in just a few minutes we're going to be talking with new jersey congressman leonard lance. he will be questioning secretary sebelius when she finally appears before the house energy and commerce committee. >>> martha wallace, the voice of edna on the simpsons has died. the long-time television actress' credits from playing the secretary on "the bob newhart show" to "murphy brown." the actress plays who lisa simpson said, quote, cheers to the hilarious, kind, fab marcia wallace who has taken her leave of us. heaven is now a much funnier place because of you, marcia. >>> a massive manhunt for a gunman lasting late into the night. a terrifying ordeal as a bus filled with students burst into flames on a busy highway. the whole thing caught on cellphone videotape. plus, a very real threat of a nationwide cyber attack crippling america's entire power grid. no electricity, cellphone, no gasoline, fresh food, clean water, and no way out. >> looking like a total power outage across the entire country. >> a colossal and history making blackout. >> the likes of which we have never see

leonard lance. florida congressman bill young told a reporter that he support aid clean budget. congressman, mario diaz barlart told "the miami herald" he would happily vote for a clean bill. 217. richard hanna is for it. 214. tim griffin of arkansas 215. representative don young from alaska said he would vote for a clean budget.

member of congress involved in this process i sat down earlier with republican representative leonard lance of new jersey and i started by asking him why he thinks both republicans and democrats are to blame for this. i think that we should fund the government and certainly we should pay our bills on time and the fact that the government is now in a balance i think is a failure of all of those who serve in washington i would hope that the president would come to the negotiating table as we republicans have suggested on the republican side i would have preferred to have a continuing resolution voted in july and then we could proceed with negotiations from that point but we are where we are and i think that we should all sit down at the table and i would particularly encourage the president the united states to do so in the spirit of bipartisan cooperation what do you make of what democrats say that they'll sit at the table once the government gets funded should negotiations continue as the government shuts down or should we fix that problem and then negotiate over larger spending bills. i th

americans as possible and i hope moving forward we can work in a bipartisan capacity congressman leonard lance from new jersey thanks so much for coming on. so we've all heard of too big to fail that affliction on wall street of major banks dominating the market and extracting costly bailouts from taxpayers but you know this problem transcends wall street and searches into other sectors of our economy too as companies merge with each other into behemoths this is evident in the heavily consolidated telecom industry artie's period boring explores too big to talk you remember the term too big to fail it's been used since the two thousand and eight financial collapse to explain how the biggest banks are so large that the economy would collapse if they did and their two thousand and thirteen and the biggest financial firms are even bigger than they were in two thousand and eight and it's not just the banks the wireless telecommunications industry is seeing a new wave of consolidation coupled with price hikes is it possible mobile carriers are starting a new era of too big to talk so much so that a

of obama saying i told you so well are there i spoke with one of those on the right congressman leonard lance of new jersey and i first asked him what he made of the last few weeks of the obamacare rollout i believe that the website has been a debacle that was the word used by terry have health and human services today and i think it has to be repaired as quickly as possible well with regard to this website you know this really wasn't the work of the government per se it was the work of private contractors and this is increasingly a problem throughout government you could say it's a systemic problem of private contractors not fulfilling an obligation and bilking the government out of a lot of money this happens in the department of defense of the tearooms of billions of dollars so why is there so much attention directed at obamacare in this private contractor issue but less attention directed to these other issues of private contractors i think we should examine all time. yes we have contracts in the private sector sometimes they work and sometimes they do not and of course c.m.s. was in cont

americans as possible and i hope moving forward we can work in a bipartisan capacity congressman leonard lance from new jersey thanks so much for coming on. now to texas where a school district just outside houston is trying to win approval from taxpayers to build a massive seventy million dollar high school football stadium on november fifth the katy independent school district will hold an election asking taxpayers to approve a ninety nine million dollar bond that includes the new football stadium you can see the designs right here as bond also included twenty five million dollars for a new agricultural center and four point five million dollars for a new science technology engineering and math center and that has many voters angered since they approve of the new agricultural and math and science center but they don't approve of the new football stadium a city lawrence president of an anti-tax group known as katie libertaria said quote they are coming at us with a ninety nine million dollar bond that is all or nothing some of us support these stem center and the agricultural facilities but w

