the bill of rights has survived two centuries. it has been the touchstone of our citizenship and the genius of our founding fathers, and the truth that we are born free. this acknowledgment stands as a hining contrast to other parts f the world. we see it today. extremist do prowl the globe. they silence dissenters. we do not. they deny education and personal freedom to women. we do not. they hate the concert that individuals know what is best for them. that is why after crafting our constitution that explains the structure and the function of our government, the constitutional convention crafted ended up with 10 amendments to make sure the ame government that protects social order would not suppress personal freedom. the framers of the bill of rights didn't invent the rights printed recognize the essential freedoms of speech, the press, religion, personal property, human dignity already existed, that we continue existing in the core elements of human society. the genius of madison and colleagues was to understand every person is b

bill at the end of the session. an omnibus bill is being debated, and the government will be shut down at midnight. the president wants the bill passed because he does not want to the >> reached at christmas time, where federal employees will not receive checks before christmas. you can understand the white position, but i understand the democrats' position. you are two main rider. shame on conservatives who just elected a brand-new conservative party to take over the next congress, and this conservative party that is going out will not same one coming in. thank you, american voters. you have shown the world again how to pick a winner. tweet -- here we go to pennsylvania, pat, who also opposes the measure. are you there? >> yes, i do. yes. yes. >> make sure you meet your television and go ahead with your comment. we are going to have to move on, pat. we go to lexington, kentucky. >> hello. i support the bill mainly because harry reid would not call anything up in the senate so we could not get it passed to start with

the bill of rights has survived the test of 200 centuries. it has become the touchstone of our citizenship, and the testimony to what the genius of our founding fathers, and the undeniable truth that we are born free. this acknowledgment stands as a senate contrast to other parts of the world. extremist do go about the globe, professing that their view endorses tearaney. they hate the very concept that individuals know what is best for them. that is why, after crafting our constitution that explains the structure and function of our government, constitutional government constructed 12, ended up with 10, amendments that major that the same government who protect social order were not suppress social freedoms. rather, they recognize that the essential freedoms of free speech, religion, personal property, human dignity already existed. the genius of madison, of mason, and their colleagues was an understanding that every person is born with those rights. that those rates recorded in the first 10 amendments are every child's inheritance. these are

coming up, samuel alito and jeb bush discussed the bill of rights. discussinglebrities health and social issues. [applause] >> i am so glad to welcome you tonight. bush,e alito, governor governor and mrs. corbett. david rubenstein, honored guests. i am jeffrey rosen. i'm the president of this institution, the national center, the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u.s. constitution on a nonpartisan basis. it is hard to imagine a more exciting milestone in the fulfillment of that inspiring mission than the one we celebrate tonight. 1789,ars ago, october george washington sent to the states 13 copies of the bill of rights and one to the federal government. 12 of those copies survived. today, one of them is returning to philadelphia. it will be displayed in the george h.w. bush gallery, which we are unveiling and previewing today in a beautiful exhibit. it will open to the public later this year. this display is made possible thanks to a historic agreement between the commonwealth of pennsylvania and th

it's a good portion of the bill. and let me take a moment to say thank you to rodney frelinghuysen, the chairman of the defense subcommittee, upon which i sit. i want to thank him for his tireless work in this area for allowing members like me to help draft legislation that clearly puts our men and women in uniform first, clearly helps saves lives by making sure that we have the best qualified, the best trained, the best equipped military and makes all americans more safe than they are today. all in all it's a great bill. i urge my colleagues to support it, and i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: the time of the gentleman has expired. the gentlelady from new york. mrs. lowey: mr. speaker, i'm very pleased to yield two minutes to the distinguished gentleman from arizona, mr. pastor, the ranking member of the transportation-h.u.d. subcommittee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from arizona is recognized for two minutes. mr. pastor: thank you, mr. speaker. i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my

i ask the bill be passed. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the senate amendment is agreed to and the the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. mr. walden: i ask that the legislation be approved. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to take from the speaker's desk the bill s. 1474 to amend the violence against women re-authorization act of 201 to repeal a special rule for the state of alaska and for other purposes and ask for its immediate consideration in the house. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate 1474, an act to eament the women against violence act for the state of alaska and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: is there objection to consideration of the bill? without objection, the bill is read a third time and passed and the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. for what purpose does the gentleman from particulars as seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to

