john fleming recently was quoted as saying this -- obama care is the most dangerous piece of legislation ever passed in congress. it is the most existential threat to our economy. president obama marked -- mocked contingenciesman fleming's remark yesterday. >> one congressman said that obama care is the most dangerous piece of legislation ever passed. ever in the history of america, this is the most dangerous piece of legislation. >> congressman john fleming of louisiana is joining us here in "the situation room." thanks for coming in. >> thank you. >> did you absolutely say those words? >> absolutely. >> you believe this is the most dangerous piece of legislation ever. >> yeah. >> in all the years of the united states of america? >> yes, this legislation, obama care, removes $716 billion -- >> going back to legislation that approved slavery, all of that, even more dangerous than that? >> yes. this affects millions. in fact it will affect probably every single american. it covers one-sixth of the economy. people are being laid off. 77%, wolf, of every job created today is a part-time job

louisiana's john fleming. do you think this is worth shutting down the government over? >> i think this is worth fighting over obamacare, which the american people reject. >> reporter: and worth shutting down the government? >> that's all i have to say. >> reporter: but for the first time, some house republicans like new york's peter king, are saying they won't go along with their g.o.p. colleagues. >> i'm going to vote against it. i have to vote against it. all we're doing is leading ourselves into a government shutdown for no reason. we've been in effect hijacked by ted cruz and by a segment of this party that has prevented us from keeping the government op open. >> reporter: the question right now is are there enough peter kings to bring down the bill tonight and force a change of course? we won't know the answer to that, scott, until the vote happens and at that point we will only be a few hours away from the midnight deadline. >> pelley: nancy cordes, thank you. now to the white house and correspondent major garrett. major? >> reporter: scott, the white house calls

republican but one voted for the bill which was championed by house conservatives like louisiana's john fleming. >> all we need a couple democrats over in the senate, maybe three or four even and we'll sit it on the president's desk and be ready to go. >> reporter: but the leader of senate democrats, harry reid, has already made it clear there will be no defections on his side. >> any bill that defunds obamacare is dead, dead. it's a waste of time, as i've said before. >> reporter: if congress fails to fund the government by october 1 national parks, museums, and monuments will close. essential government employees like air traffic controllers and u.s. troops will have to work temporarily without pay while workers considered nonessential will be furloughed, causing delays on services ranging from i.r.s. refunds to passport processing. >> this place is a mess. >> reporter: house democratic leader nancy pelosi argue advocate republicans aren't just courting a shutdown, they're trying to deprive millions of americans of affordable health insurance. >> either you don't know what you are doing or th

rights of our military and their first amendment right and the rights of our chaplain more than john fleming from louisiana. john, thank you for your efforts in that and for being here tonight and we'd love to hear your thoughts on this very special amendment and right for americans. mr. fleming: i'd like to thank my good friend from virginia for having this special order this evening and the leadership that the gentleman has provided in this area with the prayer caucus and so many other things, both on armed services and outside of armed services, in that realm. mr. speaker, i'm greatly inspired and moved this evening with the speeches that i have heard, talking about religious liberty. and all of the things that we're struggling with right now, with religious liberty. religious freedom is at center of who we are as americans. with foresight and clarity, the founding fathers enshrined religious freedom as as a first amendment right. quote, congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. the first amendment. despite these undispute

john fleming said he thinks maybe that is possible. is that something you agree with?a situation where you do not get what you want? >> when you look at any of the big-budget deals that come out of washington in the last few decades, many have been attached to the debt ceiling. when president obama's running around saying he did not negotiate with republicans on the debt ceiling, he failed to remember the history that he himself enter into -- entered into and signed. the president has done that. you have seen bill clinton, george bush, ronald reagan. they have all negotiate a budget deals. default is not an option or something we are pushing for. they have all entered into negotiations and agreed to budget reforms that have been good for our economy and country. >> this is a different type of question. you are in year three of your majority. is there a single day, what was the best day of your majority so far? what was the day you looked around and said this is how it is supposed to work? >> the best it was probably the day that john boehner yanks it out of nancy pelos

. >> congressman john fleming of louisiana joins me live now.u, carol. >> thank you for being with me this morning, i appreciate it. i know you wanted to defund obama care but you say tying it to the federal budget and possibly a government shutdown isn't the best strategy for republicans so you seem to be at odds with the more conservative end of your party and a lot of pundits say because you're not alone in that, the republican party seems to be in disarray. how would you characterize it? >> carol, i would say that the republican party is, i think, unifying on this issue. it's the white house that's in disarray over the implementation of obama care. and there are a couple of good strategies and we're going to apply both of them first to give the american people the opportunity to rise up and support a full defunding of obama care prior to implementation. >> but, sir, the house has done that 41 times or something like that already. >> well, no, the house has voted to repeal in one way or another 41 times. to actually defund and connect that wi

