they'll be a press conference at that press conference mr barroso or mr van room for the two an elected bosses of the european union will put on the table a paper a paper that suggests that we move towards a common european treasury a paper the suggests that the european union becomes a debt union either mr barroso almost of a room boy or both echo of each other will say that it's but that it's this story document that has been a wonderful meeting that europe has made a huge stride forward as that the eurozone crisis is near the end that is what will happen and you know what behind that they'll be leaders of countries from the one europe who will say we don't subscribe to this and there will be leaders from southern europe who say we cannot accept the austerity package i believe there is absolutely nothing that will come out tonight from this summit that will move us forward by one single inch so more of the same that we've seen from any number of these summits where nothing has come of them my question about that is this is situation where i don't know perhaps a media circus in the fin

mr. van hollen -- mr. van hollen is next. he does not appear to be here. mr. hoyer and ms. pelosi are next. please come forward, mr. hoyer. they are next. welcome back to the rules committee. it is nice to see you. without objection, and he prepared statements you have will appear in the record in its entirety. we certainly welcome your summary. >> thank you, mr. chairman. ladies and gentlemen of the committee, ranking member, thank you very much. i appreciate this opportunity to appear before you. i will reiterate what others have said. the american people obviously are deeply distressed. they are distressed that, when they see agreement, that that agreement is not made into law. they here are saying, and i hear you saying, we are here -- for this. they hear us saying the same thing and yet nothing happens. the senate has passed a number of bills by votes of over 60 votes, some by over 2/3 votes, and they have sent them here and they have not been passed. we have an opportunity in my view to make a statement to the american public that will raise their confidence and perha

mr. van hollen. >> welcome, mr. secretary. participated in some of those rounds. the fundamental issue with respect to the budget, everyone recognizes including a that as you get the second 10 years we have a lot of work to do. but here is what they said. in the framework and what he said it -- submitted in september, the president embraced many of the goals and principles outlined an incorporated the policies we propose. we are pleased that the latest budget continues to focus on deficit reduction and are also encouraged to see real, specific policies for limiting tax expenditures, slowing health care costs and reducing spending throughout the government. i would suggest that if we could have a part in coming to that balanced approach, we would be able to tackle some of these things. i would like to put up a chart to address what is the continuing myth which is that relatively small changes in the top marginal rates are the chief driver of job growth. and that is -- has been proven false by history on numerous occasions. what

mr. van hollen: let me say. let us come up with a tax reform plan that works for all of the american people. let's come up with a plan that will help grow our economy from the middle out not this failed idea of trickle-down economics from the top down. and that is what this debate is all about. because what we want to do through tax reform is empower the middle class and empower small business men and women. you do not empower the middle class by creating a situation where by giving tax breaks to the wealthy you increase the deficit for the rest of the country. because when you increase the deficit, you are asking everybody else to pay for those breaks at the very top. and people will pay by fewer investments in education, fewer investments in science and research. fewer investments important to power our economy. and everybody else will be left to pick up this deficit tab while folks at the very top get another break. let's not do that. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman fr

i yield to ranking member mr. van hollen. >> i thank you very much.s the secretary will testify, in fact this budget represents a plan, it represents a responsible plan, a good plan and the debate we really have in this committee is not between plan and no plan but between two very different visions of how we move forward in this country and what this budget does is three essential things. number one, it helps to nurture and move forward our very fragile recovery. i think we all know that when president obama was sworn in, the economy was in total freefall. we know in the last quarter of 2008, we were in freefall at negative 8.9% of g.d.p. the economy was in crisis and that's the crisis that the president inherited. in january, we were losing over 800,000 jobs every month. now the first thing as the president and previous congress did was to put a net over that freefall and then begin to reverse it. we passed the recovery act and rescued the ought oove industry successfully and other measures. and the reality is the last 23 months, we have seen over 3

mr. van hollen: thank you, mr. speaker, and i thank mr. levin. it's very important everyone understand the choice that's facing the house today. the democrats will offer an amendment that will immediately extend tax relief to 100% of american people. the senate has already passed that proposal and if our republican colleagues vote for it today, we can send it down to the white house, the president will sign it today. someone asked what we're going to do today, we could provide immediate tax relief to 98% of the american people. now, let's be clear. the democratic proposal provides tax relief to everybody up to $250,000. what our republican colleagues are saying is, they will deny tax relief to 98% of the american people unless people making over $250,000 get a bonus, an extra tax cut. in other words, unless the top 2% get an extra tax cut, nobody else gets anything. it gets worse. we've heard a lot of talk here about small businesses. that we need to adopt the republican plan in order to support small businesses. it's just not true. the democrati

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linda says i enjoyed listening to mr. van roekel and his comparison. he's concerned about education. romney sucks at this agenda. and on call centers yesterday rick rothermill says hey press what's happening here? for the first time we actually agree on something! >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." [ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> bill: good morning everybody. welcome to the "full court press" here on current tv this thursday morning august 16. good to receive you today. thank you for being part of the program as we take a look at what's happening today wherever, here in washington, d.c., around the country around the globe. tell you all about it. talk to you about it and get your calls about it. what it means to you and to your family at 1-866-55-press. you know, there is a lot to celebrate this week including the 77th birthday of social security. it is a great program. it is still going strong. over 20 million americans depend on it. social security is under attack like never before. and if paul ryan had his way social security would never get to celebrate

