steny hoyer from the proud state of maryland. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from maryland is recognized for four minutes. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman for yielding. the previous speaker voted to go deeply into debt. frankly, i voted for some of those programs myself. two of which were to support the efforts in afghanistan and iraq. we didn't pay for them. as has been said, i didn't vote for it initial, but i think it's a -- initially, but i think it's a good program. we made it better. the prescription drug program, the gentleman wasn't here when we passed that, but we didn't pay for it. and he's correct, it doesn't matter which side didn't pay for it. we haven't paid for it. this bill is about whether or not we're going to stand up and say, yes, we voted to pay for it but, guess what, we have our fingers crossed. we're not going to do it. we said we were going to do this. we took some tough action.

. >>> and steny hoyer, from the house, democratic leader. mr. hoyer, known you forever. you are a meat and poteat ohs democrats, down the middle most of the time, and i have to ask you this question -- do you think the president has it in him to go after the bad guys tonight? to go after the eric cantors and the people rooting for his failure? >> i think the president has it in him to put forth a flam he thinks is going to help, and if mr. cantor or somebody eggs lse opposes it, he's going to be strong in proposing a solution to jobs and the deficit. those are the two messages we heard. people are very afraid. they're fearful that this double dip recession you were just talking with rocn reagan about might occur in their own lives. if their house is under water, they've lost a house, they're in a depression and know something's got to be done. the issue here, they also know about the deficit. jobs is think number one priority and i expect the president to talk -- ron's probably right -- medium long, not necessarily long, but immediate yum lomedium long about creating job

we're pleased we're going to be led this night by our democratic whipe, the honorable steny hoyer, thes led us in the make it in america agenda. for such time as he might consume. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentlelady for yielding and for her leadership. i want to thank the congressional black caucus which has raised this issue to a new height of not only visibility but of hope. emanuel cleaver, chairman of the congressional black caucus told a wonderful story in our caucus the other day. he said there was a little by boy and his dad and his dad was reading the paper and the little boy scratched his hand and as he did so, it obviously hurt and he went in front of his dad, shaking his hand, shaking his hand, he walked to and from his father and his father kept reading the paper. and finally his father put down the paper and said, son, i know you scratched your hand. but there's nothing i can do about it. and the little boy looked at his dad and said, you can say ouch. you can understand the pain i'm experiencing. you can understand the pain that losing a job is causing me. you can understan

steny hoyer said they are not going to even back raising taxes.your base starts to pull away, also conservative members like senator claire mccaskill is up for reelection. she can't get behind tax increases in a swing state like missouri. a lot of ideas that seemed balanced were in his own deficit commission rejecting it completely. now he's trying to pull this political stunt by squashing the gop debate. his ego has reached an unreal level. can cockiness, arrogance. >> he's listening to the wrong people. this that second sound bite he was next to immelt the head of ge. no wonder he made the shovel-ready comment. ge has been a corporate failure. you might as well own a mule -- a mutual fund. >> sean: i was saying this about his inner child has come out this has been a long scheduled debate. the exact same time, exact same date as the republican debate at the reagan library. all of a sudden that has to be the night after his martha's vineyard's vacation that he comes back and makes that announcement. obviously, there was some political calculation

my colleague whip steny hoyer is here tonight. he's an important part of what we did in the house. senator reid in the senate, putting together a bipartisan coalition there. and so, again, the american people approved. the issue was urgent. the president led. tonight we celebrate. >> do you have anything to say tonight to buck mckean, chairman of the house armed services committee or to senator john mccain or other members of the senate you fought against all these years, the ones who fought so hard to keep this ban in place? >> you know what, i'd rather be thinking in a positive vain tonight about what was accomplished and the joy it brings to all of these people here and the 14,000 people who were discharged under the don't ask, don't tell policy. the respect that they are receiving, the opportunity they have to go back and to be reinstated and what it means for those who have never served but want to serve our country. that's the emphasis i would like to place tonight as we have this celebration. i hope that in the hearts of those who have not been as enthusiastic that they will

give you a sense of how they kind of measure up on this, here are comments from eric cantor and steny hoyer. here's how they outline it. >> going to stick to the agreement of the debt ceiling. are we going to start spending more? are we going to allow yet again another opportunity to take advantage of a crisis? >> unfortunate the republicans have chosen once again to put in a poison pill that they knew we would not agree to in a piece of legislation they know has to pass. >> reporter: one of the issues is, is there enough money for fema funding? republicans stay amps included is enough to get through november and then it would be dealt with again. democrats want to see more funding devoted to that. and senate democrats tried to pass it on its own and did get some republican support for that. but that won't go anywhere. this is something to watch. it is such a personal need in so many places with fema money and it is just a debate over how much and how quickly to act on that. >> kelly o'donnell live on that. and developing right now, we are waiting an announcement from the federal reserve on

