the honorable the speaker, house of representatives. sir, pursuant to the permission granted in clause 2-h of rule 2 of the rules of the u.s. house of representatives, the clerk received the following message from the secretary of the senate on december 20, 2013, at :50 a.m. that the senate concurs in the house amendment to the senate amendment to h.r. 3304. that the senate passed senate 1614. that the senate agreed to without amendment house concurrent resolution 71. that the senate passed without amendment h.r. 623. that the senate passed without amendment h.r. 767. that the senate passed without amendment h.r. 2319. with best wishes i am sincerely, karen l. haas. the honorable the speaker, house of representatives. sir, pursuant to the permission granted in clause 2-h of rule 2 of the rules of the u.s. house of representatives, the clerk received the following message from the secretary of the senate on december 19, 2013, at 11:37 a.m. that the senate concurs in the house amendment to the senate amendment to house joint resolution 59.

the deal was brokered by paul ryan in the house of representatives and democratic senator murray passing the house of representatives last week designed to prevent another government shut down and restore $45 billion to the budget of the budget and domestic agencies which is half the amount slated to face automatic cuts under the

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 332, the noes are 94. the motion is adopted. and without objection, objection is laid on the table. the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. he house will be in order. the speaker: the house will be in order. members will please take their seats. the house will be in order. members will please take their seats. for what purpose does the gentlelady from ohio rise? >> i ask to address the house for one moment, please. the speaker: without objection. ms. fudge: i ask my colleagues to honor a new member, the life of former south african nelson mandela who made his vision a reality. mr. mann della stood for peace, justice and for a society that recognized the equality of every human being. after serving 27 years in prison for challenge the apart thide -sanctioned gover

because right now we have 435 seats in the house of representatives, 30 to 35 our competitive. maybe 15 will lose their seats in the house of representatives. that allows a lot of crazy on both sides. i will tell you what else it does. it makes sure we have an even lower turnover than the old soviet politburo which is frightening but it is true. that is not democracy the way democracy was intended to be. james madison set up the house of representatives along with other founders so it could move with the changing of opinions of americans every two years. that just doesn't happen the way it should be. there is this sclerosis that has set in. i am hopeful and i will tell you why. we have over the past five or six years given 300, 400 speeches at events like this. in colleges or civic clubs across america, i can tell you we say the same thing everywhere we go. the overwhelming majority of time most americans agree on the big issues. they really do. i think it is exaggerated by gerrymandering. it is exaggerated by talk radio. it is exaggerated by certain shows on cable. it is exagge

they have lost ought credibility. >> we will talk with one of the architects, paul ryan, house of representatives budget committee chair. >> hour power player of the week on life after being the "it" gill of the 19 80's. >> i don't think just being a star or being famous is very fulfilling. all right now on "fox news sunday." >> hello again from fox news in washington. no matter how maybe times we see the images it is agonizing: kids streaming out of school with arms raised. this time, in colorado, a student opened fire in the high school and critically injured a 17-year-old girl before turning the gun on himself. it came as newtown, connecticut, mashes one year since the horrific shooting that took 26 lives of the one victim that day, a first grade teacher killed trying to protect her students from the shooter. the photo of her sister learning what happened has become our image of the day. we will discuss where the gun debate stands with two people on opposite sides of the issue. but, first, my interview with her kid sister, carlee soto. >> how are you doing a year later? >> taking it day-by-day

house of representatives, just a few years in service. the debate came up ace up as tor the would impose sanctions on the racist apartheid government of south africa. i said on the floor beginsed that we should do though and listens to the critics of that posms many of them came came to the floor and sated things which i couldn't believe. they characterized nelson mandela as nothing more than a communist who should never be trusted to lead that country. i thought to myself, he might have had a flirtation with communism at some point in his life, but this man is speaking to basic principles that are consistent with america's values and principles. you know, i found it interesting last week, after nelson mandela died, to read the editorial in the "wall street journal" about him. i commend it to people to understand where this thinking came from that believed the united states should not be involved in trying to strike down the apartheid form of government. if you'll read that h editorial about nelson mandela's death, you will find the follow

