mr. cole: i want to put a spotlight on an area of cooperation in the veterans area. he's precisely right about the concern that both sides of the aisle have for the men and women who have fought the nation's battle. while the co-wars themselves have been contentious, i don't think the funding of veterans has ever been contentious, regardless of who was president and regardless of who have in charge in chamber. we increased the spending under president bush and that's continued under president obama. you can never do enough but congress has tried in this area and workled together quite well in a bipartisan sense my friend also referred a little bit to the legislative branch and there again we probably have some areas of agreement, maybe some areas of disagreement, but not profound ones. the reality is we are in a difficult time financially. my friend is correct when he points to some of the reductions in house expenditures. we have reduced by about 14% house expenditures over the last three or

mr. calvert, no. r. cole. mr. cole? mr. cole, no. mr. mcclintock. mr. mcclintock no. mr. lankford. mr. lankford, no. mrs. black. mrs. black, no. mr. ribble. mr. ribble, no. mr. flores. mr. flores, no. mr. rokita. mr. rokita, no. mr. woodall. mr. woodall, no. ms. blackburn. mrs. blackburn, no. mr. nunnelee. mr. nunnelee, no. mr. rigell. mr. rigell, no. mrs. hartzler. mrs. hartzler, no. mrs. walorski. mrs. walorski, no. mr. messer. mr.s mer, no. mr. wright. mr. wright, no. mr. williams. mr. williams. mr. williams, no. mr. duffy. mr. duffy, no. mr. van hollen. mr. van hollen, aye. mr. yarmuth. mr. yarmuth, aye. mr. pass credit. -- mr. pascrell. mr. pascrell, aye. mr. ripe. mr. ryan, aye. ms. moore. ms. kaptur. mr. mcdermott. ms. lee. ms. lee, aye. mr. jeffries. mr. jeffries, aye. mr. pocan. mr. pocan, aye. ms. lujan grisham, aye. mr. huffman. mr. huffman, aye. mr. cardenas. mr. cardenas, aye. mr. plum naur. -- mr. blumenauer. mr. schrader. mr. schrader, aye. mr. doggett. mr. doggett, aye. mr. kildee. mr. kildee, aye. mr. chairman. mr. chairman, no. >> are there any members who wish to vot

mr. cole: by direction of the committee on rules i call up house resolution 557 and ask for its immediate consideration. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the the resolution. the clerk: house calendar number 102, house resolution 557. resolved, that at any time after the adoption of this resolution the speaker may, pursuant to clause 2-b of rule 18, declare the house resolved into the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for consideration of the bill h.r. 4486, making appropriations for military construction, the department of veterans affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2015, and for other purposes. the first reading of the bill shall be dispensed with. all points of order against consideration of the bill are waived. general debate shall be confined to the bill and shall not exceed one hour equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking member of the committee on appropriations. after general debate the bill shall be

mr. cole? mr. mcclintock? >> no. >> mr. lankford. ms. black. mr. florez. woodall. ms. blackburn? mr. rice? mr. williams? mr. duffy? mr. van hollen? ye. van hollen, a mr. varmus, aye. ms. castor, aye. mr. mcdermott? mr. jeffries? mr. hoffman? aye. mr. schrader? mr. campbell? mr. calvert? no. mr. cole, no. mr. ryan? mr. ryan, no. mr. chairman? 19.s 14, no, the amendment is not agreed to. student can is the annual competition that encourages middle and high school students to think critically about issues. students were asked to create their documentary answering the question, what is the most important issue the u.s. congress should consider in 2014? one of our second prize winners are seniors at thomas jefferson high school in alexandria, virginia. they would like congress to look at the defense budget control a of 2011. article one, section eight of the constitution says that congress shall have the power to raise and support armies to provide and maintain a navy, and to make rules for the government and regulation. a constitutional studies fellow at the cato institute explains.