steny hoyer said elections do reflect leaders. so will is blame all around.tically shift dynamics on capitol hill, a couple more republican votes, but it's a nasty narrative for democrats especially now. >> exactly right, jake. thanks so much for your insights. >>> and up next, elijah cummings. plus ending an era of shame on for the military. pd be sure to follow the show online and on twitter. at bayer, we've been relieving pain for over 100 years. and today, we're re-inventing aspirin for pain relief. with new extra-strength bayer advanced aspirin. it has microparticles so it enters the bloodstream faster and rushes relief right to the site of your tough pain. in fact, it's clinically proven to relieve pain twice as fast. new bayer advanced aspirin. extra strength pain relief, twice as fast. [ male announcer ] test our fast relief. love it, or get your money back. [ male announcer ] test our fast relief. ♪ ♪ ♪ when your chain of supply ♪ goes from here to shanghai, that's logistics. ♪ ♪ chips from here, boards from there ♪ ♪ track it all through the air, th

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and then he -- it was announced by steny hoyer, the number two sdrat, that dicks was going to oppose it this morning. so that was the thing that republicans would have trouble. but it wasn't clear until the actual vote occurred that they simply did not have the votes to pass the bill. it seemed the republicans at some point later, closer to that point had realized that they didn't have the votes, that they obviously did not pull the bill from the floor or would tell anybody. and even this morning or yesterday morning, eric cantor prodicted the bill would pass the -- predicted the bill would pass the house. host: the lowest spending number they could get. what was the speaker's reaction? guest: he actually -- he did not have much to say. the republican leader retreated very quickly to boehner's office to figure out what their next move would be. as of this morning they have yet to announce what that would be. their options are they could change the spending cut that they used to offset some of the money for disaster aid, about $1 billion. they cut from an energy loan program that was

we heard from steny hoyer, the whip in the house, he changed title, they essentially believe they can do this with unanimous consent if indeed something gets done with the united states senate but house members do not want to come basket from -- back from their distincts -- districts for this vote whenever it happens. jenna: thank you, mike emanuel in d.c. today. jon: if they can't come to some kind of solution to the budget problems, one of the biggest concerns that is the toll that it could take on our military budget and our armed forces. nearly $500 billion will be cut from the military budgets, making for the smallest army and marine force necessary more than a decade. and the smallest independent tactical air force since 1947. jennifer griffin has been crunching the numbers, live at the pentagon with the latest. >> house armed service committee republicans have prepared a memo about just how devastating they say the defense cuts would be if the supercommittee fails by the thanksgiving and then december deadline. they say that nearly 200,000 soldiers and marines would be cut, exp

let's roll back the tapes, on the floor of the house, steny hoyer stood up pan got into a colloquy withave enough votes on their own and hoyer said i can't vote for it. it's nothing, but politics and not telling the american people the truth and it's reprehensible. >> would you be willing to vote for it if it was billions of dollars given to victims without an offset somewhere else. >> i said early on i didn't want to bicker about the offsets to make sure those that needed the aid. however, it's responsible if we found an offset in time to do so. >> alisyn: democrats don't like that offset. >> i don't like the fact that we have 14.3 trillion dollars of debt. >> alisyn: they don't want this tied to the budget battle. they just want the victims to get the money. >> no, i don't, they already agreed to this prior to nancy pelosi starting to play politics. again, on the floor of the house, roll back the tape. it's there. a colloquy between their whip. and-- >> you're saying they agreed before the-- >>. >> that's right. >> alisyn: nancy pelosi got involved, we funded two wars during george w.

steny hoyer said, whoa, we can't raise taxes.the same thing president obama said, we can't raise taxes in a recession. bill: politics, bob? >> divide the classes? it's 3% versus 97%. that ain't exactly class warfare. this was a political speech yesterday. this was about firming up his base which is beginning to drift. also there was some talk about maybe somebody getting into a primary against him. that ends that by doing that. bill: andrea is right, then? it's all about politics. >> the on thing that will pass is whatever the super committee comes up with. the idea that you are going to have deficit reduction without taxing the top 3% of this country is absolutely insane. bill: thursday night we have a debate. >> i heard that. it's on fox. bill: we teamed up with a small little web site called google. we have been asking viewers across the country for a month, bya to ask their own questions. this was filed by christopher paxton out of houston, texas. listen carefully to what he wants to know. >> entitlement spending set to grow

