simpson's mr. burnsvery unpopular and rich ceo. >> any word from karl rove. >> despite what he's been telling you, it's over. romney lost. >> damn it. i guess it's time i explained to these good people the upcoming fiscal cliff. think of the economy as a car and the rich man is the driver. if you don't give the driver money, he'll drive you over a cliff. it's just common sense. furthermore, rich people feel things more deeply than the common man. >> well, the rich are hardly the only ones to suffer from a fiscal cliff. did you see the book? nate silver "can't add" and some binders full of women. >>> alan simpson has joined forces with can kicks back, trying to get young people to recruit their friends and use social media to encourage congress to come to a deficit reduction deal. there's alan simpson doing his part with a homage to internet sensation gangnam style. >> stop instagraming your breakfast and tweeting your first world problems and getting on youtube so you can get gangnam style. ♪ gangnam sty

mr. burn's point to the interior on the cruise ship project see a change there as well, so it is a snapshot in time but i do think in the last report we did a very good job on the contracts. i don't recall there was even one that fell below. do you recall that commissioners? >> don't. i would have to see the report in front of me. >> i wanted to clarify -- elaine picked it up as well and when you said open session. we always hear it in open session. i assume you mean on consent. >> definitely. it's a presentation. >> and i will the goals are below 20% on some of them and getting them up higher -- >> it's necessarily getting them more. i look forward to the next report. >> okay: we will make sure we exceed. >> thank you. >> maybe what maybe helpful is when we have the full four quarters or whatever that we can have that as a comparison too and address some of the concerns and i just wanted to thank all of you because having seen a number of other departments and how they fair i am proud of the port for setting a higher goal and i do remember some of the other ports. we did meet and exceed th

the questioning by marco rubio, the senator from florida was, yes, mr. burnsthe six floor level of the deteriorating security situation, and the answer was yes, sir, there was. now, is that the person we have heard that hillary clinton knew about the deteriorating security situation in benghazi? remark i took from that testimony that that is where secretary clinton's office is. and that she was aware of it. given our activity in libya, i would be shocked if she wasn't aware of this deteriorating security situation. that is why her testimony is important to us. why wasn't action taken? in addition to that, understanding what briefings were made to the president as well. let's not forget that the other thing that is clear from this report, the story that was told for two weeks is that it was confirmed by this report. megyn: just so the viewers know, it was false and there was a question about whether it would remain false and undiscussed. another where lawmakers that swers from theestions and state department. saying that there was no protest. thsecurity situati

>> there's no one more eloquent speaking of mr. burns>> i would have to agree with that. >> thank you, mr. turner. i believe that our last question will be mr. mike kelley. we are in good hands with the vice chair the subcommittee on asia and the pacific. >> i think the madam chair. my first time in congress this privilege to serve with you. ambassador burns, i keep hearing about resources. only 1% of the budget. that doesn't sound like much money. what is arpeggio? >> our budget is $50 billion. >> is approximately 8% of the defense budget. >> okay. >> when people hear 1% of the comic a lot. when we talk about resources, i'm trying to understand because i've listen to a couple different briefings. i heard mr. pickering and admiral mullen today. you're not the folks who should be here because you are really part of the decision-making process. for what i'm trying to understand, but i can't get my mind wrapped around is everybody says this is unstable and highly volatile area. and why for god's sake would we take out the best trained peopl

mr. burns will go to the other side of the capital of the afternoon to testify before the house foreign affairs committee about the report. that is live on c-span3 at 1:00 eastern. >> our first experience was to come and a different way than every other family up here. probably would never happen again in history. after dad was sworn in, we went and took a picture of the family behind a wall office desk. that night we did not get to move into the office -- white house because they left their daughter and son in law to pack all of their clothes and belongings. it literally took seven or eight days. we had to go back to the little house in alexandria, virginia. the neighborhood was surrounded by secret service. i will never forget, that night mom is cooking dinner. literally we're sitting around the dinner table and mama's cooking dinner, and she said something is wrong. [laughter] she said you just became president of the united states, and i am still cooking. >> steve forbes, and gen and barbar

