mr. rogers: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materials on h.r. 3523. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. pursuant to house resolution 631 and rule 18, the chair declares the house in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for consideration of h.r. 3523. the chair appoints the gentlewoman from illinois, mrs. biggert, to preside over the committee of the whole. the chair: members will take their conversations off the floor. members will clear the aisles. the house is in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for consideration of h.r. 3523 which the clerk will report by title. the clerk: a bill to provide for the sharing of certain cyber threat intelligence and cyber threat information between the intelligence community and cybersecurity entities, and for other purposes. the chair: pursuant to the rule, the bill is considered as read th

mr. rogers: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that in the engrossment of the bill, h.r. 3523, the clerk be altogether riced to make such technical and conforming changes as necessary to reflect the actions of the house. the speaker pro tempore: is there objection? without objection, so ordered. for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan seek recognition? mr. rogers: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent that in the engrossment of h.r. 3523 the clerk be authorized to make the change that i have placed at the desk. the chair: the clerk will report. the clerk: -- the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report. the clerk: insert deny access to or before degrade in each place it appears. the speaker pro tempore: is there objection? without objection, so ordered. without objection, so ordered. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the chair will postpone further proceedings today on the motion to suspend the rules on which a recorded vote or the yeas and nays are ordered or on which the vote incurs o

mr. rogers, jesus, the humanitarian jesus, the gentle jesus, is that right? >> that's right. >> and you see that as a reaction to the calvinism which was cold and preached predestination which is in itself is an unpleasant expectation of the demand of anyone namely that you are predestined, why even try? it was a reaction to a wrathful god, is that right? >> that's right, that's right. early on, in the american republic, there was an effort to move away from this god-fearing religion to jesus-loving religion. more of an emphasis on jesus, less of an emphasis on god, the father. the way that move in evangelicalism which was the dominant form of christianity in the 21st century is what a friend we have in jesus, hymns like that, seeing jesus as walking and talking with you, holding your hand. >> the sweet jesus. >> that's right. >> did the sweet jesus further degeneral rate into the efundamental national jesus meaning more womanly than man, the hair, the look? >> it deposition on your perspective whether that's a degeneration or improvement but he was fundament

mr. rogers trolley. the wooden model of the trolley. and on the top, for the clinton family with love, from your friends in the neighborhood, fred rogers, 1993. isn't that nice? i've seen a photo of him giving this to president clinton and president clinton has his head thrown back and is laughing, and mr. rogers is sitting next to him on a park bench. this is from dade county, florida. it's one of the infamous machines that were controversial during the 2000 election. the instructions we looked at before, they're a little confusing. but you slide the ballot in and then you use the stylist to punch a pole into the -- into the ballot. the stylus is quite small. but this is one of the -- so what it would produce, everyone knows that's a chad. we actually have a bag of the chads that came out of the machine. one of our staff members spent hours collecting all those from the bottom of the voting machine, put them all in baggies. so our next piece is a music stand from the hot springs jazz band, the dance band. bill clinton played in the sta

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mr. rogers when we were a kid. you remember the mailman? nowadays we wouldn't allow our kids in a room with someone called mr. mcfeely. apparently he's still alive and he's still at it. he goes around to schools to entertain children with a sidekick called the purple panda. as you'll see here, kids cannot get enough of the purple panda. >> purple panda! >> is he coming? >> oh, there he is, look, it's a panda. [ kids crying ] >> jimmy: there you go, kids. things have really gone to hell since mr. rogers left. in other colorful animal news, snooki from jersey shore has a new business venture, designing a line of slippers for kids. specifically for drunk kids. the president of the company she's partnering with said she's not just putting her name on the slippers, she's insisted on being involved in every step of the process and he's furious because that was not part of the deal. snooki's slippers for little snippers won't be available for a couple months, but we got our hands on a pair, or our feet on a pair. you can see the slippers are inspir

