mr. miller: mr., i move to suspend the rules and pass h.r. 2481, as amended. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: union calendar 481, a bill h.r. 2 to amend title 38, united states code, to codify and improve the election requirements for the receipt of educational assistance under the post-9/11 educational assistance program of the epartment of veterans affairs. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from florida, mr. miller, and the gentleman from maine, mr. michaud, each will be recognized -- each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from florida. mr. miller: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and tend their remarks and add any extraneous material they may have on h.r. 2481, as amended. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. miller: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gen

mr. miller. mr. miller: i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will entertain requests for one-minute speeches. for what purpose does the gentlelady from north carolina seek recognition. ms. foxx: i request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. ms. foxx: thank you, mr. speaker. the president has some very serious questions to answer. will he tax the american people if they cannot or choose not to buy health insurance from a website that doesn't work? will he insist upon penalizing them for withholding their personal information from a government database already rife with privacy concerns? will he continue to demand patience, blame technical glitches, and dismiss legitimate concerns from the american public while obamacare's broke

mr. miller: mr. chairman, they thought it was -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman is out of order. the gentleman is out of order. mr. miller: oh, ok. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is not recognized. the gentleman from virginia reserves. the gentleman from idaho. mr. simpson: mr. speaker, i am disgusted that the gentleman from california would actually use the word jihad on the floor of the house. we should all reject his comments and he should be censored but i won't call for it. i reserve the balance of my time. i'm the last speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from idaho reserves. the gentleman from virginia. mr. moran: i'd like to yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from ohio on the appropriations committee, mr. ryan. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio is recognized for 30 seconds. mr. ryan: i thank the gentleman. we heard in the last hour or two people worried about lab rats at n.i.h., the zoos closing down. they're worried a

mr. miller: i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate -- the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment offered by mr. george miller of california. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to house resolution 39 1, the gentleman from california, mr. miller, and a member opposed each will control 10 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from california. mr. miller: i thank the chair and i yield myself three minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. miller: mr. chairman and members of the committee, the amendment that i'm offering along with mr. conyers is the way h.r. 2374 should have been drafted. instead of short circuiting the regulatory process on behalf of wall street profits, this represents an appropriate and balanced way forward to advise the department of labor in their current rulemaking on investment advice. first congress should not be in the business of shutting down any and all efforts by the department of labo

mr. miller: mr. chairman, they thought it was -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman is out of order. the gentleman is out of order. mr. miller: oh, ok. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is not recognized. the gentleman from virginia reserves. the gentleman from idaho. mr. simpson: mr. speaker, i am disgusted that the gentleman from california would actually use the word jihad on the floor of the house. we should all reject his comments and he should be censored but i won't call for it. i reserve the balance of my time. i'm the last speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from idaho reserves. the gentleman from virginia. mr. moran: i'd like to yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from ohio on the appropriations committee, mr. ryan. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio is recognized for 30 seconds. mr. ryan: i thank the gentleman. we heard in the last hour or two people worried about lab rats at n.i.h., the zoos closing down. they're worried a

mr. miller: i thank the gentlewoman for yielding. mr. chairman, this is now the second week of the republican shutdown of our government. shut down because they want to put insurance companies back in charge of america's health care. republicans in the house think that they can get out of this horrible mess by creating -- by partially opening one part of government or another. today it's head start a program i strongly support. and what used to be supported on a bipartisan basis to provide education, health and nutrition services to at-risk children. when republicans voted to shut down the government, they closed the doors on thousands of these children and their families. after several bad news articles about the republicans shutting down head start, they now want to partially reopen it. keep in mind restoring funding to head start only serves a small percentage of at-risk children who need preschool and eligible for it. it is not enough to restore one set of early learning services for at-risk children but not fund the childcare develo

