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. >> no deal on the debt ceiling ould be tragic. for the world economy. >> china owns trillions of dollars of our debt. a default would send financial markets tumbling. for us, it would mean maintaining higher interest rates on homes and cars, slowing the money we all spend, creating a ripple effect. >> that would hurt manufacturers and wholesalers who say, people are not buying as much so i do not need to ship or produce as much. the slow down turn of the economy. >> which could mean and cuts in jobs, not to mention retirees and people saving for retirement. the fact that the economy has truly not returned from the recession makes the timing of the debt crisis even more troubling. a headwinds like a manufactured crisis, government shut down, or the debt ceiling, it will only push us back through. >> by the end of next month, uncle sam will have to pay out billions of dollars in medicare, military benefits, if the government default, the president will have to decide who gets paid and who does not get paid. we are live on federal hi

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foreign born population it spends less than one percent of that on health care for its immigrants robert oulds director of the u.k. based anti e.u. bruise group told us native britons are becoming less well off because of uncontrolled immigration situation where people are coming in form predominantly eastern europe such as poland and no doubt more will follow from bulgaria and romania from the first of january when they can seek employment here is of course undermining the native british people of course they're working for less so the wages are being depressed and of course british people are finding that they're left on the scrapheap so to speak of course not everybody coming here is actually coming here for work some were coming here to use the national health service which is free some are claiming benefits and of course there's also pressure on school also in housing in london the cost of rents has gone up enormously because there's just so much demand we need food ration policy that suits british needs and where we can supply services for those who actually contributing in the u.k. what

so that cases like that in the future are avoided however robert oulds chair of the n.t. european union think tank the bridge group says that washington is between a rock and a whole place when it comes to solving the crisis. the carbon crisis with the shutdown in of the us government and public servants not being paid that will harm economic growth that undoubtedly just raising the debt ceiling is not an answer that will just store up further trouble and will be the same situation just a few years down the line again there was a similar crisis in two thousand and eleven where the. steps then of course led to a downgrade in u.s. debt since then boy when costs for america have actually or did actually decrease but of course we're now just two years later we're seeing the same thing happen and it's just amazing that seeing once again would just mean just further down the line they'll be severe problems america has very severe financial problems raising the debt ceiling is not an answer but of course austerity as we've seen in the european union doesn't work either so americ

wider than this open door coach we have at the moment robert good to get your thoughts robert oulds chair of the group think thank you joining us live there in the u.k. really appreciate your thoughts thank you thank you my. rock police have dispersed a protest against the ruling family in bahrain's capital manama the rally started at the funeral of a sheer detainees who died in a prison hospital security forces reportedly used buckshot. injuring several demonstrators docked another day for the head of the bahrain rehabilitation an anti violence organization spoke to a little earlier she said the police often target ship funerals. it's getting like a practice by the security forces that. are the. relations specialist and the. did one is this related to our political. comedy and is that literally the mask. during the if you're knows there are many. attack and happen the other common practice. time for a look at some other world news this hour here in r.t. a stampede on a bridge at a hindu temple in northern india has killed at least eighty nine pilgrims dozens were also injured as huge cro

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because the speaker said that it ould be unquote, unconditional surrender. that isn't what is needed. we don't need another supercommittee but allowed to vote. this poster shows 195 democrats willing to reopen the government and 22 republicans. that's the majority of the house. mr. speaker, let democracy prevail. let us vote. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from florida reserves. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. sessions: i will reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. hastings: mr. speaker, tell me how much time remains. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida has 1 1/4 minutes remaining and the gentleman from texas, 2 1/2 remaining. mr. hastings: i yield the remaining time to mr. price. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for the balance of the time. mr. price: this debate is a bizarre experience for those of us who have been urging negotiation on the budget fo

. >> we ould pay the debt, but we are talking about this government. and it's not all.just a portion of who would get paid from the government. you would agree with me, i know, that this entire debt ceiling,, and it's t raise camino that costs are going up and it will be something tht will definitely go up. >> what happens when interest rates go up? our economy goes the wrong way. and why would we want to do this. neil: this includes a lot of other issues that we didn't see very long go. but to your point, nother combo menu if you let me finish. we do give it a level of uncertainty, like a pox on both your houses. you think that is a possibility? >> and it's good that the republicans are standing stong. if we don't make a statement here -- >> we need to fight bcae that. neil: you are not a looking step in order stylish? >> no. neil: we keepgoing through this charade. with the promise that we ar going to get around to addressing it. >> we do to some degree. i would agree with you in part. we don't do enough and it is unfortunate that the grand bargain we talkabout a few

