shuster: yield back. the chair: the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from massachusetts. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the noes have it. mr. lynch: may i get a roll call. the chair: pursuant to clause 6 rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from massachusetts will be postponed. it is now in order to consider amendment number 30 printed in part b of house report 114-325. for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recognition? >> madam chair, i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 30 printed in house report 114-325 offered by mr. lewis of georgia. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 507. the gentleman from georgia and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from georgia. mr. lewis: i appreciate the chair and the ranking member's hard work on this bill. i rise to offer an amendment th

shuster: thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the chair declares the house in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for further consideration of senate amendment to the text of h.r. 22. the gentleman from mississippi, mr. palazzo, will kindly take the chair. the chair: the house is in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for the further consideration of the senate amendment to the text of h.r. 22 which the clerk will report by title. the clerk: an act to amend the internal revenue code of 1986, to exempt employees with health coverage under tricare or the veterans administration from being taken into account for purposes of determining the employers to which the employer mandate applies under the patient protection and affordable care act. the chair: when the committee of the whole rose earlier today an amendment consisting of the text of rules committee print 114-32 was pending. pursuant to the order of the house of today, amendment 1 printed in part b -- printe

shuster of pennsylvania. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 512, the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. shuster and the gentleman from oregon, mr. defazio each will control 10 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania. mr. shuster: let me start off by saying we lost a valuable member, former member of this committee just recently, howard coble passed away and i wanted to say howard was on this committee. he was a valued member and champion of the coast guard for which he served and he was always there fighting for them. he was an excellent representative to the people of his district in north carolina and he was a great friend of mine and i know many, many members of this congress. howard coble will be missed greatly. i'm proud to say we were on the last coast guard re-authorization and able to name it after howard coble. so again, it is with a heavy heart, i say i salute howard coble and say good-bye to a great friend and member of this institution. i rise today now, these amendments e

shuster. i want to thank mrs. walters, congressman royce and calvert for their support on this amendment. i look forward to continuing to work on transportation and thank you for hanging in there this late in the evening. i look forward to working with you and ranking member defazio on this issue during the conference. and i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentlewoman yields back the balance of her time. the question is on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from california. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the amendment is agreed to. for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania rise? mr. shuster: i move that the committee do now rise. the chair: the question is on the motion that the committee rise. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the motion is adopted. accordingly, the committee rises. the speaker pro tempore: mr. chairman. the chair: mr. speaker, the committee on the whole us who of the state of

david shuster has our story. >> the simple fact of the matter is we hear a lot of promises in this debate>> reporter: john kasich blasted his republican rivals and described his tax cut policies as unique. but kasick's plan relies on government revenue assumptions that experts call absurd. on this night outside of the debate hall, protesters demanded a raise to the minimum wage, inside ben carson justified his opposition with this. >> every time we raise the minimum wage the number of jobless people increases. >> reporter: but history does not support that claim. since 1979 congress has raised the minimum wage 11 times. according to labor day ta there have been overall job growth six times and overall job losses five. florida senator marco rubio in explaining his opposition to the minimum wage tried to shift the focus to something he supports, vocational training. >> welders make more money than philosophers. >> reporter: the problem is according to the bureau of labor stithics, welders age is 36,000, if is -- philosophers $63,000. >> i have met vladimir putin in a private meeting. >> rep

>>> good evening everybody, i'm david shuster in new york. this is al jazeera america. back on stage from the minimum wage policy to welders versus philosophers. the latest on the republican presidential debate. >> military funding. congress approves of hundreds of millions, what taxpayers are buying, and why it is happening. moving forward. how the university of missouri is addressing claims of campus racism. tension and intimidation between stungts is it lingering. >> and happening now, republican presidential hopeless are towards the end of a fourth debate. hosted by the fox business network featured the top eight candidates, facing off over a range of issues. michael shure begins the coverage in milwaukee. david, how are you. it was a less rauk us debate and the debate goes on so far tonight. ben carson, a lot of people were watching to see if he would be asked about his biography and resume. he got one question, turned it around to hillary clinton, and that went away. the fireworks in this debate started early, and started when donald trump talked about integration