of that bill the risky trading that is now being put back in the bill, the same bill that came through our committee that was written by citicorps, that would allow this to happen, will you work with me to try and prevent this from happening and prevent another bailout of the biggest banks in america with taxpayers' dollars? i am going to support tria, will you support me getting rid of that in the omnibus bill? i yield to the gentleman from texas. for the answer. mr. hensarling: i would point out to the gentlelady, as i think she knows, it was the democrat senate who i believe is putting this in the bill. so perhaps she could negotiate that with senator schumer. ms. waters: the gentleman knows that he was involved in the negotiation for placing that in the omnibus bill. and so i have raised the question with you, even though you're saying -- mr. hensarling: will the gentlelady yield on that one point? ms. waters: reclaiming my time. reclaiming my time. i simply ask the gentleman if he would join me in helping, whether he was part of the negotiation or not, as the chair of the financia

the bill of rights has survived two centuries. it has been the touchstone of our citizenship and the genius of our founding fathers, and the truth that we are born free. this acknowledgment stands as a shining contrast to other parts of the world. we see it today. extremist do prowl the globe. they silence dissenters. we do not. they deny education and personal freedom to women. we do not. they hate the concert that individuals know what is best for them. that is why after crafting our constitution that explains the structure and the function of our government, the constitutional convention crafted ended up with 10 amendments to make sure the same government that protects social order would not suppress personal freedom. the framers of the bill of rights didn't invent the rights printed recognize the essential freedoms of speech, the press, religion, personal property, human dignity already existed, that we continue existing in the core elements of human society. the genius of madison and colleagues was to understand every person i

through the senate. this billeserves the support of both the house and senate. with that i reserve my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? mr. sherman: i rise in support of the bill and would like to reserve and hear from congressman mckeon. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from washington. mr. hastings: mr. speaker, i'm very pleased to yield as much time as he may consume to the author of this legislation, the chairman of the house armed services committee, mr. mckeon. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. mckeon: thank you, mr. speaker. thank you, mr. chairman. it's a great privilege to speak on my bill, h.r. 5742, the seouldad canyon settlement act. i appreciate the opportunity to appear before the house and want to thank speaker boehner, majority leader mccarthy, chairman hastings for their steadfast support of this legislation. without their support

i opinion about the bill is would like to congratulate everyone in the united states. we will let richard go to find his phone and move on to stephanie in california. democrat. caller: good morning, c-span. i am so against this bill. this bill is not good for america. i don't think it's good for the united states or its citizens. there is nothing in this bill that is good for the middle class. i hope that everyone voted for this bill is on record voting for the bill and will be voted out of office because they are not standing up for the united states citizens. this will destroy our economy even further. --t: a tweet back to the "new york times" article. liberal face of the democratic party led by elizabeth warren found itself in an unlikely alliance with the party wings -- the tea party wing. last year, 70 house democrats voted for a bill that included the very change to the dodd frank regulations that their leadership opposed this week. voteead up to thursday's demonstrated the strength and limitations of their conferences. harry is in pittsburgh. republican. go ahead

with some of the domestic bills, the numbers are so low that it's hard to write good bills. and so we're really not doing ourselves any favors in the areas of health research and so on. but still, you do have appropriations bills that are better, i think, almost uniformly. and putting the government on automatic pilot. and that's what a continuum bill is. you enact a continuum resolution. it means you don't shut things down but you don't make nuances that you make in an appropriations bill. host: as we've seen in headline this morning, this g.o.p. proposal to fund most to the government through september of 2015, except for d.h.s. has hit a snag as the headline in "the washington post" this morning. if this bill does get to the floor, would you vote for it? guest: i would have to think about that because the omission of homeland security and that's a department that i've chaired as ranking member, that's the department that i've looked out for. that's a very major flaw in that bill and puts a real obstacle out for my support. but the snag has nothing to do, i think, with any

kaptur, who was the co-sponsor of the bill. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for two minutes. ms. kaptur: i thank the ranking member, mr. bishop, for yielding and thank the chairman, mr. gibbs, and obviously my colleague, mr. joyce, who just spoke. i rise in support, strong support of h.r. 5764. since the creation of the great lakes restoration initiative, our nation has made great strides in reviving and protecting our nation's greatest fresh water tresh, our great lakes. still, despite progress, this past summer presented a stark reminder of the unfinished challenge. as the toxic algal blooms shut off the fresh drinking water to half a million people and businesses in ohio and michigan for three days across lake erie's western basin, the largest watershed in the entire great lakes. the public, though shocked, was orderly and magnificent. we didn't have riots or civil disorder. during that three-day crisis, astoundingly we learned communities along the lake were not equipped locally to test the water so vit

