export-import bank that was an agreement struck by majority leader eric cantor and the minority whip steny hoyer. >> and quickly, a lot of people watching the transportation debate on capitol hill. any movement on funding for transportation? >> well, we're going to see the first meeting of the conference committee between the senate and the house on a two-year extension of -- a two-year highway bill. the house has only passed a short-term extension, the senate has pass add two-year extension and they are going to start their conference committee this week. >> russell berman from the hill newspaper thanks for joining us to talk about what's going on on the hill this week. >> thank you. >> we're waiting for house budget committee chairman paul ryan to gavel this meeting into session. we see there are a number of congressmen have arrived. congress shefetz. so far seated at the table only republicans. >> among the programs that would be reduced under the bill that the budget committee is considering today, food stamps, medicaid, child tax credit, meals on wheels, adoption assistance, day care fundin

representative steny hoyer released a statement tonight saying he used to think civil unions were appropriate for same sex couples but now he believes marriage should be legal. hoyer is the second ranking democrat in the house. >>> meanwhile republican presidential candidate mitt romney denying allegations he bullied high school classmates and insists he didn't know some of them were gay. romney apologized to anyone he may have offended by what he called hijinx and pranks during high school. he made the comments in a radio interview today after a washington post report that he held down a classmate and cut off his blooped blonde hair when she were students at -- bleached blonde hair when they were students in a boarding school. >>> more damaging testimony in the john edwards corruption trial as the prosecution wraps up its case. fox's john then serry has the late -- jonathan serrie has the latest from north carolina. >> reporter: former campaign advisor leo henry said edwards desperately tried to strike a deal to be named attorney general with the hope of being named supreme court justice. ed

hoyer, minority whip, steny hoyer of maryland said that one problem with the cantor memo is that it doesn't address these issues that need to be addressed and ought to be addressed before the election rather than waiting for the lame duck, and then mr. hoyer's second point, which, again, obviously is different than what the conservatives said, hoyer said that there's too much politic it's in eric cantor's memo and not enough substance. that this is all being driven by polls. >> and republicans partisan interests. >> rich cohen, keeping track on what's gag on in the house. thanks for the update. >> my pleasure. >>> informing -- >> on c-span here on c-span3, the house veterans affairs subcommittee just under way with a hearing looking at department of veterans affairs purchasing practices of prosthetics with supply costs increasing 80% over the last four years. bill johnson of ohio is the chair and just getting under way live here on c-span3. >> -- we're not subject to acquisition regulations, stated that the va would work on, and i quote "guidance to ensure that prosthetics purchasing acts a

. >> steny hoyer says he has shifted his position from supporting civil unions to a full-fledged endorsement of same-sex marriage. said it will not undermine the institution of marriage. >> 6:09. tires for mom on mother's day? >> sterling statistics when it comes to retirement --still early statistics. >> a controversial cover hits the newsstands. >> a cold front is moving offshore. we have clear skies moving in for the weekend. >> we will detail your morning commute. we will update you on at progressive, you can bundle your home and auto policies and save. don't worry, tiny people. flo is a gentle giant. bundle home and auto at progressive.com. >> welcome back to 11 news today. 6:13. 53 degrees downtown. we have a school closing to announce. beach field elementary school in baltimore city is closed because of a water main break. the kids get a day off. let's look at the temperatures. 40's at the airport. 43 in frederick. a few areas are waking up to some chilly temperatures. we have the sunshine out. no major problems with the win ds. mostly, down towards hagerstown ly calm towards hagersto

do not retake the house this year, should the members of leadership, such as in nancy pelosi and steny hoyer, should they step aside for a new guard, clyde under generation of leaders? -- a younger generation of leaders? guest: our focus should be on electing a 25 plus democrats that we need to make sure that nancy pelosi will be speaker and we can make sure that we have an opportunity to continue to support barack obama in his efforts to fight for the middle- class and working families and get this economy turned around. of. host: you can try to control a campaign and the message, but what worries you the most in the next six months? what is the biggest uncertainty as chair of the democratic party that concerns you the most? guest: as an american, what continues to concern me the most is that we need to work together, to focus on getting this economy to continue to move forward, and to make the progress we have made under president obama and to create jobs and make sure all americans have an opportunity to be successful. that is what keeps me up at night as a policymaker and as the head of

but congressman steny hoyer and calling on homeowners in pay their fair share.e wants to raise taxes. >> what are they going to do with that money? how are they going to spend with it. the senate won't produce a budget in three years. >> greta: so the sequestration problems, they want to raise taxes so i'm curious, why don't you get together. i look at the numbers where there is waste. before like raise taxes or cut to the poor, so it's to recover the waste and fraud? >> that, the process is working. the house has produced a budget that actually looks where we can get rid of our debt and actually grow the economy. look what happened at the economy the last month. more people quit looking for a job than actually started working. what we have to do, if you take the budget of america, you of discretionary spending and mandatory spending. do you know if you wipe that all away today you would still have to borrow money. >> greta: if you look in the defense department's budget, i don't want to make us weak, you look at earmarks, for instance in their most recent budge