i think mr. burns. >> think of the rich car and the driver.u don't giving the driver all of the money, he'll drive you over the cliff. it's common sense. >> in pop culture we exchange words for words that have comedic value. >> senate 23 7, app act to strike the world lunatic from federal law and for other purposes. >> we're unclear if what purposes the word lunatic would be struck nor are we certain how you go about the striking. you heard that right. lunatic to be removed from any law ever written. >> lieu tick hold as place in antiquity and should no longer have a prominent place in our u.s. code. >> they argue lunatic mean pejorative. >> on this vote the yeassy 212,

this time it doesn't matter if mr. burnseaker boehner, or the tea party try to hold the american people hostage just to get what they want. the president isn't going to budge. >> so i want to sq thank you both for coming on the show tonight. congresswoman, let me start with you. is the gop serious about holding the economy hostage again just to get what they want? >> well, think about the cards that they are holding. they are in favor of tax cuts for the rich. they want to cut tax care programs and medicare and make seniors pay and threaten the economy of the united states of america by defaulting on payments or at least to threaten that. this is not a very popular position among the public. in fact, they will be -- i think it's a suicide mission that they are on, that the american people will make them pay the price. i really don't understand their strategy. >> margie, if you look at the fact that in the 2011 debt ceiling battle senator mitch mcconnell had this to say. he said, i think some of our members may have thought t

brahimi participated in and mr. burns from the u.s. state dertme that they continue to be the only consensus realistic basis for a political outcome. so this is our platform. >> woodruff: let me ask you, mr. ambassador. if you're saying it's up to the syrians, isn't that really saying we just let the two sides continue to fight it out no matter what the cost in lives is? what is it, 40,000 syrians have already died? two million have been displaced. a half million refugees. >> what we're saying is completely the opposite. the goalshould bputting together a national transitional body composed of representatives from the government and the opposition which are acceptable to each other sometimes the future or the stepping down from office of president assad is put to the floor. when people very often say that first he needs to step down then our question is but he is not stepping down so what are you going to do about it. if we were to accept that, what would change? ife ctinueso ben damascus and continues to be the leader of an important g

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the just left nick and the deputy head of the russian state duma foreign affairs committee mr nikken of. burning international needs today is the one we're getting from from the middle east of course the new aggravation of the situation in egypt egypt was among the first countries who caught this this wave of freedom. in the early to do two thousand and eleven well the revolution but. since then the true moral didn't stop for long do you think it will stop in the first seeable future. while the there was a soviet revolutionary song revolutions have a beginning they don't have any end and i think there's what happens with almost any revolution there analysts especially not remember trotsky's idea about a permanent revolution and revolution was exactly the idea of the of the bolsheviks in the early russia. and the permanent revolution goes on. actually the idea that a. will of the people democracy can produce a liberal regime. the arab world in egypt is somewhat naive which we think it's wishful thinking actually. the egyptian president morsi is. the democratically elected president of egypt. but

this is mr. burnsh man is the driver. if you don't give the driver all the money, he'll drive you over a cliff. it is just -- >> what actually will happen if america does head toward that fiscal cliff? and go over it even temporarily? cnn money's jean zahadi has been on this story from the very beginning. here is the question at hand. a lot of people are saying, what happens if we don't get a deal right by the end of december and we get into early january, maybe go over the cliff for a week or two? is that catastrophic? >> it doesn't have to be. there are steps the government can take to mitigate the impact of the spending cuts and the tax increases. but legislative and budget experts i talked to say that really assumes a lot of things. one, that congress will act quickly, which can it do if it wants to, but, you know, can they cut a deal in january that they couldn't cut in december? that's one question. january tends to be a slow legislative month, a lot of new members are getting acclimated. and fra

mr. montgomery burns explains the fiscal cliff. >> think of the even xhooe econd the ri as a car.n money he'll drive you over the cliff, it's common sense. >> that's going to wrap things up for me. i'll see you tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. eastern time. congresswoman maxine waters will be here, marcia blackburn, jared bernstein and ron insana. ben labolt and hogan gidley. "now with alex wagner" comes your way next. ready bored. hmm, we need a new game. ♪ that'll save the day. ♪ so will bounty select-a-size. it's the smaller powerful sheet. the only one with trap + lock technology. look! one select-a-size sheet of bounty is 50% more absorbent than a full size sheet of the leading ordinary brand. use less. with the small but powerful picker upper, bounty select-a-size. a regular guy with an irregular heartbeat. the usual, bob? not today. [ male announcer ] bob has afib: atrial fibrillation not caused by a heart valve problem, a condition that puts him at greater risk for a stroke. [ gps ] turn left. i don't think so. [ male announcer ] for years, bob took warfarin, and made a monthly trip