mr. cole: thank you. i want to thank my friend, mr. woodall, for yielding me the time. i want to urge support for the rule and the underlying legislation. i'd be the first to tell you that this budget's not a perfect budget. not all perfect -- excuse me, no budget is actually perfect. but it's a good budget. there's a couple of issues that do concern me, as i addressed mr. ryan last night, i'm a little worried we haven't dealt with the wildfire issue to my satisfaction which disrupts the appropriating process within interior. but he assured me that he recognized that was a problem, we were going to continue to work on it. i'm actually going to vote for mr. woodall's budget when i had the opportunity to do that. it's the most conservative approach on the floor and i appreciate that. but i think we ought to stop and remember, without paul ryan we wouldn't have the choices in front of us today. the united states senate has chosen not to have a budget once again this year. something that it frequently does. with all due respect to my riends who do have a budget, and i'm ple

and next i'd like to yield two minute to the gentleman of oklahoma, mr. cole. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate you yielding the time. i applaud you for putting this budget together. i know from the meetings we have had there's a lot of thought put into how to maintain the commitment to economic growth. $17 trillion national debt. additionally, mr. chairman i want to thank you again for not backing down with the true drivers out debt. it would have been very easy given the bipartisan budget act set to 302 aloe cases for fiscal year 2015 to not do a budget. however, this budget, this blueprint, yet again, allows us to share our vision for the new which you are. i was disappointed to see the president reversed himself and the budget submission removing change cpi but the house republicans are willing to work with the president where possible and find common ground to move our budget trajectory downward instead of increasing. i'm encouraging that the cap set in the bipartisan budget act of fiscal year 2015 included in this budget. as a me believe of the defense appropriation

and next i'd like to yield two minute to the gentleman of oklahoma, mr. cole. >> thank you, mr.chairman. i appreciate you yielding the time. i applaud you for putting this budget together. i know from the meetings we have had there's a lot of thought put into how to maintain the commitment to economic growth. $17 trillion national debt. additionally, mr. chairman i want to thank you again for not backing down with the true drivers out debt. it would have been very easy given the bipartisan budget act set to 302 aloe cases for fiscal year 2015 to not do a budget. however, this budget, this blueprint, yet again, allows us to share our vision for the new which you are. i was disappointed to see the president reversed himself and the budget submission removing change cpi but the house republicans are willing to work with the president where possible and find common ground to move our budget trajectory downward instead of increasing. i'm encouraging that the cap set in the bipartisan budget act of fiscal year 2015 included in this budget. as a me believe of the defense appropriations

mr. cole: i thank my friend, thank the chairman for the time. i rise in opposition to the amendment. if i did not know my friend from virginia as well as i do, i would have had detected a little ense of sarcasm in his remarks but i know that's not think case, i know it's a sincere proposal. i must say as chairman of the subcommittee that has jurisdiction over the c.b.o., i'm pretty familiar with its operations, resources and capabilities. the simple fact of the matter is that the amendment would create an unsustainable amount of work for the c.b.o. for no benefit in new or additional information to the congress of the united states. by arbitrarily picking a billion-dollar threshold for the analysis, this amendment would force c.b.o. to conduct analysis on dozens of additional bills. c.b.o. director elmendorf wrote to chairman ryan yesterday to explain the limits of their capability and capacity. let me quote from his letter. quote, the c.b.o. would not be able to perform theage sess envisioned by that set of amendments. we do not have the analyt

. >> i would like to yield two minutes to the shaman from oklahoma mr. cole. >> i know from the many meetings we have had on the side of the aisle there was a lot of work put into the mounting debt and deterioration of our economic growth. brought about in part by over 17 trillion-dollar national debt. i want to thank you again for not backing down and dealing with the true problem of our debt entitlement programs. it would have been easy to give allocations for fiscal year 2015 however this budget this blueprint yet again allows us to share our visions for the future. i was disappointed to see the president reversed himself removing chained cpi from his budget proposal over republicans are willing to work and find common ground that move start debt downward instead of increasing at an exponential rate and i'm encouraged the caps set the bipartisan budget act for fiscal year 2015 are included in this budget. as a member of the appropriations subcommittee had seen the devastating cuts in capabilities. will continue to face if we continue with sequester. instea

