( laughter ) though i have to agree with you maxine, he's got his groove back. >> if you truly believe you can work full time and support a family on less than $15,000 a year, try it. it's not. vote to give the hardest working people in america a raise. ( cheers and applause )

. >> which drew this elated response from maxine waters of california and from

calm down, maxine waters. you're not watching a world star video. ( laughter ) though i have to agree with you maxine, he's got his groove back. >> if you truly believe you can work full time and support a family on less than $15,000 a year, try it. it's not. vote to give the hardest working people in america a raise. ( cheers and applause ) >> larry: oh my god! this is amazing. he got back his '04 oratory with six years of executive experience. this is the guy we've been waiting for finally! ( applause ) someone who is not interested in polls or what people think. someone who's just going to have a vision for something and stick to it. this is the worst part-- in two years his lease is up. ( laughter ) ( applause ) well, look, he may not get anything done in the next two years, but at least he'll still be black. ( cheers and applause ) we'll be right back. ♪and do you take this man♪ ♪to be your lawfully wedded husband?♪ ♪to have and to hold.♪ ♪for better or worse,♪ ♪in sickness and in health.♪ ♪ i can't!♪ ♪wh

>> maxine: get her tomorrow, i guess. you don't

i guess we better get back to it. >> maxine: yeah. >> daniel: all right, happy new year. >> maxine: take care. oh, wait, dr. dan.

>> maxine: get her tomorrow, i guess. you don't have much choice.

i guess we better get back to it. >> maxine: yeah. >> daniel: all right, happy new year. >> maxine: take care. oh, wait, dr. dan.

still to be sworn in, maxine waters, john carter of texas. it is likely they could be sworn in next week. the coming week will be a short one for congress. the house will work on funding for the homeland security department including republican proposals that would block president obama's immigration plan. the senate will continue to debate the keystone xl oil pipeline, with procedural votes scheduled for monday. both bodies will be in recess on thursday and friday for party retreats. republicans in the house and senate will hold a joint retreat in hershey, pennsylvania. democrats meet in baltimore. i retreat is settled later the month for house democrats. you can watch the house live on c-span, and the c-span2 senate. >> here are a few of the comments we have received on the 114th congress. >> my comment is that nothing will change in washington, d.c. there is too much corruption. some of these senators have been there too long. it is time for them to go. give the younger ones a chance, new ideas. this country is on the wrong path. we are no

. >> garrison keillor: maxine kumin lives on a farm in new hampshire where she breeds arabian and quarterorses writing poetry, four novels, more than 20 children's books. she says, "i don't want to write poems that aren't necessary. i want to write poems that matter." >> this is a little one called after love. afterward, the compromise. bodies resume their boundaries. these legs, for instance, mine. your arms take you back in. spoons of our fingers, lips admit their ownership. the bedding yawns, a door blows aimlessly ajar and overhead, a plane singsongs coming down. nothing is changed, except there was a moment when the wolf, the mongering wolf who stands outside the self lay lightly down, and slept. ( applause ) thank you. >>> this week on "moyers & company" -- >> we in america have a higher opinion of ourselves than maybe we deserve. we've always believed that we're democrats. we're fundamentally egalitarian. but i see that egalitarian impulse disappearing. i see it either being numbed or actually snuffed out. >> announcer: funding is provided by -- anne gumowitz, encouraging the renew

. >> garrison keillor: maxine kumin lives on a farm in new hampshire where she breeds arabian and quarter horses, writing poetry, four novels, more than 20 children's books. she says, "i don't want to write poems that aren't necessary. i want to write poems that matter." >> this is a little one called after love. afterward, the compromise. bodies resume their boundaries. these legs, for instance, mine. your arms take you back in. spoons of our fingers, lips admit their ownership. the bedding yawns, a door blows aimlessly ajar and overhead, a plane singsongs coming down. nothing is changed, except there was a moment when the wolf, the mongering wolf who stands outside the self lay lightly down, and slept. ( applause ) thank you. >>> hello there. welcome to "newsline." it's thursday, january 8th. i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. a group of armed men has stormed a newspaper office in paris, killing at least 12 people. they're still on the loose. president francois hollande has raised the terror alert in the french capital to the highest level. the masked men were carrying automatic rifles.

