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and what i would sort of ask, and i know i speak also for senator mikulski, senator my mikulski's been one of leaders on some of the things we're talking about. her committee has done a lot of work on that, so we compare notes all the time, our two offices. so what i would ask as we get -- as you start looking at the materials that is coming through on the different plans, as you start talking to the people of the need to enroll and then when you start seeing whether there's community services -- facilities available to provide the services for the people that are enrolling, that feedback would be very, very important be to your federal officials. so for senator mikulski, congressman sarbanes and myself, i know that would be very, very helpful. so if you would let us know that and if we could use you as a resource, you've been there all the time. jay knows that i've had a health advisory group for a long period of time that has made me look a lot stronger than i perhaps otherwise would be. [laughter] i'm very fortunate to live so close to washington, i can get back and talk to people a

it says essentially senator mikulski and no matter how hard you have worked on a bipartisan basis with both sides of the aisle and both sides of the dome through regular order we are not going to approve one appropriations bill. are we back to gridlock? are we back to -- where does that leave us? well i will tell you that leaves us with a higher jobless rate, not needing compelling human need and not meeting the needs of public safety when our highways and bridges. senator murray and senator collins and the transportation and housing subcommittee did an outstanding job. they put more money in an adequate infrastructure for federal highways, capital improvement programs, new starts in transit programs, investment in rail particularly new equipment and what would that mean? it would mean that we would be able to improve public safety and put people to work in construction. roughly 61% of the jobs directly created by 61% of jobs are created by investing in infrastructure particularly in the construction industry. you are going to you from some of the people who work in that every day. we

barbara mikulski says there are no macaroni and cheese -- there are only macaroni and cheese issues to talk about. these are the issues we are focused on and when we talk about those, we will get more independent voters than steve king, ted cruz, rand paul and all the others. [applause] >> i am one of the team leaders in beaverdale, as we call it. one of the problems that i have seen is that they don't -- is that women don't want to get involved in voting. what do we do to energize the women so that they will not only run, but they will get out and vote and support female candidates for whatever? it is so they don't shy away from their opportunity or responsibility as american citizens. >> this is an incredibly important question rolling into the 2014 election when we don't have a presidential campaign. we see so much drop-off, particularly of women voters in these non-presidential election cycles. one thing we have seen in our years of research and work at emily's list -- we do all the candidate work but we also do work with women voters and get women to vote and persuade them. part o

and i hope that you saw the picture of barbara mikulski on the front. i'm sure, i'm a new yorker. on the front of the new your times recently because she was saying to john mccain, senator mccain can please go home and read this thing so read this thing see second vote intellige. and mccain went home. .. that is not necessarily, quoted, a quo that. it may be what they call a zipper. which is every other position, nominee, female, you know, i'm -- i was fascinated by the swedish parliament. the swedish parliament, for example, would go until 10:00 at night, 11:00. then they got to women and they said we're leaving at 6:00. there was critical mass. they had enough women to do it. most of the men were thrilled, but, you know, it wasn't the way for men to say we want to leave at 6:00. they were thrilled when it happened. and there are data points now that are showing what happens when you get to to a critical mass of women. one of the ones that fascinates me on the corporate side is that norway mandates that 40% of corporate must be of the opposite gender. which is how the law reads.

system where suppose forone is an employee example, suppose someone is an employee of senator barbara mikulski. that person would be on the exchange but if the same person was working for the same person at the appropriations committee, they might not be on the exchange. they might still get the federal employee benefits. that all also say lawmakers and staff -- you talk about premium tax credits. can you expand on that? saying that you cannot get two bites out of the same apple. there are a number of tax credits that the affordable care act provides to help individuals purchase health insurance based on income and other factors. if you areying that a federal worker who works for a member of congress or you are a member of congress, you cannot claim the tax credit to help you buy health insurance on the exchange if the federal government is taking in money to help you pay that on the front end. you can't get both a tax credit and a subsidy. host: how did this become a story? guest: well - there are two sides to that. the first thing is what happened in the last couple of weeks. quietly somethi