i stand aside from my colleague mr. burns on that one.me: you're entitled to your opinion, certainly. i want to ask you, take a lock at those two cases and contrast the make up of the court so far and in a second term president obama could aeu.as man appoint as many as two new justices. you probably still have kennedy as a swing. what do you think it will look like? >> it depend who leaves. route bader ginsberg will most likely be the next justice to leave the court. if that happens then ideologically it's a swap in a sense. and what you were getting at jaime, and you're right, what about the next seat that becomes vacant, there will be some type of ideological shift. i can't resist the editorial this it's unfortunate that people view the court action somewhat of a political institution in that the justices rule in fairly consistent patterns. the cases that get to the supreme court are so close, that's why you see those tendencies. jaime: do you think that justice roberts could make them work to interpret the constitution as it was meant

and mr. burns will go to the other side of capitol hill in the afternoon to testify about the benghazi report. that's live on span3 at 1:00 eastern. >> i don't want to spoil the book for you so let me say that the year began with the american republic in grave danger t union armies were struggling to grow virtually over night from a few thousands men scattered across the continue nt to more than half a million. the inexperienced officers thrust into command of these volume tires were stimed by the sheer size of the states of america which covered a space larger than the entire european territory con querd by na polian. >> sured said that even smart people failed to see the difficulty of the union's task. they didn't apprehend the vast extent of the rebellion as he put it. military operations to be successful must be on a scale practically unknown in the art of war. >> the second year of the civil war, a strained federal government and weak forces. lincoln's rise to greatness. monday at 8:30 eastern

mr burnet there are your rituals so for me i like to yell when the burning like to yell and scream let out all my frustrations and energy from the year before and then started and it feels really good still this. and i am doing fifty thousand people at the same time and the energy is just unreal when they light the man they're all just so strong and it's just a really great place to be. the world's very messed up place right now and it's on a it's on a dead in road with no brakes going as fast as you can so enjoy the ride because something is going to last long. i don't know yeah there's lots of annoys me and i can't read the newspaper i don't watch t.v. i don't want to know i don't i don't want to know why people are being killed in other countries with my tax dollars i didn't ask them to do that i don't want to have anything to do with that smashed up world for so you got to go out have fun when you can and enjoy what time you have to tell people that you love you love them see might not see him. soon. well. science technology innovation all the list of melamine spun around russia we

burned. big scapegoat, mark sanchez, the quarterback, jets fans have season.been happy with mr.ck out whats the jets fans are doing now. with their mark sanchez jerseys. >> stand here before you today to express our sincere disinterest in the continuation of mark sanchez being the starting quarterback of the new york jets. >> seems like a weird "blair witch project" seance. >> almost like a seance. >> almost an elite quarterback has had four interceptions and one fumble, embarrassing, not as much as the -- >> the butt phone. >> mark sanchez is probably the worst quarterback i've seen in the national football league. >> these are jets fans saying mark sanchez is probably the worst quarterback i've ever seen in the national football league. >> this is really funny, but they're taking this very seriously. >> see you later, mark sanchez. ♪ in the eyes of an angel >> they start playing sarah mclaughlin. >> what? >> it was a nice touch. they burned the jersey in the cinderblock fire ring there. they're not the only ones on-line not happy with mark sanchez in reacting in the same way.

burns, you're going to lead off? thank you very much. >> thank you. mr. chairman, senator lugar, members of the committee, thank you for this opportunity. secretary clinton asked me to express how much she regrets not being able to be here today, and i'd like to join you, mr. chairman, on behalf of the secretary and the men and women of the department of state in expressing our deep respect and admiration for the many years of service of senator lugar to our nation. since the terrorist attacks on our compounds in benghazi, state department officials and senior members from other agencies have testified in four congressional hearings, provided more than 20 briefings and submitted thousands of pages of documents including the now-full-classified report of the accountability review board. secretary clinton has also sent a letter covering a wide range of issues for the record, so today i'd like to highlight just a few key points. the attacks in benghazi took the lives of four courageous americans. ambassador stevens was a friend and a beloved member of the st

