mr. andrew was convinced at this point that his insurance salesman, mr.re having an affair. >> 48-year-old james pavatt taught sunday school with brenda, and they flaunted their relationship, even in front of rob's children. >> james and brenda had a very interesting relationship. i mean, even prior to rob's death, the two of them went on a vacation together down to texas with the children. i don't know of any husband who would willingly just say okay to his wife going down to mexico with a complete stranger and taking his kids with them. >> just a few months before his murder, rob demanded that brenda end her affair with pavatt. brenda refused and filed for divorce. rob immediately changed the beneficiary of his $800,000 life insurance policy. >> mr. andrew made the beneficiary, i think, his brother, for the benefit of the children. since the children were minors, he had to have an adult as the actual named beneficiary as the trustee of that money. >> after rob's death, police were surprised to learn that brenda was again the sole beneficiary. >> police

mr. andrews, for five minutes. mr. andrews: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. andrews: i rise in appreciation this morning. next week i am leaving the congress to pursue the chance to build a career in the private sector, and i wanted to take a few minutes of appreciation and thanksgiving this morning for a lot of people who helped make this wonderful experience possible. i start as all things with my wife, my daughters who without whom nothing good possible and through whom all good things are. i look forward to many, many more happy years, god willing with them, and thank them for their support and sacrifice. i thank my staff over all these years, these men and women are overworked, underpaid, and under appreciated. sometimes by their employer. these are true public servants. they are inspirations and i assure you that i have learned much more from them than i have taught to them. i want to single out in particular the present staff, our chief of staff, fran, our general counsel, amanda, and our legislative dire

mr. andrew tobias. ms. marie brenner. >> the honorable edward randall royce and mrs. royce. [inaudible] >> is there anything you want to say about the day and how things are going? >> enjoy the evening. >> mr. and mrs. lee saunders. >> mr. bill and jane stetson. ms. karen nagasaki. >> mr. bill and jane stetson. >> the honorable daniel gray. >> ms. janique sealey. >> the honorable mr. karen in and leslie euro and -- kiernan. >> mr. james crane. >> mr. frank skinner. and jennifer bado aleman. >> ms. rebecca shaw ms. beth shaw. >> mr. and mrs. ken fraser. >> ms. sarah smiley and commander dustin smiley. the honorable tina chen. >> mr. and mrs. david stern. >> mr. robert mailer anderson. >> ms. andrea bernstein and mr. tom bernstein. >> mr. laura ross and mr. james ross. mr. eliseo medina. mr. and mrs. irwin jacobs. mr. jason collins. mr. brunson green. >> i'm just having fun and enjoying tonight. >> the honorable patrick f kennedy and ms. m. elizabeth swope. vic torry ofble new and and dr. robert kagan. and dr.ria nuland robert kagan. mr. raymond mcguire. ms. crystal mccleary.

mr. andrew tobias, ms. marie brenner. the honorable edward randall royce and mrs. royce. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> mr. and mrs. lee saunders. [inaudible conversations] >> ms. karen marisol key mr. vivid valvo truck. ms. jane stutzman and mr. bill stutman the third. the honorable daniel gray and ms. seelye. the honorable wesley kiernan, mr. paul kiernan. mr. james crane. [inaudible conversations] ms. jennifer aleman and mr. frank skinner. ms. jill abramson and mr. william woodson. ms. rebecca shaw, is the best shaw -- beth shaw. mr. and mrs. ken frazier. and ms. sarah smiley and commander dustin smiley. the honorable tina chen. [inaudible conversations] mr. and mrs. david stern. him ms. nicola miner and mr. robert mailer anderson. ms. andrea bernstein and mr. tom bernstein. [inaudible conversations] mrs. laura ross, mr. james ross. mr. medina, ms. signs. >> from the booksellers from at the white house we are going to the north portico to see president obama and the first lady greet french president hollande is her life

