mr. ryan. ryan madson it's interesting my -- mr. ryan: my district was the fifth fastest developing -- mr. garamendi: excuse me. name those places again. mr. ryan: youngstown and warren, ohio. mr. garamendi: we're talking about what america thinks was yesterday. you're telling me it's the fastest growing? mr. ryan: yeah. the just recent. but in large part a couple different things, there's $1 billion invested into a steel mill but also we have a major auto plant and it was the work of the last congress and the president saying we cannot lose the american auto industry and made investments in the companies like general motors. now we have three shifts selling the chevy cru sdemrmbings all over the world. every employee got a $4,000 bonus a few weeks ago when they're spending in our community. this is what happens when you manufacture products in america. the goal for all of us is to wrestle control from the major multinational corporations who are running this institution and have undue influence over the government. whether it's glob

ryan -- mr. ryan, in my own state we had so many floods i can't even count them and houses get washed away, up and down various rivers. and people don't leave. they might leave temporarily but they always come back and they do rebuild, hence, back to your small business. what is the psychology -- what is the practicality of how we can defend against these things, which we -- even if we can predict them, in other words, even if we can predict them what use is it unless we can abate their effect? which occurs to me that we're not very good at? i'm throwing a bunch of things at you. >> you sure have. [laughter] >> okay. i went into science because baseball wasn't my strength. anyway, thank you for those insights and i think you're absolutely correct. so here's the starting point. the starting point is that we have some very humble objectives. we want to live a little better. we'd like a nice quality of life. you know, we aspire to a good life for our kids and so on but we are trying to do this on a plane

mr. ryan, we welcome you. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman, for the opportunity. there we go. >> thank you, it's done for me. [laughter] >> but this is a nonunion shop. thank you, mr. chairman, for the to present some views on the federal disasters and i'm speaking first of all only for myself and not my employer auburn communications. i served as president of the american meteorological society as well as on two national research council committees which wrote two reports to noaa and the fair weather reports which has advanced quite a bit of the entire enterprise as well as the recent report completing the forecast communicating uncertainty for better decision-making using weather and climate forecast. the short answer, i believe, is most definitely yes, federal investments and disaster preparedness are paying off. and as we had so recently seen -- the united states and as bill mentioned has more severe weather and more weather-related disasters than any other country. an example, 90% of the strong and life-threatening tornadoes in the world occur in the united s

an amendment by mr. ryanfor 3-d design and manufacturing. an amendment by mr. bartlett for aircraft command and control systems. and an amendment by mr. bartlett for corps of engineers capabilities. >> without objection, reading of the amendment will be dispensed with suspect there any discussion on the gentleman's amendment? if not, the question is on adoption of the amendment offered by mr. thornberry. so many as are in favor will say yea. any opposed will say no. the yeas have it. and the amendment is agreed to. gentlemen, mr. thornberry is recognized for the -- for n-block amendment. >> mr. chairman, i ask unanimous consent to call up a final n-block of policy amendments that have been worked and approved by the minority side comprised of following. >> will the clerk please pass out the amendment. >> an amendment by mr. franks to insert additional language in to the directive report requirement regarding planning for electromagnetic pulse events in title ten of the report accompanying hr 1540. an amendmen

well, mr. ryan, a brilliant, young congressman, who has worked on budget issues for many, many years, is the most knowledgeable person probably in america about the details and the financial condition of america -- they attacked him. like he did something wrong. so the democratic senators and the president are spending their time attacking the one person who stood up and produced a budget that can be defended, and he's prepared to defend it anywhere, anytime. he goes to town hall meltings. he goes to town hall meetings. he explain what had his budget s it may not be perfect. but it is a change. it would put on a budget to financial stability. and what has the senate done? complained about his budget. well, it's time this senate produces a budget. let me say this: 743 days today have passed since the senate has passed a busmgh . now, let me ask you, if you took a poll of the american people, how many of the american people would say, the senate shouldn't pass a budget? we've got a whole act that requ

because none of us have a vote in congress i think mr. ryan is coming up the unless you're in congress unless you work in the white house, or the treasury department, you might not have an impact, but i think -- i think that the american people want us to work together to make the big problems of the country. the only problem is we are not among the country anymore. we are the oldest democracy in history now, and every society that achieves an enormous success sometimes reaches a point where they have to reform or suffer the consequences of decline because the institutions no longer serve the purpose for which they were established as much as they preserved possessions of the leaders and the constituents of the institution. people get more interest in holding on to the president and creating the future. there's some of that in america now. and we have to create an appetite for the future again by showing people both the negative consequences of not doing it and also the positive consequences of doing it. the purpose of this is showing the nega

i see no reason why we cannot go along with mr. ryan, congressman ryan. he suggested that later down the road we make adjustments in the retirement based and amounts. several years ago they adjusted social security. for everyone who was born before around 1920, they received the amount they had been receiving. for everyone who was born after that date, they received last. -- less. they called them they notch babies. host: for many years we heard calls from notch babies on the program saying that they were unfairly targeted in a compromise. caller: they work. -- thy were. host: here is an e-mail from maryland. and a phone call from farmington, richard, a democrat. caller: i became a democrat when john f. kennedy made the statement, "ask not what your country can do for you." this country now seems to be on the bandwagon of ask what the country can do for you. i used to qualify for social security disability. you just cannot believe the people that were allowed to get it. one of the other statements, too, is that i have not seen a bunch more hypocrites to c

