mr. rogers' funds, and mr. gers apparently was not happy about that and had his power of attorney withdrawn to put a stop to sharon zachary helping herself to his money. >> sharon also found out that rogers planned to remove her from his will. >> i believe sharon zachary was in a hurry at that time to kill mr. rogers before he could make that change in his will. i believe greed is definitely what drove sharon zachary. >> the dna test results of the blood found on the metal pipe revealed the blood was robert rogers', more proof that it was the murder weapon. 31-year-old sharon zachary was charged with the murder of robert rogers. >> mr. rogers at one point in time even told an attorney that she was the daughter he never had. >> it is ironic that robert rogers, attempting to seek sanctuary for himself, to seek protection from persons who wanted to rob and hurt him, trusted sharon zachary. and it's ironic that this person, in turn, turned on him and became the very thing that he was trying to guard against. ñ >>> i

mr. rogers: if the gentleman will yield? mr. salmon: yes, sir. mr. rogers: i'm focusing on the money part of it. if we don't change the law, you're saying we can expect to pay another few billions of dollars a year -- mr. salmon: just to care for those people. mr. rogers: to care for those people coming across? mr. salmon: yes. i don't understand how any conservative in good conscience would not stop that hemorrhage and make sure we're not spending those billions of dollars to pay down our debt. mr. rogers: not only conservatives but everybody would like those kinds of savings. mr. salmon: i would do. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentlewoman from new york is recognized. mrs. lowey: madam speaker, i'd just like to say to the distinguished chairman, i would have liked to hear from these experts at hearings. unfortunately, the majority has not had hearings and we're bringing this bill to the floor without any hearing, without any witnesses, without any information. and i'm pleased to yield to the distinguished speaker on

mr. rogers: mr. speaker, pursuant to h.res. 696, i call up the bill h.r. 5230, making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2014, and for other purposes. and ask for its immediate consideration. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 5230, a bill making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2014, and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to house resolution 696, the gentleman from kentucky, mr. rogers, and the the gentlewoman from new york, mrs. lowey, each will control 30 minutes. the chair recognizes the the eman from kentucky, -- house will be in order. please take your conversations off the floor. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized for 30 minutes. mr. rogers: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and includeheir remarks and extraneous material on h.r. 5230. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman will suspend.

mr. rogers: madam speaker, i yield two minutes to the gentleman from texas, mr. cuellar. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for two minutes. mr. cuellar: thank you, madam speaker. i support full comprehensive immigration reform, but today's vote on this supplemental appropriation bill is to provide funding to i.c.e., border patrol, and other agencies to deal with the humanitarian crisis on the border, an area i represent, an area where i live, an area where 42,000 out of the 58,000 unaccompanied kids have crossed. the policy change in this bill is to get rid of a loophole in the 2008 law that the smugglers in central america and mexico have taken advantage of. all due process and legal protections are left intact under this proposed bill. you will see under a c.r.s. report that compares the current law to today's bill, you will see the same due process, the same legal protections are left intact. in fact, i respectfully ask my colleagues in opposition to show me specifically where there's due process and legal protection is taken away out of t

mr. rogers. the card began on in the newsroom, little slippers and stuff. i love mr. ut it's like a balmy 78 in the newsroom. >> 50s in july in the morning, a little chilly. (laughter). >> colleen, help us out. >> i don't know what to say here, guys. mr. rogers i really like that. >> it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood. >> you can't ask ally. not for the phillies though. >> not at all. they returned from the break but it doesn't appear much has changed at all. plus, the british open and tiger woods didn't make for a good day two. we'll show was went wrong coming ♪ >> the fell lease are back to mack you more frustrated than you were the first half of the season. in at land to tonight facing the braves the team released it's struggling second baseman dan uggla earlier today. the phillies they were up one to nothing in the second. cameron singles up the middle to school marlon byrd that gives the phils a two nothing lead which the braves laugh at the rest of the game. bottom of the second the braves see them two and raise them four starting with jason hayward the sol