mr. andrews? >> so also on page seven and this is, we may or may not know this, it says that the respondent was a member of the board of directors of green for all for 2009, to january of 2013. the respondent disclosed income for green for all for worth that she performed. and as the acting executive director from 2012, to 2013, and so she was on the board and 2012, and 2013, did she, and and we have stepped down from the board to become the acting executive director and she also have been a voting member on the board of directors and an acting executive director? >> i don't have the answer to that question. i'm assuming that she remained as a member of the board. and i don't, i never asked her the question of whether or not she voted on the board for green for all during that time. >> because within that, just within that organizational structure, you could find yourself having a conflict of interest, undue influence on deciding should you take the contract, and is it something that we should do,

mr. andrew oros. >> what is the french connection? >> you just get it by looking good. ok. mbient chatter] do you parlez any french? z any french.rle >> mr. and mrs. steve holland. >> the secretary of transportation and mrs. anthony fox. [camera clicking] >> mr. and mrs. joseph blunt. brams.norable stacey a >> she is doing an incredible job. my name came from france a long time ago. i think the french are way cooler than we are. and they certainly have better gossip. [inaudible] >> ms. julia louis dreyfus. dreyfus.am louis >> mr. jonathan levine. mrs. emily levine. ms. bonnie porta. >> the governor of tennessee. >> mrs. barbara schmidt and mr. richard smit -- schmidt. >> mr. randall kaplan. >> oui. oui. mr. gary simon. >> mr. and mrs. randall stephenson. >> the honorable elijah cummings and dr. maja cummings. >> glad to be here. >> we just love the country. we came to support france. >> ms. joanna coles and mr. peter got one -- godwin. >> we just brought it and it shattered. we heard there is no dancing. [inaudible] i'm about to find out, i think. this is jewelry from sydney

mr. shuster. hi, andrew. hi, rosa. i got here as soon as i could. what's going on ?happening. i got word this afternoon that the financing has come through. i still can't believe it. that's great news. - but why are you packing ? - well, my plane leaves for switzerland tonight. oh, when will you be back ? hard to say. i mean, if everything works out, i-- i could end up in europe indefinitely. congratulations. thank you. rosa, i can't tell you what a tremendous help you've been to me. and i could keep helping you. in fact, i've come up with a really great idea... for a marketing plan. rosa, you are very bright. and i don't know what i would have done if you hadn't come to my rescue with those investors. i hope you'll keep taking more classes. get me experience as a manager. and who knows, maybe next time i'm here you'll have your own restaurant. yeah. who knows. well, anyway, i wanted to give you something to show my appreciation. thank you. that's an '82 bordeaux. andrew, there's just one thing i want to ask you. sure. when we were going out-- i mean, when we weren't

mr. andrews, the whole number of the house is 431. the chair lays before the house a communication. the clerk: the honorable the speaker, house of representatives, sir, pursuant to the permission granted in clause 2-h of rule 2 of the rules of the u.s. house of representatives, the clerk received the following message from the secretary of the senate on february 18, 2014, at 10:15 a.m. that the senate passed senate 1254. signed sincerely, karen l. haas. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to section 2-b of house resolution 475, the house stands adjourned until 11:00 we take you live now to the brookings institution for discussion on u.s.-russia relations after the fall of the soviet union to present day. it is getting underway and you are hearing from president strobe talbott, president of brookings. live coverage on c-span. >> terrific for all of you to come out for what i think is going to be a first-class discussion on the relationship both in recent history and no doubt contemporaneously as well between the united states and the russian federation. in fact, i think we will probabl

mr. pistorius himself. andrew harding has the story for us. >> remember this? the media interest and oscar pistorius' case was frenzied enough at his bail hearing last year, and that was not even televised. now comes the trial itself. today, a ruling that cameras will be allowed in so the world can see south african justice in action. >> it is, in my view, in the public interest that the goings-on during the trial be covered. >> oscar pistorius stands accused of murdering his girlfriend on valentine's day last year. the athletes swears he thought he was shooting an intruder. cameras will not be allowed to show pistorius himself when he is giving evidence, but there will be a live audio transmission for the global audience. >> it is precedent-setting, a victory for open justice. we could not be happier. >> this is where the trial will be held. oscar pistorius will be -- will stand in the dark here. following the ruling, the outside world will be able to watch some of it and listen to the inside of -- entire proceedings live. it's a first for south african justic