i want to commend steny hoyer and eric cantor, the majority leader, for their work on this. i rise as a long-time supporter of ex-im bank and particularly just in the last few months they've done over $17 billion in sales, financing some $14 billion, no tax dollars involved. i'd like to commend the work of the vice president, wanda felton , and also a graph harvard business school, helping -- a graduate of harvard business school, helping to lead this agency. they're doing tens of millions of transactions with companies in my district and they're doing billions across the country. 129,000 jobs just in the last 11 months, supported through this agency. this is an important vote. i thank the bipartisan leadership of the congress for bringing this agreement to move forward and re-authorize ex-im bank and i yield back the balance of my time. to the gentleman from idaho. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california. mr. miller: i'm pleased to yield one minute to the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. kelly. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania is recog

steny hoyer said extending marriage equality is the right thing to do and will not undermine the institution re-election running again voiced his support calling increased awareness of the struggle of gay and lesbian americans. pat quinn came out for marriage equality on friday. he said this week he's committed to working with state lawmakers to make it a reality in illinois. james clyburn added his support for same-sex marriage as a civil right which he believes should be support by national policy. that's just this week. [ applause ] >> stephanie: are we ready to rock n' roll? i always thought i would never be able to say good morning, dan rather. >> good morning! >> stephanie: sorry dan we've been having technical issues this morning. what a thrill to talk to you. >> thank you very much for having me on. i appreciate it greatly. >> stephanie: i never thought i would get to say good morning dan rather and you have the same publisher as i do. your book is fabulous. rather outspoken my life in the news. we were saying while we were waiting to talk to you, you have to get into what happened t

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. >>> maryland congressman steny hoyer says he now supports same- sex marriage as well.released a statement saying, quote, i believe that extending the definition of marriage to committed relationships between two people irrespective of their sex, is the right thing to do and will not in any way undermine the institution of marriage so important to our society. several years ago, however, mr. hoyer spoke out against same- sex marriage. >>> metro is announcing some big changes after a string of safety concerns on its trains and buses. the agency is purchasing 96 new buses after two of them caught fire recently. both fires were caused by high pressure hoses which failed. metro's g.m. believes replacing the buses is the safest option. we did not want to-- >> we did not want to take the risk. >> metro says it fired an employee that caused the train to derail last month at the rosslyn stop. no one was hurt but the hitch caused major delays. >>> new this morning, we have been bringing you a very uplifting story about turning around the high school dropout and turning around hi

. >> harry reid now on the record and steny hoyer supporting. looking to see if they can repeal. will we see legislative action? >> that's not something you'll see this year. republican control of the house so nothing will happen. look at the video you just played. between obama saying firmly where he stands and mitt romney flexing. what romney was doing there is what obama was doing until this week. biden put it out there and made everybody focus on it. if it's going to be a top issue in this campaign, it was important for obama to take a clear stand. it creates the contrast. he took a stand. and mitt romney is playing the time here as this waffler. >> and romney is saying he's not going to see any evolution. stay with us right now if you can, karen and steve. i want to get to this. president obama isn't the only one who evolved on the gay marriage thought. jesse jackson has as well. joining me now is reverend jesse jackson. very good morning to you. >> to you, sir. >> reverend, let's start with this. you said the fight for gay marriage is like the fight for civil rights. to man

communicating to pelosi, its house majority whip rather plaintively to the house minority whip steny hoyer. >> what are the takeaways from people that read the book? >> guest: i set out to do a book that was experiential as much as anything else. i was on election night in the midterm so struck by the 87 freshmen who would be taking office is only a third of whom had no political experience whatsoever had never held elective office. so to chronicle mr. smith goes to washington kind of way how these guys would fare, to what degree they would change the institution. i spent a lot of time sort of in putting myself on the freshman as well as the senior members and members of the democratic side of the aisle. but along the way, in covering their experiences, i covered the more sweeping narrative of the 112 congress, and i think there's almost no way to interpret that narrative as one of jay terrible -- one of a terrible dysfunction, and that was particularly present in the debt ceiling standoff, and in the book i think there's finally sort of a case study in that while the same time being a pre

