. >> joining me now, democratic congressman peter welch from vermont. as we dig deeper into the republican compromise of reid and heller, it does propose a $6.5 billion price tag and it's unclear if it's going to get the 60 votes needed to pass the procedural hurdle, but as "the washington post's" ed o'keefe notes, house republican leaders have expressed no interest because the senate proposal lacks a pay for. so, as we were just hearing there from rand paul about this and the fact that there is no catch to figure out how do we pay for this other than borrowing money from china, is this proposal dead in the water when it comes to the house? >> no. i don't think it is. you know, only one in four unemployed americans receives unemployment insurance benefits, so it's really essential to them that they be extended, but it's also important to the economy. and frankly, if we're going to have a discussion about what kind of conditions should be imposed, we ought to be talking about how we can put these long-term unemployed people back to work. unemployment is

peter welch, my democratic co- sponsor for this bill, had it right when he asked: "can we just put the battle axes down for a while and take a step forward?" i know we can. and if we do, it just might inspire us to come together and do what the american people sent us here to do. jobs, health care, energy, education, and innovation are all areas in which the house has started work that washington needs to finish this year. but first, we need your help to get this done. don't take it from me. gabriella miller, this bill's namesake, was -- well, she was something special. she was nine when she found out that she had a brain tumor the size of a walnut. and she was 10 when brain cancer took her life. in that time, gabriella -- never at a loss for words or wisdom -- became the leader of this movement. and she was awfully good at it. "if i go," gabriella said, "if i lose my battle i'm going to want all the people to carry on with the war, and we're going to win this war." let's go out and prove her right. join us in urging our senators to put kids first and pass this bill. in this season of

who tweeted out some support of congressman alan grayson as congressman jim mcgovern congressman peter welch really with a cell researcher leo is now full throat for clemency a lot of other members of congress when it says some release espionage act charges dropped everything like that what ultimately started in what they could do but once you're on what has been saying for years that the american will be horrified that the nsa knew what they were doing but he took his oath that more seriously a gesture was unwilling to expose constitutional violations like edward started was an angelina thirty seconds when i have been york times calling far at the outpost oden and chelsea manning's that have pardoned. well i don't think in your hands is gone as far as to call for pardon for kelsey manning at which is on the sad thing is how even as recently as last month's mainstream established media have been citing diplomatic cables and and wore lots released by private manning on those information are still his brain still use on a regular basis and you cannot ask for clemency for snow and announcing i

you've tweeted out some support congressman alan grayson has congressman jim mcgovern congressman peter welch. really rather really going to come out full thought throat for clemency a lot of other members of congress want to see some release espionage charges dropped everything like that well to really snowden did what they couldn't do but wanted to do ron wyden has been saying for years the american people be horrified at the n.s.a. knew what they were doing but he took his oath more seriously i guess or wasn't willing to expose costs to show violations like edward snowden was and your we have thirty seconds what do you make of the new york times calling for both snowden and chelsea manning's kind of pardons well i don't think the new york times has gone as far as to call for a pardon for kelsey manning which is kind of sad seeing as how even as recently as last month mainstream established media have been citing diplomatic cables and and war logs released by private manning those information are still newsworthy and still use on a regular basis and if you're going to ask for clemency for s

and these congressmen, peter welch, cynthia loomis, introducing the bill. it even has the backing of some conservatives, including jim jordan and jim sensenbrenner, the author of the patriot act. the government last year spent about $53 billion on clandestine activities without publicly accounting for the money and as best as we can understand it, because they are part of this, we have it all covered for you tonight and we will be joined by her panel of radio superstars tonight will weigh in on these folks who want to reveal the black budget for intelligence agency work. can you imagine? we will have on the senate intelligence committee report and benghazi and the recommended changes to be robust with the idea of changes at the and nsa. we will be joined by the "a-team" in our radio talkers panel. and jay joins us from the american center of law and justice to talk about their surveillance activities that they wanted for five years and now somehow they are not responsible for. so they want to change things but maybe not. we will take all of that up. also a

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we saw just last week representative peter welch from vermont, he wants obama to release the sort of top line numbers, how much money is being spent in these intelligence gathering 5:activities, so, congress always has a lot to say, and they will probably have a lot more to say today. >> he's getting it from all sides, but there are things people are waiting to hear about, philip, and i'm wondering is he just going to try to make people more comfortable with these programs? what is he going to try to accomplish with just this speech? >> obviously, his goal here is a political one. he has recognized in the wake of the edward snowden revelations that americans are not comfortable with what the nsa is doing, in part because they are just learning about it, in the way the president is. "the new york times" reporting that some of the things snowden leaked he was surprised with, as well. but what he's trying to do here is he is trying to address the concerns of the american people, while at the same time maintaining the capabilities that he has. i think mr. hayden is correct to some extent

speaker, i along with peter welch, and senators wyden and isakson introduced bipartisan legislation to truly bend the cost curve and improve medicare. medicare today, mr. speaker, is very different than it was in 1965 as 68% of all beneficiaries have two or more chronic conditions which account now for 93% of all medicare costs. our legislation will help seniors, like darlene from my district, who suffers from multiple chronic conditions, including arthritis and diabetes. the complexity of gaining input from her many doctors and nurses makes it very difficult for her to manage her own health. this is a difficulty that many seniors typically face today. but by modernizing the medicare payment system, paying for results, not just activity, incentivizing people to take care of themselves and removing the barriers to innovation, we can ensure that seniors get the right care at the right time. we can also take advantage of health care technology in telehealth. we can brean down the barriers of geographic barriers to bring chronic care management like the mayo clinic in minnesota to life. mr

now are democrat congressman peter welsh of vermont and former secretary of labor robert reich, professor at the university of california at berkeley. representative welch, assuming this bill makes further progress in the united states senate, which is not at all certain at this point, what are the prospects of some kind of action in the house of representatives? >> well, it's pretty uphill, because we're having this debate as though extending unemployment benefits is going to solve the problem. what it will do is mitigate the impact on individuals and on the economy, but, in fact, what we should be doing is incorporating a discussion about what job creating policies will help, things like building our infrastructure, best time we can do that is now. it increases employment and demand. second, subsidize job program that was a partnership between republican and democratic governors in the administration and employers that put people to work. then third, i think we should be raising the minimum wage. you do those thing, you're actually going to increase demand, increase the base of employment. >> robert reich, i would like you to take on this notion that'