mr. rogers. i began to realize i didn't get it. that was the beginning. then i began bombing him with questions about apples and fruit. there was one moment that did change things in my perception, which is we were walking one day, i worked the fields and packing house routine, 5:00 a.m. routine. we were walking at dawn with the pickers who were all working, my brother was walking ahead of me. i saw all the shades of green, i was able to get my own ego out of the way. i thought he is amazing. this brother of mine is amazing. he has built up something astonishing here. it was almost like he was no longer invisible to me. i could begin to see him. then when i watched him walking ahead of me, i realized he has the same gape i do. we are probably so much more alike than we ever allowed ourselves to think. that was a beginning moment for me. >> one of the narratives that runs through this book, particularly as he becomes more sick in the last part of it, you are the relentless, you are going to be okay, there is going to be hope, if i make enough contacts, i'l

mr. rogers neighbourhood pals pay a visit to a day care center it ends up in a total fail.ou will share this with your family and friends whoever said that "less is more" is more or less mathematically challenged. less isn't more, it's less. and the only thing more than more is a lot more. which is exactly what i get at embassy suites. more space... more down time. more family time. more me time. more me time. more me time. because the more more i have, the more i have to have... more. [ female announcer ] more room. complimentary drinks. free breakfast. embassy suites. get more. but it's really good. it's crunchy and noodle-y. what they mean is, it's french's french fried onions in my crunchy noodle casserole. french's french fried onions. available in the french's stay-fresh can. >>> what was supposed to be a fun activity for children in pennsylvania, characterses from mr. rogers neighbourhood came to their classroom, they were excited and laughed with one characters but then this happened. [ crying ] >> oh, wait [ crying ] >> it happened when the purple kanga walked in.

mr. rogers' flashbacks right there. >> green cardigan. remember?t take my shoe off and just flip it off. a shout-out to mr. rogers. >> i'll take mine off, too. >> sorry for the smell, crew. it's all part of urban and suburban living neighbors both good and bad. we've learned of a neighbor that would do anything to keep his lawn green and keep those kids off of it. >> those dirty kids. a georgia man has been arrested for his scare tactics which, believe it or not, included gunfire. abc's john muller has more. >> reporter: two neighbors, the ealys and hammond-schnells, at war. now it's gone too far. anthony put a no trespassing sign on the lawn to keep the neighbors off. when that didn't work, he put up barbed wire. when a football was thrown on to his lot this past week, he fired a gun in the air. he was arrested. neighbors say he was arrested. >> he would have handed the football back. >> reporter: remember "saturday night live" mocking that suburban -- the old neighbor who lays claims to the errant balls? this is the extreme version. neighborhood

mr. rogers, and the ranking member, mr. rukersberger, the republican and democratic leadership of the committee for trying to work together -- >> we're leaving the last couple minutes of this to go back live to the senate agriculture committee, which is marking up the farm bill that would cut subsidies to farmers and replace them with stronger crop insurance. speaking right now, senatklobuc >> number two in spring wheat, corn and spring wheat, three in hogs and soybean and four in corn. i'm going to be in trouble for saying we're number two in corn and i just want to clarify the record that we are number four in corn. i spent the last year traveling across our state to talk about this farm bill and how important it is to our state. no matter what i go i'm reminded of the important role that agriculture plays in our state's economy. you could say that agriculture is the ultimate made in minnesota industry, but it is also made in michigan. it's made in kansas. it's made in iowa. this is really about our country. i mean, when

mr. rogers? >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you and your ranking member for doing great work over here. you're doing good. mr. secretary, happy birthday. happy anniversary. welcome. this week the national average price for a gallon of gas is $3.60. it's up 20 cents over last month. 40 cents more than this time last year. the increasingly unstable middle east, belligerent iran threatens to shut down the strait and limit exports. china's rapidly growing economy is driving up oil prices through increases demand. while a state owned enterprises are securing commodity contracts around the world. monopolizing new foreign sources. once again, energy security key to economic prosperity and national defense is the focus of public debate. the congress has said a very strong message that we must have balance in the expansion of conventional fuels. coal, natural gas, oil, nuclear to provide energy today with investment and to renewable energy to power our future. and while the president has repeatedly mentioned his support for a simi

