maloney's bill? >> we'd certainly want to work with her on that bill. obviously, there are going to be some things we're going to want to work on. but i think that's certainly a good starting place. >> would the gentleman yield? i know we're out of time. i just want to make sure it's my bill and ms. maloney's bill. >> sorry. >> that will probably help the president like it even more. >> and we welcome your support. >> i thank all of the gentlemen and lady. with that, we go to one of the most experienced members of the committee, although a freshman, the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. meehan, for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, mr. attorney general. i know i sent you a letter some time ago and i appreciate your coming to our committee. look, i'm going to try to do my best to work as we try to do with the facts that are before us, as limited as they are based on the discovery. but what i have been able to glean is everybody agrees that the tactics of the atf are not to be supported or condoned. but if you heard testimony that was gi

congresswoman maloney joins us live on whether republicans have seriously alienated women voters. >>> and then, laying whitney to rest, one of the singers invited to her funeral this saturday. >>> i'm thomas roberts and we have a lot on the agenda this morning, starting with mitt romney and rick santorum. flawed candidates fighting over a state that may be the linchpin in the fight to face the president this fall. now both republicans trying to manage stumbles along the primary road. romney publicly searching to find the emotional and personal connection to energize voters. and rick santorum cleaning up a mess left by his biggest financial backer. >> people seem to be so preoccupied with sex, i think it says something about our culture. we maybe need a massive therapy session so we can concentrate on what the real issues are. this contraceptive thing, my gosh, it's such inexpensive. back in my days, you use bayer aspirin for contraceptions, the gals put it between their knees and it wasn't that costly. >> excuse me. i'm just trying to catch my breath from that, mr. friess. >> he tried

>> congresswoman carolyn maloney, congressman darrell issa. when we last met, we mentioned that the white house was announcing a plan to accommodate religious employers on the birth control issues. this satisfies some but not all of the president's critics on this issue. the hearing this week was a matter of great asset to carolyn maloney and also eleanor holmes norton -- upset to carolyn maloney and also eleanor holmes norton. >> it is not a new thing to have a cited congressional hearing. however, it was not a stroke of genius to have all men talking about contraception that involves principally when it. they can get it over the counter any time they want. >> let's talk about the president's deal. you had a column about it on friday, charles. it is a compromise, so to speak. >> it is not a compromise, it is a fake, an accounting trick and a catholic hospital, like a catholic charity or public- school, is required by law to engage an insurer -- like a catholic charity or school, is required by law to engage an insurer that will provide contra

maloney? congresswoman maloney? >> i would just like to add what's wrong with this picture. a woman should have been at that table, and i would add all the tables in america. thank you for you courage, thank you for speaking out and for your testimony today. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> if we had gone to central casting to find a representative to speak for american women, we could not have done better than you here today. and you have performed another service that is an unintended consequence of this hearing. for the first time, those who have paid attention to this issue now know that the affordable health care act covers contraceptives so that women no longer have to pay extra for pills, devices or other means of contraception. thank you for helping us to get that word out, ms. fluke. >> well, thank you for -- >> i do believe that the visibility -- we almost ought to thank the chairman for the shall we say lack of judgment that he had to arouse the, to raise the awareness because it's been very hard over the years to convince people that the fight here has been about c

the hearing this week was a matter of great upset to carolyn maloney eleanor holmes nortoton. >> it ishave a slanted congresonal hearing. however, it was not a stroke of genius to have all men talking about contraception that involves princncipally w women. they canet it over the counter any time they want. >> you had a column about this on friday, charles. it is a compromise, so to speak. >> it is not a compromise, it is ofake, an accounting trick.. any tholic hospital, like catholic charities are caolic schools, is required by law to engage an insurer who w by law be required to provide contraceptes. i have no problem with contraceptives. it is not about access to contraceptives. it is can the state compel a religious organization to do somethiing, to engage an injur surer who is required by law to provide things that are against ththe doctrine of that church? nothing has changed in a moral sense. however, it was a political stroke. obama got away with it. before he had been opposed by rick warren, a pastor who supported him, he had been opposed by tim kaine, a former dnc chairman. n

maloney? thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors.name is jim maloney and i just want to say that the port is very supportive of this project. we have had the opportunity to meet with the executive director, and dr. burke. we had the opportunity to express concerns with the location. we will be working closely -- we have offered to work closely with the wellness center to mitigate the concerns of the community, the rail and truck traffic. investigating this project working. supervisor wiener: i just visited iper 80 -- pier 80. i know that more activity will be coming up as the america's cup comes through. what will be different in that vicinity in terms of activity? >> some of the other america's cup teams may be there. supervisor wiener: can you explain how close the site is to appear 80 -- pier 80? >> it is about half of a mile from the site. the more intensive use that we expect to the site would be where the port is looking to potentially export the ball products -- bulk products. there may be more trains coming through there. we