van hollen. he's charged with working sometimes with or against mr. ryan. congressman van hollen joins me now. good morning. >> chuck, good morning. good to be with you. >> let me talk to you about your personal and working relationships with paul ryan. >> well, sure. i have a very good personal relationship with paul ryan. as you know, we have very spirited contentious debates in the budget committee on the floor of the house but always in a civil manner and i think that has actually crystallized the issues and i've told paul very clearly, the more the american people get to know his budget, his plan, the romney-ryan plan, the less people are going to like it. >> do you think that some of the language being used now already -- i'm sorry, in the last 48 hours -- what we thought was going to be sort of elevate the debate, we're seeing -- we're going to have a very contentious and maybe overly sound bited attack ads when it comes to medicare. are you concerned about that? >> well, i think there are very clear issues on medicare and what the president has proposed and what romney and ryan are now

mr. hom's representative? >> my name is van ly and i have been obtained by the property owner. i filed an application on july 3, application number 201217034364. this kind of application usually is counter approval because it is a violation. it is a very simple set of stairs. after the filing procedure, the department gave their signature, and then we went to the third department, city planning. city planning is hesitating approving because they were questioning whether the original stairs were built with a permit. the location of the stairs in a question is in the required briard. they asked me to provide proof that the stairs were made with a permit. the process stopped there. i was requested to provide proof. when i came back to talk to my client, he said he remembered that the stairs were built with permits. that fact was on the report. so we came back to order the report on july 10. according to my client's recollection, 15 days until this. i have not received anything. they have up until the end of the month, the last day of the 15 working days. ss

mr. hom's representative? >> my name is van ly and i have been obtained by the property owner. i filed an application on july 3, application number 201217034364. this kind of application usually is counter approval because it is a violation. it is a very

van unemployed. >> every study i have seen suggests while mr. romney has been hammering the issue of how much better he will be on the economy than is mr. obama, it has not pulled him close enough in the battleground states. >> he is not close enough at all. >> the economy as the most important issue. it seems counter intuitive to me. it was the most important issue, but it is not throwing them any closer. they have still got plenty of time to turn himself around into a winning candidate, but at this point he is a losing candidate. the economy is a giant issue. there are too many unemployed, to many fear being unemployed. too many are losing their houses. too many are terrified about unemployment, but mr. romney does not have a plan to turn things around. all the is saying is mr. obama said he had unplanned and he did not. mr. obama said he was going -- said he had a plan, and he did not. does mr. romney have a better plan? if he does, we have not seen heit. >> they have said governor romney will have his own economic plan. when might they put t

and according to congressman van hollen, mr.said that the president's budget is much closer to what they did than what the ryan budget is. that's the guy who was half of the commission. >> guys, you want a piece of the action? >> i was going to say it's kind of splitting hairs. i don't think i'm going out on a limb here. >> don't bring up hair with will. >> it's very nice. but i don't think -- i continuing is splitting hairs a little bit to say that sort of argument, that it's ok to disagree with it but the president didn't act on his own. it is just a little hair splitty, if you will. >> look, i'm not going to do spin, as roland said. i wasn't happy when paul ryan voted against simpson-bowles. i wish he would have voted for it. however, i think his criticism -- we continue to search for hypocrisy. being on the commission and voting against it is different than being the president that empanels the commission and not supporting it. i think there's room for criticism there. >> halftime report. we are more than halfway through the

new treaties in the european union thanks very much mr pearce for joining us today i'd like to start by quoting something you had written in the van for two thousand and eleven and the financial times you had written it's time to admit that the large part of the you was too rapid europe's citizens no longer understand the purpose of the e.u. and for all its increased powers the european parliament the supposed repository of democratic legitimacy in europe is a relative failure like to ask is is there something fundamentally wrong with europe at this point you know this. adventure is something which is new has never been made. so we are experiencing the problems with the currency i'm sure we talk about is an example but. we fault in the beginning. to bring democracy. making or members. will bring more. diverse work. for example but. this has been the reason you're. so that's one of the experiencing. adventure as well then again there's the question of sovereignty where individual member states feel like they're just giving more powers to brussels these. members of the euro. and union. of them oh nation states with all of history. c

. >> get another van and you guys are good to go. >> bring us back. >> mr.check of the weather. >> saturday, we start the weekend off friday, friday, london, three-day forecast. gorgeous today. 82. 80 tomorrow. sunday some morning showers then clearing in time for the closing ceremonies. saturday around the u.s. we've got the heat out west. even up into the pacific northwest thunderstorms along the eastern seaboard down into florida. sizzling in the southwest. sunday -- sunday! -- we are looking at more wet weather making its way down through florida. the rest of the country, though, pretty much on the hot side. nice and mild in the western >> good morning. the central a good idea to take an umbrella on this friday. off and on showers and thunderstorms. >> you just missed a great spandea a ballet. ♪ this much is true. >> back with more. >> first these messages. this happy couple used capital one venture miles for their "destination wedding." double miles you can "actually" use. but with those single mile travel cards... [ bridesmaid ] blacked out... but i'm

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van ness and yuma, police activity at p street in the district. that's a check of your "fox 5 on-time traffic." >> this is my gas pedal. i'm talking with mr.el right now. going to college can be a great experience but paying for it most definitely is not. and that's why scholarships can be so important. joining us now to talk about a scholarship event that takes place right here in the district tomorrow is klaus nobel the chairman of the board of advisors at the national society of high school scholars. he is also the great nephew of al fret nobel creator of the nobel prizes -- alfred nobel, creator of the nobel prizes. thanks for being with us, mr. nobel. also with us is the president of the national society of high school scholars, james lewis. thank you for being with us. >> thank you for having just what could be a better topic than talking about getting our young people educated without the worries and hassles of money? it seems so trivial when you think about a future. so thanks for both being here today. you have a wonderful event planned and let me start with you, sir. tell us what's happening in washington while you're here. >> th