jim jordan, welcome back. appreciate it. know, for months and months and months people are saying that the burden of obamacare for one reason or another is going to cost jobs, is going to stop hiring, is going to cut back on hours of work. now the cbo recognizes is. what happens from here? >> well, the good news is we have an alternative and leader cantor has pledged that we're going to bring it up but we already knew how bad obamacare was as far as higher premiums, higher deduct bibles, a website that doesn't work and is in secure. a stagnant economy going forward, more deficits and more debt. the biggest thing that concerns me is this disincentive to work. that's exactly the wrong message we want to send to the american people and to our economy. the good news is, we have an alternative that we're going to bring forward and pass it. that's what excites me. >> can you just give us a brief -- just a real brief rundown, jim jordan, of the alternative? >> yes, it's going to be family centered, consumer centered, not washington

. >> also today, house republicans trey gowdy, jim jordan, and jason chaffetz sent this letter to eric holder asking if the president is being briefed on the justice department probe and if congress is can be briefed on the status of the investigation? also, koskinen was asked about his recent decision to award $62.5 million in bonuses to avoid a lawsuit with the national treasury employees union. >> i think it's important to see this in the perspective and in terms of their performance awards. they were willing to go to probable somewhere between 55% and 60% of the employees and allowed us to settle litigation. >> money spent at a time when koskinen has complained about his agency needing more funding to do all that they need to do. >> mike, thank you very much. >>> markets were back down today. the dow lost five. the s&p 500 was off four. nasdaq dropped 20. >> an endorsement of the keystone xl pipeline tonight from a surprising source. james rosen has details. >>> as interior secretary for president obama's whole first term, ken salazar was chief guardian of the nation's national res

the republican congressman jim jordan says that is no coincidence. but one democrat on the panel is quick to respond. >> in 20 years of business, the irs never visited. >> you can respond, even though i gave you plenty of extra time. the gentleman is recognized for another minute. >> so where is your proof, other than the connecting dots that may or may not be connected that osha was politically motivated. >> i didn't say proof. >> you want us to believe it is a coincidence. and you want us all to believe by innuendo there is something wrong. >> 20 different times in four years they visit this lady's place of business and audit her personal records and you expect us to believe that just -- >> i don't expect you to believe anything. you can believe whatever you choose to believe. >> well you can believe it is all a coincidence. >> no, i didn't say that either. i believe in fact-based empirical oversight. and innuendo, and drawing conclusions and paranoia do not substitute for fact-based empirical oversight. >> here are the facts, she filed for an appl

i am excited to introduce jim jordan. a lot of you know him. he is absolutely a great leader on every conservative issue that we work on. is federal spending, tax reform, entitlements, pushing back against cronyism, jim is on the friend life. -- the frontline. the scene when he chaired the republican study committee. his leadership was extraordinary. it became clear under his chairmanship that this was a guy to keep on eye on. since leaving the chairmanship, he has not slowed down at all. he has become the voice of the conservative conscience in the house of representatives. on top of everything else, he has taken on a very important job. he is transforming the welfare state. this has been a very important issue. been at the core of what we have been working on for decades. in keepingrumental those victories and keeping to transform the welfare state. working to translate those ideas for how to keep going. we are ready to make a massive plus. we want the leadership team to bring this to the floor. it is an important piece of legislation. he has

but jim jordan lead that hearing.tha: it got very heated with some of the tea party representatives there. how about this stunning new claim that obamacare will hurt the economy? it got a lot of attention. it came from the congressional budget office director who told a house hearing that millions of people could leave the workforce essentially. and here he is explain illegible and how he thinks that is likely to happen. >> it will create a disup season tough for people to work. d it will create a disincentive for people to work. this is an implicit tax. they are providing a subsidy for people who are better off and they have less of an incentive to work. march rrp marcia p -- march where marcia blackburn is on that committee. what is your retook that statement. >> unfortunately what he's saying is right. the more you put that in there the less people will likely work. the other problem is losing the hourly workweek from 40 hours down to 30 hours and destroying what has been the 40-hour work week in this country. peop