but it gives me an opportunity, as the budget comes over from the house of representatives tonight, mr. president, to point out one of the most onerous provisions in the budget, which has just passed with sweeping, bipartisan support in the house of representatives. i will stand before this body tonight and say that i cannot vote and will not vote for this budget, and i hope that even yet members of the congress and the american public will listen to the broken promise that is contained in this budget that will be coming afford, and we'll perhaps get back to the nomination in a moment. but we should note two things about this budget: it asks an additional contribution for pensions for federal employees, but it doesn't do it to current federal employees. if you enter the federal service after the beginning of the year, you pay an additional amount that is withheld from your paycheck for your pension. now, that's a hard thing to do. it is distasteful to do, but at least it's fair to the people who joined the federal service under one set of rules. on the other hand, the budget that comes

conference with the house, to get a conference report written and to have it adopted by the house of representatives all before the house goes out of session this friday. there just simply is no way that all of those events can take place and get a defense bill passed. so senator inhofe and i believe that it is our responsibility to the armed services committee, to the senate, to our men and women in uniform and to the country to do everything that we can to enact a defense authorization bill. for this reason, we're taking the same approach that we took when we were unable to finish the bill and go to conference with the house in 2008 and 2010. what we did is we s.a.t sat dowh our counterparts on the house side -- chairman buck mckee on andm the house committee, and we had our staffs come up with a bill that would have a chance of getting passed by both houses. the four of us have reached agreement hon a bill that we hope will be passed by the house before it recesses this friday, and if they do, then be considered by the senate next week. we worked hard to blend the bill. it was overwhelmingly vote

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. >> we have a house of representatives that will not allow any an economic growth. >> i have passed bills that pass out of the house of representatives by overwhelming majorities that are sitting in the senate. we have 150 bills that we pass in the house of representatives that have gone over to the senate and never gotten a vote. that's just fundamentally -- >>'m not seeing one come to the floor of the house. the -- the first four years submitted a budget. there is not a single person, democrat or republican, house member or senate member that ever voted. when it came to a budget this year, he waited until after he went through the process. >> we're going to continue this conversation, and i want to bring it to -- on the same topic, i want to ask congressman chaff its whether the republican house is wasting your time, your tax dollars and all the wrong priorities. like a government shutdown, for instance, so we'll -- well, you just made some news there. >> 24 billion in economic growth. we're aig. and we're here. to help secure retirements and protect financial futures. to help comm

lincoln was a freshman congressman in the house of representatives during the end of the mexican war in the 1840s. lincoln was opposed to the origin of the mexican war. one of the first speeches in the house of representatives was this very strided speech opposing the origin of the war and president. he became known for that speech. and political opponents, by the way, used it against him in later campaigns. steven douglas used it in the late 1850 when running against lincoln and came up in the presidential campaign as well. >> during his presidency, what is an issue he worked on or had secretary of state worked on. that wasn't necessarily tied to the civil war? >> well, it was all tied to the civil war. the primary thing was keeping the european powers from recognizing the confederacy, which could have been changing the course of the war or american history if they recognized the confederacy. it was the biggest thing. lincoln also had to deal with a series of crises, with britain, france, spain. russians were friend at the time. it showed up in the middle of the war on the pacific co

james madison set up the house of representatives along with other founders so we could move with the changing of opinions of americans every two years. that just doesn't happen the way it should be. there is this sclerosis that has set in. i am hopeful though and i will tell you why am hopeful and subnineteen tell you the same thing. we have over the past five or six years probably given 300 or 400 speeches either at events like this or colleges or civics clubs across america. i can tell you we say the same thing everywhere we go. the overwhelming majority of time most americans agree on the big issues. they really true -- do. i think it's exaggerated by gerrymandering and by talk radio. i think it's exaggerated by certain shows on cable. i think it's exaggerated by blogging and i think people go to their corners and it does polarized the political class but i will tell you americans are ready for pragmatic leadership. i think when we see somebody who is finally got the courage to stand up to the extremists in their own party we are going to see somebody break out and win big again.