. >> mr. ryan, we welcome you. >> thank you, mr. chairman, for the opportunity.ally it is done for me. [laughter] this is a non-union job, so i thank you. i think you, mr. chairman, for the opportunity to prevent -- present my views. i am speaking for myself and not my employer. i served as president for the national meteorological society as well as to the national research committee that wrote a report on effective partnerships. the fair weather report, which has advanced the entire enterprise, as well as a recent report, completing the forecast, communicating uncertainty using weather and climate forecasts. federal investments in disaster preparedness are paying off. as we have so recently seemed, the united states has more severe weather and more rather related -- whether-related disasters than any other country. 90% of the tornadoes in the world occur in the united states. the science of meteorology has made remarkable advances in the last 50 years thanks in large part to federal investment in knowing that their forecasts and advance warning are of tremendou

and mrs. ryan widmer. >> they worked really hard, built a beautiful deck on their house, they had a trip planned to cancun. they had everything to live for. >> so august 11th should have just been another day to live for. >> august 11th, monday night, ryan remembers being downstairs watching "monday night football." sarah had gone upstairs to her bath. she was in trouble. >> 911. what's your emergency? >> my wife, she fell asleep in the bathtub i think. i was downstairs. i just came up here and she was laying facedown in the bathtub. >> i got a call from ryan, something's happened to sarah. >> the emts were rushing sarah to the hospital. by then they had worked on her for 45 minutes but hadn't gotten a response. minutes later, jill widmer was with her son waiting anxiously together in a room off emergency. >> finally, a woman came in and then we said, is she gone? and she said, yes. he just dropped down to his knees and was just bawling and sobbing, you know, into the chair. >> sarah widmer, 24 yea

chair now recognizes gentleman from ohio, mr. ryan for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i just want to submit for the record a story of a world war ii veteran that sent me this story because it was brought up about the greatest generation and read just a paragraph or two from the letter. i've never forget the sounds of bullet bullets whizzing by my head. giving more significant and meaning. for more than five minutes, i didn't talk about my experience. i wasn't active, i didn't show my -- i didn't get a star, and i have shared my story not to get recognition, but to make a point. in military, service matters, not sexual orientation. this is a gentleman that retired that lives in columbus, ohio. during the first firefight, my friend was evacuated because he nearly lost his mind. it didn't matter. he was straight. he couldn't stand the heat of battle. i'm proud to say i could. there are tens of thousands of americans who could stand up under fire who are gay. i yield my time. >> the chair recognizes the gentleman from nevada. >> there have been lots of points made, i have

would just show some compassion for american taxpayers and our children, put me in his -- but he and mr. ryan had already surrendered to president obama. it is a cowardly act of treason against coming generation, it we may give him something really to cry about in 2012. hunting season opens. i have my musket but there is a flower in it. we did not do $7 million damage in wisconsin, by the way. we say, stock these pro-debt rino's with phone calls. they will vote for more debt without repealing obamacare. obamacare must go. but please, not the pretty flowers in the barrel of my musket. we're calling are in this event that tea party woodstock festival. we are urging nothing but peaceful -- get that down, peaceful -- non-violent your relentless pursuit of all house republicans who have gone wobbling for more national debt. the tea party movement opposes any house gop action on the debt ceiling, and we oppose more debt, the tea party. but because i know our people very well, i marched with them, i rallied with them all over, i think it is safe to say that the tea party movement as a whole might po

. >> mr. ryan. >> aye. >> mr. ridge elle. >> aye. >> mr. rupers burger. >> aye. >> mr. gibson. >> aye. >> mr. johnson. >> aye. >> mrs. hartsler. >> aye. >> mrs. castor. >> aye. >> mr. heck. >> aye. >> ms. sutton. >> aye. >> mr. schilling. >> aye. >> mrs. han bus sa. >> aye. >> mr. runyon. >> aye. >> mr. scott. >> aye. >> mr. griffin. >> aye. >> mr. pa lot sew. >> aye. >> mr. west. >> no. >> mrs. roby. >> aye. >> mr. brooks. >> aye. >> mr. young. >> aye. >> mr. rogers. mr. courtney. >> no. >> ms. giffords. >> mr. chairman, on that vote, the ayes were 54, the nos were 5. >> the amendment is agreed to. the chair now recognizes mr. cooper for the purpose of an amendment. >> thank you, mr. chairman. amendment number 164, i would ask to be distributed. >> the clerk will please distribute the amendment. without objection, the reading of the amendment will be dispensed with. >> gentleman from tennessee is recognized to explain his amendment. >> thank you, mr. chairman. this amendment has to do with the joint strike fighter but only the f-35b, the short takeoff and vertical land

