this bill isn't about the bush administration. this bill is about the rampant failure of the obama administration's and its inability to craft a reasonable rule on coal mining. they have spent five years, nearly $10 million on this rewrite, for what? what have they produced? absolutely nothing. their waste ridden failed effort is apparently nothing more than a sham facade over a real agenda, to kill coal mining. you don't have to take my word for it. this is a direct quote from an inspector general's investigators' interview with the current d.o.i. contractor working on the rule, she said, the rule appears to be, quote, an effort to kill coal mining. an effort to kill coal mining. also, the department has continued to insist on falsifying the baseline to reduce the stated impacts of the rule making. as you can see from the interview with current contractor over here, they continue to insist that companies use the more restrictive but never implemented 2008 rule as a baseline to -- in an effort to hide the real economic impacts of w

the administration is often not supporting the teacher, and the teacher is left alone. if the teacher does nothing and it turns out to be a problem and there is a shooting, the first thing they do is sue the teacher. so it's a fear. i have always advocated, and i was involved in florida law, if the teacher knows that they will be supported by the administration, and if they do the right thing, they can't be sued, which is an issue in florida. so in florida, the teacher's administration to come together around the victim and put their arms around the victim so the bully knows that you're not just victimizing this one student. the school administration and everyone will be around to take care of the victim. >> if i could say, most of what we're talking about had nothing to do with violence or shootings. we're talking about 95% of the kids being kicked out of the school are for non-violent infractions of the school code. this is a tremendous problem. if you're worried about the gangs, for example, kicking the kids out of school, everyone who has done research on justice, t

they imagine a political conspiracy to subvert the rule the bush administration put in place in the last minutes of their administration. instead of seeking to guarantee clean water for all americans. so they spend years trying to uncover that conspiracy, all the while forcing the department of the interior to spend tens of thousands of hours of staff time and millions of taxpayer dollars in order to comply with their demands and now their subpoenas. and they have come up empty. the inspector general for the department of the interior confirmed in december their were -- there were no political shenanigans. there was no misconduct. there was a poor choice of contractors, yes. and a debate between -- among career staff about the proper way to move forward. could it have been handled better? maybe. but there was no misconduct. meanwhile, the rule put in place by the bush administration, the very rule that this bill would force states to adopt, was thrown out by a federal court two weeks ago because the real misconduct was from the bush administration. which decided that it didn't even need

the administration challenged that finding and won. preme court was the family's last hope. >> they wanted to be american. they wanted to come to the country and stay here and become a part of this country. but our administration made it clear that for right now, they don't want people like this. >> administration critics are openly wondering why the justice department has invested so many resources in fighting them. >> the president is advocating for the legalization or citizenship of 12 million people. surely, you would think the administration would find it in their heart to support one single family that just wants to exercise its right under our first amendment, in my judgment, to educate their children according to their religious views. >> while the justice department wouldn't comment today, in one of their briefs, they argued that the family, quote, can't establish a well-founded fear of persecution on account of a protected ground. >> i think it's persecution when the government tries to take the children away from you. >> alth

wherever the decision is whether it's from the administration and the bush administration to withholdformation from congress, i thought of that. but you don't find that without a price because they come at you and they don't always told the truth about it. now, whether that has motivated some, i don't know. and it's not to place -- to paint everyone with the same brush that whatever the situation is it should be reviewed. i don't think there's any question. i completely agree with senator feinstein that this is a matter of great seriousness the attitude that the cia has with the right of congress in all of this and whatever else there is that should be examined in terms of what happened. this may be one of the healthiest things we can do but i know one thing. whatever it was, this is the intelligence community writes the report on it and they leave and write a book on it and it becomes conventional i wouldn't say wisdom, but congressional gossip that this is what happened, and we really have to have the ground truth. president obama on the first day in office stopped the controversial

