mr. rogers: would the gentleman yield? mr. frelinghuysen: i yield to the chairman. mr. gers: while we are waiting for the senate to send us a bill , while we are waiting for the president to send us something to relieve us of sequestration, we have no choice but to pass a continuing resolution to keep the government operating. sequestration, i hope we can deal with in the future, but now we are dealing with whether or not to shut the government down. is that not correct? mr. frelinghuysen: that is correct, mr. chairman. let's keep the government open for business. mr. rogers: i thank the gentleman. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new jersey yields back. the gentlefr

mr. rogers: mr. speaker, i now yield four minutes to the gentleman from texas, mr. culberson, the chairman of the military construction and veterans' affairs subcommittee on appropriations. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas, mr. culberson, is recognized for four minutes. mrculberson: thank you, mr. chairman. why are house conservatives so determined to cut the budget and move towards a balanced budget? every five years the chair of the joint chiefs of staff get together and they do a strategic review of the threats facing this nation. the last review they determined that the greatest threat facing our nation was the natnal debt. that it would ultimately consume us and cause its collapse. just a few days ago celebrated texas independence day, but for the debt that the republican texas accumulated, we would have continued as an independent nation. that debt caused the collapse of the republic of texas. house conservatives are deeply concerned that the debt, deficits will ultimately crus

mr. rogers: mr.aker, i ask unanimous consent that the speaker may postpone further proceedings on the motion to concur in the senate amendments to h.r. 933, as though under clause 8-a-1-a of rule 20. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. bjection is heard. objection is withdrawn. there is no objection, so ordered. the gentleman from contract seek recognition. mr. rogers: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all may have five legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on h.r. 933, and that i may include tabular material on the same. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. for what purpose does the gentleman from kentucky seek recognition? mr. rogers: mr. speaker, pursuant to the order of the house on march 20, 2013, i call up h.r. 933 with the senate amendments thereto and i have a otion at the desk. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. designate the senate amendments and designate the motion. the clerk:

mr. rogers: mr. chairman, i yield myself one minute and would ask mr. visclosky if he might rejoin us at the microphone. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky is recognized for one minute. mr. rogers: on the point the gentleman just approached and that is the passage of bills. it's one of the most frustrating things of my life is that we cannot get the senate to pass any appropriations bills. as the gentleman knows, because he helped pass the defense bill for this year and all years, we passed through the house committee all 12 bills. we sent them to the senate and we -- all we got back was a resounding slower, they didn't do anything. and when the senate doesn't appropriate, in spite of the fact we passed all of our bills over here, we have to pass a continuing resolution and that is where we are. and i lament that as does the gentleman, and i know that he joins me in wanting us to pass through regular order each individual bills, brings it to the floor -- bring it to the floor, have

. >> a good hit to mr. roger. >> and the nanny state marches on. >> a miss to our mayor here in new york, michael bloomberg whose large soda ban goes into effect next week. for all of us, even if you're not a big gulp drinker, it's a slippery slope before he goes after large alcoholic beverages and could it be the 24-ounce beer can or the 40-ounce bottle. >> david: the 24-ounce beer can which you commuters love, there would be a riot in the commuting trains. and dan, you have proof, by the way, that there is global warming, or more precisely there was global warm a long time ago. >> a canadian scientist said they found bone fragments that suggested the north pole was populated by giant camels. giant camels on the north pole. and this is simply fantastic. now, there's a global warming aspect because it had to be warm for the camels to live there. so if this is going to happen again, i want to be around when the polar ice caps melt to see the amazing animals. >> david: dan, thank you very much. that's it for this w

