(applause). >> thank you, nita, following along we're going to have colonel barry newland. >> thanks, lewis. i'd like to thank nina for doing a great job of setting the stage so i don't have to go through and do the same thing. so great job. i do not in these slides, any pictures, i will only speak briefly. lewis asked me to come and speak on this last day of the fleet week discussions because he thought that my experiences with the afghan police might shed some light on the current news, the troubling news out there of all the attacks on our uniformed personnel by uniformed afghans and it's only been pretty recent in the news that the increases happened so he thought i might be able to add some background information on that. for about 6 months i was the senior advisor to the chief of police for kabul city police department in the capitol. back at the end of 2009-2010, we real laiz that we probably spent a great deal of money and effort on trying to transform the afghan army and we probably neglected the police force. and the reason that realization was so important was because the p

nita demato, serving as a major, she actually has a dual career. as a reservist she's also a professional educator and she's currently serving as a congressional fellow in the office of bob casy of pennsylvania focusing on the appropriations in budget for veterans and rebalancing services for future engagements but really what we're going to hear from her is an amazing story about the marine corps's activities in afghanistan and creating and promoting safe school environments for young girls and women. colonel barry newman is someone i met back in 2003. i at the time was chief officer for the city and county of san francisco serving in the administration of then-mayor willy brown. and general myat and i were talking about putting together a table top exercise and in came from some exercises from the marine corps and barry newman was a very energetic officer in the marine corps. he has gone over to afghanistan, i went over and saw him there, he was attached to the kabul police chief. i think he's going to have some interesting perspectives about wor

give me nita. let's go. >> oh, yeah. steve: here we go, folks. let's go.swers on the board. we asked 100 men. name one detail you remember about the first date on which you kissed a girl. [buzz buzz] tom? >> um, she--she laughed. steve: she laughed. all right, tom.

. >> we have been told by chairman rogers and ranking member nita lowey, that they quote scrubbed it and took out unrelated items. melissa: is that how they got down to the nine billion? it feels like going from $60 billion bill to this quick bill that is $9 billion that could actually go to the people, we have a lot of sympathy for if we need the money we saved ourselves $51 billion on stuff we didn't need like $336 million for amtrak? they haven't specified where they are going to use that. >> they have pared that down to 86 million. it is for tunnels that were flooded. melissa the bill before us tomorrow will be roughly $9 billion just for flood insurance which is already out of money. so this money is desperately needed to just keep the flood insurance program going, reimbursing people that have bought into the flood insurance program. the speaker, speaker boehner promised a vote on january 15th. melissa: do you think not having pork in it is appropriate or having it cut down is appropriate? where do you stand? >> legislators in the affected areas put forward detailed claims well

nita iranpour records. >> reporter: with colin kaepernick's rise to fame his parents forced into the spotlight. >> it's all good and i think every game we got closer to the play-offs ramped up. >> reporter: teresa and rick kaepernick gracious enough to sit down with cbs13 to tell us about the small town boy who always had to be the best. >> playing little league, and mrs. kaepernick says, if you hit a double or more i'll buy you a new -- >> he had been nagging me wanting tennis shoes i didn't want to buy. >> reporter: at 10 years old what does colin do? >> he gets a double. and he gets out there on base and he starts kind of dancing around and waving at me in the stands and pointing at his feet and i'm going oh, no. >> reporter: they have been his biggest fans through little legal, all sports at pittman high in turlock and football at nevada. now as 49ers starting quarterback heading do the super bowl, mom and dad still think of him as their sweet at times silly colin. >> they played chinese dominos. >> mexican train dominos. >> and, you know, he had brought another nfl player with t

but we want to welcome nita loy as a ranking member of the committee. she has been a hard worker and fair and impartial colleague when it comes to doing the right thing. so welcome to this new chore. we had a great relationship with your predecessor, norm dicks, and i look forward to the same kind of relationship with nita, to return the committee's work to the regular order, and to be sure that people have their opportunity to impact whatever legislation we're considering. we're here, of course, to present legislation providing urgently needed funding for hurricane sandy, relief and recovery. there's no point in trying to thoroughly explain why it's crucial that we consider and pass this legislation. given the size and the scope of the devastation caused by the storm. it's clear that recovery from this terrible hurricane will take months and years even, not days and weeks. and thousands of victims are currently awaiting much-needed assistance. what you have already provided, however, in the regular disaster relief fund that is set aside each year for d

a special thanks to democratic whip steny hoyer and ranking member nita lowey as well as along with their staffs who have driven this process from day one. i want to thank you both. this bill will provide district assistance to communities devastated by superstorm sandy and would help restore and replace damaged or destroyed infrastructure and will put in place cost saving measures to prevent further damage when, when and not if future storms occur. i would just urge any of my colleagues, democrat or republican, who are considering voting against either the frelinghuysen amendment or the overall bill to just for a moment put yourself in one of your colleague's shoes. i don't wish superstorm sandy or anything like it on any of my colleagues anywhere in the united states, but the one thing you need to know is that if this happens that your country will be there for you. the damage physical -- the physical damage, but also the mental damage that people are experiencing because they think that the country has forgotten. don't forget these people. do the right thing. vote for this bill. the ch