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six in 10 americans have said that if they ould, they would be in place every single member of congressth parties. lou: ed hnry from the white house. the funding of obamacare, the precipitate or of the sh down seemingly lost even as we learn more about the programs incredible faults and infectiveness. "the wl street journal" today reporting that the biggest flaws with the governments website, it had been identified and reprs have begun. will be fixed, will be fixed in time to save the program? health car.gov serves 36 states. unfortunately, technical glitches n web servers have little impact on the cost at consums are facing for health care coverage on the government plan. chief correspondent jim angle has the report. before the exchang on, the insurance company aid at rates would soar, but now there are subsidies. reporter: h has been trying gure out how much he will get. >> i hav been clling thm every d since october 1. several times day in some indications. they havebeen sometimes enduring 45 minute holes. reporter they were not ableo give him a fir umber because of repeated ip probl

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john stossel with thfacts you @%ould know, brewing disaster. did you hpen to catch this so-called this story? >> invesgati reporter went undercover to see firsthand how this underground world works. >> eight peoples sharing a meal in a stranger's home. blended best and dinner parties like these have bece more common. siders tell us they are completely unregulated. john: oh, my goodness. unregulated dinner parties. gavin mcinnes is a media critic ann columnist. he hates this kind of hide and writes about it. what gets in their heads? >> out of touch with the average american and think that they need to get in there and regulated all. i feel like they have never built the business, a liberal arts degree, a journalism degree, d't run the numbers. john: that is a good point. anybody u.s. tried to build somethin, a building or a busiss, they wake up to regution. reporters, most have never built anything. >> i notice they took thee comments section down from the web page at that news station. you called the reporter up and gave her some heat, i hope.

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♪ when you think about it, ist that what retirement ould be, paying rselves to do what we love?ry jack lew testifying before the senate finance committee this morning. he gave lawmakers a blunt warning about what would happen if congress fails to raise the debt ceiling by october 11th. cheryl: rich edson joins us from washington with more on a day for jack lew that was well, quite a day. rich. >> indeed it was. mesh. message for the secretary, let's not go there. treasury needs to service the debt. doing sew will avoid a fault. treasury secretary jack lew said missing any payments would be default on those obligations. he says treasury computer systems can not prioritize payments. they're only designed to pay all bills. as for the debt ceiling deadline, treasury says it is october 11th for now but lew said that could be off. >> all the revenue projections that we have based on our analysis on were based on a world where the government was functioning where all the services that relate to government activity were happening. it didn't take into any accounts layoffs might occur and

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single ould hit every fiscal goal that you wanted, but crumble and none of your students, or a tiny ofents could read or perform well in school, nobody would say that economic growth strategy was working. on the other hand, if some of and things are going well you have a completely fiscally unsustainable future, that is either.great you have to think about this as growth, an overall pro pro job strategy. that there's no question right now we still need to give momentum.very more we cannot possibly be satisfied levels of projected growth when we are still coming from the worst recession since the great depression. too many long-term unemployed americans. middle class ny amilies who are doing better, working harder, but still are not where they should be or they deserve to be. we need stronger growth. to give this recovery more momentum. so, it is not hard to think how you would design a pro growth fiscal strategy. ou would make sure that right now you weren't overly .ontracting the economy chris van hollen asked the congressional budget office how much the sequester would cost us in job

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when,ould not tell me where, how. at the time, my representative had requested any information they had documentation, with a base it on. told that there was not any. it was just an anonymous call. thisjust now finding out information. it is shocking. it is scary. >> i hope it'll will have an impact in many ways. you and mrs.both you pointedicated out what was going on to your bosses there at the social security office. i believe you alerted the chief of staff. is that correct? >> that is correct. >> what about chief judge andrews? did you inform him what was going on? >> most of the e-mails started to be copied to mr. andrews. on one particular occasion, takendaugherty had approximately 50 cases away and preparingn his office to write favorable decisions in i took them into the office. i showed them the cases. they removed them but then they were back. >> thank you. let me ask mrs. hicks. the bank records of judge 2005-2011 show cash deposits in $95,000. going as high as 5000 at a time. some of the 26,000 was posted

for gdp,ould be good but it's also interesting, were sitting here talking about, you're seeing comments from ,ongressional leaders saying maybe we can get something done. maybe it's not going to be a large deal. maybe we can get something done. when you look at what the, you know, what people are talking about, it makes you realize that the c.b.o. has scored the immigration bill as reducing the deficit by almost $900 billion over the next 20 years. so if you're asking yourself right now, what is one of the most promising, bipartisan things we can do to reduce the long-term deficit, you should be supporting and actively fighting for passage of the comprehensive immigration reform that passed the united states senate. but obviously it's just also the right thing to do from a moral point of view. the president's mentioned the farm bill, where there's been bipartisan movement. you know, one of the other things that we talked about with the president quite a bit is understanding the ability of the president to get things done and have change even beyond legislation. now, legislatively, a cou

