the gentleman from michigan. mr. ryan: would the gentleman from michigan want to equalize and yield some time to one of his speakers? mr. levin: ok. i yield two minutes to the gentleman from texas, mr. doggett. mr. doggett: thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for two minutes. mr. doggett: mr. speaker, some have called trade adjustment assistance burial insurance since it delivers limited help after a job is dead and buried. at a time when fast trackers are claiming that they will include over half of the world economy we need a t.a.a. that is funded for more workers at risk of job loss. unfortunately this particular t.a.a. proposal is really short for taking away assistance. it includes substantially less funding than the administration has said was essential to protect those who lose their jobs through expanded trade. further, this t.a.a. fails to restore coverage to thousands whose jobs may be exported. in a very contrived process this morning, designed to obscure what's r

i come from flint, michigan. flint, michigan, which was the birth place of general motors a place that put the world on wheels, and in the last couple of decades has seen 90% of our manufacturing jobs go away. now, true, not all of them lost because of bad trade deals, but many of them were. and bad trade deals have exacerbated that job loss and has ruined many parts of that community. i support as virtually all of us do expanded trade. as a way of growing the u.s. economy. i'm a member of the president's export council. this is something we have to do. but this t.p.a. is not a yes or no question on whether we should expand trade. this t.p.a. is flawed. it fails to address the most significant trade barriers hurting american manufacturers. it fails to address currency manipulation by our trading partners. if we don't address the most significant barrier, how can we expect any trade deal to have the effect? all we have to do is look to the performance of past deals that have similar flaws and we can see why we hav

i come from flint, michigan. flint, michigan, which was the birth place of general motors a place that put the world on wheels, and in the last couple of decades has seen 90% of our manufacturing jobs go away. now, true, not all of them lost because of bad trade deals, but many of them were. and bad trade deals have exacerbated that job loss and has ruined many parts of that community. i support as virtually all of us do expanded trade. as a way of growing the u.s. economy. i'm a member of the president's export council. this is something we have to do. but this t.p.a. is not a yes or no question on whether we should expand trade. this t.p.a. is flawed. it fails to address the most significant trade barriers hurting american manufacturers. it fails to address currency manipulation by our trading partners. if we don't address the most significant barrier, how can we expect any trade deal to have the effect? all we have to do is look to the performance of past deals that have similar flaws and we can see why we hav

later michigan state university would become one of the pioneer land grant universities. and while the two schools may be rivals on the gridiron, they have long complemented each other to the benefit of our state and today michigan is home to 93 universities, colleges and community colleges. michigan grew rapidly as migrants from across the country and immigrants from around the world were drawn to our supplies of timber, ore arable land and abundant freshwater. as the new century dawned across america michigan continued to grow with the advent of industrialization and mass manufacturing from mining and forestry at the western tip of the upper peninsula to the booming auto factories of detroit. michigan embodied the growing optimism opportunity and prosperity that would be america's crowning achievement in the 20th century. michigan factories would turn into the great arsenal of democracy, building the arm addas that would defeat tyranny, win the second world war and in the process create america's middle class. during world war ii my father, herb peters, was a proud sold

that happened today in michigan. in terms of the logic for explaining this one, check this out, this is amazing. this is rick snyder's statement on sign thing law today. this is how the governor explains why he signed this law today, which makes it legal to tell families this they are not allowed to adopt because of race or religion or because they're gay or anything else. this is how he explains it today when he signed this thing. "governor rick snyder signed legislation ensuring michigan children up for adoption have the greatest opportunity to be placed in loving homes." wait what? here's the quote from rick snyder. "we are focused on ensuring that as many children are adopted to as many loving families as possible, regardless of their makeup." so the way we're going to do that is with this new law that ensures that loving families will not be allowed to adopt michigan kids because of the makeup of those families on the basis of the religious beliefs of the people who run the adoption agencies. that's michigan. th