house speaker would just show some compassion for american taxpayers and our children, but he and mr. ryan had already surrendered to president obama. it is a cowardly act of treason against coming generations and we may be able to give him something to really cry about in 2012. today, rino hunting season opens. i brought my basket, but there is a flower in it. we did not do $7 million of damage in wisconsin, by the way. to all tea party years and that voters, we say stocks these pro- debt rinos by picketing their district offices. they will vote for more debt without demanding the obama care's appeal. obama care must go. that is why the house is filled with republicans now. please, not up pretty flowers in the barrel of my musket. we are calling our chances of that bet tea party woodstock festival. we are urging nothing but peaceful, get that down, peaceful, nonviolent yet relentless pursuit of all house republicans who of gone wobbly in for more national debt. the tea party movement opposes any house gop action on the debt ceiling and we oppose more dead -- more debt. because i know our

chair now recognizes gentleman from ohio, mr. ryan for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i just want to submit for the record a story of a world war ii veteran that sent me this story because it was brought up about the greatest generation and read just a paragraph or two from the letter. i've never forget the sounds of bullet bullets whizzing by my head. giving more significant and meaning. for more than five minutes, i didn't talk about my experience. i wasn't active, i didn't show my -- i didn't get a star, and i have shared my story not to get recognition, but to make a point. in military, service matters, not sexual orientation. this is a gentleman that retired that lives in columbus, ohio. during the first firefight, my friend was evacuated because he nearly lost his mind. it didn't matter. he was straight. he couldn't stand the heat of battle. i'm proud to say i could. there are tens of thousands of americans who could stand up under fire who are gay. i yield my time. >> the chair recognizes the gentleman from nevada. >> there have been lots of points made, i have

as we followed paul ryan today, look who he bumped into. mr. democrat, bill clinton. >> paul ryan. >> how are you? >> reporter: he even got some surprising words of encouragement. >> i told them before you got here, i said, i'm glad we won this race in new york. but i hope the democrats don't use it as an excuse to do nothing. >> reporter: ryan's plan would reduce medicare's costs by eventually replacing the current system with one where seniors would buy government subsidized private insurance. riding through washington today, ryan told us republicans need to fight for his plan. what do you say to these, maybe weak-kneed republicans -- >> this is not the time to go wobbly. they're going to run the attack ads at us regardless. this is a time for leaders to be leaders. >> reporter: house republicans overwhelmingly voted in favor of ryan's plan and now may pay a political price. did you just cost the republicans control of the house? >> i don't think so. i think we were elected in this last election to take a stand on fixing this country's fiscal

mr. ryan's planned? -- plan? >> i think there are places that are very difficult for us to go to. i think the hardest really, when you look at medicaid block grants or food stamp block grants, i think those are things that would be very, very difficult for us to support. number one, we think it takes away the basic social contact in those programs. it would lead to the type of very unfortunate cuts that we just discussed. and i do not think it is wise policy. the federal reserve estimates what they call automatic stabilizers, things like food stamps and unemployment insurance and medicaid, where we increase spending as we go through recessions or more people go into poverty, it helps me that our business cycle or recession. doing this will not only be bad for some of the hard-pressed americans, but it would be unwise macroeconomic policy, because it would reduce the automatic stabilizers in our economy, so i think those kinds of block grants are difficult. we are open to talking about many ideas on medicare, but for the reasons i have discussed, i think the current republican medi

mr. ryan's budget, at least it was honest, and you need to put your own out there with the same degree ofs he did. mr. bowles was president clinton's chief of staff, the man chosen by president obama to head his fiscal commission. this will be really perhaps the most important budget in decades, maybe ever, because our debt situation is deep. it's not easy to get out of the fix we're in. a lot of it is driven by long-term commitments that we made that are unsustainable. and we've got to confront that honestly and find out how to deal with it in a way that's fair and just. well, they say we can't cut spending. we need more money for education, 10.5%. the state department needs more money, 10.5%. the energy department needs more money, 9.5% increase. this year they are proposing commencing october 1, 2012 budget, that's the number the president has submitted to it. well, we don't have it. i would ask some of the members of this body maybe to call governor cuomo in new york or governor christie in new jersey or tkpwo*ft bentley in -- or governor bentley in alabama. he just announced he's hav

mr. ryan: there is no market to provide health care for older people because there's no money to be made. insurance companies can't make money off of covering old people who get sick, really, really sick. and what this plan does, madam chair, and the analysis was, well, it's just going to be like the federal employee plan. we get members of congress and federal employees get a premium support. well, the premium support that federal employees get is about 70-some percent of the health care costs, and that number goes up and down with inflation for health care. so no matter what the health care costs are, the federal employee has 70-some percent of that covered. the problem with the republican plan is that the voucher or the premium support is hooked to the c.p.i., the consumer price index, which is 2.5%, maybe. so the voucher is going to go up at c.p.i., say, 2.5%, while health care costs are usually a percent or two above g.d.p. growth. so say we have 4% growth, then health care costs are goin

