>> i was impressed by steny hoyer's acting, funny and cursed and jay carney was funny. the acting of these guys was pretty good. it's a great introduction, frankly the quality of the video. >> or the editing was great. >> i don't think bloomberg did a great job and i live in new york. my taxes might go up as a result of my saying that but steny hoyer was great and cursed and bleeped it, it was a funny moment. carney with the eight ball was funny. it was beautifully done. maybe that's the only partisanship we'll have ever. >> that was well done. >> very well done. >> house of cards team did it themselves. >> what it looks like. >> any time you end with kevin spacey giving a mondolog, that' great. >> this one compared to years past? >> the energy a lot better. the celebrity power was better than other years, we've seen bigger years when he was first elected, everybody came up and riding that change of hope. but this year, again, high energy but then also a sense of sadness because of what happened in boston. but you had everything from psy and newt gingrich. >> next time

and minutes ago, steny hoyer gave a pretty impassioned talk from the floor. take a listen. >> i will oppose this bill, because it fails to address the whole impact of sequester. let me share just a handful of examples of how the sequester will affect americans. education, head start, 70,000 children will be kicked out of head start. nothing in this bill deals with them. >> congresswoman, what's your reaction to steny hoyer and your thoughts about the faa furlough fix means? >> first of all, i agree with steny hoyer that, in fact, it shouldn't be done piecemeal. that the sequester should have been one that we gave enough discretion to all departments to make the kinds of cuts that are made with a scalpel and not with a saw. and what people are witnessing across this country, with long lines, with delayed flights, is more than an inconvenience. it is affecting everyone's productivity. so, i think this measure that would allow the faa to take money, savings that it has from other accounts, and place it into accounts so we don't have to furlough the air traffic c

i didn't look how steny hoyer voted, but it's bipartisan and is it the day to point fingers. >> and they'd come out and said wonder whether president obama's policy in syria or iraq or the middle east haven't left us more vulnerable to this, or you would have to wonder about his policies in guantanamo bay or drone strikes. if they said anything look that, they would be roundly criticized of yapping before having the facts in hand and raw, and people are still grieving and not working with the right tools. you saw president obama do it cool, collected and commander-in-chiefly job. and letting things get spun up. unfortunately, what you see here, congress is currently obsessed with spending and democrats are currently obsessed with the idea of automatic reductions to automatic increases in federal outlays and could not resist linking the two. one other thing, if i may, for mr. clapper, if the president really thought, if the belief in the administration was this was jeopardizing our national security, if we were missing intelligence that would protect us from something like the incident in b

i'm sure that steny hoyer on reflection wouldn't have said things like that. about the political debate and it's like a family fight and you say things you don't mean and i wish they hadn't said it, but it's not true, as you know. it's just sad. >> okay. art, stay right there, please, we're coming up on the opening of the market and we want to get to you on that in just a moment. and i've got to tell you that the market is going to open today. and big name technology companies are making headlines today. intel, apple, yahoo!. we're not going to forget about gold, that's going to be down a little today as well and oil down again and art laffer is staying with us. we'll be back in a moment. the opening bell coming up. are you still sleeping? just wanted to check and make sure that we we on schedule. the first technology of its kind... mom and dad, i have great news. is now providing answers families need. siemens. answers. trust your instincts to make the call. to treat my low testosterone, my doctor and i went with axiron, the only underarm low t treatment. axi

maryland steny hoyer. >> 70,000 children will be kicked out of head start. nothing in this bill deals with them. 4 million fewer meals on wheels for seniors. 600,000 people dropped off wic, nothing in here for them. >> reporter: wic is a nutrition program for low income whim and children and its funding could be restored under legislation that gives every agency the leeway to shift funds around. so far, scott, that legislation has not gotten a lot of attention from lawmakers. >> pelley: nancy, thanks. well, the economy continues to take off. after growing a stingy 4/10 of 1% in the final quarter of last year, the government said today the economy grew 2.5% in the first quarter of this year. here's anthony mason. >> reporter: a cold spring at the gorham paper and tissue mill has not kept business from heating up. sales revenue here has soared 23% from a year ago. back in 2011 this plant was shuttered. but john harrington, a managing director with the new owner says it now employs 212 workers. >> bring people back to work, investing in new technology, investin