, look for some fireworks on the house tphr-r in the next 15 minutes or so coming up in between steny hoyerader. jenna: on that you mentioned green energy. top executives of a solar energy company that burned through half a billion dollars in taxpayer loans, otherwise known as solyndra refusing to answer questions on capitol hill today. the pressure is building on the white house for how those loans were made. jon, did you ever wonder why we are hard wired for yawning. jon: i yawn a lot. jenna: i know. i sit next to you. but it's not because it's boring, right this is the most exciting job you've ever had. jon: no, it is exciting. jenna: there is a reason why we yawn. it has nothing to do with being bored or not. we have the brain-chilling answer straight ahead. labored breathing ] [ coughing continues ] [ gasping ] [ elevator bell dings, coughing continues ] [ female announcer ] washington can't ignore the facts: more air pollution means more childhood asthma attacks. [ coughing continues ] log on to lungusa.org and tell washington: don't weaken clean air protections. the world needs more

minority leader nancy pelosi, steny hoyer from maryland among those attending. charlie rangel was on our program earlier this week as well. a viewer tweets this -- another call from louisville. this is ron, a democrat. caller: unfortunately in america this is a new norm. this will be like this for the next 10-20 years. we are not paying attention to what we are doing. the concept that small businesses cannot invest because they are concerned about anything other than clients is nonsense. people run their businesses based on demand. all of this of the talk about what the government may are not do is just fun and light to -- unenlightened thinking. host: next call is from north carolina. good morning, charlotte. you are on. caller: i do not think people are realizing that these banks and lending institutions have done it to me. they have sabotaged my business to the story my business and to push me into a financial bind and to push me into foreclosure, and not one time. i am going through this many times. they are doing it so they can take my property. for example

to our whip, steny hoyer who helped us arrange this hour and to my colleagues who participated and to everyone who has tuned in for a moment, i want to say thank you, thank you for giving us the opportunity to stand up at this most difficult and crucial moment in the history of the u.s.-israel relationship and remind our allies from around the world and every nation from around the world just how strong and unbreakable the bond between our two nations is. madam speaker, i appreciate it. and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: under the speaker's announced policy of january 5, 2011, the gentleman from georgia, mr. gingrey, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader. mr. gingrey: thank you, madam speaker, and i thank our majority leader for giving me the opportunity to take this time this evening to talk about two of the most important issues on the minds of every american, but especially on the minds of our seniors. and those two issuesr number one, medicare -- two issuesr number one, medicare and patient care and affordable care act.

as steny hoyer, one of the democratic leaders in the house, said, what the house did is try to legislate away 53,000 jobs. they took money that was in the pipeline to do more of those electric cars and other kinds of new vehicles, they took that money and stripped it away. they -- they applied that towards something we haven't done around here, and that is fund emergency situations around the country. and to rub salt in the wound, they not only took that, a billion dollars' worth, but they took $500 million worth and just rescinded it, wiping out jobs and not applying it to the deficit, just doing it i guess to show that they're in control of the house. but that fell apart last night. it fell apart because republicans and democrats would not support that issue. now, we don't know what they're going to do over there today. there are all kinds of rumors floating around, we don't foe, i haven't spoken to the speaker or the majority leader over there. i haven't talked to them. there are all kinds of rumors as to what they might do, they might try to send it back to us again. but the one thin

host: that is the second democrat in the house, steny hoyer. "$7 billion for fema would need 60 votes." that is the latest on disaster aid and possibly the threat of another government shut down in the house. here is the front page of "the washington post" this morning. "u.s. creating a ring of sacred drones -- of secret drones." host: it is a lengthy piece in "the washington post" if you are interested in that. back to your phone calls on the role of the u.n. in world affairs. james is next. he is in michigan. good morning. caller: good morning. i have a comment about the two gop leaders, mitt romney and rick perry, stating the fact ult. obama is to fall why do the republicans think obama's responsible for everything that goes on in the world? without the gop, the senate, the house, he could do nothing. host: john, a republican in massachusetts. what is the role of the u.n. in world affairs? caller: i'm going to change from republican to independent. the role of the u.n. is where all the puppet masters of all the corporations and all the rich people go down there to basically try to

