versus blue state america tim eagan has a piece and says the south is dooming itself. we could see a mason dixon liven of health care, on one side insured north, a place where health care is affordable and available to people. on the other side uninsured south. health care to the poor would amount to treating charity cases in hospital emergency rooms. >> he's exactly right. what people don't realize is not being able to get timely emergency room treatment because these hospitals are shutting down means people have worse and worse health outcomes down the road. that has consequences for the economy, people's ability. >> the safety net. >> the whole thing starts to crumble. i hear about red states blue states but a deeper hypocrisy. republicans have said they like devolution. they said we're going to cut subsidies, direct subsidies for state hospitals under medicaid. instead we're going to create the power of the states to opt in instead of direct subsidies people are going to get individual coverage. there's going to be more individual responsibility brought to bear. by

would harm everybody, the government has to prove why it's a secret the president of the united states of america signed a document that had to do with international trade. distributed the document to employees of the state department. after out there, decided it should be made classified. >> cat is out of the bag. >> exactly. arguing to this judge he can classify whatever he wants. >> his first time any administration made a broad claim, the judge said. this is unprecedented. >> first time in modern era a judge has directly slapped down the president of the united states saying you can't do this. the quote just read is devastating to him. she accused him. she's a judge appointed with bill clinton and an active democrat >> right. right. >> she accuses a testimonyic president of governor nans by secrecy. that is a devastating blow to him. i don't think they're going to appeal it. think a dog with a tail between it's legs. >> they better, she's saying you're trying to avoid pubic oversight to engage in government by secret law. which could be, that is pretty strong language. this is the first time

they might be serving us throughout the globe today, and may god continue to bless these united states of americayou. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, united states senator from the state of south dakota, the honorable tim johnson. [applause] >> good morning, and welcome. here todaynor to be as we celebrate the military service of the native american code talkers. i worked for over a decade to honor the code talkers with the congressional gold medal. it is gratifying that this day is finally here. real work, though, began 95 years ago, when native americans from south dakota and across the country (homes and joined the military effort -- left their homes and join the military at a timeworld war i when many native americans were not yet american citizens, but assuredaliantly for homeland. native code talkers were used extensively in the european and pacific theaters during world war ii. the use of native languages was a fundamental tactic that saved untold numbers of lives and help to win both wars. i have had the opportunity to visit with several of the code talkers and learn their personal st

here the president of the united states of america signed a document that had to do with international trade, distributed the document to employees of the state department. after it was out there, decided it should be made classified. >> too late. the cat's out of the bag. it's either classified or not. >> his lawyers argued he can classify whatever he wants. >> that was the first time any administration the had made such a broad claim, the judge said. like this is unprecedented. >> it is the first time in the modern era that a federal judge has directly slapped down the president of the united states saying you can't do this. the quote you just read is devastating to him. she accused him. now she's a judge. she was appointed to bill clinton and was an active democrat before she was on the bench. she accuses him with with a government of secrecy. i think like a dog with its tail between its legs they will admit they were wrong. >> she's saying you are trying to avoid public oversight to engage in governance by secret law. that's what she's accusing them of. that's pretty strong languag

something of enormous importance, but to receive the support of the government of the united states of americae leader of the world is something beyond words. >> reporter: this support helped mandela politically. >> and defend the constitution of the united states. >> reporter: but when bill clinton was elected the relationship grew personal. mandela made numerous trips to the u.s. including soon after his election as president of south africa. and president clinton traveled to south africa and visited the jail cell mandela called home. >> he is a ferociously loyal friend. >> reporter: mandela stuck by his american counterpart. >> we have often said that our morality does not allow us to desert our friends. [ cheers and applause ] >> i think he found an individual in bill clinton. >> reporter: they remained close after clinton left office. >> there were many opportunities that bill clinton took to visit south africa to meet with mandela, to work together on anti-aids movements and many other things. >> reporter: mandela's relationship with president george w. bush was not as friendly. after th

