015 that's common for the house and senate, not only did we solve the fiscal 14 problem with the omnibus bill in january, but now making great progress on the we're 2015 bills. this is the earliest time, at we've ince 1974 that passed appropriations bills on the house floor. we are getting off to a really good start. senator mikulski and i are in general agreement on the procedure of how we're going to try to make this work. we want to pass 12 individual bills through the house and senate and congress in the old-fashioned way. that is our common goal. and we're moving more or less the same bills early on in the house and senate so that we can get into the process of doing conferences, house and senate. most members of the house have never seen such a thing. we have not done this in years. but it's the right way to do it. you know, the number we're marking to in the house and the identical to ost fiscal 2014. that will help us along trying to reach final agreement with the senate on numbers with each ill. we got an early start.

>> yeah, you had the omnibus bill. you could argue them if you had done 12 individual bills they may not look that much different than the omnibus that's cobbled together. the opportunity for some members to throw political bombs like what happened with immigration or the environment or other hot-button items. why does that process get you a better result in the end? >> i am a firm believer in an open rule on the floor where everyone has a chance to say their peace and amend the bill as they would like to try. i believe in an open process. getting the train back on track means passing bills or subcommittee, full committee, full conference with the senate and the like in an open fashion. everyone has a chance to become an owner of the bill. it is more process than substance. i think the congress is a place where every member should have a chance to try to foster a bill o his or her liking. f we follow the standard procedure that is always taken lace in the house and senate with these individual bills debated openly and

i gave you at least uncertainty for what you use for last year's major omnibus bill and for the upcoming round of appropriations bills. yesterday you can rdc some landmines with them attract new -- you could already see some landmines with republicans. you going to avoid a situation in which you get to move the popular bills like the veterans bill or the homeland security bill but then you have these leftover bills that are going to be a real problem? what is your strategy for avoiding a mess in october? all of this goes to show you the need for a common budget number for the house and senate. we have not had that in recent years. consequently, appropriations bills in the house would pass the house perhaps. the scent with past bears. that would be -- the senate would pass theirs. that would be agreed upon. it is common to the house in senate. it is vital for appropriations. we are showing if you give us a number that the house and senate agree on, we will pass appropriations bills within those numbers. to emphasize the importance of the house and senate passing budget resolutions early o

cámaras captan terror en las caras de pequeños y como algunos resbalan de sus asientos luego que omnibusue conductora enviaba mensajes de textos, una mujer cayÓ de una plataforma de espera, la pasajera termina sobre la lÍnea elÉctrica que controla el pasÓ del tren y recibe fuerte descarga, en pocos minutos fue trasportada a un hospital, estÁ viva de milagro. >> por ir ebrio al volante este conductor se estrellÓ contra otro vehÍculo y este estallÓ en llamas. >> otras dos personas que iban a bordo de otro vehÍculo tambiÉn resultaron ilesas. >> prófugos tres pillos captados por cÁmaras de seguridad mientras robaban en tienda, despuÉs de esto bandidos dispararon dentro del conmercio y reventaron cristales, son hispanos de entre 18 y 25 aÑos de edad. >> con violencia desmedida se enfrentÓ policÍa escolar a un estudiante de 17 aÑos, la pelea fue grabada, en el enfrentamiento tambiÉn particiÓo empelado de la escuela, culpan al joven por iniciar la discusiÓn. >> más preguntas que respuestas ha dejado la muerte de adolescente de 19 aÑos a manos de policÍa en kentucky, autoridades publicaron este

in contrast, the fiscal '14 omnibus package is a prime example of what we can accomplish by working to the under regular order. this committee was able to provide every facet of the federal government with adequate, responsible funding while continuing to reduce federal spending totally $165 billion in cuts since fiscal '10 as we collaborated to reduce spending on the discretionary side of the ledger, i would be absolutely remiss if i did not if i did not echo the sentiments of chairman crenshaw and others in calling for some leadership from this administration, and your department, specifically. on the problem of mandatory spending. that squeezing aside everything else. today, mandatory spending as you know accounts for two-thirds of federal spending. but i came to congress, 1980, '81. we appropriated two-thirds and now it's just the reverse. and it's zooming. we've managed to control discretionary. we've reduced discretionary over the last two, three years. but in the meantime the mandatories are zooming skyward and crowding out everything that you and we want to do on the discretion

