and also with us is jerry nadler of new york.tlemen, good to have you with here. >> good to be here. >> good to be here. >> congressman welch, in your area, this is going an immediate affect to families on your assistance program. what about that? >> it's tough. you know, the price of fuel is going up and the temperature is going down. and it's really tough on a lot of families. and we depend on getting some help for low income heating assistance. and in fact, that budget was cut even before the sequester in the state legislature with very little money. and the governor is trying to fill the hole. this is going to be very, very painful for a lot of low-income families. it's going to be painful for folks at the airport when the lines are longer. it's going to be painful for some folks who were in defense-related industries in small peaceful vermont. so this is a big deal for us. >> congressman nadler, what will you lose if republicans fail to act by march 1st? >> we'll lose about $878 million in sandy aid, you know, to get some of

also congresswoman sheila jacksolee of texas and jerry nadler.at to have all three of you with us tonight. how serious is the threat to medicare, medicaid and social security? congresswoman jackson, over the next 13 day, it's a very critical time. your thoughts. >> absolutely. you know, i was on the floor of the house and making a comment about this pending tragedy, and indicated that those who have social security and medicaid and medicare, they actually earned it. they paid taxes, and they actually earned it for their time of need, for social security and medicare. and i was blasted by those who said earned it, well, i'm concerned because they did earn it. they worked and they deserved it. and now with this pending crisis, we know that as sequester comes and there are across-the-board cuts, and there is an attitude of looking for any dollar they can find, there is rumor that what the republicans are looking for is not to address solvency for social security, but really to end it as we know it, to cut medicare and to cut made mediterranean cade.

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jerry nadler. >> thank you. let me start by thanking our to cochairs. the balancing act is designed to prevent a catastrophic results of sequestration was to help the long-term balance within cuts and revenues. the simple truth is that for kids and seniors, businesses and military command still recovering economy, sequestration is a disaster. its effect will be devastating to our economy, and we will eliminate thousands of critical jobs. two problems with the sequestered. one, all the specific cuts. jan went through some of them, cut -- children's food, everything that is useful and essential. cuts across the board, cuts the weather forecast, hurricane force -- forecasting, airline -- air traffic control. you name it. fewer armed -- fewer inspectors. you name it. everything government does when it does not do you will see catastrophe's but when it does to you don't even think about. second of all, at this point in our economy is very precarious. our economic growth is varying. cbs says that the sequester would cut economic growth by one 1/4% which means

joined in with myself, chairman goodlatte, former chairman james sensenbrenner, trent franks, jerry nadler reached a clear bipartisan consensus on this issue. this committee requires those documents to fulfill its oversight responsibility. this isn't a witch hunt. this is an inquiry and were all cleared for top secret and will work together to convince the administration to satisfy our requests. let's examine the couple issues here. targeted strikes against the united states citizens, targeted strikes generally and three the odious so-called signature strikes. now, the need for oversight is clear. i am not convinced in the title of the hearing us suggests that the administration's legal rationale for the targeted killing of any united states citizen overseas. the way paper describes the balancing test for the fourth amendment unlawful seizure of a person or a life. the amendment due process, which tilted so far in favor of government entries that a potential target appears to have little chance that meaningful due process when he is nominated without his consent of course, to the so-called

that's why i'm a proud sponsors of jerry nadler's united family act, and i call upon this body to include respect of marriage as a principle of comprehensive immigration reform. mr. speaker, i rise today to share a story of sally miller from brumfield, colorado, and her strong support for fixing our broken immigration system. sally is a social worker and her story's about several pieces of her own personal experience working with people in the denver metro area. sally's worked with immigrants who come to our country 20 years ago. they raised our families, they hope for a better life, their kids are u.s. citizens, have succeeded in school and are giving back. but sally writes that the parents of one of her families are constantly in fear that their family may be caught on the way to or from his cleaning job and sent back to a country that he left, torn apart from his family at taxpayer expense. one of their three children graduated from high school just this past june and is working and taking college classes. the other kids are 16 and 14. now, sally writes that her friend and his wife hop

. >> we have jim mcdermott -- and jerry nadler. >> let me start by thanking our two co-chairs. the balancing act is designed to prevent the catastrophic events of sequestration while having a long-term balance between cuts and receive news. from kids and seniors to small businesses and the military, sequestration is a disaster. its effect would be devastating to our economy and we would eliminate thousands of jobs and it would be a million jobs. there are two problems. one, all the specific cuts. cuts to children's food, cuts to everything that is useful and essential. cuts across the board, weather forecasts, hurricane forecasting, to airline air traffic control. you name it. fewer -- fewer inspectors for meat, food, you name it. everything the government does that when it doesn't do it, you will see catastrophes. second of all, our economy is very precarious our economic growth is between 2% and 2.5% a year. c.b.o. said it would cut it in half. cut our economic growth in half. that would cost us over one million jobs at a time when we see the result of this kind of stupidity