mr. rogers. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. jim lazarus, san francisco chamber of commerce. ~ i also had the privilege of chairing the transbay transit center cac. i strongly urge the board of supervisors and the city's representatives on both bodies, both the joint powers authority for the transbay transit center and the caltrain, joint powers authority, to take a strong position in favor of opening up real alternatives to surface use of seventh and king. this, the caltrain electrification and the extension to first and mission must be primary goals of the city and county of san francisco. other options are really not acceptable. we need an electrified system to downtown. we need the fund with federal partners, with state, with prop 1a california high-speed rail funding and our own funding available through the transbay transit center project that tunnel project as soon as possible. one of my great disappointments that i think we're going to be all confronting when that transit center opens is a 400 million dollars rail box in

hi there tom but it's sort of sleep thinks what kind of sanity unclearly that you bring your like mr rogers for big people to be the best possible way ok but i want to ask if you think a third party because of the circumstances would claim a cheat insulin could ever succeed like a green party it's me impact up here in canada right in canada you have systems a little closer to proportional representation here in the united states it is pure first past the post winner take all this is the problem the james madison confronted when he first wrote the constitution and you know he in seven hundred eighty seven and he was out selling it and seven hundred eighty eight and he suddenly realized as he was writing federalist number ten oh my god of political parties form and we have these first past the post winner take all elections. other words fifty one percent of the people can win the election so if you have two political parties you can have one party got fifty one percent of the vote cool as democratic but what happens if you have three parties and you can have thirty four percent of the vote yo

mr. rogers and 97 years ago today albert einstein first published his theory of relatively and then had tohe rest of his life saying yeah nice theory, einstein. this isel "viewpoint." [ ♪ music ♪ ] >> john: good evening i'm john fugelsang and this is "viewpoint." thank you for joining us. if you thought that senate democrats were serious really serious about taking on the nra and passing major gun control legislation after the newtown school massacre, well, i hate to disappoint you but "the new york daily news" got it right with this devastating cover page. "shame on u-s on us, indeed. harry reid moved to drop california senator dianne feinstein's proposed assault weapons ban from the gun control legislation that's protected to reach the senate floor next month. harry reid said he would like to do it but the votes are against her. >> diane has worked so hard on this but urgent now her amendment using most the optimistic numbers has less than 40 votes. not 60. >> john: he's quite broken off. if harry reid had not broken his promise to pass new laws with 51 votes getting the necessary number

mr. wayne rogers, jonathan, and tracy byrnes, and former massachusetts senator, mr. scott brown and carolyn hellman joins us from the liberal wilderness. welcome, everybody. washington keeps scaring us about the cuts. but they keep spending. the tsa dropping a whopping 900 bucks per uniform and they keep hiring. three positions opening up at the department of agriculture. it's looking for, get this, insect production workers to grow bowl worms. jonathan, do i need to ask, necessary or needless? >> eric, it's not only needless, but it's destructive. all these things they're scaring us about cutting actually used to be handled by the private markets anyway. the tsa didn't even exist before 2001. before that it was private security. we ate meat in this country for 130 years before the creation of federal meat inspectors in the early 1900s. i certainly don't think the founders intend to do have federal employees growing boll weevils, believe me a republic nor our economy rests on a federal law librarian making $115,000 year. >> scott brown, do we need three white house c

mr. rogers. i want to just ask one more question of mr. johns. kind of put this in perspective, understanding where we are right now. i know ritually only be came out and said plan as those sequestration is not going to happen. i wanted to know within the context when was the direction given to we strain operation and maintenance execution? and if that's the case, if it was restrained, wouldn't that have lessened the impact in the third and fourth quarters in fiscal year so you could lessen some of the impact of sequestration? i wanted to get your perspective on where those directions and how they might have occurred, and then where we are now. >> yes, mr. chairman. clearly, for a good portion of last year and into this fiscal year, and we were assuming effectively across the board that sequestration was not going to happen. that conversation was occurring to all sectors of government. everybody anticipating we're going to fix this problem one way or the other, and so the demand for planning associated with that seem to be second priority in term

