mr. carney of delaware. the chair will reduce to two minutes the time for any electronic vote after the first vote in this series. the unfinished business is the request for recorded vote on amendment number 6 printed in part b of house report 112-200 by the gentleman from california, mr. hunter, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the yeas prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 6, printed in part b of house report number 112-200, offered by mr. hunter of california. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request for recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be 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

mr. carney's suggestion that brings us to speaker boehner who in light of the pending gop debate and other legislative concerns, has asked that the speech take place thursday instead. we'll get ann coulter's reaction, straight ahead. >> it was high noon deep in the heart of texas yesterday. the two republican presidential front runners collided for a brief moment. the showdown took place at the veterans foreign affairs national convention in san antonio. massachusetts governor romney showed he was not afraid of taking a shot at the texas governor perry. let's take a look. >> i'm a conservative businessman. i spent most of my life outside politics. dealing with real problems in the real economy. career politicians got us into this mess and they simply don't know how to get us out. >> sean: joining me with reaction to all the drama, is the author of the "new york times" best seller "demonic." hand coulter is back. this -- ann coulter is become. this is amazing. the president is coming up with a plan, putting that aside. he has to pick, what bright light around the president. >> i think it wa

mr. carney's analysis, the united states is broke. we don't have billions of dollars to speculate on green products. china doesn't have entitlements to pay. they can pour alternative money it wants to research and development because it doesn't care how their citizens are doing. right now, america owes more than $14 trillion. more than a trillion of that to the chinese so again, we don't have money to burn, to speculate! there's no question, the obama administration has spent lavishly and run up record debt in doing so. that has to stop! if we have to live with fossil fuel for about a decade or so, we'll have to live with it! i love green energy. but it is not ready for primetime. the president should wise up. and now for the top story tonight. more controversy generated by texas governor rick perry speaking at liberty university in virginia yesterday, mr. perry said this. >> america is going to be guided by some set of values. the question is going to be, whose values? and i would suggest most of the people in this audience believe t

mr. carney. >> that's right. >> excellent job talking baseball.ht. >> i try. >> thank you very much. >>> we want to dip back into that involuntary manslaughter trail underway in los angeles. >> after that, you put that in a different bag. >> yes, sir. >> and you said that was a blue bag. >> that is correct. and then you called 911. >> yes, sir, then dr. murray instructed me to call 911, sir. >> do you think you might have gotten some of this mis -- mistaken? >> no, sir. >> no. no chance of that? no chance. all right. let's talk about this 911 call you made. okay? during the 911 call, you said that you placed michael jackson in the floor, correct? >> correct. >> is that your testimony today? >> yes. >> okay. you sure it wasn't after your 911 call? >> no, sir, if i can remember correctly, it was when the operator was instructing me to put him on the floor. >> all right. well, your testimony today was that when you before you put him on the floor, you, you grabbed michael jackson's ankles. >> yes, sir, that's correct. >> and he was limp. >> yes, sir.

mr. carney. >> good morning to you, gretchen.ss right now from our white house correspondent ed henry, the legislation unveiled tonight by your boss will be asking for $400 billion in spending. it will be offset with cuts in spending but the president will not reveal what those cuts are tonight. instead, he's going to give another speech down the road? what can you tell us? >> well, look, first of all, ed who is a terrific reporter. i think that's -- i'm not going to confirm that number. i think it's more of a guess than a dead on price tag. what is important and you forgot to note is everything that the president will propose tonight in the american jobs act will be paid for. and the american people expect that. and they will demand it of congress. they will also demand that congress take action. right now to help the economy and create jobs. that's what the president is proposing. every idea in this plan, in this piece of legislation that we will drop next week in congress is something that has had traditionally bipartisan supp

mr. carney questioned why there had been a threat of a shutdown when all sides had already agreed to a funding level of 2012 when they reached the debt deal early last month. >> conservatives had argued the house should stick to the lower 2012 spending level the house passed in its budget in the spring. that's from the washington times this morning. now back to your calls on the effectiveness of the primary. we start with an independent in california. hi ray. caller: hi there. i've been an independent for all my life. i've been voting since 1980, and i've never voted for a presidential candidate that ever won. and i've always resented the two-party system hoisting their wharges on me as an independent. and i think the biggest thing that would help this country is to have more instant runoff voteing. i don't know how the parties do it within their organizations, but i've always resented that if there's any third or fourth candidate, independents are always worried that their first choice is never going to have a chance. because usually the major parties, the candidate can win with not a pluralt