el. >>> i'm david shuster in new york. just ahead. holiday security. nearly 50 million americans will be traveling this thanksgiving weekend. >> go to public events and go to public places and know that our folks are on the job. >> amidst fwroeing threats from isil, can law enforcement keep everybody safe? >>> plus, define gravity. 100 years ago albert einstein turned our understanding of space, time and the cosmos upside-down. >>> the conflict in syria took on a new dimension today when turkey shot down a russian fighter jet. turkey says the plane violated the air space and did not respond to several warnings. russia says the jet was flying over syria. one russian pilot was killed and another russian service member died whether a helicopter participating in a rescue effort was shot down. paut tin called the incident a stab in the back. the united nations and nato called for calm amidst efforts to diffuse tensions. >>> tunisia is under a state of emergency after a bomb hit a bus. at least 12 were killed in the blast near the interior ministry in tunis.

, i'm david shuster in new york.s is al jazeera america. back on stage from the minimum wage policy to welders versus philosophers. the latest on the republican presidential debate. >> military funding. congress approves of hundreds of millions, what taxpayers are buying, and why it is happening. moving forward. how the

. >> david shuster is filling in for ali velshi tonight and he joins us to talk about the influence ofports on the -- the country, really. david first of all, take it away, what are your thoughts on the developments over the last few days. >> a lot of us felt when northwesterns players tried to unionize, and that was stopped we thought that was it. but these athletes showed all you have to do is walk out. and if the administration is not paying attention to the environment off of the field, and the sensitivities and issues of race, they say wait a second, is the football or basketball team going to take matters into their own hands and cost us some real money? >> so missouri isn't a football powerhouse, which makes me think about some of these bigger schools and what those athletes might learn. >> yeah, looking at the university of michigan they got rid of an athletic director who treated the program as a commodity not a religion. that is the great message, and it's the message that all of the big universities, the huge programs that make a ton of money off of sports, they now have to

and then, you know, simon and shuster sent up this great photographer and took these beautiful picturesso nice, my family was so happy with the big smile, then he took a picture where i wasn't ready, and it was horrible. and it was the picture that everybody said we should use. you can't have a big smiling face with a term crippled america with the title. so, its been doing really well, the book's been amazing, actually. and it was the hardest i've worked on a book since the art of the deal. i've done 12, many best-sellers, but this is the hardest i've worked. and it was a little bit, you know, it was a quick time, quick turn around, but it's the hardest i've worked on a book since the art of the deal. >> let me ask you a question, donald, about money, we're going to talk about your add buys in just a bit, $300,000, not too much for you. often, i think one of the main attractions of your message is that you don't need money from the outside. you're paying for this yourself. people really like that. and you often said that you don't have any use for big donors. specifically sheldon adles

bill shuster on your screen. he will chair the conference committee, first time in a decade, lawmakers hoping to have agreement on a transportation bill. they hoped to pass it in time to prevent an interruption. but they have lined up a two-week extension to give them time to get over the finish line. there is jim inhoff, the vice chair of the conference committee, about to get under way here live on c-span3. >> the conference committee for transportation will come to order. i see that we're joined by mr. defazio electronically. how are you doing? >> doing well. thank you. appreciate it. >> peter had surgery. unable to be here. unable to fly. we made sure that he's here. first i would like to welcome the members of the conference committee from the house and senate. everyone else that's here today at the meeting. according to a long-standing agreement, the house and senate i' alternate this. >> thank you. i nominate congressman shuster as the chairman of the conference. without objection, that will be the order.

