mr. boehner.f that job as speaker doesn't work out, i heard there's an opening at the food network. >> what is happening on the floor today is a demonstration of major amateur hour. >> never an intention for our side to say we want to take away the safety net of the food stamp program. >> by requiring work for abled body snap recipients. >> this amendment would increase the snap cuts by 50%. >> i rise today in support of this amendment. >> 62 republicans voted no. >> don't blame democrats for the loss today. we need a bill to fence a wall and a fence on this other border. >> they're here because they can get free stuff. >> sandra rubio says they are going to have to pay -- >> they want to blend in and it doesn't take a lot for mohammed to transform himself into miguel. >> thanks for joining us. a lot to cover this afternoon because as you just saw, the inmates are now officially running the asylum. a week of chaos for senator boehner and his troops. revolt broke out among their members and failed

mr. boehner are on one side. on the other, a different bipartisan clique led by democratic senator ron wyden today demanding new hearings for the purpose of determining whether administration officials have told the truth about data collection. >> it's not possible for the congress to do the kind of vigorous oversight that the president spoke about if you can't get straight answers. >> joining us now is dana milbank, a political columnist for the "washington post" and professor michael eric dyson of georgetown university. i'd like to put this question to you if i might begin with the profess professor. it's a serious question. is edward snowden a traitor? professor dyson. >> well, that depends on who's speaking. i think that many people think that if the president said let's have a vigorous conversation, i welcome debate about what's going on in this country around intelligence gathering and data collections, then edward snowed is a hero to many people, a whistleblower and not a traitor. a traitor to the worst in

mr. boehner has said he's not going to pass an immigration bill that doesn't have majority republican supportif republicans come over the fence, so to speak, on this immigration bill in the senate, it's very -- let me say i'm skeptical if this democratcle-driven bill as maria described, is going to be able to get passed in the house. >> go ahead. >> i didn't say it was a democratic bill. i said it was a democratic idea -- >> you said the amendment was written by chuck schumer when it was written by john hoeven and bob corker in tennessee. >> i said it was -- >> one at a time. >> i said it was schumer's idea -- >> correct p.. i'm glad you put it out there. >> he wants this done to give republicans what they are asking for, and, in fact, republicans are getting almost everything that they want here, and john bain ser in a huge box because he either has to show leadership and do what is right for the country, a majority of americans believe this is -- >> majority wants border security. you just called it militarization. >> exactly. and border security is actually in there now in a way it's neve

mr. boehner has some decisions to make.this being a redemption moment for the 113th congress needs to be lifted up. because it is both immigration reform and a fix for the voting rights act that will determine how this congress is viewed going forward. i'm optimistic that the congress will eventually do immigration reform and i'm increasingly optimistic that there is growing bipartisan support for a fix of the voting rights act. >> two things to put in the mix here. number one, anybody talks about 2016 now is way ahead of the curve. there's a lot happening in between. and if you look at a three-year arc, a lot can happen. i don't think actions on this are necessarily going to disqualify. but the second thing -- >> i've been sitting next to steve kornacki. he makes you think like two elections a day. >> in great britain, after margaret thatcher, the tory party lost and lost and lost and lost. and they kept doing things that reinforced their bad lost and lost. i'm not the biggest fan of this guy. david cameron said wee been l

mr. boehner cited the farm bill process to describe how he intended to move immigration reform through the the farm bill process. the farm bill process that he talked about on wednesday is a process that failed spectacularly on thursday. his whole plan for how to pass something difficult is to use the same strategy that he used to fail to pass something easy. eke. this was the stinging and embarrassing loss for boehner. this was the doo-woop move that made one sitting member of congress lament to "the hill" newspaper, "we can't even do an f star star star star star star farm bill." that's how they print td. i will not try to guess what the six asterisks stood for after the letter f. this was a terrible failure for them. >> what's happening on the floor today was a demonstration of major amateur hour. they didn't get results. and they put the blame on somebody else. just interesting because you know i love numbers and i love counting votes. 62 republicans voted no on the bill today. 62 republicans. there's almost no way to offset that. >> the republicans have tried to save face on this face