mr. rogers neighborhood. anita is far too young to remember. that he was visiting mr. mcfeely. the only problem is the kids were not feeling big mr. purple. so we thought we'd have some fun and have our viewers caption this photo. >> mandy says, i thought you meant santa, not panda. and our favorite comes from jonathan, when animals attack. -- when stuffed animals attack. >> my nephew's second birthday, my brother dressed up as big bird, all the kids cried except my nephew. >> there you go. >> all right, 56 today. felt like march. it's going to sort of feel like late march tomorrow. we're back to average weather by friday. let's have a live look outside with the live weather cam brought to you by michael & son. it we are looking at winds to continue all night. that will keep us from having a frost or freeze. here's the deism breezy and cool on thursday so still a little bit below average but not the biting winds we had today, nor are we going to have any snow flurries. grab a jacket and shades. please give a jacket to the kids at the bus stop. cold thursday night. in fact, with

mr. rogers was talking about, 50% of our electricity is produced by coal, 20% by nuclear power. when i look at your budget, i look at huge increases in the renewalable energy which is very small part of the electrical portfolio. and cuts in the other area producing electricity. i'm frankly disappointed where we're seeing reductions is in small modular reactors. this was the new ground we were going to and head down that road. we're seeing reductions in that arena and other things. seems to me like there's an agenda of trying to push green technology when nuclear energy is green technology, it doesn't put hydrocarbons in the air. if you're really going to address global climate change and hydrocarbons, you had better adopt nuclear energy. it doesn't seem like we're doing that in this budget. this is the first time i've seen a retrenchment in this administration in advancing nuclear energy. the talk is all there, but the budget doesn't reflect it. >> well, i think you know very well my support of nuclear energy and my support of clean coal. so we're trying to push what we can wher

mr. rogers? >> thank you, chairman. >> coal provides 50% of the nation's energy electricity today. if we went completely at 100 miles an hour developing other sources, you're still going to need coal and for the foreseeable future. it is an abundant resource that we have that we're called the saudi arabia of coal. it's inexpensive, relatively speaking. on the world market for energy. and, yet, it seems this administration is intent on completely shutting off the use of coal and the mining of coal for the purpose of generating electricity. epa is issuing regulations almost every day. on the mercury and air toxic standards that ruled the issue, there's no way any -- there's no technology capable of meeting those standards. and so consequently, there can be no new coal plants because of that rule among others. at the same time, epa is demanding new technologies for compliance with their regulations. you are cutting the research that would develop those technologies. that seems to me to be incomprehensible. we have two agencies of the government at cross purposes. the fossil energy res

mr. rogers? that's mr. mcfeelly. >> we know him. >> here comespanda. listen. >> oh, where are the kids going? where are they going? they're leaving. >> they're crying. they're screaming and crying because of the purple panda. mr. mcfeelly standing -- oh, no, no. never trust a purple panda, friends. if i could teach you one thing today, 23 is when your skirts get shorter and never trust a purple panda and have just the right amount of bananas before bedtime. >> tell us about the all in the family for one father/son pizza team. >> came at number two today for the most trending videos on our website. check this out. here's the dad. that's pretty good. then he tosses the dough to his son. this is a 7-year-old. you want to talk about skilling, wait for the punching move that's coming here in just one second. right there. boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. i was going to bring a pizza dough today but i couldn't find enough for the three of us. isn't that pretty incredible? bam, back to the dad. >> they've got an act going. >> as germaphobes, do you think they bot

mr. rogers introducing the purple panda to students in preschool. watch this. [crying] >> aww!se costume, they get upset. this is a regular guy. here's what is funny about it, they're not pleased with him, obviously. all of them together, poor mr. mcfeely is reduced to saying, it's just a guy in a costume. which you never do. >> i think it's because it was purple, tony. >> maybe. >> it's not normal. it's weird. >> about a million hits now. >> temperatures rising into the 80s over the weekend. beautiful day today. enjoy it. >> robert randolph and the family band performing tonight at the howard theater. 11:30show time. there are still tickets available. the most recent album is live in concert, robert thank you for coming

mr. kilmeade? tell us about roger clemens. >> let's go to court. the perjury retrial for pitching great roger clemens set to resume in a few hours. this could land him in prison.

