mr. lou? mr. norcross? mr. more to ross aye. m

dingle mr. lou. mr. norcross aye. mr. molten aye. mr. garret. mr. garret, no. mr. woodall. mr. sutsman. mr. sanford? mr. sanford no. mr. mooney? mr. chairman. mr. chairman. no. ms. grisham. aye. >> clerk will report. >> mr. chairman on that vote the aye are 13, no's 20. >> the amendment is not adopted. we have completed the tier one amendments and we'll work through the tier two amendments now in numerical order unless

mr. lou, aye. mr. norcross? mr. norcross aye. mr. mole on the? mr. molten? aye. ms. black? ms. black no.

we'll do mr. lou and mr. ryan followed by mr. moulton and mr. norcross. the clerk will designated the amendment. >> number 11 offered by mr. lou safe drinking water and preventing childhood lead exposure. >> the gentleman is recognized for six minute. >> thank you, mr. chairman. what happened in flint, michigan, is a crime of epic proportions. tens of thousands of children, women and men were poisoned when lead leeched into their drinking water. i sit on the oversight committee. on a bipartisan basis, we have exposed the failures of our federal epa of the emergency manager and tomorrow we will expose the failures of michigan state officials. it also turns out that what happened in flint has happened nationally. we know that in sebring, ohio, people have been poisoned by lead in their drinking water. in newark, new jersey. and last decade right here in washington, d.c. we also know that many more jurisdictions, we have people being poisoned by lead and contaminated dust or from lead paint. my amendment increases funding for the drinking water state revolvi

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. >> a minute, mr. lou. >> that is a new way to do bids on your house. this is a quick connect.ective, this from a design perspective looks great. it's frostproof. you put this on the end of your hose. the minute you click this on, water comes out. >> in an instant. >> this is called a lrillumi bu. it lights up the bulb. you're going to say why do you need >>> time to make five lucky viewers very happy. time to give it away and this is an prize package worth $509. this is a high-tech chef quality appliance. to improve blending. and the other one. you get a cordless two in one vacuum with a built-in hand vacuum called the rapido and clean extra. let's find out. let's get it. this is margaret anderson from sun city, arizona. trudy gaskins from pennsylvania. and margaret from pennsylvania. go deep. >> i think i got a good one. mary graham from monk's corner, south carolina. congrats, mary. >> i love her. and debbie from hawthorne, new jersey. congratulations. for the complete rules, go to our web site. >> plus, the performance by broadway. and trivia game. >> plus, the third editio

thank you to mr. lou dobbs, our one lucky guy. watch i am tonight on the fox business network. "happening now" starts right now. of donald trump in advance of the voting. ted cruz is making the argument that donald trump is not a good republican candidate and citing his financial support in illinois for the former governor and others with thousands of dollars donated to democratic candida watch this. >> have y'all ever had a moment and sitting at home and give seven grand to blaingo. like what is going through your mind. just how rich that you have 50 grand and i can think of nothing to do but give it to rahm emmanuel to hammer the people of chicago. >> reporter: what he saids as if mystified by it all. and then you have john kasich, the governor of ohio tied in a latest poll and he said should he lose his home state unlike marco rubio, he will dropout of the race. kasich believes he will pull off a huge victory and has been be critical. this is a candidate who is focused on positive policieses and not name calling. given the weekend violence he complained and warn withed the a

mr. lou, aye. mr. garrett, no. ms. heartsler, no. mr.chairman, no. >> the clerk will report. >> on that chairman the ayes are 11 and the nos are 21. >> the amend is not adopted. next amendment is number 7 and the clerk will designate the amendment. >> amendment number 7 offered by ms. lee relating to poverty. >> recognized for six minutes. >> this amendment is very simple. it embodies the proven strategy to reduce poverty in the united states. i want to go back to what my colleague -- and pick up on what my kcolleagues said and what i said earlier. the reason we're here is very clear. we fought wars that we did not need to fight. we spent and wasted trillions of dollars, wars off budget. we had bush-era tax cuts for the very wealthy. and quite frankly, socialism for corporations. we saw that come in the mid 2000s and i ended up founding the out of poverty caucus because we knew that with these economic policies and these war policies in place, we would see increases, unfortunately, in the ranks of the poor. this amendment targets spendin

