as a partisan leader paul savas non-partisan if you are non-partisan it means you're not supposed to take part in the issues of the day that puts you on one side or the other. to the extent it can preside over the house people might question their ability to do that so traditional breed they do not but they are not prohibited. but traditionally they do not. but this has not changed over time in the '70s they started to participate more often. gingrich voted quite a bit. so boehner has moved back a little bit he votes very, very very rarely of the house floor as a reflection of his belief the speaker needs to move himself out of the debates and conflict in order to see in -- you had the whole interest of the whole house apart. >> host: we have been talking toots teeeighteen about his book "the speaker of the house" a study of leadership" published by a yale university press. you are watching booktv on c-span2. >> host: in catholic university professor what is the thesis of your book? activist alliances and into u.s.-based protest. >> guest: the u.s. has senator bases around the world

. >> reporter: the non-partisan congressional budget office stuck with those numbers until just recently when it lowered it from 7 million to 6 million but the vice president is the first to mention a number as low as 5 million, suggesting growing doubt in the administration. in its report of signups through the end of january, the administration claimed 9.6 million total, 3.3 in the federal and state exchanges, another 6.3 million in medicaid health care for the poor, but a non-partisan health care firm says the number of new signups in medicaid, the only ones made possible by obamacare, is much lower than 6.3 million. >> it's about 1.3 million to 1.8 million. people who are new to the program. the rest are part of the regular churn that are in and out. >> reporter: and those in the regular churn don't count as part of obamacare because they were already eligible before the health care law. for those new to medicaid under the expansion encouraged by obamacare the administration pays 100% of the cost for the first three years, but it pays no additional funds for those already eligible wh

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non-partisan congressional agency says yes and the white house is fighting back.ondent jonathan karl. >> race is on to get people to seen up for obama care. millions spent on ads some of them a little goofy. the critic seizing on dramatic new headline. health law result in two million fewer full-time workers by 2017. according to non-partisan congressional budget office. >> the bad consequences are worse than anybody anticipated. >>reporter: but it's not that clear cut. report actually says two million fewer people will which is to work full-tim full-time. their choice. not because of a lack of jobs. >> they make a choice about their over all quality of life and perhaps pursuing something either new entrepreneur opportunity or new job and choose to go spend more time with their family. >>reporter: how is that? consider 2 example. first those who can now afford to work less. before the law some had to stay on the job to keep their insurance. now you can qualify for subsidized health care without a full time job. and again others will actually find it's just not wor

now, the cbo is non-partisan. it advises congress. and when there's a piece of legislation, the cbo tells you what it's going to be. now, the cbo projects fewer workers in the labor force in 2017 with obamacare than if the law had never been passed. let's be clear. the cbo projects that it will grow, but the growth will be less than it would have been without obamacare. before the republicans start making too much hay with this, the reason why the cbo says it will be less workers, it's not about laying off more employees, as some choose to obtain coverage, some of them might want to keep their income low to qualify for subsidies or medicaid. if that happens, the cbo projects that it will come down 1%. equivalent to 2 million full-time workers in 2017. and as that becomes complicated, that rises to 2 and a half million workers by 2024. the obamacare obviously doesn't want the president's signature law to be seen as a job killer, so the president's aids were quick to respond to the report. and mike has more from the white house. >> repo

from the very beginning the office has both partisan and non-partisan responsibilities they were expected to represent in the majority party in the house but also to some extent he has parliamentary responsibilities to reassure the rules are followed every member has the same rate one dash rights and treated fairly to preside over the day-to-day operations of overtime it has become more partisan. i would say reaching its height around the 1990's with the speaker to anchorage and speaker pelosi. speaker boehner has pulled away to some extent to pre-introduce the west partisan aspects but it is still a very partisan position and they expect the speaker to carry out the will of the majority party. >> host: looking back at the history of the speakers who were more well-known? >> guest: first that comes to mind the speaker from 1940 through the early '60s. he was a prominent speaker because he lasted so long often on over 20 years it is very rare to have one last more than two for three terms but also that he understood the house in which he served and what was that motivated members of the ho

writing for the republic report, a non-partisan, non-profit that investigates money in politics, he takesp that controversial trade deal called the trans-pacific partnership that president obama is trying to push through congress with minimum debate and no amendments. controversial because some of its provisions reportedly enable corporate power to trump representative government, even go around domestic courts and local laws. one is said to prevent governments from enacting safeguards against another bank crisis, another to empower corporations to sue governments for compensation if, say, environmental protections, or regulations on tobacco and drugs interfered with future profits. because of the secrecy we don't know everything that's in the draft agreement. senator elizabeth warren calls it "a chance for these banks to get something done quietly out of sight that they could not accomplish in a public place with the cameras rolling and the lights on." which brings us to two officials chosen by president obama to lead those trade negotiations. lee fang reports that they received multi-mi

