mr. griffith. [ applause ] >> wendy: ben matlock, the way he breaks down his cases, the -- just juicy. you can't walk away from the tv. i was caught up in a "matlock" they' marathon, of course, and "sex and the city" on f-wire. >>> there's a shakeup with that movie "50 shades of grey." i don't need a shakeup. i don't know about you. i've already planned to see this movie in the summer of 2014. i already know what i'm going to wear. how i'm going to go. i want to go by myself. i want to go to the 11:00 a.m. matinee. there's only going to be women there. i don't want any talking, and -- that's it. [ laughter ] >> wendy: so now -- and i'm not even mad at the casting because i don't know either of these kids. either the anastasia or christian grey, and i kind of like it that way. i don't have a preconceived notion of the person. you know how when you read enough magazines and do enough hot topics that your opinion of somebody is skewed like when they play good father because here on "hot topics" we're reporting you need child support, you know what i mean? [ applause ] >> wendy: for this m

mr. griffith. >> thank you, mr. chairman. early in your testimony here today, you said a couple times plans we enjoy but then as you noticed with mr. gardner's eloquent testimony, that we're not going to be in the same plan you're in after january 1. i was one of those who thought it was a good idea as a part of a proposal that was floating around the halls here in congress that the president and the cabinet secretaries ought to also be in the marketplace and not have a special federal plan that you all have after january 1, but we will not. the president, while that was being discussed, issued a veto threat. did you discuss the veto threat with the president before he made it? have you discussed it with him since then? yes or no. >> no. >> relating back to the contractors involved in this, cgi told us that the spanish website was ready to go, that they thought everything was ready just as they did with the regular site. obviously that didn't prove out. but they were told not to implement it. likewise, the shop and browse sec

mr. griffith. >> thank you, mr. chairman. early in your testimony here today, you said a couple times plans we enjoy but then as you noticed with mr. gardener's eloquent testimony that we're not going to be in the same plan that you're in after january 1. i was one of those who thought it was a good idea as a part of a proposal that was floating around the halls here in congress that the president and the cabinet secretaries ought to also be in the marketplace and not have a special federal plan that you will have after january 1 but that we will not. the president while that was being discussed issued a vote toe threat. did you discuss the threat with the preds before he made it and have you discussed it with him since then? >> no, sir. >> and then i would have to ask you relating back to the contractors involved in this, cgi told us that the spanish website was ready 0 go. that they thought everything was ready just as they did with the regular site. obviously that didn't prove out. but they were told not to implement it. l

mr. griffith to respond to the same question.port or expect in any way that the president use the 14th amendment to raise the debt ceiling himself? >> absolutely not. i don't believe that is constitutionally sound. i think if the president does that he will have crossed a line should not be crossed, that is the bondholders will have to be paid, the money is there. we need to work this problem out. we need to sit down and negotiate with one another. we need to talk, sit around the conference table to make this thing happen. every side will have to give some, some a lot but we'll have to work this thing out but i believe it would be unconstitutional for the president to use the 14th amendment to try to raise the debt ceiling on his own. david: sheila jackson-lee, morgan griffith, thank you very much for coming in. appreciate it. good to see you both. >> thank you. cheryl: we're getting incredible breaking news into fox business. here you go. fitch has now placed, the placed the aaa credit rating of united states on ratings watch ne

mr. griffith on the floor. the bottom line is that these judicial vacancies currently exist. it's the president's job to nominate qualified men and women to change them and there is no question that the president's nominee for this position, patricia millett, is one of the most well qualified persons that he could have found to fill this important position. no one comes forward to criticize her background and her resume because, frankly, it's hard to find a nominee with any stronger credentials for the federal bench. let's not play political games with this important nomination nor with people like patricia millett who put their names forward, have gone through this process, waited for us politicians to work our will on the floor. she deserves a vote, an up-or-down vote. and without objection, i'd like to have consent to enter into the record the letter from illinois lawyers supporting patricia millett for the u.s. circuit court of appeals for the d.c. circuit as well as a personal letter of october 24 from former u.s. attorney for the northern district, patrick fitzgerald of