oh, hi, mrs. miller. sorry to hear about mickey, how is he?ot too bad. - bit shaken up. - well, he would be. it's a very frightening experience. it happened to me, you know, i bet it was the same bloke. that's £3.29, please. i've got a couple of coupons here. always seems like a waste not to use them. they don't go there. you're always putting everything in the wrong place. - what does it matter? - it doubles the work for everyone else! bye! you all right? - yeah, course. just feel a bit funny. - maybe you should go home? oh, no, no, i'd rather be here. if i get tired a bit later on, i might go home a bit early. ok, well, just let me know. i will. thanks. i could have a word with your landlord, be easier to find someone to take over your lease. but that's not the problem, is it? it don't feel right. that house has got history on the square. there's not a house around here that couldn't tell a story, pat. but it don't feel as if it should be mine! all right, darling? treating yourself to some lunch? why not? i've been rushed off my feet. i'll d

mr. miller asked me to sit on a meeting where they reported back. i heard at that time there were serious concerns based on the ground review about the delay in cases of handling of cases -- were you involved in -- >> i sat in on a couple of meetings that mr. miller asked me to join that at which the team presented their proposal of what they would recommend happen next. in term of analyzing the cases and educating staff and so forth. so i sat in on some of the meetings and that was kind of my role. you weren't a i had a more than full-time job. i know, many people in this room work long hours, but 60 or 70 hours seems like a full-time job to me. that job was aca. i was not having my of aca duties taken off me. when i could sit in, when i was requested, i true to collaborate. it was only a few time. i didn't make a lough times i was invited. did you play any role in low wees learner's decision to reveal the ig finding at the meeting? >> none. >> let me -- it was not charged with implementing the corrective measures. and you had no interaction with t

mrs. miller: i thank the gentleman for yielding the time. mr. speaker, i rise in very strong support of this bill for the f.a.a. to fully -- f.a.a., to fully fund the f.a.a., the federal aviation administration. it is so absolutely critical, both to our economy, as well as our security in the airways. not only on commercial flights but general aviation as well. you know, mr. speaker, during this shutdown, we keep hearing a lot about obamacare. but this bill has nothing to do with obamacare. absolutely nothing to do with obamacare. it is no strings attached, it just funds the f.a.a. i know that many of our colleagues on the other side will say, well, they can't vote for this unless they have an entire clean c.r., funding the entire government, because they want exactly what they want and nothing else will do. and yet they call republicans absolutists. fortunately many on the other side will support this bill. in fact, i think it's of note that with all the various c.r.'s, clean c.r.'s, that we have been passing since this shutdown began, all with

civilians and basically they conduct the investigation that's why we did not intervene in iraq but mr miller and i come by i don't think we need. any endorsement or any even proof from the house to see on that matter that the british involvement in iraq killed civilians i mean i don't think it's being disputed i think it's it is something that even the british government recognizes that thousands of people in iraq were killed as a direct result of british involvement is that not the case that. this was we conduct this examination like this seven years ago in those days information we have available for that was that there were isolated incident there was not a planning to attack a specific little civilians and that's a different with libya when we meet gaddafi we found evidence that the government for the world should concede billions with live ammunition on the streets we don't find the similar evidence in the case of iraq i would like to discuss the libyan case a bit later on but let's come back to the syrian issue which is the most pressing geopolitical issue in the world these days i don

mrs. miller: i thank the gentleman for yielding the time. i rise today in strong support of the food and drug safety act, a bill we're debating this afternoon and would provide immediate funding for the food and drug administration. which is of course the agency in charge of the safety and stability of our nation's food supply and our medicine supply as well. the american people, mr. speaker, deserve an answer to a couple of simple questions. fers of all, will congress actually take action now to secure and inspect our nation's food supply? and second, will congress take action now to secure our nation's medicine supply? now i know that many on the other side of the aisle will once again oppose this legislation because they say they need to have an entire government funding bill or else nothing will be funded. i would not yield at this time. yet they call republicans absolutists. however, many on the other side of the aisle will recognize these legitimate concerns and to help us pass this important funding. and it's time for the senate to ac

