in the crossfire tonight, representatives lo receipta sanchez and james langford.y when the house votes on a bill by fred upton overruling one part of obama care and al w allows people to keep -- if 20 democrats break ranks, it doesn't mean anything. if 40 do, it gets interested. if 80 vote, it's a stampede. here's one example. polls since the obomba carrollout show kay hagen, who's up for reelection and vulnerable next year, losing ground dramatically. so i think this is one of these, don't you have a sense that the pressure is growing to find some answer to this? >> well, again, i'll begin by saying this web side or whatever, there's no reason, if you know it's coming up in three years to nod have you had that done correctly. i get angry when an amazon website freezes up, you know, when an airline web side freezes up so people have a right to be angry, and we need to fix it. my convex is how -- will it be done right? can el get what i need? that's what we want. when you're saying, you know, should we stop the mandate? it depends on whether we can get it up and ru

when we go back to what happened with langford and he was trying to get on the page with mr. park, and he couldn't get there, can you talk about that for a minute? because that's real. there are probably people watching us right now who are trying to get on the page. and can you kind of tell us what you were doing and how that affects things like that. because, you know, they got reporters to sit on telecasts and they say i waited an hour, i waited two hours. tell us how that relates to what you're doing so our constituents can have some kind of assurances that things are going to get better. you follow me? >> absolutely, sir. thank you for the question. i'll just answer quickly because i know we have limited time. one, there have been dramatic improvements in the ability to, as a consumer, create an account and get onto the site in all the metrics that we're seeing, and that's been a function of basically improving the ability of that part of the sector to handle volume through property expansion, software work and also fixing bugs. so many more people are able to get throug

langford had getting on the website where he hit the enter button and it didn't work for an hour and a half? >> so, there's been a lot of problems on that front and many more folks get in now than previously through both the ability for that particular component able to handle more volume through capacity expansion and software. also through bug fixes that have been applied. congressman langford, i would like to follow-up with you afterwards and to understand your situation and we can use that to inform the troubleshooting and fixing. that's a fair -- >> if the gentleman would yield for a second. it's pretty straight forward. it changed colors and did nothing. it's nothing more than that as far as moving it, just a logon to create an account. >> i'll follow-up with you afterwards. >> do you have concrete suggestions on what we can do as a congress to make it more efficient and more effective when we're making significant i.t. purchases on behalf of the american taxpayer. >> i have a couple very specific suggestions and we'll go back to my oral statement. the program management needs

would somebody send me contact info for congressman langford? >> we'll have that contact information for you. i will do one other thing quickly. when you go back, since you're a federal employee, go to the fhbp website, and what you'll find there in a pdf form is a spread sheet. now, mr. chao seems to think that it was not important to give people a shopping list. but i will tell you, if you're a federal employee, postal or nonpostal, you can go to that website, you can look at every single plan, and it will tell you how much the annual rate is, the biweekly rate, how much your government pays for you, and how much you will pay by plan. now, that's not -- it doesn't let you endlessly look at the details of the plan, but for 230-plus plans spread over not just 50 states, but the district of columbia and puerto rico, we provide this to the federal work force. i might suggest that if you can't get some form of legitimate open shopping list up quickly, that currently telling people what their rate is, if they're 27, or 50, is disingenuous because it

langford and thanking each of you. for the incredible effort that you are putting into trying to fix a very serious problem. thank you. second, you do not have to be an opponent or supporter of the health care law to acknowledge that there are significant rollout problems associated with the website. ,hose of us who are supporters i'm a strong supporter of the health care law, are absolutely committed to provided the supported the you need to make this work. there are four issues that are around. the website, and what we have to do to fix it. it has to be fixed. number two, what are the impacts of these cancellation notices that americans are receiving. they thought they had health care were sure that they keep the policy they had. third, the individual mandate that is the subtext of the debate. that is essential to the law. in order to make that work, the website has to work. the fourth is the i.t. purchasing. are there some lessons that we can learn? i tend to think that it is a truly important move ahead on the legi

langford, waiting over an hour and a half. five orders of magnitude difference between the two sommers. which is closer to the truth? quest the german may answer. how many people and our are able to enroll in health care. >> the gentleman previously said 70,000. is that correct? >> 17,000 registration per hour is the number we have. >> i imagine you have a war room somewhere where you are directing these operations and you have some big number, the only number that matters, how many are enrolling right now per hour? can you tell us? >> actually -- >> just in number. come on. we both love numbers. quest let the gentleman answer. your time has expired. it is a harvard m.i.t. problem, i think. you can talk more afterwards. >> in terms of enrollment numbers, they will be released shortly. >> i think the gentleman. we now go to the gentleman from pennsylvania. quest thank you. the affordable care act was passed into law in 2010. it seeks to increase competition in the marketplace, to help ring down health care costs. it ends the pr