mr. griffith. >> earlier in your testimony here today you said a couple of times, plans we enjoy but then as you noticed with mr. gardner's eloquent testimony, we're not going to be in the same plan you're in. i was one of those that thought it was a good idea as part of a proposal floating around the halls here in congress, that the president and cabinet secretaries ought to also be in the marketplace and not have a special federal plan that is you will have after january 1 and we will not. the president while that was being discussed issued a veto threat. did you discuss the veto threat with the president before he made it and have you discussed it with him since then? >> no. >> and then i will ask you relating back to the contractors involved in this. cgi told us that the spanish website was ready to go. that they thought everything was ready just as they did with the regular site. that didn't prove out. but that they were told not to implement it. likewise the shop and browse section was ready to go. do you think they were misleading this committee when they made comments? >> i think

mr. griffith: get a call from health care provider agent that although my renewal date is march 1, the companies are offering to renew on december 1 his year with a 9.8% increase. this is to beat what is eamented as a 30% to 60% increase after all the effects of obamacare. needs to say this has reignited my frustration with the so-called affordable care act. please stick to your principles, continue the fight. let me know what, if anything, i can do. yes, ma'am, i will. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields. for what purpose does the entleman from california rise? without objection. >> thank you, mr. speaker. well, in the last few days, this house has actually come together on two different measures here that would seek to ease a lot of the pain from the government slowdown. mr. lamalfa: the sad thing is we can agree on everything the republicans have been trying to pass out of here, the only thing we don't agree on is what we're going to do with that portion of obamacare. we've even moved toward you in that we're going to limit it to simply giving the rest of the ameri

mrs. griffith. >> i am much more fortunate. gone by that time. i was arty gone by the time the worst of the office environment, i had been gone for several years. during my time there, each reporting action was met with equal and opposite reaction of negative verbal reprimand. i have had missiles that would disappear in the reviews. i the last example before left, the supervisor had accused another union employee to go through my desk to determine if an e-mail was over a certain age and then in my preggers review she said that was her goal, to make sure i was not going to be there by the close of the year which would've been two months away. >> can i say one more thing? >> sure. >> during this investigation, we were able to obtain an e-mail from greg to howard goldberg -- identify them? >> greg was the office director. howard was an employee relations person in the region. we havel said sarah, suspended jennifer. >> once the wall street journal at ourired or came out office, things change. before you went into eric's .ffice he had a security wand

mr. griffith: the mayberry mill isn't a federal pa filt -- facility but it's off the parkway. we know in north carolina there was a facility where we blocked the parking. we don't have the ability to do regular things but we can block the parking of businesses. this is a tragedy. 60-some employees in the various businesses there may be affected negatively by the actions of the park service. i call your attention to this. i ask you, if you're in the neighborhood, go to the blue ridge parkway, travel down it go to mayberry's mill, shop the stores nearby. they need you to show that they're not going to allow the government to play cheap tricks, as one park ranger said they were doing, in an article in the "washington times" today. we've been told to make life as difficult as we can. that's disgusting. that's what an angry park ranger said. everyone, madam speaker, in this country should be angry and they should go out to the park. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from new hampshire seek recognition? without objection, the gentlewoman is

>> griffith: you'd be hard pressed to find somebody who doesn't know who he is in this area. >> kroft: he calls himself "mral security." and some of his ads say "guaranteed success." how can he make that claim? >> carver: he backs that up. >> kroft: a slam dunk? >> carver: mm-hmm. pretty much. >> kroft: that's a remarkable record. >> carver: yes, it is. >> kroft: is he that good a lawyer? >> carver:: you know... >> griffith: no. >> kroft: a lot of conn's success, they say, had to do with a particularly friendly disability judge, david daugherty, who sought out conn's cases and approved virtually all 1,823 of them, awarding a half a billion dollars' worth of lifetime benefits to conn's clients. the decisions were based on the recommendations of a loyal group of doctors who often examined conn's clients right in his law offices and always endorsed them for the disability rolls. were most of the medical reports submitted by the same doctors? >> griffith: yes. >> carver: yes. sometimes, up to 13 to 20 reports a day. >> griffith: i know on one, we counted 16 exams by the same doctor all in one day at his office