senate and they did nothing. now, in fairness they did defeat that bill we sent to them. they defeated ours, we only got 40 votes on ours. that was better. they worked on the president's budget over there. he got zero votes on his. so they're good at defeating things but they didn't pass anything at all and that's the partnership we have to have. i say to my friend from colorado, i'm so proud of our partnership in the rules committee. and really our partnership beyond the rules committee, too, on some of the issues that we work on here. if we could develop the kind of partnership with our friends in the senate that we've been able to develop between ourselves here on the house side, it would be a completely different situation here in washington, d.c., but even as part of that raucous freshmen class that folks read about in the newspaper, hoim, i don't have the ability to control -- madam speaker, i don't have the ability to control what go

conservatives -- republicans control one house, only one house, half of one branch.that you could revolutionize america controlling one branch is impossible under a structure under the constitution of limited and separated powers. they have to recognize that. they have scored a tremendous success here. take the money and run. >> bret: this is ticking down now, and it is a victory for speaker boehner. this will pass. we'll listen in now for the final vote total as the seconds tick down. i can't give you the breakdown of how it breaks down. five democrats voted for the first iteration out of the house, cut, cap and balance. we don't know -- we see that there are no democratic yays right there for this piece of legislation. so they, as a caucus, stuck together, but this vote now passes. and this vehicle with $917 billion in cuts and a $900 billion short-term debt limit increase -- let's listen in. >> the yays are 218, the nay are 210, the bill has passed. the a motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. [gavel pounded] the unfinished business is a question on suspendi

the house will be in order. the house will be in order. the gentleman has the right to be heard. the gentleman from massachusetts will state his inquiry. mr. mcgovern: mr. spear, is it true that a bill considered under suspension of the rules denies the minority party the right to offer any amendments or even a motion to recommit? the speaker pro tempore: a motion to suspend is not liable to amendment on the floor. mr. mcgovern: further parliamentary inquiry, meerks. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman will state his parliamentary inquiry. mr. mcgovern: is it true that it requires a 2/3 supermajority vote in order for a bill to vote? the speaker pro tempore: under rule 15, a motion to suspend it will have 2/3, a quorum being present. mr. mcgovern: further parliamentary inquiry, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentman will state his inquiry. >> the house is not in order. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: is it also true, mr. speaker, that a bill considered under

we did not have the white house then. it is really, i think, people -- their hair will curl to hear the stories about our early presidents, but washington, laid in his life, turned against the institution of slavery but never did anything about it. he did not want to damage his own livelihood. he also did not want to alienate the south. we have seen this through our history -- 1 president after another does not want to alienate the south, conservatives, so they have not taken on civil rights or conservative -- racial issues as many people think they should have. >> was martha washington not something of a racist? >> part of the book talks about the first ladies. she was never interested in equality. washington, when he was in philadelphia, he realized there was a law in pennsylvania that allowed slaves to go free if they were in pennsylvania for more than six months. realizing this, he shuttled his slaves back to his plantation in mount vernon, so they would not be free. he also had a slave who escaped, and he sent fugiti

i like the idea of affordable housing. i am really in favor of affordable housing in san francisco. instead, we were met with a lot of opposition. and i hear about this program, they call a group housing, but it really seems more like an sro. they say it is for 18- 24-year- old, but there is really no mechanism for people who age out. i am very concerned about that and i am concerned about the size of the project in the special use district. this waiver of our regulations that was put in place to protect all of san francisco in favor of one small project? like someone said earlier, i would also be in favor of a project that that's the requirement of this space. 16 units, where units, congregation space-bar. this is an sro, with a tiny kitchen, and access that is not sufficient to the 24 residents they are anticipating and their visitors. the people i know who are homeless and lived in it -- [bell] >> good afternoon. my name is mark. with a 65% of youth transitioning out of foster care facing homelessness, i think the social benefits that will be created by this project fully justifi