high zen fwa of michigan. -- mr. huizenga of michigan. the chair: the gentleman from michigan and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from michigan. mr. huizenga: i yield myself such time as i may consume at this time. i rise today to offer this amendment that will assure a fair and open bidding process to supply our men and women on the frontlines with one of the most indispensable pieces of equipment they use every day -- their boots. it would prohibit the use of funds to implement the 2012 small business administration's rule in regards to footwear preventing the logistics agency from bidding the contract as a small business set-aside. when s.b.a. released the rule there was concern they didn't go through the normal rule making and public comment process and more specifically did not perform due diligence on how the changes would affect the footwear industry which the s.b.a. has acknowledged. this rule dramatically changed the competitive landscape amongst companies supplying compliant fo

in michigan and for michigan workers and michigan businesses, it's all about getting access to more markets in a fair and equitable way when we have fair access to foreign markets, michigan workers can compete. over the last 12 or last five years, michigan has done a lot of things to enable our workers to be more competitive nationally and internationally. we want access to more markets. liz: representative dooley, fellow democrats in the house who are able to vote, many brought this down. how old have you voted coming from the state of california? >> i would have voted for both. all three agreements were on the floor today. i was part of the protrade faction during my tenure, and just as peter said, it's important for the united states to maximize our leadership internationally. open markets for u.s. companies and u.s. workers and trade promotion authority and the agreements considered today are a critical and integral component of the ability for the united states to compete and win globally. liz: as a democrat, i have to ask you, it appears that the president for so long maybe kept congr

we'll be all over southeast michigan. the difference is today we're actually going to be going from hotel to hotel. >> undercover officer is at the mercy of the prostitutes to determine where and when the meet takes place and causes these operations to move quickly. >> because we're going into the unknown we'll have emergency planning in case something happens. we'll make sure everyone is vested up so we're taking those precautions to make sure that we have safety out there for our officers. >> don't recognize her. she's new. >> once again, detectives comb the online ads, looking for possible juveniles. >> she's put up more pictures. >> the undercover makes contact with a very young looking woman going by the name mercedes. >> says she was 18 years old and that she was willing to do new lap dancing but no sex or [ bleep ]. i responded back, would she be willing to do a hand job. she said she would be. right now we're texting back and forth. i asked if she's willing to do a car date. she's responding back. >> mercedes agre

>> next, michigan center -- michigan senator debbie stabenow discuss government divisions. then a discussion with ruth bader ginsburg. then, another chance to see gary's any. -- gary sinise. this week on newsmakers, the supreme court seemed to issue its ruling on the affordable care act, louisiana senator bill cassidy who is also a medical doctor talks about the health care law republican plans to replace it, and other health care issues. he also talks about energy climate change, and politics. >> eliza johnson worked -- was 54 years old and an invalid when she was thrust into the role of first lady. reconstruction in the south and her husband's impeachment was -- were navigated. you can learn more about her in our series on sunday, "first ladies." >> the wall street journal hosted a forum on financial issues and the global economy grade in this portion, michigan senator debbie stabbed and now talks about highway funding and partisanship on capitol hill, followed by remarks i kevin mccarthy. this is just under an hour. chief seib: thank you all for being here. thank you for

. >> reporter: now there are 62 adoption agencies operating in michigan and according to the michigan catholic conference 17 have a religious affiliation. last year $19 million in state and federal funds was spent on adoption and foster care services. almost $10 million of that funding went to faith based organizations. senator rick jones voted in favor of the legislation he says it will allow more adoption agencies to stay open by heading off lawsuits. >> do you see the argument that people have that some feel this is a discriminatory law? >> this is political nonsense spread by a few people that want to stir it up. we have a system that is working. has worked for over 50 years. and we simply want to keep it in place. >> the new adoption law takes effect immediately. just as the u.s. supreme court weighs whether same sex marriage should be legal in michigan under several other states. attorney dana nessle is representing the michigan couple behind that case. >> it is beyond words to me how atrocious it would be for these couples to finally have the right to illegally adopt only to be