mr. rogers. your. john pistole, thank for being here. we're fortunate to have you here in this important job. i found to be very competent and capable. i want to commend you on this list which you have come up with. i would like for it to be a little bit longer, but you made a good start. i think it is common sense what you have done. you know i am a bang -- a big fan of the pre check program. great risk-based approach to screen. as i have talked to before and in private before, we've got to push about a little bit faster and worked some of the kinks out. a lot of people are still confused about it. it is not at all the airports. there are some inconsistent applications. can you tell us, are you working with airline partners on ways to clear up what the program is, how people can get in it, where it is available? >> thank you, congressman. the airlines have been great partners on this. the five major carriers, and several others that are coming on line later this year, so as you know, we are in 35 airports, business airports. we announce

mr. rogers of michigan, chairman pitts, mr. waxman, mr. pallone, ms. eshoo. i also want to thank our senator colleagues, harkin, alexander, enzi and burr. at this point i want to yield back and urge my colleagues to support the bill. i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from new jersey is recognized. mr. pallone: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to enter letters of support from the following organizations into the record -- the alliance for biosecurity, the american academy of peed at ricks, the -- pediatrics, the roundtable on critical care policy, and we have a joint letter from the american public health association, the association of state and territorial health officials, the national association of county and city health officials and the trust for americas, i ask unanimous consent. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. pallone: and mr. speaker, now i'd like to yield such time as she may consume to the gentlewoman from california, ms. eshoo, one of the key sponsors of this leg

mr. rogers makes his opening statement.he has a meeting with the speaker at leadership in which she is trying to persuade them to understand the importance of not carrying forward on another six months. if that is ok with you, i would recognize chairman rogers to has been working hard to put this program together. >> thank you very much for holding the hearing. also for the recognition and allowing me to go before the witnesses speak. good morning and welcome to the committee. this hearing is critically important. this week, our national defense will face serious and dangerous sequestration and cuts. as well as potentially damaging constraints if the current defunding structure is simply extended for the remainder of the fiscal year. twin threats -- first the cr that will hit on a 27 the next month and then sequestration. today, want to focus your attention on the cr and what you need for the balance of this year, whether it is a date change only or whether it is incorporating the defense bill and va bill that passed the ho

mr. rogers, ms. lowe, welcome to the rules committee. as each of you know from the testimony you've given on a regular basis, we would take any written statement that you have and would wish you to be acknowledged at this time, the gentleman is recognized. >> mr. chairman, members of the committee. thank you much for the welcome here. this is the first chance that we have had to work together. the new ranking member of the -- >> mr. chairman, is your microphone turned on there? >> let me get closer. first chance we've had a chance to work together. the new ranking member of the committ committee. the first female ranking member of our committee. i've known her for a long time and we'll work together even as her predecessor, norm dickson, and i did. we have a commitment to get back to regular order, pass individual bills, and allow members a chance, therefore, to avoid a c.r. and be able to debate the individual merits of each bill. that's our goal. mr. chairman, we're here today, as you have said, to present this bill a continuing resolu

mr. rogers: i rise to present h.r. 933, the department of defense and military construction and veterans affairs appropriations and full year continuing resolution for fiscal year 2013. our nation faces a three-pronged threat to its finances. as we deal with sequestration, the debt ceiling, and most immediately, a looming government shutdown. this bill takes the risk of a government shutdown off the table. funding the government for the remainder of the fiscal year while helping maintain our national security and providing our troops and veterans with consistent, adequate funding. first and foremost, this bill contains fiscal year 2013 appropriations bills for the department of -- department offings defense an veterans affairs. these bills crafted by chairman bill young, chairman of the defense appropriations subcommittee, and very handily done, these bills passed the house with broad, bipartisan support last year, they've been negotiated on a bipartisan basis by the house and senate and agreed to by the senate committee. they do not add a cent to the overall top line of the c.r. and i w