mr. ryan: there is no market to provide health care for older people because there's no money to be made. insurance companies can't make money off of coverinold people who get sick, really, really sick. and what this plan does, madam chair, and theanalysis was, well, it's just goi to be like the federal employee plan. we get members of congress and federal employees get a premium support. well, the premium support that federal employees get is about 70-some percent of the health care costs, and that number goes up and down with inflation for health care. so no matter what the health care costs are, the federal employee has 70-some percent of that covered. the problem with the republican plan is that the voucher or the premium support is hooked to the c.p.i., the consumer price index, which is 2.5%, maybe. so the voucher is going go up at c.p.i., say, 2.5%, while health care costs are usually a percent or two above g.d.p. growth. so say we have 4% growth, then health care costs are going to go

now, even the house budget committee chairman, mr. ryan, who is the architect of this plan, has said -- quote -- "there are a lot of savings you can get in defense. there's a lot of waste over there for sure." that's what he said about defense spending. here's what he did about it. he increased it dramatically. from $529 billion -- this is just the underplying defense budget. -- underplying defense budget. this doesn't count the war funding. he increased the regular budget from $529 billion in 2011 to $667 billion by 2021. he did not cut one thin dime, after saying there's lots of waste there, lots of places for savings, after the secretary of defense himself has said they've got to restrain spending, after the secretary of defense himself has proposed $178 billion of savings, the budget before us doesn't save one dime out of defense. instead, increases it dramatically. from $529 billion to $667 billion; and that does not count war funding. war funding would be on top of it. mr. president, this budget before us, republican budget from the

because none of us have a vote in congress i think mr. ryan is coming up the unless you're in congress unless you work in the white house, or the treasury department, you might not have an impact, but i think -- i think that the american people want us to work together to make the big problems of the country. the only problem is we are not among the country anymore. we are the oldest democracy in history now, and every society that achieves an enormous success sometimes reaches a point where they have to reform or suffer the consequences of decline because the institutions no longer serve the purpose for which they were established as much as they preserved possessions of the leaders and the constituents of the institution. people get more interest in holding on to the president and creating the future. there's some of that in america now. and we have to create an appetite for the future again by showing people both the negative consequences of not doing it and also the positive consequences of doing it. the purpose of this is showing the nega

house speaker which is showed some compassion for american taxpayers and our children that he and mr. ryanhave already surrendered to president obama. it's a cowardly act of treason against coming generations, and we may be able to get into something really to cry about in 2012. today, rino hunting season opens. and yes, i brought my musket but you will notice there is a flower in it. we were not the ones who did 7 million damage, dollars damage in wisconsin by the way. to all tea partiers and voters, we say, stock them with phone calls, blog less and picketing of their district offices. they will vote for more debt without even depending upon the gears repeal. obamacare must go. that's why that house is filled with republicans. but please, not the pretty flowers in the barrel of my musket. we are calling our kansas even the tea party woodstock festival. we are urging nothing but peaceful, yet that down, peaceful, nonviolent yet relentless pursuit of all house republicans who have gone wobbly in for more national debt. the tea party movement opposes any house gop action on the debt ceiling

tearful house speaker would show compassion for american taxpayers and the children, but he and mr. ryan of already surrendered to president obama. it is a cowardly act of treason, and we may be able to give mr. boehner something real to cry about in 2012. i brought my musket, but you will notice there is a flower in it. we are not the ones he did $7 million of damage in wisconsin, by the way. to all voters, we say, stop these rhinos with phone calls and picketing of their district offices. obamacare must go. that is what the house is filled with republicans now. but please, not the pretty flowers in the barrel of my musket. we are calling our kansas event, the tea party would stop festival -- woodstock festival. we are urging peaceful -- did that -- get this, peaceful --of the edition. we oppose any house gop action on the debt ceiling, and we oppose more debt. the tea party. because i know our people well. i have marched with them. i have rallied for them. i think it is safe to say the tea party movements might possibly forgive john boehner and the house republicans a small bump in the

let me bring on mr. ryan soldiering on, and he'll talk about that plan. congressman ryan. [applause] >> thank you. got caught up with president clinton. >> yeah, saw that. congressman ryan, great to have you today. we'll talk about your plans and then get gene sperling's white house plans. your plan to cut deficits include cutting spending by $5.8 trillion. you do not accept any tax increases on the revenue side. reducing budget deficits by $1.6 trillion. >> 4.4. >> over the ten years, not included increasing any extra revenue from tax increases which is from gene sperling's plan. the proposal calls for restructuring the medicare and medicaid. let's start there. walk us through what medicare and medicaid changes look like over the 10 year period and beyond. >> sure, sure. over the ten year, no changes to medicare. medicaid, we're taking a page out of the successful welfare reform policies president clinton signed into law, and we are copying those strategies to other parts of laws in medicaid particular. we are proposing to block rent the program back to the states and gro