speaking here today including senators rand paul and ted cruz and michele bachmann and representative jim jordan i spoke earlier with mark levin and i asked him what's the biggest motivating force behind the tea party today you had millions of individuals who love their country who didn't want to fundamentally transform who believe in liberty and private property rights in the rule of law and so this is why we have a tea party movement a conservative constitutional movement and that's our heritage and they're trying to protect and preserve our heritage so the tea party still has a very active voice in washington d.c. and the tea party patriots are operating on three sets of values one a constitutionally limited government fiscal responsibility and free market economics one member of this organization has taken and the visual initiative is cindy pugh and she's looking to oust a very influential voice by the end of this year twenty fourteen is going to be an absolutely fantastic year the tea party movement has been inspired by so many in every state from the grassroots and we have most definitely

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lois lerner dropped the story and hoped no one would see it and a focal point and jim jordan pointed out so many of the roads, not all of them. but so many go through lois lerner and her manipulation of the irs data. >> and so 8 or 9 monthsing on, was that a cover up? >> look, you can claim your fifth amendment right, but you can't make a statement. she waived the right and going to come here. she will be come up to cant captain hill if we give her immunity. we are not interested. she may have to pay consequences. come up to congress and tell the truth. that's what we are asking her to do. >> legally she must come back and answer questions. >> yeah, yeah. >> this is what her attorney said. we understand that the committee voted she had waived her right. and we disagree she waived any rights and will not answer unless she is ordered by the united states district court or receives immunicipality. is that a possibility? >> i don't think we have a desire to offer immoupity. and if she am cans up she will be held in contempt of the the congress and it will play out in the court. there is

targeting scandal testified before the house and subcommittee and took questions from ohio congressman jim jordan>> in your first 20 years of business did the irs ever audit you. >> no, sir. once you foiled the application were you audited? >> many times. >> did the fbi ever visit you. >> once you filed the application did you get visited? >> six times. >> they want us to believe it is a coincidence. >> cleda mitchell joins me now. it is a pleasure to have you back on the show and thank you for being here to help put light on the amazing story. i want to begin with this. president obama made a statement that there is not a smidgeon of evidence indicating corruption. where i come from. smidgeon means a little bitty bit. and he said basically there is not any. is it the truth? >> no, it is not the truth. last summer he declared the irs scandal to be a phony scandal and done everything he can to divert attention from what really has been going on and it is still going on in the irs. and governor, i have to tell you, i think the administration is afraid of the people and because they were afraid of t

that led to this exchange with ohio republican jim jordan and one of the alleged victims. >> if yours of business did the irs ever audit you? >> no, sir. >> since then have they audited you? >> many times. >> has the fbi visited you? >> no. >> once you put in the application did they visit you? >> six times. >> the president meantime told fox's bill o'reilly in his words there wasn't a smidge enof corruption that had them asking what he knows about the investigation. they have chosen to investigate the irs, barbara bosser man was an obama campaign contributor. >> contributed over $6,000 in fact. thank you for joining us. >> the gi military dog a prisoner of war. a military service dog, the dog believed to be a part of the british military he was captured in december. he was wearing a harness with a tracking device torch and small camera. it is unclear when the video was taken. >> utility crews working to restore power to hundreds of thousands in pennsylvania and maryland. on the west coast a rare snowstorm pounding parts of oregon causing a number of car crashes. what is on tap for o

among the speakers, senator ted cruz and mike lee, jim jordan, jeb hensarling. you can see this live. easternrun until 6:00 on c-span. the u.s. house will return for work at 2:00 this afternoon, it's just two bills on the calendar. funny, andrizes noaa another condemning violence in ukraine. we are expecting general speeches first and then a recess until 5:30. then we will see work on the debt ceiling. republican's are holding aim members-only meeting today. 5:30 thisg is set for evening. you can see that house when it returns today on c-span at 2:00 eastern. and look at the week ahead in congress with a reporter who joined us for "washington journal." continues. continues. host: welcome back. our guest is susan ferrechio. she's the chief congressional correspondent for "the washington examiner." thank you for being here. walk us through. what are the major story lines running on capitol hill this week? guest: everyone is going to be talking about the debt limit. the treasury secretary said he needs the debt limit to be raised by the end of february. otherwise h

