to take it that far but let me just lay this out this was first laid out actually by teddy roosevelt the republican president back in nineteen twelve this is a this is a tape that was recorded on a wax this by thomas edison himself this is teddy roosevelt. the elements of. the ritual members of the government. in other words just in summary what teddy roosevelt proposed in nineteen twelve was that a minimum wage a living wage should be enough to live on and up to raise your kids enough to put them through school enough to have a vacation and enough to have retirement we used to call that the united states the middle class and the debate on the viability of social security is another issue that has many of you talking all but the past few weeks i've said several times that despite what republicans want you to think social security is not bankrupt it's not either bankrupting us as a nation or is itself bankrupt but some of you are still not convinced but here you have senator sanders consciously saying this so security is flush and is like two point four five trillion dollars of excess it's funded we

teddy roosevelt, the republican, warned against the danger of corporate money in politics. at least most of the time we knew where the money came from. so you had some sense of who was influencing someone. with what's going on now, you don't even know who owns somebody, if somebody is owned. and, also, the kind of -- i worry about the threats against -- a good member of congress takes on an interest group, and somebody walks in there and says, you like this job. wouldn't it be nice if there were a lot of negative ads anun mousily funded by us in your next campaign. would it? it creates a whole slew of problems. a very impractical decision as well as the decision on the side of the very rich and powerful. >> one other issue of financing came up in way i did not expect. jon huntsman said in may he would not self-finance his presidential campaign even though he's rich enough to do that, at least in large part. today he didn't have to file any campaign fund-raising information, because he hasn't been declared for very long, but did say he raised about $4 million and his campaig

number of others who came along at the turn of the century, and great politicians like the republican like teddy rooseveltsaid, "you know we are going to put the bit into the mouths of corporate power and make corporations and economic powers serve the publican the other way around". and they created the sherman anti-trust act. they created an income tax for the first time. they created -- they made it easier for unions to organize so that we would begin creating a middle class in this country. they made food and drug reforms so that people couldn't sell bad products on the market and one of the most important things they did was pass a law in 1907 that said that corporations cannot contribute directly to federal political campaigns. and that 100 year old law last year was thrown out by the united states supreme court and all of a sudden you have a floodgate of corporate money.. >> right. >> that is coming into the political process and, you know, most of the people in this room do not have the capacity to affect government anymore.because the costs of running for political office are so enormous that the

the 1965 level. it was a great republican president, teddy roosevelt, who first had the wisdom to understand how integral the open spaces of this country are to what it means to be an american. there's something unique about this country. the views and the vistas are just one part of it, our identity is wrapped up in the places that we have conserved, the places that we have conserved through the very rightful acts of investment by our federal government over the last 50 years, but indeed over the last 100 years. and it's been republican and democratic presidents, republican and democratic congresses that since that moment of awakening in this nation have realized that this is the right kind of investment for this nation, it's the right kind of investment because not only does it preserve the character of our nation, but it does so by leveraging private investment and state investment. as representative bass noted, one of the most important pieces of lwcf is the forest legacy program. that program has conserved two million acres around the country. in my state of connecticut it's helped conserve 8,000 ac

if somebody could have the passion teddy roosevelt said -- he was absolutely in the center of the country, to the left of his republican party, to the right of the republicans, he called for a square deal. harry truman called for a fair deal. that's what you need, people that are proud of where the country is. the country is in the center. but too often, the people with the passion are on the left and the right and the middle guys are trying to explain why they're in the middle. >> what about the dynamics in the house right now? there's been a feeling and interesting analysis about this, that for this freshmen class right now, which you are a part, you don't feel like you got there because of john boehner. he's there, because in effect, tea party folks like yourself or with those sentiments sort of allowed him to be there, and he goes against that group as his peril. he can't bring them to the table and say you will support this, because he knows that he's part of the establishment in many ways that you and your colleagues are bucking against. does that create a dynamic where getting compromise is that much more diffic

