nd the congress and the executive branch together can spend the time and effort to do security. border we've made great strides but there is more to do. ur border -- southern border campaign plan is not simply repositioning assets. is to bring a more strategic approach toward how we secure our border, bringing across my assets department, not in a stove pipe ashion but in a more coordinated way region "region o there's one person in the southwest who is responsible for bringing to bear all the assets department on border new mexico arizona, and texas. >> the chair recognizes the government irman of reform and oversight. congratulations. thank you. thank you for holding this hearing. i hope you're able to convey the gratitude for the men and woman who serve in the customs and border patrol and put their nt whose lives on the line every day for this country. service. them for their my question for you mr. to etary, what do you say someone who believes the president took action to change the law? change the law. we acted within the law. >> you can play the clip. this is from novemb

i would like to see us, in addition to this, develop define borderw we security so that the congress nd the public understands what we are driving for. >> but i just don't know how much bang for the buck we are for the taxpayer dollar. in addition to how many people capturing and how many are getting through what is the return on investment for the spending?e is there a way -- it is hard to no if i don't know how well we are spending the current money and money -- encourage you if you have not to look at the speech i in on border security october to a think tank called a lot of laid out investment and data concerning illegal illegal, apprehension of illegal clearer s to get at a icture of what you are getting on the return on your investment. >> and any data that with help the derstand how well department is working will make it easier for us to be open minded to working together as you say. >> in is a misapprehension that things are as worse as they have been. illeg illegal, apprehension of illegal immigrants is a fraction of what it used to be in large part because of the investment t

why i think it is an excellent question, and it hooks back to the 1973 resolution at nd the 1963 resolution of congress. i think, i can't stress this enough, i think that when a nation like the united states goes to war, it should not be the responsibility of just a president and a limited number of congressional backers pushing the majority. to give the president what they both decide is the authority to send troops to war. i know there is a counter argument. who else should do it is not for president? i do not have a quick answer. i have suffered over that for many years. i know in my gut that it is not right for there to be no visible, apparent constraints on presidential behavior. and action. >> let's talk a little bit about how the vietnam war impacted the various administrations. president carter, in his dealing with the iranian hostage situation, and and in thinking about what happened in vietnam play into how limited it was? >> absolutely, it played in a very significant way. jimmy carter never wanted to use force, never, never. he said when he first went into , he said the one thing i will not

congress. i know he served in the senate for two years. he came in just as i was retiring. voluntarily, i might add. nd i complimented him. all members of congress, members of the house and the president, when they are sworn in, they take an oath to uphold the constitution. and i am absolutely flabbergasted at some of the comments and some of the statements that our president, who sometimes says he's a constitutional scholar, makes in just grossly voy lating the constitution. grossly. the constitution, article one of the constitution says basically congress shall make all laws. all legislative powers are granted to the house and the senate. all legislative powers. the only exception to that is in the 10th amendment which basically gives all other legislative powers to the states and to the people. but all legislative powers on the federal side are delegated to the house and to the senate. and then reserved to the states and to the people. it doesn't say, mr. president, you don't like the fact that congress hasn't legislated on immigration, you go ahead and do it anyway, and then maybe hope that congress is going to address

the damage it is doing to national security. nd yet, we leave without agreement. part of the problem is there is not sufficient leadership from the white house. it is also congress. a lot of the people in congress are old geezers like me. i know about aircraft carriers. i know about a lot of things. but the cyber issue continues to evolve. it evolves daily, weekly, monthly. i would say cyber is something we have to work together on. we have a close relationship for years. we are committed to working together. corker will be in the foreign rations -- relations committee. there is competition among staff. we are close friends and we will try to work on a common agenda. i can't go to the american people and say we will repeal sequestration without making another run at acquisition reform. we have built an aircraft carrier, $2.4 billion in cost overrun. it is now having more cost overruns. i asked the chief of naval operations who is responsible. you know who is responsible? he said, no. we have everybody responsible so nobody is responsible. that is the classic bureaucratic response. we need to fix it. i could go down the list. i don't have to tell you. it has got

