nugent announced elko chair former texas state sid miller campaign for texas agriculture commissionerady commissioned or has already promised to, quote, raise as much hell as he can. raising hell would be an understatement, with nugentent's history of inflammatory and dangerous rhetoric, it will likely be a nasty campaign for texas agriculture commissioner. >> whoa, snake, snake, snake. cut it right in half! get him! >>. >> i tell you this right now, if barack obama becomes president in november again, i will either be dead or in jail by this time next year. we are patriots. we are braveheart. we need to ride into that battlefield and chop their heads off in november. any questions? >> he's a piece of [ bleep ] and let's hear it. >> i'm an extremely loving, passionate man, and people who investigate me honestly, without the baggage of political correctness ascertain the conclusion that i'm a damn nice guy. and if you can find a screening process more powerful than that, i'll [ bleep ]. >> if ted nugent thinks he's out to run a state political campaign in a serious manner, he can keep

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agriculture. he was given an award by the farm bureau for representing it's interests while in office. we were down in texas watching the onion picking process, and i wanted to show you what that looked like. sharp anything the shears, and picking the onions, and presumably, child labor is wrong, and should that be prevented in any way, and should we keep the laws where it's illegal? > >> it's not legal. >> reporter: can you explain how that's not illegal? because right now, the the saa says that any child over 12. >12>> what you're saying is that the government has a better understanding of the parents. i hope we don't go to that. that's a fundamental difference in philosophy, for those who believe that the federal government is the solution, and those of us who believe that the federal government because of its one size fits all standard is the problem. >> that report, and now she's from the children's rights division of human rights watch. and we see that, and it just seems obvious that child labor laws ought to protect these kids, and why doesn't that work? >> children in agriculture are not protects be

former agricultural secretary -- former governor of ohio, bob task -- the first woman speaker of the ohio house of representatives, joann davidson. former governor of ohio am a ted strickland. former texas congressman, henry -- former secretary of agriculture -- and the national review's -- [applause] you can read a full bios of our panelists online or in the program. we invite everyone listening to join the conversation. if you are physically here, you can take one of the carts right out of question. we will read some of those. if you are digitally here, send us a tweet. be sure to use the #engageusa. "american unity, is it still possible?" we ask americans what they think about some of the proposed solutions. let's watch a video. >> hi, i'm susan page, bureau chief of will usa today. it is hard to argue with the idea that washington is broken. this year the bipartisan policy center and usa today have been looking at the addition -- looking at the issues of partisanship and division division. the bipartisan policy center and usaid today sponsored a nationwide survey about some potential changes in the way elections are run. it was conducted by a republican pollster and democratic polls

agriculture. he was given an award by the farm bureau for representing its interests while in office. >> we were in texas watching the onion picking process, and i just want to show you what that looked like, they're sharpening the sheers. gabriella, she's 9. so what's your reaction to seeing kids like that out in the field working on a... >> see i have no context. i could tell you that i have had my son or daughter out. >> so they're working on a farm. >> again i. >> it belongs to somebody who has no, it's a subcontractor that pays them is hired by the farmer. >> it can't speak to it because it just don't' know it. you've been there. i can speak to my own place, i wasn't necessarily a stay at home dad but i was the primary caretaker. my daughter i had a kelty kid pack on the back of my, on my back and i carried her around while i was fencing, while i was herding cattle, and it gave her a solid work ethic. >> presumably we say child labor is wrong. should that be prevented in any way or should we keep the laws as it is where that's legal. >> it is not necessarily legal, the fact that there are laws in pl

know that even though there's a bemoaning about getting the ag bill passed, the agriculture bill passed, and i'm out of texas and have always voted for the ag bill because my district is surrounded by ranchers and others who need the farm bill. we've never separated on the farm bill in the state of texas. we've had a lot of support, but when you cut $40 billion out of food stamps and you begin to talk about the deadbeats, that gets to be a problem. -- and w.i.c., 47.8 people 47.8 million people are on w.i.c. funding for these people need to be ensured. ensuring that the one or two that are violating the requirements, nobody's arguing for maintaining those individuals. but what we're saying is that there's collateral damage. farmers are being impacted. by the way, the rural development and farm services agency, 99% of those employees are furloughed. and my good friend just got through talking about the commodities. let me just say these points. i'm going back to texas again. noted as a big and well-to-do state. but in actuality in a couple of days, mr. davis, we're standing to lose and have an impact or cutba

agriculture. workers returned to the centers for disease control in atlanta. the gateway arch reopened in st. louis, and back in washington, the air and space museum. texas tea party republican .enator ted cruz he pushed the government to near default truck --, trying to kill obamacare. >> the people are fed up with washington. understand that how business is done in this town has to change. >> it literally changed last night, as lawmakers funded government for just three more limit and extended the for just four more months. the nation and the nations employees will try to get over this month crisis. other special committees of congress have failed to solve the budget dispute that led to the shutdown. committeeew special has until december 13 to come up with something. from washington, steve handelsman, wbal-tv 11 news. >> on the heels of the government reopening, the public is very angry about the government shutdown and polls show republicans are getting the bulk of the blame. >> maryland voters are still worried about another looming government shutdown hurting the economy in the future. lowell melser joins us now more on the results of that poll. >>

agriculture some flexibility to adjust. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from minnesota is recognized. mr. peterson: i yield three minutes to the gentleman from texas, the chairman of the relevant subcommittee, mr. conaway for three minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. conaway: i thank the gentleman for yielding time, i rise in strong opposition to the pitts-goodlatte amendment. we have already voted on this amendment provisions during the farm bill and the house voted to reject it. and i'm not sure why we are here again to retrade all of this issues. if the resolution were to pass and i hope our members remember how they voted in july and stick with that again this week, but because provisions in both bills in the house and senate are the same, this has less effect for the conferees to ignore it. we can and do grant extra access above and beyond the commitments if we need more. the farm bill says let's wait to see how much mexico is going to send us before we grant others extra access. mexico has 100% access to our market and heavily subsidize their sugar and the mexican government owns 20% of that i

texas. so if you can imagine the daunting task that it would take to do that. so quite the undertaking there. they're evaluating what the property has done and the agriculturevastating a hurricane would be that would make land fall. the equivalent of that, a category 4 hurricane. well, across the united states it would be devastating. in this low lying area, it's very vulnerable. in the united states, we're looking at a taste of winter. all the way from billings, montana, down towards yellowstone park and into the front range of colorado. on the backside of this system, cold enough air that in those higher peaks you could see ten inches of snowfall. the thunderstorms will rocket in across texas and for today for this afternoon and in dallas, right around arlington about an 80% chance of storms. we'll keep you updated. >> thank you, karen. >>> still to come on "new day," a huge inconvenience for millions of families after stores all across the country decline debit cards for food stamps. we'll tell if you the shutdown is to blame for this glitch. >>> plus a controversy brewing for years, should the washington redskins rename the team? a former player clinton

agriculture have been shut down for political purposes. that needs to stop. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, 43,000 el pasoians are federal employees. this is the fifth highest concentration of federal employees in the nation. many of them work at fort bliss, others are border patrol agents or customs officers at the busiest ports of entry in the country, all are facing uncertainty because they are being furloughed or working without pay. mr. o'rourke: i have spoken to many of them over the past week, including army officers worried about what this shutdown is doing to their morale, soldiers they command, and veterans employed at the medical center who cannot go to work to care for our wounded warriors. a woman whose husband must go to work but doesn't know when he will get paid provided this advice to us. do your job, just as my husband has to continue to do his. mr. speaker, the solution to thi