maloney did not walk out. she said she was going out any way.t that somebody had to take a stand against what was gross unfairness. i didn't object to an all-male panel. i objected for the refusal to have one witness who would have been a woman. you would have thought that on a -- with a hearing that grew out of the controversy last week on contraceptives and religious practices that the majority would want to have some women there. not only did they deny us the right to have our witness, finding her unqualified because she wanted to talk about contraception, it means they were violating our first amendment rights to talk about that aspect of the controversy that is what most women and most families were concerned about. it had the appearance of an autocratic romp hearing. i think they didn't deserve my presence. somebody had to come out and talk about what kind och hef he this was. i w i had a lot of experience on accommodation. it means just that. accommodate to the religion but never by violating the rights of others. the president came up wi

we were joined by congressman maloney, she previewed this morning's highwmorn morni morning's hearing. >> back at our desk here on "the washington journal." ben bernanke is coming to testify this morning, one issue that is likely to come up is why the federal reserve weighed into putting out a white paper that was not requested. the blue print is lost in the din of poll titipolitics. i was taken aback when just recently as you know the fed issued an unsolicited white paper that if you did not support you mirrored the position of the administration, that the appropriate role of the federal reserve, are you concerned about it playing politics? >> i believe the federal reserve would say what every economist in the country is saying, every economist is saying that housing is a huge part of our economy and if we do not address it, it will continue to be a huge drag on our economy. mccain's he economiy -- mccain' economist testified that the housing industry and housing in general was a full 25% of our economy. so we need to address this large segment of properties that are underwater, that

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caller: representative maloney, you are one of our favorites.a hard-working representative and your state should be proud of you. one thing -- it is including gas and everything else -- but the big problem is this. we have a sovereign nation except for one thing -- the global economy. we --as you mentioned earlier, getting loans is difficult. we do not own anything anymore. you have a global economy which controls the world's money. now, they have money, but they don't have a country. and this is the same thing that got into the depression, our oil. it is united states oil but we sign leases to foreign countries to send the oil to opec and we by the oil at whatever price they want to put on us. until we get more regulation -- which they had to do during the depression -- it is not going to be controlled. like i said, they have bank accounts. they don't have a country. this is what is hurting us more than anything. host: to add to the comments, on twitter -- guest: he is talking about the oil industry basically, and the administration and the dem

congresswoman maloney, terry o'neill, thank you both for your time this evening. >> thank you reverendrong voice. thank you so much. women appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> up next -- we'll talk about a nasty new element creeping into the debate over social issues. it's an important story you won't want to miss. >>> plus -- the underdog becomes the superstar. jeremy lin is teaching us both on and off the court. >>> today the battle against voter suppression gained several powerful allies. georgia congressman john lewis and 11 other members of congress announced today they will support and join the march against the new anti-voting laws next month. from march 4th through the 9th, we'll retrace the route of the historic 1965 voting rights march from selma to montgomery, alabama. congressman lewis led that first march almost 47 years ago. he nearly died when people in riot gear attacked the marchers with clubs and teargas on what was called bloody sunday. today he still is standing up for equal rights. >> we must continue to stand and stand together. we are one people. we are one family. w

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. >> miss maloney. >> this hearing and investigation has become the vast and curious investigation, and it has shown that they are more interested in the symptoms than what is the cause. we know the problem. i believe he said that 40,000 people had died in mexico. 60,000 guns in mexico were traced to america? so let's pass the gun law that we have put forward after the last hearing, and let's make it a law. give them a federal crime so that they have the tools to move forward. the attorney general and the administration have implemented two rules, one on the long guns that you have to report on big, big straw purchases and long gun purchases and also on the sentencing and proving the sentencing. let's make gun trafficking a law. he has asked for it. what came out of this hearing that is positive is that chairman issai mentioned he would support an up or down vote on the head of the atf. that's important. no corporation, no congress, no agency can run without someone being in charge. that's important. he said he would look at the gun trafficking at legislation. let's look at that, too. b