jackson in michigan. -- jaksonckson and michigan. >> good real estate. this is kind of when people say the major railroads began. anyone remember what states those occurred in? that's right. utah. the beginning of an era. you see how skeletal the system was. it was just a couple of decades. we moved to 1905. a dramatically different picture . we are in the heartland. you might as well take the black blotch and put it in the middle kid the density was so thick -- in the middle. the density was so thick. there is nothing there yet. the florida development has yet to occur. last vegas did not -- las vegas did not even exist at the time. 1905, all cities could almost be defined by their position of the railroad system. some cities thrived because they were by the railroads. some died because they were by the railroads. the enormity of this and the land devoted to railroads when they start to retrench, especially in the heartland, is astounding. let's get a sense for what the inevitable decline has meant for cities around the country. here we are in cincinnat

i want to go to bisi onile-ere in an arbor, michigan. two of the plaintiffs in the case was challenging michigan's ban. that was one of the four states in this lawsuit. you just spoke with them moments ago, what was their reaction? >> i can tell you, very very emotional, stephanie. this is a day that april and jane have waited a very very long time for. when the decision was handed down the couple burst into tears and immediately after that there was applause. today's ruling means that thousands of same-sex couples here in the state of michigan and around the country are now free to marry. their legal issues began about four years ago when they challenged the state of michigan on its same-sex ban. and that case as you mentioned eventually wound up before the supreme court. this is a case -- this is a situation it just isn't about gays and lesbians being allowed to marry, but it also has to do with opening the door to several spousal rights and benefits. so a lot of excitement here and across the state. i'm told there are a lot of gay rig

thank you for joining us from detroit, michigan. and marc solomon, national , campaign director of freedom to marry. author of, "winning marriage: the inside story of how same-sex couples took on the politicians and pundits and won." i would like you to stay for our next segment as we talk about where the struggle goes from here. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: "amazing grace" sung by president obama at the funeral of reverend clementa pinckney in charleston, south carolina, one of the nine victims of the massacre that took place on june 17. later in the broadcast, we will bring you more of that funeral and also the words of the woman who shimmied up the flagpole on the state capitol grounds in columbia and pulled down the confederate battle flag on saturday. this is democracy now! democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. as the supreme court delivered a historic ruling on marriage equality friday, we turn to the future of the lgbtq movement. many gay rights leaders are now redirecting their attention to obtai

jackson and michigan. >> good real estate. let's start in 1870. this is kind of when people say the golden age of railroads began. the driving of the golden spike 1869. what state that occurred in? utah. the beginning of an era. you see how skeletal the system was. it was just a couple of decades. we moved to 1905. you see it is a dramatically different picture for the u.s. we are in the heart and. you might as well take the black blotch and put it in the middle . the density was so thick. when you look at this, there were is a lot yet to come. florida, the to of the peninsula, there is nothing there yet. the development was yet to occur. las vegas did not even exist at the time. we will see in 1905, all cities could almost be defined by their position of the railroad system. some cities thrived because they were by the railroads. some died because they were by the railroads. we ended up with 5-6 transcat and all -- transcontinental lines. the enormity of this and the land devoted to railroads when they start to retrench especially in the heartlan

out of wedlock in michigan.s a hard thing to get your head around, right? at least that's how it went for poor michigan lawyer, jon burge, who just got live dissected here by the justices. >> the out of wedlock birthrate in this country has gone from 10% to 40% from 1970 to today. and i think everybody would agree that that's not a good result for children. and to the extent that you're changing the meaning of marriage -- >> but that wasn't changed because of the recent gay marriages. >> no, i'm not saying that at all. >> in massachusetts, we've got data that it's -- the rates have remained constant since they changed their law. >> but as several justices have noted, that's a very short time frame -- >> but you're the one that brought the statistic up. and under -- >> right. but, listen -- >> and under your view, it would be very difficult for same-sex couples to adopt some of these children. i-i think the argument cuts quite against you. >> well, what i'm talking -- >> and goes back to the basic point where you

the gentleman from michigan. mr. levin: it's my pleasure to yield two minutes to another member of our committee, mr. davis of illinois. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. davis: thank you very much, mr. speaker. i was thinking what a difference a week does not make. the vast majority of the people in my congressional district were opposed to fast track last week, and they're even more opposed to fast track this week. we've seen fast track before. we've seen the jobs leave our community, our district, our state, and our nation. fast enough. they don't need our help. they don't need anybody else's help. we need to create jobs here in america, not have them flee. i agree with my colleagues who have said vote no. i agree with the people of my congressional district. and i shall vote no. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan. mr. levin: i now yield one minute to the gentleman from texas, mr. cuellar. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized f

