massachusetts democrat jim mcgovern. >> there are those in this country and in this house who would destroy the programs that help people in need. those who have replaced the war on poverty with the new war on poor people. >> reporter: republicans want the cost of those unemployment benefits to be offset by cuts elsewhere. poverty and income inequality, scott, are shaping up to be key issues not just here in the capital this year but at the white house as well. and the president says he'll lay out his agenda, which includes an increase in the minimum wage, in his state of the union address later this month. >> there was a deadly crash today involving a u.s. military helicopter, a navy sea dragon with five on board went down off the coast of virginia. two crew members died. there's no word on the cause. combat continued in iraq today where the government is trying to regain control of the city of fallujah in anbar province which was seized last week by islamist extremists. violence has been rising in the past year all over iraq. elizabeth palmer has just arrived in baghdad for us. liz, what

there's been a few members who tweeted out some support of congressman alan grayson as congressman jim mcgovern congressman peter welch really with a cell researcher leo is now full throat for clemency a lot of other members of congress when it says some release espionage act charges dropped everything like that what ultimately started in what they could do but once you're on what has been saying for years that the american will be horrified that the nsa knew what they were doing but he took his oath that more seriously a gesture was unwilling to expose constitutional violations like edward started was an angelina thirty seconds when i have been york times calling far at the outpost oden and chelsea manning's that have pardoned. well i don't think in your hands is gone as far as to call for pardon for kelsey manning at which is on the sad thing is how even as recently as last month's mainstream established media have been citing diplomatic cables and and wore lots released by private manning on those information are still his brain still use on a regular basis and you cannot ask for clemency fo

there's been a few members you've tweeted out some support congressman alan grayson has congressman jim mcgovern congressman peter welch. really rather really going to come out full thought throat for clemency a lot of other members of congress want to see some release espionage charges dropped everything like that well to really snowden did what they couldn't do but wanted to do ron wyden has been saying for years the american people be horrified at the n.s.a. knew what they were doing but he took his oath more seriously i guess or wasn't willing to expose costs to show violations like edward snowden was and your we have thirty seconds what do you make of the new york times calling for both snowden and chelsea manning's kind of pardons well i don't think the new york times has gone as far as to call for a pardon for kelsey manning which is kind of sad seeing as how even as recently as last month mainstream established media have been citing diplomatic cables and and war logs released by private manning those information are still newsworthy and still use on a regular basis and if you're going t

yes i was back on twitter today and came across tweets from massachusetts democratic congressman jim mcgoverntweeting about the omnibus spending bill in the g.o.p. controlled house. congressman mcgovern tweeting this is a 1500 page bill no one has had time to read it my first thought complaining about no time to read boo who big tears from me. this is the same republican complaint when the democrats controlled the house and the democrats dumped on republicans 2500 page obamacare bill with no time to read it just like the democrats now the republicans were all fussed up about that, and, yes, oh boo hooh for them then. well, there is more. congressman mcgovern tweeted a second tweet this time tweeting g.o.p. is using a space bill to rocket this over to the senate. wonder people think we are operating on another planet. another planet? he is right about that. we do think they are all from another planet. they do the same thing to each other and make the same complaints about each other and nothing changes, it is rather insane, isn't it? the members of congress are the only ones in position to ea

said weman jim mcgovern will continue to see surprises in the days ahead because it is such a massive bill. guest: that's right. it was released monday night and the houseboat was on wednesday. that was a quick turnaround. -- the house boat was on wednesday. --vote was on wednesday. all 12 of the individual bills were done on time and that has not been done since 1994. they are telling their members who were miffed about this that they would have more time to scrutinize and offer amendments. those not on the appropriations committee did not have a lot of input into this bill because there was no time. it came under a close rule in the house and no amendments in the senate. many americans are interested in saturday mail delivery. what did you learn? guest: that is a writer that has been on the spending bill for a while. it forbids the u.s. postal service from ending saturday mail. that is something they have proposed to do. the postal service is lost money and a lot of it has -- is due to the fact that they have to pre- fund their employee retirement health care benefits. they are look