well, she says, in addition, she says, senate majority leader harry reid and house minority whip steny hoyerin the talks for the the carveout being, for the members of congress or senators and members of the house of representatives. we have a conflict. i don't know who to believe because both are in my eyes so credible. melissa: right. >> this is truly a deep, deep conflict. but we'll try to resolve that. meanwhile, to join all of the labor unions, the religious organizations in particular, the catholic church, illegal immigrants, welfare recipients and the carveout would be our august representatives on capitol hill and i do not simply mean those in the house but also the senate because they would not want to be left out of any carveout. this is a disgusting display by any measure. melissa: really is. >> and the suggestion, the suggestion that by, pelosi that all they want is the same thing. they want the same thing. they want equality with other federal employees. which shows you how modest and humble they are. but she didn't say she wants the same deal for every american. and until we he

democratic lawmakers steny hoyer and javier business serra made critical references to the tragedy. of other items were placed on the back burner today. here is chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel. >> the boston attack had a impact on capitol hill. it was clear early on this was not a day for bickering. >> we are united simply for the victims of this senseless attack. >> today, the thoughts of every measure are with the people of boston. >> relevant committee focused shifting to briefing from counter terrorism and law enforcement officials a news conference with former congresswoman gabriel giffords designed to boost support for gun control was cancelled. the gang of 8 immigration reform plan was scrapped out of respect for boston victims. the gang did release an outline of the plan. on security, it would include up to $7 billion in new fencing, border guards, and drones. and it would demand that the government monitor 100% of the border and capture 90% of those trying to enter illegally. florida republican marco rubio is members of the group. >> this is not about making

today we heard from congressman steny hoyer, the number two democrat in the house from maryland tellingesident's plan to incorporate this chained cpi for social security, quote: is not a news flash. and jay carney, the white house press secretary said this is not ideal from the president's point of view, it does reflect one part of a balanced approach to debt reduction as he has called for. one last point here, one little point. it's really just a drop in the bucket. use of the chained cpi for social security would raise $130 billion of tax revenue for social security over the next 10 years. according to the trustee's own report. the projected short fall is about $630 billion. >> bill: i know. it's a drop as they say. what time, ed, are we going to know about all of this tomorrow? what time? >> first thing in the morning 9:10 a.m. bottom line is all of this anger on the left just for show so the president can say look, i'm taking on the left or is there really going to be some pain in this budget? that's going to be the key. >> bill: thanks very much. directly ahead liberal guy james ca

democratic lawmakers steny hoyer and javier business serra made critical references to the tragedy.r items were placed on the back burner today. here is chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel. >> the boston attack had a impact on capitol hill. it was clear early on this was not a day for bickering. >> we are united simply for the victims of this senseless attack. >> today, the thoughts of every measure are with the people of boston. >> relevant committee focused shifting to briefing from counter terrorism and law enforcement officials a news conference with former congresswoman gabriel giffords designed to boost support for gun control was cancelled. the gang of 8 immigration reform plan was scrapped out of respect for boston victims. the gang did release an outline of the plan. on security, it would include up to $7 billion in new fencing, border guards, and drones. and it would demand that the government monitor 100% of the border and capture 90% of those trying to enter illegally. florida republican marco rubio is members of the group. >> this is not about making a proces

you saw barney frank do it in the most bombastic idiotic manner but you also had steny hoyer doing itis guy the house democratic chair caucus chair xavier bizcera saying the boston will have to make money awith a from children's immunization to pay for this. because of sequester. focus on the fact that americans came together and rallied to the cause. we have grieving people right now. we have villains out there on the loose. that's where the attention should be. these are elected or recently retired officials who have no business politicizing this. >> bill: it even gets worse when you get into the punditry, powers. this guy david zerotta indicated columnist. it's unbelievable. he hopes it's a right wing militian or nazi nut that did this so his agenda is not impacted by. this i'm just amazed. but you don't seem to be amazeds powers. maybe because you live with these people and you know what it is i don't know like this. nobody in my town acts this way. >> yeah. well, i know a lot of people who do. i think -- but here is the thing about david's column is that he laments that there are