i am excited to introduce jim jordan. great leader on almost every conservative issue that, you know, a lot of you know him. he is absolutely a great leader on every conservative issue that we work on. whether it is federal spending, tax reform, entitlements, pushing back against cronyism, jim is on the friend life. en he chaired the republican study committee. as he chaired the republican study committee, his leadership there was extraordinary and that committee really flourished under his leadership. it became clear under his chairmanship that this was a guy to keep an eye on. since leaving the rfc chairmanship, jim has not slowed down at all. he's become in many ways the voice of the conservative conscious in the house of representatives. now on top of everything else that he's working on, he's taken on the very important work of transforming the welfare state. we slang around here. we call it welfare reform 2.0. as you know, this has been a very important issue to the heritage foundation. it's been at the core of what

testified before the house reform subcommittee on regulatory affairs where she took questions from jim jordan. >> in your first 20 years of business, did they audit you? >> no, sir. >> then after? >> many times. >> in the first 20 years, did the fbi visit you? >> no, but once you filed the applicati application, they visited you? >> six times. >> but they want you to believe it's aquence dns? >> i'm joined now. it's a pleask on the show. thanks for being here to help put some light on this. >> thank you. >> amazing story. cleata, i want to begin with this. president obama made this statement, that there's not a smidgen of evidence indicating any corruption. now, where i come from, a smidgen means just a little bitty bit. but he said basically there is want any. is that the truth? >> it was not the truth. it is not the truth. remember, this is the same man who last summer declared the irs scandal to be a phony scandal. he's done everything he can to divert attention from what really has been going on, and it's still going on in the irs. and governor, i have to tell you, i think that the admini

. >> jim jordan is on the house oversite committee, he's the man you heard there, questioning the deputy attorney general. it's good to see you again tonight. >> good to be with you. >> the president going on national television on super bowl sunday, never more eyeballs on the television, and tells our own bill o'reilly there's not a smidgen of evidence of corruption. you're trying to get to the bottom of what in your questioning? >> let's remember the basics, you have barbara boxer, a maxout contributor to the president's campaign. she gets picked to head up the investigation. so i believe the president can be confident because he knows his person's running the show. his person's running the investigation. we can't get one answer from the fbi, one answer from the justice department about how many people are assigned to this case, who the lead agent is, how they're doing it, the president's comment even though it's an ongoing investigation. >> you're trying to get facts about the investigation. and what have they been telling you at justice? >> in the last five days, i've received two le

general sent a letter to jim jordan who was one of the questioners today basically saying that they couldn't allow employees to discuss anything because they are in the middle of an open investigation. they can't discuss that. how on earth could the president be at odds in terms of where this investigation stands? >> because right now the irs and the white house are institutionally incapable of self-correcting and self-governing when it comes to the matter with the irs. congress is through its investigation process getting to the bottom of what was a targeted and direct violation of constitutional rights of private organizations. and the idea now that the president is giving an all clear, it doesn't not only pass the constitutional test, it doesn't pass the smell test. something is not right here. we learned about what was not right tonight. >> have any of the people you're representing been questioned in this investigation? >> not yet by the fbi. >> not yet by the fbi. jay, thank you very much. we'll see how it goes tomorrow. good to have you here tonight. >>> we are also getting new detail

coming out of the meeting in the interviews i had there , were a large number of conservatives from jim jordan, matt harriman, saying that they cannot support this plan. >> erik wasson, thanks for joining us. the hill.com. thank you for joining us. >> thanks so much. israelig up, a former because theyis not were not there in numbers, perhaps not as glamorous as other planes. their contribution to the war effort was the replaceable. >> beautiful. familiar tos so actually sit here. back together again, you will have to come see it. >> for my personal tie to this airplane, this was the airplane i flew in vietnam. combat missions i flew, i flew many in this airplane. it is my titanium mistress. it is what brought me home at times it should not have. i abused it and did things in order to survive, punished it. it held together. it is an airplane i have such strong feelings for. no way i could not bring it home if i could. i had a painting done by an aviation artist to paint my airplane. he asked if i knew what happened, i said no i didn't. he knew somebody who did. they told me it was in massachuse

