the house and senate. .gain we are a funding committee. not a legislative committee. we will refer many of them to the appropriate authorizing committee in the house. i do that routinely. want members that something in a writing and bill and instruct them to see the authorization woman and get them to take it out. than 300 votes for the appropriation? >> i would hope so. we have to negotiate with a senate. we have a split government. not to mention the white house. that makes things tough at time. warning the death of nelson mandela. >> they voted against a variety. why did he vote that way at the time? do you regret that vote? >> that was a long time. i mourn his passing. this is a gentle man, peaceful and good will and forgiveness. i mourn his passing. funeral, mandela president obama shook hands with ryall castro. this is something that your florida members suggested to. wordingry to insert foreign travel. it limit how to handle something that routinely comes up. >> we will see what happens when it comes up. twoou have been asking for years of budget topline. there. fairly well in you asked with the next cisco

the house and senate. again, we are a funding committee. not a legislative committee. we will refer many of them to the appropriate authorizing committee in the house. interior authorizing defense or whatever. i do that routinely. refer members that want something in a writing in a bill and instruct them to see the authorization woman and get them to take it out. >> will you have more than 300 votes for the appropriation? >> i would hope so. that's far in the future. we have to negotiate with a senate governed by a different part. we have a split government, divided government. not to mention the white house. that makes things tough at times. >> the nation, the world is mourning the death of nelson mandela who passed away this month. going back, you were one of four members who voted against the anti-apartheid act and voted against president reagan. why did you do that and do you regret that vote? >> that was a long time ago, 30 years. like the rest of the world, i mourn his passing. he is a gentle man, peaceful, an icon of peace and goodwill and forgiveness. i mourn his passing. >> at the mandela funeral, preside

>> this is the right step because this empowers the appropriations committee to do their job. this gives us the top line figures to go in and determine where the waste, fraud and abuse is and make sure these programs are lean and mean. we haven't had that ability before. we've just kind of been a cr rubber stamp to move forward. and that's not the way to run a government. and that's why this budget deal needed to move forward. whether it had inadequacies or not, it was critically important that we move forward and deal with those crazy things that are out there. >> so you guys are going to go through tom coburn's wasteful spending book? he says you could eliminate $30 billion. >> i appreciate his wasteful spending book. i look at the ones that he had written in for montana. they had some merit, but the way they were written up by him looked pretty awful. they can go into those budgets now and cut out the fat and weed it down. we're all concerned about the budget. we don't want to have a 16, $17 trillion deficit passed on to our kids. >> one of the reasons i have to agree with y

the budget committee. that's called the 302-a or the top line. we have not been able to do our appropriations committee because we haven't had a top line. this enables us to have one for 2014. we are under a mandate to bring it back to the senate and to the house by january 14. we will met that deadline. it's going to be tough, it's going to be stringent, but we're going to get the job done. it also gives us certainty for 2015 so we can return to a regular order of actually knowing where we stand with our cap, holding our hearings, and bringing bills to the committee. the other thing that i like about this agreement -- this bipartisan budget agreement is it prevents harm. it protects seniors and families. it preserves the social safety net like medicare and social security. and finally, the agreement ends gridlock. the american people are tired of shutdowns, slowdown, slamdown politics. this ends the lurching from crisis to crisis and shows that we can compromise and govern. first of all, and foremost, this budget agreement creates certainty for america's businesses and families. by avoiding

madam speaker, we are doing a cr even though the appropriations committee on the house side past 11 of the 12 bills through the committee. four of them across the floor in the house. for aforetimeones as we run out of time. consequently. this continuing resolution will continue the government passed the september 30 and of the fiscal year. unable to pass the appropriations bills singly on the floor because of a lack of time, but also because the house and senate never agreed to an overall number of which we could mark. consequently, we were not able to bring those bills out because of that limitation. until december 15, with were given a number the senate in which we need to mark the individual 12 bills. we will do so. this is a hard-working committee. we are pragmatists. we know that we have to pass the bills to fund the government. we are intending to close down the government and shut it down. here.ld sit this is an effort by the majority party in the house to continue the government and avoid a shutdown what we work out differences on these funding bills for fiscal 2014. speaker,ea