i only applied to university of michigan. i didn't go look at schools. when people say now, what were you going to do if you did not get into michigan, like -- that implies i had some sort of strategy around it all. i didn't. emily: luckily you got in. dick: luckily i got in. my dad did get me a -- when i was, i guess, 14 or 15 one of the early radioshack trs model 80 computers. i learned to program in basic on that. by the time i went to michigan, i did know i am definitely going to study computer science. but i didn't know what to do beyond that. emily: when you got to university of michigan, you took theater classes on the side. dick: my senior year, i had like eight arts credits i had remaining that i needed to get. i thought, what is the thing i can take that will be the least amount of homework so i can focus on my operating systems class? i figured acting. i will show up and say some lines in a play and that would be great. coincidently, my first semester, senior year, i started doing just stand up at the university student union. by my second ter

that's not what i'm hearing from businesses in michigan. chief seib: if you are not hearing it from businesses in michigan presumably, you are not the only one who is hearing there's support for this. why isn't that determinative? why doesn't that make a difference? senator stabenow: if you believe that, we need to hear from you. right now, sooner rather than later. because what is happening is that folks assume that common sense will prevail and that is not enough right now. i mean people need to hear from , businesses in their state or district. individual stories so we can get beyond the ideology. we are having this fight on ideology that has no relationship to common sense and in the real world of what is going on. so you can help us bring that , back to the real world. if you think that makes sense with the ex-im bank that individual members need to hear from individual businesses. chief seib: one of the oddities of washington these days is that even the things on which you think there is broad bipartisan consensus don't get done. two

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the gentleman from michigan. mr. levin: i now yield three minutes to the gentleman from new jersey, mr. pascrell. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. pascrell: mr. ranking member, mr. chairman if at first you don't succeed, try and try again. that is the approach on trade despite the fact that t.p.a. passed the house by only eight votes. at no point did the light bulb go off for the leadership that perhaps they could work with the majority of the democratic caucus to find agreement on how to move forward. i don't know why that didn't occur to you. instead of cooperation, they have opted to use procedural tricks to pass the t.p.a. now, the leadership has chosen to take a bipartisan bill passed by both chambers of congress that would aid our law enforcement officers and public safety workers and inject the unrelated controversial trade debate into it. i can speak firsthand because i'm one of the sponsors of the bill. this bill, the defending public safety employees' retirement ac

we begin with a glint in greenland, michigan. you are on booktv with tom hayden. >> caller: thank you very much. and frankly, i don't know much about cuba be on the classic movies are faced with al pacino which i like very much. they told me i can ask you another foreign policy question. if i remember right, when you were a politician you were a big supporter of israel and later you got out of politics. you said you regretted that. you were under pressure from the israeli blobby and that kind of thing. i have a three part question for you. one is do you think the israeli lobby has too much power? and what would be in your mind a fair settlement of the israel and palestine disputes and do you support -- >> host: we will leave it at the first two. since it is off topic. did you say what he said you said and what do you think of u.s./israel relations and a solution to the israel/palestine issue? >> guest: i recommend godfather ii as another one that tells the whole story in an interesting way. the israeli question that you asked, i

michigan ripping the roofs off homes. three temporarily trapped into this goodlittle store. but no one was hurt here. it was stragts line winds near 100 miles an hour that menaced minnesota, iowa earlier. s hail cracking windshields. and iowa winds crashing down with 95 miles an hour. to get to portland we drove through the same line of tomorrows. we are mile fives from sun set and it's almost pitch black. this red is what we are going through right now. a whirlwind of flash flooding in the southern states. a third of their annual rain in the past week. this bridge in hunt county texas, collapsing. motorist rescuing them in the pickup using ropes. and the road caught crumbling on camera. that is a 20 foot by 30 foot chuck of highway disintegrating into the red river. we talk about the power of nature. that is a semitruck. not sure where it began but it ended up inside the good will building. there were people inside no one was hurd. david. >> thanks to you. >>> let's get grate v right to ginger zee tracking it tonight. >>