it says senator mikulski the matter how hard you work obol sides of the aisle we will not approve the appropriations. but we have the gridlock but with the higher jobless rate in not meeting the needs of public safety senator murray and senator collins from the transportation housing sector but muller many with inadequate infrastructure with capital improvement programs and investment of the new e equipment in order to improve public safety to put people to work in the construction. 51% of the jobs are created by investing in infrastructure particularly in the construction industry will hear from those who worked there and we had a bill that would put people to work with bridges and highways to improve public safety and would have gotten america moving and working and we should do the same but with the whole of the budget committee let's try to get america out. >> was a difficult task sandy behind us is men and women in the building trades industry they want a paycheck and they want to rebuild america that is all they are asking for. it is not unreasonable the jobs of fair treatment f

what i would ask and i speak also for senator mikulski. senator mikulski has been a leader on the reform issue of some things we talk about. her committee has done work on mac permissively compare notes all the time, our two offices. what i would ask as we start looking at the material coming through on the website on the different plants, as you start talking to the people that need to enroll and then we start seeing whether there's community services facilities available to provide services for people enrolling, that feedback would be very, very important to your federal officials. for senator murkowski, congressman cummings and congressman groupers burger. if you let us know that, we reduce you as a resource. jay knows that i've had health advisory groups for a long period of time it's made me look a lot smarter than i perhaps otherwise would be. i'm very fortunate to live so close to washington than i can get back impact to people all the time. your experiences here will be very, very important. the point you raise, this doesn't end at

>> the dean is barbara mikulski.takes her responsibility almost as a den mother, very seriously. for instance, she calls meetings and briefings. she'll call a meeting of everybody to update them on what's going on, for instance, on an issue like sexual assault in the military. she keeps the history of the senate, of the senate women in her hideaway. one more this year and two more -- two years later. steady and exorable rise of women in the senate. >> bill: she is chair of appropriations, right? first time a woman has chaired that committee. >> right. >> bill: the story out of that is she really cracks the whip. >> in a nice way. >> bill: no, but i mean she's really in charge. very much so. >> oh, yeah. patty murray, chairman of the budget committee. she got out the first budget in three years. they do range from manchin to bernie sanders so it is quite a range ideologically. so you know, they're doing well. >> bill: senator feinstein, chair of the intelligence committee. barbara boxer, chair of -- environment. >> pu

i hope you saw the picture of arbor mikulski -- i am sorry. i am a new yorker.ccain,saying to john please go home and read this thing so you can vote intelligently. person who only could tell john mccain to go home. i mean, this is the reason we have to have this done. laura has so much experience of this in other countries. she is the expert. echodefinitely want to this issue around the structure, even though it is probably the highest hurdle to deal with. for example, there is research from the kennedy school that has identified that no country has gotten to critical mass in a parliament, a national body, without some affirmative mechanism in place. over 100 countries have some affirmative mechanism. that is not necessarily a quota. that may be what they call the zipper, which is every other position -- every other nominee has to be male or female. i was fascinated by the swedish parliament. the swedish parliament, for example, would go until 10:00 at night, 11:00 at night, midnight. they got to a critical mass of women in the swedish parliament, and the women

the macron says, issues, and barbara mikulski says macaroni and cheese issues. even the mac for any and she's issues that we are focused on, as long as we keep talking about this, we will get more those independent voters than steve king, ted cruz, -- steve ted cruz, and todd aiken wannabes. >> we are looking at up-and- coming politicians to find new people to run for the office. also your comments and tweets, all starting live at 7:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> tonight -- >> she had a lot of goals in life, but those were enhanced when he met and married mary todd. she was very ambitious. she said she wanted to marry a man of good mind and hopes for a bright future, and she said she was going to marry a man who would be president. there were something about abraham lincoln that she saw the potential and encouraged it. to basically showcase what her husband had done, how far he had come. they were at where headed. stating to the world that abraham lincoln had made it and was ready to move on. >> the encore presentation continues tonight at nine a cut eastern on c

