of that won't go anywhere in congress. and it evaded the big issues, labor force participation, the deficit out of control, the debt out of control. >> the state of the union>> yes. if president obama didn't address any of that. he said it was minor stuff. then this buffett rule, which is basically a proposal for doubling capital gains rates effectively, at a time when even democrats in the senate would be reluctant to that, and we're suffering from not enough business -- >> buffett rule is not targeted to you, rich. he's speaking to -- [everyone talking at once] >> we're going to take the capital gains rate and -- >> even mort would go with that. >> what did you think of the opposition speech? republican speech. >> i thought had it had some very, very good policy stuff in. i agree, i don't think the delivery was exactly inspiring. but it was an intelligent comments. he amongst other things on the economy, the most important thing that he said was we shouldn't get much attention is the complete revision of the tax codes, which is the one thing that we absolutely must have if we're going to revive the economy both consumer and business side. the second thin

the state level. did you heard the president described in the state of the union address a series of reforms aimed at elevating the teaching profession. there is a $400 million innovation fund reflected in this budget and a program to challenge states and districts to work with teachers to really have a transformative change on the teaching profession, to create more career ladders to focus on training programs for education. this is something the department of education is working on pure good -- is working on. the president challenged do -- travel to the community college to announce his proposal to provide more americans with the skills they need in this 21st century the economy. this is a career fund designed i've training 2 million workers for the jobs coming and who in demand now -- coming in demand now. we know we are going to need to fill millions of positions in high-growth industries like health care, clean energy, information technology, and this fund is designed to create a partnership that would be implemented by the department of labor and the department of education. also to make sure t

it is, you know, more clintonesque if you will, and we were told going into the state of the union that day, steve, that the president and the communications team had studies that had been delivered by previous incumbent presidents. the state of the union messages and other forms of communication, and obviously they want to emulate the clinton model. >> let's go back to this speech the president delivered in kansas. it's important it to point out this is the same location where teddy roosevelt also talked about the middle class and pulling up all americans. it's been a theme that the president has really been pushing as he frames the debate on taxes, trying to call for tax parity, taxing wealthier americans as a way to bring down the deficit, keeping key government programs in place to get rid of regulations that are burdensome. he's trying it to try ang late on a number of key issues. he outlined the re-election campaign in this speech. let's watch. >> by train, by wagon, on buggy, bicycle, on foot, they came to hear the vision of a mon who loved this country and was determined to perf

it's amazing in the history of the republic, never has there been such a gaping disconnect between how our own president sees the state of the unionnd how the americans see the state of the union. he actually believes that we are headed in the right direction. even those with their boots on the ground, their nose to the grind stone, we're headed into the right direction. we can't believe that our economy can't get underway, unless the government gets out of the way. the president wants to raise taxes. so he can redistribute wealth. we want to cut taxes so we can create more wealth. government digging us deeper and deeper into debt, it's not because it taxes too little. it's because it spends too much. we know how to deal with that debt. you cut it, gut it, get rid of it. americans shouldn't have to spend their lives working so hard, so washington can spend easy. he says that he has a jobs plan now. a jobs plan to win the future. wtf, i know. and i'm the idiot. wtf plan. well, he'll invest your money in bullet trains to nowhere but he'll stop boeing from building airplanes anywhere. bankrupt green energy companies, give sweet loans

the context of saying, probably not going to see any legislation out. kind of a reality check. last year didn't use the word at all in the state of the union message. contrast to this building where i see posters all over the place with a list of epa priorities and the first on the list is taking action on climate change. so how can you reconcile those two things? >> amazingly despite the political climate that we find ourselves in, a huge amount has been done to combat climate change. epa first at the instruction of the supreme court in 2007, they said epa, you need to look at whether greenhouse gas emissions need to be regulated. we did that in 2009. we came out with an endangerment finding saying greenhouse gases are an endangerment to public health and the environment and that vehicles contribute to greenhouse gas emissions. we then came out with auto manufacturers and came out with rules that will save literally billions of barrels of oil from needing to be imported. those rules are being updated so that by 2025, we'll require every passenger vehicle get 54.5 miles to the gallon. so significant leap forward. >> most of those initiatives are nat