and then at the national intelligence in the bush administration. oth times when i served in government we were already on a downward slide in the relationship. so i think the first was briefed because president george h. w. bush and with president yeltsin for a year was on the focus and oof course general scowcroft was the national advisor when the focus was on disarmament on the controls into deep nuclear rising say ukraine and making sure after the collapse of the soviet union to nuclear weapons was safe there was probably not enough attention given to helping out the new russian government financially, economically and i know president nixon himself was in favor of that but that was very much a perco where the intent to renew focused on the concrete interests particularly the arms control and the nuclear issues at the clinton administration came to office and had a much more ambitious agenda. i think that clinton himself said clinton was the russian hand and he and those around him thought they had eight years and a maximum two fashion to turn it

i find it ridiculous that the administration is not holding up the values of this city. they're basically saying, yes he, you can come to this city and we allow you to work, but in this [speaker not understood] you're not allowed to be educated. this administration has to get rid of [speaker not understood]. thank you. >> thank you. [cheering and applauding] >> thank you. thank you, lalo, for your leadership. next speaker. >>> hello, my name is carlos reyes. i am currently a student at the mission center. i am an immigrant and [speaker not understood]. about the values of lifelong learning education and it what a program that helped single mothers. and they're turning people like myself because -- and i told them a lot of friends when i start going to school, it wasn't because i enrolled in bad things. i just leave it at that. but because i had to go to work. and when i came back to school, i was really irritated [speaker not understood] saying that, a lot of classes were being closed and that the teachers were overloadedwith students and instead of getting tutoring, ther

i'm wondering why the administration would propose a cut. i think you're hearing something, unless i heard it wrong, something that usually don't hear from all members of a committee and that is asking the question, how can you continue to function at a level that does credit to a program that obviously works and has the support of many members of this committee. >> you know, clearly our drug free communities program is one of the back bones of our prevention infrastructure in the united states. obviously we had to look at how did we have restraints spending in fy 2015. again, i think the proposal if enacted would be we didn't eliminate any of the existing grantees but have about 50 less new grants in fy 2015. >> so you don't think it will be a result of reducing 672 to 614. we went by those numbers. there would be a reduction to 614 or not? >> it would be an overall reduction but it does mean we would eliminate any existing grantees. that money would continue. it just means we would have less money about -- we would be able to award 50 less

did not know how to handle the issue of oil, but a george w. bush administration would. >> those gasoline prices are going up. you know why? there have been no energy plan. >> the fact we don't have an energy policy out there is one of the major storm clouds on the horizon for our economy. >> rewind a year before that election. dick cheney is ceo of the oil services firm halliburton, speaking at the institute of petroleum's fall conference in london. he says, for over 100 years we as an industry have had to deal with the pesky problem, once you find oil and pump it out of the ground, you have to turn around and find more or go out of business. looking ahead to 2010 by which time he says world's energy needs will have increased by millions of barrels of oil per day, cheney asks where is the oil going to come from? "the middle east with 2/3 of the world's oil and the lowest cost. it's still where the prize ultimately lies." arguing that oil is the fundamental building block of the world's economy, the future vice president says "governments and the national oil comp

>> vulnerable democrats breathe a sigh of relief as the administration announces yet another obamacare delay. if you thought that was the only trick up the president's sleeve, wait till you see his budget. >>> welcome to the "journal editorial report," i'm stewart varny in for paul gigot. fireworks on capitol hill as lois lerner once again refused to answer questions at a house oversight and government reform committee hearing. committee chair darrell issa says contempt charges could come as early as next week. some democrats are crying foul, with ranking member elijah cummings calling the house's investigation into the targeting of tea party groups one-sided and unamerican. >> i am a member of the congress of the united states of america. i am tired of this. we have members over here each who represent 700,000 people. you cannot just have a one-sided investigation. it is absolutely something wrong with that and there is absolutely unamerican. >> joining the panel this week, "wall street journal" columnist and deputy editor dan henninger, washington capitol hill kim strassel and james