rogers. mr. adams? >> so, as ann marie mentioned, the planning commission last december approved an update to our procedures manual and that update really codified a series of best practices and lessons learned over the last five years of managing the program. we're very pleased to, to have inclusionary program which is really considered one of the best around the country. and i want to recognize shondra eagan who is here with us to answer questions to really bring in the program to a level where it attends to a lot of need in the city. so, the planning commission approved the update to the procedures manual. it included a number of modifications that require adjustment to the planning code through legislation and that's what we're here today to review with you. in addition, we're taking advantage of the legislation to do just a couple of clarifications that result from the recent passage of prop c. so, what i wanted to do is first kind of walk through the modifications and clarifications related to our

mr. rogers, you are recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you for being here and we're very fortunate to have you in this very important job. i found you in my years in this committee very confident and capable. i want to commend you on this list that you come up with. i'd like for it to be longer, but is a good start and i think it's common sense what you have done. i'm a big fan of the precheck program, and i think it's a great risk-based approach to screening. but as i've talked to you in hearings before and in private before, we've got to push it out a little bit faster and work some of the kinks out. as you know a lot of people still confused about it. it's not at all the airports, and there's an inconsistent application. can you tell us, are you working with airline partners in ways to clear up what the program is, how people can get into, where it's available and where it's not? can you talk to us about that? >> thank you, congressman. and the airlines have been great partners on this. the five major carriers and in their severa

mr. rogers, on which the yeas and nays were ordered. the clerk will redesignate the motion. the clerk: h.r. 933, an act making appropriations for the department of defense, department of veterans affairs, and other departments and agencies for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2013, and or other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to concur. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 318. the nays are 109. the motion is adopted. without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the unfinished business is the question on agreeing to the speaker's approval of the journal which the chair will put de novo. the ques

mr. rogers: i yield three minutes to the very distinguished and hardworking chairman of the house armed services committee the gentleman from california. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized for three minutes. >> i thank the gentleman, the chairman of the appropriations commtee,or yielding, and thank him for the great work he's done for getting this bill to the floor. likewise the chairman of the defense appropriations subcommittee. they have done yeomen work to help provide for a national defense. mr. mckeon: i agree with much of what the gentlelady from new york, my good friend, said. sequestration is bad. and if we don't pass this c.r., we'll feel worse than the effects of the sequestration, we'll shut down the whole government. nobody wants to see that. and so i commend her for what she says. this is not perfect. but it keeps a lot of people working. i think it's very, very important that we get it done. as chairman of the house armed services committee, i'm happy to see us voting to include a full year appropriations -- defense appropriations bill, as well as

joining me tonight is the chairman of the house intelligence committee, congressman mike rogers. mran, thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> bret: let's start in syria. what do we know about the possibility of chemical weapons being used there? >> if you take the whole body of work, from the intelligence reports over the last two years, i believe it's highly probable that chemical weapons were used at least in some small amounts in syria. which is in violation of the chemical weapons convention. >> bret: now, foreign policy magazine, they have this quote. syrian support group, s.s.g., the only american organization licensed by the u.s. government to send money directly to the fsa, which is on the ground in syria, issued a press release yesterday claiming the gas that killed civilians in separate instances, two separate instances near me das cuss was a chemical agent similarlant found -- schismlant found in pesticide. it causes similar effects like muscle, nerve, respiratory death. >> do you believe it's the indication? >> i don't have physical proof saying that is