there are two houses, a white house. it will be vetoed by the president.f it's going to lose in the senate, isn't there a larger issue here where you could get some cuts, some real cuts, if some sort of compromise could emerge, without the balanced budget amendment which isn't going to pass. isn't that something you should then move on toward in the interests of your 700,000 kansas constituents? >> when you have the greatest deliberative body in the world, we were always taught the u.s. senate refuses to even debate. they won't have a floor debate. harry reid won't bring up cut, cap and balance because i think he's afraid it might pass. if you have an open debate when 75% of the american people from the polls i've seen say they want a balanced budget amendment, they want immediate spending cuts and they want to control spending, in the meantime, those are the principles that cut, cap and balance. it's hard to say it wouldn't pass because harry reid refuses to let it come to a vote because i think his folks are worried about the next election that if you ha

so the chances of that passing in the house?il. >> right, about you they share some provisions and it's likely in the end we see a compromise on some immediate appropriations cuts and dollar for dollar match with a debt increase, spending cuts. a commission, which i think is a terrible idea, but everyone is rallying behind, one more time try to cut entitlements because this town is littered with the skeletons of failed commissions as we know and we have three piled up right now. and then they would also include the mitch mcconnell senate minority leader procedural gimmick provision, you get, next time it's increased you get to vote against it because it would require a two-thirds refusal or disapproval by the congress, a number you wouldn't reach and that way, it's automatically increased. so in the end. you can meld the boehner and reid plan much as they're sticking to their own corners tonight. >> when we come back, i want to talk about what the press secretary said in this interview and what the president's position is of ton

, housing for people with disabilities, housing for the chronically homeless, holders of housing. >> we love redevelop it, but we are going to have to do some development ourselves. that is what we want the city to do. let the people year, starting with the people out here in bayview, to the development here. at the shipyard, whatever it is. you do not need anybody out there. you give me all about lead, i could get the money to develop it. >> first of all, we have a very public and open process. when you look at a public the size, you are looking at a national developer to have the wherewithal, the resources, the expertise and the finances to really complete a project like this. >> the residents of this community said they needed very affordable senior housing because many of their residents were aging in place in the community. that was a response to what the stated community needs were. in addition to the senior housing on the front, we are also looking at building affordable homeownership projects. this is 132 units of first-time home buyer units. that again will be affordable to

the house will be in order. the house will be in order. those in the back of the chamber will take their conversations off the floor. the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: i yield 10 seconds to the gentleman from maryland, mr. van hollen. the speaker pro tempore: is recognized for 10 second. mr. van hollen: just to be very clear. what we did was eliminated the overpayments to some of the medicare advantage plans and, and -- madam speaker -- madam speaker -- the speaker pro tempore: the house is not in order. the gentleman will suspend. the gentleman is recognized. mr. van hollen: thank you, madam speaker. we used much of those savings to close the prescription drug doughnut hole. in your budget you took the hole $500 billion, but you reopened the drug doughnut hole at the same time you are eliminating the medicare guarantee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from california. mr. dreier: madam speaker, let me yield myself five seconds to say i thank the gentleman for once again pointing to th

mune knee housing president buell: in larkin has a long history of providing this type of housing and the supportive services. the fact that there's going to be an on-site desk clerk and supportive services is what's necessary for these youths, and i think that the neighborhood will find that it is a plus, that we should feel good about helping our own here in the city. so i'm looking forward to it. thank you. president olague: if i called your name, you can start coming up to the mic. >> good afternoon. i live on chestnut street. i have a problem with my hearing, so i couldn't hear what you guys were saying earlier. i come here to express my concern. now, the project to me is really an affordable halfway house to me or correction house for the youth. it is defined for people aged 18 to 24. they're young people. and also, the planning division used the group housing, butt halfway house doesn't meet any -- what you call the requirement description of group housing. they just bypassed my request, because i'm more concerned about the safety on chestnut and the scot area. like i say, i li