things -- three or four items today within the tax code that you could walk across the hall to steny hoyer and say we can all agree on these three or four things. what would they be? >> all the crony capitalism, the industrial policy. we're trying to subsidize select businesses or industries, renewable, energy, you name it. the way i look at this is get rid of all of those special interest provisions. and then a broader base, give businesses a time to transition in exchange for lowering the rates. the rest of the world taxes at 25% on average, we're at 39.2% when you add in state and local taxes. it makes us uncompetitive when we tax our businesses a lot more than our foreign competitors are taxing theirs. >> how do you explain to your constituents, though, paul, when you go home. if you say our corporate tax rate is higher than the rest of the world, we're at 39%. and yet, the largest corporations in america pay 0% in taxes. how do -- >> look at ge. ge's the poster child of this thing because they've used all these loopholes. >> that's correct. >> there are many other businesses that don'

like to have a big welcome to a very good friend of mine and, the democratic whip of the house, steny hoyer pie. >> thank you very much, david. my fellow new yorkers, i was born in charlie rangel's district. and i lived in manhattan until i was nine years of age. so i am a brother new yorker of my friend charlie rangel. an historic figure in history of the house and of this nation. charlie rangel, hero. charlie rangel, who was called by his country to serve to defend freedom, in a far-off place that he may never have thought of, that was being overrun to be subjected and whose freedom was to be robbed. charlie rangel answer the call of his country and became a hero, not in his mind, but in us.mind of all buof charlie rangel came home from korea, having served his country extraordinarily well and came home to new york, to serve his country again, to serve his country in insuring proper law enforcement as assistant prosecutor. charlie rangel answer the call of his country. and then his district asked him to come to washington to serve once again four decades ago. and so for 20 times, his dist

i spoke to steny hoyer in the house. he said 52,000 jobs, they're taking away from the american people by doing this. they take $1 billion and pay for this. but just to show further meanness, they take $500,000 and rescind it. it doesn't go towards the debt t. goes towards nothing. they just rescind it. then of course for the year 2012, they put in an amount of money that doesn't go very far with all these disasters. a few weeks' worth. so we'll be back having this same fight again, which is so senseless, so unnecessary. i had hoped that the house of representatives -- there is going to be a vote today around 4:00, 5:00. i know it will be a close vote. but i hope people over here will understand how important this vote is. we're going to have a vote, as we've indicated, on the continuing resolution to strip out the mean-spirited amendment they have in it and put what's already passed here by a substantial majority. i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll of the senate. quorum c

steny hoyer from the proud state of maryland. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from maryland is recognized for four minutes. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman for yielding. the previous speaker voted to go deeply into debt. frankly, i voted for some of those programs myself. two which were to support the efforts in afghanistan and iraq. we didn't pay for them. as has been said, i didn't vote for it initial, but i think it's a -- initially, but i think it's a good program. we made it better. the prescription drug program, the gentleman wasn't here when we passed tha but we didn't pay for it. and he's correct, it doesn't matter which side didn't pay for it. we haven't paid for it. this bill is about whether or not we're going to stand up and say, yes, we voted to pay for it but, guess what, whave our fingers crossed. we'reot going to do it. we said we were going to do this. we took some tough action. both sides joined together, both leaderships joined together and said we're going to do this. now, this bill is a phony. this is

we think it's about getting back to basics, about the a, b, c's, leader hoyer, i'll get it right yet, steny. >> madam speaker, majority leader sounds ok to me. >> the basic as the a, b, c,'s a, make it in american. mr. hoyer will elaborate on that, but it's very important for us to stop the erosion of our industrial manufacturing and our technological base. it's important to our entrepreneurial spirit, development of our small businesses, and to again to have it important not only economically but our national security that we are self-reliant. we have the tools of production to defend the american people. building america's infrastructure is very important. mr. clyburn will talk about that. that would be b. building america's infrastructure. both mr. hoyer and mr. clyburn were talking about both of these basics, but we believe, again, the entrepreneurial spirit, keeping america number one, putting people to work are very well served by addressing the trillions of dollars in deficit in our infrastructure. broadband, water system, bridges. mr. clyburn will elaborate. and c, community recover

steny. a, sics as the abc's -- making it in america. mr. hoyer will elaborate on that.mportant to our spirit for the the blood of our small businesses and to -- it is important economically to our national security that we are self-reliant, that we have the tools of production to defend the american people. building america's infrastructure very important. mr. cliburn will talk about that. that would be building america plus interest charges come and they will be talking about both of these basics, but we believe the spirit of keeping america number one of not putting people to work, will be well served by addressing the trillions of dollars invested in our infrastructure. c, community recovery corps. that you had seen in the past few months, east coast, fires in texas, storms in louisiana and the gulf coast, there is a lot of rebuilding that needs to be done, and many of our members have told they think it wi be very important for us hire youth, and people, it might be senior citizens whcan help in the rebuilding of communities. we think it is important andan be an eco