dingle mr. lou. mr. norcross aye. mr. molten aye. mr. garret. mr. garret, no. mr. woodall. mr. sutsman. mr. sanford? mr. sanford no. mr. mooney? mr. chairman. mr. chairman. no. ms. grisham. aye. >> clerk will report. >> mr. chairman on that vote the aye are 13, no's 20. >> the amendment is not adopted. we have completed the tier one amendments and we'll work through the tier two amendments now in numerical order unless instructed otherwise by the minority. and i would remind folks that the tier two amendments get eight minutes total. and therefore, three minutes to present. four minutes of rebuttal. and then one minute to close for the eight minute total. amendment 15 is up. and the clerk will designate the amendment. >> amendment 15, offered by mr. yarmouth relating to the minimum wage. >> the gentleman from kentucky is recognized for three minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. the amendment i'm offering today would help to reinstate a very basic human american belief. if you put in 40 hours of hard work a week you should be able to put food on your family's table every day. fo

mr. lou? mr. norcross? mr. more to ross aye. m mr. molten? mr. molten aye. mr. garrett? no. mr. garrett no. mr. diaz-balart? no. mr. cole? mr. cole, no. mr. guinta? no. mr. mooney? no. ms. moore? >> aye. >> ms. moore, aye. mr. chairman? mr. chairman no. mr. chairman on that vote, the ayes are 10 and the noes are 22. >> thank you, so much, mr. chairman, i should been listed as the co-sponsor of this amendment. ask unanimous consent to be listed as co-sponsor. >> without objection. >> thank you. >> i have a technical amendment that we've discussed with mr. van hollen and minority staff and the clerk will designate the amendment. the staff will -- i think has distributed copies. >> a technical amendment offered by chairman price. >> this amendment simply makes some numerical corrections within the budget document and mr. chairman if i could ask the staff just -- >> the technical correction is to increase the spending levels in function and transfer the reductions to function 930 which is general government and the other is to correct a number in advanced appropriations for v.a. the

we have mr. loumel i don't knowy and he's the deputy assistant administrator for diversion control at dea, the federal drug enforcement administration at the department of justice. and then we have miss kana enomoto, and she is the principal deputy administrator of substance abuse and mental health services administration at the u.s. department of health and human services. and then we have miss leana wen, the health commissioner for baltimore city health department and i'd like to also welcome my requested witness, the honorable theresa jacobs, mayor of orange county, florida. some of you have been before us before. some of you haven't. we ask you that you limit your statements to approximately five minutes. you'll see a little monitor. you can also request through the chair, additional statements or information be added to the record. so if you have a statement you want to summarize it, you're welcome to do that. since this is an oversight and investigations panel of congress, i'd like you to stand

lou: few thoughts on mr. obama's desire to be relevant in waning months of presidency.s looking to be the most active president on the campaign trail in decades. the "washington post" reports he wants to campaign to not only help democrats but preserve his own legacy by defeating trump or cruz. ronald reagan is the most active campaigner in last year in office. reagan hit the trail right up until the election of 1988. in the 2000 race, bill clinton endorsed al gore nearly a year before the election, stumped for gore until the campaign, well, the strategists decided to diminish bubba's role in the fall, mistakenly. in 2008 george w. bush endorsed senator mccain but never actively campaigned for him because in part mccain strategists considered bush a liability. again, perhaps wrongly. mr. obama should reflect on whether he will help or hurt the democratic ticket, and all democrats running for the house and the senate specifically. obama has presided over tremendous democratic losses while he's been in the white house. the democratic losses over almost eight years are lit