that undattitude underlies all the administration efforts. mining permits are almost impossible to aa -- obtain -- ad p productive minds are idle. it is time for the burrirurr tow for all of the above energy policies which the president is paying lip service to and it should include coal. it is time for the senate to step up and pass the bills that will protect coal jobs that the house sent to them. i am dismayed at this week's news as well that despite years of concern by this committee and others, the epa and core of engineers are working to create new rules that will place strict new standards on thousands ou ouch -- of -- so-called streams in the country even thou. by creating this new definition, the administration again is striking at kentucky and others economy and workforce every hollow and valley in my region has a stream running through it. sometimes dry or intermitant what have you will be in your jurisdiction. no economic active, no road construction, no coal mining, nothing will occur on those lands without the say-so of the peopl

i think the administration is catching up. the challenge will be putin is also trying to demonstrate he's not backing down. there's been talk about southern and eastern parts of ukraine there's concern in neighboring moldova, there's concern even in latvia, a member of nateo with a fairly large russian population. it's not saying putin will send troops into latvia or moldova, but he can stir up trouble. we need to make it clear this behavior will incur serious cost and he needs to assess before taking further action. >> woodruff: richard betts, what do you think the administration's posture should be and should have been? >> well, i think the original me stakes was, along with the europeans, insisting on forcing ukrainians to choose between the west and moscow. our given history, given ukraine's position, given the way the russians have been treated in the past 20 years and their more recent desire to push back, for all those reasons, i think it would have made much more sense to try to strike a middle course which would have a

is the administration trying to work in a way to head it off? worke tying aggressively with our partners and the russian and ukrainian governments to resolve this diplomatically. it is not just to avert a referendum that would not be viewed as legitimate. but to resolve the entire situation and resolve the crisis atmosphere that has been created around it. point and i think it is reflected in some of the other questions. these actions certainly do not serve the cause of trying to resolve this crisis diplomatically and peacefully. but our goal is not just to reverse a referendum, it is to resolve this for the long term. regardsignificant do you the call to president of china? moving thek it is chinese away from a position of equivocation? does that become a prelude for action for the security council in some formal way to try to take some action to condemn this? >> i am not going to games that out. the president has been trying to reach all of our partners and allies around the world to discuss the situation in ukraine, to discuss our views when i

and, so, this is what the administration has tried to do. cut classes that don't benefit students at all. thank you. (applause) >> thank you. next speaker. >>> supervisor campos, my name is alan benjamin. i'm a member of the union, office professional employees local 3 and of the executive board of the san francisco labor council. i want to thank you for your leadership for being there yesterday with the students at city college as you have been throughout the year. the payment policy -- the new payment policy is just one of many policies implemented with a conscious agenda of throwing out students, particularly students of color, low-income students, of cutting classes that are not "essential ~ as decided by accrediting by the [speaker not understood]. that wants to dee fund this full and a fait accompli, we don't have the funds so we have to shut it down. that's the same agenda we in the union see in dee funding public services and morals fostering and promoting privatization. and to do that they need tutorial powers. they know that this ci

in october, the administration announced an adjustment to the individual mandate deadline, saying consumers needed to sign up by march 31st instead of february 15th. that was more of an administrative change. november 14th, a policy was rolled out for plans to reinstate plans that didn't meet the mandates. on december 19th, the administration announced people whose policies had been cancelled could buy catastrophic coverage, and provided a hardship exemption from the health care mandate for those with cancelled plans. on february 10, hhs delays the requirement that businesses with between 50 and 99 employees provide health coverage another year. on march 5th, cms extends the renewal period for two more years for insurers whose plans are not compliant. and then quietly extended the hardship exemption from the invisible mandate to two years. joining me is jonathan cohn who has examined this law as well as anybody in the country. jonathan, good morning to you, sir. >> thanks for having me on the show. >> all right. let's talk first about the enrollment issue. we've got about two and a half wee

