mr. ryan: madam speaker, pursuant to house resolution 380, i call up house resolution 379 and i ask for its immediate consideration. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the resolution. the clerk: house resolution 379, resolution expressing the sense of the house of representatives regarding certain provisions of the senate amendment to h.r. 2642, relating to crop insurance. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to house resolution 380, the resolution is considered as read. the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. ryan, and the gentleman from oklahoma, mr. lucas, each will control 30 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from wisconsin. mr. ryan: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks on house resolution 379. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. ryan: madam speaker, with this i'll yield such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. ryan: first

mr. ryan on the republican side? he was very quiet. he came out of the woodwork recently with his private accounts theories. my supposition of this circus is that these political parties are two wings of the same bird. they play good cop and bad cop. the democrats turn was the $716 billion for the medicare program. mr. ryan comes along with his taxation, his flat tax, or whatever he is introducing, hiding the private account robbery of medicare. there you go. host: very quickly, what would you like to see done now? caller: i would like to see the corporate government that exists today completely demolished and replaced by people that represent the american people

mr. ryan is quiet on all the fights recent weeks and months working behind the scenes on long-term deal that include entitlement reform. so-called grand bargain. we'll see how he addresses conservative voters values summit. jenna: we'll follow that, carl, thank you. jon: since the launch of obamacare online the website has been plagued with glitches. brand new concerns for americans trying to sign up. >>> and more political arm wrestling in washington over the government partial shut down. are we any closer to a deal? we are live at the white house next. [ male announcer ] eligible for medicare?

mr. ryan, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. mr. ryan: thank you, mr. speaker. i appreciate the opportunity to be here to do a special order. we are here and i'm here as co-chair of the house manufacturing caucus to celebrate and recognize national manufacturing day. we know there are a lot of divisive issues being talked about here in the nation's capital, but i think one issue, as we start to lay some groundwork for what the world looks like after we shake this virus that's happening here in washington, d.c., i think manufacturing, advanced manufacturing, additive manufacturing, three-dimensional printing and all the issues that surround rebuilding the united states of america, can happen and we have an obligation, i think, as we have arguments about the issues of the day also to lay that long-term investment in strategies that will help our country grow. and we have a group of men and women, members of congress here this evening that would like to speak on

that was the point mr. ryan was -- >> you are listening to the are testimony of marilyn tavener, the head of the cms, centers for medicare and medi-cal. the rollouts of the are website has been a disaster, her responding to that question, and they now say the problems have been fixed, and that they are taking more of a waints approace approach. meanwhile health and human services secretary katherine sebelius will receive grilling also, her first appearance on capitol hill since the website launched on october 1st. there are members of congress calling for her head on a platter. >>> the nation's top intelligence leaders are going to be facing top questions when they head to capitol hill today. james clapper the head of national intelligence head keith alexander are both set to testify before the house intelligence committee, erica ferrari has our story. >> a bipartisan group of lawmakers, curtail the national security agency's indistric indiscriminate,. >> james sensenbrenner. , provides stronger restrictions aga

garamendi: mr. ryan, thank ou so mr. garamendi: mr. ryan, thank you for bringing us some sense of reality of what's happening here. we're in the eighth day of the lockout, we're in the eighth day of the shutdown of the government of the united states of america. and it appears from all we hear from our republican side that this may go right up to the deficit -- excuse me, to the debt limit. what a tragedy it would be if we hit that and take down the entire economy. if i might inquire, mr. speaker, how much time we have available. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman has 30 seconds remaining. mr. garamendi: i think it's time for me to close i want to -- to close. i want to thank my league, i ask the american people to pay attention and finally, mr. speaker, let us vote. mr. speaker, mr. speaker boehner, let us vote on a clean continuing resolution so that we can once again start this government. the votes are here, if you don't believe the votes are here, put us up on the board. let's see. if there's 217 votes to reopen the american go