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when he got to the president, obama sauid, he' the most powerful man in america and roger leaned into him and said, mrpresident, don't believe that, i served that bs up myself. >> lou: which he might have done. >> probably did. >> lou: and also characteristic of roger to deflect. and to be self-deprecating. he is -- and i've had the privilege of working for a long time, in the business. there is no more feared executive in television news. i would say in television, period. and certainly, the news media, than roger ailes. >> he's feared and he's respected. give us a sense of the character that he reveals, as you take on his biography. >> well, i spent close to a year with him, in meetings, traveling in social situations, and, you know, i was just very surprised by how down to earth he is. he's a guy from a small town in ohio and he's very sophisticated, obviously, center of american politics and the nixon administration and center of the media but became kind of a blunt, you know, attitude of small town america which i relate to, because i grew up in a town pretty much like his, pontiac, michigan. he'

mr. sheriff, to post their photos? >> reporter: georgia lawmaker rogerruce is one man trying to shut down the mugshot industry, pushing for a law that would make it a crime to establish a booking photo and then charge a fee to take it down, but only in georgia. >> we're trying to remove the incentive for putting it out there. we don't want them to be able to charge a fee to remove these pictures. and the thought is if they -- if they can't charge a fee, why put it out there? >> reporter: he says sheriff's departments across the country should be able to label their images with water marks and police their use and says that victims should be able to sue when police say the photos have been mishandled. >> it just destroys your life. you know, my family, my friends. it's just -- i just don't know how to express in words how devastated this has been for me. you are defending yourself as long as the picture is out there, you are defending yourself. telling your story, this is what happened, i'm not guilty. >> reporter: she's now found temporary work and stepp

to the president, obama said, oh, so here is the most powerful man in america, and roger leaned into him and said, mrt, i stirred that dbus up -- distinguished that bs up myself. lou: which he may have done. >> he probably did. lou: i have had privilege of working for a long time in this business, there is no more feared executive in television news. i would say in television, period. certainly in the news media than roger ailes. he is feared and reporte respeca since ofs character he reveals as you take on his biography. >> i spend close to a year with him in meetings and travelling and social situations, you know, i was just very surprised by how down to earth he is. he is a guy from a small town in ohio. he is at center of politics. he became the kind of a blunt, you know attitude of small-town america which i relate to, i grew up in a town pretty much like his, pontiac, michigan, he is from warren, ohio. lou: which is the s sophisticate then? , i am from rupert, idaho. i did get over it. >> you went to an ivy league school. lou: don't remind anyone. you have been around a lot of smart, highly suc

mr. president. even that was imposed on him by the sequestered. and roger ailes called obama lazy.ist. but that was a direct quotation. know why he did not know that? because he is lazy. according to liberals, these are racist dog whistles, which may be why only debbie wasserman schulz and rachel maddow can hear them. obama has his own words. he says investments, and he means government spending. he says revenue, and he means taxes. in the dr. lincoln is library, and he means, "distract michelle. i'm going out for a smoke." remember, republicans agreed to raise taxes, and in exchange, we're supposed to be taking an ax to the budget. he wants to raise taxes again. remember this the next time some journalist asks a republican, cassette and are you saying you would not take $1 in tax hikes in exchange for $10 in budget are you saying you would not take $1 in tax hikes in exchange for $10 in budget cuts?" we are the indians and the obama administration are andrew jackson. we have been through this before. the democrats tripled the budget. it is not true that it was reagan's tax cuts th

mr. mills passed away, he said -- his brother said, roger mills, some of you may know him, roger said, well, you know, that's wilbur for you. he looked like he was dead when he was born, and he looked like he was alive when he died. [laughter] so he graduated, he went to kinseth to school, and then he went toker is or si where he graduated as valedictorian, and then he went to hendricks, and he was on the debate team, and heed kitted the newspaper. and he was preparing to be a member of congress all the while. he was sal youtarian there and then he went to harvard law school. and at harvard, actually, his father went with him to the train when he left for boston, tried to talk him out of going. why don't you stay here, why don't you go into business? i think i can buy the bank in searcy for you if you'll stay. and so, you know, that was a pretty chancy deal, but he went on to harvard. and then when the depression hit really hard, it hit the bank of kinseth as well as all the other banks. so in 1933 at the end of his studies at harvard law school, he came back, and his father met him at the