mr. roger's neighborhood came to their classes for a visit. >> the children were laughing, excited. happened. >> there he is, look, there's a panda. [ kids crying ] >> stay right here. [crying] >> interesting. the kids stand up, start crying, screaming, getting away from him. this video has more than 700,000 views. >> couldn't have been a worse reaction. poor guy, just a guy in a suit. [ laughter ] >> sad. >> very funny. >> that's interesting that all of them would feel the same way. >> all immediately get up. >> do you know why? a panda is not supposed to be purple. tony chose that. >>> the area's top designers are showcasing their talent to raise money for children in need. >> our holly morris is live at the d.c. house with more details. >> reporter: good morning. the design house is in its fifth year now and it's full of wonderful ideas. welcome to the kitchen. one of the rooms that has been done. they have new ideas like, let's see, led lights here, and space saving gadgets such as these. we've only just begun to show off the things that you too can incorporate into your home. w

mr. rogers: thank you, mr. chairman -- mrs. mcmorris rodgers: thank you, mr. chairman. small businesses are the foundation of our economy. it's small businesses that drive job creation in america. and every time i'm home in eastern washington, it is such a privilege to sit down with small business owners. i'm always inspired by these people who have an idea to improve our lives and they turned it into a reality. one such business that i recently toured was called made naturally. two stay-at-home moms who had an idea to come up with natural cleaning products two years ago. they put together a business plan and they have now executed it, hired 13 employees, and they are doing well in spokane, washington. and when i toured their business, what they told me was that it is the tax burden and the regulatory uncertainty that is preventing them from hiring any new employees right now. and just like these two business owners in spo can, washington, there are many -- spokane, washington, there are many and -- men and women all across this country who face the same challenges when

mr. starr and ann marie rogers from the very beginning of this process and supervisor wiener for taking leadership and his staff, mr. powers, who was able to process a lot of the concerns and amend this legislation to address the concerns that were raised in the past couple of weeks among the many members -- i believe it was telegraph hill association and a couple of other individuals. we may see some trailing legislation. i received a call for members of the upper fell more, so we will be discussing that with a supervisor farrell. policy does not happen in a vacuum. certainly it did not in this case. it was a response, in response to actual hardships endured by small business entrepreneurs and i think san francisco sees i think san francisco sees itself as a city that values

mr. rogers, and the ranking member, mr. ruppersberger, the republican and democratic leadership of the committee, for trying to work together to put together a bill that could gain bipartisan support. clearly it does not go far enough. i wish that the rules committee would have allowed, which it can, an amendment on the critical infrastructure. that would have made a big difference. they chose not to in keeping with the republican leadership stripping of the critical infrastructure out of the bill. that really is harmful to our national security. i'm looking at the -- talk to mr. ruppersberger again, he gave me his take on the amendment this morning. i want to see what they are, listening to both sides. it's very difficult, but i do salute him for doing his best to try to get the best possible bill with privacy protection that is are so important to our country while we have our responsibility to protect and defend, thank you very much. good morning. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyrigh

mr. rogers neighborhood could not calm them down. pandas are a little scary.k and white. a purple panda will freak kids out. >> that's a forboding figure. if that panda shows up at your house -- >> as a panda handler. >> yeah. >> the purple panda! >> all right. it is 7:11 right now timewise in new york city and in newark, new jersey as well, politician by day, superhero by night, newark mayor cory booker ran into a raging house fire to save his neighbor lady's life last night. reporter robert moses is outside of that house in newark, new jersey. robert, good morning. tell us the story. >> steve, this is a great story. good morning to you. and good morning, everyone. yes, newark mayor cory booker had just gotten home when he saw this building just behind me on fire. the building happens to be right next to his own home. the fire department had not even gotten here. we saw mayor booker leaving his home early this morning and got into a waiting s.u.v. unfortunately, he did not speak to us reporters waiting at the bottom of his driveway but with good reason. a lon

