mr. cantor, working with our leadership, with the democrats on this side of the aisle, we've come up with something that is extremely important and effective. now, i must say to both sides of the aisle, we have continuing work to do. this is not a permanent fix on this. what i discovered was, none of us know enough about fema. we have been crying for years about remapping. we don't really know how it works.

mr. cantor: mr. speaker, on monday the house is not in session. on tuesday the house will meet at noon for morning hour and 2:00 p.m. for legislative business. votes will be postponed until 6:30 p.m. on wednesday and thursday the house will meet at 10:00 a.m. for morning hour and noon for legislative business. on friday the house will meet at 9:00 a.m. for legislative business. last votes of the week are expected no later than 3:00 p.m. mr. speaker, the house will consider a few suspensions next week, a complete list of which will be announced by the close of business tomorrow. in abigs, the house will consider -- in addition, the house will consider an important bill to address the middle class squeeze by making sure that are government policies do not provide incentives for employers to cut their hours for their employees. h.r. 2575, the save american workers act, sponsored by representative todd young of indiana, will protect hardworking americans from losing up to 25% of their wages as a direct r

mr. cantor. the speaker pro tempore: the majority leader, mr. ntor, the gentleman from virginia, is recognized for one minute. . mr. can'ter: i thank the gentleman from california. mr. speaker, i rise in strong support of the ukraine support act. vladimir putin's recent annexation of crimea stand in direct violation of ukraine's sovereignty and international law. his aggression may only continue unless we in america along with our allies respond with strength. newspaper reports indicate that putin may not be content with swallowing crimea whole, and that he is now amassing troops on the border with eastern ukraine and may soon have his eyes on moldova. the eyes of the world are on the united states and our e.u. and nato partners. adversaries and allies around the world are watching to see how we respond to this outrageous provocation. to see whether we mean it when we say putin's actions are unacceptable. it is vitally important that the united states in conjunction with our e.u. and nato allies send an unmistakable signal that this aggression wi

mr. cantor, working with our leadership, with the democrats on this side of the aisle, we've come up with something that is extremely important and effective. now, i must say to both sides of the aisle, we have continuing work to do. this is not a permanent fix on this. what i discovered was, none of us know enough about fema. we have been crying for years about remapping. we don't really know how it works. we don't know the discretion that they have in making some of these decisions. we have got to spend the next few years really learning fema. how it works. how it makes decisions. we should never get into this kind of a situation again because we simpley have allowed them to do what they do without us being involved. they don't report to us on a yearly basis as i would like to have them do. so this is an opportunity for us not only to fix this problem at this time but to focus on the fact that we've got oversight responsibilities that we've got to carry out to make sure that we are dealing with these issues in a way that makes good sense. so again, i'm very proud and i'm very pleased of

mr. cantor. thank you, mr. speaker. i thank the chairman and gentleman from california. support rise in strong of ukraine support act. vladimir putin's recent military invasion and illegal annexation of crimea stand in direct violation of ukraine's sovereignty and international law. his aggression may only continue unless we in america, along with their allies, the spot with strength. thataper reports indicate president putin may not be content with swallowing crimea whole and that he is now a massing troops on the border with eastern ukraine, and may soon have his eyes on moldova. the eyes of the world are on the united states and our eu and nato partners. adversaries and allies around the world are watching to see how we respond to this to seeous provocation, whether we mean it when we say president putin's actions are unacceptable. it is vitally important that the united states, in conjunction with our eu and nato allies, send an unmistakable signal that this aggression will not be tolerated. together, we must be prepared to exact a significant cost for russia's behav

mr. cantor. the speaker pro tempore: the majority leader, mr. cantor, the gentleman from virginia, is recognized for one minute. . mr. can'ter: i thank the gentleman from california. mr. speaker, i rise in strong support of the ukraine support act. vladimir putin's recent annexation of crimea stand in direct violation of ukraine's sovereignty and international law. his aggression may only continue unless we in america along with our allies respond with strength. newspaper reports indicate that putin may not be content with swallowing crimea whole, and that he is now amassing troops on the border with eastern ukraine and may soon have his eyes on moldova. the eyes of the world are on the united states and our e.u. and nato partners. adversaries and allies around the world are watching to see how we respond to this outrageous provocation. to see whether we mean it when we say putin's actions are unacceptable. it is vitally important that the united states in conjunction with our e.u. and nato allies send an unmistakable signal that this aggression

