a group of congressmen worried about governments sending the committee chairman is congressman jim jordan. you want to cut poor people off? >> we want to help them get to a better life. we create programs that help people get to a better life. >> i have heard that before. it by not waving t-- o d? wavering the work requirement like this administration did. >> just to be fair they haven't totally waved t waived the work requirement. >> they are letting some states not have a worj requiremek requ. that one key element that helps people get to the american dream experience greatness and get a job and grow and get to a better lifestyle. >> work. >> the key ingredient to accomplish anything that we all learn. >> but how? that was already in the original healthcare reform act. you have a new welfare reform act. >> with all of the spending the government does it's about 600 billion a year when you factor in medicaid and the 70 plus different programs that are out there. >> the original act just was welfare didn't hit the other 70 some programs. >> there are so many nutrition programs job trainin

nor did jim jordan. we thought it was a stupid deal. it was. playing out to be that way. so no, we need to consolidate the gains of savings, the fact is it's not just doing a deal, about actually putting true fiscal constraints. listening to the other guests there, they're right. the problem is the size of government right now is 24% on trajectory -- >> we're talking about the slowing growth. senator, thank you very much. all right. senator, guys, i know you at home it appears i'm short-tempered with the issue. i did have breakfast. it's not a food thing or sugar thing. i'm telling you, you should be worried about this. both sides are to blame for this. we have don't get hopping on this right now, we can be dogmatic all we want. you can be red, you can be blue. or you can just blow up. they don't do something in matter of weeks we blow up. more from washington. i had three kids. and she became the full time mother of three. it was soccer, and ballet, and cheerleading, and baseball. those years were crazy. so, as we go into this next phase, you know, a big part of it for u

now you have jim jordan saying we will let those go into >> what does that mean for vote >> he does not have sway over

that jim jordan of the fine state of ohio is the tip of the problem. good to have you?ou closer to an agreement? >> guest: i don't know that we are. i will tell you this, we in the house of representatives passed legislation to extent all current tax rate so no tax rate to american people this year. we passed legislation to prevent the big cuts to national defense. the other bills with the united states senate and harry reid doing nothing with it and sitting there. that is where we stand. as you know and as you said it's all about who will be the next president of the united states. >> neil: i wonder -- i know it's easy to blame the president but the sequestration deal that you are just hating, you agreed to. it was your backup backbone that you couldn't come to a deal on spending cuts. hear me out. you all agree to it and now you realize you can see the whites of the armageddon eyes and say well, no, no, no. not us, not us. don't you think that is a bit disingenuous? >> guest: i will tell you this, neil. it didn't agree to it. i think in hindsight as you look at the de

the committee chairman is congressman jim jordan. what do you want to do? cut for people of?no, we want to help them get to a better life. what you need to do is create programs that actually help people get to a better life. john: ever done before. >> you do it by not waving the work requirement like this administration did. you -- john: to be fair, they have not totally waived a work requirement. they let some states experiment. >> they also let some states not have a work requirement and there sang were not going to require that one key element that helps people get to the american dream, experiences. did the job. that is what we want to see. that key ingredient to accomplish anything that we all learn. john: how? that was already in the original welfare reform act? we have a new welfare reform act, updated version. >> for trying to get a handle on all of the social welfare spending the federal government does. estimates are 600 billion the year when you factor in medicaid and the 70 plus different programs that are out there. john: the original act was just welfare. did n

ohio rep jim jordan is our guest on newsmaker this weekend. the chairman of the republican study committee discusses the top 12 campaign. and the congressional investigation into attacks on u.s. consulate the pope and gothic. -- consulate in benghazi. news makers, some day after washington journal at 10:00 a.m. eastern and then again later at 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> the supreme court heard oral argument wednesday on fisher v. university of texas, a case that could determine the future of affirmative action. abigail fisher, who is white, was denied admission to the university of texas at austin to richie suit, arguing that racial minorities with force credentials were accepted at had a fair -- ahead of her. she says and violates the guarantee of equal protection. this is about an hour and half. >> well, i get to say that this is case number 11-345, fisher against the university of texas at austin. and you get to say -- >> mr. chief justice, general suter trained me too well. mr. chief justice, and members of the court, and may it please

host: jim jordan talk about libya and other topics as well. is the chairman of the republican study committee from ohio. you can see that on newsmakers, that will take place tomorrow on "washington journal" after this program tomorrow at 6:00. rick nelson, welcome. all the headlines this morning deal with libya. summit political context, some and others. we are about a month since the attack on ben zazi. what do we know about the attack now? guest: we know how the attacks unfolded. now that we have seen that this was a very sophisticated an unprecedented attack in many ways, it ended up being a very lethal. that is the most important thing we have learned. host: as far as that information, what we gain? guest: we see that we do have forces out there particularly and libya and in the middle east where there are individuals that are very well trained, very well equipped and have the lethal force that can go ahead and take action against people and united states facilities geared and we need to work hard to make sure those facilities are protecte