nd support our economic growth and also am hopeful .upport our communities host: debbie, independent, good morning. caller: good morning. i guess i and jeans, would hear those. for the gridlock down there in congress now, if you have a majority, republican house and not see anything getting done between now and 2006. that still depends on who will be the president then. these folks don't care anything about the citizens of this country. it is not about republican or democrat for me. the people who put these folks theirice voted against own interests. these are corporate people they put in there. all they care about are the corporations. they don't care about people being able to make a living wage in the country. sure -- it isake amazing. the corporations have made more president, ands is would you support -- this a president that felt the corporations. you name it. auto industry, all of it. respond? would you guest: i understand. wages are stagnant, the costs they are facing everyday are going up. it is right for debbie to expect our political leaders in washington tackle the very real problems. the best way to tackle that is by dealing with an economy that works for everyone, not just a privileg

congress, indeed america, needs all of us. it needs democrats and republicans and libertarians anglos and nd fearns. soon, i'll have the highest title, not the title of an elected official, but the title of citizen and as a citizen i hope to continue to remind congress of the importance of governing well and the importance of participating in our electoral system. i have faith that ours is a resilient nation blessed by god. despite our frustrations and our fears and our failings, despite ourselves, we still live in the greatest nation the world has ever known. sure, times are tough but they were tougher for our parents and our grandparents. if you think back a moment and you compare your life to theirs and you can see how far you and all of us have come. the job now is not to be mad about and continually relive the old battles of the pacific we need or -- past, to look to the future. i leave this institution, particularly grateful for the opportunity to work with and serve our veterans and our active duty military and amazed at the incredible and still untapped potential of our amazing democracy. i want to say thank yo

on monday, another 250 pair troopers were called up from the 8 nd airborne for service in iraq. and congress's supposed to give the president his $5.6 billion request to combat isis with virtually no debate scheduled on this house floor. mr. speaker, i rise to implore the president to come to congress and explain his strategy for this new campaign in iraq. even the last president who was far less sensible sought congressional authority. it is in president obama's best interest to address not just those relevant committees after granting him the legal legal leeway the white house asserts, but 435 members who have congressional authority and constitutional authority to send our nation's sons and daughters to war. the president must tread carefully going forward and not just because of our recent difficulties in iraq. but also because he now faces a republican congress. those recklessly clamoring for greater military involvement against isis would like nothing more than to blame what could easily become a wider conflict likely doomed to fail squarely on the president's head. i trust this presiden

and my guess is congress will make an effort to totally repeal it, i don't know if that can get through the senate or not. the president will veto it. then they'll probably come back nd make some more discrete pieces of it. probably starting with medical device tax, because it does appear the votes might be there to actually pass that. but i would expect you'll see -- a lot of votes on obamacare, because they've never voted on the senate. also interesting, as the senate did pass and had 60 votes, only 30 members of the senate who voted for it originally are in the senate. it's been a big turnover and a whole lot of those have been elected in the meantime have not become the biggest proponents. >> it's not their legacy. >> it's not their legacy. they don't have to defend it. those that did defend it became former senators. >> my question now for senator nickles, this is kind of a crystal ball question. on two issues that are dear to me. one is how the new congress, the new senate, will act on keystone pipeline. and the other one is how they will handle the issue about lifting the oil export ban and what the repercussions there will be. >> on keystone, leader mcconnell