. >> 93 republicans voted against cantor and steny hoyer's deal to extend the authority of the exportnk, things in no way controversial are getting held up because the idea of compromise is an anathema" to the republican party. >> the procedural has become the substantive for the tea partiers. they're not having big debates over stuff they is agree with. nothing the other side puts forth can be accepted as a reasonable alternative that we should argue over. so that now you just hold up the whole process because you want to stick your finger in the dam so to speak. >> matt, does this an effect in november? do you think there is is significant blowback, the tea party's effect in congress that, hurts them? >> maybe. i have a different view than maybe all of you do. when it comes to the financial deregulatory stuff, there's been a lot of it going on. the jobs act passed the house with 400 votes. it went to the senate, didn't even go through committee. 2 went straight to the floor and got passed there. now a waiver bill coming out of the house going to repeal the derivative stuff. that's g

house of representatives, steny hoyer. thank you, mr. hoyer.d to have with us again at this service speaker of the house of representatives, mr. john boehner. mr. speaker, thank you for coming again. [applause] >> also joining us is the state president of the north dakota eternal order of police. grant benjamin, he is here today representing the national border directors and owner of the lost board of directors member from the fraternal order of police steve kenner who passed away in the line of duty in 2011. steve was the fourth national board member of the f.o.p. to die in the line of duty and grant is here today representing those four, but more especially his friend, steve kenner. thank you, grant. [applause] >> next i welcome linda henning, national president of fraternal order of police auxiliary, our partners in this memorial service. shall be welcoming you all in a few minutes. turning now to my left, please welcome paul irving, the sergeant at arms of the house of representatives. this is his first service as the house sergeant at arms

house of representatives, steny hoyer. thank you, mr. hoyer.we are also very honored to have with us again at this service speaker of the house of representatives, mr. john boehner. mr. speaker, thank you for coming again. [applause] also joining us is the state president of the north dakota fraternal order of police, grant benjamin. he is here today representing the national board of directors in honor of a lost board of director member from the fraternal order of police, steve cantor, who passed away in the line of duty in 2011. steve was the fourth national board member of the fop to die in the line of duty, and grant is here to represent especially his friend, steve cantor. thank you, grant. [applause] next, i welcome lynn hinny, she'll be welcoming you all in a few minutes. [applause] turning now to my left, please welcome paul irving, the sergeant at arms in the house of of the representatives. this is his first service as the house sergeant at arms, and we're grateful for his presence. [applause] next is the acting chief of the united st

steny hoyer the majority whip of maryland said that the one problem was the memo and that it doesn't address these issues that need to be addressed and ought to be addressed before the election revenue and waiting for the lame duck and the second point, which again obviously is different than what the conservatives said. employers said that there's too much politics in keeping the memo and not enough substance driven by polls and the republicans partisan interest. >> keeping track of the goings on in the house. you can read the work of ceq.com. thanks for the update. >> my pleasure. >> writing is a transactional process. writing assumes reading. it goes back to that question about, you know, the free falling in the forest if there is no one there to hear it. if you have written a very wonderful novel than one of the parts of the process is that you want your readers to be enlarged and enriched by it and you have to pull on everything at your disposal to do that. d.c. him only as the avuncular friendly man, which he was to everybody but there's another side of him that want to be the

in particular want to thank steny hoyer. congresswoman mahoney as well as congressman miller who helped make this day possible. their leadership, their hard work made this bill a reality. we talked a lot recently about the fundamental choice that we face as a country. america can either settle for an economy where just a few are doing well and a lot of folks are struggling to get by or we can build the kind of economy where everybody is getting a fair shot and everybody is doing their fair share and everybody is playing by the same rules. and part of building that broad-based economy with a strong middle class is making sure that we're not just known as a nation that consumes. we've got to be a nation that produces, a nation that sells. our middle class was created by workers who made and sold the best products in the world. our communities and our economy have always done better when we shipped more goods than anybody else. stand for that phrase, made in america. and i want us to be that nation again. i want us to be that n

especially everyone in the f.o.p., the minority whip of the united states house of representatives, steny hoyer hoyer. we are also very honored to have with us again at this service speaker of the house of representatives, mr. john boehner. mr. speaker, thank you for coming again. also joining us is the state president of the north dakota fraternal order of police, grant benjamin. he's here today representing the national border directors in honor of a lost bored of director member from the fraternal order of police, steve kenner, who passed away in the line of duty in 2011. steve was the fourth national board member of the f.o.p. to die in the line of duty and grant is here today representing those four, but more especially his friend, steve kenner. thank you. next i welcome linda henley, our partners in this memorial service. she will be welcoming you all in a few minutes. turning to my far left, please welcome paul irving, the sergeant of arms at the house of representatives. this is his first service as the house sergeant at arms and we're very grateful for his presence. next is the acting

particularly my colleague steny hoyer from maryland, one of the authors of the a.d.a. and i rise to oppose any efforts to strip the department of justice enforcement of these regulations. mr. holt: my friend from arizona is correct. it sounds as if we're in parallel universes talk about different things here -- talking about different things here but let me tell you what we are talking about. we are talking about equality of opportunity in america. yes, we want to do all we can to give all possible access to swimming. it is important for all sorts of reasons. we have in this country more and more people with disabilities. veterans returning from afghanistan, people living to older ages, many people who can benefit greatly from access to swimming pools. and what we're talking about here is that principle of access , not just what it means for an individual with disabilities but what it means for the american ideal of equality of access. the regulation and the law itself talk about a standard of readily achievable steps, readily achievable. that's the key point here. fix