the housing market has changed and so have you. what you need to know if you own a home, want to buy one or rent. plus, is it ever okay to walk away from that mortgage even if you can afford to pay? let's start with the american dream of owning a home. if you're a buyer it's a dream market, only if you can get the loan. with ten of the nation's largest mortgage lenders denying almost 27% of loan applications last year, that's up from 23.5% in 2009. this is according to "wall street journal" analysis. if you're a seller it's a nightmare. home prices rose slightly for the first time in eight months, this according to the most recent s&p case-shiller 20 city index. that's the sign of life this spring i was it telling you about, but don't get too excited. prices are down 32% from their peak, set in 2006. the chart tells the picture there. home ownership also is at the lowest level now since 1998. chris mayor from columbia university school of business, chris, is the worst behind us here? >> depends where you live. i think in some of th

the house republicans. and the polls are increasingly showing that the house republican point of view is not popular with the american public. i mean, there's a "washington post" out -- poll out tonight that says that more than three-quarters of americans see the republican leadership as being too resistant. >> however, however, let's listen as we go back to kate bolduan on the hill, the democrats are reading the polls. the democratic leadership going to the floor essentially saying, republicans, why are you wasting our time? >> the public has had it with this theater of the absurd that's going on. they want congress to come together as our president has suggested and do the most important thing that we can, create jobs for the american people. >> so, kate, the democrats clearly see the national poll trends, but i think what gets lost sometimes even in this town, especially across the country, the people are saying if the polls show that, why aren't the house republicans moving. more than 200 have signed a

the house has done its work.ssed a budget and passed a plan. >> chris: i know they have been defeated. >> and not one time in the whole process has the senate democrats or white house put a or even a plan out there. conversations i have with the president in case the senate didn't pass the cut, cap and balance, there's never any plan from the white house. the whole plan came from us and we laid out the framework and at some point they have to lay their cards on the table. >> chris: you are the one in the conference call yesterday we have to do something before the markets open in asia this afternoon. monday morning in asia. how do you think the market will act if the headlines in the end of the day and tomorrow morning's newspapers are no deal? >> the american people are asking where the jobs and while asia is important this is about american jobs and american economy. if we don't do something seriou about controlling our debt, it is hanging over our entire economy like a wet blanket. that's why i believe taking

the real battle is going to be in the house with those house republicans.ny scheduled meetings for this weekend? is he going to camp david? is he staying in town? what do we know. >> no scheduled meetings that we know of at this point. but we have not yet gotten the president's week ahead in terms of what he's planning to do. but as i pointed out, these discussions continue behind the scenes. and we wouldn't be surprised if we find out that something would be happening at the white house or elsewhere. >> it's interesting also that his lawyers disagree with former president bill clinton who said he could vf invoked the 14th amendment clause to raise the debt ceiling without any congressional legislation. his lawyers obviously disagree with bill clinton's lawyers on that sense of the subject. dan, thanks very much. if you get more information, let us know. grover norquist isn't a politician. he just may be, though, one of the most powerful figures behind the scenes of this entire debt limit debacle. he has pledges from hundreds of republicans vowing not tot r

just like mercy housing was a commitment on the housing side, charlie range pose a commitment says no matter what kind of health insurance plan you have, even if you may not have one, no matter what your income is, you deserve the highest quality best services, state of the arts center in order to meet your health needs. and if you have not looked at the center, you have to check it out. the dental facilities are amazing. matter of fact, i think i have some work that needs to get done. [laughter] the exam rooms are state of the art. even the storage facility -- there's a button you can press in the storage facility. this is what low-income folks deserve in terms of access to services, and i am glad it is available to them. finally, you know, people have talked about 35 and 50 and 20 years -- all of that work that preceded me. i have only heard about that work through people liked doris ward, people like espanola jackson, but it is very clear to me that if people like me are only able to sit in and do the kinds of things we're able to do because of people like mrs. westbrook, i would l