when the obama supporters to the bones on mr miller get results. birthrights politically correct there were correct in and coulter last night's edition of hannity and fox are called news culver had some interesting comments about the government shutdown or the look. by the way this reminds me of something that you and i haven't been able to talk about on t.v. this is why i think the shutdown was so magnificent run beautifully i'm so proud of these republicans. so colder than. the government shutdown was odd girl rape. she couldn't be more wrong in the latest estimates by economic researchers the shutdown will end up costing the us billions and billions of dollars and economists say the damage to other things like consumer and business confidence will be even worse and you have to factor in other less obvious costs like the cost of stalled government research programs but the cost to industries that rely on permits from the government or operate for example fishermen will be forced to face a shortened king crab season because no fishing permits were

mr. miller: mr. speaker, the house floor is starting to feel like a new episode of "the hunger games," every day the republican leadership tries to find a new way to pit one desperate group of americans against another. today republicans are pitting kids with cancer against kids who are hungry because of the shuttown this bill is designed to release funds to the n.i.h. today so they can reduce funding for kids, programs that keep children with the nutrition they need. far little longer they can go hungry while we take care of the kids with cancer. i don't buy their new concern about n.i.h. funding and the american people aren't buying it either. what did they think would happen when they shut down the n.i.h.? did they have any working knowledge of what takes place at the n.i. snmplet the gentleman from arkansas related the integral nature of n. inch thomplet universities across this country, yet they thought it was free to shut down the n.i.h.? now they discovered that hundreds of children receive tr

mr. miller, ranking member of the education committee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for 1 1/2 minutes. mr. miller: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. miller: congress should reopen the federal government and not hold the federal depoft and america cap people hostage of the by closing the federal government, the republicans in the house are jeopardizing critical services to mothers and their children. they should have realized this when they shut down the federal government. d not restoring the w.i.c. program and not food stamps or housing vouchers which the same mothers and children rely on to hold their families together. this has taken the food out of the mouths of children. republicans are taking heat for closing down the government and open up one part or another to relieve the pressure, but this doesn't help these families. this doesn't help these families because they are cutting other services to these families and other resources. the rep

mr. miller and mr. campbell, my colleagues in the senate as well, have tried to get the administration to come out, to state your position on the proposed use of eminent domain to seize mortgages. and my question is, if you would make that statement? >> so i appreciate you asking this question again because i think it was the former times that i've gotten past it, it's the end of the question as opposed to beginning which makes it hard to give a full answer, but what i've been trying to say here is that we do believe that eminent domain authority in general is a local and state authority, and it needs to be -- >> will -- >> can i finish? they need to be able to make their decisions in this needs to be played out over time in terms of what impact, if any, it will ultimately have on lending. so i will -- >> hold on, hold on. the question that you need to answer, if you think it through is, will the fha insurance fund, counted on or not, do we have a position where the fha insurance fund cannot be counted

mr. miller, chairman of the house veterans affairs committee. >> i thank the chairman for yielding.bill isxplain why this necessary. last weekend, the administration revised its initial shutdown contingency plan with the following statement relating specifically to the effect of a prolonged shutdown and what it would have to be va. has accepted claims processor so it can continue to process claims and beneficiaries will continue to receive their payments. however, those benefits are -- are provided through mandatory funding on that funding will run out by the end of october. at that point, the va will be unable to make any payments." this means absent a deal on a cr, has accepted claims processor so it can continue to process and we have anxiously awaited the senate to do there, negotiate with the house -- payments to veterans and their survivors that are due in november for a variety of benefits that have been earned by that veterans are on several service may, in fact, be in jeopardy. that would mean a suspension of over $1 billion per month in gi bill tuition payments to nearly o

