latham: mr. chairman, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. latham: mr. chairman, i come today with h.r. 1765, a bill to provide up to $253 million fr the airport improvement program, or any other account in the f.a.a., to the operations account. the purpose of this transfer authority is to restore a reliable and safe service in the commercial air traffic system by reducing our eliminating employee furlough days. i think we all agree the f.a.a. and the administration has handled the sequester poorly. the f.a.a. has negotiated in bad faith with the f.a.a. employees, the airlines, the flying public, and the congress and the administration has played shameful politics with sequestration at the cost of hardworking american families. as i have often said, this is simply no way to run a government. but the congress is stepping in to correct the problems created by the administration's inaction. we are taking this step because of the gross m

. >> pauline latham? duresta, nd went to and at the same time he visitted a manufacturing company. does he not agree with me to get manufacturing companies to continue to export and expand their exports, especially the in in my constituent derbyhire is the best way out of recession? new saw them go into export markets and investing in atrent usships and doing everything this company is supporting and we want to back many more firms doing that. but people in derby hire who want to see another year of a council tax freeze need a vote very carefully on may 2. >> joan walley? >> will the prime minister give careful consideration to the recommendations of the nvironmental report on pesticides and will he on monday of next week give his government's backing to the european commission's proposed moratorium on the use of three neonicotinoids? >> i will look very carefully at what the honorable lady says. i am the live patron of the oxfordhire bee keepers association. i have i thinkee

he is responding to representatives latham about how the sequestration came about. [video clip] ,> i would tell my friend chairman latham, that we agree on one thing, and this is the notion that this is not a good way to run a government. but i have to remind him and all of my colleagues that a year and a half ago we were in this house in this chamber talking about the budget control act. about a year and a half ago we had a vote. support the legislation because i felt that sequestration was a bad idea. the house passed the bill. the senate passed the bill. and the president signed it. host: we continue our discussion regarding congress passing a bill to ease flight delays. our next call comes from ryan in new castle, pennsylvania on our line for democrats. you are on "washington journal." caller: thank you. i think passing the bill for the faa a thing is utterly disgusting when you think about the fact, as an earlier caller said, head start kids are getting cut, cancer patients -- i think it is time the democrats stand up for something. what ends up happening is th

portman how do you explain murkowski who's possibly going to cross latham in florida who's also said she's in support of gay marriage how do you explain those to how do you explain those flips will portman again is another that doesn't surprise me he was kind of criticized because like i just i just knew that from her i thought you i thought you i thought you took the rest of your dollars to fix and i don't think i was able to enter yeah and when you have a personal experience of course your personal experiences should influence your politics because we agree there yeah i mean you will you live your life that way now he could have made a decision to make a principled stand still against gay marriage but he didn't and that's not surprising and i mean i listen i do feel that way to the point where i've even said for those programs with what tactics are coming out so late isn't all right usual off base there i don't know that attack on obama and obama only did that recently not as i said i was i said the progress he said that i think you guys went too far it's an evolution what do you w

. >> warner: republicans, like tom latham of iowa, accused president obama of playing politics. >> were taking action to end the administration's political games that threaten our passengers' rights and their safety. the fact that we're here today trying to sol this problem is the result of the sequester. i remind you that the president, the president brought the sequester to the table. >> warner: democrat steny hoyer- - the house minority whip-- rejected the criticism, and he challenged republicans to address cuts in other agencies. >> we ought not to be mitigating the sequester's effect on just one segment when children, the sick, our military and many other groups who will be impacted by this irresponsible policy are left unhelped. >> warner: at the white house today, spokesman jay carney said congress is taking what he called a band-aid approach to easing the impact of the sequester. but he said, the president will sign the bill. now a look at the quick turn of events of the past 48 hours to ease flight delays and what triggered it. alan levin covers the aviation industry for bloo

this year a letter was sent by secretary lahood to the leadership, including myself and chairman latham, that this sequestration was going to cause a problem in the efficiency of the air traffic control system because there would be a furlough of air traffic controllers in order to meet the cuts that were required by sequestration. that was done in february. in march, when it sequestration was invoked, the faa had to implement a plan to see what it had to do to meet the number of cuts it had to make, but not to take away the safety of our air traffic control system knowing that its efficiency would be diminished. today we are here bringing a fix to this situation. furloughs have been taken, 10% of employees have been furloughed, and that has a result of passengers' inconvenience, delays, or canceled flights. the problem is, and i agree with my chairman, this is not a good solution because there are other agencies that have to make their cuts and are in a crisis themselves. hopefully not. when we come back from our work time, there will not be another agency, another crisis that we have

latham: i thank the speaker. this morning was a remarkable time. the president, even though it's 65 days late, came out with a budget today. and it's interesting to note that it's about $600 billion of new taxes after we've just had $60 billion tax increase on this economy, with the health care bill another $1.2 trillion of new taxes and fees. his budget proposal increases the size of government 50% over the next 10 years. mr. speaker, i've been home for the last couple weeks talking to constituents, and what they tell me is the fact that they want a balanced budget. the president's budget never gets to balance. our budget does. they want to balance the budget. they want us to get control of spending in washington because they know how it affects themselves, their families and the future of this country. this spending coupled with all of the new regulations, the health care mandates coming down on small businesses, they are stopping job growth. we have to get some common sense in this house. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gent

this year a letter was sent by secretary lahood to the leadership, including myself and chairman lathamat this sequestration was going to cause a problem in the efficiency of the air traffic control system because there would be a furlough of air traffic controllers in order to meet the cuts that were required by sequestration. that was done in february. in march, when sequestration was invoked, the faa had to implement a plan to see what it had to do to meet the number of cuts it had to make, but not to take away the safety of our air traffic control system knowing that its efficiency would be diminished. today we are here bringing a fix to this situation. furloughs have been taken, 10% of employees have been furloughed, and that has a result of passengers' inconvenience, delays, or canceled flights. the problem is, and i agree with my chairman, this is not a good solution because there are other agencies that have to make their cuts and are in a crisis themselves. hopefully not. when we come back from our work time, there will not be another agency, another crisis that we have to star