. >> jim jordan is our guest on newsmaker is this weekend. the chairman discusses the 2012 camp,lñ?sional investigation into a tax on the u.s. consulate in been gauzy. he will also talk about what he wants congress to do and whether to let theéxñ?ñ?ñ bush era tax s expire. sunday after washington journal at 10:00 a.m. eastern and later at 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. ÷÷ñ?ñ?>> next, a look at the influences of super pacs in the 2012 election. panelists talked about the difference between them and other organizations. disclosure rules, anonymous donors, and the concept of money as free speech. this is just over one hour. >> i will not -- i love that title. dark money rising, it seems like there should be a batman iiñ?ñ?character involved. instead, a lot of people with a lot of money. first i'm going to introduce our panel, starting to my left is melanie sloan. she is a recognized expert on congressional ethics and she served as an assistant u.s. attorney in the district of columbia from 1998-2003. next we have8çñ?ñ? in your times writer. he is a political reporter covering the preside

. >> on news makers ohio congressman jim jordan chairman of the republican study committee discusses the 2012 campaign. he also talks about what congress might do in the lame duck session and whether the bush tax cuts should expire. news makers today at 6:00 eastern on c-span. >> c.e.o. of j.p. morgan talks about the foreign ration and get. he said j.p. morgan has lost up to 10 million dollars as a result of>> good afternoon. stearns. i am richard haas and want to welcome you all to the council on foreign relations. and to today's ceos speaker series meeting. this is part of the council and foreign relations program to increase the programs and links between the business community and the foreign policy community. which to one extent or one in the same. i also want to thank, rather will come those around the world and the country who are participating in this meeting through the wonders of modern technology. speaking of modern technology, if people would just take a second to turn off their cell phones and the like. that would be most welcome. this meeting is on the record. anything

listening to the house oversight and government reform committee and heard earlier representative jim jordaning to get to the bottom of who would either approve or deny any kind of request for additional security at the u.s. consulate there in benghazi. the questions going back and forth now over what was known leading up to the attack, at the u.s. consulate, which led to the deaths of four people, including the u.s. ambassador and what was the story following. we're going to continue to watch the hearing here, take a short break for now. we'll be right back. but i want to eat meat! [ male announcer ] iams knows dogs love meat. ...but most dry foods add plant protein, like gluten iams never adds gluten. iams adds 50% more animal protein, [ dog 2 ] look at me! i'm a lean, mean flying machine [ dog 1 ] i am too! woo hoo! [ male announcer ] iams. with 50% more animal protein. [ dog 2 ] i'm an iams dog for life. not a rabbit. woof! [ "the odd couple" theme playing ] humans. even when we cross our "t"s and dot our "i"s, we still run into problems -- mainly other humans. at liberty mutual insuranc

jim jordan, bob gibbs are here. we need josh mandel in washington. we need him now. president obama the last four years has made a lot of decisions. some of them like the stimulus package he said would result in all kinds of new jobs. that has not happened. he said he was going to cut the deficit in half. that has not happened. the good news that we have somebody who is running for president that has the know-how. he has the experience. he has got the experience, the record, and he knows how to work with democrats, republicans cannot independents alike to address the challenges we face as a country, and that is why we need mitt romney in washington to fix what is broken and bring back the american dream. i see a uaw member here economy. autos. talk what go said barack obama that said were a few wars. one was about the auto industry. he said, you want to take those companies to bankruptcy. i supported a rescue package for the autos, but what obama said was not true. it was barack obama who took gm and chrysler through bankruptcy, ok? >> right? second, it was mitt romn