that prompted new york democrat carolyn maloney and our own eleanor holmes norton to storm out in protest meanwhile, former senator rick santorum surges ahead in the gop nomination race, also opposing use of birth control. he calls birth control "harmful to women," and opposes abortion in all circumstances, even rape or incest. he calls pregnancy as a result of rape a gift from god. >> linda chavez. are americans in din engineer of losing access to birth control. >> no. should they be faced to pay for it for others? that's the question. >> 57% of them support of governor paid contra contracept. >> this is where the republicans have decided to make their zand. this is not the vote moving issue of 2012. what about the economy? second, i paid $70 for my birth control copay. one in three women on birth control have struggled to afford it. it's difficulty and serious public health concern. >> is it a reflection of the fact that there are a whole lot of people out there who opposite oppose access to birthontr. a soon as they ban abortion, they are going to go after birth control. we are seeing

carolyn maloney, a democrat from new york and larry kudlow's congress person and sean duffy, republican from wisconsin. we welcome back. carolyn, you know i'm not a happy camper. i want to go to this payroll tax cut just because it's not funded and i want to say the whole budget is not funded and the entitlements are not funded and taxes are going up, and i want to ask you, with everything unfunded and the u.s. on the road to bankruptcy and not even a budget resolution in sight. don't you think we deserve and are headed for a credit downgrade? >> well, larry, don't be so pessimistec. remember that the last jobs report showed that we gained 250,000 roughly private sector jobs. we were gaining private sector jobs for the past 23 months and for five months, the unemployment rate has fallen and so we're trending in the right direction. this is under negotiation now. apparently, there's an agreement from what i've heard between republicans and democrats to agree to the tax benefit, the payroll tax benefit for $260 million americans, working americans so they can take home roughly $1,000 duri

and i think that the way carolyn maloney framed that, one of my colleagues said she may have returned. but the way she framed that was exactly what you will see in a general election, of this is about women, women are a key swing group. you are not including any women here, you are not consulting any women here. this is less about church doctrines specifically in terms of how it will be played out in a general election than it is about, sort of, rights to your own decision making and rights to availability. >> although, do we put a pin in the fact that men benefit from and appreciate and want birth control as well? and contraceptive. and use contraception. the only danger in this being a woman's only conversation is that it's a family conversation. >> i think what i would say is i think even the biggest issue of all is it's politically, at best, a push, if you play it perfectly. but, also, this is taking up valuable time when you're not talking about jobs and the economy and national security. and the evidence, thus far, have been sidetrack issues or losers. you're going to pursue the

my colleague, carolyn maloney of new york who is on the committee looked down at this panel from which a woman who was the democratic witness was excluded and said where are the women? and that's a good question for the whole debate. where are the women? where are the women on that panel? imagine they're having a panel on women's health and they don't have any women on the panel. duh. what is it that men don't understand about women's health and how central the issue of family planning is to that? not just if you're having family. but if you need those kinds of prescription drugs for your general health. which was the testimony they would have heard this morning. if they had allowed a woman on the panel. i think the fact that they did not allow a woman on the panel is symbolic of the whole debate. as to who was making these decisions about women's health and who should be covered. i remind you i think it's 26 states have this requirement already. so this is nothing really already new. more than half of the states already have it. so this is probably a pretty good debate to have. just t

we found democrat kathie maloney on a street coroner chicago. >> if he hadn't have taken the steps he did and enacted the proposals he did we'd be in a much worse place than we are now and i think things are coming back and getting better. >> reporter: at the heart of mr. obama's reelection message is a push for what he calls economic fairness and a proposal to raise taxes on millionaires, called the buffett rule named after warren buffett. >> i think asking a billionaire to pay at least as much as his secretary in taxes is just common sense. >> reporter: two-thirds of americans-- 67%-- agree taxes should be increased on households making over a million dollars a year. including, for the first time, a majority of republicans. but bud faircloth, an independent from delaware, doesn't believe the president will make good on his goals. >> i'm not sure if he'll ever get the congress to work with him and i just don't think he'll ever get the job done. >> reporter: but in our poll, independents have shown a shift towards mr. obama. a month ago they favored mitt romney. today independents fav

i thanked l you madameader >> thank you, congresswoman carolyn maloney? >> i would like to add what is wrong with this picture. a woman should have been at that table, and all of the tables in the country. thank you for your courage, for speaking out, and for your testimony today. >> thank you. congresswoman eleanor holmes norton? >> if we had gone to central casting this morning to find a representative we could not have done better than you today. you have performed another service that is an unintended consequence of this hearing. for the first time, those who have paid attention to this issue now know that the affordable health care act now covers contraceptives, so women no longer have to pay extra for pills, devices, or other means of contraception. thank you for helping us get back out there. >> thank you. >> thank you. i believe the visibility -- we almost got to thank the chairman for the lack of judgment that he had to create the awareness. it has been hard to convince people that the fight has been about contraception. we have tried to tell peo