lou: well, president obama today at an easter breakfast he chose to attack donald trump. mr.ng against overreacting to recent terrorist attacks. his usual, well, lecture, we'll spare you that. and turning to our next guest. our next guest says president obama hassumed his role as defender in chief of islam. joining us tonight, dr. robert jeffers, a first senior pastor at first baptist church in dallas, one of the most evangelical churches and one of the most influential clergy in the country, and author of the book titled "countdown to the apocalypse." pastor, great to have you with us, welcome back to the show. >> thank you, lou. lou: your response to president obama. it is, to me, my frustration and consternation is inefable. it is -- i don't even know what he's playing at. do you? >> yeah, yeah, look, let's set the context on the heels of yet another horrific terrorist attack, this time in pakistan, over easter, we had the president, once again, assuming his favorite role. not as commander in chief but as defender in chief of islam, and i believe, lou, it's time for the pr

mr. see that. -- and people see that. loudate in floral today look so defeated as he does. i don't know what the outcome. i have got no better in sight into it than anybody else. >> i think he's having a hard time accepting what happened. in the beginning lot of people were talking about the potential of marco rubio. i was saying he's a great speaker within a great debater. now you see he has not been able to gain traction. when he went on offense against donald trump use liesing some of the same tack d utilizing -- utilizing the same tactics it didn't go well for him. he and and lot of establishment backers who prior supported jeb bush are saying why didn't this guy pick up stream and it's a shock. lou: he wasn't ready for prime time and i think anybody who watched this knows that. he may have a bright future ahead of him. lou: these guys recover from everything. he's a politician. trump early on started talking about the middle class, working man and woman and their families. he hit trade and illegal immigration and border

lou wanted to stay, mr. dobbs. lou, by my math she picked up florida.y in illinois. they haven't declared it. leading slightly in missouri. that is way to close to call. she picked up north carolina and ohio. democrats were not competing in the north marianna islands just so you know. lou: lucky for them. she is doing what was expected. polls are pretty close on her performance here tonight. looks like she will not be underperforming. which is not the case in certainly on the republican side. but she looks strong here. >> theres was some expectation she would do well in ohio. neil: wish you hadn't started talking. i was going to introduce you. >> keep america great again. neil: charlie gasparino. >> should i put the hat on? have was expectation she would do well in ohio, that she wouldn't win ohio that bernie sanders would win in ohio as he did in michigan, blue-collar, blue-collar workers with the economy. for the same reason john kasich basically, some ways he won convincingly over donald trump. ohio is a different midwestern state, grass belt state.

mr. speaker. >> thank you. loure fellow, how did you come to be supporting donald trump with 53% in latest poll, utah going for senator cruz? >> so, utah is in a different place in the last 24 hours. leading up to the caucuses. we have more attention from candidates running for president, even from both parties, than we have ever seen as a state, not just a fundraising they troll for campaign contributions. they are fighting for support of utahans, i came to know donald trump jr., he was here for a hunting expo. i was supporting marco rubio and his campaign here in utah, when marco rubio's campaign was suspended a got a call from donald trump jr., and asked if i would support his father, i like the trumps, i loved seeing donald trump's campaign, there is a lot of what donald trump has been saying, but not only resonates with america but always with me, i said, are you going to come to utah, i don't wanted to be the apologist, but if you can't make it i don't know that i want to explain why. and so, here we had dona

lou. quite frankly mr. trump is not a catholic, he is a protestant so i'm sure he is not all that concerned with what the pope has to say quite frankly. >> voters are. >> they weren't all that concerned in south carolina. remember what happened there? >> i'm saying to you catholic voters will be concerned what the pope is saying. >> well, that's an interesting concept because i suspect that most catholics, i think, are more conservative than the pope is. >> right. >> when you look at some of the ee digits that have been coming up from vatican city. i can tell you this, what concerns me is that you've got all of this forces going after donald trump and quite frankly i think those forces, the gop establishment, hate ted cruz more than they hate donald trump. >> well, the trump people would tell you that's an appropriate reaction, the cruz people would say why him? you have the only remaining conservative is marco rubio remind us and cruz and donald trump. cruz cannot get to those numbers. do you see an allian