let's go back now to david shuster for a look at where the candidates stand on that question. >> let's start with the economy. the democrats are united in their belief that president obama's actions brought the nation, including the south out of recession. each of the three democrats three more needs to be done to make sure the growth is broadly shared. they all agree the minimum wage should be raised but o'malley and sanders believe it should be raised to $15 an hour. hillary clinton is proposing a less ambitious level of $12 an hour. on social security, o'malley and sanders agree that the program should be expanded, saying home caregivers should be credited for work in taking care of a friend or relative. hillary clinton believe that is social security should be left as is and not expanded. rewarding financial industry power, the south is home to several top u.s. banks. o'malley and sanders both support breaking up the nation's largest banks. >> we'll take a closer look at the southern economy with our guest. recently, he wrote an article in the american prospect called how the ameri

as david shuster reports, these parking lots are a visible solution to a hidden problem, a problem affecting people who do not fit the stereotypical image of homelessness. >> reporter: just before 6:00 pm as others start the commute to work, teresa smith heads to an unassumed church. it's not religion she's after. it's the parking lot. >> this is the office, what we use. we have the file cabinet with the paperwork, basic toiletrie., smith and the non profit runs a programme in a youth center. it's one of a dozen programs along the west coast. running a safe haven. for 65%. smith started in 2010 when a new face of homelessness emerged. middle class, accustomed to stability, suddenly cast adrift. they go down to the shelters saying "it's not me, i'm not homeless, i'm in between, what do i do, where do i go?", 76% of those in the lot report some income, but struggle with underemployment or jobs paying a fraction of what they are used to. >> just because you're homeless doesn't mean you are not working or you don't want to work. you do. >> you want the security that you had. >> 57-year-old kathe

shuster. investing in this country's infrastructure should be a top party for congress. as a member of the house transportation and infrastructure committee i was delighted to work on the important passage of a multiyear transportation bill which is critical to all those responsible for maintaining and using america's roads and bridges. this bill provides more flexibility and certainty for states and local government accelerates project delivery and promotes innovation to make our transportation programs more effective. in my own state of texas we have seen massive growth both in population and in our economy which presents a major and unique challenge for state to build and maintain our current and future infrastructure. with major projects underway such as completing interstate 69 rebuilding the harper bridge in my hometown of corpus christi and ensuring reliable access for waterways and ports is critical to get to work on completion of the conference report. you must also continue to support innovation in our transportation system. the 21st century is going to be very

donald trump's book is published by simon and shuster, a division of cbs. >>> this morning, the air force is trying to figure out why one of its rockets failed in mid flight. the ors 4 super stripy lifted off from a naval base in hawaii late yesterday. shortly after liftoff, the rocket broke up on mid flight >>> all 224 people on board a russian flight were killed. 33 have been identified. a u.s. satellite detected heat around the airbus before it crashed on the sinai peninsula and that could indicate a bomb or an engine explosion. but officials have ruled out a missile strike. >>> the national transportation safety board says a disconnected fuel line was discovered on an airliner that caught fire at a florida airport last week. the dynamic international airways boeing 767 was headed to venezuela from ft. lauderdale. 101 people on board escaped by using emergency chutes. >>> winter storm warnings are in effect in the mountain west. a storm system will bring a foot or more of snow to eastern utah and much of the colorado rockies. some ski resorts in california's mountains are preparing to

al jazeera's david shuster reports. >> in cleveland monday night, vermont senator bernie sanders stepped in front of thousands of supporters and said now is not the time for fear mongering. >> during these difficult times, as americans, we will not succumb to racism. we will not allow ourselves to be divided and as you come to islamaphobia. we will not turn our backs on the refugees from syria and afghanistan. [ cheers and applause ] >> international aid groups urged the united states to accept 65,000 refugees. the obama administration set a goal next year of 10,000 after accepting only 2,000 total over the for the four years. >> we have the most extensive security vetting that we ever had to deal with syrian refugees coming to the united states. >> the attacks in paris and reports that one of the suspects may have traveled trough france posing as a migrant have fueled vocal republican opposition to the white house plan. >> bringing people into this country from that area of the world, i think is a huge mistake. >> it's not that we don't want to, it's that we can't, because there's no wa