mr. andrews is leaving. i wonder if so many people leaving after this congress, or during it, makes you re-evaluate how long you'll stay here. >> no it doesn't. it's very sad these people are leaving. they are fabulous, their legislative records, mr. dingell, mr. waxman, mr. miller, legislative virtue owe sews -- irtueo sews -- virtueo sows. rush holt, rob andrews from new jersey, fabulous hems of congress. god bless them. george miller, mr. waxman they have been here 40 years each. they want to go do something else or go home. mr. dingell, i think by the time he leaves it will be 59 years. no. they go with their pace. gi at my. we miss them. they are fabulous. there's the pot and lots of people are very excited about the prospect of what comes next for them. so it is -- it's a constantly reinvigorated body. that's what our founders intended. i thought maybe a few years ago mr. miller would be interested in leaving when we were in the majority. he wanted to go. he was ready. i said we had so much more work t

government for any incrust is such as the persecution of mar mr or something else. andrew in new jersey, nent independent caller, hi, andrew. >> caller: hi, good rng. >> host: good morning. >> caller: first of all, let's not forget the lessons of 9/11. okay. we have not learned anything. you got the immigration and service that is charged with keeping track of who comes into this country, where they are, and there was immigration service out in california that pressed a few years ago was backlogged and sh eded the documents which means no more paper trail. you done know who these people are. second of all, how easy is it to go and buy a high-powered rifle at a gun show but no background checks or you need the money to put down, they don't do any background checks at a gun show. the gun laws in this country have so many in them you could drive a mac truck through them. >> i know you are not a gun expert. the first part of the comments. >> i am not a gun expert. i am not, i would not advocate doing anything to restrict our second amount rights. think again, what we need to d

mr. purple tie? >> andrew, i would say more people have more stocks than what they need to begin with. >> oversupposed. >> they're oversupposed from the beginning. people don't know why the stock market rose 32% last year. it's basically the same as saying stocks went up because stocks went up. >> how much more do we have to go, then? and what gets us there? >> that is fair value? we're trading at 17 times earnings. there's heavidy projections. are we going to hit 115, 120 earnings per share on the s&p 500. i think that's a kwen big question mark. you have some real formidable headwinds. the fed has tapering $20 billion in pure chases. if mortgage rates are going up, that creates a lot of headwind. >> if i'm not buying and i'm sitting -- do you want me sitting in cash waiting to pounce for this moment where i'm going to be too -- or do you want me sitting in bonds? god forbid, i'm sitting in bonds. >> but bonds are the lead performers thus far in 2014. >> that's right. >> and the question of ov overvaluati ove

andrew farmer has more. two days after these olympics have ended mr putin has been singing the praises of russia's athletes to the nation's media he said that before the games at best many people had said russia would finish third in the medals table of course they finished top with a record haul of medals including thirteen gold and he went on to give a lovely little anecdotes about one of the biggest stars of these games the figure skater adelina sotnikova he told the media that he'd actually met when she was only twelve years old they had their photo taken with each other and then at that time she predicted that one day she would be an olympic champion how true that was mr peace and then also addressed the criticism that russia had faced in the run up to these games and said that basically it had come from two areas all these years we have seen working in conditions of criticism but it was constructive criticism in the first place very friendly and helpful on the part of the international olympic committee i am sure that without such friendly criticism and support we would have still managed to do everythi

sean smith and former navy s.e.a.l.s ty woods and glen doherty were flown to andrews where they were honored for the sacrifice. mrs. clinton blamed the video for their deaths. >> we've seen the heavy assault on our post in benghazi that took the lives of those brave men. we've seen rage and violence directed at american embassies over an awful internet video that we had nothing to do with. >> on september 15th, in what appears to be a direct response to the administration's public statements, the cia's chief of station sent an e-mail to morel which said the attacks were, quote, not, not an escalation of protests. these documents released by the administration in may show at the time morel was already coordinating with the white house and state department on the talking points. on the 15th the bipartisan senate report shows morel cut half the text, including prior warnings to the state department. the word islamic was dropped but demonstrations stayed. in the following day, september 16th, susan rice used the talking points edited by morel which conflicted with intelligence reporting on the ground in libya. >> toda