they might be serving us throughout the globe today, and may god continue to bless these united states of americak you. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, united states senator from the state of south dakota, the honorable tim johnson. [applause] >> good morning, and welcome. it is an honor to be here today as we celebrate the military service of the native american code talkers. i worked for over a decade to honor the code talkers with the congressional gold medal. it is gratifying that this day is finally here. the real work, though, began 95 years ago, when native americans from south dakota and across the country (homes and joined the military effort -- left their homes and join the military effort in world war i at a time when many native americans were not yet american citizens, but fought valiantly for assured homeland. native code talkers were used extensively in the european and pacific theaters during world war ii. the use of native languages was a fundamental tactic that saved untold numbers of lives and help to win both wars. over the years, i have had the opportunity to visit with s

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. >> the constitution of these united states of america, it's not a republican saying that. this comes from someone who actually voted for pre >>> the white house delaying another part of the health care law, this time pushing back the deadline for small business exchange. now the president is catching heat for tweaking the law without the approval of congress, even from some folks who voted for him. >> the problem with what the president is doing is that he's not simply posing a danger to the constitutional system. he >> rich, is john on the mark here? >> yes, he is. obama is making unilateral changes to a piece of legislation and the problem is where is the check and balance on that, wherere the limits, what's to prevent him from changing the law entirety. i realize it's a little bit of a grey area but obama has gone overboard on this. >> rick, doesn't this bothers i some way. >> this is somethiig that's gone on throughout our modern history. in this case though what troubles me is if you read the affordable care act, this does permit these things to be done by the executi

gay marriage has now arrived in one of the reddest states in america. and gay marriage opponents are picking what could be a defining fight in another red state. will 2014 be the year that gay marriage takes the next big step, away from being a red state/blue state issue, and closer to being a nonissue. to discuss, i want to bring in brian brown, the president of the national organization for marriage, rachel bade, a policy reporter at politico. josh barrow at business insider, and aisha moody mills at the center for american progress. thank you for joining us this morning. aisha, i'll start with you. we're taking what has happened in utah, what may be happening in indiana next year, also we should note there was a ruling in ohio in the last two weeks, ruling in ohio that basically said same sex couples should be -- should qualify for death benefits in that state, citing the supreme court ruling from earlier this year. and it seems to me something is going to give, whether in 2014 or 2015, in the very near future, something gives at the ballot box, maybe

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there are a lot of things going of n the united states america and around the world hat i think that are really clue to the benefit of republicans next november. we have a problem in syria. with iran, oblem we're still not clear how things are going to pan out in the general. st in >> no doubt that the republicans have a strong set of talking points. have a feeling that democrats will have talking points about thestrengthening economy as congressman said about the millions of people who are being helped by obama care. in the l get played out campaign. i want to come back to some of the issues we're talking about. the ve a question from audience. do you think it's possible to an urban legislator to vote for a farm bill that would on significant reductions the level, but house republicans have talked about, which is more cuts?40 billion of do you think urban legislators the e house or in democratically controlled senate would go along with something like that? and those will be dramatically -- those cuts will in any tically reduced farm bill. but let me also add, though, the farm bill

was a wealthy guy from a wealthy family who was the governor of probably the most corrupt state in america new york state and and looked the other way through much of that corruption he was not you know began to corrupt and yet he times forced him i hear you're saying and i agree to a certain extent but i feel like by projecting kind of this this faith that obama would have been the next step to our i mean really we see him capitulated to the republicans on everything and it's not just because the republicans are forcing him to look at obamacare he completely gave that up before he even went to the negotiating table public option off the table i mean there's things like this that really painted as a corporatist let's talk about solutions here because you talk about a matter of realigning our investments does the entire system to be overhauled because i'm looking at the republicans and i'm looking at the democrats and i see two corporate parties backed by corporate interests and i just feel like we were so far gone from the days of f.d.r. well and even. before that we no longer have a const