. >> david shuster, al jazeera. >> a senior reporter at the center for public integrity says that despite inaccuracies, the debate gave viewers an opportunity to understand the candidates asks positions on the issues. >> i thought there were very, very sharp contrasts on several issues and overall, this was a debate about issues, it came build as that and did deliver. i thought the minimum wage, the issue they started right off the bat with was one that was very profound. you had some candidates saying look, you know, minimum wage is absolutely something we cannot raise, it would be bad for the economy, bad for america. then you have sort of a counter vailing point from john kasich who said i'm not so sure. maybe this is something that we have to reconsider and that we even did in ohio. you can sort of see the candidates, where it's this issue or several others jockeying for the hearts and minds of moderates, if you will, in addition to the conservative base. >> front runner ben carson's performance highlighted the fact that he has never held political office before. >> blizzard warnings

. >>> that's it for this half hour, i'm david shuster. thanks for joining us. ray suarez is next. >> what are debates for in the presidential primary season in this year's republican debates have been unwieldy and they sometimes cried out for more context and more explanation rather than bumper sticker slogans. it got so bad that after the cnbc forum, the candidates toyed against the media and their own party eventually backed off. nobody is refusing to participate. but in fact, all of the capped dates want a podium for the main event. why? a year away from election day, we'll be debating the debates. it's the "inside story." >> welcome to "inside story," i'm ray suarez. while the democratic debates have been rather sedate affairs overall, the gop encounters have not, one candidate made fun of another's looks, and one got away with missing a question about tax plans by turning the answer into an attack on the media. the republican national committee yanked a scheduled debate from nbc to punish the network for the cnbc debate. but no candidate has talked about n

shuster and mr. defazio, for not supporting the amendment and for recognizing that this is not an amendment that enjoys the full support of all the four smaller territories. i would also like to thank the dean, congresswoman bordello, of the territories of guam, for her efforts and engagement on this very born issue. i look forward to working with staff and fellow delegates from the areas on working together on resolving our problems. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentlelady from arizona seek recognition? >> ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the eaker pro tempore: gentlelady from arizona is recognized. ms. mcsally: mr. speaker, next week we celebrate veterans day, a time to honor the men and women who served our country in the military. today i want to recognize a standout veteran from my district. daniel standich. he served 10 years in the u.s. marine corps until a neurological c

i'm david shoes st shuster. "on target" is next. >>> "on target" tonight. turee blows a war plane out of the sky putting it's allies in a tight spit. the 17-second midair drama that caused a modern day cold war controversy. >>> syria's war has just mee tas sized into something bigger, and all the inconsistencies in the west's policies toward the syrian conflict now have the potential to set off a real war between russia and the west in the middle east. earlier today turkish jets shot down a russian war plane that crossed from turkey into -- from syria into turkey. now turkey is backing syrian rebels fighting to oust bashar al assad from power. russia is on the other side of the fight against those rebels. both fight isil, but neither seems to have made that its priority. 17 seconds, that is all it took for two russian su-24 fighter jets to stray 1.3 miles into turkish air space. one of the two planes slipped back into syria. the other, which had only been in turkish air space for 17 seconds, was shot down by a turkish fighter jet. the russians say it was sh

through the leadership of e chairman shuster and ranking member di fazio. however, in my opinion, we still have work to do. my hope with this conference is that is not an exercise in few n talt. a i hope all conferrees to have a say to our individual states ant district. no because many issues have yet to be resolved.con i hop this is an open process and that legislation is not alsd concocted by a few -- select few individuals with bathroom deals and handshakes.ticipatehis simply put, members want to participate. do one thing this legislation doesd not address is the out of date thresho threshold.go. to address this law since 1931. crippling regulations is also something this congress must address. motor coach school bus, trucking companies are continually threatening with an arbitrary pa increase by the federal government that have no jurisdiction whatsoever in this process. the house bill addressed this m issue and we must ensure the ws final product upholds our efforts and complies as well. we must ensure that we encourage private companies to compete fo

i look forward to working with chairman shuster and the ranking member on this important issue. i urge my colleagues to vote for this important issue. with that, i yield back. the chair: does any member seek ime in opposition? the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from kansas. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the ponch the chair, the ayes have it. he amendment is agreed to. it is now in order to consider amendment number 12 printed in part b of house report 114-326. for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? mr. foster: i have an amendment at the desk. the clerk: the eric -- the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 12, printed in part b of house report 114-326. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 512 the gentleman from illinois, mr. foster, and a member opposed, each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois. mr. foster: thank you, madam chairman. i thank the chairman and ranking member for their hard work on this bill. my amendment is simple. it