as i indicated before, congresswoman maloney and congressman cummings have actually put something on paper that i think is a good place for to us start but i can also check and see what it is we have and what we can share with this committee. >> i would appreciate that. my time is expired. >> i thank the gentlelady and ask unanimous consent that discovery documents hogr sb doj, 0057, 52, 53, 54 be placed in the record along with the gentlelady's documents from earlier, just immediately before thoop these show lanny brewer lobbying for gun walking in a coordinated nation across the border to be, for people to be arrested in mexico, february 4th, without objection so ordered. >> mr. chairman i'd reserve because i don't think that accurately describes that document. >> well the document sfeepeaks itself. >> he's not talking about gun walking. i thought he was talking about a coordinated effort with the mexican government to follow those guns in a cooperative effort to -- >> which is what -- >> -- not let them just walk but -- >> right, well, the definition of gun walking, the definition

maloney. >> sorry for the inarticulation. >> thank you very much. and welcome to the committee. >> thank you. >> i would find it very difficult to imagine an america that did not make its own cars. so i am pleased that the president was able to report in his state of the union the progress that the car industry has done -- achieved in america. i would like to quote one line and put his whole statement in the record with unanimous consent. he said, today general motors is back on top as world's number one automaker. and a report i read last week said that there are over 700,000 jobs created by the auto industry now in america. and i would like to put that report in the record. >> without objection. >> okay. i think that it's clear that this innovative car that gm has made has been caught up in the middle of politics. and some members appear more interested in making wild allegations for political purposes than in recognizing a promising technological breakthrough. and i would like to ask you, and give me a yes or no answer, is it true that the volt w

bob maloney found the jumbo lobster in a net after the season's last haul of shrimp.ne patrol and got permission to bring it to shore. rocky, the lobster, has claws that look more like catcher's mitts. >> i couldn't believe it. i set it on the deck there, let it crawl around. geez, i spent a lot of years looking for something like this. >> no, rocky didn't end up on a dinner plate. >> oh, darn. >> he was taken to the maine state aquarium and set free. just in case you're wondering, he's not the biggest lobster ever. a fisherman in nova scotia caught a 44-pounder in 1977. so long, rocky. >> updating our top story tonight, seven firefighters from prince george's county injured while fighting fire in riverdale, maryland tonight. they were inside a house on 57th street when a wind gust came through an open window, created an inferno there. those firefighters were taken to the washington hospital center. their injuries vary between cuts, broken bones, one firefighter suffered burns and in his breathing passages. we'll have much more on the story beginning at 6:00 tomorrow

brady's comments then chairman maloney's comments. but it's the private sector, the real economy, the real folks out there who decided they're going to create something of their own and make it their own. that's what drives our economy did i really don't have a lot of faith in the administration's ability to i think the things they have done, watching this committee for the last three years, hitting various people from the administration come in and testify, i cannot say the number of times that we were told by christina romer, rover, that the green shoots were starting and the economy was recovery only to find that those were leaves in the parking lot because no one was showing up for work because there were no jobs. now, as far as the administration is concerned we have examples of where they have had the ability to make decisions and made the wrong decisions. chairman brady reference keystone pipeline. thousands of new jobs, no government spending required at all, just simply an international boundary that was crossed and, therefor

and carolyn maloney walked out exactly which raises the question if he was saying because what he said was well we're not going to allow women to testify because this isn't about birth control this is about religious choice and so i'm sitting there when i heard him say that i'm sitting there going separate a minute is he saying that women don't experience religion or don't participate religion or shouldn't have any say in religion well what he's doing is he's doing two things he's blurring the line the sacred line in our country between separation of church and state he's doing that and also he's taking away an individual's right to make again their own important life decisions where is all of this coming from and to be honest i don't know if there is who's behind all this but i can tell you right now a root systemic cost of this is our country being wrong to ninety s. in the world in the number of women in elected office and the fact that we do not have nearly enough women in state legislatures across this country and we must turn that around and we've got a record number of women run