langford in thinking each of you for the incredible effort you're putting into to try to fix a very serious problem. thank you. second, you don't have to be an opponent or supporter of the health care law to acknowledge that there are significant rollout problems associated with the website. and those of us who are supporters and i'm a strong supporter of the health care law, are absolutely committed to providing the support you need to make this thing work. there's really four issues that we have royaling around. one is the website. what do we have to do to fix it? it's got to be fixed. what's the impact of these cancellation notices that a lot of americans are receiving, they thought they had health care and assured they could keep the policy they had and the problem gets compounded if the website is not working. and then third is the individual mandate that is subtext of the debate and essential to the law, and the fourth is the i.t. purchasing. are there some lessons that we can learn? i tend to think it's important to move ahead on the issa connelly legislation. that's the context that

with under three minutes to go, msu puts the nail in the coffin. 40 yard touch down, langford a buck 20. it was the most lopsided win in the series since 1967. >> we shust robinson -- shut robinson down, it was a two-headed quarterback. how did we do it? played good defense. played our defense. there was no surprises. what they saw is what we saw. >> big 10 action, penn state and illinois look to get back on track after losing last week. sam finkin - tied at 17. to overtime. chrissian haken berg on third. kyle comes up big with a first td catch. 24-17. now it's illinois's turn. this is when nathan selhouse, his path tipped at the ends zone. penn state fired up and hold on for the win. >> how about wisconsin and iowa looking to break a record of 42 and two. second quarter wisconsin down six. star i have to peterson off a 44 yard touchdown. there's more where that came from. star vi pitch and catch. joel star vi with a 114 passing yard. the badgers win 28-9. irish quarterback tommy reece through a school record. today continuing it against another military branch. here a pass to tj jon

. >> 40 yard touchdown, langford. 29-6, a lopsided win. >> ohio's coach hasn't lost a game in 35 months. things didn't go well. that's not good. danny etling's pass intercepted. then on ohio state's second play from scrimmage, different story. braxton miller to jeff. produced defense mia. 40-yard touchdown. ohio state extending to 21 games, ball game. how about big 10 action, penn state and illinois back on track after losing last week. penn state kicker sam from 35 yards out. game tied at 17. we go to overtime. christen on third and call carder coming up big with his first touch down catch. 24-17. now it's illinois's turn. nathan schillehouse's pass. intercepted. fights and holds on to win 24-17 in ot. >> they are resilient. we have a great bunch of kids. they come back every week, work hard. i'm proud to be their head football coach. >> wisconsin and iowa looking to break their record. joel stavy to jacob petersen - dude get off me. badgers up 7-6, staffy pitch and catch to gurr around abederus. the badgers win 28-9. >> we kept competing, doing what we do, getting the run game going,

here is steve langford from affiliate wcbs. >> i'm the one that hired you in this job, man. >> reportercello, new york, arrested and handcuffed to a wall on suspicion of drunk driving. throwing that clock leads to another charge against mayor gordon jenkins, whose dwi arrest is the latest episode in a history of hostility between the police here and the mayor, according to his attorney. >> people in monticello who formed his base have suffered indignities at the hands of the same police officers. and they understand what he was saying. >> don't call me sir. don't call me sir. >> mayor, is that better? >> don't call me mayor. call me [ bleep ] because that's what i am. >> reporter: there's more, much more. hours of video released of the mayor not happy with his arrest. >> what are you going to do? put me in jail for five years? i'll get out in five years and i'm going to [ bleep ] tell you what the [ bleep ] you did to me, and you're going to -- and i'm going to come back to you. >> reporter: village trustee filed the request to release these videos. >> he really need help. he need to st

i'd rather have my constitutional rights than be politically correct and the very very ugly amber langford in annie collinge the two british students find themselves in broiled in controversy today after the sun newspaper published a picture of them dressed up for a hollowing contest as of the burning of the world trade center towers believe it or not the pair actually won a one hundred fifty pound best dressed award at the chester england contest that i don't know what's worse but these girls think the deaths of three thousand innocent people are funny or the fact that someone actually decided to reward them for this offensive behavior both are just and very clearly. when the supreme court issued its citizens united decision back in two thousand and ten many in the media predicted it would sure in a new era of corporate electioneering and they were right of course but they only had half the story you won't hear anywhere in the mainstream media but over the past decade or so our elected representatives of slowly but. surely had the power to decide our elections over to a very small handful

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joining us from capitol hill is congressman john langford, and, congressman, good morning.we begin with the rundown of what's happening today on capitol hill? is it true the gop is voting for a gop -- i'm sorry, that congress is voting for a gop bill that would effectively dot same thing that president obama said he wanted to do yesterday, which is keep people on existing plans? >> it's similar to it. what the president is saying, if you're on this plan now, the limited group of people, and all of the other stipulations, we're saying remove the stipulations. if the plan was available at all. that plan is available for anyone who wants to be able to get the plan, it allows them the options. this opens it up to a free market to say we won't include all of the business solutions. you had to previously be on that plan, you had to prove that, and also -- the plan has to promote the other exchange plans, all of the other restrictions, and just clear all of that and make it simple. >> to be clear, so the gop strategy now is not repeal obama care. it's make it work? >> no. no, it's