i want to bring in now democratic congresswoman nita lowey of new york. she joins us from capitol hill. congresswoman, what did you make of that press conference? he did not mince words. >> i felt governor christie told it like it was. told it like it is. and he and governor cuomo have detailed a careful remedy from sandy. in fact, the numbers that i got originally in a meeting were over $80 billion carefully documented. the administration sent us a carefully documented plan. we thought last night we had a deal. we were told it is 99.9%. we didn't think about that extra percent that this was going to come to the floor and we can vote for it. we have been working in a bipartisan way. there is no space between the democrats and republicans in the house of representatives from new york, new jersey and connecticut. little pennsylvania, on this issue. and it was deeply disappointing. and this is why everyone is so angry that this bill didn't come up. >> congresswoman, who does it behoove speaker boehner to put this vote up? i don't understand it. >> you'll hav

a special thanks to democratic whip steny hoyer and ranking member nita lowey as well as along with their staffs who have driven this process from day one. i want to thank you both. this bill will provide district assistance to communities devastated by superstorm sandy and would help restore and replace damaged or destroyed infrastructure and will put in place cost saving measures to prevent further damage when, when and not if future storms occur. i would just urge any of my colleagues, democrat or republican, who are considering voting against either the frelinghuysen amendment or the overall bill to just for a moment put yourself in one of your colleague's shoes. i don't wish superstorm sandy or anything like it on any of my colleagues anywhere in the united states, but the one thing you need to know is that if this happens that your country will be there for you. the damage physical -- the physical damage, but also the mental damage that people are experiencing because they think that the country has forgotten. don't forget these people. do the right thing. vote for this bill. the ch

actually, this is the last traunch of questions here and sheila jackson lee from texas, and nita loweyfrom new york. there you are. sorry, gwen, i didn't see you. congresswoman gwen moore and veesy. -- veasey. he may have left. so ms. jackson lee, mrs. lowey and ms. moore. one minute. >> let me acknowledge to dr. nottingham our deepest sympathy but respect for such a young man and such a hero, to your son. ternl to the tragedy that we've witnessed in newtown and elsewhere, to the chief. i also want to acknowledge two people in the room who experienced gun violence, parents who lost their son, -- to gun violence. [applause] i come from texas and i will hold this up. "at top of gun world." i want everyone to know what you just said and what many have said, we are not after people's guns. the store's name is houston armry, and the headline says they're strictly controlled by the united states government. not only that, someone said, suppose someone breaks and takes their guns, and they said because they're in a vault, tell me be about being outgunned as a police officer and the importance

nita ogden is pediatric allergy and mazda that specialist.. >> thank you for having me. >> how do we keep our kids safe from the flu? is it too flight get them vac vaccinated. >> absolutely not. all children over the age of 8 months should be vaccinated. takes time for the vaccine to kick in. sooner the better especially now in the height of the flu season. >> what about babies. >> babies less than six months cannot get the flu vaccine. pregnant women should get the flu vaccine because that will transfer antibodies during first few bhonts they can get the vaccine. >> are their risk for pregnant women and children. >> risks are relatively minor. you might get an ache, sore around your arm. if you get the live vaccine in the nose you might get a sore throat or runny nose. benefits are huge. >> it's scary when your child is sick. it's scary they're out of it. and you don't know when you are supposed to go to the hospital. what are the warning signs for which when something can't just be treated at home. >> big thing with the flu you are looking

sheila jackson lee of texas and nita lowey from new york, gwen moore -- is gwen? there you are. sorry, didn't see you. and congressman vecsey. he may have left. ok. so ms. jackson lee, mrs. lowey and ms. moore. one minute. >> let me acknowledge to dr. nottingham our deepest sympathy but respect for such a young man, such a hero. certainly to the tragedy that we witnessed in newtown and elsewhere, i also want to acknowledge two people in the room who experienced gun violence in ron davis and lucia mcbeth who lost their son, jordan, to gun violence. [applause] i come from texas, chief, and i'm going to hold this up, the headline says at top of gun world, because i want everyone to know what you just said, what many have said, we're not after people's guns. houston armory. the headline says they're strictly controlled by the united states government. not only that -- if someone breaks in to take their guns and they said because they are in a vault. tell me about being outgunned as a police officer and the importance of storing and securing guns you mentioned it earlier but storing

the distinguished ranking member from the appropriations committee, the hard fighter, one and only nita lowey. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from new york is recognized for two minutes. mrs. lowey: i thank the distinguished, distinguished ranking member, mr. meeks, for your elegance as always. madam speaker, i rise in strong support of this legislation and i'd like to thank chairman garrett for introducing this legislation and for his efforts to bring it to the floor with bipartisan support. the national flood insurance program has hit its limit. without an increase in borrowing authority, it will be unable to play for claims as early as next week and that means that 120,000 flood insurance claims payments will be delayed nearly all of which are due to hurricane sandy. however, this bill is just not enough, it's not adequate. in december the senate passed an emergency assistance package to aid in the sandy recovery which included this legislation . earlier this week i expected as did my colleagues that the house would vote on a complete emergency assistance package to aid tho

peter king, nita lowey that came together to preserve some of the reforms, madam president, because ite like sending money with dull tools. that's a waste of taxpayer money. you want to send the money and the toolbox with sharp tools that people can use. and that's what we put in this bill. so i'm proud to have worked on that part. there are many other parts. no leader was better than senator schumer, senator gillibrand, senator menendez, senator lautenberg. but the part that we worked on were preserving the reforms that we learned we needed, and now i'm happy to be able to give some of that help to the people of the northeast, even though some of our amendments were stripped out. and i know there are other members to speak so i'll yield the floor and submit the rest in writing to the record. the presiding officer: the senator from indiana. mr. coats: madam president, i know there's a lot of passion on the floor here regarding this particular legislation. probably no one on this floor has not had some semblance of a disaster in their state that they represent and the people. sandy clea