schumer suggested passing reform and delaying implementation until 2017, this is what congressman jim jordansay, quote, it's -- i'll read it, we don't have the full screen. it's not just there's a strong distrust for the president's ability to function on good faith in light of what's happened, but we don't know who's going to be president in 2017, victoria, that's the new argument. >> right. it has nothing to do with the president. boehner's claim he doesn't trust the president, is it a genuine or accurate portrayal of the state of immigration reform and chuck schumer's projection of 2017 isn't accurate either because it doesn't have to do with president obama, it's all about the senate. the gop thinks that they have a really good shot at gaining the senate in this upcoming election, so they do not want to do anything to upset the base, because we know that those antiimmigrant forces in the gop will punish the party if they ram through an immigration reform. those pro immigration forces in the gop might be unhappy that it doesn't get passed, but ultimately they are not going to rock the boa

republican congressman jim jordan said, "we don't know who's going to be president in 2017."d to guarantee that they get their chosen president in 2017 or there can't be immigration? we might not like the next president, either. we can't pass immigration with tons of deportations and border security, can't pass immigration piecemeal, we can't pass it after barack obama is no longer president. i mean, on every other issue now, the republicans are waling about it but in the end shooting down the conservatives who are tell them to say no to everything. they're defying the conservatives on all these other issues. why not on this issue? why are the conservatives winning and the republicans still saying no on this one issue? joining us now, john stanton, washington bureau chief at buzzfeed. thanks for being here. nice to have you here. >> good to be here. >> first i have to ask you about this vote tonight. why do you think speaker boehner brought up the debt limit, clean, no strings attached tonight for a vote? >> i think he looked at it and said there's no political downside for h

[applause] congressman jim jordan and michele bachmann.ause] and at the same tone and we will not lose focus on our members. we wouldn't be here today if it were not for you. let's give you a round of applause. [applause] you want to pursue your american dream. every day you champion freedom. remember in 2009 at the stimulus passed our own kelly had the protests in seattle washington. [applause] shortly thereafter rick santelli had a call to action is that our founding fathers would be turning over in their graves in the out-of-control government spending. he said let's have a tea party and did we ever. eric got us going. rob appel and michael patrick leahy got us talking to conservatives on twitter and michael god is on their first conference call where debbie dooley and others were on it as we planned and organized. moms like me carry kristof and stacy motz got us organizing through smart girl politics. together these people helped you turn a moment in time into a movement and today we celebrate what you have done. you are going to hear

there are a large number of conservatives from jim jordan, matt salmon -- >> twitter account >> twitterks for joining us. an update on the debt ceiling agreement. house republicans offering the clean up. it may come up early today. watch the house live on c-span1. >> saturday booktv is live in georgia for the savannah book festival. it starts at 9:00 eastern with gabriel chairman with roger ailes and fax -- fox news and continues on k-9 warriors. astronauts' wives and woodrow wilson. john rizzo on his work for the cia. and the life of norman rockwell. part of the three president's day weekend. march 2nd, black power, the civil rights movement. joseph will take e-mails, comment and wes from noon until 9:00 eastern. online on booktv's book club. bonnie morris, read a women's history for beginners. click on book club to enter the chat room. >> the u.s. and gambling in now and will continue work on a bill dealing with military pensions. it seeks to repeal one percentage point reduction in the cost-of-living adjustments for military retirees and the age of 62. at 12:15 montana democratic sen

senator lee is also going to rebro deuce the welfare reform act along with representative jim jordan,ch not only saves taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars but puts social assistance back on track, getting people into jobs and out of poverty. we'll be hearing about the hero act which takes school accreditation out of the hands of federal bureaucrats and puts it at the state level while lowering the cost of higher education for students across the nation. representative raul labrador will walk us through the marriage and religious freedom act which enjoys broad bipartisan support and prevents government discrimination of any person, church, business, or other institution based on their traditional view of marriage. these policy do not arise from lobbying of special interests. they are for the benefit of all americans. they were not designed to serve those who work the halls of power but those who sweep them late at night. if conservatives in congress wish to return to their seats this november with a mandate from the people, the ideas presented today will help secure that mandate.