supports a bill to pass the senate and would support and sign a bill that comes out of the house of representativese political will in the republican party of the house of representatives to get this thing done. >> secretary salazar, luke russert here. i want to talk about the 232 house seats held by republicans, only 39 are more than 29% latino. the average lat no populations is 12%. tasked with coming up with a house gop response to the senate immigration reform bill, his district is only 3.9% latino. you see the push by families and organizational groups for immigration reform. how is there the a path to 218 in the house where you see statistics like that when so many gop members see this as a bad issue for them individually, and it could be good for the party in the long term? >> well, i think whether it's 12% or 3%, this is an issue which has united the people of america in ways i've never seen before. i worked on immigration reform with senator mccain and with senator kennedy back in 2005 and '06 and president bush. here we have a circumstance where you have the faith community, the evangelic

. >> this is a compromise that sailed through the house of representatives. but with every compromise, you're going to end foo people on both sides unhappy with

it was a freshman congressman in the house of representatives during the end of the mexican war in the 1840s. lincoln was supposed to the mexican war and one of his first speeches in the house of representatives was this very strident speech opposing the origins of the war and president hope. he became known for that speech and political opponents by the way use it against him. steven douglas used it in the late 18 50's when he was running against lincoln and it came up in the presidential campaign as well. >> during his presidency, what is an issue that he worked on or had secretary of state seward work on that wasn't necessarily tied to his presidency? the civil war? >> was all tied to the civil war. the primary thing was keep in the european powers from recognizing the confederacy which could have changed the course of the war and could have changed the course of american history. that was the biggest thing that lincoln had to deal with a series of crises with britain, with france, with. the russians were friends of the time, friendly power but russian ships showed up in the middle

the clerk: the honorable the speaker, house of representatives, sir, pursuant to the permission granted in clause 2-h of rule 2 of the rules of the u.s. house of representatives, the clerk received the following message from the secretary of the senate on november 22, 2013, at 10:52 a.m. appointments, united states commission on civil rights. with best wishes i am sincerely, karen l. haas, clerk of the house. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to clause 12-a of rule 1, the chair declares the house in recess until approximately >> with one minute compete -- speeches and pleaded. three bills on the bills today -- agenda today. to the white house for today's legislative breeding -- briefing that began just a few moments ago. qwest what i think is important to note is that the queuing system is a feature designed to improve the user experience. we talked about concurrent users , it was always going to be the case that on a day like today we would see a surge beyond even the vastly improved capacity result oft are the the changes that have been made and the fixes that have been made. what was

of our community and give back so congratulations. mayor ed lee mentioned that we had a elected representative from south dakota visiting us kevin is from the pine renal and he's the house the plate i will put forth my best effort. being in south dakota and coming from south dakota my heros are not always older than me. i want to introduce and give him a round of applause to continue the fight in south dakota. kevin keller house of representatives. this young man 29 years old. 29 years old. there's hope. there's hope. kevin. with you well, i want to say to you for the wonderful introduction and and that's our traditional welcoming. and it's an honoring honor to be here and thank you to the drum group for having us. i found out that about this through one of my good forensics supervisor jane kim. she's the one i met hearing her and she said yeah. shop and i didn't think i was going to be speaking. i'm 0 glad to be a part of it. this shows the strength of our country i grew up in denver so coming from an ushering area and having that urban experience and public education as a forefravnt front is a crucial thing that's one of the competency i served on the education progra

used to be a bad word for some, now it's a good word. >> for some. >> the majority of the house of representativesre are lots of republicans, conservative republicans who are unhappy about this, wolf, and liberal democrats as well, who don't like the automatic spending cuts, some of them remain in this budget 3r0e8. but i think he all understand that the country doesn't have any appetite to go over any kind of cliff again or shut down the government. >> still voting 46 republicans have voted nay -- excuse me 47 republicans, 15 democrats, but it has passed, and it will go to the senate. >>> just ahead, there was no escape for republican firebrand ted cruz, when a large group of african-american democrats cornered him. congressman elijah cummings is standing by to tell us the behind the scenes story about that long and vocal encounter on the flight to and from south africa. later tonight, 9:00 p.m. eastern, the cnn film "an unreal dream" the story of an innocent man sent to prison for killing his wife and his fight to clear his name. ♪ (train horn) vo: wherever our trains go, the economy comes to li