on the other hand, what the administration is saying, this is like election day. ine at the polls at 8:00, we'll let you vote because you've shown a good faith effort. these are people who want to sign up for obamacare. why would we deny them that? >> again, it's the flawed policies with this legislation. and if elected members of congress would have done it right the first time going through everything, we won't see these tweaks. also, shannon, i think people are upset about the waivers. the unions lobbied for this registration and they got waivers not to implement obama care in their unions. a lot of people feel it's unfair. >> i want to talk about another poll we had. one of the goals stated when working on this was to lower health care costs. that's a goal everyone can agree on. when you look at the polling about how people feel about this, 65% think the health care law is making their insurance more expensive because we hear stories about people losing care, being shifted to different policies and the expense is very different. some people have good stories. c

fox news has learned tonight the obama administration's fiscal year 2015 budget proposes cutting the fleet by almost 25% from 31 aircraft to 24. all seven of the planes marked for eliminate fly out of tinker air force base in oklahoma. >> more on this with the panel. thank you. >>> on wall street, the dow lost 34 today. the s&p 500 fell a point. the nasdaq was off two. >>> up next, the obama administration at odds with the perennial ally over health care. we'll explain. >>> first, here's a look at what some of our fox affiliates across the country are covering tonight. tampa has the terrifying collision between a plane and a sky diver. somehow, both survived. the sky diver says he will jump again. >>> kttv in los angeles has the investigation into why a theater stage buckled during a performance at a southern california high school saturday night. 25 students were hospitalized. some with broken bones. but most with just bruises and scrapes. >> and this is a live look at boston from our fox affiliate there, wfxt. the big story tonight, the new security plans for the boston marathon. w

the obama administration chooses to invest in america. we are hopeful that congress will do the same. in addition to continuing research and strengthening partnerships and building the next generation of rocket and capsules to take our astronauts farther into space, are stepping stone approach includes a plan to robotically capture a small asteroid and redirect it safely to a stable orbit were astronauts can visit and explore it. our mission will help us develop technologies including solar electric propulsion needed for future each space missions. we enhance detection. we improve understanding of asteroid threats. fiscal year 2015 continues to have sport for science missions. it enables nasa to continue making critical observations of earth and developing applications that benefit our nation and the world. it maintains steady progress on the james webb space telescope during its 2018 launch. aeronautics will focus on reducing fuel consumption, emissions, and noise. we will make nexgen a reality. we will drive technology and innovation and

the administration has a targeted support program. i am just interested in what sort of assurance we will have that they will provide training outside of hospitals and in a community-based setting. tot is the certainty going be in this program? you know residency programs take a long time and i want to make sure that the program is in place so that folks have a certainty. secondly, on the administrative law judge appeals funding, the administration has put $100 million in new for medicare hearings and appeals. i know that is a little more than what was in their last year, but i question whether or not it is enough. what are you going to do until the proper funding level is reached to make sure that our constituents do not get hung up in this void? >> congressman, the training be consistent with workforce goals, which include targeting more physicians to primary care and understaffed specialties, encouraging the practice in rural and underserved areas, encouraging training in some of the key competencies for delivery system reform. i th

made under the bush administration. washen the space station mothballed, president obama was president of the united states. decisionhave made the to use the space shuttle, or he could have made the decision to keep it available in a state of emergency. he chose not to. >> i was the one who recommended to the president that we face the shuttle out. i would have recommended we phase it out quickly. we were spending $12 billion over the same time that we have spent $12.5 billion. >> let me interject again. you said you were not going to go over history. you were able to divert from my question to history. if russia cuts us off today what isof of vents, nasa's plan? >> we engage in contingency planning every single day. refusing at the international space station is not something i consider feasible because russia upon the united states to operate the international space station. russia has one thing we need -- access. back to my question, is it your testimony america has no plan? fax this is like asteroids. we have a plan.