mr. rogers claimed self-defense and was acquitted. amazing. >> after he was acquitted rogers got a nursing degree and eventually moved to new york. at the time of the last call murders, rogers had been working as is surgical assistant at mt. sinai hospital in new york. that's where police arrested him. >> he was gay, didn't seem to have any long-term relationships. in your wildest dreams you would not look at richard rogers and say this guy is a serial killer. >> we learned during the time of these murders, richard rogers had been off duty. >> lisa hall chose him in a lineup as the man she saw with mike sakara at the bar on the night sakara was murdered. >> i'm just so glad they got him before he could murder any other people. >> rogers lived in staten island, just blocks from the stores where the garbage bags and latex gloves were purchased. >> detectives searched richard rogers' apartment and they found an array of videotapes, "hush hush sweet charlotte," "texas chainsaw massacre." he had a bible in which there were earmarked passage

mr. rogers, and ranking member lowey to bringing this bill to the floor. their efforts to bring the appropriations process back to regular order ensure that our federal discretionary spending receives the full scrutiny of this body and our committee process. i'd also like to thank ranking member kaptur for all of her work, her contributions to make this legislation stronger. the bill before you totals $34.01 billion for activities for the department of energy, army corps of engineers, bureau of reclamation and other agencies under our jurisdiction. this is a $50 million reduction from last year's funding levels. the bill prioritizes investments in this nation's infrastructure and national defense. as we do each year, we worked hard to incorporate priorities and perspectives from both sides of the aisle. for instance, this bill overcomes the budget request proposed cut of nearly $1 is billion to the critical programs of the army corps of engineers. the request would have led to economic disruptions at our ports and waterways as our ports and waterways fille

mr. roger's neighborhood and take everyone through the factory., it will be wonderful to at least control part of the manufacturing at home in venice, and outsource mexico. >> gabby good to talk to you. us. >> thank you so much. >>> all right. very bad luck in atlantic city as casinos give up the game and leave new jersey. plus the sky high cost of cleaning up space junk, why it has to be done, and how the heck you do it. stick around. we'll be right back. ♪ >> saturday >> prop 8, really made us think about this process of coming out. >> meet the committed couples >> gay marriages, straight marriages... have the same challenges. >> it's all about having the same options as everybody else. >> that fought for equality >> saying "i do" changed everything. >>every saturday, join us for exclusive, revealing and surprising talks with the most interesting people of our time. "talk to al jazeera" saturday 5 eastern only on al jazeera america @ th. >> al jazeera america. >>> atlantic city has been on a losing streak over the last couple of years, and the o

mr. roger's neighborhood and take everyone through the factory., it will be wonderful to at least control part of the manufacturing at home in venice, and outsource some of the production to mexico. >> gabby good to talk to you. thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you so much. >>> all right. very bad luck in atlantic city as casinos give up the game and leave new jersey. plus the sky high cost of cleaning up space junk, why it has to be done, and how the heck you do it. stick around. we'll be right back. ♪ >> if you want free press in the new democracy, let the journalists live. >>> atlantic city has been on a losing streak over the last couple of years, and the odds don't look like they are changing any time soon. the trump plaza hotel and casino, plans to shut its doors for good in september. it is now the fourth casino to close or threaten to close its doors since 2013. and the purge may not be over yet. joining me is a reporter with the philadelphia inquirer. thank you for joining us. what is going on in atlanta city? >> what is goin

mr. rogers and his staff, i do want to submit a letter for the record from the governor of texas dated july 3 in support of my amendment and with that, madam speaker, i would at this point in time ask unanimous consent to withdraw the barton-green amendment. the chair: without objection, the amendment is withdrawn. mr. barton: thank you. the chair: and the gentleman's request is covered by general leave. for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? mr. engel: i have an amendment at the desk. the clerk: amendment offered by mr. engel of new york. at the end of the bill before the short title insert the following, section, none of the funds made available by this act may be used to lease or purchase new light-duty vehicles for any executive fleet or for any agency's fleet inventory except in accordance with presidential memorandum, federal fleet performance, dated may 24, 2011. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 641, the gentleman from new york and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from new york. mr. engel: thank yo