. >> garrison keillor: maxine kumin lives on a farm in new hampshire where she breeds arabian and quarter horses writing poetry, four novels, more than 20 children's books. she says, "i don't want to write poems that aren't necessary. i want to write poems that matter." >> this is a little one called after love. afterward, the compromise. bodies resume their boundaries. these legs, for instance, mine. your arms take you back in. spoons of our fingers, lips admit their ownership. the bedding yawns, a door blows aimlessly ajar and overhead, a plane singsongs coming down. nothing is changed, except there was a moment when the wolf, the mongering wolf who stands outside the self lay lightly down, and slept. ( applause ) thank you. >> born into the church, his father a minister and his mother played the piano. music and spirituality surrounded him. after earnings a master's he worked as counselor by day and jazz singer by night. eventually the nights won out and the hits followed with "we're in this love together," "boogie down," the theme from the tv series "moonlighting," and even a solo spo

. >> garrison keillor: maxine kumin lives on a farm in new hampshire where she breeds arabian and quarterorses writing poetry, four novels, more than 20 children's books. she says, "i don't want to write poems that aren't necessary. i want to write poems that matter." >> this is a little one called after love. afterward, the compromise. bodies resume their boundaries. these legs, for instance, mine. your arms take you back in. spoons of our fingers, lips admit their ownership. the bedding yawns, a door blows aimlessly ajar and overhead, a plane singsongs coming down. nothing is changed, except there was a moment when the wolf, the mongering wolf who stands outside the self lay lightly down, and slept. ( applause ) thank you. >> we're all in a flutter on this week's edition of "global 3000," and that's because we are playing host to royalty. butterfly royalty, that is. what you're seeing on your screen are swarms of monarch butterflies on their way to mexico. we'll be finding out what makes this migratory journey unique shortly. but first, welcome to the program, and here's a quick look at

. >> garrison keillor: maxine kumin lives on a farm in new hampshire where she breeds arabian and quarterhorses writing poetry, four novels, more than 20 children's books. she says, "i don't want to write poems that aren't necessary. i want to write poems that matter." >> this is a little one called after love. afterward, the compromise. bodies resume their boundaries. these legs, for instance, mine. your arms take you back in. spoons of our fingers, lips admit their ownership. the bedding yawns, a door blows aimlessly ajar and overhead, a plane singsongs coming down. nothing is changed, except there was a moment when the wolf, the mongering wolf who stands outside the self lay lightly down, and slept. ( applause ) thank you. . >> she seemed destined for stardom from the moment born . her parents were eddie fisher and debbie reynolds. by the time of 21 she was starring in one of the biggest block busters of all time: star wars. her other films include the blues brothers hannah and her sisters and when harry met sally. also an accomplished author, her debut novel the semi ought ought buy g

. >> garrison keillor: maxine kumin lives on a farm in new hampshire where she breeds arabian and quarters writing poetry, four novels, more than 20 children's books. she says, "i don't want to write poems that aren't necessary. i want to write poems that matter." >> this is a little one called after love. afterward, the compromise. bodies resume their boundaries. these legs, for instance, mine. your arms take you back in. spoons of our fingers, lips admit their ownership. the bedding yawns, a door blows aimlessly ajar and overhead, a plane singsongs coming down. nothing is changed, except there was a moment when the wolf, the mongering wolf who stands outside the self lay lightly down, and slept. ( applause ) thank you. >>> 3 1/2 years since the great east japan earthquake, houses are being rebuilt in the devastated areas at a rapid pace. in this situation, a project was launched to build affordable houses using locally produced timber. driving this project is the kamaishi local forestry association. five of the central figures including the president and the accountants perished in the