not a number the administration ever mentions, bret. >> thank you. >>> the obama administration is counting down the final hours by taking an outwardly confident tone amid a flurry of technical glitches. wendell goler has that part of the story tonight. >>> four years after the president signed the affordable care act, the final day for enrollment arrived with computer problems reminiscent of the website's rollout last fall. a bug took hours longer to fix than the scheduled early morning maintenance window. a last-day crush of people trying to enroll overloaded the website in the afternoon. and another glitch on the white house countdown clock told people they had another two weeks left to sign up. not quite true, though officials say if people are trying to enroll and they don't make the midnight deadline, they won't be penalized. >> just like when you vote on election day, if you're in line and the polls close, you get to vote. >> still, moody's investors service declared this latest in a series of extensions or waivers credit negative for insurers because it will likely lead to higher pr

core administrator of the year and this is being an assistant principal and outstanding principal at george washington high school. >> and our last award winner, administrator of the year dr. dennis shutlz. >> thank you. >> okay, thank you. >> so, item d, student delegates' report, >> thank you. >> the first thing that we are going to talk about today is the office of student voice expansion for the sac program, which i talked about last week and we are working again with matt haney on this and the goal is just to reorganize the sac to incorporate more time and resources in order to facilitate more project engagements for students at school sites. also i would like to remind you that the youth summit is on march 28th at fort mason. from ten a.m. to 3 p.m. and you are all encouraged to attend and you can register on-line at sfusd sac.org. and also been continuing its effort. and there is san francisco legislation that will go to the full board, on march 28th. and but, to sac members, and also, the sac coordinaters, lopez bar, testified i

before i recognize the chairman, i want to make a point to the administrator. is one thing to share two different perspectives on a policy. it is another to mislead the public. i believe the talking points drafted by your agency ascribed a navigate a bowl water and dash navigable water announcement are patently false -- navigable water announcement are patently false. this proposal is the greatest expansion on public control of land and water resources in the 42 year history of the clean water act. the amount of acreage subject to jurisdiction will expand exponentially as more waterways are subject to permissions. this is the biggest bureaucratic power grab i have seen and it should make every landowner fearful that the epa will be knocking on the door with enforcement actions. the amount of uncertainty and repair costs that come with this ruling are alarming. epa claims that the rule provides more certainty, but it sounds like a certainty comes in the form of mandatory permits. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you for that sentiment expressed in your statemen

you is the factor that think its our administration from being slightly more forward? i will say this, things have changed. the options year ago are probably not as great today. who are our partners, our real partners. what is it that you think keeps the administration from wanting to change that balance on the ground? of we decided we are better off with assad in place because the extremists are actually worse than assad? i would like annex a nation. we have been hearing this 100,000 people ago. >> i remain firmly convinced and the administration does that assad is a magnet. only for foreign fighters and violent extremism, but as long as assad remains, the civil war will continue and get worse. the dangers will still get worse as well. i don't think our analysis or resolve has changed one bit on that. dohink there's more we can with our partners. i mentioned the saudi's earlier. the president is going to be going to saudi arabia. withrked very effectively the jordanians. we are intensifying our cooperation with jordan as well. this is going to require an all of the abo

the obama administration's budget includes a proposal for business tax reform. i believe a broader approach which comprehensively overhauls our broken dysfunctional code would do more to give all americans, especially middle class, the opportunity to get ahead. we're going to work in a bipartisan way with the administration closely on that matter. a second priority ought to be savings. the vast majority of savings are delivered through the tax system. and it's time for fresh policies that give all americans the opportunity to accumulate wealth. the president offered one proposal to help workers save during the state of the union and the budget includes another called auto i.r.a.s. there is an additional idea that ought to be examined. as has been noted previously, establishing a savings account for american -- for every american child has had deep conservative roots and significant bipartisan support. the idea of helping young people, particularly ones of modest income, be part of the opportunity to accumulate wealth in this country is especially important, and s

he is now the director of the administrative office of the u.s. courts in addition to being in article iii judge. he quite a guy and was it appropriate for him to do this? absolutely. in his capacity either as director of the administrative office he has frankly a direct pipeline to to the chief justice and the chief justice wanted him to do it. he knows as much about fisa as anybody perfectly fine. do i agree with him? actually i agree with a great deal of what he said in that letter. the one place i do not agree with him about or i really decline to engage in this discussion is his idea that it would be counterproductive to bring in a special advocate because as he argues, because then the government might not diaz candid with the court as they now are. i think that's kind have been it in admissible argument. if the suggestion is that if you brought in an outside person into this warm little discussion group of the government and judges who all trust each other all of a sudden the government backs away and doesn't tell everybody everything. that