i would go back and make the wouldthat the charge i make to the appropriations committee is stick to oversight and find the waste. where can you consolidate programs? where can you streamline things? , whatwhere we are today we have tried to do is create new programs. we have not looked at the --grams we have running, >> [inaudible] >> you bet. if you want to oversight this, if you want to read some of the 50 reports that we put out the last five years, if you were a curious appropriator, you might find some valuable information in there. everything is, like else, no one looks at it. no one does it is hard work. it is hard work because somebody gets gored. somebody doesn't get money. what does that translate into? it means somebody is not happy at home. the real problem is that most members of congress are more interested in getting themselves reelected then helping their constituents. i wondered what the debt ceiling -- will it come up again? what is your approach to that question mark -- what is your approach to that? are they going to vote to raise the debt ceiling? >> the american

but the senate should pass this agreement quickly so the appropriations committee under the leadership of chairwoman mikulski can begin crafting appropriation bills. it's unfortunate that republicans are forced the senate to run out the clock on this measure, even though it passed the house on an overwhelming basis. and a bipartisan basis. and has the support of the majority of the senate. why are we wasting the time? it's time to get back to setting fiscal policy through the regular order of the budget process rather than hostage taking which takes place so often here by my republican colleagues and it's time for congress to show the american people that democrats and republicans can compromise rather than lurching from crisis to crisis. yet republicans have insisted on wasting 30 hours of the senate's time before allowing a final vote on this measure even though they know it will pass with bipartisan support. i read that the republican leadership may force the senate to work through the weekend and next week by dragging out the consideration of several important executive nominations

even the republicans who worked on the appropriations committee say, i could not understand the decision on the continuing resolution. instead of declaring deadlock, they declared victory. in terms of dealing with budget deals, i was involved in 1993, going back to where we had no republican votes, even going back to 1990 when bush was president, divided control of congress, and we passed important budget bills, and overwhelming number of democrats were for it. if they were there in 1990, they were part of the no vote. in terms of dealing with the budget issues in a bipartisan realistic fashion, the history in the 1990s was most democrats supported it, some republicans. i would be very surprised if that pattern changes in the future. i expect there has to be a major deal and it will have to be significant. hopefully enough republican voters to make it passable. >> it sounds like you to agree. the republicans have a big victory. they have been able to shift the goalposts. the spending in the ryan-murray deal on the discretionary side is less by some amount than what president obama propos

we share the view of the republican chairman of the appropriations committee who wrote to all the conferences some time ago saying we should right aftere thanksgiving so the appropriators could get to work. that is the senate of the -- that is the chairman of the senate appropriations committee. we also believe that as this ,rocess has dragged on important priorities are at risk of being left behind. we have is why presented our priorities. these are priorities we have presented as part of the negotiations going forward, and i want to quickly outline what we said from the beginning should be part of this discussion. number one, we said from the beginning, we have to focus on jobs. we have to get the economy moving faster. we have made progress, but we also know we did do a lot better. my goodness, we lost 24 billion dollars in economic activity because of the government shutdown in october. that is an unnecessary, self- inflicted wound. instead of doing bad things to the economy, we should be doing things to help move the economy forward. we have a proposal to invest more in our national infr

madam speaker, we are doing a cr even though the appropriations committee on the house side past sed 12 bills through the committee. four of them across the floor in the house. the remaining ones for aforetime as we run out of time. consequently, this continuing resolution will continue the government past the september 30 and of the fiscal year. we were unable to pass the appropriations bills singly on the floor because of a lack of floor time, but also because the house and senate never agreed to an overall number of which we could mark. consequently, we were not able to bring those bills out because of that limitation. with this cr until december 15, if we were given a number with the senate in which we need to mark the individual 12 bills. we will do so. this is a hard-working committee. we are pragmatists. we know that we have to pass the bills to fund the government. the us this bill. closewere intending to down the government and shut it down, we wouldn't be here with this bill. we would just sit there. this is an effort by the but majority party in the house to continue the g

basically -- >> don't forget the appropriations committee. >> refusing to acknowledge there's waste to be cut in the pentagon budget. also, extremely short sighted. we're not going to be a military superpower if we're no longer an economic superpower. you've got to restrain the size of government, the overall cost and -- i would say, yes, this is a big reform, a big step forward to get democrats on board an entitlement. even though it's modest. i think the moment that part of it is helpful. but this really should have been a better deal. >> kim, were you surprised by the number of republicans who voted for this? 169 to 62 in the end. that was surprising. they had 162 i think democrats. that was a big margin for republicans. considering all of these conservative activists who said they're opposed. >> i think you're seeing a couple of things happen here. one this is the lingering memory of the shutdown, okay. and the lesson a lot of republicans learned from that was that when their party is divided and when they decide to have a big fight in public and then there's something like a shutd