. >> vote in the house of representatives is expected on a budget compromise reached by a key republican and a democrat. if the deal homeds we would not have to suffer through another government shut down for at least two years. >> smile on capitol hill. lawmakers reached a deal to avoid another government shut down. house budget chairman ryan, a republican, and senate budget chairwoman, senator murray, brokered the agreement. >> this agreement makes sure we don't have a government shut down in january. >> because of this deal, the budget process can now stop lunching from crisis to crisis. >> if approved it raises military can domestic spending so beyond $1 trillion the next two years and eliminating $65 billion in the cross cross -- across the board spending cuts. taxes do not go up but some airline tickets go up. >> this is an agreement in the step direction. this dieded government you do not always get what you want. >> it is not certain to pass the house of representatives or the senate. the republicans do not like the spending increases and the democrats are up happy because it doe

we sent it to the house of representatives. they've done nothing, nothing. they made some statements, some encourage, some discourage. but the fact is, they never called this bill. 2014 is another opportunity for the house of representatives to rise to this chavmen challenge. and i hope they will. there are many parts of that bill that are so essential -- strengthening our border -- a very important issue to all americans, particularly on the other side of the aisle. a pathway to citizen, just a matter of elemental justice, which is passion on our side of the aisle. we brought those two concepts together to make the bill work. included in those concepts is an idea which i introduced into legislation about 13 years ago. it was called the dream act and it basically said if you came to the united states as a child, brought here in undocumented status or overstayed a visa and were here undocumented, finished high school had no serious criminal background, we'd give you a chance, a chance to earn your way to citizenship. legality an in citizenship. last week i vis

house of commons. >> next, the university of minnesota hosting an event with two former u.s. representatives talking about the budget plan in congress and what it could mean for future deals. this event occurred one day before the house voted in favor of the budget deal. the senate will be voting on the legislation this coming week. >> good afternoon. i would like to welcome you to the university of minnesota. we have a terrific program here today talking about the significance of the budget deal reached in washington in terms of the political implications for both the democratic and republican parties as well as the origins of some of what we have been seeing in washington. we have a terrific panel. i would like to introduce the panel. we have gil gutknecht, he served for 12 years in the minnesota house and 12 years in the united states house of representatives. we have martin sabo, who served for a long time in the minnesota house of representatives, including a speaker from 1973- 1978. he went on to washington, where he served for 13 terms, i believe, in very important positions. congress

but it is stuck in the house of representatives, conservatives there drawing a hard line. supporters of reform, however, i have to tell you, are angry with the white house as well, why? because of the spike in deportation. take a look at this. as a matter of fact, more people have been deported during the obama administration, during the first four years. as you recall, a couple of weeks ago the president was giving a speak in san francisco. he was heckled only 24 subject, by someone there on the stage. it was startled this individual of south carolina dissent, talking about his family members. this is an issue that is a raw issue among supporters. members of congress leading members on immigration reform, writing the president a letter just this week. yesterday, on social media, taking questions. answered a lot of questions and defended the administrations record. let's listen. >> we are going to pass this bill. the senate bill that we are talking about here, it is going to happen. and you are not going to have to worry about anything, and your parents won't have to worry

the last year or two years that any kind of agreement is kind of hard to get through the house of representatives. paul ryan probably has the most sway of any individual member on house republicans, but already there's some unrest about a package that's going to set spending for the next two years, especially because it's going to include a higher level of spending than under current law as well as a little bit higher revenues through fees and the like. so that's going to be really the thing to watch. once they come up with an agreement, can it actually get through the house of representatives. >> host: and that agreement, it's expected to be a two of of year deal? >> guest: yeah. they're looking at trying to basically set a top line figure, how much the government can spend over next two years and change a little bit the rules of how it spends it. so under the current law called is sequestration, sort of across-the-board cuts that are rather blunt, this would be giving agencies and the like to be a little more flexible on how they spend that money. there are some sticks points still. one of the

