mr. reed, mr. hoyer mentioned this, you know, on ways and means for years once the republicans came to the majority, we protested they weren't paying for anything. so this isn't a new issue. it isn't new issue. i now yield five minutes to the ranking member of the budget committee and a distinguished former member of the ways and means committee, the gentleman from maryland, mr. van hollen. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from maryland is recognized for five minutes. mr. van hollen: thank you, madam speaker. and i thank my colleague, mr. levin. you know, day after day, month after month we hear members of congress, republicans and democrats alike, come to the floor of this house and say we've got to do more on jobs, we've got to make sure that we get this fragile economy moving again. unfortunately, while we say those thgs in this body, we haven't yet taken up the president's jobs initiative thate presented to this congress last september. we've taken little bits and pieces here. we've

mr. reed: madam speaker, pursuant to house resolution 515 and as the designee of the majority leader, i have a motion at the desk. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the motion. the clerk: mr. reed of new york moves that the house proceed to consider the joint resolution, house joint resolution 98, relating to the disapproval of the president's exercise of authority to increase the debt limit as submitted under section 3101-a of title 31 united states code on january 12, 2012. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to section 3101-a-c-3 of title 31 united states code, the motion is not debatable. the question is on the motion and those in favor will signify by saying aye. those opposed say no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the ayes have it. the motion is adopted. the clerk will report the title of the joint resolution. the clerk: house joint resolution 98, joint resolution relating to the disapproval of the president's exercise of authority to increase the debt limit as

mr. reedank you, madam speaker. this resolution is submitted to send a message to the nation and to the world that this chamber is going to lead and not hide. we are going to deal with the issue of the national debt once and for all because it is time. the path that we are on is not sustainable. it is a path of bankruptcy, it is a path that will destroy the american dream if we do not stand up to the plate and lead us out of this fiscal nightmare that we now find ourselves in. now, many people in this town and in this chamber and in the chamber on the other side of the capitol probably would like this issue to go away until after the election. the problem is is that the issue will not go away. and even though if we don't want to deal with it politically, we need to deal with it substantively. and my resolution that is before this chamber will send a message that the constant borrowing on the backs of our children, our grandchildren must come to an end. i quote the words of our own president wh

mr. reed: thank you. eaker, with this i'd like to yield two minutes to the gentleman from mississippi, mr. palazzo. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from mississippi is recognized for two minutes. mr. palazzo: thank you, madam speaker. i want to thank the gentleman for my time. it's a new year and we have a new chance to tackle some new problems in this session of the 112th congress. but real problems need real solutions. we saw what was possible when the house came together last year to pass conservative job-creating bills and a plan to cut $6.2 trillion in government spending and reduce deficits by $4.2 trillion over the next decade. also saw how little got done when democrats in the senate and the obama administration consistently ignored the wishes of the american people. this administration has said it will continue to wage its 2012 campaign against this ngress. so instead of working with us and encouraging the senate to consider the numerous jobs bills we have passed in the house, the president

mr. reed: mr. speaker, i'd like to respond to my colleague on the other side of the aisle who just spoke in regards when it comes to unemployment benefit extensions. what we have to do in my opinion is set the framework upon which jobs in america could be created. and we just had an example of this last week that i so hope our president tonight in this very chamber comes and explains his decision to reject american jobs being created through the keystone pipeline. because there is a project that has been identified and it will be implemented in a way that would create an immediate 20,000 new jobs for men and women in america. that will go a long way to solving our unemployment problems in the united states. not just extending unemployment benefits, but as we take up the issue of extending unemployment benefits, we need to do better. we owe it to hardworking taxpayers of america to come up with solutions and reforms in our unemployment benefits program that gives them the tools, the resources to be

the only thing i suggest to you or any other state, and i agree with mr. reed and others, i sold it on an economic basis. but make sure -- at least we do, if you register online, the first time you vote, you have to do it in person. you cannot ask for a mail ballot. the reason we, we use that point to verify the signature online. like mr. reed said, if you don't have a problem with photo id issue and what have you. we have had no problems with it whatsoever. not on this same subject but while i have the mike. a lot of you are experiencing difficulties with picture id at the point of voting. louisiana that that eight or nine years, never challenged. i think the secret of our success, we too not turn y-- do turn you away if you don't have picture id. we allow you to sign a point of affidavit, date of birth and mother's maiden name and who you are and we don't turn you away. i think that is maybe the secret getting around some court challenges you have. >> thank you. i wanted to remind folks, nass.org, our association website, has a tremendous amount of informatio

