. >> we're joined now by democratic congressman jim moran of virginia.voking this behavior? we have a congressman suggesting that the president who won a majority at the last election should get out of this country. >> you know human nature. it's weakness of character. did you see the play the "lion kin king"? >> i did. >> don't they remind you of the hyenas. people like mr. west is not only representative of the african-american community or of the republican people yet alone the american public. what he says is of little or no consequence. it's unfortunate. he just seems clueless. now that he has climbed aboard ship, he's climbed this ladder of opportunity that was constructed by so many of his ancestors, sweat, sacrifice, blood. they did everything they could for his generation to be successful, but now he's climbed board, he wants to push the ladder off. i'm up here. if you're not with me, too bad. president obama, fortunately, is the kind of guy that says i was very fortunate to get where i am, and i'm going to steady that ladder of opportunity by r

. >>> jim moran says he was refused recognition when he wanted to speak on the house floor yesterday. why? we'll ask him in a few minutes. >>> he served as rnc chairman now hailey barber out of office one day for granting a large number of pardons including five convicted murders. details, next. that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm. for half the calories plus veggie nutrition. could've had a v8. the calcium they take because they don't take it with food. switch to citracal maximum plus d. it's the only calcium supplement that can be taken with or without food. that's why my doctor recommends citracal maximum. it's all about absorption. >>> president obama hitting the road tonight for a big chicago fund-raiser. r & b singer will perform. tickets range from 44 bucks to 1,000. that's just the opening event. the president hopes hometown crowds will fork over $35,000 per couple for an exclusive fund-raiser later that night. >>> michelle obama has not red the controversial book about her and her husband. there's no truth about the allegations. she did not battle with former chief of staf

jim moran made some brief comments to reporters. our program scheduled on the c- span network. coming up next, back to new hampshire and a final look at the poll numbers ahead of the primary. host: how do you scream at likely voters? guest: hit screens out for very likely voters. also a portion by census-based demographics, geography, and so on. they have to pass a screened question in terms of self- identifying their intention of how likely it is they will vote in the upcoming election. unless they say "very likely," we screened and. a casual observer would be screened out. we are only interested in getting those who are most likely to vote. it varies from year to year, election to election. in 2008, we used a looser screening process because you had independents jumping out of different primaries. on monday night in 2008, you could have a person voting for john mccain in the republican primary and then on thursday, you could have that same person voting for hillary clinton. in that case, a loose screen was appropriate. in this cas

the outer loop, you will find delies leaving 95 headed around towards jim moran avenue.les per hour. that's a check of your fox 5 on-timetraffic. ic. >>> the tailgaters won. jiffy lube live has lifted the tail gate ban it enacted last year. the officials say the move was made after receiving widespread complaints from customers. grills will now be allowed but tents and can opies will still be forbidden out there. new rules include an aggressive enforcement on open alcohol contains are in the parking lot. >>> for the first time since 2004, u.s. album seams are up. neilsen sound scan data which includes digital and physical sales show that, in 2011, more than 400 million albums sold. a large part thanks to the popular singer adele. she came out on top with nearly six million copies of the album 21 sold. michael buble and lady gaga also contributed. >>> restaurants in the district are coming together to save you some cash. >> they are gearing up for fortunate week. this morning, annie is with with them. she has everything you need to know. we'll check in with her after the

it is the outer loop right at the exit for jim moran avenue. for a while, we had the right lane blocked. you will find that our beltway lanes are open. i've got four lanes getting by at the scene. if you look closely, we have accident activity still there hugging the right shoulder and skiing the exit avenue to georgia avenue. all lanes are open outer loop of the beltway, going to start to stack up on you as you work your way around from new hampshire avenue. this is right in the heart of our rush hour. this is typically a slow spot headed in towards silver spring. lanes are open outer loop. beltway headed in towards college park. take it back inside, quick peek at what is happening on 66. traffic volume building as you work your way in there fair oaks headed in towards 123. more slow traffic approaching the beltway. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. >>> the battle for the republican presidential nomination officially kick off when voters hit the polls for the iowa caucuses today. the latest des moines register poll has mitt romney

yesterday i was in the house chamber and saw jim moran literally stand at a podium in front of 24 touristsnd saying we should try to pass the payroll extension with the c-span cameras turned off. nevertheless, you'll see probably the same thing friday when there's a pro form that session. this has been a tactic employed by nancy pelosi and house republicans back in 2008 when they wanted to talk about an energy bill. so the minority party usually does this type of thing if they're trying to garner attention and trying to get some traction. will it really resonate with the american people? will the 24 hour media machine has been focused very much on iowa and new hampshire, i don't suspect it will resonate with the voting public just yet. but the payroll tax cut extension is an important issue. 160 million americans affected. if there's a chance that could expire, i'm sure you'll hear a lot of constituent complaints come february. >> luke russert there on capitol hill. the man who is working today will be casually attired. >> in my buffalo business casual, martin. >> thank you very much. >>>