the bill does not include more money, mr. speaker, it just seed us to use the small that we have more effectively. i would yield now as much time as he might consume to mr. eters, the author of h.r. 2790 . mr. peters: thank you, mr. speaker. you know, many laws are intended to ensure efficiency in federal agencies. but often have unintended consequences. preventing agencies from serving the public and costing taxpayer money. currently the department of housing and urban development's continuum of care program spends too much time fulfilling administrative obligations instead of helping individuals and families transition out of homelessness and putting them on a path to independent living. twice a year h.u.d. has -- twice a fiscal year h.u.d. has to allocate funds that are unused, returned or otherwise become available in the program, but because almost no funds are unused or become available under the program, the reallocation of funds takes a lot of time and unwarranted human capital to complete. it's administratively more e

bill. and you could not hear the muffled cheers over the recriminations. less than three hours before midnight. >> live, if we don't get finished today we're going to be here until christmas. >> this is a bill that we should vote for. this bill needs to pass. >> the representatives dodged another shutdown, passing a 1 trillion-dollar spending measure nicknamed the romney bus. it includes a continuing resolution, a c.r. >> what they're looking for is practical governance and willingness to compromise. that's what this bill will do. >> others criticize the concessions made to get the bill passed in time for the deadline. >> this is not about partisanship. this is about fairness. this is about accountability and responsibility. this is about preventing another financial collapse that could again wipe out millions of jobs and take down our whole economy. >> senator elizabeth warren of massachusetts is particularly upset over the loosening of bank regulations born out of the 2008 financial crisis in the form of the dodd-frank laws. but other so-called policy por

the globe. and how will that work? this bill will codify what's called the end kick, the cybersecurity protection act, the d.h.s., is aflian interface to the private sector, which has been supported by both business groups like the chamber and privacy groups like the aclu. amazing how we could bring this coalition together, but that's how strong this bill is. privacy and business coming together doing what's right. this will great a safe harbor, mr. speaker, where the 16 critical infrastructures, the 16 sectors can come together, the federal government can take our threat information, our malicious codes that they use to attack us and share that with the private sector. it also allows the private sector to share the information that they have the federal government in a safe harbor that's protected both business-wise and personally as well. 80% to 85% of this threat information lies in the private sector. this -- this coalition, if you will, this partnership of information sharing will better protect our critical infrastructure.

the hill. if republicans passe funding bill, if congress passed the funding bill and it ties the president's hands on immigration , would therder president veto such a bill? >> yes. >> with president be willing to if the government shutdown congress -- >> i see it differently. i don't believe members of congress or the majority are going to be able to go along and shut down the government. the president announced about 10 days ago and entirely consistent with what was established by previous theidents as well as within legal confines of the law as it relates to prosecutorial , it is sarah mcconnell, the incoming majority leader who set himself just a week or so after the election we will not be shutting the government down or threatening to default on the national debt. pretty clearis a statement from among the most influential members of congress. >> are they willing to go along with the idea that republicans are basically funding all of the government through october next department for the of homeland security, which would be implementing immigration changes? >> there are a variety of proposals

and the bill of rights codifies the promises -- the bill of rights also represents the completion of the work that was done across the street in independence hall during the hot summer of 1787. that, of course, was -- at the body of our constitution -- was adopted and sent to the states for ratification. when the body of the constitution was completed, there were those who thought that it was not complete. that the new, more powerful federal government that was created by the constitution would threaten the liberty of the people and, therefore, they thought it was imperative that there be explicit guarantees of rights in the constitution. on the other hand, there were those who thought that the structure of the new government frames by the constitution -- the limitation of federal authority, the separation of powers, the system of dual sovereignty -- provided sufficient protection for the rights of the people. both of those groups are powerful. and ultimately what occurred was a compromise. the constitution was ratified -- but as david reminded us -- it was reminded on the understand

it should have to do with the bill at hand. complain about that is ridiculous because they all do it. your researchers find out if there are any senators or congressmen that have not ever presented a bill, an amendment to a bill that had nothing to do with it. they all do it. that's how they get reelected. host: tom calling from vermont. independent caller. caller: good morning. host: how are you viewing everything here in d.c.? caller: it is very chaotic there and everybody is in it for the buck. i'm calling about president obama telling us that immigration will benefit our economy. it seems like it's already causing us over $2 billion in this budget. ande people at the store they are sending their money back to mexico. i don't see them paying taxes. i don't see them going to the bank and making any deposits. thank you. host: laurel, maryland. democratic caller. how i feel elizabeth warren is good, but we have to pass the bill so -- it's bigger than just a few of us. i wanted to respond to the caller before. there is so much g