body, be one of 100 people that are chosen to represent their states and represent the united states of america and be shut down from having any opportunity whatsoever to have a voice in what goes forward here, to offer your thoughts, your amendment, to represent your state. but to be told by the majority leader i'll decide whether or not you can have an amendment. and by the way, i'll use procedures to make sure you can't have your amendment. now, i have had the privilege of serving here on two different occasions. i came here in early 1989 and served ten years in the senate. i don't recognize the senate today. i came back in 201012 years later. i don't recognize this. this is not the senate that i joined in 1989. it was under democrat control. george mitchell was the majority leader. the democrats had the majority. they controlled it. i had served ten years in the house of representatives along with my colleague from kansas, senator roberts, who is -- i'm sure who is here listening to me speak, and i appreciate that, pat. we have gone through the same experience. but when i served before, und

they're using steel from everywhere other than the united states of america. >> they do source their here. >> no they don't. >> yes they do. as far as the politics it's become a symbol for ngos with an 18th environment agenda. state department assessments, who are weighing the fit, the president will look at all the facts all the assessments, five years and counting now and make the decision that's in the interest positive our consumers and approve this pipeline. they have assessed the climate impacts, they have assessed the impacts to the resources along the routes and they have not found any significant impacts. ready for your approval. >> but cindy your organization api since the late '90s has been building front groups, fostering denial, sewin sew -- sowing seeds of denial. saying we're going odig up all the oil in the tar sands. there is no way we can hit the 2° benchmark that the united states and other nations have agreed to. keystone. if you want a climate debate, thing. list? this is not the right battle for it. and when you look at our increase in production and what natural

obamacare is wonderful for america, said the majority leader of the united states senate, senator harry reid of nevada. obamacare is wonderful for america. get over it, unquote. and i would just hope that -- that i would be willing if i had made such an egregious mistake to say, we need to come back and revisit this issue for the benefit of american families, for the benefit of small businesses who want to create jobs, for the benefit of small cities who have -- who are having to increase their taxes and do without other services to cover this unfunded mandate. so i -- i publicly implore my colleagues at this moment, mr. president, to agree that this didn't work. i never thought it was work but some people did, but it hasn't worked. and i think it has -- i going it's the reason we have elections every two years. but i would hope that even before the 2014 elections that republicans and democrats could come together and say, we got this wrong and we need to fix it and we need to do it for the right reasons, we need to do it for the future of this country and for american families. mr. cha

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. >>> marriage equality comes to red state america. >>> it is the last sunday of 2013, which means we're taking stock this morning of everything that has been accomplished this year. it has been a remarkable year for gay rights in the united states. doma was overturned and state after state joined the movement for marriage equality. that movement isn't over yet. it is now moving on to the red states of utah and indiana. where will it be heading next? also, do you like to drink soda or maybe they call it pop where you're from. expert

of medical consultants to the armed forces, the military chaplains association of the united states of america, the retired enlisted association, united states army war rant officers association, utah united states colt guard association, chief petty officers association, veterans of foreign wars of the united states, and vietnam veterans of america. this distinguished list of organizations consisting of members and former members of the united states military have registered their opposition. i can only hope at this point that members of the senate will listen to this. this is a so-called savings of $6 billion out of an $80 billion package. surely we can find $6 billion without putting an $80,000 penalty on the back of an e-7 retired enlisted person who is not rich, who served honorably under one set offer rules and who he's been now told, sorry. and i have to say this. when people see the government not keeping their promises, i think it's destructive to our system of government. and it's exactly the sort of thing we're seeing with obamacare. it's not being overly repetitive to remind my col

as you know from my side as well i'm a huge huge issue with what i believe is a growing fascist state america. that we have these incredible issues with huge amounts of money go into corporate welfare you know the issues of wars and the fact that we have this massive war machine around the world that the u.s. taxpayer is being basically forced at gunpoint through our taxation system to pay for wars around the world to pay to kill kids in yemen and kill kids in somalia and innocent people all over the world it is so easy to drop in the bucket maybe and we could argue that i think that attacking social programs is kind of perpetuating that false left right paradigm and i think that we can really unite on what you just said which is we can point out what we can all agree on which is that this is not working and try to open that dialogue to find out what will work and push for that keep up the pressure bands while an investigative journalist at one check it out through the media bends one dot com amazing have you on thanks abbi. coming up i'll speak with one woman who is single handedly taking on