speaker at the event including jim moran of virginia and former chief prosecutor of the u.s. military commissions at guantanamo bay. this is an hour and a half. >> thank you for coming. i'm peter bergen. i run the national securities program here. we're really delighted -- "delighted" probably not the right verb, but happy to have this distinguished panel to discuss we called the panel guantanamo forever? because that's the main question at hand whether or not guantanamo will close and how might that happen? to begin, we'll have congressman moran who is serving his 11th term as u.s. representative from virginia's 8th district, a member of the senior appropriations committee, a key critic of divisions in the national defense authorization act and a great act of political courage, congressman from virginia voted against the authorization of the act because of the provisions related to the military detention of terrorism suspects. we also have from the united kingdom, andy worthington as he's probably done more work to basically explain who exactly is in guantanamo more than any

the reasons they hurt our constitute, and jim moran mentioned it well about our greatest asset is who, a republican hero, put it very well in nominating george -- the real george bush i say, the first bush president, the second term, you know, he said our greatest strength is not our wealth or our power, but our ideas, our ideals of individual freedom, justice, and the rule of law. guantanamo clearly violates those principles of america. they are not who we are. it hurts us every day it remains open. what can we do about it? i've got very depressed because i've been involved in this now for nine and a half years, and things don't seem to get better, but i want to share something. a few weeks ago, i went to the robert f. kennedy awards in new york, and one of the awards was given to al gore, and i thought, oh, my gosh, why is al gore getting this? he stood up and made a speech which encouraged me, and it gave guidance on what we could do. he said, and he was talking mostly about the environment, but other things in the democracy today, and he said, you know, people come and they are de

our subcommittee chairman mike simpson from idaho, our ranking member jim moran from virginia have aderful partnership and working relationship and because of that and working honestly with the administration we now made substantial progress. we increased substantially, 10% in the house, appropriations for the indian health service. the presidents facing a difficult budget. he reduce the bia budget very slightly. we thought it was very -- and if you look at indian funding on thing like impact aid, things like housing across the board while it didn't receive the same increase as we saw in other areas it was actually essentially held harmless in the house and that is a good thing when we are experiencing difficulty in other areas. that bipartisan relationship has been very powerful and very good. i think you have also seen it expressed in the establishment of the natural resources committee for the first time in many many years in the house a subcommittee on indian and native alaskan affairs. that is something my good friend dale keeled the end i have worked on for many years and final

our subcommittee chairman from idaho, our ranking member jim moran from virginia have a wonderful partnership been working relationship and because of that and working honestly with the administration we have made substantial progress. we increased substantially 10% in the house appropriations for the indian health service. the president is facing a difficult budget and reduce the budget very slightly. we thought actually it was too much and so we've restored some of that funding. and if you look at indian funding of things like impact and across the board while it didn't see the same increases that we saw in other areas it was recently held harmless and that is a good thing when we are experiencing difficulties in other areas. so that bipartisan relationship has been very powerful and very good. i think you've also seen it expressed in the establishment in the national resources committee for the first time in many years in the house subcommittee on indian and native alaskan affairs. that's something that my good friend dale kildee and i have worked on for many years and it finally came to f

and several lawmakers and i saw this, too, were on their telephones using electronic devices and jim morane was falling asleep. >> he did. it sounded like the president was clearly targeting the independents. we told you about the poll that came out a couple of weeks ago where the independents are over 40% of the voting block in this country and they wind up putting people into office. so that was the target audience. but ultimately, at this stage in any president's tenure, usually they'd be talking about their record. look, i need another term because i did this, this and this. when you look at his record, particularly with the economy, it's so bad he can't really run on it and the two big parts of the legislation that he did get, a democrat congress to pass, the stimulus and health care, they are so unpopular, can't run on that so instead, he says forget about that. let's talk about fairness. so that is what he's going to be talking about when he hits the stump today. >> let's get to some of your headlines for a wednesday. we begin with a developing story overnight. u.s. navy seals pulli

house pro-forma session representative jim moran a democrat from virginia attempted to be recognized in the house. the chair did not recognize him. here's a look at what happened on the floor. house re >> pursuant to section four of o the house resolution 493 with nn legislative business will beay. conducted on this day. per% to the section 493, the house stands adjourned until >> a.m. on friday january 13th, 2012. >> as you and may have seemed jr moran seekinggi recognition that the house gaveling out of a pro forma section as democrats can bring republicans back to extend the cable tax cuts for a full thaorather than just the two passed which was passed before the house went into the holiday recess. we will havein another session r you, live coverage of the 11 on friday and the house back for legislative work a week from today. ; his attempt to be recognized on the floor representative spoke to reporters off the floor. this is five minutes. >> you want to ask a question? >> do you think this is going to go down to the lawyer again? now at the end of february where the leaders have

jim moran was on the floor for about 10 minutes. he talked about the year-long payroll tax cut extension democrats are looking for, and that unemployment benefits. we are unable to show those moments in the house because we do not control the cameras there. we can only show you what they feed to us. the house is back on tuesday, january 17 come up with boats at 6:30 eastern. we'll have live coverage here on c-span. a short time ago president obama announced an initiative to shrink the size of government by merging trade, commerce agencies into one. the president spoke for about 20 minutes. >> good morning, everybody. please have a seat. welcome to the white house. i see all sorts of small business people here, and i am thrilled to have you here. as small business owners, you know as well as anybody that if we are going to rebuild an economy that lasts, an economy that creates good, middle-class jobs, then we will all have to up our game. the other day i met with business leaders who are doing their part by insourcing, by bringing jo