remarkably, mr. ryan cooler-headed colleagues have now delegated that line of attack to the sole purview of mr. cruz, who told values voter today that it's the democrats who are on the defense. >> look, the democrats are feeling the heat. in my view, the house of representatives needs to keep doing what it's been doing, which is standing strong! >> yes! that's because mr. cruz has been commissioning his own polls, and listening to his own lunacy instead of reading the surveys that everyone else sees. like our latest nbc "wall street journal" poll, the one that nbc news political director chuck todd called an unmitigated disaster for the republican party. to start, by a 53-31 margin, more people blame congressional republicans for the shutdown than the president. 70%, including 40% of republicans, believe congressional republicans are putting their own political agenda ahead of what's good for the country. that's doing no favors for the party brand with a 53% having a negative view of the gop, the worst ra

mr. ryan: i yield two minutes to the gentleman from new york, mr. hanna. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. hanna: i thank the gentleman for yielding and rise in support of the ryan sense of the house resolution which would improve the 2013 farm bill by reducing insurance subsidies for the wealthiest producers and saving taxpayers almost $1 billion. the senate bill encludes a provision authorized by senator richard durbin and tom coburn to reduce the level of crop insurance premiums for participants with an adjusted gross income over $750,000 by 15%. the amendment was approved in the senate on a bipartisan basis, 59-33. during the house consideration of the farm bill, i offered a companion amendment which was unfortunately not made in order. by supporting this sense of the house, our chamber now has an opportunity to go on record to support this modest, very commonsense reform. the limitations -- the limitation is expected to impact only 1% of the wealthiest farmers in the entire country. the vast majority of farmers

mr. ryan: i thank the gentleman. we heard in the last hour or two people worried about lab rats at n.i.h., the zoos closing down. they're worried about kids -- cancer patients at n.i.h., just a few, but if we want to provide health care to all children so that no family has to worry about it, we don't hear anything but a defunding proposition from the other side. you want kids to go to the zoo, but if we want to provide them health care, you guys are m.i.a. now, you've been called -- you've been called whacko birds by your own party. so it seems to me there is one zoo open and that's the house republicans. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from virginia reserves. mr. moran: i don't reserve because my friend from idaho is reserving until he has his -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from virginia is recognized. mr. moran: i'll yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from new york, mr. meeks. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york is recognized for 30 seconds. mr. m

mr. ryan is doing a nice job up there. weatherwise, clear skies and we'll warm up nicely. by lunch time low to mid-60s this afternoon. mid to upper 60s, righted where we should be, a very nice start to the week. a frost advisory north and west until 9:00 a.m. arguably montgomery county. don't be surprised if frost sneaks in as well. clear skies overhead so there is nothing to keep the heat in tonight with light winds and dry air. we are down to 37 in germantown. look at the frost potential, you don't have to be freezing for frost. we have 3 for bowie. a chilly start but a nice afternoon. good morning monika samtani. >>> good morning howard bernstein. things are looking great early

have a conversation with mr. ryan seacrest. my family is way more interesting. >>> tom hanks revealed some serious medical news. he has type 2 diabetes. >> she's sporting a slimmer new look. he's been battling high blood sugar for decades. his doctor told him if he got down to a's high school weight, he would be perfectly healthy. >> he joked that's not going to happen because he weighed 98 pounds in high school. >>> it was something apparently former stars of "baywatch" had to pay attention to. >> millions watched the show, and the buff bodies and the suits. as they get ready for the 25-year reunion, we're learning a couple of the old contracts. >> we have this in ours, too. it's a stipulation they had to remain within a five-pound weight range. any fluctuation beyond five pounds meant big trouble with the producers. who knew? >> if that was in our contract, i would have been fired long ago. >>> and what's your go-to cure for a hangover? coffee? hair of the dog? researchers in china found the best way to get rid of the awful f