mr. cantor's detail coming through in an suv. he hustled me over there. >> knowing how you want to devote? >> he knew who i was. that was very nice. [laughter] >> mr. harris. >> a couple of brief questions. could you explain with the total salary approach you take in setting a salary numbers? it says you use the total salary approach. without offset from potential attrition. the totalferences salary of our budget. i can elaborate more. perhaps off-line any written document. >> it is included in the budget. it provides greatest risk mitigation from inherited -- i'm not sure exactly what that is. if it -- you could get an explanation to me. a couple of the line items. your office of human resources for ohr operations, an increase in $370,000. is that above and beyond what you normally spend? >> no, sir. we are short in the labor area. i believe about nine people short. it is an effort to shore up labor relations efforts. while the positions are not filled. thanks to some of the money you gave us, we are down nine people. we will be

mr. cantor. great respect. and i understand it's the prerogative of the majority party to control the bills that are being debated on the floor. but in the absentence of leadership, mr. speaker, in the absence of you bringing a bill forward that allows us to fix our broken immigration system, we the members of this body, democratic and republican, have no choice but to take it upon ourselves to bring this issue forward to the floor of the house. i'm going to tell you a little bit about, mr. speaker, the way we can do that. these are the rules of the house. i strongly recommend them as bedtime reading, mr. speaker. fortunately they have a provision called the discharge petition that he provides a way that the members of this body -- that provides a way that the members of this body, 21 out of the 435, meaning the majority of the members of this body, can sign a discharge petition for the bill, and that means despite a speaker or majority leader that he refused to schedule that bill for debate, if it gets a majori

mr. cantor: recorded vote. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from virginia -- the yeas and nays are requested. those favoring a vote by the yeas and nays will rise. a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a 15-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 211. the nays are 18 . with 10 voting present. the motion is adopted. without the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. pursuant to house resolution 501 and rule 18, the chair declares the house in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for the further consideration of h.r. 2641. will the gentlelady from florida, ms. ros-lehtinen,

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mr. cantor? you got something that can compete with that? insurance costs fell roughly 0.4%. medicare costs fell roughly 0.1%. well, the numbers are going the right way. the facts are clear. four years later and obamacare, it's working. republican opposition to obamacare is based not in fact at all, or in reason. it's based in outdated partisan ideology. democrats need to embrace obamacare, don't be afraid to run on it in the midterms, don't pay attention to the predictions, pay attention to the results. pay attention to the numbers. explain that in a town hall meeting and they will be cheering democrats and make sure you tell them that the republicans fought everything. from the economy to health care. now, if democrats run away from obamacare, they're going to be vulnerable, that's what i think. you just can't kind of, you know, embrace it. voters will go -- are going to sense that well, you know, maybe boehner was right with all these votes. heck, i can't even get my representative to stand up for the good. here's what you need to, i think, really grab. when these guys had

mr. cantor, we appreciate it. >> budget chairman paul ryan, we appreciate your time very much this morning do. >> great to be back with you, larry. thanks for having me. >> all right. great stuff. wonderful memories. jimmy cramer was so great last night and so kind. and that original stuff was fantastic. all right. let me just tack a moment and say a few words of thanks and gratitude and humility. to all the viewers and well wishers who have e-mailed and tweeted so beautifully and wonderfully, i am humbled. just in the last couple of days. it's been my honor to host this show for the past nine years. before that with my great pal jim cramer for three years. and let me say how wonderful jimmy was when he came on last night. now, you know my credo. free market capital mds is tism best path to prosperity. and let me add to that from our founding fathers, our creator endowed us with the inalienable rights to life, length, and the pursuit of happiness. in other words, freedom. freedom to work, invest, take risks, and the freedom to get rewards and incentives that motivate us all. it is freedom

mr. cantor. great respect. and i understand it's the prerogative of the majority party to control the bills that are being debated on the floor. but in the absentence of leadership, mr. speaker, in the absence of you bringing a bill forward that allows us to fix our broken immigration system, we the members of this body, democratic and republican, have no choice but to take it upon ourselves to bring this issue forward to the floor of the house. i'm going to tell you a little bit about, mr. speaker, the way we can do that. these are the rules of the house. i strongly recommend them as bedtime reading, mr. speaker. fortunately they have a provision called the discharge petition that he provides a way that the members of this body -- that provides a way that the members of this body, 21 out of the 435, meaning the majority of the members of this body, can sign a discharge petition for the bill, and that means despite a speaker or majority leader that he refused to schedule that bill for debate, if it gets a majori