now the appropriations committee has fewer than four weeks to figures out discretionary spending levels for basically the entire federal government. that responsibility making some republicans the target of attacks from the far right. several lawmakers are already coming under fire from tea party groups and two republican appropriators in the house announced their retirement earlier this week. congressman jack kingston who was running for senate and currently the chairman of house appropriations subcommittee acknowledges the challenge saying it's tough to be in office today and run for either re-election or another slot because the safest bet is not to vote on anything. anytime you vote, there is a plus and a minus to it and the gallery is full of critics with a vested interest. end quote. >>> americans without health coverage appear to be more reluctant than the white house originally thought when it comes to embracing obamacare. a "new york times" cbs news poll finds 53% of those without coverage it is approve of the health care law. that's slightly higher than the 51% who have insura

again i would like to thank the gentleman from kentucky, the chairman of the appropriations committee, hal rorges, for his work on this mesh -- rogers for his work on this measure, along with the help of the gentleman from louisiana, republican study committee chairman, steve scalise, for their hard work on the issue. i urge my colleagues to support this resolution. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky reserves. the gentlewoman from new york is ecognized. mrs. lowey: i am very pleased to yield tea minutes -- three minutes to the distinguished whip, mr. steny hoyer from maryland. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from maryland is recognized for three minutes. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentlelady for yielding. madam speaker, today we are considering a measure to fund government only if the democratic senate and democratic president will agree to dismantle the health care reform law that will help millions of americans access quality, affordable care. that isn't going to happen. and it is a blatant act of hostage taking. the republican c.r. also lays the groundwork for

then there is the appropriations committee that actually appropriates the money. that is within the constitution. you have to appropriate the funds. in theory, the authorizes say will spendx, but we y. always things get past in tight sequence. until this year, there hasn't been a budget agreed upon between the house and senate for who knows how long. the fed hasn't even bothered to pass a budget let alone come over to the house and make an agreement. host: considering the agreement and counting on the senate to pass this, what is i mean for the pentagon in terms of the money, strictly the money? guest: is a big deal for the whole government because we are heading for a shutdown any. full sequester which is $1 trillion over 10 years. sequester's not really a technical term but we will all it that. after that falls on the pentagon. if the pentagon agrees that they need to come down, that it is also over, but the way the budget control act and sequestration works is that they take -- what the bill does is round that out. you still get at the end of the 10-year period

the chairman of the appropriations committee said that the 967 number was not basic money to run services and government. it was a dangerously funded. pass thehy we did not 12 appropriations bills, it was not enough money. the sequester relief will at least give the appropriators m to move things around for two years. moore,weeting in, ms. what can government do to end the sense of hopelessness for the poor? a democracy, i have seen it work even under the circumstances. we thought we could not pass the violence against women act. we had native americans pour in here, women's organizations pour e in, people e pounded on the government until the leadership had to yield. we have seen it. when we were about to march into we saw the american people spontaneously he wrapped -- spontaneously erupt in objecting. we saw the president backed away. democracy does work. got to have that same sort of public swell around the poor. me more than anything since i have been in politics -- legislator -- when i watch democrats and republicans do com come by our mbayah on throwing women and children out of th

window than current law and making certain that we set in place the numbers available so the appropriations committee cans do the job for 18 month which is they haven't done in 6 years. when we pass the continuing resolution, what we're doing is putting in place speaker pelo pelosi's policies and president obama's policies as opposed to having the imprint of a republican house on those policies. if we're able to get this appropriations process moving that's a huge, huge benefit. >> charles? >> are you going to get a majority of republicans and meet the hastert rule? are you going to get enough republicans and democrats to get it to pass the pass. >> i think to both. this was just unveiled last evening and working as washington does so often works right up to the bitter end until we come to a conclusion. so people are still working through it. it's an education process for the conference, as well, and for members on the other side but i think we'll have a majority of republicans and pass it in both the house and the senate. >> ab? >> congressman, obviously, there's a big divide in the conference. this