that was the point mr. ryan was making. >> you're eligible for a subsidy, yes. >> you can be on your parents' health care and eligible for the subsidy. >> part of what you complete on the application is do you have coverage. you're also under penalty of perjury so you have to tell the truth on your application. that's kind of a requirement. >> okay. >> in your submitted testimony you attributed the problems to a subset of contractors, is that correct? >> i don't think i said that it was due to a subset of contractors. we had two issues that we were dealing with. the first was capacity. our first few days the volume was more than anticipated. we had a problem with account creation, with the e-mail account creation which was subsequently fixed. >> on your august 1st testimony to the house energy and commerce committee, to congressman pitts' question, do you remember this question? >> you'll have to ask the question. >> he asked, do the contractors who hhs is paying to build these exchanges have milestones they hav

thank you. >> very good, thank you, mr. ryan. i would like to take just a moment to introduce our next witness who has beens to be from washington state, and it's an old friend of mine back in the criminal justice days together. justice bridge, from the home state as i said, has more than 19 years of experience with child welfare and has been recognized as a leading advocate for foster care in juvenile justice reform. justice bridge founded the center for children and youth justice in 2006 to reform washington state's juvenile justice and child welfare systems, and, recently, 2010, you were given the advocacy national spirit award by the defender of rights and dignity for our youth award in january of 2010, so good to see you, happy you were able to be here, and that coincides with a conference held tomorrow. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman, who i resist calling sheriff as well, and members of the subcommittee, thank you for inviting my system today, it's an honor and effectively intervene and rad kate commercial sexual expl

mr. ryance-presidential nominee is essential for how to work on the government shutdown and deal with the budget and get toward a grand bargain. >> thank you. very interesting, thank you, carl. >>> the administration is trying to fix the glitches with obama care and trying to iron out the problems. >> the republicans are launching adrian investigation of the glitches after the prediction of rolling out. how did that work out for you alep combes. and gentle men, i know you love talking about this. >> yes. >> at what point will you come on tv and smile about the roll out. the first two weeks are rocky. >> let's separate the technical of the roll out and it problems that they should have not had with proper planning and the policy itself. those who don't like obama care have great glee that there is adrian it issue. it should not have happen. it is not true in all states. we don't have to sign up first. you have better success. some states are better and more reactive than others. some of it is o

thank you. >> thank you, mr. ryan. i would like to take a moment to introduce the next witness who happens to be from washington state and a friend of mine back in our criminal justice days together. justice bridge is from my home state, as i said, and has more than 19 years of experience with child welfare and has been recognized as a leading advocate for foster care in juvenile justice reform. justice bridge founded the center for children and youth justice in 2006 to reform washington state's juvenile justice and child welfare systems. and recently, i think january, 2010, you were given the have advocacy spirit award, national spirit award by the -- you were a defender of rights and the dignity for our youth award in january of 2010. so it's good to see you. i'm happy you were able to be here. ibdz it coincides with a conference that will be held tomorrow. >> thank you very much. mr. chairman reichert, who was calling sheriff as well, and members of the subcommittee. thank you for inviting my testimony today. it's a

one aspect and i was wondering at the time i was watching all of the shenanigans going on, where mr. ryan was on the republican side. he was very very quiet. he came out of the woodwork recently again with his private accounts. my supposition of this whole circus that has been going on is that these political parties and the two wings of the same bird. they play good cop bad cop and the democrats turn was the 716 billion to the medicare program and mr. ryan comes along now with his taxation or whatever he is introducing hiding the private accounts robbery of medicare. so there you go. >> host: carol very quickly what would you like to see don? if these are two wings of the same bird? >> caller: i would like to see the corporate government that exist today completely demolished and replaced by people that represent the american people and the american people's concerns and aspirations. >> host: thank you maam. you just talked to the progressives before you came out mr. kibbe and both of you would say we agree with carol m-i write? >> guest: is interesting because progressives always wanted