mr. reed: i'd yield. mr. hoyer: i want to thank him for his participation in addressing this issue and frankly in my opinion he was one of the 100 signatories saying, let's say get a big deal. we have to get a handle on this debt. i want to thank him. but i want to assure him as well -- i have been here just a little longer than he has -- this debate has been going on for some period of time. this is no new debate. with all due respect, it's been on this floor, i've been raising this issue for some 20 years, very frankly. others have as well on both sides of the aisle. the debate has been going on, but as i said, we need to summon the courage and political will to not just debate it but to address it and >> live coverage of the u.s. house is always on c-span. c-span's road to the white house coverage continues tonight with a look at the south carolina republican presidential primary. we'll give you the latest primary results, take your phone calls, tweets, and emails and cover the candidates' speeches. the pr

mr. reed, for 30 minutes. mr. reed: thank you very much, mr. speaker. i rise today with a few of my colleagues to talk about an issue that i think could be a game-changer for the united states of america. and that is, the natural gas development potential that we find in the shale formations throughout the united states. i have been privileged to co-found the marcellus shale caucus here in the u.s. house of representatives with my colleague from pennsylvania, mr. critz, who will be joining us shortly, and the purpose of the caucus is to come at this issue from an objective, scientific, data-based point of view. to talk about the pros and cons of natural gas development in america, and in particular the marcellus shale formation, which is located in my district in western new york, throughout pennsylvania and the other air cras of the northeast. -- areas of the northeast. one of the things we wanted to touch on today is highlighting the indirect benefits that natural gas development will have o

i am surprised that mr. reed and mr.ingrich who had such a rich and checkered career of disingenuousness, of cheating, of all of these things. and somehow they get this vote of the evangelicals. i cannot imagine it. host: thank you very much for the call. last night, the former speaker of the house winning the south carolina primary. taking aim once again at the news media. here is a portion of what he had to say. [clip] in the two debates that we had here in myrtle beach and in charleston were people reacted so strongly to the news media, i think there was something very fundamental that i wish the powers that be in the news media would take seriously. the american people feel that they have believed to have been trying for the past century to force us to quit being american and become some kind of other system. [applause] host: the comments of newt gingrich last night taking aim at the media. joining us live, thank you for being with us. guest: it is great to be with you speak -- steve. host: will this be more of your

mr. reed expect the american people to abide by the laws, and the american people expect united states senate to abide by the law. it's a disgrace when they don't come up with a budget. several years ago when i lost my job due to a corporate merger, my wife and i sat around the kitchen table made a pot of coffee, we got out a sheet of notes that they've an onside we wrote down what was a revenue, an essay we wrote down this that we're going to spend it. americans are doing that at kitchen tables all around this country. that's a budget. families are doing that, small businesses are doing that, and they have every reason to expect united states senate to follow their lead. the president loves to lecture republicans about how we need to work together for the good of the nation. i hope you will use the state of the union to call on harry reid and the democrats to pass a budget. now, we have bob gibbs from ohio to come next. >> all right. all right, come on, tim. i meant to say tim from arkansas.

entertainment, collin reed, and i know, dolly, you're a serious businesswoman, you're a musician, actress. tell me what you're doing in nashville today? >> well, today, i am here with mr're going in partnership to build a family recreation area across from opryland and we're very excited about it. so we're going to be bringing more family entertainment into nashville. i've always wanted to work with them. and, of course, the grand ole' opry is my home. i love nashville. i've been here since 1964. but working with collin is just a perfect marriage we think since weise kind of have the two biggest parks areas in tennessee. >> and collin, let me just jump in. dolly parton. >> jump in here. >> as the dolly parton work husband i suppose as she's sort of calling you. >> yeah, he's my work husband. >> collin, your company is gaylord entertainment operating the famous historic grand ole' opry, opryland resort, we saw absolutely devastated by the storms in 2010. here are some of the pictures. i know that was a very, very tough time. i've talked to people in nashville about it. nashville is a tough town though. you've come back, renovated. what do you want people to know about