. >> democratic congress members mark takano and maxine waters have also come to learn about corporate landlords in their districts. >> in order to force you to take out a long lease, they jack up the price of month to month.. >> my lease payment is much higher than my mortgage payment was... it's hard to reach the people when you need them. but when you owe them money. oh man. they email you they call you they put notices on the front door. >> the only time she called me back was um, i needed an extension on the rent and she said if you don't pay by the 10th, you're gonna be... the eviction is going to start. so i had to go out take out a loan a payday loan of all things, so now i'm stuck in even bigger crisis trying to pay that back on time. it just seems like it's a sinkhole of [power play]. i'm getting into bigger and bigger debt. >> like esperanza, ursula and jeannette are tenants of invitation homes. in just a few years, the company has grown to be the largest single-family landlord in the country buying up 45,000 homes across 14 markets at a cost of 9 billion dollars. the new ve

. >> garrison keillor: maxine kumin lives on a farm in new hampshire where she breeds arabian and quarterpoetry, four novels, more than 20 children's books. she says, "i don't want to write poems that aren't necessary. i want to write poems that matter." >> this is a little one called after love. afterward, the compromise. bodies resume their boundaries. these legs, for instance, mine. your arms take you back in. spoons of our fingers, lips admit their ownership. the bedding yawns, a door blows aimlessly ajar and overhead, a plane singsongs coming down. nothing is changed, except there was a moment when the wolf, the mongering wolf who stands outside the self lay lightly down, and slept. ( applause ) thank you. >>> india's prime minister struggles to get his reforms through parliament. abe is promising big changes in 2015 starting in japan's country side. and some areamsung feels the heat from chinese smartphone vendors. hello. you're watching asia biz forecast. i'm yuko fooushukushima. i welcome you to our first program of the year 2015. we kick off the new year in india. there's a growi

maxine waters. maxine waters. watson coleman, pelosi. weber of texas, gohmert. webster of florida. webster. welch of vermont. welch of vermont. wenstrup boehner. westerman, boehner. westmoreland, boehner. whitfield, boehner. williams, boehner. wilson of florida pelosi. wilson of south carolina boehner. wittman, boehner. womack boehner. woodall, boehner. yarmuth, pelosi. yoder, boehner. yoho yoho. young of alaska. young of alaska. young of iowa boehner. young of indiana boehner. zeldin, boehner. zinke, boehner. the clerk of the house: the clerk will now call the names of the representatives-elect who did not answer the first call of the roll. the clerk: boehner. boehner. carter of texas. carter of texas. cicilline. cicilline. clarke of new york. clarke of new york. costa. costa. crenshaw boehner. crowley. crowley. duckworth. duckworth. ellison, pelosi. engel. engel. fincher, boehner. gowdy. gowdy. gutierrez, pelosi. higgins. higgins. lowey. lowey. carolyn maloney. carolyn maloney. sean maloney. sean maloney. meeks. meeks. meng. meng. nadler. nadler. nolan. nolan. nunnelee. nunnelee.

little concern about the most because at the moment i have a 9 month old child who has not had of her maxines too young to of have the mall is a the next fed not disclose the seven identified is to reach out to doctors in this area to thicken and turn the rich out to parents second half of war and that conversation with them for about the pros and cons of vaccine in oakland than current. a line >>darya: if you are not comfortable turning off the phone during a movie there is a new way to make your phone less disruptive for a grand axis like our reporting from or rights claimed by the saw has patented the inconspicuous mode to sound are muted the screen is just los langley and there are no notifications and the time also shows a large numbers those is iffy to look at a case of movie got boring and it also beset as automatic so for example you could check your calendar our recent phone purses to see if you bought from of a ticket or few scheduled on one to watch a movie it would immediately solve you forget it will go into inconspicuous >>mark: scandalized and as a football late but it was a gr

this is pointed out in the 1920s by bertrand russell in the 50s and more recently by maxine.ou must speak out in support of the christians who have been persecuted and killed almost every day in islamic countries. and a humanitarian reasons, and other reasons that have to do what i hope would be the secularization of islamic society. in order to succeed we need urgently to recover a civilization will self-confidence. the last of my number points. one reason to fight jihadists ideology is to undermine the '70s, when can accomplish this with kranick criticism, in the west, espinoza and and and spinoza and his importance for keeping the indictment agenda. and to understand islamic ideology to understand the mindset of the islamic terrorists. terrorism is not caused by polity and so on. terrorists patella terry and ideology, and has managed to gil osama bin laden, the reasons for this failure on many. for us there's a reluctance to address the religious inspiration of the acts of terrorism. to admit that their ideology is derived from is on and founding text, the koran and the ea