congressman howell rogers of kentucky chairs the appropriations committee and says the current cuts and the next round are gruesome. >> a $20 billion cut to the military above and beyond what they already sustained. that would be very, very severe. >> reporter: congressman moran questions the real incentive for getting a deal done. >> we could fix the budget situation in a bipartisan way won hours, but the leadership doesn't want that done. they don't want to make deals. >> during back the sequester and preventing another government shut down would required them working together and that would be progress. >> reporter: we did see that paul ryan and patty measure which neat today. no news of a budget deal yet but they're trying to find a number that makes both sides happy. >> i love it, libby 37 corner them in the hallways. libby casey on capitol hill for husband. >> in ten days the nation will the one-year anniversary of the sandy hook argument school disasters. >> reporter: the phones were ringing off the look december 91 of last year. i heard several recordings of the 911 calls shortl

madam speaker, we are doing a cr even though the appropriations committee on the house side past 11 ofthe 12 bills through the committee. four of them across the floor in the house. the remaining ones for aforetime as we run out of time. consequently, this continuing resolution will continue the government passed the september 30 and of the fiscal year. we were unable to pass the appropriations bills singly on the floor because of a lack of floor time, but also because the house and senate never agreed to an overall number of which we could mark. consequently, we were not able to bring those bills out because of that limitation. with this cr until december 15, if we were given a number with the senate in which we need to mark the individual 12 bills. we will do so. this is a hard-working committee. we are pragmatists. we know that we have to pass the bills to fund the government. if we were intending to close down the government and shut it down, we would not be here with this bill. we would sit here. this is an effort by the majority party in the house to continue the government and a

dianne feinstein, who has the appropriations committee, very critical of some of the wasteful spendingees on nuclear issues, even though she has nuclear facilities in her home state of california. that is the kind of senate leadership you want. to keep what we need and not waste a dime on obsolete weapons from the last century. quest thank you for bringing us a financial point of view of nuclear weapons. always an interesting angle. thank you very much. joining me here, author of this new book. it is 26 minutes past the hour. it is time to get you out to the newsroom. julie hyman is there with everything you need to know on trade. what are you seeing? >> declines for stocks. for the dow, triple digit declines. we have come back from that. 75 points. the s&p falling back 8/10 of one percent. seems to be with progress being made in washington, it could mean tapering is coming from the fed sooner rather than later. in terms of individual stocks, i just want to mention cisco, the networking company losing its bid to block the approval of microsoft's take over of skype. we will be back in 3

speaker, i also bring the perspective of an appropriator, someone who came to congress in 2011, was immediately assigned to the appropriations committee and i have been frustrated through this entire process living from c.r. to c.r. and never ever having the opportunity to do what appropriators are purposed in doing. and this agreement, while not perfect, as has already been mentioned by most every speaker, gives us an opportunity to take government shutdowns off the table, to restore some much needed fubbed funding to something that is important to all of us and that is our national defense and as an appropriator, gives us the opportunity to do our jobs and quick c emp ding to the administration down the street. from that perspective, mr. speaker, i think this is the right deal at the right time. it gives us an opportunity to give some certainty to the american public who is looking to this congress to be able to work together to try to find the solutions that move america forward. with that, i urge support and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from maryland. the gentleman from mar

a member of the appropriations committee, and a member of the blue dog coalition.tle busy. thank you so much for joining me. you voted for this budget deal. what do you like about it? >> two things. one, it's going to avoid a shutdown. we had a shutdown that was not good. that means we failed at doing our job, number one. two, we will not be stuck with the budget and be able to work on other items. >> interesting op ed. i'm going to read part of it. while the the deal is a start, it does not fix our fundamental problems and the largest drivers of our debt. as you listen to those points they're making, what's your test on that assessment? >> absolutely correct. this is just a modest step. we only deal with one-third of the federal budget. we did it with one-third. the other two-thirds on automatic. you have republicans that don't want to talk about taxes. democrats don't want to talk about social security and medicare. so you are leaving the two big drivers out of the picture. >> you made a point that this is a deal for two years. which is great in the concept that

and the republican chairman of the appropriations committee have not passed a single appropriations bill because he says he can't fit spending inside the box that paul ryan has created. >> i thought i read the house passed four. harry reid has passed zero. >> most importantly the transportation -- >> harry reid has passed zero appropriation bills in the senate. harry reid passed zero appropriation bills. >> the transportation housing urban development bill one of the most important bills could not pass the house last summer because it was too draconian. >> hey, chris, what was the point where tip, was it after that first budget vote where tip lost so many more democrats than he thought that reagan had more success in getting democrats in the house to support him, is that when the dynamics changed between tip and reagan and is there something to be learned there, what do you expect to see out of how the republicans, you know, is there a lesson to be applied here to how the republicans sort of attack after this? >> i got up this morning and tried to think if there's something important to