mr. rogers. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. rogers: thank you, mr. speaker. and thank you, mr. chairman. i rise in strong opposition to the amendment offered by the gentleman from illinois. as chairman of the strategic forces subcommittee, i'm deeply familiar with our nuclear forces. in this case we are talking about the long range -- talking about the long range standoff weapon which is the replacement for the existing air launch cruise missile. the fleet of existing outcomes are old and their reliability is declining. we have heard directly from the u.s. strategic command that they are well passed their service life and have military effectiveness concerns. projected adversary defense improvements will effect its effectiveness even more and this is a weapons system we're planning to sustain until 2030. we need to start development of the nuclear war head for this the next year, to meet 030 deployment date. i have a letter from the undersecretary of defense for acquisitions, technology and logistics stating, quote, the department of defense has established a

mr. rogers, bring the supplemental, whatever that upplemental may entail so we -- the resources to deal with the crisis and not to try to also deal with the legislative issue which i think is a substantive issue. as you point out, on both sides of the aisle people have raised this issue, but there is no doubt that will slow down considerably the passing of a supplemental for the emergency money that's necessary today. so i would hope that he would keep that in mind and would hopefully urge his party, his committee, the appropriations committee to report out a clean bill at whatever levels they believe is appropriate for whatever objectives they believe are appropriate and let us deal with the resources now and the policy in a more considered way after hearings. if he wants -- if you have nothing -- i'll be glad if you want to respond. mr. t, lastly, mr. leader, speaker, we talked about a make it in america agenda. as the gentleman knows, there are some 70 bills that we have suggested as part of that agenda. we believe this house needs to focus on jobs and still the main concern of the americ

i now call upon the distinguished senator from mississippi, mr. roger wicker. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i think you've made a number of very important and valid points. i also want to thank the witnesses for being here. as you said, mr. chairman, it may be difficult for them to share their experiences but it's important that they do so and i appreciate their courage in coming forward and being able to share with us today on some information we need. the chair has built this hearing as a forum to discuss his bill, the cruise ship passenger protection act, s-1340. we need to protect passengers from crime. we need to ensure access to medical care while on the high seas. these are important and worthy issues. i would say that i think it would be best if we consider the legislation as a stand-alone bill and not in connection with the coast guard authorization act. i don't know what the chair's approach to this is going to be. but i do not believe the reauthorization act is the appropriate vehicle for a cruise passenger protection bill. in my judgment, we ought to consider cruise sh

i now call upon the distinguished senator from mississippi, mr. roger wicker. >> thank you, mr.hairman. i think you've made a number of valid points. i thank the witnesses for being here. as you said, mr. chairman, it may be difficult for them to share their experiences but it's important that they do so and i appreciate their courage in coming forward and being able to share with us today on some information we need. the chair has built this hearing as a form to discuss his bill, the cruise ship passenger protection act, s-1340. we need to protect customers from a crime. we need to ensure access to medical care while on the high seas. these are important and worthy issues. i would say that i think it would be best if we consider the legislation as a standalone bill and not in connection with the coast guard authorization act. i don't know what the chair's approach to this is going to be. but i do not believe the reauthorization act is the appropriate vehicle for a cruise passenger protection bill. in my judgment, we ought to consider cruise ship passenger legislation separately

mr. rogers: i yield one minute to our distinguished colleague from ohio. ms. kaptur: i rise to oppose the gentleman's amendment. i find it extremely shortsided because in this program we have built 15 advance vehicles. wind farms in the world, first nuclear power plant in the country, largest vol tayic generation facility, and i can tell you that this isn't -- this is new technology. this is like nasa at the beginning where we have private sector money involved and public sector. there will be some errors made and the chinese undercut the market. i have seen it happen. i'm have the solar valley of ohio. i saw what the chinese have done. we have the best in the country in terms of volume and that was largely privately funded but in vol ginning it had photo tayic industries. and this isn't the same as going out for a car loan. when you have china that buys technology from under you in start-up companies. i would say they have done a commendable job in embracing the future and i think the gentleman's amendment is not constructive. and i thank the gentleman for yi

mr. rogers is recognized. >> thank you. mr. johnson, when you took office, do you believe we had control of our border, our southern border? >> i recognized when i took office we had some real issues in the rio grande valley sector, in particular, with those coming from guatemala, el salvador and honduras. >> any areas of the border we had a fence we had children coming across? >> if you're referring to -- >> for example, southern part of california. >> this has not been a big phenomenon in southern california or arizona. >> any place we had a fence, have we had 5-year-old children coming across the border? >> not in very large numbers. it's got a lot to do with the fact south texas is so closely located to central america, too. that's the migration path. >> the rio grande valley, if we had the same fencing we have along the southern border of california, do you believe these children would be coming across the border in numbers they are coming across or anything close to it? >> it's hard to answer because you are talking about