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the non-partisan congressional budget office reporting that raising the minimum wage to 10, $10 an hour cost half a million jobs by 2016. did the cbo kill a minimum wage hike? >> i don't think it did. the report says that about 500,000 jobs would be lost by 2016 but 16 million workers will see their pay go up. >> i think that support will not be diminished that much. >> five years since the stimulus bill was signed. . you heard the president there touting the success you also have this statement. little results here. families are still asking where are the jobs? >> i think it's a little too early to say. i think it is somewhere in between. republicans have gone on to the negative reports of this. the fact that remains, what does the president tout when they succeeded in passing the bill. there is nothing else left to spend. and look, we have seen some growth. i would absolutely submit that joe biden a few years a go. >> president obama's reelection shows that at least as a political issue, it's kind of off the table. to some extent it has been replaced by bam caobamacare. i think that t

the non-partisan congressional budget office is facing criticism of its calculations that raising the minimum wage to ten dollars, ten cents an hour could cost a half-million jobs...a decrease in total employment. "i want to know what sort of methodology they used..." members of the white house council of economic advisors said "zero is a perfectly reasonable estimate of the impact of the minimum wage on employment" and accused the c- b-o of being "out of step" with leading economists..."not fully appreciating how much the literature has moved," as one member put it. but a spokesman for house speaker john boener said the report "confirms what we've long known." but democrats found support in another c-b-o finding---that 16 and a half million employees would benefit directly from higher wages. kim brown, laid- off from work in electronics now works elsewhere part-time. "middle-class jobs are disappearing. i made $45,000 before, now, i'm barely above minimum wage, making a fraction of what i had." to all of this, the director of the cbo, douglas elmendorf defended the report, saying "ou

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last week, we got a new report from the congressional budget office, the non-partisan division of the government that advises congress on budget and economist matters. it now projects 2 million fewer workers in the labor force by 2017 with obamacare than would have been the case if the law had never passed. let me be clear. the cbo still projects that the number of jobs in the economy in general will grow in the coming decade but that the growth will be less than it would have been without obamacare. the big reason why the cbo says there will be fewer workers with obamacare: it's not about businesses laying off employees. instead, as more workers obtain health coverage through the new law, some of them may choose to cut the number of hours they work or forego work all together. the assumption is that these people may want to keep their income low enough to qualify for subsidies to healthcare or medicaid. if that happens, the cbo projects the combined pay of all of america's workers will come down by 1%. and the dollar amount is equivalent to 2 million full-time workers in 2017, rising

unless those millions of americans choose to leave those jobs on their own, which is what the non-partisan report actually says. that's why the bam that administration is calling this a good thing. >> critics are constantly attacking obamacare. now a new report fuels the fire. >> the bad consequences are worse than anticipate anticipated. >> that's not exactly accurate at least according to the study. the congressional budget was a said it will be the equivalent of 2.5 million full time workers by 2024. rather than an increase in unemployment, the reason there will be millions of fewer workers is those people will choose to work less, meaning some will find they can afford to work less because they still qualify for the subsidized or free health care. >> they are making a choice about their overall quality of life. >> those workers who feel trapped in a job will no longer have to keep a full time position just to get health insurance. >> maybe a spouse who wanted to be part time so they could spend more time with their family now is able to do that. somebody else who wanted to start a busi