mr. carney: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i rise today to recognize september as national childhood obesity awareness month. when i served as delaware's lieutenant governor, i spent a lot of my time helping children in our state understand the importance of making healthy lifestyle choices. i started a program called the lieutenant governor's challenge that helped thousands of delaware students make regular physical activity part of their daily lives. one of my partners in these initiatives was a foundation that operates a.i. hospital, a world-class facility for children in wilmington, delaware. the moores works with schools, childcare centers and organizations to help children make healthy food and lifestyle choices and to stay physically active. if we can help children make healthy decisions at an early age, those habits will stay with them for a lifetime and we will save money on the country's health bill as a result of that. mr. speaker, we should follow the lead like the organization like lamoore,. thank you, i

mr. carney questioned why there had been a teat of a shutdown when all sides had already agreed to a fundingly last month. >> conservatives had argued the house should stick to the lower 2012 spending level the house passed in its budget in the spring. that's from the washington times this morning. now back to your calls on the effectiveness of the pmary. we start with an independent in california. hi ray. caller: hi there. i've been an independent for all my life. i've been voting since 1980, and i've never voted for a presidential candidate that ever won. and i've alws resented the two-party system hoisting their wharges on me as an independent. and i think the biggest thing that would help this country is to have more instant runoff voteing. i don't know how the parties do it within their organizations, but i've always resented that if there's any third or fourth candidate, independents are always worried that their firt choice is never going to have a chance. because usually the major parties, the candidate can win with not a pluralty of the vote. so i would just hope -- host: as an inde

mr. obama's time in office. at the white house this afternoon, press secretary jay carney said mr. obama was focused on jobs not polls. >> he fully understands the anxiety that is out there among the american people about the economy. the frustration at the pace of growth, the frustration at the pace of job creation. and that's why he feels that it's so urgent to take action now and not to simply say, oh, we shouldn't do anything and then let it all be decided next year after an election. >> woodruff: the poll numbers followed friday's report that net job growth ground to a halt in august. they also raised the stakes higher still with the president's job speech to congress on thursday night. today the two top republicans in the house, speaker john boehner and majority leader eric cantor, sent a letter to the president. they said neither side should approach economic policy as an all-or-nothing situation. >> competition is always a good thing. >> woodruff: in the meantime one of the republicans campaigning for the president's job, mitt romney, put forward his own plan in las vegas.

press secretary jake carney -- jay carney denies mr.act from the republican debate on the same day, saying it didn't figure into their plans. boehner's spokesman says the speaker was never asked about the date and no one in the office signed off on it. brendan buck said, quote, it's unfortunate the white house ignored decades, if not centuries of the protocol of working out a mutually agreeable date and time before making any public announcement. the president wasted no time putting the conflict to political use, sending an e-mail to supporters saying, quote, next week i will deliver the details of the plan and call on law make force pass it. whether they do the job they were elected to is up to them, but both you and i can pressure them to do the right thing. republicans making political hay. congresswoman michelle bachman saying the president was both trying to hide his own speech and trying to divert american attention away from the republican presidential candidates. it's a no win situation for the white house. the speech has been r

mr. boehner said jobs greators in america are essentially on strike and he called on reducing washington regulations and reducing federal spunding. white house spokesman jay carney defended the president's jobs proposal after mr. boehner's speech. it includes the kinds of proposal that have been support in to a bipartisan way in the past, he he said, adding that independent economists estimate it would create as many as two million jobs." that's part of the "wall street journal" article on mr. boehner's speech yesterday. if you would like to dial in, the numbers are on the screen. here is more from speaker boehner. >> let's be honest with ourselves. the president's proposals are a poor substitute for the pro-growth policies needed to remove barriers to jobs creation in america, the policies that are needed to put america back to work. >> and a little more from janet hook's article in "the wall street journal." " the white house is fighting any skrt cuts -- social security cuts. at least one g.o.p. member of the special committee, snorl jon kyl of arizona, has ruled out further cuts in defense spending. the 12-member committee faces a november 2 deadline to come