. >> democratic congress members mark takano and maxine waters have also come to learn about corporate landlords in their districts. >> in order to force you to take out a long lease, they jack up the price of month to month.. >> my lease payment is much higher than my mortgage payment was... it's hard to reach the people when you need them. but when you owe them money. oh man. they email you they call you they put notices on the front door. >> the only time she called me back was um, i needed an extension on the rent and she said if you don't pay by the 10th, you're gonna be... the eviction is going to start. so i had to go out take out a loan a payday loan of all things, so now i'm stuck in even bigger crisis trying to pay that back on time. it just seems like it's a sinkhole of [power play]. i'm getting into bigger and bigger debt. >> like esperanza, ursula and jeannette are tenants of invitation homes. in just a few years, the company has grown to be the largest single-family landlord in the country buying up 45,000 homes across 14 markets at a cost of 9 billion dollars. the new ve

judiciary john conyers, financial services maxine waters. veterans affairs science and space and technology and education and work force bobby scott. homeland security bennie thompson and oversight and government reform elijah cummings. aren't we proud? we also welcome the surge of freshmen members and we are so honored that the 100 woman who served in the congress is elma adams, a member of the cdc. and i know that i distinguished the chair and debbie wasserman schultz, takes very special pride in that as well. respect the past confront the future, today john conyers becomes the dean of the house after a half decade of service in the congress. [applause] [applause] >> have a century of service those 50 years have seen historic progress in our nation but it is clear that there is more to do. we respect the past and we confront the future with a conviction that we can and we must continue to affect change. anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere as we mark the 50th anniversary of the voting rights act and how proud we are to have a tireles

host: maxine in new york a democratic caller. high maxine. did you watch the whole speech? caller: yes, ma'am. i watched it three times. greta, i am going to say this right quick and get to my point real quick. i raised my kids. they are in their 30s. and two of them -- one of them is 27 years old. now, i would never let my kids watch c-span now because it's too racist. and you see the man who just make a comment. i don't want my kids -- i have grandkids. i do not want to teach them hate, and watching this channel right now, i wouldn't dare let my grand kids watch this channel the way i allowed my kids to when they were younger. to the point, it was great. i am about to graduate from an r n. program. but how will i pay off that bill? but i am going to pay it. you know what i mean? i pay my bills and i pay them on time. and he touched up on a lot of stuff, but i could not get over all of those angry white male republicans. i am like, oh, my god. look what we have to deal with until we learn to go out and vote these people out. they are going to sit on their hands. they are n

. >> which drew this elated response from maxine waters of california and from environmentalists too.a priority. this was senator joni ernst at her state of the union response last night. >> president obama has being delaying this bipartisan infrastructure project for years. even though many members of his party, unions and a strong majority of americans support it. the president's own state department has said keystone's construction could support thousands of jobs and pump billions into our economy and do it with minimum environmental impact. >> however, an aggressive move by the canadian oil company behind keystone xl could place an unexpected group of americans on the president's side. red state landoners. on tuesday trans-canada sited eminent domain to grain access to the last stretches of land needed for the pipeline which faces a veto from the president. the move started an immediate response from nebraska the environmental group fighting the pipeline. but their statement highlighted something other than the potential environmental impact. today nebraska families are facing an

this was pointed out even in 1920s by burton russell and then in the '50s, and more recently by maxineaters. number 10, you must speak out in support of the christians who have been persecuted and killed almost every day in islamic countries. there are also part of humanitarian reasons i believe there are other reasons which to do with what i hoped would be the secularization of islamic societies. in order to succeed we need urgently to recover our civilization self-confidence. 12 last my number to point, one would've to fight jihad is undermined their certainties, and one can accomplish this with a red criticism in the west spinoza, especially with his book spinoza hastened the enlightenment by his biblical criticism. and there are, jonathan israel in his three enormous volumes on the enlightenment begins with spinoza and his importance for getting the whole enlightenment agenda going. okay, so more comments. and ideology to understand the mindset of the islamic terrorist. terrorism is not caused by poverty and someone. it is to their ideology, it is the ideology that is the source of