this house has acted. and it is time for the administration and time for our colleagues across the aisle, put something on the table! tell us where you are! [ cheers and applause ] >> well, the bill which had new language requiring congress to pass a balanced budget amendment before the debt ceiling is raised was quickly rejected on the senate side. then lawmakers took up majority leader reid's debt proposal after a question from minority leader mcconnel senator reid try this. ed to get a vote on it tonight by a simple majority. minority leader mitch mcconnell refused meaning that nothing happens until sunday. >> it really is the worst possible time to be conducting a filibuster. they're forcing us to wait until tomorrow morning at -- let's see. today's still friday? until sunday morning at 1:00 a.m. to have this vote. our economy hangs on the balance. and for the first time in the history of our country, unless there is a compromise or they accept my bill, we're headed for economic disaster. >> harry reid

the house has acted. we passed a bill that raised the debt limit, cut spending, puts real reforms in place and requires the congress to send to the states a balanced budget amendment. it's called cut, cap, and balance. we've done our job. the democrats around washington have done nothing. they can't stop spending the american people's money. they won't and they have refused. the senate majority leader says they won't offer a plan 20 cut spending or a plan to raise the debt limit. frankly, that's irresponsible. mr. speaker, where's their plan? president obama talks about being the adult in the room. where is his plan to cut spending and raise the debt limit? we're in the fourth quarter here. we're fighting for jobs. we're fighting for the country's future and we're fighting for the american people. i yield back. mr. king: reclaiming the time, may i inquire how much time i have remaining? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman has approximately 12 minutes. mr. king: thank you, mr. speaker. i'm very happy th

house of representatives.] the chair: on this vote the yeas are 249, the nays are 169, the amendment is adopted. the unfinished business is the request for a recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from tennessee, mr. cohen, on which further proceedings were postponed, on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment offered by mr. cohen of tennessee. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a two-minute vote. two-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the chair: on

house of representatives.] the chair: on this vote the yeas are 160 and the amendment is not agreed to -- the noes are the chair: the house will come to order, please. the house will be in order. members will please take their conversations off the floor and take their seats. the house will be in order. the chair would ask all present to rise for the purpose of a moment of silence. the chair asks that the house now observe a moment of silence in remembrance of our brave men and women in uniform who have given their lives in the service of our nation in iraq and afghanistan and their families and of all who serve in our armed forces and their families. the chair: without objection, two-minute voting will continue. the unfinished business is the request for a railroaded -- vord -- recorded vote on amendment number 2 by the gentleman from illinois, mr. rush, on which further proceedings were postponed, on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number

i work for the housing. we build affordable housing throughout northern california, primarily in the suburban districts that traditionally discriminate against affordable housing. i'm pleased to be able to clear up misconception that is have been talked about about affordable housing. with the issue of the cost of this development, it's true, affordable housing can -- the price tag can seem shocking. $9 million. but think about what you're getting. it's a huge investment in both the community and in the lives of the individuals that will be benefiting from that housing. but also, you're paying for community benefits that go along with the development of that building. you're paying for prevailing wage. you're paying for community space that can be used by the neighbors and for the whole community. you're paying for a.d.a. compliance. so there are other -- there are benefits that cost money, that are worth paying for that go along with this building. the second thing is my understanding is the project is goin

if it got out of the house would the house work on anything else? he did not shut the door on that.it or leave it. it's a reasonable bill, a bipartisan bill that should pass through the senate. that's not going to happen. but it's important. it means speaker boehner is open to perhaps amending this bill over the weekend down the line. what mike viqueira said is very important. over the weekend the kingmaker as this goes through the house is mitch mcconnell. does mitch mcconnell fight for this bill? fight for no cloture on the reid proposal, trying to say it's the only thing senate republicans will support or be open to some sweetener from harry reid to try and get the debt limit through 2012, like president obama wants somewhere boehner was open to that being a possibility. certainly he does not want to see it. his goal through this process is to jam the president, get this through to the weekend and it be the last proposal standing, however, he did not completely shut the door on further compromise. a significant point's in in a don't so rigid, folks not wanting to get out of their