and when the obama supporters back to the phones on mr miller get.for threads politically correct that i'm correcting fox so-called news who wrongfully suggested that energy secretary ernest manas said the now bankrupt solar company cylinder was a success in a recent edition of fox and friends the hosts played a deceptive clip of an interview of manas on c.-span the lower title reading celebrating cylindrica energy official failed solar company a success but the hosts failed to show or talk about it was a fact that mottos was complimenting the entire clean energy loan program the obama administration started and specifically highlighted how it helped the growth of companies like tesla motors in fact losses from the program represent only a little over two percent of the thirty four point four billion better than banks typically do of course fox so-called news would rather obsess over the loan programs and president obama's one failure and highlight its many successes even if that means twisting around the words of the secretary of energy that's why f

when the obama said to the phones on mr miller. for tonight's politically correct that i'm correcting fox so-called news contributor ben carson you know the guy who criticized president obama at the white house prayer breakfast earlier this year when he was sitting right next to him and oh i love that. ladies and gentlemen dr benjamin carson our deficit is a big problem what about our taxation system when i pick up my bible you know when i see i see the fairest individual in the universe. he's given the system it's call time actually fox so-called news hired ben carson who used his first ever appearance on g.o.p. t.v. to compare obamacare to socialism both. in fact and bolsheviks so socialism to be specific take a look. what's really interesting is you know the latter marilyn lennon one of the founders of socialism and communism he said socialized medicine is the keystone. of the arch to the socialist date in other words you gotta get the socialized medicine as the foundation because it gives you control of the people of syria well

mr. miller of florida. . . mr. miller: i rise for the second time this week to talk about this particular piece of legislation, why the second time? well, because the democrats banded together to kill this veterans' funding bill once before. and as i mentioned before the democrats moved to kill this veterans' funding bill, we worked to ensure that disabled veterans, low-income veterans going to school on the g.i. bill, survivors of those killed in the line of duty, continue to receive their benefits that they are due, the benefits that they in fact have earned. madam speaker, the house democrats must not know that bernie sanders, the chairman of the senate veterans' affairs committee, introduced a bill on monday night that related to veterans' funding and i'd like to share with everyone a bit of that effort. and i quote from press reports, bernie sanders, chairman, introduced legislation, s. 1564 monday night and quickly got the backing from four other democrats on the panel and the top republican on the committee.

on the obama super pac to the phones on with mr miller to get results. for today's politically corrected i'm correct in the conservative print media yesterday the united nations' intergovernmental panel on climate change i.p.c.c. released their fifth assessment report on climate change and global warming in the weeks leading up to the report's release a number of conservative media outlets made false claims about the report and its findings and editorial the washington times on september fifth claimed that the report would admit that the planet has been coolly not warming but the i.p.c.c. report makes it quite clear that the world is definitely warming and the war meanies are being driven primarily by human action an article in september twentieth washington examiner columnist ron arnoldo wrote that the i.p.c.c. report would include a starting. pitcher of all forecasts of eminent planetary catastrophe were catastrophic were wrong in reality the i.p.c.c. report specifically notes that actual temperatures are consistent with past i.p.c.c. projections and c

when the obama supporters to the bone don't want mr miller. for tonight's politically corrected i'm correcting karl rove last night's o'reilly factor bill o'reilly had rove on to explain the big disability he believes explains the increase in social security disability recipients rove attributed the increase in social security disability recipients to a lack of fraud protection in programs like social security and medicare take a look at. private insurance companies have a financial necessity of making certain they stop fraud there are no fraud protections in medicare medicaid social security none in fact rove is just plain wrong medicare medicaid and social security all have fraud prevention programs in place to protect prevent and recover money from any cases of fraud department of health and human services recently released a fact sheet about the medicare fraud program that details the variety of laws in place that punish medicare fraud which criminalizes the government being overcharged for knowingly the fraud by medicare recipients doctor