then there is the appropriations committee that actually appropriates the money.at is within the constitution. you have to appropriate the funds. sayheory, the authorizes only spandex. past in tightget sequence. until this year, there hasn't been a budget agreed upon between the house and senate for who knows how long. the fed hasn't even bothered to pass a budget let alone come over to the house and make an agreement. andonsidering the agreement counting on the senate to pass this, what is i mean for the pentagon in terms of the money, strictly the money. ? guest: is a big deal for the whole government because we are heading for a shutdown any. , which is $1 trillion over 10 years. sequesters not really a technical term but we will all it that. after that falls on the pentagon. that theytagon agrees need to come down, that it is but the way the budget control act and sequestration works is that they -- with the bill does is round that out. you still get at the end of the tenure. dollars cut billion in defense, but the pentagon gets back 20 billion this year. host

now it's time for the appropriations committee to write the bill.o i'm optimistic that it can be a step in the right direction, although i was furious when we left town that we didn't include unemployment insurance in this bill. >> i was going to ask you about that. as of friday long-term uninsurance will expire in a matter of days. those are the people most impacted by continuing slow growth in the economy. >> december 28th is the deadline. can you imagine christmas time you're going to tell people, sorry, you can't get your unemployment, most of whom have been looking for work and rejected. although the economy is improving somewhat, it's still not where it is and we are losing jobs. it is so critical for women who are raising families. men who can't take care of their families. i do hope as soon as we get back in january we can pass unemployment insurance. >> congresswoman, you were quoted in gayle collins wonderful "new york times" piece about the republicans trying to change the way they talk about women to try to avoid alienating women in the

the proposed $10 million appropriation are summarized in table 3. that's on page 20 of our report. on page 21 of our report we note that of park improvement funds of the capital committee that these funds would potentially be used for 1 $1.8 million leaving remaining unidentified projects under the proposed supplemental would be appropriated to the 2008 project to be allocated by the parks and commission. below on page 21 we say on 6.8 are to be reported to the capital planning committee that these funds would be used for approval for 4.3 million for dolores park. 800 thousand for the playground and for the beach los angeles. supervisors i would note if you appropriate these funds today it would be strictly up to the department of recs to make the allocations. with regard to the dispositions being requested for the department manager 1 position and each in fiscal year 13-146789 for the additional annual salary $238,000 for both positions. the total on going salary and benefit cost is approximately $321,000. all the positions would be taken from bond funds and they current have eight project managers and 110 projects to manage which rpd indicates is not sufficient. howe

in this process was my good friend and colleague from new york, the ranking member of the appropriations committee and one of the conferees, mrs. lowey. the speaker pro tempore: how much time? mr. van hollen: two minutes, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from new york is recognized for two minutes. mrs. lowey: mr. speaker, the budget deal is a breakthrough in a difficult budget year and a dysfunctional congress. as with any compromise, there are elements i oppose, yet this agreement should help us do our jobs for the american people and end the shutdown standoff. it provides some relief from the devastating impacts of the sequester cuts on our economy and american families. keeping sequestration in place through fiscal year 2014 would cost up to an estimated $1.6 -- 1.6 million jobs. now, the house and senate must restore regular order to craft bills that instead create new jobs and protect important priorities like medical research, security and infrastructure upgrades, and early education. this agreement restores over 60% of the sequester on nondefense discretionary spending

the health committee in the senate. i go back to make the point that the charge are to be in the appropriations and authorization committee is to do oversight, find the waste, where can you consolidate, eliminate overhead, where can you streamline things given where we are today? what we tend to do is create new programs and not look at the programs running and where we could save the american taxpayer money. 2014 the preparation coming up -- >> could be, you bet. oversight this. if you actually wanted to read some of the 50 or so reports that we put out in the last five years, if you are a curious appropriator, you might find some valuable information in there that might. the problem is, like anything else, nobody looks at it. it is hard work. and the reason it is hard work to cut spending is because somebody's asked gets bored -- somebodyored him as does not give money. what does it translate into? somebody is not happy with me at home. and it translate into the real problem, more in congress are more concerned about getting themselves reelected than fixing the country. >> with the debt ceiling vote coming up again in m