we think after that, mr. ryan and senator murray may actually have some serious discussions to see where they can go. now, i should note from the outset that the two democrats voted last night for the bill and the two republicans voted against it. so, you know, there you go. that should be as much of a signal as any that there has been no magic fairy dust poured down on congress in the last 24 hours to make them agree on any of the things that they have for so long disagreed about. of course, revenue is the number one word in the budget negotiations ahead. the republicans have foresworn any consideration of raising additional revenue as part of a budget deal, and the democrats in turn have really foresworn consideration of any. restraints to mandatory programs that are the real drivers of the annual deficit, and therefore, the debt, medicare, medicaid, social security, they have foresworn much discussion that have unless the republicans put revenue on the table. host: also weave into the discussions about the sequ

well, i have a question for mr. ryan. do you believe him now?esswoman jan schakowsky from illinois. what's the mood like for the democrats in the house today? >> well, you know, reverend al, this send the kind of day we're doing high-fives. as you reported earlier, the economy has lost about $24 billion. furloughed workers who already didn't get a wage increase for three years and were furloughed already for three days, they're still hurting and worrying about how they're going to pay their bills and when those checks are going to come. so while we avoided catastrophe we still haven't been able to move the country forward. and there are deadlines coming up that hopefully they're not going to do this again, that the republicans won't put us through this again. but in january and february we're going to see new deadlines. >> you know, the president is moving forward. in an interview yesterday he said the day after, i'm going to be push being a vote on immigration reform. so he seems like he's geared up, ready to go if this in fact holds tonight. a

mr. ryan: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent that the house be considered to have taken from the speaker's table senate concurrent resolution 8, adopted an amendment in the nature of a substitute, consisting of the text of the house concurrent resolution 25, as adopted by the house, adopted such concurrent resolution as amended, insisted on its amendment and requested a conference with the senate thereon. and during the remainder of the 113th congress, it shall not be in order to offer a motion under clause 7-c of rule 22 with respect to the senate concurrent resolution 8. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the concurrent resolution. the clerk: senate concurrent resolution 8. concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget of the united states government for fiscal year 2014, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2013, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2015 through 2023. the speaker pro tempore: is

we think after that mr. ryan and senator murray may actually have some serious discussions to see where they can go. now, i should note from the outset that the two democrats voted last night for the bill. and the two republicans voted against it. there you go. that should be as much of a signal as any that there has been no magic fairy dust poured down on congress in the last 24 hours to make them agree on any of the things that they have for so long disagreed about. of course revenue is the number one word in the budget negotiations ahead. the republicans have foresworn any consideration of raising additional revenue as part of a budget deal, and the democrats in turn have really foresworn consideration of any of the restraints to so-called entitlement spending, the mandatory programs that are the real drivers of the annual deficits and therefore the debt. medicare, medicaid, sths. they have foresworn much discussion of that unless the republicans put revenue on the table. host: also weave into this discussion

mike, republican, go ahead therefore hello, mr. ryan guest: hi, mike. >> caller: i've been a republican longtime. i consider myself reasonable, and i've got to tell you i'm not a republican anymore. i think this crisis is nonsense. i've watched c-span at of actually watched patty murray in the senate and house members practically begging the republicans to go to conference. now, i don't know, they seem to not want to go to conference all these times as i've watched it and billy thing i can think is that maybe they want to push us to a crisis point so that they can cut entitlements to make it, with cutting those loopholes. simpson-bowles, everybody smart things you have to do both to get out of this mess. and i tell you, when it goes to conference, may be a part of it is that mr. ryan those that -- [inaudible] they didn't want to go to conference because they didn't want to spend their budget, the paul ryan budget uses -- the affordable care act has any. so they have to defend, they have to defend their own budget using the numbers, the

mr. ryan on the republican side? he was very quiet. he came out of the woodwork recently with his private accounts theories. my supposition is that these two wingsparties are of the same bird. they play good cop and bad cop. 6he democrats was the $71 billion for the medicare program. mr. ryan comes along with his taxation, his flat tax, or what ever he is introducing, hiding the private account robbery of medicare. there you go. very quickly, what would you like to see done now? caller: i would like to see the corporate government that exists demolished andy replaced by people that represent the american people and the american people's concerns and aspirations. host: we just talked to adam green. both of you would say we agree with carol. am i right? guest: progressives wanted a single-payer health-care system. they want to take the insurance interest out of it. what president obama did was set down with the insurance industry and the pharmaceutical industry who were major investors in advoca