mr miller never it's always. birthrights politically correct i'm correct and senator ted cruz yesterday the senate judiciary committee held a hearing on the stand your ground laws in that hearing senator cruz made this claim about race and the stand your ground shoot first laws. in florida. the data show that african-american defendants have availed themselves of the stand your ground defense more frequently than have anglo defendants according to press reports fifty five percent of african-american defendants have successfully invoked the stand your ground defense in prosecutions compared to a fifty three percent rate in the anglo public population this is not about politicking this is not about inflaming racial tensions although some might try to use it to do that. cruz is basically saying the african-americans benefit from the law as much as whites do first of all kirk cruz is pro trail of the racial disparity in florida's stand your ground law is very misleading the numbers he cited were compiled by the conse

when the obama said to the phones on with mr miller get. for tonight's politically correct that i'm correcting president obama in speech earlier today on the shutdown and debt ceiling the president made these comments about the difficulty of governing in washington right now. we all know that we have divided government right now there's a lot of noise out there and the pressure from the extremes. affect how a lot of members of congress see. the day to day work that supposed to be done here . if you listen that carefully you heard president obama say the pressure from the extreme is that there are two extremes in washington there's only one and that's the tea party as we saw with a government shutdown and i've seen in recent months tea party radicals far right conservatives confederate flag wavers have a great deal of influence and say over what happens on capitol hill right now in fact they have so much say that speaker boehner refused multiple times to bring a clean continuing resolution of the floor that would have ended the government sh

turner: i yield one minute to the the gentlelady from michigan, mrs. miller. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. mrs. miller: i support this bill to make sure that furlough federal workers are paid. but the average salary of a i eral worker is $77,500 and don't understand how my colleagues decide which of the funding bills we have passed are actually worthy of their support, because this week they said no to opening up our national memorials or grand canyon but yes to federal workers, no to veterans benefits, no to women and babies on food assistance, no to children at n.i.h. no to the national guard but yes to other federal workers. clearly it is time for both sides, mr. speaker, to sit down in a conference to negotiate a compromise in a bipartisan manner and to end this shutdown. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back. the chair recognizes the gentleman from maryland. mr. cummings: we said yes to opening the entire government. with that, i yield to my distinguished colleague from washington, 45 seconds. the speak

the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from michigan, mrs. miller, for five minutes. mr. speaker, i come from the great state of michigan, also known as the great lakes state, and i've lived my entire life along the shores of this national treasure and for those of us in and the other great lakes, the great lakes, the other great lake states, the great lakes are not just the source of our drinking water or a place to enjoy their natural beauty or recreational opportunities where so many work and make a living, they're central to our very identity. that's why i made the protection of the great lakes a principle advocacy during all of the years that i've been in public service. the great lakes represent 1/ 5 or 20% of the entire drinking supplier of the entire planet. they apply to tens of millions in our nation and millions more in canada as well. they're vital to our economy. over 160 million tons of commercial cargo is shipped on the great lakes. this commerce supports over 227,000 jobs and contributes over $33 billion to the economy. the recreational aspect of the great

mr. miller: mr.peaker, members of the house, this last week must have been quite a civic's lesson for members of the tea party who thought they could shut down the government and in fact shut down the government and nobody would miss it. but soon they discovered that there are serious problems with that, and now we see one bill after another to restore the n.i.h. because they found they stranded cancer patients and other people in need of their health, to restore the w.i.c. program because they found out that the newest born infants in this country would be without nutrition, the veterans' programs because they found out our veterans would be stranded, the assistance to go to school would be cut off, our national parks. they never thought those communities would be impacted by the national parks. they didn't care about that. they shut them down, but they were here asking for relief. they found out they needed the weather service because the hurricane is approaching our gulf states. they needed fema,

mrs. miller: thank you. i certainly thank the gentleman for yielding. mr. speaker, i rise today in very strong support of the bill that we're debating here, the border safety and security act. as vice chair of the house homeland security committee and chair as well of the subcommittee on border and maritime security, i along with so many others have worked to ensure that congress gives the agents and the officers in the field the tools and the direction that they need to keep drugs and terrorists and others who would do us harm from entering our country. and that's what this legislation is about today. now, much of the controversy surrounding the government shutdown has actually focused on obamacare. but, mr. speaker, there is nothing, absolutely zero in the bill that we are talking about right now that has anything to do with obamacare. the only thing that's in this bill and that we are discussing today is whether or not we will help provide the funds to ensure that we can protect our nation's borders and pay the men and women of the u.s. border patrol, th