crucial that the the center right really needs to pick up on and take on i think not mr ellsworth said that specifically karl ryan. his claim was that this is all we can push for within the republican caucus corrected we can't we there's too much support within the republican party for this massive welfare program called the military industrial complex we're not going to close it for this well first of all to be fair it's not as if he doesn't touch it he adopts what president obama's own budget does on defense which is not good enough it's not nearly good enough in terms of reducing defense spending but it isn't as if he's ramping it up from what president obama wants to do they want it all on the backs of the republican caucus as we have another clip you know and we've seen a bit of a system the way the republican party leadership has been talking about afghanistan as well that what i don't want to see happen is what happened again in the one nine hundred eighty s. have to everybody we saw of the soviet program everybody left afghanistan we ended up but ultimately the taliban took control of some of the blood an

as we followed paul ryan, look who he bumped into. mr. on. >> hey. >> paul ryan. >> how are you? >> reporter: he even got some surprising words of encouragement. >> i told them before you got here, i said, i said i am glad we won this race in new york. but i hope the democrats don't use it as an excuse to do nothing. >> reporter: ryan's plan would reduce medicare's costs by eventually replacing the current system with one where seniors would buy government subsidized private insurance. riding through washington, ryan told us republicans need to fight for his plan. what do you say to she is maybe weak-kneed republicans? >> this is not the time to go wobbly. they're going to run the attack ads at us, regardless. this is a time for leaders to be leaders. >> reporter: house republicans overwhelmingly voted in favor of ryan's plan and now may pay a political price. >> reporter: did you just cost republicans the control of the house? >> i think we were elected in this last election to take a stand on fixing this country's fiscal problems. to go

mr. pane. yet i believe we share the same concerns about art education -- this is in response to my colleague dan ryan who passed away a few months ago -- i believe we share the same concerns about arts education at lincoln and in the district in general. as i mentioned, it is the top priority of the school community to restore the instrumental music program at lincoln by the fall of 2001. that didn't happen. and i have names of kids who would like to continue in music. a student at washington high school collected on his own. so, please, this is really not fair to all our kids at lincoln and all the kids who are matriculating into lincoln from the other middle schools. it's an equity issue. we do need to have a sequential arts program. thank you very much. [applause] [instrumental music]. >> good afternoon, my name is martin areola and i'm a junior at lincoln high school. sadly, this year as well as next year i will not be able to participate in any music program at my high school. me, along with 40 other students at lincoln high school are devastated. this is a list of 40 juniors at lincoln who love

ryan off at the knees. it supports the obama administration. >> reporter: headlining an editorial, "gingrich to house gop: drop dead," the "wall street journal" wrote today, "mr. gingrich chose to throw his former allies in the gop house not so much under the bus as off the grand canyon rim." the former speaker was even confronted by one critic in iowa. >> what you just did to paul ryan is unforgivable. >> i didn't do anything to paul ryan. >> yes, you did. you undercut him. you're an embarrassment to our party. >> i'm sorry you feel that way. >> why don't you get out before you make a bigger fool of yourself? >> i'm sorry you feel that way. >> this is one of those cases where a candidacy is almost imploding before the candidate leaves the starting gate. >> reporter: and now there's this. politico has dug up these financial records showing that gingrich owed tiffany's hundreds of thousands of dollars for unpaid bills back in 2005 and 2006. a lot of debt to a high-end jeweler. gingrich's spokesman tonight had no comment. brian? >> all right. andrea mitchell in washington tonight. andrea, thanks. >>> we turn to health news tonight. you know the rule of thumb on

and in fact after congressman ryan, who served on the fiscal commission with mr. bowles and senator simpson as cochairman derves a member of it -- and he produced a budget and they gave him great credit. they said he was honest and courageous, and ited the challenges of america, and it deserved respect and then said, but anybody that doesn't agree with that should follow our rule, which is show what you would do. so last night -- yesterday afternoon, we had the spectacle of democratic senators hammering and complaining about the ryan budget, which i -- is the most historical and responsible budget to be produced in decades, in my opinion. yes, it's not perfect. it is not perfect. it's perfectly acceptable to believe it ought to be amended. but it was an historic, honest attempt at 2k50e8in dealing wite fiscal challenges we face and would put us on a financial path to solvency and stability and eliminate the risk we are facing. probably should do more than he proposed. but it was courageous and bold and honest and without gimmicks, and i thought very impressive doc