mr. trump has gone himself. lou: what the heck do you mean by that?ou in any way suggesting that -- i mean, what do you mean by that? >> he's made some very outlandish statements. >> that doesn't rise to the level of threats against people. >> that's what i'm saying here. lou: it seems like it's one of the things that didn't need to be said. >> well, you know, it's the time of great vitriol and great division, i want to make very clear. lou: i don't think there should ever be those kind of equivalenceies. >> i hope there doesn't need to be. >> there might need to be clarification in the country. lou: fred your thoughts. >> this is why we have the secret service guarding the candidates and the fbi investigating here and they're good at this stuff. should find out whether they are serious threats or pranks and the difference is important. it's too bad this is happening. lou: it is too bad, it is also too bad we're watching a republican establishment trying to play all sorts of specious, and i think, ultimately sinister games here. >> yeah, but lou, they

mr. botticelli: i don't, but i can tell you that southeast asia considers labor camps part of their treatment regimen. i wouldn't necessarily. equate drug policy around there as it relates to the drug problem. representative lou: mr. botticelli, thank you for your public service. let me begin by saying that the current heroin and opiate epidemic has some similarity to crack epidemic of the 1980's. thentunately, our sponsor was to increase prison sentences. i'm led to see we are taking a different approach this time in america is starting to realize that drug addiction is primarily a disease. one of the most noticeable differences between the crack epidemic andrack the opioid epidemic is that the crack epidemic mostly faced communities of color. nearly 90% of people who try heroine for the first time in the past decade are white. does that sound was refer to you? mr. botticelli: yes. representative lieu: i have an familiesitled "white seek gentler war on drugs." they are white and middle-class and the no had to be empowered. they know how to advocate. they have been instrument till in changing the conversation. you said that, correct? mr. botticelli: correct. representative lieu: i want to make sure that our r

mrs. obama said they were fortunate to benefit from her example, and biographer, lou cannon cannon, said she protected president reagan. >> she wanted t t make sure people around him re advancing his agenda and not theirown, and that way i think she played an important role in the reagan administration. >> a moment of silence yesterday. on the campaign trail, john kasich who served in congress during the reagan years paid tribute to mrs. reagan. >> she was an incredible lady, very strong and a total class act. >> florida senator, marco rubio, finally recalled meetingng the former first lady. >> i have been invited to speak at the reagan library, b bause i grew up and i am a child of the reagan revolution. >> mourners brought flowers to the reagan library. >> i's the end of an era. >> mrs. reagan will be buried nexto her husband. >> there will be more on the reagan, all starting right here on nbc 6. >>> and carter announcing doctors say he is done with his therapy after he stard treatment last summer in august when there was a small lesion in his liver and brain were discovered, and doctors w

primary is scheduled a stop outside of youngstown last night is where lou maglio come up caught up with him for this exclusive interview.o >> mr. drum, how important is ohio andum how bad bad do you want square i wanted, that's what i'm time,t't' had a great success and gave me me a lot of confidence because i was really young, v ohio has been very important to me, ando the governor has not done the job taxes are high in losing industry you're losing some moneyl and we would turn around those those are coming back it'll come back to ohio, winning ohio to me would be so important it's going to be so great and you see the enthusiasm of this crowd. >> if you win ohio and florida is it over?y >> florida, i've got a very big lead, and in this state we are tired, kasich wantedta nafta and he voted in favor of it, matter to the business out of ohio it was devastating and now he's wanting that you're going to lose your auto industry the rest it is gone already. >> from cleveland come, the site of the rnc, what do you think of a brokered convention?at >> it is possible that if i win ohio and florida that won't happen, that would be a b