it's the narrative of the administration that between mr. mubarak and these people but if we wanted to have these people when they would have asked mubarak to go down. i'm asking why. if the brotherhood came in that's why my criticism is that the administration was badly advised in the sense that only when the brotherhood would go in and you would let go of mubarak because it may have been a good intention that we want to know what they are going to do. what is the islamist going to do because there is no trust in the civil society and liberal. i want to raise one other point about the u.s. political dynamics and that's another point where i found your assertions in the buck to be stronger than i would make. and then i will leave the u.s. behind and go back to the region when it touches on some other countries. so one other point about u.s. politics where i found your assertions very strong is in your characterization of the influence of what you call the lobby which i think is a very fair term and i'm glad that you put it on the table where

the administration believe that thinks a get out of control after this referendum? >> the actions taken by russia precipitated a crisis. it is up to the ukrainian people through their representatives in government to make decisions about any territory within the isereign state of ukraine whensince past the time borders of a nation can be you redraw in. we made our views on this clear. apart on our views on this. our focus is on the diplomatic dialogue encourage with international partners the russian and ukrainian governments. the moving back to basis of all and havingces, international monitors evaluate the circumstances in parts of ukraine, including crimea. >> is the president concerned that europeans might not back him up? the state department issued travel restrictions. if the europeans to not follow teethdon't you like some -- lack some teeth? >> we have been pleased with the cooperative effort we have seen. the president has been leading that effort. he has been spending a great deal of time on the phone with leaders across the region and the world. as i said

this is the 37th major delay, or so-called unilateral administrative action, and each of those actions and delays represents a significant change in the law passed by congress and signed by the president in 2010. the obama administration had promised repeatedly since the previous delay that on february 10th that there would be no more delays. it was only two weeks ago that the centers for medicare and medicaid services declared they didn't have the authority to order such an extension. and then secretary is sebelius testified before two separate committees that the march 31st deadline would not be changed. listen to these outright declarations that as of today are, well, no longer operative. >> we have no plans to extend the open enrollment period. open enrollment ends on march 31st. in fact, we don't actually have the statutory authority to extend the open enrollment period in 2014. >> are you going to delay the open enrollment period past march 31st? >> no, sir. >> the open enrollment deadline that was set to end march 31st will end march 31st. >> well, there's the secretary unsucces

i also support the administration's initiative. to send international observers to monitor the situation in crimea and other parts of ukraine. russia in turn should welcome such a mission and return its troops to its bases immediately. our other priority would be to help the government deal with the formidable challenges it faces. secretary kerry was just in kiev and this was the right time to go be an the right way to show our support. given ukraine's dire economic situation, we and our iron allies should be ready to provide a robust pledge. i strongly support the initiative to provide loan guarantees to ukraine and i'm very pleased that the house will pass legislation authorizing these guarantees later today. i also welcome the eu's announcements that it will provide very efficient loans and credits and will support ukraine's efforts to reach an agreement with the imf and implement reforms to address structural weaknesses. we should also provide additional assistance in areas of urgent need such as to help ukraine recover looted a

the administration is now resorting to an honor system to enforce it. what the hell is this, a joke? >> harry reid fired back, republicans have spent far too much time trying in vein to repeal the law. >> the joke, i say to my dear friend, john boehner, is him having more than 60 votes over there to terminate obamacare. >> white house officials tried to tell reporters traveling with the president in europe there was nothing to see here. since spokesman jay carney telegraphed this last week. >> as was the case for the december deadline, we want to make sure people who are already in line can finish their enrollment. >> except at the same briefing, carney made the same declaration a long line of officials have made, no extension. >> march 31st is the deadline for enrollment, you heard us make it clear. >> are you going to delay the open enrollment beyond march 31st? >> no, sir. >> we have no plans to extend the open enrollment period. open enrollment ends on march 31st, and we don't have the statory authority to extend it. >> a lack of statutory authority