committee going to be working ongoing forward? >> we are focused on getting the deal done, but what i can tell you is that the appropriations committees will do their first work in many years to work together in the senate and the house and come to compromises and hopefully get our bills done before the end of the year deadline to provide certainty across the board whether in defense or agriculture or education or research. >> we haven't talked about that and budget committees will put together the deals for the future after we get this done. i have been in discussions for the last eight weeks and six months on how to do this. we will take a look at that. we haven't made a decision yet. >> that are means thinking about the bigger and the long-term debt issue and talking about entitlements? are. >> let me get through today and then i will talk about tomorrow. we sat down and realized we would have to make steps together. none of them were easy and all of them a compromise. if we can get it done and reestablish the trust, we can pave a pathway to talk about the rest of the challenges that face us. >> is it realistic to extend unemployme

people on the appropriations committee and don't like the fact the fun has been taken out of their life by the sequester. the other are the defense republicans. somewhere between 30 and 50 of them vote primarily on defense and they cannot stand, they say, another sequester cut, half of which coming from the 17% of the budget that is defense. so there has been a shaky group behind paul ryan and he has to try and satisfy them. >> to that point, and i said neither part your has the stomach, you have republicans still hurting politically from the shutdown but frankly democrats are hurting big-time from obama care. >> oh, yeah. >> and neither party really wants this to blow up january 15th. >> you know how civil wars end when both sides are too exhausted to go on, that is what is happening here. not only is this not a grand bargain that attacks the titles of the entitlement, this is a tiny deal. both sides were exhausted from the fight and there is another dirty little secret here. remember when republicans demanded entitlement cuts, neither of them want that. democrats don't want to raise t

johanns, as governor, he had to draw up budgets and send those budgets then to the legislature and have our appropriations committee go through that process dealing with his agency heads and then the appropriations committee would bring that package to the floor. and here again, we would debate it. i don't know if the legislature always agreed with senator johanns during his time as governor, but perhaps he can give us some insight into how we came together on budgets and were able to work through that as well, madam president. mr. johanns: madam president, i would love to be able to stand here today and say to my colleague from nebraska that every time i submitted something to the legislature they loved it, blessed it and passed it. but that did not happen. there was a give-and-take process that would occur. budget is actually a perfect example. like this system, the governor of nebraska gets the first shot. the governor soon after the legislature goes into session in january of each year, the governor would submit a budget. we have a long session, that's a 90-day session one year and then the next year it's follo

the appropriations process. kentucky is the congressman harold rogers, the chairman of the house appropriations committee. you can see the interview sunday when newsmakers airs at its regular time, and they at 10:00 a.m.. 10:00 a.m.. >> the archduke francis ferdinand and his wife were in sarajevo, the capital of bosnia, on a tour. it was a bad day, it was a big serbian national holiday. serbia was absolutely furious that austria-hungary had taken over bosnia. it was seen as a provocation, and a radeon plotters who were seen to be plotting to assassinate the archduke as a symbol of oppression. they decided to kill him. and they did. it was sloppy police work. there were warnings that something was afoot. shot the archduke and his wife point-blank and they both died. >> the assassination of archduke ferdinand and his wife and the events leading up to world war i. sunday night at 8:00 p.m. on c- a.n q and a full -- q and >> next, a defense department briefing. will discuss the recent budget deal that was passed in the house and how it will impact air force operations. this is 45 minutes. >> welcome to the sta

there has been complaints among republicans, especially on the appropriations committee, that sequestration is unlivable. >> that being the defense industry. >> yes, mostly. on top of that, the next which takes spending to $967 billion almost comes exclusively out of defense. another $20 billion cut around january 15th strictly from defense budgets. so there's an appetite among the hawkish wing of the house republicans to just get rid of this. they realize that if they are going to get rid of this, they have to give in a little bit. >> weirdly, sequestration is now having the impact they believed it would to get a deal in the first place, untenable budget cuts. i think jonathan's point is really important. this is, if you're watching at home, this isn't the grand bargain. politics is the art of only the possible. the possible in this case is something very small. there is clearly no appetite for brinksmanship again. it is getting what they can get done. not getting into a bigger intractable fight that might shut down the government or cause really hard political pain on either side explaini