mr. cantor and the republican leadership, mr. grimm from new york as well. and mr. richmond from louisiana, really, i think without their work collectively, this would not be happening. i rise in strong support of h.r. 3370, the homeowner flood insurance aaffordability act. i have had the honor of working with my colleagues, both republican and democrat to roll ack the harmful and ungin -- unintended consequences. this is a culmination by a lot of individuals as well as the activism on the part of our constituents. i have had the opportunity to attend some rallies and meetings in my district. over 1,000 people attending where the concerns and fears of my constituents were brought forward in great volume. h.r. 3370, the affordability -- the flood insurance affordability act will do a number of things. it reinstitutes or expands the grandfathering provisions in section 4 from what they were in the previous bill. a very important provision here. section 18 allows reimbursements for successful appeals. what that will do is if fema incorrectly as they have in many cases,

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mr. cantor and mr. rogers and mr.ccarthy and so you either put in a special committee or you were gone tomorrow. [applause] if they were serious. they are not serious. this is the problem with our politics. part of the benghazi story is the media. if the real bob woodward was alive, this would not happen. there are many who poopoo benghazi. it is not about politics, it's about the truth. it's about dead americans and 2/3 of americans believe there should be a special committee and 60% of democrats believe there should be. what the hell is going on here? the politicalelite does not want it. and i wanto tell you to react to what the future is -- we have a system designed but only has liberals and conservatives, democrats and republicans on a very flat axis. there are different paradigms. i will give you the first tenet which was syria last summer? the president talked about a redline. republican leadership in the democratic leadership all united to support the president. the american people rose up and said the hell wit

mr. cantor: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to thank the gentlelady and congratulate her on her leadership for this bill and making sure that we reinsert a notion of fairness back into the law for the people of this country. mr. speaker, i do rise today in support of the simple fairness act. for the past few months the president's health care law has been wreaking havoc on the american people. after the administration's disastrous launch of the exchanges, obamacare has been anything but what the president had promised it would be. it has become very clear that this law is doing more harm than good. we now know that obamacare has pushed up to five million people off the health care plan they liked. and many are now being denied the care they had. to make matters worse, many of these new plans will force americans to pay higher premiums and higher deductibles. this leaves them with a limited number of options for health care coverage. many folks who are also finding out that they cannot keep the doctor or the pediatrician

mr. cantor. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. cantor: i thank chairman goodlatte and thank him for his leadership on this effort. mr. chairman, i rise today in support of the enforce the law act. our founders created a series of checks and balances for our democracy to prevent anyone of the three branches of government from becoming too powerful. this separation of powers has always been one of the most important pillars of our political system and an example of good governance for the world to follow. for over 200 years, america has prospered because we adhere to a constitution that makes each branch's role explicitly clear. the elected representatives in congress pass laws, the president faithfully enforces them and an independent judiciary adjudicates disputes. this lesson is so important, we teach it to our schoolchildren and articulate it to our citizens so they understand the rules of the road. when we fail to uphold this system and one branch of government begins to tip the scales of power in its favor, we dissend towards c

we are honored to be joined by house majority leader eric cantor, republican from virginia. mr.k. >> larry, good to be on. thank you, sir. >> let's talk a little business here. what do you see as the republican message in the midterm elections coming up. and as you know, there was a big story in the washington post that suggested this morning that you were moving the party a little bit towards the center. what's the message going to be? >> you know, the message is that right now there's an america under the policies that is not working and that we conservatives, republicans, are for a america that works and the way we get there is through putting forth or conservative solutions as an alternative that the president's policies that have harmed growth and put middle class into a squeeze and fwra they have provided a health care that is not working. so we're for an america that works as conservatives trying to pull government back, trying to provide access for private sectors to actually work so he can see a better future. >> you've always been a growth guy, one of the leaders of th