but first we begin with the white house view. and gene sperling, the director of the national economic council. director sperling, welcome back to "fox news sunday." >> thank you, bret. >> bret: saturday, the debt ceiling negotiation shifted back to the white house. here is what we are hearing, reporting about a potential deal. a debt ceiling increase of about $2.4 trillion in to 2013, but in two stages. spending cuts up front, roughly $1 trillion. special committee to recommend cuts of $1.4 trillion with a total of the debt ceiling increase. committee must make recommendations before thanksgiving recess. if congress does not approve those cuts by late december, automatic across-the-board cuts go into effect, including medicare, but lawmakers would then vote whether significant defense cuts or tax increases would also be included. is this accurate? >> well, bret, there is no question we're approaching the time hour. and there is no question as the president has said repeatedly, if there is a will, there are multiple ways to get t

105 units of gorgeous housing. this building has been here for a long time and got its second or third rebirth, and looks beautiful. this project, in particular, has meaning to the health department. essentially, 80 of the 200 units are part of our direct access to housing program. tndc, early on, helped us with 60 chronically ill seniors. another thing about tndc, whether we have bombs in the road, disagreements along the way, they are one of those organizations, when you work with them, they will sit down with you and problem-solving and come to a solution at the drop of a hat. we really value that, and that is the way the collaborative should be. i am certain tndc will be alive and kicking for some time. they are a solid organization. one final thing, i am really excited about our future collaboration. the ymca down the block will be 174 new studio units, 100% linked with the health department. we will be referring homeless clients with health issues into that project. we will decoupling it with an 11,000-square

there isn't much communication going on between house republicans and the white house. it looked like yesterday morning that might not be the case. right now it appears it's the white house talking to reid and reid passing on the messages to boehner and to mcconnell. now, while boehner and reid appear to be talking past each other, the speaker and the white house still are arguing that somehow there could be this grand bargain. yesterday morning, here's what it sounded like. >> i don't know. it may be pretty hard to put humpty dumpty back together again, but my last offer is still out there. i've never taken my last och oaf the table and they never agreed it it, to my knowledge. >> what tim geithner said on that same program. >> there's two types of plans on the table now. one is the framework that the president and the speaker of the house have been talking about for the last several weeks now. >> i thought that's dead? >> no. they're talking still, because, again, both the president and the speaker believe that the best thing we can do is put together a very substanti

this calls them feral houses. the city lost a quarter of its population over the last decade, 200,000 people who got up and left and are most certainly not coming back. detroit has lost a million people since 1950. this is a real american city, the motor city, really shrinking. but detroit is also really refusing to quit. this is a city with its own baseline. remember this super bowl commercial for chrysler from em emnen? of course you do. even before hurricane katrina, new orleans had begun to lose new orleans. many of the neighborhoods, like the lower ninth ward have lost way more than half their people. new orleans has been going through its own triage, a painful process of trying to decide which{ neighborhoods to support and which will simply fade away. these are two american cities. each confronting a smaller future. and we talk as a nation about doing big things. in detroit's case, the mayor has come right out and said what's very difficult to admit. that detroit has to get smaller. that he can't continue to

and people said gee, that is the white house and you cannot raise money in the white house, but, previoushe white house as back drops for political ads, and it is seems more likely what darrell issa is doing here is he is not trying to nail the administration to some big crime but he's saying we're watching, and if you continue to do this and make bigger use of the white house in the 2012 campaign, we will be watching. bill: i see but you think it is a stretch for him to prove anything in this circumstance, you don't feel he has the goods on him? >> based on what we have here, it is a minor violation, if one at all. the white house says it has been done many times by previous administrations. bill: republican and democrat? >> exactly. exactly. and, indeed, it has. the bigger issue is that -- is it part of a larger use of the white house for political purposes? and i think, by holding a hearing and you probably wouldn't hold a hearing on this single thing. i think issa is sending the signal that he'll be keeping a close eye on the white house. bill: remember the name of the committee, the