david shuster begins the coverage. >> the simple fact of the matter is we here promise. >> reporter: earlier on john kasich blasted rivals and described his tax cut policies as unique. >> the only plan to get us to a balanced budgets by the end of a second temp. >> reporter: it relies on revenue assumptions that experts called absurd. on this site protesters demanded a raise to the minimum raise. inside ben carson justified his opposition with this... >> every time we raise the minimum wage, the number of jobless people increases. >> reporter: history does not support the claim. since 1979, congress raised the minimum wage 11 times. according to lab our data there has been job growth six times and losses five. >> florida senator marco rubio explained his opposition, and tried to shift the focus to something he supports. >> he's making more money. we need more welders and less philosophers. >> according to the bureau of labour stat six, welders is 37,000, for philosophy teachers it's 63 thourds. carly fiorina majored in philosophy and made it clear she's not strong with history, inclu

david shuster explains. >> how about talking about the substantive issues people care about. >> reporter's the latest twist in a republican debate season that has already been turbulent. on sunday, representatives of 11 republican campaigns agreed to make new demands on the broadcast organizations scheduled to hold future debates. >> harry truman couldn't get elected with explaining the healthcare situation in 30 seconds. >> reporter: formal demands will be issued tuesday. the list includes: >> raise your hand now -- raise your hand now, if you won't make that pledge tonight. [ cheers and applause ]. >> mr. trump. >> reporter: the list of demands would also prohibit candidates from questioning each other. >> the senate what it is like a french workweek? you have three days that you have to show up. >> reporter: after a bathroom break, television candidates would be forbidden from showing an empty podium. and the room temperature in the debate hall must be 67 degrees or cooler. donald trump has decided not to sign the demands. instead trump's team will issue their own requirements and neg

david shuster is back with today's news right now. >>> a russian war plane has not been shot down by a noto country in more than 60 years. today that changed with they attacked a russian fighter jet with air-to-air missiles. it plunged to the ground in flames with one crew member confirmed dead. it ratcheted up the conflict between moscow and the west over syria's civil war, and it may complicate efforts there to battle isil. we start with jamie mcintyre at the pentagon. >> officials here at the pentagon were quick to confirm turkey's action but they were just as quick to add that no u.s. planes were involved and this was ate

chairman bill shuster of pennsylvania said it could be done. ranking member pete defazio out of oregon said it could be done, and we did it. something has happened, mr. speaker, in this town that has people identifying as democrats or republicans first and as members of this body, of the article 1 legislature second, and it's bad. it's bad for the country. it's bad for the people we represent. it's bad process. mr. speaker, that's what i want to talk about today. you can't see the chart that i have here, but it's a quote from president obama. you will remember it. back in august of 2013. you will remember we worked together with the president nine different times we repealed portions of the president's health care bill. we repealed them. they were unworkable. he knew it. we knee it. we came together nine times. he signed legislation into law that repealed part of the president's health care bill. but it was the -- it was the summer there of 2013, and we were talking about how to come together on some of the bigger problems in the president's he

david shuster is hosting ali velshi on target at the top of the hour. david?john, ben carson is surging in republican polls, and now the question is what happens now that the media has been questioning his autobiography. a lot of republicans are rallying to his side, and a lot of people think the media has become essentially off of the rails in going with gotcha questions instead of focusing on policy. we're going to talk about all of that tonight at 9:00 pm pacific right here "on target." >> david thank you. >>> a big blow tonight to president obama's plan to protect millions of undocumented immigrants. a federal appeals court denounced several executive actions. the fifth circuit court in new orleans rejected the effort. that decision could open the way for the supreme court to hear the case this turn. >>> coming up any conversation with jazz singer dee dee bridgewater after this. > >>> dee dee bridgewater was in "the whiz," four decades later she continues to inspire. i asked her when she first new she could sing. >> i was always able to sing, so i thought

