joining me now is congresswoman rosa delauro, democrat of connecticut from connecticut, and also fierce advocate on this issue scott fava of good policy action, a nonprofit devoted to holding members of congress accountable for their photovotes on food policy. thanks for being here. >> thank you, reverend. >> congresswoman, over 0% of school districts are already meeting these new nutrition standards so, who what's really behind all this gop opposition now? >> first of all, reverend, thanks for shining a spotlight on this critically important issue, and it is about our children, and our children need to be put first and i want to applaud the first lady for all that she has done, going back to 2010, when the healthy hungry free kids act was passed. she worked hard to do that as did a number of us in the congress to move forward to finally get standards for our school lunch program. and those standards just didn't come out of the air. they were put together by the institute of medicine along with the department of agriculture so that we could ensure that our kids were getting healthy meal

chairman, i yield three minutes to my colleague, the gentlewoman from connecticut, row la -- rosa delauro. the chair: the gentlelady is recognized for three minutes. ms. delauro: i rise in support of congresswoman esty's amendment which strikes a dangerous rider that would bar the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives from enforcing a reporting requirement of semiautomatic weapons in four southwest border states. it's over 16 months since the tragedy in newtown, connecticut, where six adults and 20 children were murdered in cold blood. it's been almost a week since the latest mass tragedy that occurred in california. 19 people were shot and four killed in new orleans last weekend. even before what happened at uc santa barbara over 80 americans were killed by guns last week and all the families who have lost loved ones, families in newtown, santa barbara, and all across america are still waiting for the congress to act. these bills have been used to chip away at the federal government's ability to enforce gun laws and protect the public from gun crime. this is yet another exa

the only reason you would even put one there as rosa delauro, very close to nancy pelosi to the democratic leader in the house, put one, they this is all about hillary clinton's campaign and they want to protect hillary clinton. bill: we'll see whether or not they do that. an hour ago, mitt romney was asked about this. he was on another network, okay? juan, the point he makes if republicans were in charge of the house we would never know the truth here. here's the governor. >> is it if republicans were not in the congress, if republicans did not have majority in the congress there would not be a investigation into benghazi. and i think there are questions that have to be answered that have not yet been answered. the white house is apparently withheld certain information and so congress is going to look into it as i think they should. there would not be an investigation of benghazi, there would not be an investigation into the irs were there not a republican house. bill: what about that point, brad? would we even be here? >> we would not and that's why it is so important for republicans to

jon: that one democratic lawmaker member comes from that suggestion, comes from rosa dell lore row. one of -- delauro, one of nancy pelosi's trusted lieutenants. she had this to say to her democratic colleagues, such a lone participant maintain access to witnesses and material, monitor the house majority activities and provide a powerful voice to raise issues and make appropriate public comments. she says the reason for all of this is that she believes house republicans are politicizing the committee, but part of the reason, not entirely the reason but part of the reason the house republicans say they want to have this committee is because they feel the white house was politicizing the entire tragedy, trying to blame it on a youtube video in advance of the presidential election. >> definitely some fingerpointing here and that's, henry waxman, who has launched a lot of investigations on a variety of issues does not like the one member idea. he thinks democrats should be all-in as many members as they can get boehner would allow which would be five. so this is something, there are politics certainly in