nd as i said, for about a generation, it led to what the nably was regarded as satisfactory resolution of the international national security wiretapping issue. wanted say, edward levy a role for the congress and the courts. limited.lso wanted it in the way -- i don't want this to sound too technical. essentially, you don't -- security tional wiretap, you need a warrant. basedot a typical warrant on probable cause that you'll crime, but it f a was a warrant that relied on a certification of a high level that usually the attorney general that this was a of a n power or an agent and important in information.ty this intrusion on privacy was permitted. get were efforts to through legislation the courts and the congress involved in whether this was really a foreign power. foreign agent. edward levy strongly and successfully argued that the ther branches of government didn't have the responsibility to make that decision or the information necessary to make the decision. so while he was advocating the dimunution of xecutive power, he was not allowing it to be hijacked. >> this is fascinating. described the balance of three members are observe.to did president ford involve the congress in checking

them against the tyranny nd the brutality under the regime, the puppets of the castro regime in venezuela. and today, the castro thugs imprisoned 52 human rights activist. congress speaks in a voice. the human rights situation in venezuela has gotten worse since e death of that other castro supporter, chavez. national youth day in venezuela, the freedom-seeking people of venezuela have risen up to challenge the abuses and the undemocratic actions being committed. demanding the most basic and fundamental rights. oppressors have but one option, which they never fail to resort to and there was a response of a violent crackdown against those who had the courage to challenge his authoritarian rule ever since the peaceful demonstrations began on national youth day, 42 people have been killed. there have been nearly 60 reported cases of torture and 72 students remain jailed to this day. pro democracy leaders have raised their voices against the abuses of the regular emand have been persecuted and those who have been arrested face cruelty in prison. one of the faces of the democratic opposition continues to be imprisoned in a military facility. continuously denied visit

the congress? i think the american people deserve the right to know exactly what is in that trade pact with fair and open debate like you guys always argue about. committee,nd means you brought up the child tax credit. pressure to under be temporary or reduced. time, there is over $400 billion of permanent tax cuts for corporations. they have been slow to higher in this country and many investments are kept offshore and not brought back. they were brought back in the early to thousands but they did not create any jobs and shareholders got money but there was not as many jobs. generated. at the same time, the argument $7.25 is fine for a worker in this economy. the consumer needs money in his pocket and that's where you should focus. guest: lots of questions there -- you have to decide if you want the government to determine what kind of product you can purchase and at what price. i say most americans would say no, that is my choice to get as many products in the united states. and at the price we determine. ouramericans would say when workers produce great products, we should be able to sell it throughout the world including in the asia-pacific region which

congress. watch it all live on c-span. >>> next, a deep space exploration hearing. witnesses testify about the programs under the space launch nd orion, as well as funding for carrying out those programs. this is an hour and a half. >>> good morning, welcome to today's hearing, an update on the space launch system and orion, monitoring development of the nation's deep space exploration capabilities. i recognize myself for five minutes for opening statement. i would like to welcome every one to our hearing in particularly our witnesses. thank you. anyone who pays attention to the media is aware of the spectacular launch of orion crew vehicle last week. i want to congratulate the entire team at nasa, lockheed martin for an outstanding test flight. scientists and engineers and nasa will continue to analyze data for quite some time. the successful test launch of orion demonstrates we are on the right track for sendsing humans back to the moon and mars within our life times. across the nation people were watching with the same hope and pride all americans had in the early days of our space program. in my congressional district child

. >> this is a campaign poster for shirley chisholm, the first african-american woman in congress. i love this because it says unbossed."nd it's actually for a campaign she waged in 1972. she's the first african-american woman to run for president, and she did it on a shoestring budget and had very admirable showing, but she had a national before 1972.ll she is elected to congress in 1968 from a district that encompasses much of brooklyn, and she becomes very prominent in that campaign. her opponent in the general election on the republican -- liberal republican ticket was james farmer, one of the great civil rights leaders, and there's this back and forth between these two, and farmer really runs on the idea that, you know, brooklyn needs a man in congress, and shirley chisholm -- boy, she fires back. her campaign scene is like the one expressed on this poster. "i'm here to be your congresswoman." this advocacy role. she becomes the first african-american woman in congress in 1969, and she serves a career that in a lot of ways is symbolic. she is a first. she helps establish the congressional black caucus in gains a very