. >> reporter: david shuster, al jazeera. >>> two major drug companies announced a record-breaking deal and it is already causing a lot of controversy. ali velshi has more. >> reporter: pfizer and allergan announced plans to merge. the world's biggest drug company. it was a long time ago that we had all of these big drug merlinger. now they are all supermerged companies anyway. they will have $63.5 billion in sales. and it is controversial because of the inversion. the goal of inversion is to help u.s. companies avoid america's high corporate taxes. companies do that by moving their headquarters overseas. the merger would shift pfizer's tax base to allergan's headquarters in ireland. and phaser would cut its tax rate to around 17%, down from about 25%. that would be the largest inversion to take place for this tax benefit in history. but on the news of the merger here is something interesting. the shares of pfizer dropped 2.6%. that's often common for the shares of the acquiring company to lose value, and the gaining company to gain value. but allergan also lost value. >> so ali we have

. >> look, shuster said in his opening, everybody is entitled to due process and he's right. and they have the presumption of being here legally. now the question is can you round up 11 million people? john kasich, governor kasich said last night and he's correct, it's a silly argument. you have 11 million people with strong ties to the united states. people came here in various different ways and the fact that they don't have papers is not in many cases their fault. we have a system that is broken. we do not have a pathway for most people to get right with the law once they fall off status. and i'll tell you something. i've been doing this stuff a long time. it is easy to lose your immigration status. it can be as simple as a student in school who gets sick, a foreign student who gets sick and doesn't go to class. so when we say illegal -- >> david that's not what we're talking about here. i understand that. you failed to mention there are people who come across the border illegally and they don't have their papers because that's what they did. >> okay. >> are you suggesting

. >> right now david shuster is in new york with the backlash on syrian refugees and muslims in general. >> reporter: there are now more than a dozen u.s. governors that have pledged to close off their states to syrian refugees. we spoke with democratic congressman keith ellison, one of only two muslims in congress and got his reaction. >> well, unfortunately, i think the people who are taking this action are reacting in a panic. they are -- they are being subjected to fear, and i think that's the wrong position to take. i think the right position is for us to understand the refugees are victims of terrorism, in the same way that people in paris have been, and he should understand we're not going to make ourselves or anyone safer by succumbing to fear in this way. personally, i think that we should continue to accept refugees. i think that the west and the united states should continue to be looked upon as a safe haven for suffering people as a refuge, because it is the terrorists who are the cruel ones, the ones chasing people out of their homes. we should be the ones accepting people

>> transportation committee bill shuster was touting the open process laid out a leadership conference today to reporters. it's boasting that this process, which basically splits consideration of the highway bill from the house policy portions today and the senate and other provisions tomorrow and for the rest of the week as a process that gives members greater time and greater levels of consideration on both bills. however, the house rules process limits amendments on the floor. so technically, this isn't the most open process but with a highway bill that's spanning hundreds of pages and over 200 amendments submitted from the house, leadership has to do something to try to kind of limit the floor procedure process. >> and you mentioned bill shuster. here's a tweet that you sent out. "i've been waiting three years for this, so here we go," he tells the house rules committee. why did it take so long and what is the current deadline? >> one of the major contentions behind the surface transportation reauthorization bill is the difficult funding situation. and again, we have a couple of ti

he has run against bill shuster. he was talking about the world the rural-urban mix.some truth to that. is a incorrect that there third of the money going to transit, it has never been that high. but it is 20% and i think in the itt transportation bill might have gotten a little bit above 20%. in the metropolitan area like washington, there are a lot of highwayso drive on the and subsidize transit, but they because if you had all of those people on transit getting off transit onto the highways, it would be a real mess. ruralan't speak for drivers. host: so bill shuster and peter defazio, what is there in direction? this is a bipartisan vote. guest: yes, it was unusual. when this bill passed in the committee, it passed on the vote, and to have a major bill , there are a lot of controversial issues and to have , itassed on a voice vote was very unusual. there was a lot of praising the republicans by democrats saying that, we are so glad that you opened up the process and let us have some say in this bill. of course, they knowledge that it would be the bill they would ha