. >> and republican congressman john fleming of louisiana said this. >> ted cruise and mike lee have been asking for the fight, the conservative base have been asking for the fight. we'll give them the fight. >> in the meeting of republican house members, the hill reports that john boehner said this about his critics. people say a lot of things about me, boehner told gop lawmakers in a closed door meeting according to two who attend. people outside this room and inside this room. i just let that -- [ bleep ] roll off my back. president obama met with business leaders today who are worried that house republicans could hold the debt ceiling hostage to defund obama care. >> just flip the script, imagine the situation in which a democratic speaker said to a republican president -- i'm not going to increase the debt ceiling unless you increase corporate taxes by 20%. if you don't do it we'll default on the debt and cause a worldwide financial crisis. even though that democratic speaker didn't hatch the votes to force through. that particular piece of legislation. they would simply say, we

out,ank you all for coming i am congressman john fleming from louisiana. physician and small business owner. yesterday the president was giving a speech in maryland and he quoted a congressman saying that that congressman said that obamacare is the worst piece of legislation ever. well, ladies and him and, that congressman was me. i fully stand behind that statement. as you just heard, congressman ,rawford said, for heaven sakes and it. when we have entitlement programs that america can ill afford, we are now launching even a new entitlement program that will be a massive transfer of income from one class of people to another. destroying our income, destroying jobs, and really, perversely actually removing roles from the healthcare they are already on. why in the world would be want to do that. in the final analysis, what obamacare represents for the american people is not only loss of the insurance that they already have, but a steep rise -- we know that since the beginning of the year 77% of all new jobs are part-time jobs. that is because companies all

i am congressman john fleming from louisiana, a small-business owner. yesterday,, the president was giving a speech in maryland and he quoted a congressman saying that congressman said that obama care is the worst piece of legislation ever. ladies and gentlemen, that congressman was me. i fully stand behind that i am congressman john fleming fromstatement. as you just heard, congressman crawford said that in the. when we have entitlement programs that america can ill afford, we are now launching a new entitlement for graham that will be a massive transfer of income from one class of people destroying our income, destroying jobs, and perversely removing people from the healthcare roles they are already on. why in the world would we want to do that? in the final analysis, what obamacare represents for the american people is not only loss of the insurance they already have but a steep rise in the cost of their health care and insurance and the loss of their jobs or reduction of that job down to part-time because we know that since the beginning of the year

john fleming from louisiana. he has been so important to the ontribution.at to be here with you all. like most of us, i came to washington five years ago as a physician as well as a business owner who has to cover hundreds of people in their health insurance as well as my own family. i was quite distressed with were health care had led us to that point. we came here to reform health care. what was that we needed to reform? we sell the encroachment of government into health care making it less effective and ore expensive. we came here to put into it -- instead, we got obamacare. in the last couple of days, some very good friends of president obama turned away from obamacare. arren buffett said this, obamacare is a tapeworm on this ation's economy. what congress should have done was to lower the cost of care first and then try to expand it to others. instead, the government has taken over 1/6 of the economy. and has attempted to expand health care without doing a thing to lower costs. what is the result? you will have many more people carrying cards, but no d

i am congressman john fleming from louisiana, physician, small business owner. yesterday, the president was giving a speech in maryland, and he quoted a congressman saying that the congressman said that obamacare is the worst piece of legislation ever. well, ladies and gentlemen, that congressman was me. and i fully stand behind that statement. as you just heard congressman crawford say, for heaven sakes, during a time when we have an entitlement programs that ill-afford, we are now launching even a new entitlement program that will be a mass transfer of income from one class of able to another. destroying our income, destroying jobs, and really perversely actually removing people from the health care roles they are already on. why in the world would we want to do that? in the final analysis, what obamacare represents for the losscan people is not only of insurance that they already have, but a steep rise in the cost of their health care and their insurance and a loss of their jobs or a reduction of that job down to part-time. because we know that since the begi

hastings of the house natural resources committee, and ranking member peter defazio, chairman john fleming of the fisheries, wildlife, oceans subcommittee, and the chairman of the education and work force committee, john kline and ranking member george miller. their assistant reflects a long standing tradition of treating territory issues as essentially nonpartisan. to summarize briefly, the northern mariana islands is the only coastal jurisdiction that does not have ownership of the submerged land off its coast. this corrects that irregularity and provides the same ownership rights over the submerged lands surrounding the northern marianas as are provided by federal law to guam, the u.s. virgin islands and american so me a -- samoa. additionally it reschedules the rate of increase of the minimum wage in the northern mariana islands. but it retains the mandate to reach the federal minimum wage evel which will occur in 2018. 82 -- the wage has risen 82% since 2007. 16.5% each year. the government accountability office has reported uncertainty over how this rapid change effects the local eco