it's interesting what mr. ryan did not have in his op ed today. he did not call for a repeal of the health care law. this whole shutdown was really over that. and the fact that it looks like the republican party has agreed to walk away from that is a very favorable development. >> i don't know about that. ann, has the republican party walked away from any obama care reforms? >> no, we have not. a number of republicans and democrats are coming through to fund the government. we are actually funding vital and essential services, helping those that are most vulnerable. what we really need is for harry reid and the president to get on the same page and stop this back of the hand mentality and let some of these funding measures go through. we want to fund our government. we want to make sure vital services are funded, that the government is open. and we don't want to deal with this nonnegotiating mentality that's auto there. nor should we be scaring the american people with threats of recession and ransom and retreat. these things are wrong. it's time

mr. ryan: i thank the gentleman. we heard in the last hour or two people worried about lab rats at n.i.h., the zoos closing down. they're worried about kids -- cancer patients at n.i.h., just a few, but if we want to provide health care to all children so that no family has to worry about it, we don't hear anything but a defunding proposition from the other side. you want kids to go to the zoo, but if we want to provide them health care, you guys are m.i.a. now, you've been called -- you've been called whacko birds by your own party. so it seems to me there is one oo open and that's the house republicans. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from virginia reserves. mr. moran: i don't reserve because my friend from idaho is reserving until he has his -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from virginia is recognized. mr. moran: i'll yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from new york, mr. meeks. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york is recognized for 30 seconds. mr. me

mr. john ryan, ceo national center for missing and exploited children, thank you for being here. and foundert, ceo for his children the justice. melinda, phd executive director of youth care. and ms. ashley harris, child carere associate texans for children. thank you all for being here. have five minutes or a little more if you want to. >> thank you so much, chairman theodore to say thank you to you, the members of the county. i am now 24 years of age, and i'm currently a student here in trinityon, d c at washington university. previous to be a student, i was a youth who grew up in pop -- in foster care for pretty much the first 18 years of my life. throughout that time from the 17, i was a victim of sexual explication and trafficking here domestically in the united states throughout the state of california, nevada, oregon, and of course your stay, washington. i andre to tell you why other youth in wasit -- in foster care are more honorable to be sexually trafficked. first ball, we accept and normalize being used as an object. we also experience areas people who controlling come

mr. ryan is recognized. >> thank you. thanks for being here. i think what we're seeing here are all these rude awakenings that the american people are waking up to find. promises made and promises broken. we had a hearing here in this room on august the 1st with the irs. the irs confirmed that the delay in the employer reporting requirements would mean that the irs would not have the data on the back end from employers until 2016 to verify if an individual had been given an offer of affordable employer-sponsored health insurance in 2014. now, the reason this matters is that determines whether a person is eligible for a taxpayer funded subsidy or not. to mitigate this, dan wurffel told us, quote, we're going to help the individual at the front end when they're navigating through the exchange to understand whether they have an employer plan. let me ask you this. of the 700,000 applicants you've received, how many of them did you verify whether or not they have been offered or have -- been offered employer-sponsored insurance? >> the verification

and i might add the budget that -- that mr. ryan came up with in the house, the chairman of the house appropriations committee, a republican, called it -- quote -- unworkable, for whatever that's worth. nonetheless, that sequestration is the biggest difference between our two budgets and that's why we asked to go to conference time and time again. so this idea that sequestration is some kind of new issue, it's not. mr. president, it is the issue of the year. it will be the issue of next year. do we blindly cut everything? that's what sequestration is. a blind cut of everything, even programs that everyone here might agree are worthwhile and should be funded. but that's what we're elected to do. we're elected to make those kinds of choices and to work them out in a conference committee. so again, if you think that sequestration is some kind of a new issue, i guess it's only a new issue if your memory is only two weeks long. if you know what's been going on for this year, sequestration is the major difference. now two weeks ago the se