. >> on newsmakers, ohio congressman jim jordan discusses the 2012 campaign, including his battleground state of ohio. he also talked about what congress might do in the lame duck session and whether the bush tax cuts should expire. sunday at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> our goal on "the communicators" this week is to look at the philosophies of president obama and governor romney when it comes to tech issues and explore any possible policies that could result from a second obama administration or a first from the administration. joining us in our discussion is john kneuer. he used to be the administrator of the national telecommunications and information administration under the george w. bush administration. and ed paisley is also joining as. he is from the american center for action fund. mr. paisley, if we could start with you. how could you describe president obama's overall philosophy when it comes to detect and communications issues? >> i would include text, communications, and science. i think all three go together. the overall philosophy really is the overall

host: jim jordan was on "newsmakers" yesterday. let's take a listen.deo clip] >> i think it will be difficult for people to vote for the most coal president in history. the infatuation of anything green. more and more information comes out -- this is the solyndra program. money was spent on 26 programs. 22 programs had junk status. it was ok to give them your tax dollars. host: you can see that on our website in its entirety. is the obama's stance on coal liability? guest: no one has paid a higher price than the people of ohio. cleveland has some of the worst air in the country. this is directly related to the coal that is being burned for electricity. a lot of people are turning to natural gas to make electricity instead of coal. has gone from being about half of our electricity to about 35%. host: this is a recent piece from the huffington post. it looks that states like west virginia. democrats need to have a different message at the presidential level. guest: senator rockefeller was talking about coal and said the coal industry needs to start telli

jim jordan, bob gibbs are here. and i want to be the senior senator from ohio.e need josh mandel in ohio. we need him now. you know, president obama -- over the last four years has made a lot of decisions. some of them, he siad would result in new jobs that haven't happened. he said he'd cut the deficit. it hasn't happened. we have someone who is running for president who knows how to bring back jobs. he has the experience. he has the experience and the record nd he knows how to work with democrats and republicans and that's why we need mitt romney to fix what's broken and bring back the american dream. i see a uaw member here in front of me. i will talk autos in a way that is straight talk. obama said a few things that, as he said, were "whoppers." he said, you wanted to take those companies through bankruptcy. it was obama who took gm and chrysler through bankruptcy. it was mitt romney who did provide for loan guarantees. every fact-checker who looked has said that barack obama was wrong and was not telling the truth. this is what is most important, with the c

political consultant jim ross worked on the campaign of jordan and newsom. ct it is vote will either be unanimous for mirkarimi's removal or 4-3 just enough to keep his job. >> it's a once in a generation, once in a lifetime type vote that's going to stick with you throughout the rest of your career. >> reporter: it takes nine of 11 votes to remove mirkarimi. city hall observers tell me at least seven supervisors will side with mayor ed lee. that leaves four from the progressive member of the board. john avalos, campos, mar and olaque all up for reelection. oloque represents the hague. the most liberal part of the city. and she took over for mirkarimi. but oloque was elected by the mayor. and sources tell me the supervisor is unlikely to vote for mirkarimi. that seems to leave just three possible votes for mirkarimi. the board of supervisors has told me they have received legal advise not to discuss the case with the media or even themselves. >> i enjoy being in some ways in difficult decisions because i do my home work. >> reporter: eric mar represents distr

political consultant jim ross worked on the campaign of jordan and newsom. ct it is vote will either be unanimous for mirkarimi's removal or 4-3 just enough to keep his job. >> it's a once in a generation, once in a lifetime type vote that's going to stick with you throughout the rest of your career. >> reporter: it takes nine of 11 votes to remove mirkarimi. city hall observers tell me at least seven supervisors will side with mayor ed lee. that leaves four from the progressive member of the board. john avalos, campos, mar and olaque all up for reelection. oloque represents the hague. the most liberal part of the city. and she took over for mirkarimi. but oloque was elected by the mayor. and sources tell me the supervisor is unlikely to vote for mirkarimi. that seems to leave just three possible votes for mirkarimi. the board of supervisors has told me they have received legal advise not to discuss the case with the media or even themselves. >> i enjoy being in some ways in difficult decisions because i do my home work. >> reporter: eric mar represents distr

richard jordan is in baltimore where health officials just released the new details. >> reporter: jim, this is typically used to treat back pain, but now several people have died, one in maryland and one in virginia. doctors here say they've been able to pinpoint a two-month time frame where this injection was distributed and they think they know where it came from. >> we were notified by centers for disease control -- >> reporter: the state department of mental health and hi hygiene say patients are at risk of having meningitis. a facility in massachusetts where the injections were mixed and shipped out. there, doctors believe a fungus contaminated the product. nine facilities received shipments of the questionable steroid injections. >> this case, there were human cases, and it was tracked back to the product. >> reporter: the meningitis outbreak has reached six states with five deaths, but doctors fear the number of those with meningitis may get higher. >> we believe that there are probably hundreds of patients who may have received an injection, and those cases are currently under