mr. boehner about it. >> it's due in large part what we have coming out of the federal reserve. continue to deflate our money, deflate it and deflate it, have the equity markets go up without some change. >> more from maria's interview with john boehner today on "closing bell" at 4:00 p.m. eastern time. we'll throw it out to the panel right now. do you agree with the speaker and his contention that part of the issue that be because of the feds' easy money policy? who wants to take it? >> we would give the fed chairman actually very good marks for how he's dealt with the crisis and getting financial stability back in the system in the economy at the point where it could start to grow on its own. having said that, this pullback is going to test the ability of the economy to continue at its 2.5% type of growth pace. >> would you like to see him stay? would you like to see bernanke stay? >> i think it's not really that critical, because whoever is going to replace him, which i think is the likely scenario, is going to be very hard to differentiate from a policy standpoint. i don't t

mr. boehner.eard there's an opening at the food network. >> what is happening on the floor today is a demonstration of major amateur hour. >> never an intention for our side to say we want to take away the safety net of the food stamp program. >> by requiring work for abled body snap recipients. >> this amendment would increase the snap cuts by 50%. >> i rise today in support of this amendment. >> 62 republicans voted no. d

mr. boehner who were on the steps that day to fix this formula so that we can do what they said they wanted to do, and that is to make sure that every person regardless of color or ethic background has the right to vote. >> what about -- and i think i know your aunswer, but i have t ask. look, we're elected president obama and we re-elected him. why is this necessary in the united states in 2013? >> we had vote err turnout. we had it in no small part because we had the first black man running for president. but the fact is voter turnout is not the only basis to judge whether or not the southern states and other states are engaging in practices to keep people from voting. i mean what are we to do about the alaskan natives, for example, that found that their voting place had been changed before an election so that the only way you could get there is by sea or by air. voting after the fact won't deal with that, and yet that was done with this formula in place in alaska. well, it's a challenge to us. could have been worse. section 5, the preclearance section, could have been found unconstitutio

mr. john boehner. it is the defining moment of his speakership, the final scene.t during the president's first term despite endless discussions and rounds of golf, speaker boehner couldn't reach an agreement on a grand bargain, and so we had the debacle of the debt ceiling that undermined the recovery and tarnished the corrode worreditw of this great nation. this isn't about the president suggesting socialist policies or channeling his father's kenyan ghost or palling around with terrorists or proposing death panels. all of that risable nonsense proposed by dunder heads who suffer with halitosis because they're always speaking from an orifice that's directly connected to, well, you know what. and we've had four years of it. four years frittered away even as the country was on its knees and in desperate need of assistance. four years of repetitive press conferences by house republicans who couldn't think of an original thing to say in a month of sundays. all of it a well-orchestrated side show that they put on center stage every month for four years. but now the ve

mr. boehner gave his comments you chose to ignore what he said, which i feel that the republicans are responsible for. unemployment, how poor it is right now. when all the republicans in the house have stood firmly against spending programs, even for our snurt. well, my understanding for other economists they were quite successful. please respond. guest: i can't pay attention everything boehner said but i was focusing on one thing. snusht, of course, we need snurt. i don't like the language on either side of the aisle. i would say we have a debt .roblem it depeppeds what color glasses you're looking through. we need to get to infrastructure soon. we have crumbling roads and bridges are not falling out of the sky but we need to repair them. here's the problem, if you don't mind me saying so. i don't know where you were going with general electic. the fact that he doesn't pay taxes, is that your question? host: he's gone. i wanted to get this question in regarding with chairman bernanke's successors. one is thought to be the current vice chair of the board of governors of the federal reserve. do yo

mr. boehner should shut his weepy booze-craving mouth by calling this guy a traitor. >> stephanie: yeah, or agree about the patriot act, but what -- what sort of -- what did he reveal that we didn't know exactly? maybe the scope of it? but the important thing, hillary clinton has officially joined twitter. her first tweet was thanking the creators of the text from hilary. her initial tweet said i'll take it from here. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: her biography section includes also glass ceiling cracker, and ends with tbd. [♪ dramatic music ♪] >> stephanie: oh to be determined. a teasesy little minks. bill clinton welcomed his wife to twitter, and said does twitter have a family share plan. and then chelsea clinton retweeted her mom's first tweet and said welcome mom. [♪breaking news theme♪] >> stephanie: we were talk about edward snowden's pole-dancing girlfriend. she is like hot brie -- but the important thing is john in san francisco smells opportunity. hot brie in hawaii. i smell an opportunity not to be missed for you to direct the tv movie poety in motion for jim. or pussy riot two f