it turns out an elderly customer, roger mays loses control of his pickup truck. >> well, mr.ng to drop his clothes off. one of our customers had been at the counter and he was waiting. >> after the other customer pulls out, mays attempts to pull in to the parking spot. according to the police report, he went to apply the brakes but accidentally hit the accelerator. >> he was in the cleaners so fast that it -- that it was scary. >> mays isn't hurt but is cited for failure to exercise due care. the incident rattles him. >> once they got him out of the truck which they, you know, had to pull the truck back and once they got him out of truck, he was walking around and his daughter came to, you know, make sure that he was okay. and mr. mays stayed until they loaded brittany onto the ambulance. he was shook up. i mean, he's an elderly gentleman. and he was shook up. >> and while the front of the dry cleaners is destroyed, shawna manages to keep lamas cleaners open for business. >> none of our machines were hurt. just took out all of our computer equipment and the counter and all of

mr. yeager, uh, that guy. [audience laughing] uh... detroit redwings, uh, alf. [audience laughing] rosie o'donnell, i've always wanted to bang him. [audience laughing] roger federer and lastly comedian, michael kosta. thank you, very, very much! you guys have been awesome! [cheers and applause] captioning sponsored by comedy central from comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is "the daily show" with jon stewart. ["daily show" theme song playing] [cheers and applause] >> jon: bam! welcome to "the daily show". my name is jon stewart. we've got a good one for you tonight, ladies and gentlemen. i am particularly excited about this, the head coach of the new york football giants, tom coughlin is joining us later. we're very excited about that. [cheers and applause] he is a good and decent man who should in no way lower himself to appear on a program like this but we're excited he has. first of all, you know yesterday senator rand paul embarked on a filibuster to draw attention to the issue of executive branch's seemingly unchecked power to use drones on american soil. the libertarian senator spoke for 12 hours for theified only by the occa

us now to spend quality time with the guy in charge, brand-new book called "roger ayles off camera." what did you know about mrsmart and i now know he's smarter. i knew he was very successful and i now have a pretty good sense of why he's been so successful. and i knew -- i had heard he was funny, and it turns out that he's very funny. he was a good guy to spend the year with. >> steve: who referred to him as the most powerful man in the world? >> well, probably his son. but also the president of the united states. >> steve: that's right. they were in the line at the white house christmas party. >> roger said -- leaned in to him and said, don't believe a word of that bs, mr. president. i stirred it up myself. >> steve: i saw that a line out of your book got some attention where the president -- where roner refers to the president as lazy. but actually he was quoting the president himself in this interview with barbara walters. >> what's the trait you most deplore in yourself and the trait you most deplore in others? >> laziness. >> you're lazy? >> you know, it's interesting. there is a deep down, underneath al

rogers. the michigan republican is joining me live from lansing, michigan, for more on this. mr.king the time. >> thanks, kate, great to hear you. >> this is such an important issue, specifically on the issue of chemical weapons. there's been a lot of back and forth over the last week. u.s. officials, they say that their intelligence is telling them at the moment that they've indicated chemical weapons have been used recently by the regime, but you continue to disagree. and you said it was abundantly clear, in your view, that the red line that president obama has set has been crossed in terms of chemical weapons. what's the discrepancy? >> well, if you look at the body of intelligence, kate, over the last two years, it is the evidence is mounting, and so when the president said august 20th of last year, that if they were going to move chemical weapons or use them, that would change his calculus, and here's the problem that presents itself now, i think, for the president of the united states and our national security moving forward, syria is deteriorating badly. we have a growing