aborde de este Ómnibus, viajaban pequeÑos, una menor tuvo que ser rescatada por la puerta trasera, esperanran bajo la influencia del alcohol o las drogas. >> detuvieron a la madre o menor de cinco aÑos que llegÓ hospital en mÉxico con mÚltiples golpes y quemaduras. la mujeres policÍa asegurÓ que su hijo se habÍa caído, pero todo indica que el padrastro del menor es el responsable. >> las imÁgenes de esta deseada agresiÓn indignan a cualquiera. el pequeÑo o buen llegÓ a este hospital con lesiones severas, su madre dijo que su hijo se habÍa caÍdo, pero la escusa durÓ poco, porque menor le contÓ los mÉdicos que su padrastro lo habÍa golpeado. las autoridades aseguran que huyÓ luego de dejar al menor en el hospital, antes de haber sido detenida habÍa negado esta versiÓn. la abuela de owen confÍa en la inocencia de su hija, y contÓ que el padre biológico del menor tambiÉn lo agredÍa. >> deberÍan de investigar antes, Él tiene un orden de restricciÓn contra la madre y su hijo por violencia. >> las redes sociales conformaron un grupo para apoyar al pequeÑo. mientras tanto, los mÉdicos aseguran que

vean como la mujer desciende, hasta que el Ómnibus se detiene por completo.eron ilesos. zigzaguea en medio del trÁfico, en una carretera. vean cÓmo va de un extremo a otro, de la vÍa. exceso de velocidad desafiando el peligro. por Último se pasa la senda contraria. cae fulminado sobre el pavimento. ( sirena ) >> al ver que el joven estaba muerto, el chofer del camiÓn abandona el vehÍculo. las autoridades estÁn tras su pista. >> momentos despuÉs del despegue, esto ocurriÓ en alaska. la potencia repentina del viento, hizo que el piloto de 58 aÑos, perdiera el control. aunque, por suerte, resultÓ ileso. usaron una grÚa para atraer a tierra firme, a este aviÓn, que estaba atascado a unos 50 pies de altura. tras pasar unos cinco dÍas dentro de su alto, hecho tratar la, en colorado. una mujer fue muy afortunada al ser rescatado con vida. los dolores dijeron que deberÁn amputarle las dos piernas, por las heridas que sufriÓ. fue encontrada por un conductor, al perder el control en una curva. >> una mujer contratÓ a dos hombres para que asesinaran a su esposo para que

we learned that barack obama signed an operative this spending-- omnibus bill.e have a long way to go. we encourage congress to provide funding for those struggling and continue to allocate resources for those who are in need. --in ant to be treated want to be treated differently. i am kind of used to it. -- shlleelleynd ortiz, part of the winning group. great video. >> thank you so much. we worked really hard on them. >> you are in 12th grade. you're going on to college. would you recommend others do this competition? >> definitely. gives you something to focus on. what ever you are doing, it gives you a vision. you can learn a lot about those things and what you can do to help as a young person. >> these are middle school entry winners. you are part of a team. peter, telephone little bit about how you decided to clear documentary together. how did you seek out interviews? >> we live in the d c area. we try to contact leaders and people there. u oflso contacted the acl maryland. they're big on these issues. we try to make the film balanced. weree got interviews