the mortgage fraud task force i announced in my state of the union address retains its full authoritysively investigate the packaging and reselling of risky mortgages that led to this crisis. this investigation is already well under way and working closely with state attorneys general, we are going to keep at it until we hold those who broke the law fully accountable. i want to be clear. no compensation, no amount of money, no measure of justice is enough to make it right for a family who's had their piece of the american dream wrongly taken from them. no action no matter how meaningful is going to by itself entirely heal the housing market. this settlement is a start and we'll make sure banks live up to their end of the bargain. if they don't we set up an independent inspector, a monitor that has the power to make sure they pay exactly what they agreed to pay, plus a penalty if they fail to act in in accordance with this agreement. so this will be a big help. even with this settlement, there are millions of responsible homeowners out there doing their best and they need us to do more

also there's the entire aspect of how the so-called first internet, the first social media president is, again, trying to harness the social media the way they did after the state of the union with the google plus hangout the monday after the state of the union and how the president has used the power of his campaign's website and the white house website itself also to appeal to the youth vote, to the younger voting segment. >> we turn to you again. if there's a question from one of the students at george mason. >> george mason. sure. >> so do you think that the tea party would have emerged as quickly without the health care debate? >> that's a good question, you know. obama care, as tea partiers refer to the affordable care act of 2010, is certainly one of the flash points in tea party anger. as peter pointed out, a lot of generational issues are at stake, and remember the affordable care act extending health insurance in an affordable way to people who lack it now, and they are d disproportionalely younger working family, whereas tea party yerz fear medicare may be cut to pay for that. that's one of the big themes used to beat up on the affordable care act in the 2010 ele

the productivity. >> i think this is an important part of what it is that we're talking about and understanding what's going on. again, the president's state of the union that he gave last week, he, again, repeats the fact that -- i shouldn't say it's a fact. the statement that this country only has 2% of the world oes oil. well, when we're talking about reserves versus resources and recoverable, we all -- you all know at this table that the number can be all over the board here. and it's how we define it. and i think sometimes it's a pretty loose definition that would lead people in this country to believe that we really don't have much of a recoverable resource. so it's important that we use the right terminology and try to be as accurate as we can, recognizing that we're dealing with a very fluid assessment again as our technologies and our capabilities expand. did you want to finish up? >> no. >> okay. no, i appreciate that. mr. chairman, that's all that i have. thank you. >> thank you. let me ask one other line of questions. dr. gruenspecht, your testimony, in discussing the world or the international energy outlook, you say renewable energy is pr

i talked about this at the state of the union. right now companies get tax breaks for moving jobs and profits overseas. they're taking deductions for the expenses of moving out of the united states. meanwhile, companies that are doing the right thing and choosing to stay here, they get hit with one of the highest tax rates in the world. that doesn't make sense. everybody knows it doesn't make sense. politicians of both parties have been talking about changing it for year, so my message to congress is, don't wait. get it done. do it now. let's get it done. [ applause ] as congress thinks about tax reform principles, there's some basic things they can do. first, if you're a business that wants to outsource jobs, you have that right. but you shouldn't get a tax deduction for doing it. that money should be used to cover moving expenses for companies like master lock that decide to bring jobs home. give them the tax break. second of all, no american company should be able to avoid paying its fair share of taxes by moving jobs and profit

what did president obama have to say about poverty in his state of the union address? personally worked as a community organizer in poor communities. the poverty was barely mentioned in the state of the union. why? poor kids don't vote and poor adults are unreliable voters. there's no poverty super pac. in other words, neither party gets political scratch for fighting for the poor. the president gave a beautiful speech thursday at the prayer breakfast where he spoke of caring for the least of these. don't expect poverty to be a focus of his reelection campaign. both parties adopted the same model. pander to the voters they depend on to get elected. serve the donors and special interests who fund their campaigns. when it's time to cut programs, there's no analysis of which programs are most effective and most efficient. funds are cut from the programs with the newest lobbyists backing them. the fewest political donations dependent on them. the successful programs like w.i.c. get cut. i am a proud democrat in part because i believe our policies do much more to help those