. >> i don't want to repeat the theme but the theme is the same. , first,ould add is stability is critical to performance in our programs across the board. what we have an experienced -- and experiencing has been extraordinary destabilizing. there is a certain budget environment that we are marching through. it is unraveling. all those programs underpin current and future readiness. , as theigher level commandant testified, what sequestration poses is a steady decline across the board in terms of operations, readiness, force structure which ultimately equates to presence, response and national security. we're on the front end of that today. 2013, we saw the clements being canceled. delays toing programs. when you compound that year- not a straights line. it will quickly devolve. the 300 ship navy we require to meet our strategic defense guidance -- we are staring today a potentially a navy of 250 ships in number. areircraft carriers jeopardized to drop down to numbers of 10 and nine. towards thees nation's defense. >> i agree with the theme. start with something dr. paul kaminski talked ab

stand,ould the people and where were the court stand on the question of the illegality of actions by a major political figure? there is nobody more major than the president of the united states. know wherex didn't the people would stand. he was cautious going ahead with thecase might lead to president to ignore the supreme court. upon blinded up -- bind it beautifully. -- nixon lined it up beautifully. he could see earlier what was there. nisshe president got stan to agree, it will be difficult to fail to agree. they were democratic and republican leaders on the senate committee. if they went along, and elliot richardson went along, cox would be isolated. the president got 4-5 steps down that route. he got into trouble when he got to elliot richardson. how did he make that mistake? elliot firmed up his conclusions the day before. >> that is what we ask one another. that, it to come to seems clear that that was the only choice you had. it wasn't a hard decision. it was the only choice you had. >> y'all have been extraordinarily patient. to you. like to open it i would like to ask each

ould not have do you know contractually whether or not that would be available for independent agency review? >> c i would have to go throughmf contract organization for approval. contract, is there an -- how long did you have in the specification? did they tell you two weeks was all you have to have? the construction industry which is very specific about completion of a project. was there anything like that which said that you must begin testing two weeks before it is launched? no, none of the specifications were in our original contract. >> was every changed it said you shall begin testing two weeks prior? >> no, and once again testing was not our ultimate responsibility. independent testing was done by if you feel that you achieve your objectives by october 1, can you tell me whether or not there was anything about liquidated damages, if there are problems associated after october 1 that have to be corrected? >> i would have to get back to you on that. i don't recall if it was a standard for our clause. i just don't know for sure. being a cost plus type of contract, now i am stretc

but we are hurting what progress ,ould mean to any sensible rational person. what else is excluded? natural resources. so when we overuse the groundwater or threatened it pipelinewith this xl -- the xl pipeline. let me diverge for a moment. [laughter] ridiculous. it is an atrocity. [applause] --nderstand president obama i am a fan of president obama. i appreciate his peaches on climate. what he has allowed gina mccarthy to do one regulating co2. fantastic. i think he means it. but i hope he gets down to the decision on this xl pipeline that he really understands very clearly what is at stake. this should be vetoed. it is an atrocity. it is a threat to our future. our addiction to these high- intensity, dirty carbon-based fuels, junkies find veins in their toes when the ones in their arms and legs give out. point where wehe are going after these ridiculously dirty and dangerous carbon-based fuels. and we have to stop. in any case, we are excluding all of that from the calculation. we are threatening the groundwater. we are depleting the topsoil. what else is excluded from the way we

then another penny next year, and a penny the year after that, to ould go a long way dramatically reducing this budget deficit. the good news is we'll get this deficit down to $600 billion or $700 billion. a huge number but less than the $1.2 trillion we have. if we could get america back to work and the 20 million people who don't have full-time jobs or no job at all into work. that would do a lot. when you ask about raising taxes, you normally -- we just have to get people working to pay taxes. host: clint from texas. on our democrats line. hi. caller: how are you this morning. host: go ahead, please. caller: i just wanted to make a few comments. i noticed during this fiasco i used to be a republican. i changed it. i'm going to democrat after i seen what they did in the house. one, they changed the rules in he house from what i believe the speaker of the house was the only one could bring it to the floor. that was wrong. that's close to being a ictatorship to me. the president told people up front i'm not going to negotiate on the health care bill. grant you there's problems with it as f