it's an old cable car house. guy who lived there in the early 1960's, he had a boyfriend named cliff. they paint it yellow. when he got a new boyfriend named dennis, they painted it red to get rid of cliff. but it was a beautiful little car. he still remembers it. it disappeared, we think, sometimes in the 1970's. but this is what keeps my hopes up. this actually isn't in carville. this is in the richmond district on ninth avenue. people say, are there any car houses left? are they all gone? have they disappeared? this is an example of how one can surprise you. this is on ninth avenue in the parking lot behind the old coliseum theater. before that park being lot was there the city was looking for houses, spaces, near merchant corridors to create these little parking lots. they bought this house from a mrs. suggs because they wanted to tear it down and put the parking lot in. when they started tearing the house gown, they realized that this kind of boring house was made up of three old cable car trailers. even tho

the house is in recess just after some house members went to the chapel to pray. maybe we all should. tonight, why this crisis created by congress matters so much to each of us. it's t. could effect our car loan, mortgages, cash tore college, even our credit card payments because in our government defaults on its loan, we'll all pay the price. >> it would likely throw the whole economy into another recession. tonight, waiting for word from washington. prosecutors say this man sexually assaulted girls as young as 12. he says he was just practicing his religion and today in court, the polygamist cult leader warren jeffs took drastic action to defend himself. plus, was this soldier plotting another attack on fort hood? tonight how cops found him and wait until you hear what they found in his motel room. >> shepard: breaking news now dramatic turn of events over standoff raising the debt limit. all day we have been waiting on speaker of the house john boehner's bill. as debate was wrapping up a few hours ago the speaker delayed the vote and moved on to the important b

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it seems house leaders are having trouble getting the vote. but they're expected to meet at 10:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. what can we expect? and senator john mccain is here, he says speaker boehner may have votes he needs to pass the debt plan in the house but there is a catch. what it it? senator john mccain goes on the record in just minutes. >> greta: okay we're in need of help. we're out of money. tuesday we're out of credit. now that is only a few days from now. and then, our nation's credit rating, another thing could take a nosedive z now, the house vote on speaker boehner's debt ceiling plan was called off, what is the next step? all right, david. now what? >> won't we like to know? looks like they're going to try again to tweak the bill to make it more palatable to conservative that's are holding out. the more inflexible conservatives of the bunch. >> greta: how do you tweak? if they're so hung up on the balanced budget amendment how is that a tweak? that is a huge difference. >> figure of speech. you know? >> it's huge. >> there are

house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 234 and the nays are 190. the bill is passed. without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the unfinished business is the request on agreeing to the speaker's motion on approval of the journal on which the yeas and nays were ordered. the question is on agreeing to the speaker's approval of the journal. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 304, the nays are 112 with one voting presented a the moths to approve the journal is -- motion to approve the journal is adopt

inclusionary housing. how that review will addressed the connection -- that will address the city's ability to would attract and maintain private and non-profit sector jobs. we do a very good job producing market rate housing in san francisco. we do a respectable job producing low and very low- income housing in the city. we are close to meeting our targets. we do a very poor job producing moderate and middle-income housing in san francisco, moving as potentially in the direction of being a city of rich and poor without a large middle class to support the tax base and to provide the stability that any city or society needs. we need to be very aggressive in providing that housing, and i am very interested to hear with the various city departments at issue wrote to let us know what they are doing and what strategies they are proposing, and supervisor carmen chu is cosponsoring this , so the thank you, supervisor. clerk calvillo: thank you, supervisor wiener. supervisor cohen/ supervisor cohen: we all know ab