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this is according to a new projection by the non-partisan congressional budget office.why on capitol hill today. >> by providing heavily subsidized health insurance to people with low income and then

a non-partisan, independent agency, hired specifically to look at how future policies would impact you, and it's not the report's findings that we quibble with, it's how those findings are being interpreted. the congressional budget office carries plenty of weight in washington, enough to give flight to policies or make them dead on arrival. so imagine the hoopla. >> a fair wage of at least $10.10 an hour. >> reporter: over the agency's latest report on the federal minimum wage hike pushed by the president finds that 500,000 workers could lose their jobs under one scenario, but what you might not have heard about this report, the cbo seeing many different scenarios. >> what the range of what this might mean is a two-thirds probability it lies somewhere between a million fewer employed versus negligible. >> reporter: zero. he say there's a whole pendulum of outcomes. the likeliest is that job losses are in the range of 500,000. then the cbo says there's a one third chance the effect will lie outside the pendulum. but that's not how these findings were found by some of our elected repres

this is according to a new projection by the non-partisan congressional budget office. take note, bob. its director explained why on capitol hill today. >> by providing heavily subsidized health insurance to people with low income and then withdrawing the subsidies as income rises, the causes a disincentive for people to work relatative to the case in the absence of that act. >> the white house, of course, is trying its hardest to spin the news. >> this might be somebody who used to work 60 hours because they needed health insurance and now they can get a different job at 35 hours that doesn't offer health insurance, but they're getting it through this. this number itself is a small percentage of the overall economy. second of all, this number itself purports -- not purports, is about effectively choices of people. and third, it doesn't reflect the full set of factors that go into it. >> and brit hume isn't impressed. >> that was a sad briefing, megan, that really was. that performance was one of the most unconvincing performances i have seen. his answers to the questio

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. >> i think the book has the most serious, independent, non-partisan, if i am bias i missed it, description of what happened in benghazi and the decision to be into libya and how health care put that c together. and new details about what was going on at the state department, and the aftermath with with the talking point and briefing point and that famous moment in the senate hearing where she said what difference at this point does it make. as far as benghazi goes, she said it is her biggest regret. there is no evidence that the request for more security in tripoli which is a long distance from benghazi made it to her desk or near her desk. she says she is responsible. the question for blame lies with the terrorist first for foremost. and then the senate report we have heard since we finished the book is suggesting that chris stevens wanted to be out there in this dangerous place. he wanted to be talking to the libyans and trying to sell america as best as possible without tanks and guns behind him. whether an ambassador should be making that on their own in a dangerous place is a roeasore

. >> i appreciate the cooperation on this committee, we try to do everything we can in a non-partisan manner because it involves public health of the people of this nation. i will give each of you an opportunity to respond if you want to. you heard in the course of this hearing information that would have been very helpful. you heard of the failure to exercise reasonable caution by the property owner in a manner in which it dealt with above-ground storage. and epa currently publishedes 90 contaminants as far as regulations on how to deal with. chemicals are one aspect of contaminants. there can be other sources, but 90 is a small number compared to the total risk factors that could enter the water system. and as has been pointed out, if you ask for too much information none of the information will be terribly useful. we have before us a specific bill, the bill authored by senator manchin, rockefeller and boxer, i would like to get your specific use what that bill represents the right priority as you see it for federal action or whether there are other areas you would like to see us lo

that is such a testament to how this is a non-partisan event and it is as a great american traditionr and celebrate. >> mary jay blige and the performer tonight. how does that come about? >> the performers are people that the president and first lady enjoy. and we talk to the honored guest staff to see if there is anybody they would like to hear from or listen to on their i-pod. you go from there and back to the process of availability. >> our phone lines are open for the eastern and central time zones. and for those of you in the mountain and pacific time zone it is on there. 350 people is a lot of china and silverware. how is that determined? >> there is staff at the whitehouse that has been there for many years. they know if i say i would like to use the regan china and they will say me might not have enough. or if the decor is hot pink you probably don't want to use red. not that we use hot pink. but they will help you figure out the china, and what linens look the best. >> there is a storm expected to hit washington, d.c. on thursday. what do you do if the weather doesn't cooper

and lori wallach is director of the global trade watch policy group at public citizen, a non- partisan advocacy organization. welcome back to both of you. you are smiling as you saw the video of yourself involved in those negotiations. >> just the other day. >> brown: so 20 years later, carla hills, what go nafta do what did it accomplish? >> nafta was a first rate trade agreement in 1994 when it went into effect it eliminated industrial tariffs. it opened up the agricultural market which we haven't been able to do in any other agreement. it had a first rate intellectual property protection it provided openings for our service providers. it required national treatment, protection for our investors. and as a result, our trade with mexico and canada has soared 400%. and our investment is up fivefold. >> brown: a success story. >> i believe it's a success story. >> brown: lori wallach, i know you saw it differently back then, 20 years later, how do you see. >> well, we really underpredicted what the damage would be. so there has been a large increase in trade. but a lot of it has been a f