steny hoyer put it quote, if she run, she clears the field. but is that really true?lle agrees with that assessment. >> i don't think there's ever been anybody that is a prohibitive front-runner for party's nomination as secretary state clinton is right now. >> but of course, not everyone believes it. howard dean's former tech guru says the idea hillary clinton is the inevitable nominee is quote stupid. we've seen this before. newspaper columnists were writing clinton appeared to be in a class all by herself. gallup found her nearly 30 points ahead of a guy named barack obama. times have changed, but maybe not for the better as far as clinton is concerned. assuming she's the democratic nominee, she would be the front-runner, but being the front-runner or establishment pick isn't all that it's cracked up to be. in fact, it may hurt you more than it helps. 2012 saw another giant step forward in the role technology plays. social media means they can get their message out without having to pay for ads and could provide a significant woos to any democratic challenger. join

which was my legacy built with steny hoyer. the first official election bill given with the federal government in part of the nation's history was the nation bill. i was on -- congress committee with senator mcconnell. at no point in time did say here's an amendment for jack abramoff, it didn't happen. hondid i agree to consider an amendment for jack abramoff for that bill, yes absolutely. i am probably one of the first members of congress in modern times to plead a felony for agreeing to consider an amendment to a bill. if they -- the hill today and charged felonies unpeople considering amendments to a bill, there would be barely anybody left and capitol hill. >> when did you know that you were doing something wrong? >> there were bright lines i crossed. for example, when jack abramoff came into my office and said of an amendment to help america vote act. he said members of the senate were interested in this. members of the senate were on board. i as a member of the house said clearly to jack abramoff i would consider this ame

hours of boston marathon bomb going off that some people on the left were starting to point fingers steny hoyer was probably one of the dumbest things. chris matthews can i point something out. i disagree with you on seroda he used that headline to gain attention. cynthia mckinney who says maybe it was an inside job. >> let me tell you something really important. if they had information that this was something who was white wing or white supremist or radical group on the right we would have heard this by the liberal media already because they can't wait to put that stuff out laughner, tea party, republicans. >> represents the whole left. >> actually could have done 25. >> how about one? give me one. i will do this again. give me one example of a right winger blaming the boston -- >> -- you could argue. well, the -- i go back to laura ingraham said the fate about blaming the immigration bill is the same as blaming obama and those support. >> that's completely different, bob. >> no it's not. >> yes, it is. >> probably if i went through the internet, laura, i can probably find many of them. >> you

. >> warner: democrat steny hoyer- - the house minority whip-- rejected the criticism, and he challengedepublicans to address cuts in other agencies. >> we ought not to be mitigating the sequester's effect on just one segment when children, the sick, our military and many other groups who will be impacted by this irresponsible policy are left unhelped. >> warner: at the white house today, spokesman jay carney said congress is taking what he called a band-aid approach to easing the impact of the sequester. but he said, the president will sign the bill. now a look at the quick turn of events of the past 48 hours to ease flight delays and what triggered it. alan levin covers the aviation industry for bloomberg news and joins me now. alan, thanks for joining us. this kind of quick action on capitol hill, which kind of quick agreement is almost unhea ofthese ds. what brought it about? >> well, i think the-- when you bring pain to the public, that's when congress reacts to sequestration. a lot of the other cuts are a little bit more theoretical. they don't touch people in a big way. and you al

today on the house floor, maryland's steny hoyer was outraged. >> while i was to end these delays forers in maryland, across the country, i will oppose this bill because it fails to address the whole impact of sequester. let me share just a handful of examples of how the sequester will affect americans. education. head start. 70,000 children will be kicked out of head start. nothing in this bill deals with them. 4 million fewer meals on wheels for seniors. 600,000 people dropped off wic. nothing there for them. unemployment insurance, emergency unemployment insurance cut 11% for 2 million out of work americans. nothing in here for them. >> joining me right now is managing editor of the grio joy reid and "huffington post" sam stein who fired off this tweet on this issue. "head start kids should start complaining about the long tarmac delays they're dealing with." let me go back to joy then to sam. joy, it seems to me republicans and democrats are not partisan when it comes to 30,000 feet. once you're up that high, everything's cool. by the way, i did notice, i love to look at voting pa

democrats aren't yet ready to back the president's chained cpi proposal either as democratic whip steny hoyer told politico in an interview yesterday. that said, it's still april. and, therefore, still plenty of time to cut some type of budget deal. real action really doesn't start until june, july and perhaps even august. >>> to that end, the president phoned georgia republican senator johnny isakson a few weeks ago to ask his help in arranging a second dinner with perhaps a different group of republican senators. isakson handled the guest list. it's not been fully released. here's who we know is going to be at the dinner tonight taking police station at the white house, isakson, john thune. mike enzi, susan collins and even marco rubio. there's a chance he may not be able to attend due to a s scheduling conflict. >>> finally this story. there's a reason hollywood has a hard time doing fictional stories about politics. because you can't make up the stuff that beats reality. it involves the senate's top republican, mitch mcconnell, a secret recording by a still anonymous source and the someti