jay carney refused to respond to it. >> mr. hoffa speaks for himself. he speaks for the labor movement, afl-cio. the president speaks for himself. i speak for the president. you know, what the president was glad to do yesterday was have the opportunity to present his views on the importance of working americans and on the importance of taking measures to help working americans to create jobs and grow the economy. >> and he indicated that the president didn't really hear his remarks and unless he's -- >> but unless he's in the newlywed game where you have to sit down in a different room with the headsets on and you couldn't hear what he said. >> i love that show! >> yeah, it was fantastic. why was it canceled? >> not funny anymore. >> i wonder how the president could not have heard that. >> there is a double starnld. charles krauthammer said that last night. listen. >> here's the head of the union, an ally of his speaking in these terms, taking out the opposition and remember, this is the head of a union with its own history, a man that called hoffa his

mr. immelt and g.e. have shipped a whole bunch of jobs off to china. >> within the last six months. >> aircraft engines, i think x-rays, stuff like that. jay carneythe president's bi o'reilly program last night and mr. o'reilly brought up live the irony in that. >> the president is not saying that every american company should not have any business overseas. the president is saying that we, as a country and as a government should be creating incentives for american businesses to hire -- >> and i'm right with you. but you know who's not with you, jeffrey immelt and he's sitting with the first lady, doesn't look good. >> mr. immelt has done a lot of good jobs on the jobs council with other ceo's who are working hard to propose ideas to help get this economy going. >> all right. >> and he may have done a lot of the work on the jobs council but esteeming up with china to create airplanes that will directly compete with boeing. >> right. dennis kucinich declared he should resign from his position. >> how about the president saying, you know, during his speech, you know, and warren buffet, he actually pays less tax than his secretary and he wants to pa

mr. herman cain it seems like one of the people that has avoided the noise is governor romney, but then todaywa y carneyraced him on the idea of the mandate, and he saysñ3dúf(y,9@ zsn9ú >06hip b45 ]fd<é] that he was even going governor romney has saying the mandate was a conservative idea. at what point, if at any point does this healthcare in massachusetts, or his statements about it being a conservative idea, this mandate do those statements ever come back to haunt him in the primary season? >> well look, the president has already said this any number of times. in fact as recently as the bus trip last month the president was sa 1 ç!ú b9n all we did in washington is what they did in massachusetts. look, governor romney has a chips. he gets to either have a debate with president obama about how his plan is different than president obama's or he gets to have a debate with fellow republicans over the issue. if i were him i'd be having the debate with president obama. now, he started to say -- to have tha t debate earlier this month when he was on with south carolina senator jim demint. the third debate wh

likely the one today in columbus had a campaign like feel but press secretary jay carney says it's not his re-election mrtion. is this a campaign? you're absolutely right. it is a campaign. the president is campaigning. for growth and jobs. he's out there, he is out there campaigning for growth and jobs. >> republicans are skeptical house majority leader eric cantor says there may be some parts of the plan that republicans can support but he also told reporters "over half the total dollar amount is so-called stimulus spending. we have been there, done that." and spokesman for house speaker john boehner said of the paid fors, it would be fair to say this tax increase on job creators is the kind of proposal that both parties have opposed in the past. democrats tried and failed to pass some of the tax increases when they had 61 votes in the senate. guys, back to you. >> wendell goler live for us at the white house, thanks very much. let's go to a couple of headlines now because we have a fox news alert about the two american hikers who are jailed in iran on charges of espionage. guess what? now they could b

mr. johanns: this year i'm pleased to share the story of paul and mandy carney of, nebraska, true adoption heroes who have opened their hearts and home to three young boys. after paul and mandy had their biological daughter lydia and became parents for the first time, they couldn't imagine a child not having the blessing of a loving family. soon after they learned of a young mother award -- a ward of the state herself who was considering making an adoption plan for her then-22-month-old and 4-month-old boys named stevens and edward. in august, 2007, the boys were placed in the meeting home and the plan was put in place for an open adoption. however, the birth mother left without relinquishing her parental rights. this was a setback for the meetings but they continued to care and love the boys with the hope that they could still someday adopt them. several months later, the boys' birth mom returned asking for another chance to mother steven and edward. the meetings took time to grieve their loss but did not give up hope of adopting children. in december, 2008, the meetings were informed by