mr. alternative energy source has 100,000 lights. >> bob: they don't burn that much energy.ecember. yeah. it's very expensive. >> dana: did you get complaints? >> bob: i get complaints from the neighbor because the cars come to look at it and one-way street and block it up. on the side o the house -- i decorate it all the way around. on the side i put feliz navidad. i thought neighbors were spanish. they weren't. then i have a snowman that shoots snow out to the skiing dog. and it is so loud it blows them away. i this thing they put music on and the light goes like this. >> greg: i'm laughing. i wasn't yawning. >> dana: only kimberly does that. >> bob: the music goes on and the lights goes like this. but it lights up the people's house on the side of me. >> kimberly: bob is that neighbor. >> bob: it has been down there and i haven't been able to take care of it. but it will be fine. >> kimberly: done? >> bob: we are done. yeah, because you think -- >> kimberly: no, no, no. >> bob: you don't think i'd get you back for what you did, do you? >> kimberly: no. >> bob: one more th

secretary burns, you will lead off. >> mr. chairman, senator lugar, members of the committee,, for this opportunity. secretary clinton asked me to express how much she regrets not being able to be here today. i want to join you, mr. chairman, on behalf of the secretary and the men and women of the department of state in respect for senator lugar and his many years of service to our nation. state department officials have testified in four congressional hearings, provided 20 briefings, and submitted thousands of pages of documents, including the now full classified report of the accountability review board. secretary clinton has also sent out a letter covering a large range of issues. i would like to highlight a few key points. the attacks in benghazi took the lives of a lot of courage as americans. chris stevens embodied the very best of america. even as we grieve for our fallen friends, we took action. we took immediate steps to protect our people and posts. we stayed in contact with embassies around the world facing large pr

mr. nyds and from nicolas burns this morning and they are speaking on behalf of hillary clinton.e satisfactory? we understand that hillary clinton is going to testify in january. how different is the climate going to be in january in the middle of the inauguration and everything else, bret? >> right, i think there are senators up there who are concerned about that. they are senator kerry is saying that secretary clinton will testify in january. of course she won't be the secretary of state. and it may very well be senator kerry who is on his way to being secretary of state. we don't know that as of yet. but, remember, there will be a lot of turn over, there will be probably the inauguration underway, there will be nominations and a lot of things happening here that people may get a lot of different focus than benghazi. but, listen, we'll continue to cover it here. there are some information things that this report, it's 39 pages, the unclassified version. there was no demonstration prior to the assault. these are all things we have reported on fox many, many times. al-qaida is no

joining me to talk about it, ambassador nicholas burns, former undersecretary of state and ambassador to nato. mr. ambassador, thank you. i want to get your reaction, first, secretary of state clinton held an unscheduled meeting with the russian foreign minister in ireland. russia has been syria's strong effort ally in all of this. is there anything that can be done to convince russia to pull back their support? >> well, chris, i think that is a pertinent issue right now. this is a dangerous situation, obviously, when there's a -- at least the possibility of the use of chemical weapons by the syrian government or the possibility when that government falls those weapons might not be secure and there are terrorist groups, of course, some quite radical, active in syria. i think secretary clinton was right to meet with the russian foreign minister today. the third person joining that meeting was brahimi, the united nations' diplomat, troubleshooter for syria. i imagine both secretary clinton and mr. brahimi would be lean on the russians to convince assad to leave power. he's finished in syria. there'

secretary burns issue you're going to lead off, thank you very much. >> thank you. mr. chairman, senator lugar, members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity. secretary clinton asked me to express how much she regrets not being here today, and i'd like to join you, mr. chairman, on behalf of the secretary, the men and women of the department of state in expressing our deep respects and admiration for the many years of service of senator lugar to our nation. since the terrorist attacks in our compounds in benghazi, state department officials and senior members from other agencies testified in four congressional hearings, provided more than 20 briefings for members of staff, and submitted thousands of pages of documents including the now full classified report was accountability review board. secretary clinton sent a letter covering a wide range of issues for the record. today, i'd like to highlight just a few key points. the attacks in benghazi took the lives of four courageous americans. ambassador stevens, a friends and beloved member of the community for yea

