mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, i rise in strong opposition to this rule, which provides for consideration of three unrelated pieces of legislation . a republican budget conference report an anti-clean water act bill, and a resolution to interfere with the decisions of the district of columbia city council and a bill that limits women's reproductive health rights. the budget conference report was filed only minutes before the rules committee met yesterday. only minutes before the committee formally convened. a 100-page conference report that was negotiated in secret by republicans, was brought before the rules committee before anybody had a chance to read it. what ever happened to read the bill? whatever happened to a more open and transparent congress? it would be nice all members democrats and republicans, had the opportunity to carefully review the legislation they are asked to vote on, especially when it comes to a document that provides a blueprint for funding the federal government and reforming our s

mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, two weeks ago before we left for our district work period this house worked in a responsible and bipartisan way to permanently fix the sustainable growth rate formula, but unfortunately we return to the floor this week with legislation intended to further undermine the dodd-frank financial reform law and give huge tax breaks to the wealthiest americans by repealing the estate tax without even finding an offset thereby increasing our deficit. what we should be doing today, mr. speaker, is considering legislation to strengthen financial protection for consumers, create jobs and ensure the continuation of our economic recovery. or in honor of equal payday, we should debate and vote on the paycheck fairness act to ensure that women get paid for equal work. a full-time working woman still earns significantly less than what a man earns for comparable work. it turns out that women earn nearly 25 cents less than a man for doing the same work. achieving equal pay for women should be t

mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, i'd like to yield 1 1/4 minutes to the gentlelady from the district of columbia. miss holements norton. ms. norton: i thank my good friend because i'd like to correct some misstatements from the other side. the past mayor and attorney general never detailed what their concern was. but just in case the district passed an amendment that made it clear that insurance and abortion are not covered by this bill. i want to be explicit by the way. a pro-life organization is not required to hire someone who advocates against abortion. you must carry out and you must advocate whatever is the mission of the organization. this bill has an exception for organizations religious and political views both must be carried out. the 1973 home rule act has not come to this floor before because on three times in 25 years has it been taken up and that was mostly because d.c. mistakenly wandered into federal matters. that's why this federal authority was maintained in the house of representatives and

mr. kessler seems to be an old school type of reporter but reports the truth. and along the lines of the hillary clinton, this is on youtube. google wade mcgovernsidential administrations. he was at a hillary speech he stood up and turned his back on her, and he was beat up by the people in security there, and he won a lawsuit against it. .. >> guest: i would just go back to this information. recently fox radio wanted to interview me about a piece that they were preparing about the fact that vice president biden collects rent from the secret service and. >> host: you report this. >> guest: actually i did not. because i do not think it was an issue. and the reporter, a very good reporter, very excited about the story, and i said no i think that that is a perfectly legitimate action by the secret service. and why should he be penalized and so he said okay, i would like to put you on anyway. sure eno

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mr. kessler seems to be an old school type of reporter but reports the truth. and along the lines of the hillary clinton, this is on youtube. google wade mcgovern did the presidential briefings for seven presidential administrations. he was at a hillary speech he stood up and turned his back on her, and he was beat up by the people in security there, and he won a lawsuit against it. .. >> guest: i would just go back to this information. recently fox radio wanted to interview me about a piece that they were preparing about the fact that vice president biden collects rent from the secret service and. >> host: you report this. >> guest: actually i did not. because i do not think it was an issue. and the reporter, a very good reporter, very excited about the story, and i said no i think that that is a perfectly legitimate action by the secret service. and why should he be penalized and so he said okay, i would like to put you on anyway. sure enough we are running through this weekend. so that is where i try to be honest about these individuals and i believe we are on the right and that is what i am going to do it. >> hello, i just wanted to bring a