. >> i yield one minute to the gentlelady from michigan, mrs. miller>> the chair recognizes the gentlelady from michigan. >> i support this bill which will make sure workers furloughed because of the shutdown are paid. i will also point out the average employees salary, what i don't understand why my colleagues in the other side of the aisle, how they can side which of the funding bills are worthy of their support because this week, they said no to opening up our national orioles or opening our national parks like the grand canyon, but they are saying yes to federal workers, no two veterans benefits, no two women and babies on food assistance, no two children with cancer treatments, but yes to paying federal workers. no to the national guard and reserve and yes to other federal workers. clearly, it's time for both sides to sit down in a conference to negotiate a compromise in a bipartisan manner and end this shutdown. the chair lady recognizes the gentleman from maryland. >> we say yes to opening the entire government. with that, i yield to my distingu

mr. chairman miller and also ranking members for inviting me to the hearing. it is good to be back here. it is a great committee. this is a terrible hearing to make that happen though. i do want to say the situation is dire. on november 1, we are going to cut off hundreds of thousands of disability recipients, students that are depending on g.i. bills, families whose veterans -- i think the american public needs to know the dire situation. we are going to be sending hundreds of thousands of people into dire straits, maybe making them homeless. there is no excuse. we need to solve this problem in the next week. i do have some specific questions. mr. secretary, in addition to mr. denham, i would like to know from you about the impact of the shutdown. i would like to know specifically its priority. i will take that off-line. as you know, the veteran service organizations staff members are used to help counsel veterans but the villa so staff members -- vso staff members are not employees of the the a. -- the v.a. can they continue to use those facilities to help c

mr. miller who is chairman of the committee. ns >> i thank the chairman for yielding.let me explain why this bill is necessary. weekend the administration revised an unusual shut down ontingency plan with the following statement relate to the effect of prolonged shut on v.a. d have it can continue to process claims beneficiaries will continue to receive their payments. however, those benefits are provided through appropriated will ory funding and that run out by the end of october. t this point v.a. will be unable to make any payments end kwroet. deal ons means absent a a c.r. and we have anxiously awaited the senate to do over there, negotiate with the house, payments to eterans and their survivors that are due in november for a variety of benefits that have veteran ed by that through honorable service may be in skwrep part i did. a suspension of over a billion dollars a month i.tuition payments to early 1 million veterans and dependants and subsistence allowance to over $66,000 in rehabilitation and ware payments to low income time veterans with incomes that poverty

mr. chairman miller, and also ranking member michaud, for inviting me to the committee hearing. and the members of the committee for not objecting. it's good to be back here. it's a great committee. this is a terrible hearing, though, to make that happen. so i do want to say the situation is dire. on november 1 we're going to cut off hundreds of thousands of disability recipients, students that are depending on g.i. bills, families whose veterans are active service members who have died. i think the american public needs to know the dire situation . we're going to be sending hundreds of thousands of people into dire straits. maybe making them homeless. and there's no excuse. we need to solve this problem and we need to solve it in the next week. so, do i have some specific questions. mr. secretary, in addition to mr. denham, my colleague and neighbor, i'd like to know from you about the impact of the shutdown on the fringe camp project. i'd like to know specifically its priority. and i will take that offline. now, as you know, the veterans service organizations' staff members, t