mr. boehner gave his comments earlier, you chose to ignore something that he say. feel like the republicans in congress are responsible for, and unemployment. all of the republicans in the againstve stood firmly spending programs, even for our infrastructure at the lowest interest rates in years. for you to just dismiss these stimulus forege -- ge and other companies. please respond. guest: i cannot pay attention to everything john boehner says. infrastructure. of course we need infrastructure. i do not like the language on either side of the aisle saying it is obstruction. we have a debt problem. says there is not one. depends on what colored glasses you are looking through. we have to get too infrastructure spending pretty soon. we have crumbling roads. -- we have to get to infrastructure pretty soon. i do notlectric -- know where you are going with that. the fact that they do not pay taxes. is that what your question was? host: he is gone. i wanted to get this question in regarding chairman bernanke's success source. one of them is thought to be janet yellen, th

mr. klein and speaker boehner did move forward with a bill in may, this is an issue they need to handle with care, because it cuts across every state, middle class families, and upper-middle class families are struggling with college costs. even though it does not have the same exact dynamics of a year ago in the midst of a political campaign, the political power of this is still very dangerous for either side to be on the wrong side of. that's why i do think there will be a lot of external force that's going to be brought to bear over the next 10 days to avoid, you know, really either party being to blame for allowing this to happen. >> i do think there is more hope for a deal on this. as i was talking about before, really it is just a numbers game. house republicans say they are negotiating with the white house. i think they have other things on their plate. i think they are going to get some type of deal because they have to negotiate on the numbers. in a lot of ways, there are similarities between house republican approach and president obama's approach, which has not really sat well wit

mr. vice president, speaker boehner, have reread thomas nancy pelosi, howard professor dr. edna g.ford and the douglass family led by its matriarch, ms. nettie washington douglass. the great, great granddaughter of frederick douglass who we all are pleased to welcome to the capital today. [applause] it took a community to choose frederick douglass tuber present the capital joining statues from the 50 states. at the entire congress to bring the statue to the capital today. i especially find and easy residents who selected frederick douglass to represent the district and the capital. our residents are accustomed to hosting national and international years who make the district their home. none before or since it douglass however have so joined his national prominence and philosophy with the aspirations of the people of the district of columbia. douglass lived here for 23 of his 57 years as a free man. he knew and felt deeply about where he lived. he refused to separate his life in the district from the quality of his courageous life. rising from bondage to the, the most prominent abo

mr. boehner, did make a public statement and he did indicate that we would be open for business at the rules committee . i've attempted to do everything necessary and proper to make sure that not only a fair hearing was held but that all the people who would choose to come and make an amendment available that the committee was available. we listened. we asked tough questions. we did, but we asked questions that i considered to be fair. i don't think one witness was discouraged at all from taking all the time they needed but respected that we had some 200 amendments to go through. . we did not rush. we took our time. we were very deliberative. we worked with the committee on a bipartisan basis. we consulted others. and we received feedback and we have a model that i believe many people, those who -- if you had come up to the rules committee yesterday would say, received a fair hearing. good process. i'm for this bill. i think it's fair, balanced. i think it's a good representation of what i'm willing to put my name on as a product to present to this house. i reserve my time. the speaker pro t

mr. klein and speaker boehner did not move forward with the bill in may shows that this is an issue they need to handle with care because it cuts across every state, blue or red, middle-class families and upper-class families are struggling with college costs. even though it does not have the exact same dynamic of a year ago in the midst of the presidential campaign, the political power of this issue is still very dangerous for either side to be on the wrong side of. that is what i do think there's going to be a lot of external .orces all theou concerned at democrats get the blame, because the republicans on the house side have acted to prevent this from happening. it did not happen on the senate side. >> i would say that any action does not necessarily mean that it is the right action. now that this thing has been out there for a few weeks and has been looked at by credible and neutral analysis that shows that it worsens the problem, there are no student groups or campus grit -- or campus based groups think they have bought themselves some immunity or safety bypassing that measure. the