journal you will talk to a former health care adviser in the obama administration, dr. ezekiel emanuel about the implementation of the health care law. his recent book is reinventing american health care. republican congressman of wisconsin joins us to discuss the president's 2015 budget proposal and that gop alternative. washington journal live each morning at seven eastern on c-span2. reminder, you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. >> three elements of the triple package are first a sense of exception malady. you can get it from lots of different places, but start by filling the you are special and destined for special things. the second element is almost seemingly the opposite, and that is a-of insecurity to offset that exception melody. that is a feeling that you have not quite done enough yet or not quite good enough yet to be the third element is impulse control or discipline and the ability to persevere and resist temptation. >> individuals who have these qualities crop in america, they tend predictably, second-generation, to have a kind of intere

today the administration said that the u.s. cannot yet prove that these forces are russian. >> it's pretty clear that they're russian troops. >> i think it's clear, but general dempsey, what evidence do we have. we don't have any evidence as yet. i think evidence could likely become available over time. >> just as an fyi, several of those troops have told reporters that they are russian. meanwhile, nato is cutting back its ties with russia, suspending its first joint mission to escort a u.s. ship as part of efforts to disarm syria. nato says forget about any more meetings with the russians at least for now. the crucial meeting between kerry and lavrov took place around the same time the u.n. envoy to ukraine was forced to end his mission in crimea at gunpoint. armed men threatened him according to the u.n., forced him to hole up in a coffee shop, a reporter from iwas in that shop and tweeted out this photograph shortly before police escorted him to the airport. anna coren in crimea, give us more details about what happened with

they have used the whistleblower more than any other administrations combined. the obama administration has invoked national security to deny foia requests -- >> 9,000 times? >> yeah, more than any other administration. and they also have the luxury of invoting the nsa act of 1959 which the nsa argues exempts it entirely from the freedom of information act. and the release of records which will paint them in a positive light, unsurprisingly, the nsa only complied with 2% of its requests last year. so absolutely we're facing a crisis. >> our community has tweeted in, and there is a facebook post from andrew . . . and speaking about the nsa, brad tweets in . . . check it out. another reacted document there, lisa. and then rich goes . . . all right. horace i want to go to you. look, ryan mentioned the nine exemptions that the go uses to get out of foia requests. the one used most frequently is documents are in the interest of national security. do you believe the obama has abused that? >> i'm not sure of that. i would settle for if osha or the mine safety health adm

obama do if president putin will not take the russian troops out of crimea. >> i think what the administration is saying to the russians is, sit down and start a dialogue with ukraine. you ought to let monitors from either the osce, organization for security and cooperation in europe or the u.n. come in there so the world can see what's actually going on. and then you ought to get -- bring your troops back to their bases. now, what do you do if they won't do that? well, we've already put on a few financial sanctions on some of the leadership that is responsible for the situation we're in today. there's a lot of other things, of course, we can do. broad-based political and economic sanctions, we could talk about moving some forces in nato to the western p border of ukraine. so they would be there but depending on what the russian intentions are. suppose the russian intention are to take the eastern half of ukraine. that would be very, very damaging and very -- that could trigger one heck of a situation. we need to have some troops on the ground in that eventuality. i do think, too, i think, cha

the committee members will want secretary lew to tell us how the administration can best martial our country's economic might and defense of the people of the ukraine. now back on the domestic front, the committee has before it several issues with the date stamp on them. those issues include repealing and replacing the badly flawed medicare payment system for doctors and acting bipartisan tax reforms that make the tax code more fair and more progrowth, shoring up our transportation system and helping american workers to keep compete in tough global markets. we are very pleased to have the secretary here today to discuss the president's 2015 budget. this conversation of the budget is different than it's been in recent memory because this year the congress is actually operating under a bipartisan budget agreement and the government isn't closing down. so there's an opportunity to pivot from these budget battles and to focus on the big challenges before the country. i would submit that the top challenge is sustaining and expanding our middle class. today america has what i call a dollar