this hearing is held by jim jordan.ed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] applied for tax exempt status. our live coverage getting under way right here, right now, on c-span 3. >> committee will come to order. i want to welcome our witnesses today. have to put up with a couple opening statements from myself, mr. cartwright. we'll swear you in and get to your testimony. we'll get to you just as quickly as we can. may 10th last year, lois learner with a plan in question had a meeting here in town disclosed targeting of conservative groups took place. she disclosed that even before the inspector general report was released, shde that after consulting with the chief of staff at the treasury department. put him on notice they were going to do it this way. get out in front of this story. and she said this. want to read from miss learner's comments. she disclosed the systemic targeting of tea party groups, conservative groups, have taken place. shep said, quote, they use n

there were a large number of conservatives from jim jordan, matt harriman, saying that they cannot supports plan. wasson, thanks for joining us. >> thanks so much. >> the new c-span.org website gives you access to an incredible library of lyrical events with more added each day through c-span's nonstop coverage of politics, history, and nonfiction books. hours more than 200,000 of archived c-span video. everything c-span has covered since 1980 seven. our video is all searchable and viewable on your desktop computer, tablet, or smartphone. c-span.org makes it easy to watch what is happening today in washington and find people and events from the past 25 years. it is the most comprehensive video library in politics. >> janet yellen will testify before congress as the new head of the federal reserve tomorrow morning. she will take hutchins from members of the house financial services committee about financial policy and next month's jobs report. coverage at 10:00 a.m. on c-span3. you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. later in the day, more coverage of the white house state an

is among theruz speakers are long with congressman jim jordan and others. 6:00 thistil about afternoon, and you can see it all on our companion network, c-span3. hosted nasay, we and conversations about the international space station. earlier, they announced they would keep it open until 2024. in this week's "your money" segment we look at the international space station. joining us from the johnson space center in houston to talk about it is mike suffredini, program manager for the station. thanks so much for joining us. guest: it is my pleasure, juana. host: the president recently announced that it would be extended through 2024. walk me through why that is necessary and important. thet: well, juana, international space station, as you mentioned, has been in orbit for some time. we celebrated our 50th anniversary last november. lastth anniversary november. in 2000 and we began entered is to focus on utilization as the construction was winding down -- in 2009 we began in earnest to --us on construction as focus on utilization as construction was winding down. importantly, the commerc

he was trying to discount all of her testimony and then republican from ohio, jim jordan, stepped inhat proved her point. it looks like she was targeted by the government. >> in the first 20 years of business, did osha ever visit your place of business? >> no, sir. >> never once? >> no, sir. >> after you filed the application, osha visited then, right? >> yes, sir. >> okay. and in the first 20 years of business, did the atf ever come to your business? >> no, sir. >> they came a couple times one you filed your application? >> yes, sir. >> your first 20 years of birks did the irs ever audit you? >> no, sir. >> once you filed your application, did they audit you? >> many times. >> okay. in your first 20 years of business, did the f.b.i. ever visit you? >> no, sir. >> but once you filed your application, did they visit you? >> six times. >> but mr. conley wants us all to believe that's a coincidence? >> exactly. the thing is, democrats should be just as outraged as republicans. >> she was actually asked what she thought of the president's statement about not even a smidgen going on there

we saw president obama meeting with the king of jordan. jimot only criticized assad, he krcriticiz russia. he used the term enabling by saying, quote, russia is always being urged to make more of an effort to resolve the syrian conflict. we have done everything we promised. they don't seem to actually want to stop. >> this is the trouble with policy. urging the russians and seyrian to be good actors. that kept the assad regime in power and saved them from military strikes from the u.s. assad feels emboldened and thinks that he can survive. when you have a policy that's dependent on them doing things that you want them to do that they don't want to do, that's a real problem. you have to wonder where the u.s. leverage is. >> gail, i want to show this tweet. i believe it was arwa who tweeted a syrian reverend few je refugee walking in the desert. he was finally reunited with his family. you've talked to aide workers on the ground there. how bad is it? >> it's epic. aide workers can come nowhere near meeting the efforts of those needed on the grou