burns, you're going to lead off? thank you very much. >> thank you. mr. chairman, senator lugar, members of the committee, thank you for this opportunity. secretary clinton asked me to express how much she regrets not being able to be here today, and i'd like to join you, mr. chairman, on behalf of the secretary and the men and women of the department of state in expressing our deep respect and admiration for the many years of service of senator lugar to our nation. since the terrorist attacks on our compounds in benghazi, state department officials and senior members from other agencies have testified in four congressional hearings, provided more than 20 briefings and submitted thousands of pages of documents including the now-full-classified report of the accountability review board. secretary clinton has also sent a letter covering a wide range of issues for the record, so today i'd like to highlight just a few key points. the attacks in benghazi took the lives of four courageous americans. ambassador stevens was a friend and a beloved member of the st

secretary burns, you will lead off. >> mr. chairman, senator lugar, members of the committee,, for this opportunity. secretary clinton asked me to express how much she regrets not being able to be here today. i want to join new, mr. chairman, on behalf of the secretary and the men and women of the department of state to respect for senator lugar and his many years of service to our nation. state department at -- state department officials have testified in four congressional hearings, provided 20 briefings, and submitted thousands of pages of documents, including the now full classified report of the accountability review board. secretary clinton has also sent out a letter covering a large range of issues. i would like to highlight a few key points. the tax in benghazi took the lives of four courageous americans, -- the attacks in benghazi, took the lives of a lot of courage as americans. chris stevens embodied the very best of america. even as we grieve for our four -- for our fallen friends, we took action. we took immediate

burns. >> as part of standard processing many cases handcuffs are removed from a brief time from mr. jones and then he suddenly attacked the officer, tackling her to the ground and striking her on the head and removing her department issued firearm from her holster. >> two police sergeants went into that room. shooting ensued. the man who grabbed the weapon was dead. he she worked -- >> harris: how about the wounded officers, how are they doing? >> sergeant james gasher was the most seriously injured. he was hit multiple times in the chest and below the bullet proof vest. he underwent surgery and at this hour said to be in stable condition. sergeant kevin klein was struck in the belt and suffered a laceration. a bullet also grazed his head. and officer burns, whose gun was grabbed by the suspect was shot in the foot. all are now on administrative leave. and and that is standard procedure when police are involved in a shooting. when asked about the incident at a news conference, the county prosecutor said it appears that all the officers acted in self-defense and were justified in ret

. >> unable to tolerate the burning effects of the oc gas, grahf finally agrees to cuff up. >> down. go, go, go. >> get him down. >> mrgrahf, were you injured? >> no. i can't breathe. >> okay. that will go away soon. >> you're doing all right, grahf. >> he's going to fall. >> if grahf continues to cooperate, he will be allowed to shower off the stinging oc gas residue. but he appears to still have some fight left in him. >> [ bleep ] punk. you like this [ bleep ]. [ bleep ] like this. >> you have to remain compliant or we're going to leave you in the chair. do you understand that? >> [ bleep ] you. i can't breathe. >> grahf, you need to be compliant. do you understand that? >> yeah. >> are you sure? >> yeah. >> take the spit mask off. >> all right. you're all right. >> don't spit. don't spit. don't spit. don't spit. >> he is finally allowed to shower but it doesn't seem to help. >> why isn't the water so hot? is it supposed to be a cold shower? this [ bleep ] hotel sucks. welcome to life. >> all right. your time's up. >> we can do this [ bleep ] every day until they stop filming these [ bleep ]. these [ bleep ]. filmi

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second term, and now during his term, mr. 110%, and that's, you know, the corruption is not according to me or pakistani sources, but it's according to john burns of the new "new york times" that places the corruption at $2 billion to $3 billion. >> so you don't approve? >> i wouldn't vote for him, no. [laughter] >> this, of course, has been the struggle and the tragedy of pakistan over a long period of time that when something like democratic elections occur, the sighfullian leaderships that take office fail the mandate that brought them there, and they often fail in space that's pinched and constrained by the military and the intelligent purposes. we were talking before we came out that the army's out putting tv ads up bragging about the performance in the flood as if it's something they -- out of the ordinary that an army would do. >> yes. >> so are we in a phase that's going to feel repetitious? lead to another military intervention? is there an alternative future in your estimation? >> well, you know, there's a nightmare merry-go-round you see in pakistani poll sick -- politics. heafter he was made president -- we don't call them elections