even with the kennedy administration did. this is about the opposition. tting -- a chill on free speech. and it is about nopartisan activities, too, by non-profits for voter education. wow. if you force them to disclose donors make the president disclo all of the intert donors and all of the donors that he will not disclose who donate massive amount tv his campaigns. the irs is engaging and is being forced to engage in political favoritism and it is wrong. it is fatally naive to think that we can sit here with an irs as a tax collector being drag flood public policy and political fight. we have seen them put there before and decades ago. it is happening again. >> what about -- the folks out there, they don't want to give the irs more power, do they? >> not at all. what's happening here is the obama administration is using the irs to data point. they are going through all of these forms and they are picking out specific things that are in common to conservative groups or opponents to the obama administration and trying to propose those as being the things

every administration gets behind the eight-ball. every new administration should have the top 100 people in by may 1. requiressible, but different expectations and different levels of corporations between the incoming administration and congress. he should be focusing on that goal right now. number two, we need to build out the success of -- to reduce the number of says confirmed positions. be changing at least the management positions away from senate-different political spot to career positions. no need for them to be political appointees. it creates great disruption. number three, we need to ensure that appointees are well prepared. today it is misery. the attention is focused entirely on taking -- picking. time is not being used well. yunnan is leave they cannot do anything cause the senate would be offended, when they should be preparing to do their jobs well. in this committee and the senate, they should be signaling that they should be getting ready to do the job well, and that would have a huge impact in making sure they star

he has not put enough loopholes in the law already, the administration is resorting to an honor system to enforce it. what the hell is this, a joke? listen, this is part of a long-term pattern of this administration manipulating the laws for its own convenience, it's not hard to understand the questioning of commitment to the law. >> reporter: this comes four years after the signing of the law. there have been many delays and changes. for example, the requirement that employers of at least 50 people offer insurance to its full-time employees has been delayed twice. first an one-year delay, now it doesn't kick in until 2016. >> you like your plan you'll be keep area plan. no one has taken that away from you. >> that might have been the president's hope, but the law called for existing insurance policies to meet newsstands for coverage. many found they had inadequate policies and would need new ones. the administration changed the rules and for now states can let people renew existing policies until october 2016. the roll out of the healthcar healthcare.gov website was very rocky. glitch

secretary burns, can you tell me exactly how the administration views russia? russia is the friendly rival apposed to unfriendly adversary. what's the viewpoint towards russia? >> well, relationship with russia is complicated one. there are some areas that the matter we work together, and it's been true in other areas as well, but there's areas of orve difference. certainly, most obviously and most seriously in ukraine now, but true elsewhere and have a series of human rights group in russia itself. the understanding is it is mixed of areas of obvious difference and in some cases competition, and some areas we work together, but right now, i think we're in a difficult period in our relationship with russia because of russian behavior. >> in areas, afghanistan, for example, a cooperation there, and you look at syria, when we were attempting to work with them as, let's say, partners, do you believe they operate with u.s. in good faith, or are they duplicitous? good faith? afghanistan, sharedded interests, but more duplicity in syria. >> in syria, frustrated by, yo

and now the administration talking about sanctions. ne is talking about any sort of military response at this point. today the president had a photo opwith the israeli prime minister, benjamin netenyahu. on any other day the talk would be about issues in the middle east, but at this photo on the president was asked about the crisis in ukraine. here is what he had to say. >> what cannot be done is for russia with impunity to put its soldiers on the ground and violate, basic principles that are recognized around the world, and i think the strong condemnation that it has received from countries around the world indicates the degree to which russia is on the wrong side of history on this. >> the administration is trying to deescalate this crisis, and trying to get its european allies on the same page. that is proving to be difficult. the president wants yuan them inty in congress on sanctions, john. >> talk about the significance of this crisis in crimea for the u.s.? >> first of all it is destabilizing to europe. and anything that is desta