when we went -- win 6 seats in the senate, what we will do different when we control congress,'jim jordanohio said." club for action and inherited action -- excuse me, club for growth and heritage action put out a key vote alert urging members to vote against the measure. that in "the new york times" this morning. democratic caller bank, what do you think? caller: hello? host: good morning, you are on the air. caller: how are you doing? host: good. what you think of the house approving a clean debt bill? caller: ok -- host: let me move on to michael in telefonica, republican caller -- in california, republican caller. caller: hi, how are you? i don't get too much in the details of the bill could i want to make a general statement. ok.: both parties bicker about this and that but at the end of the day they come together to pass the bills even though throughout the course of it, the rhetoric couldn't be starkly different. my question or comment is, there he -- if there are polar opposite views on issues, why at the end of the day doesn't always get past? host: ok. mike in georgia. although

senator lee is also going to rebro deuce the welfare reform act along with representative jim jordan, which not only saves taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars but puts social assistance back on track, getting people into jobs and out of poverty. we'll be hearing about the hero act which takes school accreditation out of the hands of federal bureaucrats and puts it at the state level while lowering the cost of higher education for students across the nation. representative raul labrador will walk us through the marriage and religious freedom act which enjoys broad bipartisan support and prevents government discrimination of any person, church, business, or other institution based on their traditional view of marriage. these policy do not arise from lobbying of special interests. they are for the benefit of all americans. they were not designed to serve those who work the halls of power but those who sweep them late at night. if conservatives in congress wish to return to their seats this november with a mandate from the people, the ideas presented today will help secure that mand

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jim, the investors in whatsapp. put about 8 million to work in whatsapp fwlak 2011. back to you. >> josh, brian actin turned down for a job at facebook. like michael jordan not making his high school basketball team. wouldn't you say? >> right, right. went on to big around better. >> it's interesting, though, because this company had a very unique ethos, john, especially with roots in yahoo!. branched out, left yahoo!. started this company. some scratching their head why they chose to sell their company at this stage. what's behind this? >> stayed at yahoo! a long time. it's interesting. this isn't the drop out and start your own company story. jan dropped out of college to work harder for david phyllo over at yahoo! and so the timing of this, interesting. they had been very anti-advertising and facebook is the emerging advertising player, personalization, lots of information about you. that's exactly what whatsapp itself was trying to avoid by charring an annual fee. >> interesting when you see mark zuckerberg making all of these deals. in the olden days when he would buy the smaller start-ups, integrate them right way. instagram, a stand alone business

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i'm excited today to be introducing jim jordan. jim jordan, a lot of you all know. he's absolutely a great leader on almost every conservative issue that, you know, we work on. whether it be federal spending, tax reform, entitlements, you know, pushing back against croniasm in washington, jim is on the front line of all of these different battles. he arrived on the scene when he chaired the republican study committee. as he chaired the republican study committee, his leadership there was extraordinary and that committee really flourished under his leadership. it became clear under his chairmanship that this was a guy to keep an eye on. since leaving the rfc chairmanship, jim has not slowed down at all. he's become in many ways the voice of the conservative conscious in the house of representatives. now on top of everything else that he's working on, he's taken on the very important work of transforming the welfare state. we slang around here. we call it welfare reform 2.0. as you know, this has been a very important issue to the heritage foundation. it's been at the

significant defection, remains to be seen how large -- there were a number of conservatives from jim jordan on down basically saying they can't put this plan. >> eric wasson's twitter counties e. l. lawson and his website is thehill.com. >> the president and mrs. obama welcome french president fran francois hollande to the white house for an official visit. welcoming ceremony at 9:00 a.m. eastern on c-span3. the obamas host a state dinner for the french president. late night coverage >> the new c-span.org web site gives you access to an incredible library of political events with more added each day through c-span's nonstop coverage of national politics, history and nonfiction books. find daily coverage of official washington or access more than 200,000 hours of archived c-span video everything c-span has covered since 1987 and our video is all searchable land deal along your desktop computer, tablet or smart phone. look at the prominent search bar at the top of each page. the new c-span.org makes it easy to watch what is happening today in washington and find people in the events from the