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obviously we don't know, but steny hoyer is implying directly that. he chucked it out on the table.ticized a national outrage. >>brian: i would go the opposite way. i would say during the task force formed when bush took over after the 9/11 attacks, the f.b.i. took over. there was a dissemination of powers and responsibilities irregardless of sequester or anything else. nobody said excuse me, i don't get paid for this. have you seen anyone get on-line and say sorry, today's my furlough day? >> he chucked it out on the table. >>brian: why didn't he propose something? >> any negative that comes down the pike over the past mont or so has been linked to sequester. two weeks ago we got bad jobs numbers. the left said it's the sequester cuts. that was absolute nonsense. but they chucked it on the table. they had politicized it. they brought sequester in. they're going by president obama's play book. when the sequester cuts came in he said the sky will fall. the effects will be absolutely terrible. now the left is trying to back him up. >>gretchen: except it was his idea originally and man

my pleasure now to introduce om arizona, representative sinema. >> i thank steny hoyer. our communities have put their trust and concerns to washington with the promise we will work hard and fight for them and i'm proud to stand here as a representative of my home state arizona to invite america to in us in our unique success, energy innovation. i'm pleased to introduce the security, energy and manufacturing act. this provides a tax credit to companies that are constructing, expanding or retrofitting their facilities that manufacture renewable energy. what this translates is simply american jobs. this brings the jobs of tomorrow to america today. and i'm happy to say we will work with anyone to keep and create these jobs right here in america. we have seen our manufacturing base erode. china has recently leap frogged renewable energy and is captured a growth in the job market. we have talent and expertise in states like arizona, california, nevada, new jersey and others. the successful passage of this act will ensure we don't allow this opportunity to slip by. it will re

house democratic whip steny hoyer stood up a few minutes ago he opposed measure he highlight ad lot ofs, head start, law enforcement, defense. he says this measure does not address that. at white house spokesman jay carney offered this reaction. quote, this is no more than a temporary bandaid that fails to address the overarching threat to the economy because of the see questionter mindless cuts. a senate democrat frustrated with the way washington works. >> basically thursday night might be the key for us passing things. they want to go home. they're on planes and trains to get home. they will about agree to anything. this is something that should have been avoided a long time ago. >> reporter: manchin's democratic colleagues upset that aviation got a whole lot of attention. they wish a lot of other programs were also being fixed if you will. jenna. jenna: back to senator manchin's point there, a lot of lawmakers suddenly travelinging mike? is that adding motivation? is that part of this? >> reporter: look, no question they're going home for a week's recess. if you have day after day

just after he and steny hoyer denied there were ever any talks, of course there were talks about this they were moving forward. and by the way, this prompted speaker boehner to say no, no, we wouldn't have it any other way than all of us in this thing together. >> megyn: boehner has been saying, i want -- yes, i want them to be exempted. i want everyone to be exempted. i want you to be exempted. i don't have anybody to have to go under obamacare. >> gets kind of crowded when we look at the carveouts and exemptions that president obama has provided, he has given it to religious groups, the catholic church included, after a little contra temt there. welfare recipients are exempted. they just get medicaid. >> megyn: that's what they're calling these, medicaid plus, which is one of the reasons people don't want to go on it. it doesn't sound like something that improves what they have. >> illegal immigrants of course get an exemption. labor unions, of course. they've worked too hard for this president to have to do anything, you know, like join the rest of america. so they get an eliminati