ericson who pled guilty in exchange for a 25-year sentence reached out to ryan. >> mr. conviction cases took the case pro bono. >> ryan received a letter from charles ericson. saying charles ericson's wanted ryan's attorneys to scum mecome with him. >> reporter: with the camera rolling, ericson read a statement admitting he had not been truthful in his testimony against ryan. >> things happened much differently than i previously stated. i regret now that i put an innocent man through that. he didn't deserve it. >> reporter: ryan got a new court hearing. in april ericson tested my he learned about ryan ferguson during the trial. >> man, i lied to everybody. >> would you state your full name for the record. >> jerry dwight trump. >> reporter: then the janitor, the only other eyewitness to implicate ryan took the stand and admit hemitted he lied at t trial. a convicted sex offend teer. >> i would look to haike to hav forgiveness from ryan. and his family. >> reporter: at that point, do you think to yourself -- >> we've got to win. he has the got to be released. >> absolutel

mr. ryan: we hear a lot from our republican friends about the funding for n.i.h. and the pediatric research programs where dozens of children can get cancer dream and they make a big deal about it. on our side, we want to make sure every kiled in the united states has access to health care in case they get cancer. we hear if the other side, we want to open the world war ii memorial so veterans can have access to the memorial but if that veteran's spouse or that veteran's child may haveancer or not have health care, we're saying, as americans, we should cover every american. isn't that what they fought and died for? justice for all? and health care justice for all? we hear from the other side, they're shutting down the government. i was against the iraq war. the iraq war was unaffordable. the iraq war was unpopular. 58% of the american people were against the iraq war. democrats didn't shut down the government. use the political process. which we did. and won the house back in 2006. the speaker

our expenditures but at the same time making sure that we rotect the mandatory expenditures that mr. ryan talks about and others talk about to make sure our most vulnerable in america are protected. frankly, e do so, before thanksgiving, mr. speaker. i'm urging the majority leader to hopefully take that course so that we do not confront a crisis once again prior to christmas when we are scheduled to adjoush for the christmas -- adjourn for the christmas and hanukkah holidays but also preclude coming in to the first of january with the deadline confronting us and disrupting the confidence of our people and frankly people around the world. i yield to my friend. mr. cantor: mr. speaker, i thank the gentleman, and i agree with the gentleman that it is desirable and i look at it as a priority that we allow for the process of appropriations process to begin again, but that will require taos arrive at an agreement on what that top line number is, as the gentleman knows, as a former appropriator, and we have said and maintained all along on the majority side of the aisle that the sequester is not

caller: good morning, mr. ryan. guest: hi, mike. caller: i have been a republican for a long time. i consider myself reasonable, and i have to tell you i am not a republican anymore. i think this crisis is nonsense. i have watched c-span, and i have watched patty murray in the senate and the house members begging the republicans to go to conference. they seem to not want to go to conference all of these times that i have watched, and the only thing i can think is maybe they want to push this to a crisis point so that they can cut entitlements. -- everybodys smart thinks you have to do both to get out of this mess. when it goes to conference, that mr.t of it is ryan knows they do not want to defend those. it is part of sequestration. they do not want to go to conference because they do not want to defend the paul ryan budget, because it uses all of the save is the affordable care act has in it. they have to defend their own budget using the savings from affordable health care. host: mike, we will let commerce and ryan -- congressman ryan go ahead and respond. guest: i would like all

mr. ryant on all the fights recent weeks and months working behind the scenes on long-term deal that include entitlement reform. so-called grand bargain. we'll see how he addresses conservative voters values summit. jenna: we'll follow that, carl, thank you. jon: since the launch of obamacare online the website has been plagued with glitches. brand new concerns for americans trying to sign up. >>> and more political arm wrestling in washington over the government partial shut down. are we any closer to a deal? we are live at the white house next. [ male announcer ] eligible for medicare? that's a good thing, but it doesn't cover everything. only about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. so consider an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. like all standardized medicare supplement insurance plans, they pick up some of what medicare doesn't pay and could save you in out-of-pocket medical costs. call today to request a free