mr. cantor: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to thank the gentlelady and congratulate her on her leadership for this bill and making sure that we reinsert a notion of fairness back into the law for the people of this country. mr. speaker, i do rise today in support of the simple fairness act. for the past few months the president's health care law has been wreaking havoc on the american people. after the administration's disastrous launch of the exchanges, obamacare has been anything but what the president had promised it would be. it has become very clear that this law is doing more harm than good. we now know that obamacare has pushed up to five million people off the health care plan they liked. and many are now being denied the care they had. to make matters worse, many of these new plans will force americans to pay higher premiums and higher deductibles. this leaves them with a limited number of options for health care coverage. many folks who are also finding out that they cannot keep the doctor or the pediatrician

mr. cantor: are are are are are >> i move to lay the resolution on the table. the speaker pro tempore: those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the gentleman from michigan. mr. kildee: mr. speaker, i demand a recorded vote. the speaker pro tempore: a recorded vote is requested. those in favor of a recorded vote will rise and remain standing. a sufficient number having arisen, members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a 15-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. house of presentatives -- [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 217 and the nays are 173. with 10 voting present. the moti

mr. mccarthy is trying to develop something. eric cantorit's not happening and therefore, it won't be a force in this election. what say you? >> i think that there's going to be an alternative health care element debated during the debate on obamacare dave camp offered the substitute that got shun away. so, look, we have an embarrassment of riches right now on the republican side and on the conservative side on alternatives that go after things to lower cost and fund high-risk pools and deal with pre-existing conditions and when you look at the opportunity that president obama has had, there was national consensus on cost and national consensus on pre-existing conditions and rather than focusing on those, he went for a big, massive plan which they have overpromised and under delivered and that's the worst place to be. >> last one, peter. in your judgment, a political question, politically, is it better to have a unified republican plan or is it just better to wait until 2016, just hammer away in the next six months on obamacare? which do yo

joining us now is shawn matthews the ceo of cantor fitzgerald. mr. morning. >> you have a unique perspective for your business. unique insight in to what is happening with the markets. what have you seen over the last 48 hours? >> i think we're just seeing volatility in the marketplace that's being driven by the external force and that happens in markets, right? if you look at it, this year is going to be a year of volatile ti ty. we'll have okay returns in the equity market but it will be a different kind of return profile than we've seen in the last several years. it will be choppy and a lot of volatility associated with it. >> i guess that's good for you if it's volume. volume to you guys is everything, right? >> absolutely. we like volume. >> i see in the meantime you in an attempt to grow the asset management division and that's one of your key priorities that you've actually bought recently the finten partners which is a fund-to-fund operator within fixed income. can you talk us through that? and where the funder funds are very much the way for

cantor. they are taking you for a ride. they have 180 members. they can bring in the speaker, mr. rogers, and mccarthy, and say put in the special committee or be gone tomorrow, if they were serious. they are not serious. this is the problem with our politics. if bob woodruff or live this never would've happened. there are conservative --mentators on my network and this is not about politics. it is about the truth. two thirds of the american people believe there should be a select committee. 60% of democrats believe there should be. so what the hell is going on here? the political elite, the political class does not want it. i want to react now to what the future is. a system oriented liberals and conservatives, democrats and republicans. i am telling you there's a different paradigm. i will give you the first tenant of it. the first tenant was serious, where the president said do not cross the red line. syria, where the president said do not cross the red line. there was no organized movement. they just had, stop it. same thing with the nsa. we have people telling us how great it

mr. markey and i have introduced to protect children's privacy, you know, it is time to do that. and to their credit, i think the republican leadership in the house, you know, speaker boehner, majority leader cantor, the chairman of the various -- chairmen of the various committees, mike rogers who chairs the intelligence committee, they sense that, and they're beginning to put packages together. hopefully, you'll see on the floor sometime this summer. >> host: go ahead, brendan. >> on some of the issues you're opposed to more government regulation. what's, you know, what's different about online privacy where you'd be having a situation where the government would be telling google or facebook how they can handle your information? >> guest: well, i would turn that question around a little bit. i don't consider the government protecting your individual rights to be intrusive. i think google and facebook are intrusive when they capture information without your permission and use it in ways that you might not approve of if you knew how they were using it. so i think that an individual has rights, i think if the constitution were passed today, the fourth amendment against unreasonable search and seiz