candidly, in three years in serving in in thisky congress i have yet to see a bill that is like for it ould to be, but i know this bill is a step in the right direction, a step that we can take and a step that we must take. i thank my friend from florida for his leadership on the issue, for his leadership on the rules committee and for yielding me the time today. with that i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from georgia yields back. the gentleman from florida, mr. webster, reserves. the gentleman from florida, mr. hastings. mr. hastings: thank you very much, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, at this time i'm pleased to yield one minute to the distinguished gentleman from california, my friend, mr. lowenthal. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. lowenthal: i thank the gentleman from florida. mr. speaker, we are a country of interdependent states that share prosperity, challenges and resources. united with a goal of a healthy economy, supported by quality infrastructure. at times, though, inequities in the collection and di

ould they trade for what if the president went back and said, i will not raise the debt ceiling unless you implement gun control or, i will not raise the debt ceiling unless you scrap obamacare and put in single-parent care? they don't think it's a legitimate debate. host: the house will be in shortly. here is jenness -- janice. caller: it's amazing what is going on in congress. it's ridiculous. they are so busy listening to their lobbyists, they have forgotten to listen to their constituents. it's got to stop. if they want to make some kind of sanity of this thing, they have to stand there together and agree and listen to what the people are saying, and not their .dvisors forgot that we are the people of the united states of america. it's just ridiculous. they have to stop. they have forgotten they represent the united states, they are the ones who are supposed to be an example of what the constitution is about. guest: it's an interesting point on this issue. i don't think you see lobbyists -- certainly there is a lot of question about whether lawmakers are beholden or adding provisio

is as far as how high it compared to private lawyers, private practice lawyers who ,ould be doing similarork though salaries are quite low. have often commented that as soon as their law clerks go to private practice in the very first year they make more than the justices themselves in salary. it is a good salary compared to forgeneral public, but highly talented lawyers it is not so high. host: tony mauro with "legal times," thank you, sir. appreciate it. guest: ok, thank you. host: here is a piece by amanda becker. it says that "a miniature versio -- a mediterranean island teaching stint and the $2 million book advance and trips around the world were among the side benefits enjoyed by the supreme court justices last year. mayore sonia soto reported more noninvestment income than any other member of the court in 2012 thanks to an advance by her publisher, on top of one point $75 million she received for the book in 2010, meaning the total income for telling her life story to more than $3 million so far. justice stephen breyer served as a juror for the architecture prize last year, and it

american people, instead of 42 times voting against it, they could have presented their plan, they ,ould have come up with ideas because there are provisions, plenty of them that say if you have a better idea, present it. if they are really concerned they would have done this. republicans are more about keeping old money flowing to people on the side, raking it in. that is my comment. host: since you called in on our "fix it" line, how would you go about fixing it? caller: you could go into the private industry or anywhere, and when you start a new basically technology that has to deal with the influx of all these people, you are going to have to be patient. if it was private industry, it happens all the time. windows eight had a problem when it first came out. they put all their top tax on it , and then they -- their top tec these things.x if people can be patient it can happen. host: that is patrick from virginia. here is paul on our repeal the line from tennessee. caller: good morning, thank you for taking my call. this thing is nothing but the first step to communism. that is all it

about putting a clean government funding bill on the floor for a vote, he said this, why in the world ould we do that? now, they've said they don't want to shut down government, that's why they'd do that. why would you say that? to open the government so it can serve the people, that's how you do it. how confusing can that be? he went on to say this, however -- you know, that doesn't encourage anything. that's basically at this point a surrender to the democratic position. now remember, ladies and gentlemen, i just told you that their their number, number that they passed through here. i don't like that number. hal rogers, the republican chairman of the appropriations committee doesn't like that number. the subcommittee chairman doesn't like that number. we're saying, ok, yes, we'll take your number. let's keep government working for our people. now, the house majority leader -- i used to be majority leader -- or as i refer to the good old days. he said this, we're trying to get the government open as quickly as possible. that's 12:05 p.m. today, ladies and gentlemen of this house, mr. spe