i talked about this a little bit at the state of the union. right now the companies get tax breaks for moving jobs and profits overseas. >> [ audience boos ] >> and they are taking deductions for moving jobs and companies out of the united states, and yet companies who choose to stay here are hit with the highest tax rates in the world. it does not make sense. everybody knows it does not make sense, and politicians of both f parties have been wanting to change it for years. my message to congress is don't wait. get it done. let's get it done. [ applause ] as congress thinks about tax reform principles, there's some basic things they that can do. first, if you a business that wants to outsource jobs, you have that right. but you should not get a tax deduction to do it, but that should be money used for companies like master lock to move the companies back home, and give them the tax break. [ applause ] second of all, no american company should be able to avoid paying its fair share of taxes by moving jobs and profits overseas. so we have said fr

has been making the most of a huge opportunity that exists right now to bring jobs and manufacturing back to the united states of america. i talked about this during the state of the union of businesses more efficient and more productive. and that's a great thing. it means you generally have a better choice of products, you get better prices, but as some of you know, technology has also made a lot of jobs obsolete. and it's allowed companies to set up shop and hire workers is almost anywhere in the world where there's an internet connection, you can produce things that previously you could only produce here in the united states. so the result has been a pretty painful process for a lot of families and for a lot of communities, especially here in the midwest. too many factories where people thought they'd retire suddenly left town. too many jobs that provided a decent living got shipped overseas. and now the hard truth is, a lot of those jobs are not going to come back. in a global economy, some companies are always going to find it more profitable to pick up and do business in some other part of the world. that's just a fact. but that doesn't mean we have to just sit by

he rejected the keystone pipeline a week before the state of the union. here's what he says in the state of the union. it's time to double down on a clean energy industry that never has been more promising. mr. speaker, we have an opportunity to do something today about rising energy costs. we have an opportunity to do something today with the keystone pipeline. we can put 20,000 workers to work today. we can bring 70 million -- $70 million worth of oil into this country a day. we can do to that with keystone pipeline. the president says, no, i'm canceling keystone pipeline, i'm going to double down on clean energy because it's never been more promise -- promising. mr. speaker, i believe in clean energy. i believe in clean energy. what i believe in even more, though, is energy independence. and we can't get to energy independence with the clean energy resources that we have today. we have to use the resources that we have here in this country and once we achieve energy independence, mr. speaker, the entire conversation in america will change. the entire co

the next weather update moment as way. >>> republican presidential hopeful rick santorum is coming off a strong week of victories in several states. he is a guest on "state of the union> "state of the union" with c candy crowley coming up at top of the hour. candy, live with a preview. rick santorum, of course, on your show this morning. he is coming off a very good week. >> well, he had a better first of the week than end of the week. you know, ted there was a big cpac convention and cpac is conservatives, it's a collection, umbrella group, for leading conservative organizations across the country. they were meeting here in washington. they had a straw poll saturday, it was a straw poll of people who came a very large group, into the thousands and a straw poll on conservative leadership self-identified conservatives across the country. guess who won both times? this is rick santorum's group or the group he says he's a conservative alternative to mitt romney. but mitt romney won. >> so -- >> mitt romney -- i was going to say, mitt romney won the main caucus saturday. he had kind of a, you know, hit a double on saturday for mitt romney. so, as i say, you know, as we s

join us next week for another look at the union. "state of the union with candy "state of the union with candy crowley" begins now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> we begin with graphic proof of the primary season's roller coaster ride. national poll numbers from earlier -- >>> we begin with graphic proof of the primary season's roller coaster ride. national poll numbers from early august to now. >>> and given today's gap between the top and the bottom, the new question is whether the ride is all but over for anyone but santorum and romney. >>> today, ron pall on his white house bid and his rivals. then, social issues go front burner. >> waging war on religion and america. >> the dignity and sanctity is foundational america. >> the creator had endowed us with our rights. >> is this any way to win in november? congresswoman michele bachmann and mitch daniels. >>> plus blood shed in syria, nuclear advancements in iran, the threat to u.s. security with former cia director michael hayden and former ambassador to israel. >>> then, job cr