ryan. >> and, looking at the video. wanted to see what happened. mr. to linger briefly before heading back behind the plate. i was looking to see what laura did. looked like she sort of ducked and took cover. >> the president has good reflexes. remember -- the person that threw the shoe. got all matrix on him. he's, the president is quick. >> he was right there. >> more "world news now" coming up. well done, mr. president. >> watch this. ♪ put me in coach i'm ready to play today, put me in coach ♪ hó this is not a lipstick. [ male announcer ] it's outlast lipstan from covergirl. [ drew ] light as air lipwear that does what a lipstick can't. with one sold every 15 seconds, it's the #1 selling lipstain in the u.s. [ male announcer ] outlast lipstain. from easy, breezy, beautiful covergirl. >>> tough to look at these pictures there. back to our top story. we are talking about the direct hit. an american tragedy in joplin, missouri. in the town of 47,000, there is destruction as far as the eye can see in just about every direction. >> oh, yeah, including a

mr. president. he is blessed. and then ryan does that and they try to nail kantor. it is a poison the well. president did give his speech, right and left immediately. sperling got out to try to talk to him and ryan said, you poisoned the well. the well was not poisoned. where were working through stuff. and now you have this joe biden. there are several people on there that really don't care about doing anything for both parties. >> let me contrast these plans for you. i will arion plan first. his plan is basically what paul riot is, a serious, straightforward, honest plan. it has about $4 trillion in savings. he made a couple pretty big decisions. he decided not to cut the fence. he also made the decision as to reform the tax code, he got rid of some of these tax expenditures that were about $1.10 trillion. he used all the money to reduce rates. he didn't use any of it to reduce the deficit. they use about 10% of the proceeds. having made those decisions and wanting to get a four trillion dollars of deficit reduction, that forced him to make her two other big decisions of areas he would cu

ryan strope and their roommate were killed. the suspects were apparently looking for marijuana. cook and slay even posed as police officers. >> after surveying their intended victims for days it's alleged that mr. cook and others disguised themselves as police officers, armed themselves with weapons, robbed the victims in their home and then stabbed all three of them to death. >> the suspect jelani slay was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer. that happened during an attempted robbery? 2009. >> some terrifying moments in rockville, maryland, this morning when a do-it-yourself project throwed a house exploding. >> i have a house that has blown up. >> we have a house that looks like a one-story residential completely destroyed, it's got fire. i need two medic units for two people burned. >> burns and injuries. trying to make my way back there to do a full assessment. i have active burning on the fire. be advised we do have wires down all around the house. >> heavy odor of natural gas. i need someone out here to shut off the gas now. >> the explosion happened in the 11,000 block of ashley drive. two people were taken to the hospital. john schriffen now has our report. >> this certainly

mr. bartlett said about the house republican plan the following. "distributionly, the ryan plan is a monstrosity. the rich would receive huge tax cuts while the social safety net would be shredded to pay for them. even as an opening bid to begin budget negotiations with the democrats, the ryan plan cannot be taken seriously. it is less of a wish list than a fairy tale utterly disconnected from the real world, backed up by make-believe numbers and unreasonable assumptions. ryan's plan isn't even an act of courage; it's just pandering to the tea party. a real act of courage would have been for him to admit, as all serious budget analysts know, that revenues will have to rise we will above 19% of g.d.p. to stablize the debt." now, this is a former economic advisor to president reagan commenting on the house republican plan that we rejected on a bipartisan basis here yesterday. why does he say it's a monstrosity? well, he says it because even though revenue is the lowest it's been in 60 years, the first thing the republican budget from the house did was cut taxes further, an ov

ryan budget believe that seniors should fend for themselves. america should not honor the bargain made with the seniors. it's simple, mr. speaker.ad this new majority is showing its true colors and it's no surprise americans don't like this position. they didn't like it when they tried to privatize social security, and they don't like the republican plan to voucherize medicare. in contrast, democrats stand with america's seniors. we believe america should keep its promise to america's seniors. we believe america's seniors deserve better. support medicare. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from new hampshire rise? without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. bass: mr. speaker, yesterday america lost a great public servant. a great friend of the state of new jersey, a father of one of my, if not my best friend in congress. a friend of my family's and just a wonderful guy. mr. frelinghuysen as i knew him, peter frelinghuysen, served in the congress as my friend from new jersey just mentioned from

i hope your ryan plan includes the twisting arms and limbs explaining this. it is a radical departure from where we are today. mr. beginning rich is -- mr. gingrich is right. it is a radical departure. own it. show that you are prepared to own your own proposal. but now that you want to do it and the american people are seeing the difference in republicans and democrats, now you are trying to squirrel your way out of it with no disrespect to squirrels. not only did we pass the health care plan a year ago, but i'll go one better, i'll give you a plan, how about medicare not starting at 65, what about 55 or 45 or 35? what is it that health insurance companies do in this country? i know my republican friends are holly-owned subsidiaries of the insurance industry but that shouldn't mean our seniors lose it because of it. republicans who are trying to figure out how to get out, we believe in medicare we created it. we believe in social security. we created it. every improvement to health care in this country, democrats proposed, republicans oppose and now they have a chance to get rid of it and doing it. at least if