mr. mayor, i'm sure john boehner appreciates the optimism in diplomacy in that answer.ou about gun safety reform. >> sure. >> where there seem to be a lot of momentum in congress and absolutely nothing got done, something you're tackling at this conference. >> absolutely. >> and also answer for me, if you will, with an issue like gun safety and gun trafficking, which is a huge issue in terms of inner city violence, it would seem like you need a real national referendum on this stuff to be effective. >> well, no question about that. and i mean, the craziest part of this whole thing is that every survey that just about anyone took show that about 90% of americans believe that you should go through a background check to purchase a weapon. yet the congress, at least at that time, couldn't figure out how to get a overwhelming majority vote in that particular area. so, again, mayors will take up this issue at our conference and back home, having vice president biden as our speaker today reinforces certainly president obama's commitment and vice president biden's commitment, w

boehner on that. let's go back to immigration. it's a problem for the gop. that not even the talented mr. marco rubio can solve. ker boehner really threw cold water on hopes for any kind of reform. take a listen to the speaker. >> so, i don't see any way of bringing an immigration bill to the floor that doesn't have a majority support of republicans. >> so in other words, congresswoman, sorry folks, you can forget about immigration reform because the members i'm supposed to be leading as speaker won't allow me to do it. >> well, you know, that is a sad commentary because leadership really is the one who stands up and takes the lead. and begins to work people and poof them in the direction where it's best for the country. and i truly believe that a comprehensive immigration reform package is so needed for america. it's needed so that working peoples' wages will stay up. it's needed because of homeland security. it's about traditional family family values in the sense right now families are being torn apart and put in different countries. i think it's incredibly important that speaker boehner be a leader and not j

mr. speaker, the big question here is will john boehner, should john boehner go forward with a bill thatave the support of the majority of republicans. >> no. i don't think he will. i think john boehner will find a way to get the majority of republicans and a majority of democrats, and there will be a more conservative bill than the senate and a bill that is stronger on bored security than the senate. >> you think a majority of republicans are going to sign on to a bill that includes a path to citizenship? >> sure. depending on how long and the circumstances, yeah. most people have two general beliefs, one is that you got to do something when you have 11 million people currently outside the legal system. the other is you have got to control the future. that means you have got to control the border and got to have an employment system that includes guest workers or kid yourself, and ten years from now be back here. i think boehner has been very careful. he's not going to carry everybody. i think so he'll carry a majority of the republican conference or not bring a bill to the floor. >> co

mr. stupid hair. but this case has allowed us to see john boehner siding with diane fine stripe against -- feinstein with against michael moore and glenn beck. we'll talk about it with congressman keith for exampleison. snowden said the country that most aligns with his values is iceland. an icelandic member of parliament who helped release the wikileaks video has offered support but it is not all that easy to seek asylum there. we'll speak live with her. and plan b is now available to any woman of any age over the counter and some conservatives are upset that this is no longer a country where a teenage girl's life is automatically ruined when they become pregnant. we'll discuss that with the greatest political comedy panel in history. today is it is the birthday of the late jacques cousteau and gene wilder whoa is still alive call your agent gene, get back in the game. this is "viewpoint." >> john: i'm john fuglesang. this is "viewpoint." thank you so much for joining us tonight. our polarized political world is splitting again over the government surveillance programs revealed by edward snowden. and sn

mr. mcconnell is in the senate. let's turn to mcconnell's counterpart in the house is, speaker john boehner. for him after the failed farm bill vote which let's be honest, is entirely of his own making? >> there's no question about that. i mean, there was the environment to do a farm bill on a bipartisan basis. >> right. >> he allowed some poison pill amendments to be passed that lost him virtually all democratic support and he into you that would happen. speaker boehner has a real problem on his hands. he has about almost half of his conference of the republican members were elected in the last two years. they're very, very quefrt conservative. they come from virtually all white districts not representative of america as a whole and they really are not vulnerable to anything except a challenge from the even farther right. he has a hard time bringing them into the tent. so you know, i his this his job is probably not at stake because while i think the tea party members can keep him from being speaker, they can't elect another person. i'm not sure there's anybody waiting in the wings that wou

mr. speaker, the big question here is will john boehner -- should john boehner go forward with a bill thatoes not have the support of the majority of republicans. >> no. i don't think he will. i think he will find a way to get a majority of republicans and find a way to get a majority of democrats. it will be a more conservative bill than the senate, and stronger on border security than the senate. >> do you think a majority of the republicans will sign on to a bill that includes a path to citizenship? >> sure. depending on the path and how long. most people have go beliefs. one is you have to do something when you have 11 million people outside the legal system. the other is you have got to control the future and the border. and you've got to have some kind of employment system that includes guest workers or you're going to kid yourself and in ten years be back here. i think boehner has been very careful. he's not going to carry everybody. but i think he will carry a majority, or he won't bring a bill to the floor. >> congressman, i have heard that you're going to meet, you and the hispan