mr. rogers is working with $1.5 billion in emergency funding. that's clearly less than what the president has asked for. we haven't heard a specific administration on that proposal since it was just made public today. the senate democrats are also pushing a smaller package as well. they've $2.7 billion to deal with the border crisis too. it's a question of if it can be reconciles before they go to recess. >> might be see a compromise prior to the august break. >> it's really difficult to see that right now. we're working with the simple factor of time. the august recess not that far away. we have a couple of days this week and next week and then they are out for the month of august. they are not back until about september 8th, i believe. on the policy measures, republicans ontown are aye insisting on the 2008 law for the children who make the very dangerous journey through mexico to try to come to the united states. democrats are raising serious humanitarian issues it's hard to >>> the finance committee will come to order. the u.s. tax code is i

mr. rogerwhat it will cost, i think we're open to suggestion. >> i do want to break down this figure, this $3.7 billion. because the largest goes to hhs for housing and taking care of the children. the rest goes to things like prosecutions, hiring attorneys to deal with the backlog, repatriating immigrants back to their home countries. are there other needs that you can see being lost in this mass imappropriations request, things you would want to see added? >> what i would like to see is a comprehensive immigration reform. the need for this stop gap measure is really precipitated by the fact that we haven't dealt with immigration reform. so i think the elements that the president has proposed makes sense for this particular crisis. but until we take a look at the biggest picture, deal with border security, deal with the broken visa system, deal with this question of how we deal with -- how we address asylum seekers, provide more resources for immigration courts, so that we can process cases in

mr. rogers: with the 12% reduction proposed by the bill before us today, naval reactors will have taken over $600 million in cuts over five years. the letter from the admiral is clear, quote, the persistent cuts have put naval reactors in the position of being unable to provide for a safe and reliable nuclear fleet, to design and test the nuclear reactor plant for the ohio replacement program, and to safely and responsibly manage the aging infrastructure and facilities while processing spent nuclear fuel. this approach is no longer sustainable, close quote. the naval reactors is a critical defense priority contained in this much larger appropriations bill. i share the admiral's concern that if sustained these reductions will endanger the national security and the naval reactor's unparalleled 60 tsh year record of safe and reliable nuclear operations. i urge the gentleman from idaho to review these deductions and impacts as the bill progresses and restore the funding to the budget request level. i and my colleagues on the armed services committee stand ready to support these efforts. mr. simp

mr. rogers over here. >> yeah, that's right. i'm not going to wear a sweater. the big tech story of the morning. dominating business, josh lipton sat down with the ceos of both companies. he joins us from our silicone valley bureau. he's not even wearing a tie. anyway, josh, how was that? was there a lot of rapport? >> well, joe, as you mentioned earlier, becoming friends, apple and ibm used to be great competitors. now they're allies. apple and ibm announcing a partnership to create new business apps. bring ibm's data analytics to apple's tablets. it is a shot across the bow in the corporate market that could have a big impact on other players such as blackberry. i did speak with apple's ceo tim cook and ibm's jenny remetti. and he's clearly excited to have an impact in the commercial market as it does in the consumer market. >> we started investing back in '02 in the enterprise features. through that period of time, from where we are today, we're in over 90% of the fortune 500. but the reality is that the penetration in these businesses and in commercial in g

knowledgeable members of the house of representatives the chairman of the house intelligence committee mike rogers. mrchairman let's go back to israel for a minute. hamas continues to fire the rockets. they poured all this concrete as you heard prime minister benjamin netanyahu talk about, where are they getting this stuff? >> it is an interesting combination. and there is an interesting development on this front. iran is publicly in their own newspapers touting the fact that they are helping militarize hamas in the gaza strip and now the qat tarrees are saying we want to pull iran away and want to support which is a dangerous combination for israel. you have the two-front combination, the qat qatarrees are engaged. and so that money and they pilfer money that is coming in for legitimate purposes to divert to tunnels. the hundreds of millions of dollars they have had over a decade 20% of the people in gaza strip are not connected to a water source. 90% of the water does not meet international standards but they have got the israelis closed 35 tunnels. they are diverting legitimate money and you have i