. >> that was an omnibus bill. there has been funding. there was dramatic increases in the v.a. that is not the issue. the fundamental issue is the transparency and integrity. the fact is the big problem right now is the fact that they were covering up the wait times for financial gain. so, we need to know the difficulty is not having transparency, you don't know what appropriations are necessary to make the v.a. run when there is not integrity and mismanagement in the organization. it needs a completely cleaning from top to bottom. the culture needs to change. i think the first step is certainly the firing of general shinseki. i want to thank him as a combat veteran with service in the army and marine corps. i want to thank him for his service. it did not translate in the v.a. it has a culture of mismanagement and fraud. >> congresswoman titus, you did not call for the resignation. why not? >> i think general shinseki is a good man. he is a war hero himself. with all due respect to my colleague, i thought this was about making change. not about making headlines. removing him is

we were able to pass an omnibus spending bill which was significantly important. we worked together to pass a child care development block grant bill and after four or five attempts to end a filibuster which we were unable to do, finally were able to do that and got five stal -- stalwart republicans to join with us and passed unemployment benefits. today we have shaheen shaheen-portman, energy efficiency, creating 200,000 jobs. it's a really fine piece of legislation, mr. president. it started out good but got better as the bill's sponsors worked together to incorporate ten republican amendments joined by some democrats, and it's a better bill now than it's ever been. now, my republican colleagues have been asking for more than a year, please let us vote again on keystone. now, i personally oppose keystone. i think it is really bad to have the most dirty carbon stuff there is to make oil out of it, ship it clear across the united states and then you know what they do? ship it overseas. that's what they'd like to do. i oppose that. but if the republicans think it w

. >> listen, clearly, dan, you know that the feed for your horse and omnibus is clearly going up in price. guys, a correction on my part. once again, i confused the scottish can the canadians. it's rbs, not rbc. sorry, scotland. >>> grab a hard hat and hammer. we're about really to people inside the fed's toolbox. >>> ahead, the alarming number of out-of-work americans who have simply given up on the job search. "street signs" begins after the break. sneed y. worked hard. raised two kids. they've never been to moscow. but they sent money there. rented an apartment. all because, they have this 19-year-old daughter who loves to dance. in over 700 cities worldwide, products and services that make a citi client anywhere a citi client everywhere. . >>> normally say steve liesman and "toolbox" in the same sentence, that can raise eyebrows, but when it's a fed toolbox, it adding to intrigue. steve has a shopping cart of really big things. what is going on here? >> here's what's going on. the fed has a problem. it's going to try to normalize rates sometime next year, we believe, but there's exces

so this omnibus sort of ruling seems quite irresponsible to me. >> interesting to use the word irresponsible. i know you have said there are three things that determine whether someone is a psychopath and someone can commit some of these horrible kinds of crimes. brian makeup and childhood patterns. two of the three are nature, not nurture. people are born this way? >> well people are born with a certain genetic makeup. and many are born with a certain propensity, a sort of brain pattern, a circuit that has low empathy. and it tends toward aggression. but by itself, that isn't enough to create a criminal, a killer. so we say that the genes load the gun and the environment pulls the trigger. but in some people, many people, the bullets, the genes that they inherit are not dangerous. they're blanks. so about maybe 20% of people who have this high risk genetic composition, their early abuse can really trig their into a psychopathic pattern. >> dr. fallon, thank you. >>> and still "outfront," a first look at google's driverless car. no pedals, no steering wheel. >>> and a congressman working to

innovation strategies program and the program has provided $10 million funding in the fiscal year 2014 omnibus appropriation bill passed by this chamber a few months ago. funding for the regional innovation program supports the economic development agency's interagency effort to build regional innovation clusters including the jobs in innovation accelerated challenge and make it in america challenge. this program helps to ensure we build a cohesive, competitive economy by aggregating existing investments in technical assistance for multiple federal agencies to develop a network of interconnected firms and institutions. together this network and other regional stakeholders can use this funding to accelerate job growth, spur business formation and expansion, encourage innovation, invest in work force training and support small business development. for example, the i-16 challenge grants funded within the regional innovation program have already helped universities and research centers across the country invest in efforts to scale up groundbreaking ideas. this means providing these innovators wit