walberg of michigan. page 11, strike lines 1 through 3. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 287, the gentleman from michigan and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from michigan. mr. walberg: i thank you, madam chairman. i want to start by thanking chairman diaz-balart and his staff for their hard work on this legislation before us. mr. chairman, i rise -- madam chairman, i rise today to offer a commonsense amendment with mr. sensenbrenner and mr. ribble of wisconsin, which makes it clear that federal government agencies should not be in the business, again, i say should not be in the business of lobbying state and local legislators. with federal taxpayer money. federal law already prohibits federal agencies from lobbying congress in support or against legislation. thanks in part to the leadership of mr. sensenbrenner in 1998 congress passed similar anti-lobbying language to prohibit the department of transportation from lobbying state and local elected officials. at that time the nation

in western michigan. we love your state it's a beautiful state. many of us vacation there and get to know the people. we have so much in common, as midwesterners, looking at the world from our vantage point smack dab in the middle of this country, and bringing to the conversation in the united states senate many of the values that have guided our lives and inspired our families. i listened carefully and thought it's amazing that we have such parallel back grounds. a father who can trace his family roots back to the revolutionary war and in both cases, mothers who were immigrants to this country. so being a first generation american, i'm sure you feel, as i do, a special honor standing on the floor of the united states senate representing a state as great as michigan or illinois. i want to just say mr. president, that my colleague's background in the house of representatives prepared him well for this challenge, and although he follows one of the greats in the history of the u.s. senate, carl levin, he bri

and a possible tornadoes in michigan. trees down and residents trapped in a goodwill store later freed. powerful thunderstorms in madison, minnesota. in oklahoma, highway 78 caving in and here is the radar at this hour. marching east major cities chicago to detroit tonight, philly and boston tomorrow. ginger zee with the storm track in a moment. first, abc's matt gutman from michigan tonight. >> reporter: just hours ago, a reported tornado tearing through michigan, ripping off roofs churches and homes. first responders reporting three temporarily trapped inside this goodwill store. but miraculously, no one was hurt here. but it was the straight line winds near 100 miles an hour that menaced the dakotas, minnesota, and iowa earlier. golf ball-sized hail cracking wind sheels. and iowa, winds crashing down cracking down on planes with winds 95 miles an hour. to get to portland, we drove through the same line of storms. we are almost five hours from sunset and it's almost pitch black outside. this red, if you can see it, is w

the gentleman from michigan. mr. levin: it's my special privilege to yield three minutes to mr. rangel, who was an inspiration for agoo -- agoa and a major author mr. rangel. mr. rangel: this is a good day for america and good day for us in the house. there are so many people to thank for making today possible not just for the people in the developing countries in africa, but for americans who recognize that unless we can raise the level of survival in other countries then our country is not fulfilling its moral and economic obligations. i want to give a special thanks to the chairman of the ways and means committee. kind of rough listening to him talking about t.p.p., the transpacific partnership, because he knows and i know that if we wanted these bills pass, the concern by not what the multinationals want, but concern about the middle class. the middle class should get help by having infrastructure, can help by having education, all the things that are not democratic issues, but on this particular agoa bill that h

. >> today the supreme court ruling is a major victory for a lesbian michigan michigan couple.igan. bisi? >> the celebration has been going on since this morning. it's been going on very strong. april and jane have been fighting this fight for years and their case played a very integral part in in the supreme court decision. [ cheering ] >> overcome with emotion reading the supreme court's ruling. this was the scene a few ours later after reality sank in. >> it's been a long, long hard road. spent four and a half years in the making. we're looking for protection for our children. and today it came. >> i'm truly honored to be one of the people to bring this home. >> their fight for the right to marry began in 2012. unable to jointly adapt their four children, the nurses from detroit first challenged the state's ban on gay unions. a measure michigan voters overwhelmingly approved in 2004. their case was heard by the supreme court. now free to marry they'll soon be legally recognized as a family. >> relief, joy happiness. >> i think there is a sense-- >> of justice. >> but also ki