we run the house of representatives. we're close to half in the senate. e supposed to help govern, or are we supposed to be the opposition movement? that's part of the philosophical debate in the republican party and we saw in this vote and you'll see it more and more in the debt ceiling fight because many comfort tips will want something big from the president, and the president says he won't give it to them. >> the question is how relevant is the tea apartment going to be next time around? i talked to some house republicans who voted for the budget compromise, and they were keeping their fingers crossed, that maybe, maybe by doing a joint deal they could push the hell no caucus over to one side and make them less relevant but what we've seen is all these incumbents are running scared and don't forget who votes in mid-term elections, the intensity comes from the base of the party. >> my view of this is to blame the good people of iowa. all of these republican candidates jockeying for presidents, appealing to very conservative republican consequency in iow

house leaving washington for the holiday recess. the senate is expected to leave town later on this week without taking care of the sticky budget deal. mike viqueria joing >> the house of represents, has been a straight -- representatives has been a straight party vote. last week a landslide, 332 members of the house. they only needed 218, passed that bipartisan budgets. it was a big surprise. john boehner putting down an insurrection, on his right flank. outbursts coming from john boehner but over in the senate normally a place where there is a little bit more cooperation anyway, they flipped the script. sharply partisan divide. they needed 60 to pass the budget, it is believed they have 60 now and it will pass but it has been touch and go for a while. some surprising republicans have signed up including ron johnson a very conservative member from it. looks like smooth sailing but we won't be sure until tomorrow. >> 2013 will go down in the year interesting statistics, all in all, 942 hours work for the entire year for the house of representatives. if you work a 40 hour week, you work more than 2,000. they work about 28 hours a week on the weeks they are here and they take off v

in order to become law, a legislative proposal has to make its way through the house of representatives, has to make its way through the senate, has to be passed by most of the people in the house and in the senate, and then it has to be presented to the president, consistent with article 1, section 7, clause 2, of the constitution before it may become law. but of course once it's law, it's law. and a law passed under one administration can't simply be vetoed or fundamentally altered by a subsequent president. in fact, it can't be vetoed or subsequently alters b altered br the same president who signed it into law in the first place. and yet that is, in some respects, exactly what happened here. the president modified the law. he was too impatient, too unwilling, to unwilling to defer to the legislative branch, too unwilling to respect the oath that he took uphold, protect and definite the constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. too disrespect of that very document or founding document that has fostered the nation the world has ever known. now, he suggested that he needed t

used to be the historian of the house of representatives. >> what did you think of that answer? >> oh, in 1982, senator byrd lost his grandson, 16-year-old john michael moore in an automobile accident. he was delivering papers early in the morning. probably the most devastating, without question, the most devastating event in senator byrd's life. that is just -- and of course, he had just gone into the minority. a minority leader. very unhappy period. he thought his life, his contributions, where he wanted to go. >> what will be his legacy? >> i think it will be a significant legacy when i -- this book is filled with robert byrd. starts with robert byrd, ends with robert byrd. i didn't see any way to do that. he brings focus to the senate as an institution in the 1980s. he was interest in the majority leader's power. to arrest senators -- hiding, they didn't want to make a quorum during filibuster. he called me in and said, you suppose you could give me a little piece on the history of arresting senators from hiding from filibusters? he did. -- and so i did. he liked it. he gave

if we were to impeach the president tomorrow, you could probably get all the votes in the house of representatives>> tell me how i can impeach the president of the united states. >> you have to establish the criteria that would qualify for proceedings against the president. and that's called impeachment. >> that's what this president is up against. and that doesn't even include the deep enders who think he wasn't even born here. >> all i can tell you is that the general consensus is that he has produced a birth certificate. the question is, is it legitimate? >> i mean, if someone asked for my birth certificate, i'd go get it out and say here it is. >> all the president has to do is show it. >> yeah. hear that? all he has to do is show his birth certificate. then we can all be friends. sure. don't bet on it. joining me now are joe madison and james peterson. thanks for coming on the show. >> thanks. >> thank you. >> joe, let me start with you. so that's the key to all of this. the president just has to be nice to republicans. that's all. >> yeah. and they take kindness for weakness. that's exactly