mr. stupid hair. but this case has allowed us to see john boehner siding with diane fine stripe against -- feinstein withinst michael moore and glenn beck. we'll talk about it with congressman keith for exampleison. snowden said the country that most aligns with his values is iceland. an icelandic member of parliament who helped release the wikileaks video has offered support but it is not all that easy to seek asylum there. we'll speak live with her. an

that the public understand that what some republicans have asked john boehner to do is totally anti-democratic. what they're saying is mreaker, you cannot bring a bill, an immigration reform bill to the floor of the house unless a majority of republicans in the house support it. that's anti-democratic. i mean, on its face. so i would think that people around the country who care about a functioning democracy set aside the supreme court that obviously wants to toss out the voting rights act. everybody else who wants to see a fair democratic process would say, mr. speaker, let the people's housework its will on this very important and fundamental issue. don't kowtow and indicator to the farthest right and most extreme elements of your caucus who are not looking out for the interests of the country but are simply responding to a very small very vocal extremist group in their congressional districts. >> i hope that the speaker was listening to what you just said. democratic congressman, chris van hollen, thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> coming up, darrell issa caught with his pants down. >> my gut tells me that too many peo

mr. vice president, speaker boehner, harry reid, nancy pelosi, howard professor dr. edna g. and the douglass family led by its matriarch, ms. nettie washington douglass. the great, great granddaughter of frederick douglass who we all are pleased to welcome to the capitol today. [applause] it took a community to choose frederick douglass to represent the capitol joining statues from the 50 states. and the entire congress to bring the statue to the capitol today. i especially find that it was d. c. residents who selected frederick douglass to represent the district and the capitol. our residents are accustomed to hosting national and international visitors who make the district their home. none before or since douglass however have so joined his national prominence and philosophy with the aspirations of the people of the district of columbia. douglass lived here for 23 of is 57 years as a free man. he knew and felt deeply about here he lived. he refused to separate his life in the district from the quality of his courageous life. rising from bondage to become the most prominen

what confidence do you have, reverend, that john boehner will be an honest broker in this? >> so far, he has shown none. but mr. canner said the other day, for example, his experience walking across the bridge showed him something different. rather than that kind of anecdotal observation, i think we must challenge the whole nation. and at this point, the documentation and the president can call this special session of congress. there is no interest in the nation more vital than the equal protection to vote. only the president has that kind of authority just as johnson did. >> and i want your response to justice roberts had a says that racism today isn't what i it was back in 1965. >> the only reason why we're getting better at voter elections is voter protection. if the heat play the spurs, they have a great game, right? without the referees, the game would become a brawl. re referees matter. oversight matters. it has taken 40 years to deal with the impact of gerrymandering. the schemes, so you can vote but your vote don't count. you can vote but you can't win. >> when paula dean called me, i listened to her.

john boehner says, today's modest job growth is a positive sign, but we can do a lot better. that's right, mr. sequester, we can do better if republicans stop killing government jobs and stop trying to shred the safety net. we've still got a long way to go. too many people are hurting. too many people still don't have jobs. but the president has the country moving forward. republicans are trying to hold us back. joining me now is congresswoman donna edwards, democrat from maryland. jared bernstein, former economist for vice president biden. thank you both for joining me. >> thank you. >> thank you, reverend. >> congresswoman, shouldn't jobs and the economy be the number one priority for our leaders in washington right now? >> well, it's a no-brainer, of course. listening to speaker boehner really sort of celebrates modest growth while he's saying that we can do more while he hasn't done anything is rather extraordinary. there are a ton of things that we could do to create jobs and opportunity for the american people and we're just not doing it and the one in charge of that is john boehner. he

mr. defazio: i thank the chair. last thursday, speaker boehner called president obama, quote, absolutely crazy, end quote, for moving forward with rules to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants that cause global warming. what i think is absolutely crazy is the republicans' constant denial of the overwhelming scientific consensus that climate change is real and human activity is largely responsible. i think it's absolutely crazy that the republicans voted more than 50 times in the last congress to block action on climate change. in march, i talked about a new peer review report from oregon state and harvard that looked at temperatures over the last 11,300 years. and they found that over the last 100 years, coinciding with the widespread use of fossil fuels and turbines, etc., that we have seen more temperature increase than over the previous 11,000 years. 100 years versus 11,000 years. last month i came to the floor again to talk about a new noaa report. oceans warming, many commercial fish stocks are moving north. other things that ar