mr. al libi helped plan and execute plots that killed hundreds of people, a whole lot of americans. we have strong evidence of that. and he will be brought to justice. mark miller. >> mr. president, while you're waiting for the shutdown to end, why is it that you can't go along with any of the bills the house is passing funding the fda and fema where you were yesterday and veterans benefits and head start? you've got to be tempted to sign those bills and get funding to those programs that you support. >> of course i'm tempted because you'd like to think that you could solve at least some of the problem if you couldn't solve all of it. here's the problem. what you've seen are bills that come up wherever republicans are feeling political pressure, they put a bill forward. if there's no political heat or television story on it, then nothing happens. if we do some sort of shotgun approach like that, then you'll have some programs that are highly visible get funded and reopened like national monuments. but things that don't get a lot of attention like those sba loans not being funded. we don't get to select which programs we implement or not. there are a whole bunch

mr. snowden had with him has been compromised. >> miller: protecting secrets is so engrained in the c.i.a cell phones aren't even allowed in the building. meetings are held in lead-lined rooms called secure compartmented intelligence facilities, or scifs, and if there is one room where they discuss the most closely guarded secrets of all it is the c.i.a. director's conference room. >> morell: on an average day, you know, we're making... we're making hundreds of decisions, a good number of them in this room. and they range across the entirety of the national security issues that this country faces. >> miller: mike morell joined the c.i.a. in 1980 as an energy policy analyst. a self-described nerd, he wanted adventure, and he would soon find plenty of it, as he rose through the ranks and became the key intelligence briefer for president george w. bush. morell traveled with the president wherever he went and was with him at a florida elementary school on september 11, 2001. >> morell: and what i'm actually standing there thinking is "i wonder how long we're gonna be here" because everybody k

if you want to see miller and me live go to billoreilly.com. mr. with governor richardson captured the mediocrity of the system. a system so corrupt that no one is really in charge or held accountable. tim lining, british columbia, canada. some interview, o'reilly. you yelled at richardson through most of it. that assertion is flat out false. millions of viewers know it. speaking falsehoods diminishes you. margaret from charlotte, north carolina. how could richardson appear with you so totally unprepared. i felt sorry for him. steve in tennessee. most americans don't care how the country is being run. how much have you accomplished in changing things? plenty. we have a 17-year history of writing wrongs and bringing the truth to light. steve favaza from maryland. you're correct. most americans do not care. from thailand, your excuse that you interrupt because of time constraints doesn't wash. other hosts on fox news don't interru interrupt. their format is different, vic. if you don't understand the no spin zone concept, i can't help you. here, ques

mr. speaker. first of all, let me thank chairman miller for organizing this tribute to chairman young.n closing, you know, i often say when you are born, you get a birth certificate, and when you die, you are going to get a death certificate. that little dash in between is what you have done to make this a better place. i don't know anyone that has done more than chairman bill young. it has been my honor having the opportunity to serve with him, his leadership for the florida delegation. i mean, we have gone for some tough times, but i can tell you he has always been a gentleman. when i first began, i said one of my favorite songs is let the work i've done speak for me. clearly he has done his work, and he has fought a good fight, and he has done his job. it is left up to us to continue his great work, and i yield back the balance of my time. >> the gentlelady yields back. the gentleman from florida is recognized. >> mr. speaker, i want to thank all the members on both sides of the aisle for their kind words that they've set for our friend, bill young. i sincerely hope that the words g

we have tom mott miller from the american enterprise institute. what you think? i think if mr. chun has signaled the hand to have for americans that are pendent on them for a handout. the macroeconomic policies are also helping but it's just the wayhat the subsidy structure is designed it discourages people from learning were many or workingarder to take on more hours it is a perverse incentive. gerri: the heather shoots that is droppi is people are losing coverage becaus those insurance policies did not cover essentials health benefits. if you were 65 paying for the insurae policy you don'want those benefits but you get them under obamacare? period you can keep your policy as long is it is the one that we wanyou to have [laughter] if you step t of line yo maybe in trouble. but particularly those who are pinchith what the can afford in the indidual market, this is a forced upgrade to a hier tear of pri to whether or not you can afford or wante. gerri: i amazed every day the new informationhat we get. wh it we just heard is apparently wants to apply for benefits they ask if you