mr. rogers. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. rogers: i thank the gentleman for yielding. mr. chairman, i urge members to support this bill. this is a good bill. to ovides $21.3 billion fund many, many important programs and services that help our government function and our economy grow. for example, the bill includes $862 million for the small business administration. to assist our small businesses. and we all know those small businesses are the backbone of our economy. to help them prosper. it also includes $6.7 billion for our federal courts, to ensure the faithful execution of our laws and the timely processing of federal cases. but the bill also demonstrates a commitment to keeping poor-performing or miss behaving agencies and program -- misbehaving agencies and programs in check. it cuts funding for the i.r.s., as the chairman has said, by $341 million from last year. nearly 12% below the president's question. -- request. this funding level will allow the agency to perform its core duty you but -- duties but will require i.r.s. management to streamline and make the very

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mr. klein roger green on process for selecting hillary as secretary of state a concession and an examplef keeping her enemies closer? >> guest: yes, it was. that's exactly correct. the appointment of hillary clinton as secretary of state was opposed by valerie jarrett and michelle obama on the grounds that it would bring the clintons into the white house and complicate obama's ability to get his policies through. but in fact in obama's point of view and the point of view of his political and other political advisers bringing hillary and in a way forced bill clinton to silence, to not be an active opponent of the obama so for instance bill clinton literally signed an agreement with the obama administration that if hillary were appointed as secretary of state he would not make any speeches in foreign countries for which by the way he used to get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars we know now or say anything in major policy speeches that was not first vetted and cleared by the white house. so i bringing hillary and as this twitter person said, he kept his enemies close and kept them quie

mr. rogers, bring the supplemental, whatever that upplemental may entail so we -- the resources to deal with the crisis and not to try to also deal with the legislative issue which i think is a substantive issue. as you point out, on both sides of the aisle people have raised this issue, but there is no doubt that will slow down considerably the passing of a supplemental for the emergency money that's necessary today. so i would hope that he would keep that in mind and would hopefully urge his party, his committee, the appropriations committee to report out a clean bill at whatever levels they believe is appropriate for whatever objectives they believe are appropriate and let us deal with the resources now and the policy in a more considered way after hearings. if he wants -- if you have nothing -- i'll be glad if you want to respond. mr. t, lastly, mr. leader, speaker, we talked about a make it in america agenda. as the gentleman knows, there are some 70 bills that we have suggested as part of that agenda. we believe this house needs to focus on jobs and still the main concern of the americ

joining us now, the chairman of the house intelligence committee, mike rogers. mr.d as hamas is out could be worse? >> candidly, i don't understand the context of that. think about what they're doing. they're been militarizing the gaza strip for more than a decade, gaining advanced missile systems internally and external and they're firing these at civilian populations. it's hard to argue that you can get worse than that. thankfully the iron dome has been effective and i think the counter defense with that with the israelis have been effective. you can't go into this saying we're going to allow one to freely operate because there might be another one that's worse. that's a loser from the start. what they need to do is demilitarize the gaza strip. part of that means that you have to deal a decisive blow to hamas and its military wing. pure and simple. palestinian authority can fill in. other organizations could fill in. but when you don't go too far in destroying a terrorist organization, boy, that really concerns me that maybe they don't fully understand the sophist

let's talk about this with republican congressman mike rogers of michigan. mr.n, thanks very much for joining us. you know, i've done some research. there may have been a case where a nato ally expelled a cia station chief. i don't remember a time when they publicly made that kind of announcement. how big of a deal is this? >> it's a huge deal. and for those of us who value the german-american relationship, i'm very very, very concerned. but they sure seem to be spending a lot of time, wolf, worrying about what the american intelligence services are doing and their parliament is not necessarily worrying about what the german intelligence services are doing. so again, i think this is -- these are important countries with important economies both the u.s. and germany and the rest of the g-7 plus one, if you will economies,ing and it just doesn't seem like a very adult reaction to be expel the cia chief from germany. and it's concerning and it's a political temper tantrum like i've never seen before that i think is not productive, it is jeopardizing both intelligen