the impact of all of that. thank you. >>> state of the union with candy crowley starts right now. >>> we begin with graphic proof of the primary season's roller coaster ride. >>> and given today's gap between the top and the bottom, the new question is, whether the ride is all but over for anyone but santorum and romney. today, ron paul on his white house bid and rivals. then, social issues go front burner. >> waging war. >> the dignity and sanctity is foundational america. >> the creator had endowed us with our rights. >> is this any wa to win in november? congresswoman michele bachmann and mitch daniels. >>> plus, the threat to u.s. security with former cia director michael hayden and former ambassador to israel. >>> then, a man with a plan. starbucks' ceo, howard schultz. i'm candy crowley and this is state of the union. >>> ron paul almost has a total package a strong consistent mess rage, enough money, and motivated and surprisingly young support system. what he doesn't have after nine contests is a single win. his estimate is the lowest of the four contenders and looking ahead, paul is in third or fourth p

applause] [cheers and applause] in the history of our republic, it never has there been such a gaping disconnect between how our own president sees the state of the union and how the americans see the state of the union. he believes that we are heading in the right direction, even though seven in 10 americans are saying we are heading in the wrong direction. we believe a real recovery cannot get underway until government gets out of the way. [applause] [cheers and applause] the president wants to raise taxes so he can redistribute wealth. we want to cut taxes so we can create more wealth. government is digging us deeper into debt. it is because it spends too much. [applause] we know how to deal with it. you cut it, gut it. he says he has a jobs plan. a jobs plan to win the future. wtf -- i know. [applause] wtf plan. he will invest our money in bullet trains to nowhere, but he will stop boeing from building airplanes anywhere. bankrupt energy companies get sweet loans and grants offers. we say his plan is not winning the future, it is losing our country. we have a better jobs plan and it is called the free market. it worked before, and it will work agai

hour we'll talk more about the impact of the nevada caucuses and what is next in the battle for the republican presidential nomination coming up on "state of the union with candy crowley" at 9:00 a.m. eastern. >>> a resolution to condemn the brutal crackdown in syria fails at the u.n. security council. 13 nations supported the measure with china and russia, the only two countries to vote against it, ambassadors from both countries say that while they do want to stop the violence there, the u.n. resolution did not properly address that crisis. u.n. ambassador susan rice did not mince words. here she is. >> disgusted, richard, but that's not the point. the point is that the people of syria have yet again been abandoned by this council and by the international community. russia and china negotiated this text throughout the week with us. we and other co-sponsors made every effort to accommodate the concerns that were expressed by them and other members of the council, but no effort was good enough. >> the failure of the u.n. resolution has led one opposition group to call for a two-day civil strike in syria as a way to increase pressure on the governmen

of the above strategy which develops every available source of energy. my concern is that the president's rhetoric doesn't match the policies that he pursues. just a week before the state of the union, the president rejected the keystone excel pipeline. that's a pipeline that is estimated to create tens of thousands of direct jobs, will facilitate oil production in north dakota and will improve our energy security. it's my hope that congress will reverse the president's decision soon and get americans back on track to a more secure and prosperous future. mr. burkhardt, in your written testimony, you specifically talk to the issue of the denial of the permit for the keystone excel pipeline. you said that raises the level of uncertainty regarding the long-term growth and disposition of major sources of world supply growth including the canadian oil sands and the american on-shore output. i wondered if you could expand on that and specifically with regard to u.s. oil production. >> sure. canada, over the last decade, has become the most important source of foreign oil to the united states by far. and the oil sands has been the principal reason for that. and so the oil sands are not ju

that's why i was so inspired by the president's state of the union because i really thought of all of the candidates you see in the republican primary, and what you hear coming from the president of the united states, if you're a 25-year-old woman thinking what am i going to do, have i $100,000 in college debt, which one of these folks or which one of these parties is really going to lay out an agenda that i can contribute my talents and skills too, it's the president. by far. and that's what we need to do. and we can't worry about the tweezers. manufacturers are gone. how do we get back and do the new generation of manufacturing. >> on that point, here is the dayton daily news from ohio back in october with this headline. "ohio has lost 3500 factory others the last ten years." >> yeah. i'm not surprised because that's the world i live in. >> right. >> every single day. going into these factories, dealing with trade adjustment assistance for the workers, being with these workers as they go through bankruptcy. i've seen too many steel mills close down and manufacturing facilities close