to 14 omnibus bill we passed in january and it makes no sense we it stop progress that we enhanced four months ago. i hope i don't need to remind my colleagues of the fact we have a capacity problem in our nation's prisons. the problem only grows worse when we intentionally prevent more facilities from operating. again while i understand the arguments that have been made tonight against us, those folks will not come here, and i yield back the balance of my time. thank you. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the gentlewoman from tennessee is recognized. mrs. blackburn: thank you, mr. chairman. i would like to remind my colleagues of a couple things. number one, going back to the letter in 2009, december 15, 2009, it says in the letter the defense department will operate part of the facility to house a limited number of detainees from guantanamo bay. now, i have to ask my colleagues, who do you think is going to be there? this is a prison that is empty. it is empty right now. we know what is going to happen. this is going to be used to receive guantanamo bay detainees. the 9/11 familie

host: the appropriations committee passed their omnibus bill. we've happy with the final numbers? we passed the commerce justice science built out of the committee and provided allocations, which essentially establishes what each of the 12 subcommittees of the appropriations committee will receive. we set those allocations based on the budget agreement that was enacted in december. the overall discretionary spending number for this fiscal 1.0 4pcoming will be trillion. the number this funding the current fiscal year is $1.012 trillion. that is where we are. that is split 12 ways. not equally between ways. also takes a big chunk. that was established yesterday. host: what is the next step in the process? guest: get processes one month ahead of schedule. -- they havers been working to restore washington to a regular order process. it is important that we send a message that we can government, that we are capable of doing what the public sent us here to do. i think we have been lurching from one crisis to the next. i believe it is important to provide some level of budgetary sodictab

on the day we finished or film we watched president barack obama sign the omnibus bill for the first aid program but we have a long way to go. we encourage congress to provide funding for those who struggle with enemy illness and allocate resources resources resources and develop programs for those in need. >> i'm just 0 to it. >> shelly ortiz and nina, handnarks handnark all part of the winning document, first prize high school winner, congratulations. it was a great video. >> thank you very much. we worked very hard on it. my team and eacher put all of our time into it. >> you're 12th grade. would howend others do this competition? >> definitely. it gives you something to focus on. whatever you're a high school or eight grade your doing it. it gives you amibition and you get to learn a lot about the state of america and what you can do to help as young figures. definitely. >> peter is our middle school entry winner, and he is part of a team with antonia, ander to his and mad lynn. so, peter, tell us about how you decided to put your documentary together and how did you go bat seeki

generates a lot of money for the treasury for the use of a finite taxpayer so we have through the omnibus set up to 100 megahertz and a broad new competitors that several other of my members. this authority was expanded in the balanced budget in beginninn that nobody is really saved the spectrum at an event the last option was 700 megahertz which was created through the switch to free up some of the spectrum. moving forward from that point we had a discussion of the jumpstarting opportunities and setting up this incentive option framework that came out through the broadband plan and how you can incentivize to relinquish some spectrum. and we talked about the next neutrality adopted yesterday and the congress adopted. it was adopted in september 28 through the lobbying and comment proceeding that was adopted yesterday there's still work beyond that with the general option for the holding was updated. without a full order to read through from the commission yesterday about the direction that they are looking to go. >> the notice of the rules making -- spin that i would be surprised if we ca

doling out earmarks. 2009, the last year we had a lot of earmarks, there were 9,000 earmarks in one omnibus appropriations bill. now you tell me, what was the appropriations committee doing for months prior to that? i can tell you, most of their time was spent -- and staff time and what time should have been spent on the other 99% of federal spending was spent securing that 1% of federal spending that constituted earmarks for the members. so we're not exercising oversight with earmarks. we're abdicating our responsibility and spending far too much time on these earmarks. let me just say there are 43 members of the senate who are in their first six years in this body, myself included. i happen to have spent some time in the house, so i have some perspective there. for those who haven't seen the appropriations process with earmarks, i think it's useful to take a little walk down memory lane and to see what it was like in years past. jack abramoff, who spent some time in prison for working the appropriations process pretty well, he called the appropriations committee the earmark favor factory.