host: congressman leonard lance represents the seventh district jersey.ir, thank you for your time. guest: thank you very much. host: our conversation continues up next with democrat george miller. we will be right back. >> the house has adjourned and the senate has adjourned. he comes across from the house over to the senate chamber. a perch or cain with a gold knob at the end. preston books guest to sumner and says, mr. sumner and he raises his cane. i have read your speech over twice. it is a libel against my state and my relatives. brooks comes down on the top of his head. >> it would take charles sumner three years to recover from that beating and would take the country have a step closer to civil war. part of a three-day holiday weekend on american history tv 3.is weekend on c-span top nonfiction authors including ee dee meyers. >> until i call my editor and say i would write a book and she said ok. >> all of us are subjected to judith taxes, being ignored -- tenets of taxes, being ignored by the liberal media. we're all in the same boat no matter w

joining me is congressman, leonard lance, republican from new jersey. and congresswoman donna christianson, democart, the u.s. virgin island & a doctor herself. congressman, lance, i am confused at this point of the sort of republican objection from a approximately see standpoint is the idea that health insurance scum pans should not be able to cancel policies in the individual market? >> that is correct. and, that is the substance. first we want to make sure that the procedure works. which is the website. i want to work with the administration to make sure the website is up and running fully as quickly as possible, chris. >> well that's great. i think that is, everyone, who cares about it, feels that way. just to make sure i am understanding you. the republican, your position, republican party position is that private health insurance scum pa companies should not be canceling policies in the individual market. something they are not allowed to do? >> i think that those who are satisfied with their health care policies should be able to keep their healt

yesterday, i was with congressman leonard lance and even clark and congressman holt ayne and wesman p were talking about this in a bipartisan regional basis. i know some of this has been touched upon. i will try not to be repetitive. but i do stand that traditional copper networks operate even when power lines go down. is, because at&t has a large legacy copper communications network and significant plans to deploy new favor -- new fiber into this structure, how will it matter -- how will it handle natural disasters like hurricanes? we know the copper continues to operate. but what happens now with the new fiber networks and dealing with that issue? how will you do with it? >> -- how will you deal with it? technology,no unfortunately, congressman, that allows you to power the line. fiber heads have other advantages in addition to internet capacity. one of them is relevant in a hurricane or flooding zone or in a sandy-type situation. seawater will destroy copper. and make it unrepairable. fiber is very resilient in that type of situation and frankly so are our wireless networks. they a

and congressman leonard lance joins us for more.om both sides, from a senate democrat. look, we've got to extend the open enrollment and give it breathing room here. that sounds to me like an idea that would be a retreat, the first. what do you say? >> gene shaheen, the united states senator on the democratic side from new hampshire has suggested this and we have suggested, as republicans in the house, to postpone the individual mandate for a year, and the president of the united states refused to negotiate on that. and now, democrats are mentioning this as well as republicans, and the rollout of the website has been an absolute, unmitigated disaster. stuart: but this would be the easiest thing for the administration to do. it would not be a one-year delay, it would not be the abandonment of the individual mandate, it would be just extend the rollout and enrollment period. that would be the easiest thing for them to do. i think it's likely, what about you? >> perhaps. but i think that the individual mandate may ultimately have to be

who was making sure constituent concerns are still being heard well i spoke with representative leonard lance and this is what he said his office is doing to address this issue and we have only a skeleton staff in our offices in new jersey and indeed only several people here in washington but we do have paid in turns here in washington so you're interns are still working they are and i give them a great deal of credit because they're usually in college and they have to balance their college schedules which working in our office so mr lance is lucky enough to have volunteers in turns her volunteering their time and continuing to volunteer their time through the government shutdown but whether or not a member of congress decides to for a low has stopped his staff that's up to each individual off it so some members may not follow anyone could follow all their employees so whether or not your congressman is still hearing your concerns is going to depend on your district but the house is still open today they opened at ten am with a series of debates and they're voting on several piecemeal funding

. >> congressman leonard lance and congresswoman donna christianson, i thank you both for your time. >>> joining me now, of the department and ceo, a firm for better technology and building signs for better government. clay, i wanted to have you on. you have been tweeted about watching these hearings. they're all out of healthcare.gov, you worked on trying to do big projects. what was your take away from the hearing today? >> my take away is that we have a congress that is dangerously illiterate when it comes to technology issues. i mean, looking at this thing as a programmer and technologist, it was rather like watching people who can't read or write trying to be a book critic. i had no fundamental on what was even good or bad, it was baffling. >> what did you see that emerged -- seems to me, republicans have moved past certain criticisms. yet, that seems to be the implementation order that this law needs to get over. >> it is interesting for sort of fiscal conservatives to move on, and worry about this issue, whether or not people can keep their health insurance. you know, the syst