president laid out his keller's -- pillars both in the kansas speech and the framework in the state of the union. as you'll see in the details as well as the state of the union, we put a strong focus on manufacturing jobs. we believe manufacturing punches above its way economically. beyond employing 11 million people, it has significant effects on multiples of additional jobs the support and are part of manufacturing. because a 70% of all private sector research and development, 90% of all patents, 60% of all exports. we put in detail some of the things we talked about in the state of the union on incentives for bringing jobs back, removing deductions for shipping jobs overseas. you can see in here today that there is a $6 billion tax incentives over three years to prevent the downward spiral that communities where when there is a massive plant closings, layoffs, or perhaps layoffs that could be related to the military drawdowns, that we are -- have a strategy for those communities to attract new employers, not after they've gone to the downward spiral, the before. this budget will include a $5

has been making the most of a huge opportunity that exists right now to bring jobs and manufacturing back to the united states of america. i talked about this during the state of the unioner the last few decades, revolutions in technology have made a lot of businesses more efficient and more productive. and that's a great thing. it means you generally have a better choice of products. you get better prices. but as some of you know, technology has also made a lot of jobs obsolete. and it's allowed companies to set up shop and hire workers almost anywhere in the world where there's an internet connection. you can produce things that previously you could only produce here in the united states. so the result has been a pretty painful process for a lot of families and for a lot of communities. especially here in the midwest. too many factories where people thought they'd retire. some have left town. too many jobs that provided a decent living got shipped overseas. and now the hard truth is a lot of those jobs are not going to come back. in a global economy, some companies are always going to find it more profitable to pick up and do business in some other part of the world.

was it mentioned in the present state of the union address, and why do you think we're now hearing support for it 37 months into the administration? >> it was not in the state of the union, but when we had our first hearing, there were three things that the agents called for. one was to have the purchase of long guns, the paperwork handed over to agents when people are buying a long -- a lot of straw purchases of long guns. the administration implemented that by executive order. the second was to increase the sentencing, as the agents testified that day. i don't know if you were at that hearing. they said it's like a traffic violation. it's a paper violation. we don't have any meat behind it. they were basically saying they had no way to go after these criminals except through illegal operations like the gun running. so give them the tools that they asked for. they asked for three things, two have been implemented by the president and his administration. the third requires passage of the legislation in the house of representatives. right now the president is trying to get the tax cut for 1

the verge of bankruptcy, senator moran. what's going to happen here? >> well, absolutely, the state of the union, in my view, thea, dress failed to feature the greatest problem in our country and it's related to job, and i think republicans and others have had difficulty in tying the deficit and its consequences to job creation and the ability for people to feel secure economically in this country, and the reality is as long as we have this major deficit looming over the economy, no person, no businessman or woman, no farmer or rancher in kansas feels comfortable in making an investment in the economy, worried that congress and the president will never get its act together and solve the deficit issue and put us on the right path and as a result, they're thinking we may be the next greece, for example, and so while senator werner and i are here to talk about growing the economy, the start-up act and entrepreneurship and small businessmen and women having a chance to compete in this economy and create jobs, the reality is this big item of the deficit weighs on everything and while we got to grow t

you heard president obama talking about it in his state of the union. and they never follow through when they actually get into office because the advantages of the bilateral relationship outweigh having -- >> they're getting paid too much. the short-term benefits of the low cost credit, low-cost input, they can't get off the heroin so can't solve the problem. >> they don't want to have a trade war which will hurt everybody. >> you can resolve things without a trade war. >> well -- >> it's been done. ronald reagan did it with japan. >> it can be done. they need to take stronger steps. you heard obama talking about that. but the idea of just sort of declaring them a currency manipulator as if that is going to do anything. >> understood. but again the broader -- so this brings us to the $700 trillion question or whatever you want to define it. there is a frustration that many of us have with the current president for his failure to renovate bank, tax, and trade policy to drive to a culture of investment to create jobs. there is a hope in a two-party politi

and i would say i do express disappointment that in the state of the union address, the president talked not at all about those huge issues facing our country. i went over. thank you. >> thank you, director elmendorf. thanks to all of the colleagues for participating in an excellent hearing. we've got more hearing next week. i hope colleagues will come and participate. we've got a lot of discussion that needs to occur in this committee to see if we can't find a way to come together. again, i thank the director. the committee stands in adjournment. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> in a few moments, a house senate conference committee continues negotiations on extending a payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits. in a little less than two hours, the senate budget committee hears about how the financial crisis in europe may affect the u.s. >> c-span's road to the white house political coverage takes you to the events. >> my leadership cut taxes 19 times and cast over 800 vetoes. we balanced the budget every single year, and we kept our schools first in the nation. my leadership will end the