the united states of america we can add more tomorrow we are getting started official letter s. from european but they are going i say she is or he writes to the embassy as you have european embassies in bahrain as well about the embassy in the united states of america and was about to the case of. the national has condemned bahrain over its decision to to keep or this man still in jail that was eligible for release do you think that sort of criticism from the nash amnesty international will have any impact in the influence whatsoever you can on the world knows that mr neville veges and and he is a peaceful and human rights defender he always calls for peaceful movements and he has a great influence in on i'm back range movements sense it started in two thousand and eleven and even before amnesty international and other organizations as well as e.p.o. which are has been pressuring the bahraini government to release and but there is no call from bahrain's the government to respond. to or these letters being sent or calls or join to statements or whatsoever that the government the

over just over two billion dollars to nike to keep or create only five hundred jobs in that state all across america states are handing over billions and billions in taxpayer dollars to giant corporations to try to attract new business or keep existing business and these so-called mega deals are on the rise according to the organization good jobs first one thousand nine hundred ninety one the total annual value of corporation luring mega deals was around one billion dollars in two thousand and seven the annual value stood it eight point three billion dollars there's a bigger picture to all of this these mega deals are pitting one state against the other in a competition over who can hand over the most money to corporations and the corporations seeking these mega deals are driving a national race to the bottom in poverty in states and taking money away from vital programs like education transportation and social services fortunately there is a way to put it and all of this corporate welfare all the federal government arguably does have the power to stop states from luring corporations with billion do

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lives and loved ones and property -- this is not the time to limit the ability of the united states of america to give relief to those losing loved ones, homes, and livelihoods. republicans refuse to work together with the senate and the white house to bring a construct to piece of legislation to this floor today. bill that consider a we know is destined for failure in the senate and would be vetoed by the white house. for months, the majority has they refuse to appoint members to work with the senate on a top line spending number. they cannot even pass their own spending bills in this chamber. we remember how the important transportation bill had to be pulled off of the floor because they could not find the vote. they risk halting government services and functions vital to the american people and our economy. you wonder on appropriations chairman, mr. rogers said that end the sequester and find a balanced forward. they are still-- playing political games. i urge my colleagues to oppose and support the responsible replacement of the sequester with a balance plan to create jobs and keep our eco

lives and loved ones and property -- this is not the time to limit the ability of the united states of americaelief to those losing loved ones, homes, and livelihoods. republicans refuse to work together with the senate and the white house to bring a construct piece of legislation to this floor today. instead we consider a bill that we know is destined for failure in the senate and would be vetoed by the white house. for months, the majority has a failed to lead. they refuse to appoint members to work with the senate on a top line spending number. they cannot even pass their own spending bills in this chamber. we remember how the important transportation bill had to be pulled off of the floor because they could not find the vote. today they risk halting government services and functions vital to the american people and our economy. chairman, mr. rogers said that chairman, mr. rogers said that even when their own appropriations we should end the sequester and find a balanced plan forward. just days before the end of the fiscal year, they are still playing political games. i urge my colleagues t

it just completely ignores the fact that presence in the united states of america illegally is a criminal offense. entry into the united states illegally is certainly a criminal offense. on january 3 of 2012, a report by the inspector general revealed that uscis officials, top political officials, pressured the employees to approve applications that should have been denied and that employees believe they do not have enough time to complete the interviews of appea applicants - quote -- "leaving ample opportunity for critical information to be overlooked." the 9/11 commission said people should be interviewed face-to-face and this has been collapsed today totally. on january 10, 2012, the president promoted cecelia munoz to be the new director of his domestic policy council. she previously served as senior vice president of la raza and took very extreme views, frankly. she should not be the person. we need an objective person in that position, not an advocate for really undermining a law. goodness. on january 7 -- i'm not saying that this is a bad person. she's a perfectly legitimate to be