cantor. be moving hopefully forward expeditiously, as the speaker said, to give the administration and necessary tools it needs to tell mr. putin to stand down. >> the senate is moving in much the same direction -- same sort of thing. lockstep, basically, congress and the white house, despite the criticism you hear from republicans. they are giving the president a ick he can use in negotiations. >> thank you, peter cook. peter cook will be joined by chairman ed royce. you can watch that interview at 2:00 p.m. eastern time. joining me for more is anderson add-on, an adjunct professor at georgetown university. diplomacy works, what will the ramifications of russia's actions mean for the country in a long-term. >> it is costly for russia's economy in the short and long-term. russia was heading toward stagnation. we know the decline -- the economy is likely to decline rather than stagnate this year, and monday, we saw a big decline of 12% in the stock market. today, again, the stock market in moscow falls by a couple of percent. russia is too dependent on economic globalization to pursue such a reckless policy. , are sanctio

mr. speaker, i want to thank the original co-sponsors of this resolution as well -- majority leader cantor, minority leader pelosi, majority chip mccarthy, minority whip hoyer, appropriations chairman rogers and ranking member lowey and the ranking member of the foreign affairs committee, eliot engel, with whom i worked particularly closely in trying to advance the values of vaclav havel and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from virginia is recognized. mr. moran: mr. speaker, we want to thank mr. royce, the chairman of the foreign relations committee, for introducing this resolution and promoting the idea of having a bust of vaclav havel in the u.s. capitol. and we completely agree with his motivation and the words that he has shared with us today and with that we would yield back the balance of our time and we would urge unanimous support for this resolution. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentlewoman from michigan is recognized. mrs. miller: mr. speaker, i would simply close by saying vaclav ha

mr. etf, the man behind the etf market, reggie browne. he is on the cover of the latest bloomberg markets magazine. senior managing director and head of etf trading at cantorzgerald. down, ite are sitting is like danny devito and arnold schwarzenegger. to us about the etf business. in the u.s.,etf's two $.4 trillion, it is investors getting asset classes easily without going through large institutions to get exposures. if you look at what has happened of the last 21 years, 90 issuers. on 90 exchanges around the world. it has been a phenomenal success for the retail investor. >> it is easy today to feel like it is unstoppable. what are some of the challenges and hurdles in its way? >> etf's are now covered by every index. the next inflection point will be managers. >> it is already happening a little. >> slowly. if you look at the traditional long only asset managers, they set out to game passive etf's. they are wanting to get in now. a hurdle is how do you put an active strategy in an etf wr apper. >> how do you put it active strategy in an etf wrapper? >> why is it harder than with a mutual fund. >> a mutual fund is nontransparent, etf's are transparent.

mr. mcconnell: let me just reiterate what we've just done. h.r. 2019 which will go to the president for signature, the original author of which is majority leader eric cantor in the house will eliminate taxpayer funding of conventions and provide for a initiative for the common fund administered by the n.i.h. now, mr. president, on another matter, our friends on the other side who run the senate spend a lot -- spent a lot of time talking last night. i'm not sure what any of it accomplished. the reviews seem to be pretty terrible. the a.p. dubbed the talk-a-thon a lot of hot air about a lot of hot air and said the speeches were about little more than theatrics. many many, many some speculate they're trying to please the left coast billionaire who plans to finance so many of their campaigns was the talking senators didn't really introduce any new legislation. i didn't hear them announce votes on bills already budget pending before the senate. they basically just talked and talked and tossed out political attacks at a party that doesn't even control the democratic-run senate. no wonder the american people have such a low opinion of congress. the so-called tal

cantor. he and his staff, steve, have been enormously cooperative in dealing with some of the thorny problems that arise whenever there's a complicated piece of legislation to be considered. so thank you. like mr. whitfield, i have long believed that energy efficiency is an area where we have common ground in what is too often a very divided congress. mr. whitfield, i thank you for focusing on that common ground. why is it so good? because saving energy does three things. it creates jobs. all of the energy efficiency labor is done by local folks who need work. manufacturing jobs. because 90% of the materials used in energy efficiency are manufactured in this country. it saves money and it improves the environment. so we can and do disagree in this congress on the causes of climate change and the best fuel mix to meet america's energy demands, but we can all agree that less is more. whatever your fuel source, if you use less you save money, and that's good for all of us concerned. we can also agree that creating demand for american-made energy efficient products will also create good jobs, and energy efficiency, cheapest fuel, requires, as i said, labor and manufactured goods that are made in a