mr. ryan is recognized. >> thanks for being here. i think what we are seeing are all these rude awakenings the american people are waking up to find, promises made and promises broken. we had a hearing in this room on august 1 with the irs. the irs confirmed that the delay in the employer reporting requirements would mean the irs would not have the data on the backend from employers until 2016 to verify if an individual had been given an offer of affordable employer-sponsored insurance in 2014. this matters because it tells you whether a person is eligible for a taxpayer-funded subsidy or not. to mitigate this, the irs commissioner told us we are going to help the individual at the front-end when they are navigating through the exchange to understand whether they have an employer plan. let me ask you this. the 700,000 applicants you have received -- how many of them did you verify whether or not they have been offered or have them offered employer-sponsored insurance? verification of employer- sponsored insurance is part of the appli

mr. ryan is not going to press for some of the more fundamental changes that he had in mind in past years. i think president obama thomas obama, assed, -- witnessed, is willing to compromise. here is the problem. both the white house and senator murray have taken the position that without it -- substantial revenues, there is no compromise. and the republicans will not compromise on new revenues. the republicans are convinced that president obama got his new revenues at the beginning of the year. they did that under duress and they will not yield any more ground. it remains to be seen whether progress can be made subject to those constraints. host: will those constraints jacksoniana party, way of getting things done and roadblocks? do know there are substantial factions in both political parties that object to the terms of a possible compromise. liberal democrats put the administration on notice that they do not regard the proposals in the president's 2014 budget submission as being negotiable.

well, mr. ryan, urge the speaker to put the bill on the floor, open government, let the american people see who is for voting for opening up government and paying america's bills and going to conference to discuss further commonsense solutions. that is what the speaker ought to do. that is what i urge the sticker today. much more importantly, that is what the american people are urging the speaker to do. that's the responsible thing to do. >> do they have the votes to pass their plan? >> i have no idea. >> i would like to weigh in on that. this is what i do. i know the speaker. i saw a speaker who did not have the votes. i guess they said they were having a press conference. they should have one. they didn't come out and say what their proposal was. -- they not come out are still working on it. for some reason, they said they were working in a bipartisan way. i don't know to what they were referencing. again, on the right, they had resistance. i think the moderates in the caucus are going to have to

. >> do you know if mr. ryan participated in that discussion? >> i don't believe so but i don't know for sure. >> let me ask you this directly, are mr. issa's allegations correct? did the white house ever order your company for political reasons to mask the sticker shock of obamacare by disabling this anonymous shopper function? >> let me answer two things, one, i don't believe that members of c.g.i. actually made those statements direct in that manner. i think they may have been taken out of context, but i think i'd have to get back to you with confirmation of that. and to my knowledge, no, the white house has not given us direct instructions. >> i would like to get that information from you. it's a very serious allegation for the chairman of an oversight committee to make such a callous accusation. based on the meeting with your company last week, mr. issa's letter wrote that, quote, evidence is mounting that political considerations motivated this decision. do you have any evidence, you just alluded to it, do you have any evidence that politi

mr. ryann the republican side? he was very quiet. he came out of the woodwork recently with his private accounts theories. my supposition of this circus is that these political parties are two wings of the same bird. they play good cop and bad cop. the democrats turn was the $716 billion for the medicare program. mr. ryan comes along with his taxation, his flat tax, or whatever he is introducing, hiding the private account robbery of medicare. there you go. host: very quickly, what would you like to see done now? caller: i would like to see the corporate government that exists today completely demolished and replaced by people that represent the american people and the american people's concerns and aspirations. host: we just talked with adam green. both of you would say we agree with carol. am i right? guest: progressives wanted a single-payer health-care system. they want to take the insurance interest out of it. what president obama did was sat down with the insurance industry and the pharm