ryan, don't exactly get it right. they both leave room for improvement. we have to get this right, mr. speaker, and the only way that we can get this right is by both parties working together and sacrificing. we know that the american people don't want to underfund education or investments to grow the work force. we know that they don't want us to sacrifice our long-term global competitiveness for short-term gain. americans believe that we can walk and chew gum at the same time. mr. speaker, we can invest in tomorrow and still get our fiscal problems and our fiscal house in order. how do we move forward? there are a number of options, but one thing is for certain. we should be honest about the tax burden currently faced by americans and i want to briefly show you another board which we're not making any proposals but we want to talk about, for a second, the affect of tax rates and the congressional budget with office just finished completing an analysis, in fact, they finished it in 2010, about the affect of tax rates which is the actual average rates of taxes paid. and what we're goin

ryan off at the knees, supports the obama administration. >> headlining and editorial, gingrich to house gop, drop ded. the "wall street journal" wrote mr. gingrich chose to throw his former allies in the gop house not so much off the bus as under the grand canyon rim. he was confronted by one critic in iowa. to paul ryan -- >> i didn't >> what you did to paul ryan was unbelievable. why don't you get out before you make a bigger fool of yourself? >> at the risk of losing his own base, gingrich went on fox, his former employer, late tuesday night to take it back. >> i made a mistake and i called paul ryan today who is a very close personal friend and i said that that. >> topping off a bad ok signings briefly interrupted by a glitter attack. activists say it was a gay protest. >> stop the hate! stop anti-gay politics! >> this is a case where a candidacy is almost imploding before the candidate leaves the starting gate. >> reporter: whether gingrich's latest comments satisfy critics remains to be seen. a spokesman says chairman ryan accepted gingrich's apology. >> tough week for newt gingrich. thank you, andrea. >> now a check of the top sto

mr. reagan was president, 10 years of our social security was taken away from us to balance the budget. the young ryan talking about his children and grandchildren, what about we now that our seniors that are fighting the same battle for our children and grandchildren? we at this point do not have coverage, and it does not appear we're court to have coverage. but the one thing that the baffles me is the continuation entitlements is we do not have it and we're being pushed aside. but we give you an example. -- let me give you an example. i am saying i think of this program was monitored and so much fraud and was sought in the medical field. my mom got a letter from the insurance company asking her how was she managing after her surgery for tumors -- she had never had the surgery? . host: 0 thank you. thank you. "the new york times" tells us how of medicare beneficiaries live at or below 200% of the federal poverty level, which is $20,800. annual income or a single person is that. and 28,000 for a couple. next, a call from dallas. this is ken it was an independent. good morning. you are on the line. --

money at the rate expected and who is sent and let me ryan mind everybody was my money to begin with and that might be a very positive thing. >> mr. gammon. >> i agree with all that has been said. i think jim clapper is made a persuasive case that i would have probably agreed with even before he made it, and i think in a era of greater stress on the intelligence budget i think it is important, important and it real terms and symbolically that he have that legit control. >> i was smiling as general hayden was talking about the language, because i remember how difficult it was that we did want the dni to be responsible for determining the budget but in order to get the bill through, i think we did create a compromise or some lack of clarity in order to get the bill accomplished, which sometimes happens so it will be interesting to see if we can perhaps clarify that. let me turn to the personnel issue. as representative harman has mentioned at the start of this current administration, shortly after leon panetta was confirmed as the cia director, the dni, admiral blair, issued a directive in which he claimed the right to select an in

congressman ryan has the audacity to tell us that this is -- quote -- "a path to prosperity." common sense tells us it is a bridge to nowhere. mr. president, these statistics are not abstractions. investments in infrastructure, education, and innovation directly translight into more and better jobs, higher incomes, stronger economic growth. that's why we need to get america moving again. for starters, we need a massive new commitment to infrastructure expansion and modernization. truly a marshall plan for america. the first step is to adopt a solid six-year surface transportation reauthorization bill that will allow us to modernize our transportation system. we also need robust, new investments in clean, renewable, domestically produced energy. this will lower our energy costs in the long term and will reduce our dependence on some of the most unstable countries in the world. early in the 20th century, we provided the emerging oil industry with subsidies to accelerate its growth. today we must provide similar policies to accelerate america's transition to a clean energy economy, including long-term tax credits for renewable ene

burningmoney at the rate expected and who is sent and let me ryan mind everybody was my money to begin with and that might be a very positive thing. >> mr. gammon. >> i agree with all that has been said. i think jim clapper is made a persuasive case that i would have probably agreed with even before he made it, and i think in a era of greater stress on the intelligence budget i think it is important, important and it real terms and symbolically that he have that legit control. >> i was smiling as general hayden was talking about the language, because i remember how difficult it was that we did want the dni to be responsible for determining the budget but in order to get the bill through, i think we did create a compromise or some lack of clarity in order to get the bill accomplished, which sometimes happens so it will be interesting to see if we can perhapclarify that. let me turn to the personnel issue. as representative harman has mentioned at the start of this current administration, shortly after leon panetta was confirmed as the cia director, the dni, admiral blair, issued a directive in which he claimed the right to select an indi