the senate foreign relations committee will hear from william burns and others preconceived that live on c-span. mr. vernes will go to the other side of capitol hill to testify about the benghazi report. that is live on c-span3 at 1:00 p.m. eastern. >> if you work for him, you would get a mercurial, sometimes generous, sometimes overbearing, boss.imes almost cruel los he did not know how to apologize. which men of his age and class are not going to apologize to gone private secretary or typist. he had a way of sort of turning the tables and his version of an apology would be to say, actually i am a very kind man and you were doing a very good job today. the issue was never settled. he always had to get the last word in. one night going through what hall, a german bomb fell nearby. he should not have been out at all. his bodyguard pushed him into a doorway and a couple of thompson's men were actually slightly wounded. churchill did not like to be touched. he said thompson, don't do that. thompson said sir, you should not be out here, this is dangerous. >> he said i am only doing this because i know

mr. jk says don't worry. the g.o.p. does have a plan. when america crashes and burnsbottom of the cliff, wall street will be there to pick up the pieces. era era says boehner needs to lead, follow or get out of the way way. obstructing is not one of the choices for my2k. >> yeah. >> honesty broker tweeting boehner is flabbergasted and has never seen anything like it before because it's an actual plan with actual details. we are tweeting at bp show. minneapolised us there. >> boehner has a reptations of, you know, a nice guy, an easy-going guy. yeah, known for a guy to have a cigarette with, loves to smoke, a glass of red wine w loves to drink. not for leadership. we have seen right now he is incapable of leading. don calling from utica, new york. what do you say? >> thanks, bi, good morning. real quick i was watching friday night and you hear the same thing from boehner all the time. >> bill: yeah. >> like a robot. what he comes out and says, you know, with hez sun tan and dumb look on his face you can't raise the taxes on the top two % because they need it to create

mr. clean magic eraser. >>> here's what's happening right now. the upstate new york man accused of lighting his house on fire and gunning down two firefighters left a night. he wanted to burnn the neighborhood and, "do what i like doing best, killing people." >>> george h.w. bush suffered some hitbacks. >>> and the pope's christmas message calls for peace in syria, where 4,000 civilians have been killed in the past two months. back to "caught on camera." >>> welcome back to "caught on camera." i'm contessa brewer. for firefighters in the city, rescues from tall buildings can pose enormous challenges and sometimes call for a little ingenuity. this next rescue near times square was not by the book, but it sure did become one great story. flames and smoke are overwhelming two men trapped in a high-rise and firefighters must make a daring attempt to try and save them. >> it was definitely going through my mind he may jump or fall. >> it's the morning of may 14th, 1991, near times square in new york city. a fire's broken out on the top floor of this building on 7th avenue and 48th street. the billowing smoke is caught on camera by news crews at street level and by ron pearlstei

burned 160,000 acres or 250 square miles. the presiding officer: the majority leader is recognized. mr. reid: could i ask my friend to yield for unanimous consent request and he could have the floor as soon as i finish? mr. merkley: absolutely. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that when the senate receives the papers with respect to h.r. 4310, the senate's passage of h.r. 4310 as amended be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: and further, i ask unanimous consent that the adoption of the senate amendment be vitiated and that the amendment, the text of s. 3425 as amended by the senate be modified with the changes that are at the desk, that no other amendments be in order and the senate proceed to vote in relation to the amendment as modified, that if the substitute amendment as modified is agreed to, h.r. 4310 as amended be read a third time and passed. finally, that the previous request with respect to the senate's request for conference including the appointment of conferees be agreed to with all above occu

mr. speaker, the jobs report indicated unemployment is down roughly a palm point from this time last year. lot of folks in business communities say no deal is going to happen, it could obviously burn american jobs prospects. where are a the jobs? they seem to be coming along. why take such a risk when the jobs number is improving? >> well, because -- the risk the president wants us to take increasing tax rates will hit many small businesses that produce 60% to 70% of the new jobs in our country. that's the whole issue here. >> what would it -- >> whoa, whoa, whoa. violating the rules. >> mr. speaker, the president was absolutely ready for the economy to go off the cliff if he doesn't get higher income tax rates. what's your reaction? >> i think that's reckless talk. >> you said before the election you would be able to prevent tax hikes on all americans said flatly taxes are not going up. do you still believe that to be the case? >> listen, raising tax owes small businesses is not going to help our economy and it is not going to help those seeking work. there -- i -- came out the day after the election to put revenues on the table, take a step towards the president, to try to resol