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have a great night. ♪ lou: the house of representatives passing a bipartisan budget agreement just momentse house not so subtle war with conservative political groups. the right wing of his own party. his counterpart in the senate, well, the bill's state is far from certain. and lou dobbs. ♪ lou: good evening. the controversial paul ryan-patty murray budget has cleared its first big hurdle passing a house of representatives moments ago by a vote of 332-94. 1603 democrats joined with

members of the house of representatives can begin their winter break knowing they have accomplished something. it's something that hasn't been done in years. that would be passing a budget. the bill moved through the house with majority of the house. 62 republicans and 32 democrats voted against it. for conservatives, this budget is the latest battleground for control of the republican party. yesterday, house speaker john boehner slammed outside groups that opposed the bill. >> frankly, i think they are misleading their followers and pushing our members in places where they don't want to be. frankly, i think that they have lost all credibility. they pushed us into the fight to defund obama care and shut down the government. most of you know, my members know, that wasn't exactly the strategy i had in mind. but, if you recall the day before the government reopened, one of the people -- one of these groups stood up and said well, we never thought it would work. are you kidding me! >> those conservative groups, as you might imagine responded swiftly from freedom works, quote, when it comes to cre

clearly the established will of the majority of senator, and house of representatives were to do what? to protect the dreamers. this is what the president did. he took the express will of the house and of the senate, if not for this new rule, that they incented, that they have had now for 35 years, that you need supermajority of 60 votes. if we needed that here, even my colleagues on the republican side would have a difficult time getting legislation passed. so, all i'm trying to say is, when we move the ball forward the president looked at it. i want to say that, i don't know about the other but it seems like bo cooper, former ins general counsel, paul virtue, former ins general counsel, these are general counsels of the ins, each of them established that the president of the does have prosecutorial discretion when he gets to decide who to prosecute and who not to. that is what he did. he sent children aside, said i'm not going to longer prosecute them because they do not present an imminent threat. guess what, mr. chairman? year-and-a-half later, 500,000 of them are walking around a

of course, call that amnesty. that has gone exactly nol where in the house, although there are glimmers of hope that it could pause the house of representatives at some point next year. unemployment news, bad news there, it will cause problems for democrats maybe even trip up the budget deal because it's not included there. 1.3 million americans stand to lose unemployment insurance at the end of this year. the congress is going to do nothing to extend it. that is a done deal. congress will fail to act on a farm bill. many of the provisions are expiring. a couple of problems here first of all, milk. there are acres did provenicians in the farm bill that could lead if the bill lapses -- and it is going to lapse, to a doubling of the price 6 milwaukee. one beneficiary of dysfunction until washington will be food stamp recipients. both versions, house and senate, had cuts to the food stamp program. now, with no farm bill, that will go forward. it is a missed opportunity to cut billions in crop insurance that some in the farm lobby say are outdated and need to be reformed. a number of items on the agenda. the house of representatives is going to b

what happened, as na thannal said for his post-presidency when he actually goes into the house of representatives. and also nobody as the man of refusal, and that word is interesting to me because one of the very last words that he utterred was, no. a word of refusal. and my particular book starts with the death of john quincy adams in 1848, standing up and saying, no, as a particular issue that was a vote on whether or not to give more medals to mexican war veterans, and he had been john quincy adams had been opposed to that war and he was opposed to decorating generals who fought in what he felt was a greedy war and one that was continue ringing the death knell of the union because of the issuery of slavery and was not looking good for the country. and so here was a man who had served his country well, both as president and then in the house of representatives, userring -- uttering, no, and ending his life, and that was a watershed moment, not just because of the mexican war, but because john quincy adams was the descendent of john adams and all of the founding fathers, and we entered a differe