the senate has voted to table house speaker john boehner's debt bill which passed the house of representatives just a short time ago by a margin of 218-210 votes. now, tabling the bill allows senator harry reid to put forward his own legislation. in all likelihood a bill that combines democratic proposals perhaps with parts of the boehner bill. now, the senate bill will then head back to the house and if it passes there it will move on to the president's desk. and joining me now with reaction are two people who will play a key role in this weekend's political drama. pennsylvania senator pat toomey and new hampshire senator kelly ayotte. welcome to the program. thanks for being me. >> ithanks sean. >> the bill tabled. in other words, thisth is the second time that the house of representatives as it relates to the debt ceiling has passed the bill and the bill has been tabled at least temporarily on this one. they are not even taking the bill up, correct? >> that is exactly right. more evidence, clear and really unavoidable evidence that the senate democrats are unwilling to even so much as have

this house has acted. and it is time for the administration and time for our colleagues across the aisle, put something on the table. tell us where you are! >> well, over in the senate, what they are putting on the table is mr. boehner's bill. they'll kill it over there. that's under way right now. we'll let you when the voting is done on that. this makes the vote tonight in the house symbolic and represents a necessary step if a compromise is to be worked out in time. we'll consider all possibilities from all the angles tonight. take a look. default equals disaster, or does it? we've heard who the losers will be, but in america, one man's bankruptcy is another's billion dollar payoff. i'll ask ben stein if the worst should happens, who wins? and a balanced budget amount amendment, sounds simple. the tea party thinks some of we'll do the math and put it to the test. then, trick or tweet? the white house is a twitter urging republicans to tweet their congressman to compromise. social networking, or presiden

now the east room of the white house. the president walking down cross hall as he gets ready to address the debt crisis. the president of the united states. >> the president: good evening. tonight i want to talk about the debate we've been having in washington over the national debt. day debate that deck lay affects the lives of all americans. for the last decade we've spent more money than we take in. in the year 2000, the government had a budget surplus. but, instead of using it to payoff our debt the money was spent on trillions in new tax cuts. two wars and an expensive prescription drug program were added to our nation's credit card. as a result, the deficit was on track to top one trillion dollars the year i took office. to make matters worse, the recession meant there was less money coming in and it required us to spend even more. on tax cuts for middle class families to spur the economy, on unemployment insurance. on aid to states so we could prevent teamers, firefighters and police officers from being laid off. t

president chiu: same house in col. next item. -- same house, same call. next item. president chiu: next item. clerk cal; -- cal; -- ca;vo;; -- calvillo: item number 38, the settlement of an unmitigated came not -- unmitigated claim with pearl howell. president chiu: same house same call. next item. clerk calvillo: item 39, in dealing with business and tax regelation codes. -- regulation could. supervisor mirkarimi: i would like to make a motion. president chiu: supervisor w iener. supervisor wiener: i want to thank supervisor mirkarimi for bringing this forward. i do not support a continuance. this is gone through an extensive, expensive process, gone through several conditions, gone through the land use committee, and at the very, very last minute, as is often the case in san francisco, those who are sophisticated about trying to kill things waited until the end and then raised an objection, and i am concerned that this could, and i hope this doesn't happen, but it could be an opening for those who want to unravel this ordinance to unravel it. we received an email

he is a senior adviser for the white house. david, is seen to meet the president saying when the compromise, we can make this work, a direct appeal to the people of america. speaker boehner made it clear forget it, as things stand, we are not budging, let's not compromise. >> it is my way or the highway approach and that will not help us solve our deficit problems and it will not allow us to a boy the double crisis. in the next few days we need the republicans and house to understand they're going to get a lot of luck in what, a lot of spending cuts. washington has committed to reducing the deficit. we can't have it my way or the highway. it would just be reasonable here and compromise, and that is one of those things, we will get through this crisis, make a big down payment on the deficit and then have the discussion the country needs to have over the next five or six months about balancing the budget. not asking everything of college students and middle-class families are senior citizens, but also asking something of the weal