mr. smith, fred smith, who's the championship, c.e.o., president and founder of fedex. he needs to introduction. he burns about 1.5 billion gallons of fuel a day -- a year, sorry. [laughter] that would really be a problem. but the truth is, you know, the fedex and what it's done in our economy is groundbreaking. they are the clipper ships of the modern age, and what they see both in terms of the economic growth of our country, you know, because they touch every industry, as well as provide the transportation to make our economy grow and thrive, i think he's well suited to discuss this issue. i thank him particularly for being the co-chair of this energy security leadership council since 2006 and for joining with general kelly and myself to do this. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, robby. as he just mentioned, i became involved in the energy security leadership council out of self-interest primarily, because of the energy intensity of fedex, which operates over 90,000 vehicles and almost 700 airplanes. i was recruited to this endeavor by our chairman, general p.x. kelly, who correctly pointed out to me

mr. coburn: i ask unanimous consent that the amendment be considered considered as read. the presiding officer: without objection. burn this imr. coburn: this is y straightforward amendment and this is not to be construed as an amendment against the appropriators, but rather an amendment for transparency. what the underlying bill states is that three days before any grants are made under this process, that the appropriations committee will be notified. not the whole congress, not the american people, but the appropriations committee. and the reason for that is so that the members of the appropriations committee can then put out the information to the constituencies who are going to benefit from the grants that come through this. well, actually the american people need to know the grants that are going to be granted through this process, the money that's going to be spent, and so all this amendment does is change it to where the american people get notified of the grants that are going to be placed as a result of this bill. this is about good government. this is about transparency. this is about letting all the america

mr. mcgovern: i yield the gentlelady an additional minute. ms. johnson: thank you very much. with four million acres burned, over 5,500 homes and structures destroyed and hundreds of millions of dollars in damages. i thank you for the time and i will ask unanimous donent -- consent to put the rest of the statement in the record. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. johnson: thank you very much. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from utah. mr. bishop: reserves. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: at this time i'd like to yield two minutes to the gentlelady from ohio, mr. kucinich. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from ohio is recognize for two minutes -- the gentleman from ohio voids for two minutes. mr. kucinich: we meet the moral consequences of our nation's choices over the past decade. we chose war in iraq, afghanistan, pakistan, libya, yemen, somalia and perhaps later on iran. inexplicably we've created openings for al qaeda and radical fundamentalists as a result of our interventions. at home we choose a false notion o

mr. security, because it lines up and unifies the nation. it mobilizes the country behind your leadership, and people forget, however temporarily, that there are other issues facing the country. because security burns at the center of everything. >> just a point of information, when is the election scheduled now for? >> january 22nd, i believe. >> yeah. and, you know, it seems the peace movement is sort of dead in israel. is that your -- >> no, i don't think that the peace movement is ever dead in israel. it is certainly hard to find and certainly below periscope depth. but the polling continues to show that there's a majority in both communities, arab and palestinian and israeli, that is interested in a deal provided that, you know, certain, you know, threshold requirements for each constituency are reached such as security for the israelis and for the palestinians, return of lands and the division of jerusalem and some compromise on the right of return. so i tell people pessimistic about this issue to remember the cold war. we all believed our generation would go to the cemetery still fighting moscow over, you know, the division of the world in the cold war. and one morning we woke up, and it was

burned out from combat. >> he probably shouldn't have tried out that soon. he probably should have just waited and gotten himself into better shape. but that's tim mcveigh. mr i want it now. >> they sent us on a five-mile march. after that march, i got a blister on my right heel and a bigger one on my left one. as i changed my socks to keep them dry, so when i looked and saw those blisters and knew i was tuckered out, i did an analysis. and it wasn't an instant decision like people think, i'm just going to drop out, i can't handle it, you know? it was just too much at that time. >> he just sort of gave up. he just didn't have the spirit to do it. physically he was depleted, but he also just, more importantly, emotionally. >> mcveigh says it is more than just physical and emotional exhaustion. he claims his mixed feelings for the government are also part of the decision. >> in the gulf, i realized that i didn't like being someone's pawn, because i felt it was abused in the gulf. it just rubbed the wrong way. that's one of the reasons i got out of the military. >> he failed, so he had to demonize the military itself and the government itself to make a reason