new jersey congressman leonard lance telling fox news, it's time for the administration to come clean. take a listen. >> certainly at the very least they were not accurately informing the congress. >> knowingly so? >> well, i don't know whether it was deliberate or not. but certainly in the signature issue of this presidency you would think they would have tested it and retested it before the rollout on october 1st. and they promised that it would work on october 1st. and of course it has not worked. >> let's bring in now our guest. mercedes schrapp and -- a democratic strategist. i want to welcome you both. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> hi, steven, i'm going to start with you on this one. who needs to be held accountable? and should kathleen sibelius make herself available next sfwheek if not should she be subpoenaed to testify? >> look, i think that kathleen sibelius ought to testify. everybody agrees that the federal site is having significant problems. but it is very early. you're talking about 19 days. you're not talk about three months. if it's not fixed people should be held a

leonard lance. florida congressman bill young told a reporter that he support aid clean budget.ongressman, mario diaz barlart told "the miami herald" he would happily vote for a clean bill. 217. richard hanna is for it. 214. tim griffin of arkansas 215. representative don young from alaska said he would vote for a clean budget. that means 216. and florida's own representative. who wrote an op-ed in the tampa bay times why he supports funding the government without trying to end health care. congressman ross brings us to -- ♪ ♪ don't want to put too fine a point on it. but the votes are there. i mean unless the members of congress are telling their local press, telling their constituents, and tweeting and putting out press releases saying they're going to do something that they're not actually going to do, the votes are there. and we know who they are. it's not a mysterious esoteric ascribing votes to people who we think might be there. it's members of congress, by name, committing to do it. it is called arithmetic. the votes are there. math will not lead you astray. it works eve

will stay with representative leonard lance from new jersey. we'll be joined by california democratic representative george miller. "washington journal" is live on c-span every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. council'sily research values voter summit begins this morning. you can see that live on c-span3 at 9:00 a.m. eastern. treasury secretary jack lew says that if the debt ceiling is reached, there is no way for the government to pick and choose which financial obligations to pay. he also says the government it difficultmade to predict how much revenue the government will have to pay for things like social security and interest on the debt. this is a little less than two hours. >> i call this hearing to order. on january 20 7, 1838, the young state legislator abraham lincoln spoke in springfield, illinois. america was a divided nation. he warned that the greatest threats to the young democracy or internal. ever reachesanger us, it must spring from amongst us. it cannot come from abroad. if destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and

45 minutes, we will look at the republicans' approach to the shutdown and the debt e, aing with leonard lanc member of the energy and commerce committee. we will continue to take your calls, when our guests will be democratic representative george m -- george miller. ♪ host: president obama and house republicans are in talks for a temporary debt to fix after the gop offered a six week extension of the nation's debt ceiling. good morning on this friday, october 11, 20 13. the house and senate will be in session over the weekend.

leonard lance, republican from new jersey, joins us from the capitol, congressman, thank you so muchtes for show. i guess i should start, we have been discussing the basic parameters maybe reported as potentially being a part of the deal here which would be sort of crafted by the senate republicans, which would be a six-month reopening of the government funding for six months. the debt ceiling through the end of next january with a budget negotiation process between the house and senate playing out t. two-year delay of this medical device tax. that's what the senate republicans seem to be pushing. where do you come down on this? is this what you would like to see be the outcome of what is happening this weekend? >> i would support that outcome. there are those of us in the house who are working on the medical device tax issue on part of a group, bipartisan in nature that's working on that. i certainly would support that proposal from the senate if na comes to us here in the house. >> let me back up for a minute, ask you, i have been asking this to a bunch of republicans, actually. wh

tomorrow, representative leonard lance from new jersey.house democrat george miller of california, the ranking member of the education and workforce committee. here is the very latest. the white house and the republicans failed to reach a deal but they agree to keep talking. the story by russell berman begins by saying the president and house republicans did fail to reach a deal to end the government shut down and raise the debt ceiling at the white house. both sides describe it as constructive and said the talks would continue throughout the night. speaker boehner brought an offer that he presented to republicans earlier in the day that would lift the debt ceiling for six weeks but keep the government shut down while parties negotiated. we know that congressman pete sessions and the president talked about that. the president saying, he wants to see the government reopened. we have more on this tomorrow morning. you can check out all of our information online at www.c- span.org. update, the senate banking committee heard testimony today fr