[laughter] >> john dingell said that i hope the tea party and the members will follow john boehner. rarely have we heard such a firestorm like this. your said it was critical of what was going on and factions within the republican party. what is your observation on what that means for what is ahead in the new year for the republicans? >> i will end with this -- as we have had a good day -- 160 million people are confident they will get their tax cut, the first paycheck in january. 48 million seniors are confident they will be able to see their doctors and 2.2 million americans are pleased they will not lose their unemployment insurance. there will be time to talk about the other matters as we go forward i think the american people's voice was heard very loudly. they want us to work together in a productive, positive, constructive way. i am hopeful that we will do that. thank you very much. have a great holiday. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> before going to hawaii from the holidays, president obama

the people's work and i offer my congratulations to the chairman who is on the floor tonight, john dingell, ranking member of the committee, mr. waxman. chairman of the transportation committee, john mica and chairman bill shuster. i urge all my members to support this legislation and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from washington is recognized. mr. larsen: i yield to the gentleman from california, three minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. waxman: during the last year and a and-a-half a series of tragic failures has made it clear that we need stronger laws. pipeline failures have occurred across the country from california and montana to michigan and pennsylvania. we have seen natural gas pipeline explosions and ruptured oil pipelines spilling oil into rivers. in july of 2010, a crude oil pipeline ruptured near marshal, michigan and flowed into the river. the river is still being cleaned up in. september of 2010, the natural gas pipeline ruptured and exploded, eight people died, many more were injured. the gas-fed infer

[laughter] i hope dingell said that the tea party and the members will follow john boehner. rarely have we heard such a firestorm like this. your said it was critical of what was going on and factions within the republican party. what is your observation on what that means for what is ahead in the new year for the republicans? >> i will end with this -- as we have had a good day -- 160 million people are confident they will get their tax cut, the first paycheck in january. 48 million seniors are confident they will be able to see their doctors and 2.2 million americans are pleased they will not lose their unemployment insurance. there will be time to talk about the other matters as we go forward i think the american people's voice was heard very loudly. they want us to work together in a productive, positive, constructive way. i am hopeful that we will do that. thank you very much. have a great holiday. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> house democratic leaders reflecting this morning on reachi

. >>> congressman john ging dingell told role call that if a version of himself was transported to thisnvironment in congress, quote, i'd probably want to go and vomit. latest problem, another threat of a government shutdown, another game of brinkmanship and another effort to kick the proverbial can down the road. we just saw president obama telling an audience, specifically the old executive office building, congress cannot go on vacation until they deal with this. we're hearing reports that, you know, the senate had a package to keep the government funded but the white house and harry reid said you are not going to get that done without getting the payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance handled. i guess i wonder, in this grand series of deadline showdowns we've had this year, in the summer it sort of seemed like maybe the republicans had the upper hand. now the democrats are playing hard ball. does anybody -- does either party win the messaging war on this? >> no, i think everybody loses. there's a certain element of the boy who cried wolf here. we're on the fifth, sixth, seventh,

i agree with my colleague, congressman john dingell, who said this is a solution in search of a problem the energy and commerce committee markup, the majority showed us that this bill isn't about farm dust at all. it's about hacking another hole in the clean air act. americans are so sick of these political games. they want jobs, not fear mongering and baseless accusations. we shouldn't be wasting our time and theirs dealing with myths. we have real problems that need real solutions. we should be extending the payroll tax relief for hardworking american families. we should be passing a transportation bill that puts americans back to work, rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges. we should be extending unemployment insurance to millions of americans who are still out pounding the pavement day in and day out trying to find work. republicans need to stop stoking the fears of farmers and rural americans and get back to fixing the real crisis facing our country, the jobs crisis. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida. mr. webster: i reserve my time. the speaker