speaker, there was a time when the republican party were known as defenders of the environment, it was a republican president, toad teddy roosevelt, who inaugurated the national forest service and who worked to conserve 230 million acres of americanland including the grand canyon which is now put at risk. he called the canyon, and i quote, a national wonder, which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world. leave it as it is, he said, you cannot improve on it. the ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it, end quote. ment richard nixon brought life to the environmental protection agency. another president, josh bush senior expanded the clean air act even further to protect americans' health. and yet, today, republican majority brings us an interior appropriations bill which undoes all of this good work, which endanger american families threatens to do permanent damage to the environment. i urge my colleagues in the majority ks return to your roots to once again put the american people before the interests of polluters and to oppose this disastrous legislation. i yield back the balance of my tim

the hunt for red october. his first movie crush, racquel wel welch. and his favorite republican, teddy roosevelt. tions he's been asked of course the perennial boxers or briefs. his response was a thong. we assume he's either kidding or very uncomfortable. one fan happened to ask why are you so sexy? his response was a witty due to the generosity and blurry vision of people like you. so, kyra, if you've ever wanted to ask alec baldwin a question, get on twitter. >> you and i should come up with a couple. he's a piece of work. a yat sense of humgreat sense o. hugh hefner's ex-fiance is spilling more than just the beans. >> yeah, hefner's run away bride crystal heiress decided that the howard stern show was the place to kiss and show. she said the world's most famous playboy doesn't quite live up to his reputation in the bedroom. the almost wife said that sex lasted, and i'm quoting here, two sends. harris is 24. she jilted the 85-year-old hefner a few days before their wedding and went on to tell howard stern i'm not turned on by hef. sorry. she also said they had sex just once and she's never seen

the tradition of regulation in this country goes back to teddy roosevelt. a republican trust buster, who understood that the public had to be protected. who understood with proper regulation you set fair rules for business to operate. that levels the playing field for those good banks to do what's right, to do it in the light of day, to provide protection to consumers who are busy with their own lives and don't have time to go over all of the forms. this consumer protection agency is absolutely essential to providing fairness to consumers and security in their transaction, to protect them from unscrupulous activity that does and can occur, and it's important to our banks and our financial industry that wants to play by the rules and do it the right way. this is very important legislation and we must defeat the infect repeal and retraction of dodd-frank. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from texas continues to reserve. the gentlewoman from new york. ms. slaughter: madam speaker, i'm pleased to yield two minutes to the

when teddy roosevelt won in 1912, we stand on armageddon and battle for the lord. that makes this very difficult. also, a lot of republicans are much more worried about losing primaries to candidates to their right than losing general elections. now, maybe this will begin to change when those republicans, including a few of the tea party people sitting on seats that went for president obama in 2008, basically, genuinely competitive seats, about 60 republicans like that. maybe this will begin to have an impact on them. but for the moment, it's very hard to see boehnor getting out of this, which is why he walked away from the talks with president obama not once, but twice. >> e.j., thank you so much for being here and for chatting with us tonight. >> great to be with you. >> it was great to be with you. that was e.j. dionne, columnist for "the washington post." conservatives are all about jobs, which is interesting, as the debt ceiling drama sucks the air out of the room, the faa is shut down in part because the republicans want to make it harder for unions. how many actually employed people are not working or being paid as

the bill desecrates the legacy of teddy roosevelt and a long line of bipartisan conservation leaders while it also endangers public health. a republican majority claims to be concerned about spending, but this reckless bill would impose billions of dollars, mr. chairman, of health care costs on americans by increasing the incidents of asthma, emphysema, heart attacks and even premature deaths. this environmental bill will increase health care costs by up to $539 billion, according to the congressional research service. since medicare, medicaid and chip are responsible for 33.9% of total health care costs, this republican bill will cost taxpayers some $179 billion more. in addition, it will cause more than 60,000 premature deaths. 20 million lost days of work. and 36,800 additional heart attacks in america. this bill eliminates funding for critical land conservation priorities, completely defunding the forest legacy program. it defunds the chesapeake bay restoration program. it blocks environmental protection agency implementation of public health standards for particulat, lead and greenhouse gas emissions. it repeals clean water act s