mr. ellison: thank you, congressman. i am going to wrap up in about five minutes or so, but i just want to hit a few things that need to be touched on. one is that the progressive caucus is very concerned about this looming sequestration. now, folks out there listen to the show, mr. speaker, might think sequestration. what is that? is that when you go on jury duty or something? no. sequestration is what we're calling some really dramatic cuts to federal spending that are coming up in about two weeks. you're thinking, how did we end up here? here's what happened. so in august of 2011, the republicans had taken the majority in that session, the 2012 session, started in january and they started out with a -- an agenda to dramatically reduce the size of government. and they started out with something called cut, cap and balance they and wanted to cut all kinds of programs. they never wanted to touch defense, but they wanted to cut the federal government. i'm talking about head start, women, infants and children nutrition, pr

mr. ellison: house version rolls this protection back. that's why you should -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from michigan reserves. the gentlelady from washington is recognized. mrs. mcmorris rodgers: thank you, madam speaker. happy to yield to a champion, former judge who has worked on these issues for many years, the gentleman from texas, for two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for two minutes. mr. poe: i thank the gentlelady for yielding. violence against women is all of -- is awful. i think we can all agree with that. and behind the scenes in homes throughout america, behind closed doors, bad things are happening in those families. it is violent. it affects the spouse, the children, and the quality of life of our community. today the house of representatives can do something about that. to take america safer for women, primarily. and their children. we have two choices before us today. the house bill, the senate bill. but there's another thing going o

mr. ellison, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. mr. ellison: thank you, mr. speaker. my name is keith ellison, and we got to get our act together a little bit in term of our posters but we'll start momentarily. -- in terms of our posters but we'll start momentarily. mr. speaker, my name is congressman keith ellison, and i would like to just open up by talking about the progressive message. the progressive message is the message articulated by the progressive caucus, and the progressive caucus is that organization within this body, within this congress that is here to unapologetically say all americans should have the right to go to the doctor and get basic health care in this richest country in the history of the world. all americans should have equal rights to be treated fairly based on whatever color, what their sexual preference might be, whatever nation they might be from. we say let's have comprehensive immigration reform with a path towards citizenship and let's absolutely pass the dream act. the progressive caucus is that caucus

mr. ellison and mr.grijalva are outstanding and consistent leadership for a commonsense approach to solving our nation's deficit and more for my economic growth creating jobs. i've often said budgets are moral documents that reflect our values and priorities. today's legislation really reflects diving people over weapons programs and prioritize a long-term job creation of a shortsighted to education and infrastructure. the progressive cost test scores concluded smart reform to the pentagon's from which we almost the largest federal agency enlaces billions of dollars every year to waste, fraud and abuse. many colleagues recognize the serious land to address the deficit to go forward without significant pentagon cuts on the table. the balance targets $270 billion in wasteful pentagon spent in an reinvests others in her teachers, rose and future. it's important to know these cuts will not harm or undermine our national security. only the race will come excessive input is spending his targeted. i'm especiall

mr. ellison and mr. grijalva for their really outstanding and consistent leadership, pushing for a commonsense approach to solving our nation's deficit woes and more importantly our economic woes and that means creating jobs. i have often said that budgets are moral documents and reflect our values and our priorities. the balancing act really reflects our valuing people over weapons programs and prioritizing long-term job creation over shortsided cuts to education and to our infrastructure. as chair of the congressional progressive caucus' peace and security task force i'm pleased that the balancing act included smart spending reforms to the pentagon, which we all know is the largest federal agency and loses billions of dollars every year through waste, fraud and abuse. many of my colleagues recognize that no serious plan to address the deficit can go forward without significant pentagon cuts on the table. it targets $278 billion in wasteful pentagon spending and re-invests those dollars in our teachers,

mr. eric cantor 6.0-let's turn to representative keith ellison, democrat from the state of minnesota.nd to my colleague, joy reid, who is managing editor of thegrio.com. congressman, it seems to me, sir, we have a major collision today. on the one hand, we have speaker boehner and his boys out there purring a bill to balance the budget on the backs of the poor, and now on the other hand we've got a bill that you are co-sponsoring, the balancing act i believe it's called, that would close upper income tax loopholes and keep nearly 300,000 teachers at work and add 1 million jobs to the economy. have i got that right, sir? >> you've got to right. and all we do is close loopholes on the fossil fuel industry, on the yacht owners and the plane owners. we close loopholes on carried interest. loopholes that should be closed in any budget environment. we close those and then we arrive at a place where we have balance between the cuts that we've already seen, $1.7 trillion, and revenue increases, and then through changes in -- through reductions and efficiencies in the pentagon budget, we put $

mr. president, you got your tax increase. it's time to cut spending here in washington. >> joining me tonight on the congressional panel, congressman john garamendi of california, congresswoman marcy kaptur of ohio, and keith ellison of minnesota. great to have you with us tonight. >> thank you. >> let's respond to what the republicans are saying. john, you first. they're saying no revenue. where does that leave us? >> the american people know what we should do. and that's a balanced approach. you gave the statistics a moment ago, ed. america wants a balanced, they want a compromise. some taxes, some cuts. we can do that. the proposal has been on the table now for more than three weeks. and we've got the revenue out there. we need to get that revenue back from the oil industry. my god, they got enough of our money at the pump. we don't need to give them a subsidy. that's but one example of many, many. >> marcy, your thoughts on getting the republicans to give up revenue, or is there going to be a deal without revenue? >> i don't think for the democrats there can be a deal without revenue because we need a balanced plan. in the original bill that passed, we provided revenue, but that was on individuals' incomes. as