i join in with mr. reed and the big benefit of the open conference is to get to know each other a little bit. i've heard a lot about you, al, but i like you. [laughter] it's good we're meeting here like this, and same with other new members of the congress. that's great. i hope we can continue open conferences. i think it's something we should pursue. second, i'm very impressed with the general unanimity here. everyone agrees we should extend the payroll tax cut for a year. i've heard nobody disagree with that. i think there's general agreement, too, more than general, no one -- could be difference of opinion, but everyone wants to continue ui. we all want to give continued access for our seniors to medical care. we all agree to that. you know, there's not a lot here that we disagree on. now, contours might change a little bit. there's a question of extraneous, that's a little in the eyes of the beholder, but i urge all of us when we meet again as the chairman has suggested and to be prepared and that means

mr. reed told me we had not been betrayed yet and shall not unless mrs. sheldon gets to address me as mrs. greenfield as some unguarded moment. the carriage is at the door again so i must be excused for the delightful work again. james writes back to her and says your first letter came this morning and filled the house with gladness. a must have required garrey skill -- great skill to write in new york with prominent friends that it escaped the notice. you are developing fine diplomatic qualities. the president arrives in the public and in the press jousted back to work throughout the history of the country. both wilson and harry truman threatened different parts to ask reporters what to step outside over things they had written about their stalls or children and teddy roosevelt who was particularly doubted by the fact that his oldest daughter alice love nothing better than to appear in the press in any way she could and was not a particularly diplomatic person was forever causing teddy roosevelt bad press and wrote to a publisher saying that he was going

mr. reed told me we had not been betrayed yet and shall not unless mrs.greenfield as some unguarded moment. the carriage is at the door again so i must be excused for the delightful work again. james writes back to her and says your first letter came this morning and filled the house with gladness. a must have required garrey skill -- great skill to write in new york with prominent friends that it escaped the notice. you are developing fine diplomatic qualities. the president arrives in the public and in the press jousted back to work throughout the history of the country. both wilson and harry truman threatened different parts to ask reporters what to step outside over things they had written about their stalls or children and teddy roosevelt who was particularly doubted by the fact that his oldest daughter alice love nothing better than to appear in the press in any way she could and was not a particularly diplomatic person was forever causing teddy roosevelt bad press and wrote to a publisher saying that he was going to try to keep his daughter and his

remains of the president kennedy and plan on having the president taken directly to walter reed and probably mrslso be going out there. we will clarify that later. >> oh. all right. >> nathan, i'll come to you with this. tweechb admiral burton and heaton, a piece of history. the most infamous moment of modern history and you have all this stuff no one has ever heard before. >> that's a powerful clip because that's not what ended up happening, debate where to send the president's body, walter reed or bethesda is really what makes this tape central. this is how we know what the federal government did immediately after the assassination. the fact you have the surgeon general talking with kennedy's personal doctor making a decision which later is contrary to what ends up happening, that is powerful. why that was cut out here, there's a full lead up to this, why that moment was cut out, no one's around who could tell you. >> you are trying to sell this. i will go to douglas to see if he can put a valuation on this? what is the worth, douglas, would you say, from historical important point of view? >>

mr. chairman. >> senator reed? >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. mr. richard cordray. i think to block his appointment simply to express displeasure with the law is the wrong way entirely. the federal housing finance administration, created with virtually the same authority and on a bipartisan basis, was supported by most if not all of my colleagues on the other side. there was no discussion of pre- emption of the constitution or checks and balances. it was trying to deal with a serious problem, which we are trying to deal with today, protecting consumers throughout this country. that is the one of voice, when you think about voices, which is seldom heard loudly enough in washington, seldom heard certainly in the council of bank regulators -- that is one of the great examples of what took place in the decade of 2000 until 2008, in which consumers were being systematically preyed upon. there was no agency. as attorney general, i think you were frustrated by your attempts that were pre-empted by federal banking regulators that were printed by federal