that is such a testament to how this is a non-partisan event and it is as a great american traditionhat come about? >> the performers are people that the president and first lady enjoy. and we talk to the honored guest staff to see if there is anybody they would like to hear from or listen to on their i-pod. you go from there and back to the process of availability. >> our phone lines are open for the eastern and central time zones. and for those of you in the mountain and pacific time zone it is on there. 350 people is a lot of china and silverware. how is that determined? >> there is staff at the whitehouse that has been there for many years. they know if i say i would like to use the regan china and they will say me might not have enough. or if the decor is hot pink you probably don't want to use red. not that we use hot pink. but they will help you figure out the china, and what linens look the best. >> there is a storm expected to hit washington, d.c. on thursday. what do you do if the weather doesn't cooperate? >> that is the most stressful thing. i can imagine departments were

>> woodruff: the congressional budget office, by definition, is considered a non-partisan agency. but the report it released yesterday about the effects of raising the minimum wage was seized upon by both sides of the debate. among its findings: if the minimum wage were raised to $10.10 an hour, it could eliminate half a million jobs. but, it would also lift 900,000 families out of poverty and raise incomes for more than 16 million people. the report noted there could be significant variation in the numbers. we join the debate with thea lee, the deputy chief of staff at the a.f.l.-c.i.o. and david neumark, an economist at the university of california, irvine, who's done extensive work on this subject. and we welcome you both to the program. thea lee, to you first, what is your main take away here, on the one hand the congressional budget office is saying yes, it lifts people out of poverty it will raise income but it has the potential to eliminate half a million jobs. >> there were some good findings out of the cbo study. as you said 16.5 million getting a pay increase which is lo

issues out -- >> after today's meeting at the white house with all of the governors the normally non-partisanvernors association turned sharply partisan at the white house driveway when bobby jindal said this -- >> what i worry about is that this president, the white house seems to be waving the white flag of surrender after five -- more than five years now under this administration the obama economy is now the minimum wage economy. i think we can do better than that. >> one second. until a few moments ago we were going down a pretty cooperative road. i don't know what the heck was a reference to white flag when it comes to people making $404 a week. i mean, that's the most insane statement i've ever heard. >> if that was the most partisan statement he's heard all week i want to make sure he hears a more partisan statement, which is i think we could also grow the economy more if we would delay more of these obamacare mandates. >> joining me now is msnbc senior political analyst david axelrod who's a former senior adviser to president obama. david, it seems like the republican governors associ

vincent vernuccio is director of labor policy at the mackinac center for public policy, a non- partisantion and research center in michigan. and harley shaiken, a professor at the university of california, berkeley, who specializes in labor issues. let me start with you, you had big a deal is this and why does the ua work he is a window of opportunity here? >> oh, it's a very big deal. i think what's at stake is the uaw and volkswagen working together to create a new u.s. model to compete globally. that's @ó very big deal in large part because you're going to have a works council representing all employees. you're going to have the uaw as the union bargaining with volkswagen, an on economic issues am and you have a very advanced plant. what fuels this model is worker input at every stage of the manufacturing process.Ñi it's new for the u.s. but volkswagen has used it this model in all its plants worldwide with the exception of two in china, and one in chattanooga and of course in chattedding intoa that could change by tomorrow night. >> well, vincent vernuccio, there is a lot of opposit

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the non-partisan legislative fiscal bureau recently verified that the state will have $911 million more than previously projected. [ applause ] these new revenues are not a one-time windfall, or budget gimmick, but come from a strong economic recovery, where more people are working, more employers are hiring, and personal income is going up. they also come from good stewardship of the taxpayers' money. what do you do with a surplus? give it back to the people who earned it. it's your money. [ applause ] i propose that we deposit a portion of these new revenues in the state's rainy day fund and use the remainder to provide much needed tax relief to you-the hardworking taxpayers of wisconsin. [ applause ] tonight, i will propose a blueprint for prosperity, which will continue to improve our economy, while preserving our strong fiscal standing. so how did we get these positive results? a true commitment to real structural reforms for state and local government budgets led to our long-term fiscal stability. meaningful tax cuts that keep more money in your pocket rather than requiring you to

it's a non-partisan report and predicts 65% of small business will supreme premiums go up. those plans cover 11 million people and employers will likely pass those on to guess who, the workers. martha: that is the way it usually works stuart varney joins us from the "varney & company" from the fox business network. tell us where the numbers come from. >> medicare & medicaid services office of the actuaries. they're bean counters. middle of the road bean counters don't take idealogical position. they studied employers with full-time workers less than 50. they insure their workers privately. the study found as you reported, martha, 2/3 of these employers with 11 million workers will pay more. they didn't say how much more but paying more. this study did not include any extra payment payments for deductibles. didn't include problems working out who is your doctor and who is your hospital. simply saying under obamacare because of what is called the community rating rule, these employers will pay more. now in response we have the department of health and human services saying th