. >> mr. cole, it's more than that, isn't it? a memo which basically implies that gm decided not to fix the part across the fleet because it would have been uneconomic to do so. i mean, hindsight is 20/20. there are deaths, there are families giving a news conference now. we can see that. but these are judgment calls surely that executives make every single day of their lives as to whether or not you embark upon a major recall on a small probability. this is actually, though, they're very bad accidents a small number of accidents even with 2020 hindsight. you know, these are judgment calls surely. >> oh, they are. but these kind of things don't really bubble up typically to the top of the company. and, again, you've got this amazing amount of data and, for example, you look at that little pin and the ignition switch, you know, 99.9% of them worked just fine. my wife has a solstice and she's got a pound of stuff hanging off of her key ring, it's a little outside of that performance criteria that's all it takes. but getting to this

cole? >> caller: boo-yah, mr. cramer. >> what's going on, cole?nt to give a quick shout out to my friend and my question was about brunswick corporation. >> lowered numbers and did the number and i think that's fine. i think this is a good play on the strength of the american consumer. we saw some weakness, we saw some weakness, owens corning. i like the fact that brunswick's lowered the bar. how about david in california, david? >> caller: yo, boo-yah, cramer. >> boo-yah, david. >> caller: i wanted to ask you about sandridge energy. >> i think it's dirt cheap. i like the plans they have, ceo, i think sandridge is a winner. i do like what they're doing, s.d. is for me. and that, ladies and gentlemen, is the conclusion of the "lightning round." >> the "lightning round" is sponsored by td ameritrade. >>> it's the revenge of the nerds. these are the stocks that wear pocket protectors, like a real nerd, you know. consider the chief nerd, apple. apple was flooding! the nerds are now in charge. and wing tips. herb's concerns are simple. he's yellow flag

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mr. cia, it started in 1979 in iran with the taking of our hostages by muslim terrorists. then they started killing us. 1993, the world trade center bombing. 2000, the uss cole. 2001, the twin towers. the pentagon, pennsylvania. and you think you're going to piss these people off? they already hate us. how do we know who the enemy is if you don't identify them? there are all kinds of terrorists. morel, you lied to us, you lied to congress, you knew it wasn't a video and you purgered yourself. you are a political -- and then, even though the truth was that our cia warned us and you about the dangers in benghazi, you take that out. and your reason? this would have been seen as an attempt to make the cia look good. look good? it was the truth. mr. cia, you didn't just sell your agency to the politics of the obama reelection campaign and the kovup for the hillary 2016 campaign, you sold your soul and you purgered yourself for money, now making a fortune now working for one of hillary's dearest friends so she can continue to lie that she knew nothing about the dangers to her friend. there was a man in a garden who took 30 pieces of silver who denied and lied. wha

mr obama's week-long tour, the first visit by a u.s. president in more than 40 years. >>> you are watching the newshour from doha, i'm steven cole. still to come - remembering those left behind. we'll be life in the nepalese capital with a climber that just got back from the base camp. >> and a country that wanted to reunite with russia. >>> barcelona's football station reunited for grief as they remember a former coach. >>> south sudan is facing one of the worst food crisis. they could face famine year. south sudan is the size of france, but 60% of its roads are unusable in the rainy season. they need 1.3 million tonnes of food and produces only 900,000. it costs $1,300 to drop one tonne of food - four times the value of the commodity being dropped. not all the country is at risk. in the south-west food is plentiful. we have this report. >> reporter: this is south sudan's green belt. morobo county in the south-west. down here the land is fertile and farmers produce the surplus of food. they have a saying - a hungry man is an angry man. during 20 years of civil war, the ability to farm was lost. gradually with the assistance of n

mr. speaker, i rise to celebrate the life and legacy of my friend, w. ron cole who passed away on april 17, 2014. he was a native of stockton, california. he went to local schools, graduated from stockton college and acquired a teaching certificate in the field of distribution from the university of california at berkeley. he was a veteran of the korean war, serving in the united states army from 1952 to 1954. his life was dedicated to serving the community in a variety of jobs, including member of the stockton metropolitan transportation district board of directors, stockton city council serving as vice mayor in 1985, san joaquin county council of government, california public utility commission port of commissioners, appointed by stockton city council to the port of stockton board of port commissioners in 1991, ron served with distinction as a commissioner for 20 years. during his tenure on the stockton board commission, ron's leadership was apparent from the onset, and in the year 200he helped the port of stockton -- 2000, he helped the port of stockton, by a