mr. chairman, i'm pleased that my colleague on the other side, dr. burgess, got up and talked about the ryan budget, or the republican budget, i should say. as far as i know, every republican voted for it and most democrats voted against it. and he also mentioned i think president clinton's effort to achieve health care reform. you know, the democrats over the years, harry truman, president clinton, president obama have all been reaching out to try to achieve health care reform and find a low-cost way of providing a good benefit package to all americans. it's sad to think that on the other side of the aisle when they became the majority, the first thing they did was to pass this republican budget that actually puts an end to medicare and really jeopardizes the future of medicaid as well. i think it says a lot about the fact that the democrats are trying to expand health care choices and options and provide low cost health care with good benefit package. the republicans are taking the plans that exist now like medicare and medicaid and neither ending them in the case of medicare or in the cas

money at the rate expected and who is sent and let me ryan mind everybody was my money to begin with and that might be a very positive thing. >> mr gammon. >> i agree with all that has been said. i think jim clapper is made a persuasive case that i would have probably agreed with even before he made it, and i think in a era of greater stress on the intelligence budget i think it is important, important and it real terms and symbolically that he have that legit control. >> i was smiling as general hayden was talking about the language, because i remember how difficult it was that we did want the dni to be responsible for determining the budget but in order to get the bill through, i think we did create a compromise or some lack of clarity in order to get the bill accomplished, which sometimes happens so it will be interesting to see if we can perhaps clarify that. let me turn to the personnel issue. as representative harman has mentioned at the start of this current administration, shortly after leon panetta was confirmed as the cia director, the dni, admiral blair, issued a directive in which he claimed the right to select an ind

ryan and passed by the house of representatives. the most serious threat to the medicare program this week is to those who propose to do nothing or offer no plan whatsoever for saving medicare. mr. president, doing nothing is the most serious threat to medicare. for all the talk about killing medicare as we know it, the democrats' do-nothing budget that i have held up here so often, the do-nothing budget is the surest way to kill medicare as we know it. the folks coming to the senate floor with nothing in their hands but criticism of these briewgz then are irresponsible. by attacking the house budget resolution while proposing absolutely nothing, the democrats are plunging their collective heads into the sand like these ostriches sometimes are described as doing. ostriches acting like everything with medicare is just fine and that nothing is a viable -- and doing nothing is a viable option. let's look at the facts. last week, the c.m.s. actuary -- and that's a professional person, that's not a political person, but he's the president's actuary -- submitted his annual report on fiscal health of medicare -- the medicare program. frankly, his conclusions are very disturbing. the a

mr. president, i've given you just a bit of the picture of what the ryan budget does. i have just focused in really on the medicare piece. that whole budget, the republican budget started by ryan, embraced by the republicans, is a disaster for seniors, for women, for children, and it is a hot time in the old town tonight for big c.e.o.'s of health insurance companies. that's what it is. and we should bring it down. and i'm happy to now yield to senator mikulski who will have the time in her own right. thank you very, very much, senator mikulski, for your leadership on this. ms. mikulski: thank you very much, senator boxer. the presiding officer: the senator from maryland. ms. mikulski: thank you very much, mr. chairman. thank you, senator boxer, for your steadfast standing up for american women, and today the democratic women come to the floor to talk about the terrible impact that the republican budget coming from the house and getting started in the senate has on the women. women -- after i speak, i will be followed by senators stabenow, shaheen, then senator blument

ryan budget. with that, i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from alaska. mr. begich: mr. president, i rise today to speak about the ongoing budget negotiations. as a member of the senate budget committee, i have jumped into this debate head on, but we are -- we are all here together. this is why i have asked the alaskans in my state, in my communities all across the state to share their ideas with me on how to cut the budget and to put forward a series of cuts and spending management programs. from ideas of my colleagues and members throughout the state but also ideas i have picked up in my budget hearings. we know we're all going to feel the pinch if we're serious about getting our budget and spending under control. but i have made it crystal clear. i absolutely will not balance the budget on the backs of seniors. for me, the budget is a moral document. it reflects our values as a nation and it demonstrates our commitment to supporting our elders and protecting our children. it is the future pathway of our g

mr. president, last week the chairman of the house budget committee, paul ryan, came to the chicago to speak to the economic club and to articulate his vi the republican vision, on how to reduce our nation's debt. it was an interesting speech because congressman ryan's budget, the republican budget, which passed the house of representatives, has become an object of debate and controver controversy. i know congressman ryan and we served together on the president's deficit commission. i know he is a very thoughtful and learned and sincere individual, but i certainly have to say that his approach to dealing with our budget deficit is one that i believe falls short of the mark. it would seem to me that if we are serious about our deficit -- and we should be -- we should acknowledge the fact that out of every dollar that we spend in washington, we borrow 40 cents. that is unsustainable and we have to address it. and we should also look at the grim recent reality of our budget. when president william jefferson clinton left office a little over ten years ago and handed the keys to the white house o