it sets spending levels for two years that allows the appropriations committee to go forward and pass the bills that are just part of routine business, and in a normal cycle when everyone is not fighting over the basic fundamental numbers. it also rolls back these cuts, $33 billion worth of cuts will go away, and $85 billion in savings and revenue at the end of the day, this is said to have $23 billion in deficit reduction, over the next decade, some conservatives had a push back, but the budget negotiators say that is the picture that they have been able to agree to. >> apparently some republicans in that are at each other's throats as well. the republican party has an intense couple of days. but often it is behind closed doors. they came out and blasted this deal but the congressman ryan john boehner ended up attacking those groups pretty fiercely. and he said that they really lost credibility because of the way they put the cart before the horse, and attacking this bill, and he also pointed to the strategy of a couple ofn't mos ago, defense those groups along with senator republica

challenger accusing the senator of having fostered giant deficits through the role in the appropriations committeehat becomes a really ugly conversation within the party. >> let me also share with you one of the latest as in louisiana. health care and the use of a familiar scene in louisiana, the theme of the said, let's watch the -- let's watch. >> there is a danger. many have warned that is coming. now they are in a hunt and headed for you. >> at least 80,000 people statewide would not be able to keep their current insurance because of the guttural health care overhaul. >> louisianians are struggling because of obamacare. she recently told reporters, "i am not concerned for anything." she cast the deciding vote for obama care in the first place. it is the brave new world of government incompetence that we will live in. guest: the last line for that is interesting because that is new. the brave new world of government incompetence. that is something the launch of the obamacare website has over republicans. up to it is no longer it is better for you. -- the government is better for you. these guys

it's a two-year deal that sets the budget number for the appropriations committees to do their work, cide how the nonmandatory spending of the government. it's about a trillion dollars, give or take $10 billion. $990 billion is one of the goals, it could get over a trillion depending on how they buy things back. the committee is seeking alternative cuts in revenue raisers, including fees on airline passengers and adjusting pensions for federal workers. and the democrats do have one last new demand and that's an extension of unemployment insurance. they're pushing for a jobless pen bits program to continue. 1.3 million will lose the insurance after the program expires on december 28th with an additional 3.6 million by the end of 2014 according to the labor department. chris jansing is next. i'll see you tomorrow. and now my journey across the country has brought me to the lovely city of boston. cheers. and seeing as it's such a historic city, i'm sure they'll appreciate that geico's been saving people money for over 75 years. oh... dear, i've dropped my tea into the boston harbor. huhh

he has been chair of the appropriations committee and tells us what the recent budget deal means for scussed criticism some on capitol hill have received from outside groups regarding support of the deal. here is a preview. >> these outside groups, many of them are stirring up trouble just to raise money. people to sign up to pay their dues into that organization. it is a money-raising scheme, many of them. influenceried to particularly our younger members of the congress to take theyions on issues that are stirring up interest in across the airwaves. a member's voting card belongs to that member. that is how we vote. it goes in the computer machine on the floor of the house and record your vote. no one is going to tell me how .o vote except my constituents no outside group is going to dictate what i do. >> you can watch more of that interview tomorrow when "newsmakers" airs at its regular time, 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> the archduke ferdinand and his wife were in sarajevo, the capital of bosnia, on a tour. it was a very bad day for him to come because it was a bi

it provides the framework for appropriation bills for the next two years without sequestration. that's regular order, the appropriation committees can now meet and decide the policy of our country where we believe prierts should be on -- priorities should be on federal resources. it allows us to operate hopefully without a continuing resolution. a number of continuing resolutions that we have passed indicate a failure because when we pass a continuing resolution, we don't adopt the priorities for the current time. instead, we just freeze in prior years' priorities. we now have the opportunity to enact priorities that are important today, recognizing that some of the past spending is not necessary and there's other areas that we need now to adopt. considering the changes in our own community and considering the international changes. it allowses us to operate without the fear of a government shutdown. before i said a fear of a government shutdown, because we thought that we wouldn't see a government shutdown but as we know in october we saw a government shutdown and we saw people that were hurt, we saw our economy that was hurt a

is the appropriations committee issues a bill appropriating money for n.i.h.. they can do that. if we increased the money for n.i.h., they could do that. they don't need this bill to increase money for pediatric research. what they need is a higher spending cap, and this bill doesn't bring about a higher spending cap. and then i have concerns i want to express about the way they structured the investments in pediatric research by funding it through n.i.h. director's common fund. by design that fund is not disease or population-specific, because it gives n.i.h. flexibility to determine funding priorities for each year. it doesn't take into consideration the existing pediatric research initiative, which we strengthened with recent enactment of pediatric esearch network legislation. we have researchers all across the country that echoed the importance of a sustained n.i.h. funding for our nation's health, our economic growth, our global leadership of biomedical research. may i have another minute? mr. pallone: yield an additional minute to mr. waxman. mr. waxman: regrettably, this l