because he was a conservative man and he loved the united states of america and i always felt bad he admired the pride and dignity with which these radicals confronted things, rather than taking this as the quietness. he was not, for instance, going to march 1962 and 1963. i remember hearing my parents talking in the living room and my father said they want us to go out there and be nonviolent. but if somebody comes up after me with the billy club, i'm going to try to kill him and then my daughter will be in a lot worse shape. so i think he was attracted to people like stokely. the one i was all the talk about than senator obama, i thought, well they shouldn't know about some of the individuals that are dinnertable. [laughter] >> thank you. [applause] [inaudible question] speed up the microphone should be on. if you could just remember for the microphone, we would appreciate it. [inaudible conversations] >> hello, my name is pastor charles patrick and i was born in birmingham alabama before you. and what you said, sharing the experience of what happened is absolutely true. my dad exp

it was in the gop house in red state america that republicans carried on in 2013 as if the warnings of the 2012 election didn't apply to them. in march, arkansas legislator directed challenged roe v. wade after overriding the democratic veto. that was followed by a six-week abortion ban in north dakota, based on a fetal heartbeat can be detected sometime before a woman knows she is pregnant. well before the 24 hour weeks guaranteed by roe v. wade. those laws are not yet being enforced. traffic, a federal judge called the north dakota law clearly invalid and unconstitutional. north dakota also passed a new law for doctors providing abortions to have admitting privileges at a local hospital, a law designed to smut thaun that state another sole abortion provider. similar restrictions were announced in north carolina at the very last minute into of all things a bill on motorcycle safety. to require abortion clinics to have transfer agreements with local hospitals. they also meet the same standards a ambulatory surgical centers. activists held a vigil and the state's governor who had campai

i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the presiding officer: the clerk will read a communication to the senate. the clerk: washington d.c., december 9, 2013. to the senate: under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable christopher murphy, a senator from the state of connecticut, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i move to proceed to calendar number 243. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: motion to proceed to the consideration of calendar number 243, s. 1356, a bill to amend the workforce investment act of 1998, and so forth and for other purposes. mr. reid: mr. president, following my remarks and those of the republican leader, the senate will be in morning business until 4:00 this afternoon. at 4:00 the senate will resume consideration o

it's very few people that are willing to stand up to the united states of america. 's willing to make a sacrifice for what he believes in. i mean, this is the united states of america versus harborside. >> the day steve d'angelo has been waiting for is finally here. chief federal justice maria elena james is hearing their motions, and she could effectively shutdown harborside for good. >> i came from kentucky. i love you. i love you. i love your brother. >> i know if i died tomorrow that my life's work is going to be accomplished, and i don't think that the drug warriors like melinda hague can say the same thing. >> thank you so much. i really appreciate. >> sure. all right, all right. there's henry. okay. >> the precedent-setting ruling today will likely shape the future of cannabis for patients, for proprietors, and for all the states with these laws on their books. >> i'm all set, baby. >> we are going to win. >> absolutely. that is what we came here to do. >> for steve, a win is everything. a loss would be devastating. there's no secondhand smoke in here... ...an

secretary of state says america regrets the treatment of an indian diplomat that was strip searched by police after she was arrested on a visa violation. they say she lied about how much she paid her housekeeper. it sparks protest outside the american embassy and the white house had this to say. episode is notd indicative of the close and mutually respectful ties that we share. we understand this is a sensitive issue. we are looking into the procedures to ensure that all standard procedures were followed and every opportunity for courtesy was extended. with whoe earlier formerly served as the american ambassador to india. secretary kerry has expressed regret. how damaging do you think it is? >> having been in politics and diplomacy, it is very important that it is not just what you do, but how you do things and where you do them. may be mistakes were made. maybe this could have been handled better by components or hearts of our law enforcement. we need to get this behind us. we all know having proudly served our country, that the president deeply values this relationship. that john ker