jacquelyn mitchard with her ferret named powacket which was a familiar in "bell, book and candle," maxine kumin with her horse. c-span: you mentioned earlier lily? >> guest: lily, our daughter yeah. c-span: how old is your daughter? >> guest: she's 14. c-span: what's she like? >> guest: she's terrific, and she's a very good photographer. c-span: she does it professionally already? >> guest: no, she doesn't do it professionally, but she actually recently photographed me because i wanted--well, in the postcard book with "familiars," i have a photograph of kurt lying on the sofa with pumpkin, our late lhasa apso, sleeping on his tummy, and kurt, too, is taking a nap. they both liked sleeping. and when lily came home from board--she's at boarding school now, she was looking at all the pictures. and she saw the picture of kurt, and then she kept looking at flower, our new dog, and going `mom!' and so we thought that it might be appropriate to somehow get flower into this postcard book. so lily took a picture of me at my desk with my familiar, which will be a small picture, and she'll get a pho

financial services, maxine waters. veterans affairs, corrine brown. science, space, and technology, eddie bernice johnson. education and work force, bobby scott. homeland security, denny thompson. oversight and government reform, elijah cummings. aren't we proud? we also welcome the surge of c.b.c. women, freshmen members, and are so honored that the 100th woman to serve in the congress is alma adams, as a member of the c.b.c. the 100th. this is historic. i know that our distinguished chair of the d.n.c., debbie wasserman shilts takes special pride in that as well. -- wasserman schultz takes special pride in that as well. today, congressman conyers becomes dean of the house after a half century of service in the congress. [applause] a half a century of service. those 50 years have seen historic progress for our nation. but it is clear there is more to do. we respect the past, we confront our future with a conviction that we can and we must continue to effect change. injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. as we mark the 50th anniversary

financial services, maxine waters. veterans affairs, carin brown.ersight and government reform elijah cummings. aren't we proud? we welcome the surge of cbc women, freshman members and are so honored that the 100th woman to serve in the congress is alma adams as a member of the cbc. this is historic. i know our distinguished chair of the dnc debbie wasser man schultz takes pride in that as well. respect the past, confront the future. today congressman john conyers becomes the dean of the house after a half a century of service in the congress. [ applause ] a half century of service. those 50 years have seen historic progress for our nation. it is clear there is more to doment we respect the past. we confront our future with the conviction that we can and we must continue to effect change. in justice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. as we mark the 50th anniversary of the vote rights act. how proud we are to have the tireless moral leadership of congressman john lewis on this matter serving us in the house. as we are now called to action. t

elizabeth warren praised nancy pelosi and maxine waters and the house for blocking the delay of the vocalole. it -- volker rule. this is the "washington times" on that. hattie in houston texas democrat. what you think about your party leaders? caller: i think president obama is doing all that he can. but just like the other, i think harry reid and nancy pelosi, i think they're holding back when they're talking. and the republicans just talk so bold like boehner and mitch mcconnell. and they say stuff that they know is wrong. just like the gentleman said a few minutes ago, about the jobs and everything. we have more jobs since president obama has been in. he is doing everything he can do. and they cut it down and everything. the democrats, when they were in they did not step up and do what they were supposed to. they were holding back. they were trying to be equal but they didn't do that. host: let me ask you what do you want from these democratic leaders now that they are in the minority? do you want them to fight tooth and nail or cooperate? caller: i want them to fight tooth and nail be

congresswoman maxine waters of the 43rd district of california. congressman sanford bishop, jr.of florida. congressman james e. clyburn of the sixth district of south carolina and assistant democratic leader. congressman alcee hastings of the 23rd district of florida. congressman eddie jobs son of the third district of texas. congressman bobby rush of the first district of illinois. congressman robert scott of the third district of virginia. congresswoman benny compton of the second district of mississippi. congresswoman sheila jackson-lee of the 18th district of texas. congressman elijah cummings of the 7th districtf maryland. congressman danny k. davis of the 7th district of illinois. congressman gregory meeks of the fifth district of new york. congresswoman barbara lee of the 13th district of california. congressman william lacy clay of the first district of missouri. congressman david scott of the 13th district of georgia. representative emanuel cleaver ii of the fifth district of missouri. relationship al green of the 9th district of texas. representative gwen moore of the