roger. the one time in my interview with mr. armstrong when i got goosebumps was when he said -- these guys did not mind that they are putting their lives on the line. to die on the ground was the worst thing for them. he gets more and more notice, neil armstrong because of his cool head and his grace under pressure. he knows how to inject himself properly and land by parachute. by all reports, he is calm on all things. as calm as can be. he gets picked because he is not in the navy. here it is, 1967-1968. after the tet offensive, johnson gets his administration destroyed. nixon wanted to have a civilian in space. he did not want to militarize it. there are debates what to put on the moon. some wanted a united nations flag. neil armstrong did not make that decision and i once interviewed hugo chavez. he said, neil armstrong never went to the moon. he was a real nut, hugo chavez. it got wrinkled up. it looks like it is blowing. it is stationary and had wrinkles that made it look like the wind was blowing. hugo chavez thought it w

mrs. clinton signed off on the request. on the talking points. congressman roger ares said nothing supported the flawed explanation. >> and the narrative portion of that happen thousands of miles away in washington d.c. and the facts are clear on this and we are hoping for's bipartisan decision. >> a senior democrat said the initial talking points provided by the intelligence community were flawed because of conflicting assessments and not intention to deceive. it was approved by a -- i shouldn't write that again. and it goes to the intelligence committee for declassification. >> thank you very much. >> and wrapping up a conference on the deadly ebola virus. right now it is sweeping through west africa and blamed for 729 deaths. ebola is one of the deadliest diseases. there is no known cure. >> and the centers for disease control said the epidemic in africa is getting worse and the centers for disease control is sending more people over there to get a handle on it. the charity samarit an's purse is working to try to get two people. dr. kent bradley and nurse nancy

in the depression, great depression in the 1930s when ginger rogers and fred astaire danced us through the 1930s. when frank capra gave us "mres to washington." "it happened one night." and the aptly named "wonderful life." the -- that i think was escapism. people went to picture palaces. that's when people couldn't face what was going on. and so -- >> what draws them to the -- >> movie is often an alternative. now they're giving them something that they -- that has at least the veneer of reality. >> well, back to you, ted. james, listen to this. "homeland," "scandal," "house of cards," "the good wife," "the americans" which is about communist agents in this country who are americans or playing them, "newsroom," a pretty high-minded show about journalists. my question is, what is drawing people to d.c. noir, downbeat, and even the music that shows like "house of cards" are so down, ted. >> well, i will actually kind of counter what james said and that is that hollywood continuously produced legal dramas. they produced police procedurals. i think -- medical dramas. >> yes, true. >> i think these political shows kind of broke

mr. speaker. i'm both honored and humbled to welcome my good friend, pastor roger spradlin, as roush guest chaplain this morning. holding a doctrine in ministry and a leader in the southern baptist community, he has served the valley baptist church in bakersfield, california, since 16983. he has a congregation that has grown to 8,000 followers. a family that my wife and son belong to. i have watched pastor roger do many things for our community. i've watched him use his grace, his humility, his ability to bring people together. but the part that inspires me the most is i've watched him in time of need and time of tragic situations in our community, to help us heal. i've watched him officiate and bring joy to a husband and wife being married. watched him lift up those in harm's way. but most importantly, i watched him always bring the grace and inspire others. so with a great deal of joy on a special day today that i'm able to have my friend, an individual that helped change my life be a part of all our lives. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california yields back. the chai

mr. speaker, i want to commend chairman rogers for making good on his commitment to ensure orderly and timely consideration of appropriations bills. i also want to commend chairman camp for examining the tax code and ensuring we can provide tax certainty so many businesses need in order to make investment decisions that benefit us all. i urge support of the rule and the underlying legislation. with that, mr. speaker, i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oklahoma reserves the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from new york rise? ms. slaughter: good afternoon, mr. speaker. i rise, i first want to thank the gentleman from oklahoma, my good friend, mr. cole, for yielding me the customary 30 minutes and i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for such time as she may consume. ms. slaughter: thank you, mr. speaker. we are breaking a record again for the most closed congress ever. the majority has -- they've wasted time, money and energy on legislative proposals designed to dist