the bankamericard cash rewards card. apply online or at a bank of america near you. >>> "state of the union" with candy crowley is coming e top of the hour. candy has an exclusiven view with u.s. ambassador to afghanistan, ryan crocker. she joins us now. candy, this shooting at close range in a building almost like the pentagon, that's got to be so unnerving. is the ambassador expected to have new information on the two american officers who were killed? >> well we certainly hope so. we know that the afghan government has said that the perpetrator of this was a member of the afghan intelligence service who in fact had spent a couple of months over in pakistan. so the question here is, and it seems that he had a free pass into the building. this is a building where apparently you had to pass through multiple checkpoints, you get padded down and nen you went through a metal detector. this man apparently worked there. now as you know, nato has said okay, all of the u.s. soldiers out, all of the nato soldiers out of the ministries, afghan man industry. it sets up a dynamic we're working with a government but we don't trust t

i just want to pick up on the last thing that the congressman said which is a reflection of what president obama said in the state of the state of the unionbscribes a tax structure that incentivizes job creation here rather than incentivizing the offshoring of jobs. >> everybody believes we need tax reform. it is how he is proposing to do this. is it taxing that 1%? is it taking that 1% -- one of the things that was the most disconcerting to all of us was that capitalism was some vilified. that the people investing in the success of this country were somehow vilified and this 1% are somehow going to be -- >> do you really think that asking the 1% to pay their fair share is vilifying them? >> no, actually if you talk to the 1% they do feel they should be paying more. but it has to be shared. >> and the money has to be invested strategically in a way that be help our nation build education, or job creation. >> absolutely. this is where i think the obama administration has fallen short. and this is how romney knows how to invest this in a much more pragmatic way. >> we'll have to argue about that. donny, you have worked on a lot of media cam

he repeated those very same areas in terms of the small business and assistance to small business in the state of the union address and again last week when he signed the payroll tax extension. so, certainly, there is reason to hope that if congress can focus on resolving some differences that we could get some progress in that arena or that area. and as for energy policy, the president stressed that he will continue to focus on an all-of-the-above approach, and that does not mean just drilling. it includes drilling, and as you know under, since the president obama took office the domestic oil and gas production has continued to increase to a point where we are now at an eight-year high. and the president is very committed to expand the domestic oil and gas production safely and responsibly, but he knows and it is important that politicians acknowledge that if drills were the answer, we would not see the spikes in oil prices that we see. because we have been expanding oil drilling, and we saw global oil prices spike up last year and of course they are doing so again now. we need to take an all of the above

part of this discussion and part of the state of the union was saying to business, you've got some responsibilities, we want to incentivize, but we also want to hold your feet to the fire, use some sticks against you as well. what role, what responsibility do american manufacturers have to bring jobs back home, to try to get involved to a we're all in it together conversation with government. >> look, david, i could give you a classic laissez-faire capitalist answer, on the one hand, i could say we follow the laws, leave us alone. i don't think that fits today. it doesn't fit overall. i think first and foremost what we owe everybody is to compete and win in every corner of the world. first and foremost, invest in technology, invest in people. take our products, gain market share, fight hard against, you know, all of our global competitors. and probably all three of us -- i don't really have american competitors anymore. all my competitors are german, japanese, chinese. we're kind of like after a hundred years the last man standing in the world we're in. so i'm kind of, love us or hate us, i'm your