. >> do you know if mr. ryan participated in that discussion? >> i don't believe so but i don't know for sure. >> let me ask you this directly, are mr. issa's allegations correct? did the white house ever order your company for political reasons to mask the sticker shock of obamacare by disabling this anonymous shopper function? >> let me answer two things, one, i don't believe that members of c.g.i. actually made those statements direct in that manner. i think they may have been taken out of context, but i think i'd have to get back to you with confirmation of that. and to my knowledge, no, the white house has not given us direct instructions. >> i would like to get that information from you. it's a very serious allegation for the chairman of an oversight committee to make such a callous accusation. based on the meeting with your company last week, mr. issa's letter wrote that, quote evidence is mounting that political considerations motivated this decision. do you have any evidence, you just alluded to it, do you have any evidence that politic

the budget committee, led by mr. ryan -- i disagree with him profoundly on a whole bunch of issues, money the less, went through the process of coming up with a budget. i hi it's a very flawed budget. senator murray over in the senate did the same thing. and so, you know, we -- everyone's talking about regular order here. you have a house budget and a senate budget. it would seem to me that you already had the committees exist to resolve their differences. and if you don't think they can resolve their differences, appoint the conferees so they can at least try, you know? if they, you know, days go by and they can't make any headway, then you can talk about something else. but, i mean, for six months we've been trying to get a conference going on. but this, this doesn't do anything. in this doesn't can stop the government shutdown, this doesn't deal with the issue of the debt, the debt ceiling. it's, i'll call in the supercommittee ii, the wrath of cruz. i don't know what else to call it. i mean, it's just, it's likest not

and i'm sure he's listening very closely to what mr. ryan has to say. ould be leading this process with his knowledge of the budget. that's how he made his name. >> steve: it was paul ryan and barak obama who found the other side last time with the fiscal cliff. this time neither one is involved. what's interesting, politico, that lefty web site, talked a little bit this morning on their web page about how a loft congressional republicans have no reason to cave because most republicans have no fear that the voters are going to punish them because they're from districts where they would never elect a democrat for the most part. the biggest worry for them is somebody more conservative than they would wind up with some sort of a primary challenge. so right now, both sides are dug in. >> brian: if you do what you're supposed to do and what you think you're elected to do, don't worry so much about being primary. it's not supposed to be a career anyway. if the people don't want you, get another job! stop focusing on getting reelected. just do the right thing.

i think mr. ryan is not going to press for some of the more fundamental changes that he had in mind in past years. ishink president obama willing to compromise on issues such as social security and medicare. here is the problem -- andthe white house senatormurray have taken the position that without substantial additional revenues, no agreement is possible. thehe same way that president will not compromise on obamacare right now, the republicans will not compromise on new revenues right now. their position is that president obama got his revenue increase at the beginning of the year to the tune of $660 billion and they have drawn the line, no more. they did that under duress and i don't think they will yield any more ground. it remains to be seen whether progress can be made subject to those constraints. if it can be, i am confident it will be. host: well those constraints produce a tea party or jacksonian way of producing -- of getting rid of those roadblocks? guest: i don't know what will happen but

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mr. cuccinelli. dana milbank, of a newspaper described by justice scalia as shrill and nasty, and ryan grim of "the washingtont," thank you both so much. >> thank you. >>> coming up, mr. speaker, i thought you said the shutdown was not some damn game. did your members not get the message? >> does anybody remember charlie sheen when he was kind of going crazy last year? and he was going around jumping around saying -- >> the fact that you're seeing those attacks i think is indicative of the fact that we're winning the argument. ♪ ♪ i'm a loser baby so why don't you kill me ♪ katy perry is coming to town. can we get tickets, please??? sure how many? thank you, thank you, thank you! seriously? i get 2x the thankyou points on each ticket. the citi thankyou preferred card. now earn 2x the points on entertainment, with no annual fee. go to citi.com/thankyoucards to prove to you that aleve is the better choice for her, she's agreed to give it up. that's today? [ male announcer ] we'll be with her all day to see how it goes. [ claira ] after the deliveries, i was okay. now the ciabatta is done and the pain is startin