rogers and a member of the health subcommittee. vice chairman mark bugess from texas. ms. castor from florida who joins us. marri morgue inn griffin and leonard lance, a committee as well. >> thank you mr. chairman. i have witnessed this today, i think it's very important for us to figure out ways to develop cures more rapidly. we spent an enormous amount of money on research in which the pharmaceutical companies make advantage and are able to produce product that's are life saving. we've got to encourage more development of medicines but we also have to make them affordable. we don't do anybody a favor if we have a drug that cannot be bought or that the health care system cannot pay for. so as we think about new products, new drugs, new therapies, we must evaluate them to see if we're adding more to helping the american people and man kind or whether we're just lowering on new efforts that will cost a lot more but may not add to the therapy that people are so desperate to have. thinking outbox. it's interesting. i've never seen anything like it since the time i've been in congress. i look forward to this group figuring out recommendations, i assume, to the committee so that we can con

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roger england bill. go ahead. good morning. thank you very much. you are an interesting man, mr. sloan.[laughter] i kind of think you are an elitist. if your company, if all the magazine companies had to pay 75% tax and the workers had to pay 85% tax, what would you do as a company in this country? why not ask if we had to pay a 112% tax? the answer is that that is not the situation. is not the situation, there is no point in answering your question. those are numbers that you just made up. strange, but i am interesting and i still know how to count. younot even going to tell where i went to school or give you my credentials, but if you bothered to look up my biography on the internet some time, you will see that i'm not exactly an elitist, i don't exactly come from money or go to fancy schools. host: kent, democratic caller, los angeles. caller: first of all, i would like to congratulate you on your stats over the u.s. companies going abroad. i also agree with you. these companies going abroad, they do it with tax money that we need in this country. say,ther thing, like you , theyord t

rogers -- outrageous suggestion. they would not be supervised. there was never any suggestion that they would be exempt from the rules and your question i would say to mr. barr that i've lived up to my deal? >> intersected and mr. fine with him i made the deal would affirm that so no i don't think you and i would be talking about your bill. i wouldn't have my motive properly implant in suggesting i was not good am i word when there's absolutely no basis for it. as far as the bill is concerned to me the most important piece and one of the things i now worry about which is risk retention in mortgage lending. i really play the single biggest -- and innovation and it wasn't regulated because it was new. you had regulation of mortgage lending pretty good up to the 80s because most mortgages were made by banks and by regulators. even if we don't have qm, the fdic will still regulate the loans that mr. wilson's bank gives and i'm satisfied with that. there's a general need to be feasible but what happened was thanks to money coming in from outside the banking system and the banks were fairly maligned including small banks must the bad stuff happened outside o

mr. boehner, the speaker, spoke loudly with this. >> the president assured the american people the border was secure, but clearly it is not. chairman rogerser, are reviewing the administration's request. i can tell you this, though, we're not giving the president a blank check. this is a problem of the president's own making. he's been president for 5 1/2 years! when is he going to take responsibility for something? >> it's a great question. i get the frustration. but to the president, it's not a problem. this is not a problem. he's okay with it. rick perry during the press conference a couple days ago, he said one of the things i talked to the president about was moving the border patrol closer and he made it sound like the border patrol is 45 miles into texas. well, no wonder everybody winds up getting adjudicated. if you are 45 miles into texas before the border patrol finds you. can't we move these guys up? >> you trying to do this show from central park. >> looking around the other way. >> could we try that? >> i'm dressed appropriately. heather nauert is a stone's throw away from our studio this morning. >> or we can do it from the

mr. carson daily joining us. what is your favorite fast food ever? >> quarter pounder with cheese, no onions. >> roy rogersy for you coming up. >> you're on facebook now? >> i just joined yesterday. >> we are all over these trends. finally. it's going to be something i think. >> starting at 8:30 eastern, i'm going to be answering all your questions on the "today" show facebook page. anything you want to know. i'm brutally honest. waver you want to know about matt's dressing room. forecast. shoes, whatever you need. >> some good questions -- >> you know he has absolutely no seven-second delay, none whatsoever. we're looking forward to that. first, let's bring in natalie. we're down in brazil where players have their heads held high this morning after a tough game against belgium. natalie, good morning, again. >> good morning to you, once again. you said it, matt, lots of pride in this team. a lot of heart break as well. as you can imagine, they come so far to unfortunately have their dreams dashed. it was a real battle with belgium. the u.s. team giving everything they got. the scoring only broke open reall