. >> and it is non-partisan. when you talk about national and homeland security, it should not be partisan. i believe that fervently. thank you for the terrific work you do here. i'm sure i will see you again. >> i thank you. the terrorists are not going to check the party registration before they blow us up. we should focus on this as a country. thank you coming as an american to talk about a challenge as an american. >> thank you. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] >> on the next "washington nelson schwartz talks about the role of the middle class in the u.s. economy. then usa today crime reporter and substancen abuse across the u.s. and what the government is trying to do about it. "washington journal" live at 7 a.m. eastern on c-span. president obama signed the farm bill today at an event hosted by michigan state university in east lansing. the bill is projected to save billions of dollars over the next decade. it ends so

some are urging with the non-partisan congressional budget office saying the hike could cost jobs. half a million or a million in the worst circumstance but the cbo found it could lift 900,000 folks out of poverty. joining us charlie hirt, columnist at "the washington times" and lynn sweet, washington bureau chief for "the chicago sun-times." the math, lynn, is a little bit hard to understand. you have to be great to lift almost a million folks out of poverty but the cbo says worst-case scenario this could also bring a loss of a million jobs. so how do you balance those go out? >> well you know, social policy is often very difficult. on that economist, i'm not challenging the findings of the report but this is a balancing of interests. now there has been some talk to try and offer relief for people on the entry-level part of the equation. young students, maybe not have, give them a break on withholding wages or something like that. so there might be some solutions to help truly those in, the segment that is we're talking about who may be young, first-time job holders. jon: charlie,

non-partisan congressional budget office reported that millions of americans will choose to work less all to keep themselves under the threshold so they can have the subsidies that they want to cover their health care. democrats like nancy pelosi are saying that she believes that is a good thing, that it will give americans the freedom to follow their dreams and not worry about whether or not they have health care coverage. but bill o'reilly feels a bit differently. here's what he said. >> the problem is that you and i, working americans, will have to pay for that passion. so the simple question becomes, is that fair? talking points has no problem paying for safety net entitlements and as you may know we give away millions of dollars to the poor but now i'm being asked to pay for somebody's, passion, by supporting their, health insurance. martha: how about that? new hampshire senator kelly ayote was at yesterday's budget committee hearing. she asked the cbo director about his report on obamacare and the labor market and she joins me here today. good to have you here today. >> good to

and so both of these people are good at being non-partisan. i think there might have a loving parent of parties at this point time. as we all do, but they also just really get to the quick and get to the truth of whereat. so with that i will take any more time. please welcome greg and charlie. [applause] >> well, thank you. great to be here. my friend, diane swonk. hey, david. i see all these friends in the audience. i went around the country last year giving a talk that washington was looking pretty good for investors to be people of the audience looked like dow was on drugs. i said that volume last year and will say it again this morning. i think the three big themes in this city are very, very positive for the markets. you probably know what i will say, will just quickly point out that there will not be a crisis this year in washington. both parties are determined to avoid one. there will not be a default crisis or a budget shut down, nothing like that for at least another year of. i don't have to tell this group, people like diane and stua

the federal and state exchanges, another 6.3 million in medicaid, health care for the poor but a non-partisan health care consulting firm says the number of new sign-ups in medicaid, only made possible by obamacare which encouraged states to expand the program is much lower than 6.3 million. >> it is about 1.3 to 1.8 million. people who are new to the program. the rest are part of the regular churn that are in and out. >> reporter: the rest don't count because they were already eligible before the health care law. for those new to the program under the expansion encouraged by obamacare the administration will pay 100% of the cost for the first three years but it pays no additional fund for those already eligible which is often one of the top three expenditures for state budgets. now if the vp is right, jenna, and the administration only signs up five million in private exchanges, and his analysis that less than two million newly eligible signed up for medicaid so far, then the administration will be lucky to hit half, half the original projection of 16 million by next month. jenna? jenna: jim