barbara mikulski's parents albert wcare at the medical center. clara was recently notified that she was a points of light winner. she will be recognized for her work in baltimore because she has been a board member continuously since that point in 1984 but we started in also because every day when patients get off at the elevators walking into the these may be - th- people that are new to the united states. we serve so many immigrants and refugees. the first person they get to see generally is clara. she spends hours and hours at the center and making people feel at ease for the services. she has been energetic and is a smiling face. she does not speak the 40 or 50 languages. she speaks the language of welcome and she does that with style and with grace. into they just walked room so they could celebrate with her. i think you had a couple of words you wanted to say. then you will be presented with your plaque. seat?n't you take my [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] than

as our saysd,ean -- barbara mikulski says there are no macaroni and cheese -- there are only macaroni and cheese issues to talk about. these are the issues we are focused on and when we talk about those, we will get more independent -- voters than steve king, ted cruz, rand paul and all the others. [applause] >> i am one of the team leaders in beaverdale, as we call it. problems that i have is that they don't -- is that women don't want to get involved in voting. what do we do to energize the women so that they will not only run, but they will get out and vote and support female candidates for whatever? shy awaythey don't from their opportunity or responsibility as american citizens. >> this is an incredibly important question. into the 2014 election when we don't have a presidential campaign. we see so much drop-off, particularly of women voters in these non--presidential election cycles. one thing we have seen in our years of research and work at emily's list -- we do all the candidate work but we also do work with women voters and get women to vote and persuade them. part of the th

what the plan is and the hhs or provisions bill crafted by senator harkin and supported by senator mikulski and others request these early childhood investments. that's the path that we had many in congress would like to get on and it's hard to find a member of congress who will tell you early education is a bad investment. the struggle is how to get to the fiscal dynamic where we can ask and make those investments into the federal government. that is what we are trying to get, to reverse the- >> the interesting thing a talk about about obviously is the investment and how it's tied to economic policy and economic growth and i wondered mike if he might be able to go with that because this is something you recently wrote a report about. >> my role is not so much early childhood educational though i do have a 3-year-old in preschool so it's important. but you know the notion that we need to be cutting anything frankly right now is really missing the boat. three years ago the deficit projections were i think legitimately concerning to a lot of people. the president democrats and republicans and

let me thank my colleague in the united states senate, warren rah mikulski.know her because she chairs the senate appropriations committee, but she's also a key, key member of the health, education, labor and pensions committee that is very much involved in the creation of health policy in our state. and then our congressional delegation, john sarbanes with, who holds the seat i used to hold in the house when we first started working on these issues has been a real champion on the energy committee -- on the commerce committee to help us deal with the health care issues, and elijiah cummings and dutch rumors berger, we have a real team that are moving forward to make this implementation as smooth as possible. now, here's the challenge. there's been some difficulty in implementing this bill in washington because we haven't had the resources made available through the budget process so that it could be be done as seamless as possible. there's been no real effort in the congress to take a look at the affordable care act and to make minor changes where you need to

barbara mikulski, thank you. if this means that the republicans will not let us bring up and pass one appropriations bill this year, shame on them. they have stopped us from the conference committee to agree on a budget never. now they're stopping the spending bills that will move america forward. a little earlier today we have defense appropriations bill in our appropriations committee. if disney were not going to pass a defense appropriations bill, i just guarantee you, you will see -- you'll see in the lives and the features of military families across america. you will see it in america's national defense. it's time for this republican party to stop looking over its shoulder and look forward. >> thank you, senator durbin. and let me thank senators mikulski and murray for their leadership on these spending issues. now, for decades, democrats and republicans agreed it's up to the federal government to fund infrastructure that our economy and our workforce depends on. both parties always stepped up to provide fu