undertaken post the summit in 2012 working at the department of transportation, what is the particular omnibus bill moving ahead with progress in the 21st century or the map 21 includes the federal railroad administration federal highway administration has come together with the department of trade petition to conduct the study and report to congress the differences between military and civilian licensing. to fill the gaps but also to ensure that the department of transportation who has a big jurisdiction over transportation logistics to work with the department of defense to figure out whether or not how you bridge the gaps, how do you work together for the end goal of finding employment in strengthening the workforce. you have also initiatives in the department of energy and the national institute of the building sciences. they are convening industry subject matter experts to come together to develop outline for how to acquire energy efficiency workforce certification programs and i would like to bill discuss that more since he is heavily involved through this particular initiative and the d

host: the appropriations committee passed their omnibus bill. we've happy with the final numbers?passed the commerce justice science built out of the committee and provided allocations, which essentially establishes what each of the 12 subcommittees of the appropriations committee will receive. we set those allocations based on the budget agreement that was enacted in december. the overall discretionary spending number for this fiscal 1.0 4pcoming will be trillion. the number this funding the current fiscal year is $1.012 trillion. that is where we are. that is split 12 ways. not equally between ways. also takes a big chunk. that was established yesterday. host: what is the next step in the process? guest: get processes one month ahead of schedule. -- they havers been working to restore washington to a regular order process. it is important that we send a message that we can government, that we are capable of doing what the public sent us here to do. i think we have been lurching from one crisis to the next. i believe it is important to provide some level of budgetary sodictabilit

i think that the omnibus spending bill that finally put us back on some semblance of regular order in the appropriations process was worthwhile. i think the farm bill that was passed as both a safety net program for many of our needy families in our country as well as an important economic tool that my friend, mr. lucas, got through on a bipartisan basis, was again very worthwhile. you think the flood insurance bill this congress passed on a bipartisan basis, again very worthwhile. i think the fact that we have dealt with the doc fix, there's been on ways and means an agreement as to what we should do, not agreement how to fund it, but we bought a year's worth of time so our health care providers who do a great job helping our seniors and needy people on both medicare and medicaid will continue to be reimbursed. i think this congress doing the gabriel miller kids first research bill taking money out of political conventions and putting it toward pediatric research, that's a good job. i think the fact that a couple of appropriations bills have actually crossed this floor in a bipartisa

i gave you at least uncertainty for what you use for last year's major omnibus bill and for the upcoming of appropriations bills. yesterday you can rdc some landmines with them attract new -- you could already see some landmines with republicans. you going to avoid a situation in which you get to move the popular bills like the veterans bill or the homeland se

looking at the health-care component of the omnibus bill. the full story available online.thisur put a page, problem has been going on since there have been vets." boehner and pelosi resisted the cries for the ousting of the veterans affairs chief. here's what blows he said yesterday. elosi saidwhat p yesterday. is the issue served by saying, ok, those people did that. they kept the information from the secretary and from the congress. let's rewarded them by removing the secretary. or, maybe, we keep the same person there who was reviewing the same set of facts. we will see. i really do think we have to be careful about thinking that just because you know the top person means that you have changed the systemic problem that exists in the organization 10 years before shinseki became the secretary. that is why i'm not there. i have a high regard for the secretary. he honors our country with the service. he has for his whole life. cts will take us to a place where we should go next. evidence-based decision-making is what is important to do. it is easy to call for somebody at th

i rise today to support this legislation, again as it adds to an overall omnibus approach to going after anyone who wants to hide behind the vulnerability of a child and take advantage of them. the fact that this bill provides they do resources so not find the most welcoming track, someone's ugly words that are to undermine them. i ask my colleagues to support this legislation because, in fact, it stops those children from going into a life that will ruin their lives and to make them find a place. i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. the gentleman from washington is recognized. mr. reichert: may i inquire how much time remains? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from washington has three minutes and the gentleman from texas has 7 3/4. . mr. reichert: i yield one minute to the gentleman from michigan. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan is recognized for one minute. mr. huizenga: we know barriers to age-appropriate activities increases human trafficking and negative outcomes that kids in foster care experience. i appreciate