>> i think what really bugs me, and my friend, jim mcgovern from massachusetts says this, we shouldn'ta farm bill that makes one person hungrier. it just doesn't make sense. >> right. it's only -- it's only not that bad when the benchmarks are how much we're going to cut, but take a step back for a second, look at this country and say to ourselves, why are we cutting? >> if this is how far we've come and this is the compromise you have to make, whether or not people eat food, i thing we lost the value that's sort of made this country great. we've really gone off the rails here if this is the compromise. and so, you know, this is really a bad bill. if you look at what insurance companies get here, this is a big giveaway to insurance. the government picks up 62% of the premiums. they guarantee 17% of the -- let me get this down. i want to get this right. $17.4 billion of deductibles. they also guarantee, the usda has an agreement with an insurance company that guarantees 14% rate of return. >> everyone -- everyone hearing this, because that was a lot of numbers. i want to say what the ba

nearly all democrats supported it, although jim mcgovern of massachusetts and others complained that the across-the-board cuts known as the sequester go too deep. >> while it begins to you know -- undo the sequester t does so for only two years. and we need to get rid of it foreever, permanently so with this bill we are waste deep instead of neck deep in manure, hur a, i guess. >> ifill: the senate is expected to adopt the full budget by the end of the week. in the meantime, senators today approved a short-term bill to fund the government into saturday. >> ifill: there's word today that the national security agency has tapped into as many as 100,000 computers overseas. "the new york times" reports the agency implanted hardware into the machines, gleaning intelligence information over radio waves. we'll take a closer look at what the n.s.a. is said to be doing and where later in the program. >> ifill: a new video suggests the only u.s. soldier held captive in afghanistan may still be alive. u.s. military officials confirmed today there's a video of army sergeant bowe bergdahl that cit

and if she was here right now, i'm sure she would join with representative jim mcgovern and say, don't cut snap. erlene, may you rest in peace. mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the chair will now recognize the gentleman from north carolina, mr. holding, for five minutes. mr. holding: mr. speaker, at a time when the national debt is over $17 trillion and growing by the second, the government continues to borrow and spend money that we simply do not have. and each day that we do not address this problem, the american people continue to lose faith in washington's ability to spend their tax dollars wisely. mr. speaker, one of our jobs as members of congress is provide aggressive oversight as to how our tax dollars are being spent by the federal agencies. the american people already see the government take far too much of their hard-earned paychecks and they have a right to know how these dollars are being spent. people across the country are struggling to find jobs and make ends meet. now, imagine how frustrating it is for them to find o

said weman jim mcgovern will continue to see surprises in the days ahead because it is such a massive guest: that's right. it was released monday night and the houseboat was on wednesday. that was a quick turnaround. -- the house boat was on wednesday. --vote was on wednesday. all 12 of the individual bills were done on time and that has not been done since 1994. they are telling their members who were miffed about this that they would have more time to scrutinize and offer amendments. those not on the appropriations committee did not have a lot of input into this bill because there was no time. it came under a close rule in the house and no amendments in the senate. many americans are interested in saturday mail delivery. what did you learn? guest: that is a writer that has been on the spending bill for a while. it forbids the u.s. postal service from ending saturday mail. that is something they have proposed to do. the postal service is lost money and a lot of it has -- is due to the fact that they have to pre- fund their employee retirement health care benefits. they are looking to

think he was leading the american people know that this the law.s going beyond representative jim mcgovern who is a democrat from massachusetts sent out this tweet, a very thoughtful editorial in "the new york times." last night on cnn there was a debate on clemency for edward snowden between ruth marcus and glenn greenwald. here's a little bit of that debate. >> the times board also writes, when someone reveals that government officials have routinely and deliberately broken the law, that person should not face life in prison at the hands of the same government. do you agree with the times that snowden should get some form of clemency? >> no, i don't. in fact, if he really believes shouldconstitution he have stuck around, tested the constitutional system, taken his punishment, argued that he was justified in the leaks that he did. he didn't. he just turned tail then fled the country. >> glenn, i'm sure you want to respond to that. >> i think ruth marcus exemplifies everything that is horrible about the d.c. media. first of all, what she said is factually false. if you had stayed in the un