. >> could you see latinos tweeting about the state of the union address? would have never imagined and it did happen. one other takeaway from the housing summit was we got together, several of us that attended got together to watch the state of the union address tuesday following. when would that have happened? we connected there, people that are passionate about causes and politics and got together and we were part of that tweeting sensation. >> the giant has awakened. any final thoughts? >> i want to invite the public to kplcommunicate with you. let's rock the road in 2012 and make sure that your opinion counts. >> did the white house make promises to the group? >> they were going to take the notes that we as a result of the meetings and go back and make sure that they were addressed. they are coming back afterwards so we have a working relationship. that was the promise. >> we'll take it. let's hear the information again thmpt white house has a special page. any final thoughts? >> i would love to welcome everyone tomorrow. u.s. secretary of education wi

of the whole. the speaker pro tempore: the chairman of the committee of the whole house on the state of the union reports that the committee has had under consideration h.r. 3581 and pursuant to house resolution 539 reports the bill back to the house with an amendment adopted in the committee of the whole. under the rule the previous question is ordered. the committee is on adoption of the amendment in the nature of a substitute. those in favor will signify by saying aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the amendment is agreed to. the question is on engrossment and third reading of the bill. those in favor will signify by saying aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. third reading. the clerk: a bill to amend the balanced budget and emergency deficit control act of 1985 to increase transparency in federal budgeting and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from minnesota rise? >> i have a motion at the desk, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman will suspend. the house will be in order. the house will be in order. members will please take th

one takeaway from the housing summit was the fact that we got together, several of us that attended the summit, got together to actually watch the state of the unionddress the tuesday following. and when would that have ever happened? we actually connected there people that are passionate about causes, passionate about politics, and we got together and we were part of that tweeting sensation. so yes, it was wonderful. >> a giant has awakened. he's moving around. any final thoughts, patricia? >> yes, i just want to invite the public to communicate with you or with nora or hilda if they want to know about upcoming events. let's rock the vote in 2012 and make sure why your opinion counts and the people know what you want to happen. >> did the white house make any promises to the group? >> the promise was they were going to take the notes that we -- as a result of the meetings and then go back and make sure that they were addressed within their programs. then they're coming back to us afterwards, so we now have a working relationship. that was the promise. >> we'll take it. let's show that information again. the white house has a special page on the h

of the various newspapers around the country, and around the world, where there are continuing policies, aloys investmei allowing investments otherwise you see pullback i. was pleased to hear the president in the state of the union and see that in action as well the commitment to energy efficiency, something i believe is very important. senator portman and i have a bill 1,000 that addresses energy efficiency in the industrial sector in government, and in buildings, but one of the best ways to encourage energy efficiency is by supporting the expansion of co-generation or combined heat and power. these are, the technologies used are generally off the shelf. they exist right here in the united states. the jobs that are created. the jobs are are here in the u.s. so can you talk to what the position of the department is on combined heat and power and how you address that in this upcoming budget? >> we are very bullish in combined heat and power. in today's modern, let's say gas turban generation you can get 55, 60% efficiency in converting that energy into electricity, but it's at best 60% efficient. i guess some companies claim 61% or 62% but i'm not going to quibble. and heat and power, you go up to 80%. it can be

, which means unions already have a severely diminished role. of of course the state government doesn't engage in collective bargaining to begin with. so, the new legislation will affect sectors of the government where unions still have i guess you could say a seat at the table and a voice. like local governments. like schools. public education has taken a hit. you know what they've done down there, cut more than $2 billion out of the budget since 2009. over the last four years, funding for state universities has been cut by 50%. yeah, that's right, arizona, arizona state, northern arizona. they are dealing with half the money they used to deal with. this is another case of the republican agenda being carried out by a radical governor and radical leaders. arizona republicans are trying to put the final nail in the coffin of unions. my question, did they campaign on this? the answer is no. democrats are virtually in this situation sad to report to you tonight, powerless to stop it. they have the smallest democratic caucus in arizona state history. this isn't what they

this is the latest of attempts by the white house to help homeowners and you heard the speaker of the house john boehner and where does this leaf it? >> well, on the night of the state of the union, where obama first announced this refinancing effort where he did tie it to the housing consumer advocates winced when they heard the word, because it dooms it at this point anyway. you heard the speakers comments today, and in 2010 you had a stronger control by democrats of the senate, and also the house then, and there was a lot of anger over the t.a.r.p. bailout in 2008 and you had dodd/frank this huge financial law signed into law. and at that time they could not get it through, and they had to strip it out of the conference report of the wee hours last night as they were debating it. so trying to bring it back now is a difficult thing, and housing advocates have spoken with since it has been announced said that they would hope that there would be another way to achieve this, and not that they don't agree with the idea of trying to hold banks accountable for the financial crisis and their role therein, but the fact that it is dead on arrival politically makes it a hard sell. >> we