news4's richard jordan live on the virginia tech campus in blacksburg tonight for us. richard? >> reporter: jim, this is an important race, because not only will it determine who will represent virginia in the senate, but will determine which party gets the edge in congress. right now, tim kaine has a lead in the polls, just a slight one. so george allen still has a chance to make up the difference. supporters show signs of allegiance before the debate tonight. they'll appear together for the last time before the election. each will take their position at the podiums on the virginia tech campus. the former governors slated to debate the issues they say divides them. jay warren is the moderator. >> this is their last opportunity to reach a statewide audience. it's a key moment for them. >> reporter: the economy and jobs, the primary focus in the four previous debates. >> too many virginians -- >> reporter: and defense cuts will likely be a hot topic tonight. virginia could lose thousands of jobs if they cannot agree to a package that prevents cuts to the military. an issue that gets the candidat

our friend jim is away this week, so we are happy to welcome back jordan lieberman. again. so let's talk about it. the day is here. peter, i'll start with you. what's the feeling going into this debate? >> i think there's a lot of anxiety, allison. these things are very tense. i'm not sure we're going to see lincoln/douglas here tonight. this is a fairly loose format and it allows both candidates some time to go into longer answers and explain things. but as you point out, especially with president obama, i think they're trying to shorten his answers, keep them pointed and i think that they're ready for a pretty tough onslaught from romney. romney knows he has to prove something, and he's going to come at the president, i think fairly hard. but i think this president gives as good as he gets. i think it will be a strong back and forth. >> jordan, what do you think? >> i think peter and i can agree mitt romney is probably losing. that means barack obama has everything to lose tonight if he doesn't do perfectly well. he's not the best debater out there. it's mostly his

jordan was out and about this afternoon in northwest d.c. he continues our team coverage now, where a tree fell on a house today. richard? >> reporter: yeah, jim pat, i just spoke briefly with the couple that lives inside the house. they were home when this tree came down on top of their roof. they're assuming it was a strong burst of wind that came by. but you can see the large tree from their backyard just fell on top of their home. it also clipped some of the other trees nearby. so other branches came down as well, even the neighbor's home suffered some roof damage. all this happening here, nevada and nebraska, the couple that lives inside, fortunately they were not hurt. they were able to go back into their home, escorted by d.c. emergency management workers. they went inside to grab a couple of their belongings, then they were sent over to their neighbor's home. that's where they're going to stay at least for the time being. the fire crews are out here, as well as police, just trying to assess the damage to the homes and see if there was any structural damage. they have since cleared the way. but it has been a pretty busy time for emergen

jim is away this week, we welcome back to the show the former publisher of campaigns and elects campaign, jordanrman, the president of campaign grid and provides strategies for republican candidates. good to see you again. >> thank you. >> let me start with you, peter. those who say that the president had a better showing last night, what is your impression? >> i think barrack is back. if things were rough two weeks ago, he got his mojo back last night. and most of the polls credited obama with a vehicle nor that debate. more importantly, though, i think he showed himself very strong on the libya question where romney thought he was going to make some gains. he really appeared presidential, he was very forceful and caught romney in the gaffe misstating what obama said. i think that everyone was tweeting last night when is he going to mention the 47%. >> right. >> and what he did smartly, he made his arguments about it and held it to the end and i think this is very, very important for obama, and i think quickly, that a lot of democrats were worried that he would be laid back again and romney wou

reception this evening hosted by the ambassador of jordan, looking forward to that, and also, an early start tomorrow morning. u.s. views from ambassador jim smith followed by the arab-u.s. relations' view from the league of arab states which has a brand new ambassador here in washington, and then, of course, the palestinian future focusing on that as well as the gtc countries in yemen and the what has been done in terms of the department of state and others trying to double u.s. exports internationally and globally, but with special reference to the arab world. on top of business finance, human resource development, and iran, features here in the afternoon as well as does the view the of the u.s.-arab relationship from the arab media. i thank all of you for being here today. see you this evening and tomorrow. >> thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> downsizing, watching it live, one of 10,000 homes they are trying to get done in the next four years over the course of the four years of may your being termed, these are houses never coming back. the able demo, these houses are