>> i'm very pleased to yield one minute to the gentleman from pennsylvania a member of the appropriations committee. >> the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, madam speaker. i rise to urge an expedited path. i join with the chairman and the ranking member of my committee and i agree with every word that has been stated by the majority chairman and the ranking member. this is critically important. this monday i was in a foreign country, i was in the state of israel and met with the president and with a whole group of brain researchers from around the world. they had difficulty understanding, given our nation's leadership, why several critical issues we could be in a paralyzed situation. i am happy that that the senate has acted in such an overwhelming way on this matter, with some 81 bipartisan votes. i would urge the house to act as i know we will. restore our government to pay our bills and to get on with our responsibilities as the most powerful nation in the world and the wealthiest country in the world. we can pay our bills and we can conduct the affairs of government in a wa

. >> before jesus was born, he's on the appropriation committee. >> he's got -- >> he's been watchingarry. >> i'm going to defend his honor on this. i just don't understand this latest maneuver. it's going to pass. that's what hoeven said. you said it's going to pass. >> it's going to pass. >> i think what he's probably looking for is a better deal. i think he. >> they are going to vote on monday and tuesday. >> that is not going to happen. there's no way that's going to happen. >> john boehner is not going to bring -- look, holden is such a smart guy. holden made the key point, which paul ryan has also made. when you take a step back and look at what happened, the appropriations has come down and as a shared gdp it's come down. actually, they are right where they want to be. >> i think he's right. commonsense conservatives are going to support this and they are going to do it because they think it's best for the country. it's like, look, this is, yeah, patty murray's involved here. this is a paul ryan budget and paul ryan -- >> it's not a paul ryan budget. >> discretionary spending i

. >> you have been on the appropriations committee for a long time, and everybody is celebrating this budget deal, but if you look at the numbers, it is well below what you got in 2012. how difficult is it going to be to put the rest of the bill together and how disappointed who like well-funded agencies? >> we are in a divided congress, and we had to come up with a compromise that is not the one that i wrote in my budget that was passed, but it is a compromise, and the senate appropriations committee under the leadership of senator barbara mikulski are doing the best with what we have. this was a heck of a lot better than what the house republicans wanted us to do. we are working hard. senator urban and his committee and me and my committee are putting together bills that can best reflect the circumstances we're under. >> the alternative was -- >> terrible. >> could you elaborate on your conversation with senator paul? areas could be discussed for common ground? what were his interested areas? >> he has been interested in a number of issues for a long time. we are working on an issue

i talked to the appropriate committees, people in the armed services. we didn't have the votes and would not win a shutdown fight. obviously we didn't win it last time, we're not going to win one in january, either. >> dan, i want you to react to that and also something paul ryan said yesterday that republicans have to have a big family, victories cannot be done without the tea party group or groups like yours. i fully agree with that. i'm not attacking you, buddy. we're having a political disagreement. i'm not attacking. you. john boehner got his irish up. i'm not sure what that was about. ryan didn't attack you, either. how do you feel on a monday having gone through this process in the last three, four days? do you feel like you have your political fisticuffs ready to go or some meeting of the minds that can create a merger here? >> i don't care about the speaker's attacks last week. we're concerned about the policy on this. $63 billion in spending increases. it's new deficit spending throughout the remainder of president obama's term. it's not conse

the normal rate, which committee participants estimate to be between 5.2% and 5.8%, and with inflation continuing to run between -- below the two percent longer-term objective, accommodative policy remains appropriatemc today also enhanced its forward guidance today. for the past year, the committee has said the current low target range for the federal funds rate will be appropriate at least as long as the unemployment rate remains above 6.5%. inflation is projected to be no more than half -- 0.5% above the two percent longer-term goal and longer-term expectations are well anchored. we emphasize these are thresholds, not triggers. crossing a threshold would not lead automatically to an increase in the federal funds it isbut only that appropriate for the committee to consider whether the broader economic outlook justified such an increase. with many fomc participants now projecting that the 6.5% unemployment threshold will be reached by the end of 2014, the committee decided to provide additional information about how it expects its policies to evolve after the threshold has been crossed. based on the assessment of current conditions in the outlook, which is informed by a range of indicators, includ