mr. rogers? chairman murray and ranking member richard burr, thank you senator brown for those wonderful and kind words, distinguished members of the senate and subcommittee on veteran affairs, it's my honor to present this testimony on behalf of the asheville buncombe community christian ministry. familiarly known around asheville as abc cm but also to be here on behalf of the national coalition of homeless veterans and don driscoll, who is not only a strong leader for all of us, providing services but as one who i am happy to call my friend. all of us providing services to veterans are committed to the five-year plan, to and homelessness for all of our veterans. abc cm serves both men and women veterans. we have about 200 men. we have about a dozen women veterans and separate facilities, but last year, in 2011, abc cm and the homelessness for 300 to veterans through our jobs program with the veterans workforce investment program, which averages $14 an hour at and at about a cost of $1100 per pl

bottom of the sixth and roger doesn't want that going into mr. wrigley's ivy., and it was 2-1. castro finding the gap. the run scores. the gubs win 4-3. orioles looking to two in a row. jones scores, hammel had a no-hitter and the orioles and they win 3-1. thomas robinson will enter the nba draft and will skip his senior year and will make the official announcement tomorrow. tiger finished -- tied for his worst finish ever at the masters, 5 over first time in 17 years. >> he won the honda in orlando but did not play well at the masters. >> it's a head game. >> still to come it's a >> it is a tradition for the cherry blossom festival. hundreds gathered to watch the lighting of the japanese stone lantern. it was carved 360 years ago. japan gave it back in 1954 and lit once a year to symbolize the friendship between the u.s. and japan. >> if you didn't spend the holiday weekend outside you may have gone to the movies. "the hunger games." the film earned more than $33 million. it raises the total to more than $300 million. "american reunion" finished second and "ti

depose andy told me he had had a conversation with roger clemens in which roger admitted to him using human growth hormones." mr. clemens, once again, i remind you, you're under oath. you have said your conversation with mr. pettitte never happened. if that was true, why would laura pettitte remember andy telling her about the conversation? >> once again, mr. congressman, i think he misremembers the conversation that we had. andy and i's relationship was close enough to know that if i would have known that he was -- had done hgh, which i now know, if he was knowingly knowing that i had taken hgh, we would have talked about the subject. he'd have come to me to ask me about the effects of it. >> watch his 2008 testimony online at the c-span video library. with over a quarter century of american politics and public affairs on your computer. >>> earlier today, house speaker john boehner called mismanagement at the general services administration outrageous and called for accountability. that government agency spent $823,000 on a 2010 conference held in las vegas. the speaker also talked about the extension of the h

mr. wallace's family. rogeryou mentioned, he was so confrontational yet at the same time, he became friends with some of the very people he would grill. i am thinking of this great friendship with nancy reagan, among others, that to some would be surprising. what was his ability to transcend the television news journalist role to become friendly with some of the people that he dealt with? >> well, i'll tell you a secret. many, many years ago, richard nixon said to me that that guy wallace is okay. i thought, gee, that's odd coming from him. i wonder what that's about. it turns out that once pat nixon, who was very shy and retiring and didn't like to be around the press, got trapped in an outgoor spot against a fence in a pack of journalists who were shouting questions at her and everything else. and she obviously was quite uncomfortable. apparently, mike walked through the crowd of journalist, took her by the elbow and took her out, got her out of there. and the family saw that on television. so they never reall