mr. jefferson. in the painter's chair he brought to life the founding fathers of american painting and the use of george washington. more recently along with his longtime collaborator, photographer, roger straus, he wrote of the houses of the founding fathers, a book of the same name. he and roger are at it again in a sequel of sorts called houses of the presidents. i so envy hugh howard his research trips. it ask him some time about his visit to bill clinton's boyhood bedroom. hugh howard has turned his attention to the war of 1812 with his new book "mr. and mrs. madison's war," america's first couple in the second war for independence, a history book club selection of the month. most of us have a sort of grade school remembrance of the war of 1812, francis scott key, saving the george washington portrait and that is about it. it was of much more complicated affair. after a time of considerable political division we yankees wanted nothing to do with that war and what a fascinating and diverse cast of characters. chief among them was the diminutive and brilliant james madison and his vivacious and cunning wife, dolley. they were america's first power couple. no doubt the obamas to lear

ed rogers is a former deputy assistant to the first president bush and welcome. >> good to be here. cheryl: this was planned by the white house and mrent to show the spanish speaking population of this country that he cares about this issue. this has got to point to the immigration debate encompassing washington right now. your thoughts. >> well, what does america need more than anything else? it needs robust economic growth and aggressive job creation. there's nothing about his background that would suggest he can make much of an intellectual or intelligent decision in the job market. i think he shows us that he speaks spanish but he spent a career either in government or as a civil rights lawyer or as an academic and nothing about his background suggests that he has ever hired anyone, that he's ever worked in the private sector where the jobs are going to come from so perhaps he's been put in the cabinet for some periphery refasons but it's a disappointment that the labor secretary obviously isn't part of an economic team that is charged with economic growth. cheryl: can you be more specific with the holes in his resume? >> yes. w

mr. president, again i say, why would this amendment kill the bill? it was agreed to by the chairman of the house appropriations committee, a distinguished chairman, chairman rogers, last december. this is what we gree agreed to t here. and why is it that the one bill in appropriations that speaks to the human needs of our country, the educational needs of our kids, the scientific and research needs that we need for addressing some of our chronic ill unless in this country, why is that singled out? why is that singled out that it cannot have a full-standing bill but must be in the continuing resolution at the same level, on auto pilot, just as last year? i submit, mr. president, that we can make these decisions. we can decide that we're going to do these kinds of increases keeping within the same dollar levels as we have in the underlying bill. and i tell you, i don't believe this will kill the bill. but i believe those who don't want these increases, who don't want to see an increase in n.i.h., they will hold this up and say, yes, it will kill the bill, as an idle threat -- that's what it is. it is simply an idle threat. it's time. this is the third year now whe

mr. jim cooper for any opening comments that he may have. >> thank you, chairman rogers.ng with you whenever colleagues on these important issues this year. i would just like to ask in view of the shortness of time that my opening statement be inserted in the record. >> thank you, sir. in concert with that, as you all may have been told before in the hearing, we are going to be called for votes and oh-la-la all, so we are going to dispense with the reading of your opening statements. they will be submitted for the record without objection, and we will go straight to the questioning of the witnesses. the witness order will be general alston -- general finan, thanks for putting your nssa had on one last time to help the subcommittee understand these issues, and mr. friedman. we begin with five minute rounds of questions, and then we will have a second panel after that. i will start with the questions. general alston, you and dr. augustine in reserve seem to have read the many reports and independent reviews of the doe security that have been convicted previously. secretary

as chairman rogers said, he's tried to do this on a bipartisan, bicameral basis. thanks to both of you. dr. fox? >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank the chairman and the ranking member for coming today, and i know that you all have done a lot of work, along with the staff, to get us to this place so that we can keep the government funding. ms. lowey, i understand what you're saying, and i agree with you about the fact that the sequester is not good for the defense of this nation, but if you haven't read bob woodward's book, and i hope that you will, let me tell you, page 326 on july 26th, this is a quote, direct quote, from the bob woodward book, at "2:30 p.m., white house budget director jack lew and white house legislative affairs director rob neighbors went to the senate to meet with senate majority leader harry reid and his chief of staff david crone. we have an idea for the trigger, lew said. what's the idea, reid asked skeptically? sequestration." so, i hope that you have taken your pleas to the president and to his staff. >> will the gentlelady yield for a quick question? >> not yet. i just starte