lou: we're going to introduce some independent objectivity, my next guest met with mr.rump, he is one of the finest minds in politics today. best-selling author, 2012 presidential candidate himself, former speaker of the house, newt gingrich. newt, great to have you with us. mr. trump not in any way daunted by the contest in wisconsin. is his optimism well placeed? >> look, i think he has a good reason to be optimistic. he is the front-runner. a poll came out this morning said that nationally he's at about 50%. well ahead of anybody else. on the other hand, wisconsin is going to be a tough state for him. governor walker came out today and endorsed cruz. i think cruz has a real shot of winning wisconsin, and the question will be can he sweep the state? wisconsin you get a certain number of delegates for winning statewide. all the other delegates go by congressional district. the question will be do they split it up. and trump really needs to have some of those. if he gets swept here, his momentum takes a deep hit. lou: it would take quite something for cruz as strong as

lou: a bunch of folks who have the tattoo are thinking, mr.ter slogan. >> anyone who gets a tattoo of a politician is a deranged individual and probably should be locked up. doesn't matter who the politician is, by the way. >> it's a great expression, what i like about the faces is as you age so does the candidate. so the wrinkles in your tattoo will match the wrinkles in the candidate. especially bernie. but he ages well. >> see the one that is the glasses and the hair, that's all right, you can always say it's someone else. lou: gives you an out. >> that's not bad. the rest are insane. lou: joanne, thank you very much for being here. andy, thank you so much for being here. >> see you on red eye. lou: looking forward to it. tonight. or tomorrow kind of. in our online poll we'll tweet out the necessary details. 85% of you predicted donald trump would be the republican candidate on the republican side. thanks for being with us. john sculley, former apple ceo among my guests tomorrow. be with us, please. good night from new york.. kennedy: and t

mr. trump. so he's going to rely on dark money and lobbyist friends to come and rescue his failing campaign. lou: and should we expect trump to -- well, and you to raise the level of spending on tv advertising and in florida? >> well, it's not just florida. that tuesday two weeks from now also has ohio and has north carolina and illinois and a number of states, and they become winner take all. so the stakes are much more important. yesterday campaigns in ohio and kentucky and now to maine in the debate. but we'll take nothing for granted. mr. trump is going to compete everywhere as you know. his message is resonating. make america great again is so simple it doesn't matter if you're in florida or alabama or vermont or nevada, everybody agrees with it, and that's why they're coming out in record numbers. lou: dr. ben carson withdrawing from the debate tomorrow. does that advantage -- donald trump, is it -- or not? how do you see that affecting his performance in the debate? >> well, let me say i think, you know, dr. carson is a very honorable man. he has won a great race and after suspending his

mrs. obama said they are fortunate to benefit from her "proud example" and said the former first lady "redefined the role in her time here." biographer lou cannon said as first lady, she protected president reagan. (lou cannon/ reagan biographer:17-:23) "she wanted to make sure that people who were around her husband were advancing his agenda and not their own and she was outspoken about it privately...very much so... publicly too and played a very important role in the reagan administration." at the democratic presidential debate in flint, michigan....a moment of silence.... (nats of moment of silence) on the campaign trail, republican presidential hopeful john kasich, who served in congress during the reagan years, paid tribute to mrs. reagan. (gov. john kasich / (r) presidential candidate :50-:55) "she was an incredible lady....she was very strong and a class act...." marco rubio fondly recalled meeting the former first lady. (sen. marco rubio/ (r) presidential candidate 1:01-1:08) "i had been invited to speak at the reagan library which was an incredible honor for me because i grew up and i am a child of the reagan revolution." in so