or 2000, andy told me he had had a conversation with roger clemens in which roger admitted to him using human growth hormones. mr. clemens, once again, i remind you, you're under oath. you have said your conversation with mr. pettit never happened. if was was true, why would lauren pettitte remind her of telling her about the conversation? >> i think he misremembers the conversation we had. andy and mine relationship was close enough to know, if i would have known he done hgh, which i now know, he was knowingly knowing that i had taken hgh we would have talked about the subject. he's have come to me to ask about the effects of it. >> watch his 2008 testimony online at the c-span video library. with over a quarter century of american politics and public affairs on your computer. >>> this weekend on book tv on c-span2, live coverage from the "los angeles times" coverage of books. starts saturday and sunday. saturday, 3:30 p.m. authors farrell, newton and reeves. and at 7:30, call in with your questions for steven ross, author of "hollywood left and right" how movie stars shaped american politics. sunday at 2:00, "

or 2000, andy told me he had had a conversation with roger clemens in which roger admitted to him using human growth hormones. mr. clemens, i again remind you you're under oath. you have said your conversation with mr. petit never happened. if that was true, why would laura petit remember andy telling her about the conversation? >> once again, i think he misremembers the conversation that we had. andy and i's relationship was close enough to know that if i would have known that he was -- he had done hgh, which i now know, if he was knowingly knowing i had taken hgh, we would've talked about the subject. he would've come to me to ask me about the effects of it. >> watch his 2008 testimony online at the c-span video library. with over over 1/4 century of american politics and public affairs on your computer. >>> next, a conversation on ways to reduce u.s. dependence on foreign oil. we'll hear from the president and ceo at fedex, fred smith, plus a number of retired military officials hosted by the hudson institute. this is about 90 minutes. >> well, good afternoon and welcome. i'm ken weinstein, on behalf of hudso

1999 and 2000 andy told me he had a conversation with roger clemens in which roger admitted to him using human growth hormones. mr. clemens, once again i remind you you're under oath. you have said your conversation with mr. pettitte never happened. ifh@t was true, why would laura pettitte remember andy telling her about the conversation? >> once again, mr. congressman, i think he misremembers. andy's and i's relationship was close enough to know if i had known he had done hgh, which i -- if he was knowingly knowing that i had taken hgh, we would have talked about the subject. he would have come to me to ask about the effects of it. >> watch his 2008 testimony online at the c-span video library. with over a quarter century of american politics and public affairs on your computer. >>> the house subcommittee in march held hearing examining prescription drug abuse and diversion. the white house's drug control policy director testified first, providing an update on the administration's prescription drug abuse prevention plan released in 2011. according to the centers for disease control and prevention, approximately

or 2000, andy told me he had had a conversation with roger clemens in which roger admitted to him using human growth hormones. mr. clemens, once again, i remind you you're under oath. you have said your conversation with mr. petit never happened. if that was true, why would laura petit remember him telling her about the conversation? >> once again, i think he misremembers it. andy and i's relationship was close enough to know that if i had known that he had done hgh, if he was knowingly knowing that i had taken hdh, we would have talked about the subject. he would have come to me to ask about the effects of it. >> watch his 2008 testimony on line at the cspan library. over 2,000 public affairs on your computer. >>> nina olson is the irs national taxpayer advocate. thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> taxes are due tomorrow at midnight. >> yes. >> what is the biggest problem with the american tax code? >> oh, dear. its complexity. i think that's what presents the most difficulty for taxpayers is really trying to figure out whether they've got the right answer or not on their income tax returns, and the comp

or 2000 andy told me he had had a conversation with roger clemens in which roger admitted to him using human growth hormone. mr. clemens, once again, i remind you, you are under oath. you have said your conversation with mr. pettitte never happened. if that were true, why would laura pettitte remember andy telling her about the conversation? >> once again, i think he misremembers -- our relationship was close enough to know if i had known he had done agh -- if he was knowingly knowing that i had taken hgh, we would have talked about the subject. he'd have is come to me to ask me about the effects of it. >> watch his 2008 testimony online at the c-span video library. with over a quarter century of american politics and public affairs on your computer. >>> at a security forum in washington last week, military analyst anthony cordesman criticized policy in afghanistan. the former adviser said afghan forces were not ready to take over as the u.s. preps to withdraw in 2014 and he questioned the credibility of the afghan government. he was joined by the former u.s. ambassador to afghanistan at this event hosted by t