reed? is there a second? thank you, secretary. any discussion on this proposal? >> good program. >> good program. thank you very much, mr. secretary. seeing no further discussion all in favor, please signify by saying aye. >> aye. >> opposed same sign. thank you very much. our third renewal, people of america foundation. is there a motion to renew our partnership? >> somebody else. >> i can see su within my poor eyesight, it's perfect. thank you and thank you. any discussion on this proposed renewal of our partnership? all in favor signify by saying aye. >> aye. >> opposed same sign. thank you. our partnerships have been a very important part of nass over the years. i feel very good bouse our procedure, the organization in particular put excellent time in their renewal q we got a lot of good information. so if you haven't had a chance to look at the attachments from these three, please take a moment to do that and pass that along to your staff or to your partners back home. secretary reed. >> yes. secretary ritchie, i was just reminded a while ago just how many people we have. i do want to point out that the nass staff m

challenges, despite the injuries and pain she was described by one who knew her at walter reed as the most upbeat person i know mroldiers. in other come twice answered the call to the military duty leaving behind family conference and communities. in truth, she is not just a member of what tom brokaw termed the new greatest generation. she exemplifies it and she is a leader in that. her service especially the character of her service has been truly as regional. a reserve components have in short clearly distinguished themselves in a variety of combat support roles in the decade since 9/11. some 385,000 members of the reserve components in fact served in iraq or afghanistan during that time in over 30,000 continue to serve on the deployment in those theaters contributing their valuable skills experience and expertise india since 1990 the reserve component members from the various branches of the military have mobilized and deployed in support of every american military operation including not just combat operations but peacekeeping and humanitarian missions as well. in fact reserve component elements continue to s

mr. speaker, i want to tell the story of my visit to walter reed, which is now bethesda, maryland, and young marine corps pral from camp lejeune which i have the privilege to represent. said to me with his mom in the room, why don't we come home, congressman? why don't we come home? it is time that this administration and this congress say to the american people, we are not going to wait until 2014 to bring our troops home, we are going to start bringing them home in 2013. with that, mr. speaker, in closing i ask god to please bless our men and women in uniform, i ask god to please bless the families who have give a loved one dying for freedom in afghanistan and iraq, and i close by asking god three times, god please, god please, god please continue to bless america. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to clause 12-a of rule 1, the chair declares the house in recess until 2:00 p.m. today. >> more than two million voters, up from the republican primary in 2008, more than -- with the polls beginning to close at 7:00 p.m. eastern, we will have live coverage fo

reed. our prayers continue to be with him and all our veterans. mr. and mrs. jim carpenter, thank you for being here. please stand. [applause] tonight, there are 766 families across the state with loved ones in the south carolina army and air national guard who are keke -- who are deployed and serving overseas far from their homes. our family shares a special bond with the military families of south carolina. like them, we know the pride of watching our loved ones wearing the uniform of the strongest nation on earth, please join me in welcoming my husband, a member of the air national guard and the coolest first man ever, michael haley. [applause] i have often said and i firmly believe that if i'm a good wife and good mother, i'll be a good governor. the greatest blessing of my life is being a mom to two little ones, a daughter who loves to dance and a son who wants to be the next lebron. please welcome my two little ones who keep me humble every day and who remind me that no matter what happens, the biggest title i will ever have is mom. stand up and give eve

reed and sequoia drive just before 7:00 yesterday morning. police say the driver of that van turned left on the solid green light and hit mr. lin who had the walk cycle alonging him to stop that -- allowing him to cross that street. witnesses describe the minivan as either black or a dark color. >>> an oakland woman safely escaped after her house caught fire. this started at 8:00 last night in lakeshore. fire vanes say 100 -- investigators say 1 -- -- say 100 birds died there. investigators say the fire appears to have started from the basement. >>> well, a judge has ordered two suspected gang members for a horrifying attack three years ago. police say they were among four men who vish shush list -- viciously beat and vandalized car. one of the men jokingly referred to the woman as a lesbian during the rape. two other defendants have already pleaded guilty and are due to be sentenced in may. >>> a former real estate agent appears to be stealing has done it again. in late november, police say this image of him was captured by a 12-year-old girl's laptop. she set up the laptop to see what went on her in her room during an ope