mr. president, i have often said that speaker boehner has a hard job. that was obvious last week when the house republican congress revolted to defeat the speaker's farm bill. even though the speaker took the unusual step of announcing his support for the measure ahead of the vote, this bill went down in flames. it was the first time the house of representatives had defeated a farm bill since the program was created in the 1930's. mr. president, it was the first time the house of representatives had defeated a farm bill since the program was created in the 1930's. i admit i was sorry to hear the house republican leadership blame the bill's defeat on democrats, but i wasn't surprised. they had to blame someone. they couldn't blame themselves, even though they should. it was no surprise house democrats opposed this mean-spirited bill. the legislation would cut $20 billion from the safety net that keeps millions of americans, including millions of children from going hungry every year. that's what it was about. the farm bill eliminated eight million meals

mr. president, back off, don't be out there so publicly. if you look at speaker boehner give the president everything he wants but they want to get all the criticism from the latino community on the republican party off their back headed into the next election cycle so their message to the president is likely going to be we're trying to kind of help you be more quiet because when you're out in public it fires up our conservative base. >> john king great to see you, thanks. >> always good to hear lawmakers trying to hide from the people they represent. >> sometimes what's good for politics is not always good for the people. ♪ >>> do you hear that music? time for me to shut up and time for the rock block, quick stories to talk about in the day. >> the "new york times" recently found charter schools are improving their scores on standardized math test. in "usa today," college students getting a bit of a break in the pocketbook, tuition increases at many universities across the country are the smallest in years. >>> "the hartford kourrant" republicans trying to stop a four-c

all we're asking to do in the mmediate term is for speaker boehner allow the house to work its will and have a vote on mr. van hollen's alternative and to follow regular order and agree to go to conference. that's what they said they wanted to do. that's what they said they would do. but they're not doing it. it's time for democrats and republicans to work together in a bipartisan way to rise to our budget challenges and send our country back on a sound fiscal path. let us have regular order. let us have a vote and let us restore sanity to this house and replace the sequester with a balanced solution, and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. cclintock, for five minutes. mr. mcclintock: thank you, mr. speaker. we learned about the plight of sarah, the 10-year-old who will die within weeks unless she gets a desperately needed lung transplant. there are no peed at rick lungs -- pediatric lungs, but there may be an adult lung. but because she's nearly 11 years old but not 12 the bureaucratic regulations prohibited it. as secreta

boehner has been working with you. verye speaker was courteous and met with me. i wouldn't say that he is working with me on an ongoing basis. goodlatte, we mr. have a professional relationship . there are immigrations -- situations where we have worked together on bills. i think -- >> he held a hearing on your bill. >> i think the path forward is a decision that of the republican leadership needs to make. i cannot make it for them. i can't express my hope on what they would decide. decides what bills are heard i am hopeful we will have a better approach than we have had so far. i will say this -- although we had, i think there was obviously an effort to have poison pills or matters that democrats could never support the cause, i mean, to make every undocumented person a federal criminal, i mean, that is unwarranted. we were not screaming at each other. we disagreed in a professional way, and we have an opportunity if the republican party decides to move forward to do so in a professional manner. >> i think you have seen a very dramatic change in just attitudes and rhetoric and everybody calming down. i think there is always going to be some

mr. waxman: today, the speaker of the house, not the presiding officer at the moment, but the speaker of the house, john boehner, made some irresponsible remarks about climate change. he was asked about the reports that the president is prepared to act to protect the planet and future generations from climate change impacts. and here's what the speaker had to say, quote, i think this is absolutely crazy. why would you want to increase the cost of energy and kill more american jobs at a time when the american people are still asking where are the jobs? clear enough? end quote. well, i could not disagree more strongly with speaker boehner. presidential action to protect the climate and future generations is absolutely essential the house is controlled by leaders who deny the science and are recklessly ignoring the risks of a rapidly changing climate. the house has become the last refuge of the flat earth society. that is why the president must act, using his existing authorities under the law. the speaker's assertion that acting to reduce emissions will hurt the economy is absolutely wrong. we need to act to lead