government for any incrust is such as the persecution of mar mr or something else. andrewnew jersey, nent independent caller, hi, andrew. >> caller: hi, good rng. >> host: good morning. >> caller: first of all, let's not forget the lessons of 9/11. okay. we have not learned anything. you got the immigration and service that is charged with keeping track of who comes into this country, where they are, and there was immigration service out in california that pressed a few years ago was backlogged and sh eded the documents which means no more paper trail. you done know who these people are. second of all, how easy is it to go and buy a high-powered rifle at a gun show but no background checks or you need the money to put down, they don't do any background checks at a gun show. the gun laws in this country have so many in them you could drive a mac truck through them. >> i know you are not a gun expert. the first part of the comments. >> i am not a gun expert. i am not, i would not advocate doing anything to restrict our second amount rights. think again, what we need to do is

andrews you had a comment? >> well, we are hearing from, commissioner keane. and i guess that i was a little, struck by when mr. st. croix said that we were going to find ourselves in a unique situation, by discussing this publicly. i was not clear about that and it feels like, it feels like we should have some amount of participation on the front end that does not

andrews you had a comment? >> well, we are hearing from, commissioner keane. and i guess that i was a little, struck by when mr. st. croix said that we were going to find ourselves in a unique situation, by discussing this publicly. i was not clear about that and it feels like, it feels like we should have some amount of participation on the front end that does not have us here. and i don't know what that is and i don't know, at what point that happens, but because it was a public hearing, at the fppc, is that right? >> yes. >> it was..., >> yes. >> it just feels like we are being backed into the corner of having to have a discussion that is either nice to have new, or late to the game, i don't understand the full process themselves and so would they be having this discussion, in public? or in private? they are hearing and we said that we will discuss this and typically in closed session. and somehow, they did. what if they discussed it in the closed session >> they discussed it in public session. >> i guess what i am struggling with, the moment that they do that, they immediately set some balls in motion for

mr. speaker, today i have the honor of introducing my friend, reverend dr. andrew cheney. reverend cheney is a third generation minister. he serves as the senior minister at the historic first calvary presbyterian church in springfield, missouri, a place that is a special place to me and my family. he is a spiritual voice to me and the springfield community. congress has a long-standing tradition of beginning each day with a prayer. i'm privileged and honored to have the opportunity today to welcome reverend dr. andrew cheney to the people's house as he opened today's session with a prayer. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the chair will nt taint up to 15 -- will entertain up to 15 further requests for one-minute speeches on each side of the aisle. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from florida seek recognition? ms. ros-lehtinen: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. ms. ros-lehtinen: thank

andrew--that deal's off the table. i won't be a part of it. >> tonight, on the profit, i go inside mr.ily-run ice cream business that has hit a wall. >> we physically cannot fill our orders to the distributors. >> the fiery dynamic between the father and son is hurting any chance of growth. >> you are strangling the business. >> back up. you're crossing the line between father and boss. >> if i can't fix their relationship and business, this company will be swallowed by a competitor. my name is marcus lemonis, and i fix failing businesses. this business will never function well under the "green tea" name. i make tough decisions... >> it was a mistake. >> this is never gonna happen again. and back them up with my own cash. that's a real check, by the way.

mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that i may here after be considered to be the first sponsor of h.r. 3729, a bill originally introduced by representative andrews of new jersey, for the purposes of adding co-sponsors and requesting reprintings pursuant to clause 7 of rule 12. thank you, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. the chair is prepared to entertain one-minute requests. for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? mr. thompson: mr. speaker, request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. thompson: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today to congratulate the pennsylvania state university i.f.c. dance marathon, otherwise known as t hon, for -- thom. the largest student philanthropy in the world, it is a year-long fundraising effort where students work in numerous ways to raise money for the cause. the efforts culminates with a final 46-hour event where over 700 students partake in a no-sitting, no-sleeping dance marathon and thousands more cheer on their ef

mr. president, i have the good fortune of having andrew johnson's desk when lincoln was assassinated. i have that beautiful piece of furniture in my desk. it's stunningly beautiful and i haven't had a chance to talk about it before so i took this. as then-senator andrew johnson of tennessee said before the first recitation of the address -- quote -- "the time has arrived when we should recur back to the days the times and the doings of washington and the patriots of the revolution who founded the government under which we live" -- close quote. in 1888, the 100th anniversary of the constitution's ratification the senate again observed the ritual and every year since 1986 the united states senator has marked washington's birthday, honored his legacy and recurred back to those who founded the government under which we live as we did today with a reading of washington's farewell address. as senator king mentioned, president washington prepared the address with input from james madison, america's fourth president, as well as alexander hamilton, the nation's first treasury secretary. like o

andrews. they are dropping like flies on reality tv. we're hearing another favorite has walked out on juan pablo. >> let's circle back to mr. green.ry behind his departure? >> i'm going to miss "the voice," too. i'm not coming back, guys. >> oh, you're not coming back at all? >> i'm not coming back at all. >> i did not know that. >> yeah. but i just want to -- i don't want to wear out my welcome there. >> cee lo told ellen today he's stepping down while the season six judges are flying high. >> awesome! >> adam, blake, usher and shakira featured in an

andrew. >> good morning, joe, i understand you did pretty well yesterday. >> thank god that one -- you know what, mrairman, i'm going to live on that putt for a while, at least until next year and hopefully we'll be back. whenever i get the privilege to talk to you, i love to bring up, you know, where we are in terms of five years into what has been a subpar recovery. and the debate still rages about whether the nature of the recession that we had since it wasn't an overheating and hyperinflation and then causing the fed to raise rates, it was a sort of a debt bubble. because of the differences that we shouldn't be expecting much better than we're getting here. that makes me sad that 1.5% or 2% is all we're entitled to. is there any remedy for it at this point? and what do you think is really causing it? >> well, first, as i've said before, you have to look at the gross domestic product and ask where the problem is. where is the short fall? i like to evaluate the gdp in a way that is not usually done, namely to restructure it in terms of the durability of what is being produced in goods and services

andrew kramer, with "the new york times," stay safe. what did you hear? guest: he gave a good description of the assumption of violence. i think he was shrewd to observe that mryanukovych consid -- considering a state of emergency, but he is not clear what that means. it is important, although probably not, but is likely they will not succeed in making reforms. if mr. yanukovych of his allies to go with the opposition, you would have constitutional reform which would be the way to end this crisis peacefully. during the orange revolution, the two sides were at a standoff. the second round of the presidential election was falsified. the government recognizes they cannot maintain this election. they agreed to a third round of the vote. they also insisted the government -- the government insisted on constitutional reform. this is exactly the same technique to avoid confrontation. host: this tweet that -- let's show that to our viewers. host: we want our viewers to weigh in. a video of the mayor announcing leaving the ruling party in protest over euromaidan violence. guest: we thought it might be the loss of the beginning of internal cohesion. mr. yanukovych was a

mr. president. i rise today in support of andrew luger. i thank my colleagues for the work that they have done to make sure that minnesota has a u.s. attorney in place. i want to particularly thank leader reid and senator mcconnell, the two leaders, for their work on this as well as senator franken. the two of us put together a nonpartisan recommendation coming from a committee, and we're very glad the president took that recommendation and recommended andy luger with his vast criminal prosecution experience as well as civil experience. i also want to thank senator grassley for his work on this as well as senator corker. minnesota has gone really two and a half years without a full-time u.s. attorney as our u.s. attorney was doing the job as a.t.f. director at the same time, and the over 100 people that work at the u.s. attorney's office in minnesota truly deserve a leader, and i thank my colleagues for their support. the presiding officer: the question occurs now on the luger nomination. all in favor say aye. all opposed no. the ayes appe