brady's, and stan chairwoman maloney's comments. but it is the private sector, the real folks out there who decide that they are going to create something of their own and make it their own. that is what drives our economy. i really do not have a lot of faith in the ability of the administration. watching this committee for the last three years, hearing various people from the administration come in and testify, i cannot tell you the number of times we were told that the green shoots were sprouting and the economy was recovering, only to find that those were weeds proliferating in the parking lot because no one was showing up for work because there were no jobs. as far as the administration is concerned, we have examples of where they have had the ability to make decions and made the wrong decisions. chairman brady referenced the keystone pipeline. thousands of new jobs, and no government spending required at all. just simply an international boundary that was crossed, and therefore, the president's office was involved, and he made

i thank you madame leader for holding this hearing. >> thank you, congresswoman carolyn maloney?d like to add what is wrong with this picture. a woman should have been at that table, and all of the tables in the country. thank you for your courage, for speaking out, and for your testimony today. >> thank you. >> if we had gone to central casting this morning to find a representative we could not have done better than you today. you have performed another service that is an unintended consequence of this hearing. for the first time, those who have paid attention to this issue now know that the affordable health care act now covers contraceptives, so women no longer have to pay extra for pills, devices, or other means of contraception. thank you for helping us get back out there. >> thank you. >> thank you. i believe the visibility -- we almost ought to thank chairman for the lack of judgment that he had to raise the awareness because it has been hard to convince people that the fight has been about contraception. we have tried to tell people for 25 years that it is about contracep

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maloney. mrs. maloney: i thank the gentlelady for yielding and for her hard work on this issue and many others. mr. speaker, i am really very pleased that we are finally working to address the insider trading issue in this body and that it will finally be on the floor tomorrow. we should not have had to wait so long for a bill that has 270 co-sponsors. and i am proud to be one of them and i have been in past congresses. i want to thank my colleague from new york, louise slaughter, who has worked on this legislation for six long years, and my colleague from minnesota, mr. walz, for their excellent leadership, perseverance on this issue. mr. speaker, i have said it before, elected officials must be like caesar's wife in avoiding the appearance of impropriety. the need to expressly prohibit this activity in statute cannot be overstated. insider trading is illegal on wall street and it should be illegal on capitol hill. the stock act is bipartisan, commonsense legislation to prohibit federally elected

my colleague, carolyn maloney of new york who is on the committee looked down at this panel from whichman who was the democratic witness was excluded, and said where are the women? and that's a good question for the whole debate. where are the women? where are the women on that panel? imagine having a panel on women's health and don't have any women on the panel. duh. >> nancy pelosi the highest ranking woman ever in the american electoral politics. no major party in congress was led by a woman before nancy pelosi. no woman had ever been speaker of the house before nancy pelosi. in the midst of the current national firestorm and national republican political confusion on issues of women's health on the issues which she has been ex-claiming duh, she joins us tonight for the interview. >> thank you for being here, nice to have you. >> my pleasure to be here. >> let me start by asking you just about something right on today's news. virginia's governor bob mcdonnell has backed off from his previously stated intention to sign a bill in virginia that would mandate, hard to talk about a medic

new york representative caroline maloney posed this question before walking out.ten. >> what i want to know is, where are the women? when i look at this panel, i don't see one single woman representing the tens of millions of women across the country who want and need insurance coverage for basic preventive health care insurance, including family planning. where are the women? >> it was cheryled by darrell issa. all five men invited to take part in the discussion of birth control are from conservative religious organizations. listen to matthew harrison, a lutheran minister from missouri. >> we must obey god rather than men and we will. please get the federal government, mr. chairman, out of our consciences. >> and this is what the panel heard from a baptist minister. >> it's wrong because it violates the constitution. it's wrong because it violates religious liberty. it's wrong because it forces people to violate their con shenshe consciences. it's wrong. this plain ruling is just plain wrong for america. >> house minority leader nancy pelosi jumped into the fray

>> new york congresswoman carolyn maloney has sat at this table a number of times, at the hearing. good morning. thanks for joining us. >> good morning. >> national chairwoman for republican for choice sounds like a joke about rolling a rock up a hill or something. i'm asking this in genuine earnestness and good faith. do you feel like you're losing your -- the battle that you are waging to internal to the republican party on this issue and set of issues? >> well, i'll say this, that no matter what you think about the issue of abortion within the party and even though our polling shows when you ask the question who should decide, even among republicans, majority are pro-choice on that issue. when it comes to contraception, it's even more overwhelmingly pro contraception. i mean, to be caught in this kind of web of, you know, being portrayed as being anti-contraception is just insane for the party. it's not where the rank in file republicans are. >> how do you think it came to this point? i mean, explain to me, a, how we ended up in this situation in which that's a plausible argumen