lou: with apologies to melania, despite cruz's denial, his serogates have been trying to tear down mrs. trump for weeks, listen to cruz operative. >> if donald trump is elected, mrs. trump will be the first, first lady that has ever posed nude. the first, first lady that third wife. and the first, foreign-born first lady in a country -- century. in contrast, heidi cruz will be first pro life first lady. >> what difference does it make? if donald trump has been married before, or what his wife is or was? >> i think it is critically important. lou: that was the view of the cruz campaign, thato march 8, before super tuesday and 15th all important 15th primary elections, cruz also said trump behind a national inquiry story that alleged that cruz had 5 mistresses, but former marco rubio out lies have been involved in spreading that smear for 6 months now. late to the game. moving on to terrorist attack overseas, numbers of americans killed in brussels has now reached 4. >> police seeking help from the public to identify the suspected accomplice of the two airport suicide bombers. fox news c

lou: why are we seeing so much ignorance out of establishment, out of mitt romney, who was mr.lean, until this year? >> hard until you have the bit in your mouth and you don't win to think you can't step up to the stable and start where you left off. mitt is a forgotten figure at this point. lou: those two people on that ticket, mitt romney and paul ryan, they're desperately searching for something. ed, good to have you with us. >> thank you. lou: breaking news, as the manhunt is continuing for the prime suspect in the belgium terrorist attacks, the islamic state has trained and sent at least 400 terrorists to carry out new attacks in europe. the network of semi autonomous terrorist cells shows the islamic state is extending reach into europe further as it loses some ground in syria and iraq. officials also saying the islamic state is deploying terrorist cells like the ones that struck brussels and paris, and their orders are to choose the time, place and method for maximum, maximum damage and carnage in europe. >>> be sure to vote in our poll tonight. the question is do you th

mrs. obama said they are fortunate to benefit from her proud example and said the former first lady redefined the role in her time here. biographer lou cannon said as first lady, she protected president reagan. >> she wanted to make sure that people who were around her husband were advancing his agenda and not their own and she was outspoken about it privately , very much so publicly too and in that way i think she played a , very important role in the reagan administration. dan at the democratic : presidential debate in flint, michigan. a moment of silence. on the campaign trail, republican presidential hopeful john kasich, who served in years, paid tribute to mrs. reagan. >> she was an incredible lady. she was very strong and a class act. dan: florida senator marco rubio fondly recalled meeting the former first lady. >> i had been invited to speak at the reagan library which was an incredible honor for me because i grew up and i am a child of the reagan revolution. dan in southern california. : mourners brought flowers to the reagan library. >> it' s like the end of an era , it' s sad, it' s bittersweet. dan mrs. reagan will be bur

lou: i don't want to get too far into the weeds here, a.b., even though mr.to the edge -- [laughter] but this idea of expectations about what will happen based on whether trump wins florida or ohio or both or doesn't, it seems he has such a significant lead, and if kasich were to take ohio, he would have, what, 129, i think it's 129 delegates, fewer than rubio, for crying out loud, who's getting out of the race. aren't they left looking like bottom feeders here no matter what they do if they persist in the campaign? >> well, we're not talking about senator cruz. i mean, even if rubio and kasich win their home states tonight, combined they would have fewer delegates than cruz has right now, and he will get some tonight. lou: right. >> so he's been sort of out of the picture here. but he is going to say all night and all week and going forward this is a two-man race, he's the only one who can beat donald trump and stop him, he's the only one who has. but you know what? ted cruz has to beat donald trump in an open convention fight as well. so i don't know how he

lou, when word came that the event had been canceled. this had been the hope all along that students had hoped that mr.be allowed to have the rally, but, in fact the administration at the university of illinois chicago said we're going to allow the speech to go forward function the to protest, come out and protest. folks did come out and protest, and apparently, and again we're on the outside here, and there was no violence, to our knowledge. none of the rallygoers were prohibited by the protesters. i will tell you that there was a concerted effort on the part of some protesters to get tickets to the rally and go inside and have their voices heard on the inside, and apparently, the campaign thought they've been successful in ejecting protestors in a lot of places. if you get enough protesters on the inside, that could be very difficult and may have made the rally very difficult to go forward. lou: yeah, jeff, i can tell you just from the overhead shots and if anybody can get through the crowd, they had to be extraordinarily determined and willing to put their personal safety at risk to do so because th