house majority leader steny hoyer >> reporter: jenna i'm hearing they are close. senator marco rubio, republican of florida says he is encouraged. the final product will have to be properly submitted for the american's people's consideration. for the other 92 senators from 43 states that were not part of this initial drafting process. in order to succeed this process can not be rushed or done in secret. that means hearings and allowing senators outside of gang of eight to offer amendments and get buy-from others. a democrat sounds hopeful. >> we'll not come to a final agreement until we look at all the legislativenguage. he is correctly pointing that the language has not been drafted. and there will be little kefuffles but i don't think we expect there to be problems. >> reporter: one big problem was labor and business groups signing off on the worker program for low skilled immigrants. senator schumer hopes a immigration bill could be on the senate floor in may. jenna: what are potential roadblockses that could prevent from happening by may? >> reporter: many on

now majority leader eric enter of virginia and minority leaders steny hoyer of maryland.scuss what is on the agenda for the coming week. this is just under a half an hour. on thursday, the house will meet at 9 a.m. for legislative business. the last votes of the week are note -- are expected no later than 3 p.m.. on friday, no votes are expected. mr. speaker, the house will consider if used this pensions next week -- suspensions next week. robusttion, we expect a debate on the importance of our nations cybersecurity. the house will consider a number of bipartisan bills to reduce obstacles to voluntary information sharing between the private sector and government, secure our nation's infrastructure, attacked government systems, and combat foreign threats. the number of committees will ring bills to the floor next week including the intelligence oversight and government reform & committees. in the coming months, i expect to continue to address cybersecurity legislation or mother committees. of the bills come into the floor, we will consider hr 624 under our rule. this impor

the number two house democrat steny hoyer is among the people who became worried about this, went ono speaker boehner and help to start these talks. speaker boehner's office tells us us, they said if the speaker gets a chance to save anyone from obama care, he will. so there is a great quote in the story saying everyone has to hold hands on this together and jump or nothing will happen. so if they move, it will be house and senate together, republicans and democrats together, all saying we're special, we're different from the rest of america. we are not going to be subject to these requirements that you are. congressman henry waxman of california one of the most knowledgeable about health care saying not wind up additional costs to the aides that the subsidies from their part of the federal government will continue and democratic leaders are among those who sounding alarm about this. they say if they do something they will attach to a bill that has to pass, for instance raising the debt ceiling. >> it's not just politicians but the capitol hill aides who is mandated to be a part of t

speaker, later today i will join house democratic whip steny hoyer to announce our make it in america agenda, a legislative package that will help reinvigorate our manufacturing sector and grow american manufacturing jobs. these bills will help put our country back to work by helping to create good-paying jobs. the kind of jobs that built the american middle class of this country. earlier this year i introduced one such proposal, make it in america manufacturing act, which establishes a competitive grant program that will help small to medium-sized manufacturers retrain their workers and compete in the 21st century. senator gillibrand of new york introduced a companion bill in the senate that's co-sponsored by jack reed and sheldon whitehouse. these are the commonsense proposals we need to support if we are going to get our economy on the right track and get our people back to work. i ask my colleagues to support the make it in america agenda and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the g

rebuild america partnership initiative and is part of the make it in america agenda reported by steny hoyer, our minority whip. more important it has the strong support of investors, local governments, state governments, construction companies throughout the united states and build america bonds, by the way, helped provide 36% of all municipal bond sales back in 2009, 2010 when literally municipal bonds had stopped being issued. madam speaker, i ask my colleagues to join me in opposing the previous question so we can bring up h.r. 535. let's do something for america. its localities, states, crumbling frabs. these investments -- infrastructure. these have long returns. he defeating the previous question will allow us to come together finally on a bipartisan basis and do something for our country. build america bonds is an idea whose time has arrived. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas. mr. burgess: there's been nothing more damaging than the first two years of the first obama term. and during that time, vast majorities in the house and senate, the anti-employment

i understand that you and secretary napolitano and alexander went to a briefing yesterday that steny hoyer together on the national security committee and in that briefing it was stated i'm not sure if it was you or the secretary napolitano that said basically the most important thing we can do to protect the country now is to have legislation that would allow our information sharing between the government and the private sector and the reason for that as people might not understand that 80% of our network is controlled by the private sector. so, to protect the country there has to be a partnership and we have to make sure that we have information sharing and also protect the privacy rights of every individual's who the long way to make sure that we protect the privacy rights. it you believe that information sharing is the first step and the most important step right now to protect our country and citizens from this threat. >> it feels right now in this arena we are trying to do what is right for america and protect our privacy rights. if you were a meteorologist and you had this hurricane