that's maxine waters on your screen, she's the ranking democrat on the house financial services committeeand probably here to testify against that legislation. that portion or version of this legislation came up last week in the house under you is spejs of the rules. they failed to get the two thirds vote needed necessary to pass. there's the chairman, pete sessions, it should get underway shortly. >>> the rules committee comes to order, and thank you very much. we're going to go ahead and get started. i know we have a lot of business before the rules committee. i note that at least one person is appearing to be forthright in their support of ohio state today. we assume the gentlemen is welcome. judge hastings wants to make sure he gets whatever you're handing out there. >> the rules committee will consider three important bills, and i'd like to begin by addressing the last of these three bills. the department of homeland security appropriates hr-240 will provide for $39 billion in discretionary funding for the current year fiscal year for the department of homeland security. the bill ref

john conyers, financial services maxine waters. [applause] veterans affairs corrine brown. science, space and technology, eddie bernice johnson. education and work force, bobby scott. [applause] homeland security, denny thompson. [applause] >> a half a century of service. those 50 years have seen is historic progress for our nation. but it is clear there is more to do. we respect the past we confront our future with the conviction that we can and we must continue to effect change. and justice anywhere is a threat to justice anywhere. how proud we are all to have the tireless moral leadership of congressman john lewis on this matter serving us in the house. [applause] we are, as we are now called to action. [applause] to improve the quality of justice in every american community, to awaken our communities to the power of the vote the vote destroys injustice and creates opportunity. and drives a new effort to increase voter participation. today starts a new congress it starts a new year. it also is the feast of the epiphany, the feast of the visitation of the magi as you know

she said, great work nancy pelosi and maxine waters and house democrats to block the gop from delaying the vocal role for the biggest wall street banks. guest: that is a bit of a mischaracterization. i was here yesterday how this is repealing the book role, and ending the volcker rule. and it gets boring quickly but in reality what this did -- and it's important that we focus on what this actually did rather than ron brushed slogans. in the loan, -- in the rule, there is a collateralized loan process, a pool of loans that banks or others have made two companies, just all businesses and other companies -- too small businesses and other companies, they have to get rid of them because they can no longer own them. this legislation just gave them another two years in which to get rid of these clo's. they are a very small number of the number of securities out there. you got two more years to get rid of them. i'm a very big fan of the vocal role and i think this is a good idea. this fell into the cap -- of the volcker rule and i think this is a good idea. this fell into the category of a twe

she said, great work nancy pelosi and maxine waters and house democrats to block the gop from delaying the vocal role for the biggest wall street banks. >> guest: that is a bit of a mischaracterization. i was hearing yesterday how this is repealing the book role, and ending the volcker rule. and it gets boring quickly, but in reality what this did -- and it's important that we focus on what this actually did rather than using broad brush strokes. in reality there is something called a coo, a collateralized loan obligation. it is a pool of loans that banks have made two companies, small businesses to other companies. under the vocal rule, banks have to get rid of them. this legislation gave them another two years in which to get rid of these clo's. this el owes are a very small part of the overall number of securities out there. this thing just said, you have to get rid of these, but you have two new rules. i am a big defender of the rule. this was, again, falling in the category of a tweak, rather than any fund a -- fundamental damage to the rule. >> host: is there tension in the democ

should be pointed out right now that the ranking member of the house financial services committee, maxine waters, who is unable to be in washington due to personal matters that she has to address, has issued a call to reject this piece of legislation for many of the reasons i'm articulating now. but i think it's also important to point out that there are 52 members of congress who represent more than 30 million americans who were sworn in yesterday and will have to vote on the bills affecting clatral firm -- collateral firms' pledge when they collect money and financial statements of firms without the opportunity to offer changes. this is the absolute an thigget sis of regular order and this bill's not appropriate and we urge a no. but i'd like to talk a little bit about specific reasons why this bill is bad. first of all, members should note that this is not the identical bill that came through in the fall. it has very important changes and if you voted for it last fall, that is no reason to vote for this bill now. first, the volcker rule. this bill undercuts an important part of the dod