shuster: thank you, mr. speaker, thank you, mr. chairman, for working with me on this piece of legislation. i rise today to shed light on the issue plaguing our nation's veterans. specifically, there are an estimated 47,000 cremated veteran remains waiting to be interred because it was not possible to identify the next of kin, existing legislation directs the veterans affairs administration, veterans service organizations and funeral directors to work together in claiming and interring deceased veterans. unfortunately, numerous barriers prevent collaboration among these stake holders. as it stands today, the burials are not -- barriers are not fully understood and that's preventing a solution to the problem from being found. for instance, the missing in america project a nonprofit organization established to locate and bury unclaimed veterans' remains identified 100 veterans awaiting burial in the state of pennsylvania other the last couple of years. some of those veterans waited more than 20 years for a dignified military burial.

on this bill, chairman shuster worked through more than 100 amendments on the floor. when his father had this bill on the floor in 1998, there were five amendments. this is a good start. it's a glimpse of how we should be doing the people's business. but we still have a ways to go. this morning, the house republican conference held a policy conference to discuss the weeks ahead. most notably, the government runs off the money on december 11. normally, we wouldn't be talking about this yet. it's november. i'm sure someone, somewhere would be writing a bill, but only when the deadline aprofes would anyone actually see the legislation. at that point, the bill would be prenegotiated and the outcome predetermined. that's no way to conduct the people's business. so here is what we're going to do. the house has already passed six appropriations bills. negotiations on those bills are already under way. as for the remaining bills, chairman rogs of the appropriations committee and his members will hold a series of executive sessions with our members. at these sessions, every me

bills -- to take our bill with conference with the house where i will work very hard with chairman shuster and the rest. i would note i read that congressman defazio, who is the ranking member in the house, has had a very serious eye situation and had to go for emergency surgery. i want to say that my heart's with him. he is a very important person in terms of weighing in on the transportation needs. and i will work with him. i will speak with him and i'm very hopeful that although he may not be present -- i hope he will be present for the conference -- if he is not, i want to reassure him that we will take his concerns into this conference. so, mr. president, i'm looking forward to a strong vote. i yield the floor. mrs. boxer: i yield back all time and proceed. the presiding officer: is there objection? all time is yielded back. the clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. the clerk: cloture motion, we, the undersinned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close the debate on the motion to disagree t

donald trump unveiled his new book "crippled america" published by simon and shuster, a division of cbs. he dismissed others running close to him and he called the obama economy a bubble waiting to burst. >> our country has no spirit. >> reporter: donald trump began spite. for the gop establishment? >> it's called really the failed establishment baugh theecause the establishment has let us down. we need a person with tremendous personal energy. republican rivals. >> do i think it's time to have some of the other republican candidatat drop out? yes. there are too many people! >> rorter: paying special marco rubio. >> i think that really marco is overrated. all you have to do is look at hit credit card. i mean, he is a disaster with his credit cacas. >>>>eporter: and questioiong the staying power of ben carson. >> when a man is weak on immigration and wants to get rid of medicare, i don't know how he stays there. >> reporter: trump said carson lacks experience. carson responded at his own book signing in tampa. >>>>hat would you expect h h to say? would you expect him to say, yeah, ben ca

his new book is "the triumph of william mckinley," published by simon and shuster, a division of cbs.arn from the mckinley race. >> american politics then looks like politics today. the political system is broken, divided government. five elections in a row where nobody gets 50% of the vote. we have divided government. the republicans during a 24-year period controlled the white house, house and senate for two years, democrats for two years, the other 20 years divided government. disruptive new technologies, changing dem og fee in the country. the whole political system is broken. along comes william mckinley. we have a realignment of the american political process and for the next 36 years republicans dom mate the scene, one of the great elections in american history. we don't talk much about it and we certainly don't talk about the prime actor in the drama, william mckinley. >> to underscore what you have said, republicans have lost the popular vote in five of the past six presidential elections. what is it that mckinley did differently to change the republican base? who did he reac

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