there was talk the president supports the bill and meetings with the democrats to vote for the bill. how much pressure did it take for the democrats to say we support the bill and you better go vote for it. >> it was a delicate line for the president because he cannot fully embrace the bill and there are parts he doesn't. if he fully embraced this from the beginning republicans would have voted no. he had to make calls to save it. and a liberal from california was telling her colleagues don't be intimidated by the president. i think the white house is less worried about the senate but things can change rapidly and a lot of people have attacked this bill and there is a lot of provisions why members would vote no. >> all eyes on the senate today. we will see what happens there. always good to see you. thank you. >>> a headache in the air over london. the london airspace was closed and just reopened. but it has been a travel nightmare in europe. greg is reporting live from london. what happened, greg? >> reporter: imagine if they shutdown all air traffic over the southern part of england

the senate bill. we have made the changes that are in the house bill and we also feed to pass it in the senate because this one includes the national sex trafficking strategy. we have -- senator cornyn has been working this on her side. there appear to be no objections. i will explain in a bit the amendment that passed out of judiciary 18-0 that of his portion that's complud in this bill we joined forces because i was actually having trouble getting the bill through on its own and so we had joined forces on this bill and now it appears that we could have some objections on our side that i hope get cleared up, because people are disappointed they can't get other bills on. i can't help people to get these other bills through. i don't have that in my power right now. and the 27 million people around the world who are victims of sex trafficking, they can't help to get thatte that done. nor can all the kids that we see in minnesota that get taken into sex trafficking. 13 years old is the average age. they c

>> you have to defeat. >> you have to beat the whole bill? >> yeah, the senate has to defeat the bill and re-write the bill and send it back to the house. i think what is working for us, is the more that people learn in terms of what is in the bill they are absolutely disgusted. we are getting calls from vermont, many, many of them. people are sick and tired of seeing the people on wall street whose greed and illegal behavior drove this country into a recession impacting millions of people, and now they are back in power, and they are writing the legislation, literally citigroup is writing the legislation that house republicans are putting into the bill. people do not want to see that. >> senator bernie sanders from vermont, thank you for helping us understand. i appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> lots more to come tonight. stay with us. >>> if you want to hear what it has been like in the united states senate tonight as they fight over this fight from last night, check this out from elizabeth warren. >> you know, there's a lot of talk lately ab

on the omnibus appropriation bill. so, mr. president, let me -- let me conclude my remark as i began, and that is to me this is an easy decision to make. it's an easy decision because the public does not want to see more gridlock in washington. they know the house of representatives have gone home. they know that our leaders have negotiated an omnibus budget for next fiscal year, and they're saying at long last can we at least get this done or are we going to have another threatened shutdown, are we going to put the government on auto pilot for a three-month period? i think we have a responsibility to see issues to conclusion, and on the appropriation issues that are in this bill, we should be very proud to support the work of senator mikulski and the entire group that was behind the negotiations of this omnibus bill, senator shelby and others. we should support that and recognize that what we need to do next year, mr. president -- and i know my colleague from maryland has been the champion of this. i've heard her spe

the clerk will rorpt title of the bill. the clerk: 3572, a bill to revise the boundaries of certain chafee coastal area resource system units in north carolina. the speaker pro tempore: the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill as amended. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 410, the nays are seven. 2/3 of those voting having responded in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. without objection, the title is amended. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. he house will be in order. he house will be in order.

so i urge "yes" on the bill. i'd like to say thank you to the presiding officer for all of your work to make sure we could bring this lands bill together with the ndaa bill, and i urge a "yes" vote. and i yield the floor. thank you, mr. president. and i'd like to thank my colleague from alaska for allowing me to go ahead with my remarks. through the chair. ms. murkowski: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from alaska. ms. murkowski: mr. president, well, i thank my colleague and his comment about me allowing him the courtesy to go first. i think you actually were scheduled to go first and we were just a little bit behind, so i was pleased to listen to your comments about one of the provisions in this ndaa-lands bill and i thank you for those comments. i also want to acknowledge, mr. president, the comments of the senator from louisiana, our chairman of the energy committee. i've had the pleasure and the privilege of working with her as the ranking member on the committee now for the past six, eight m

the entire bill, mr. speaker, sun sets in september, 2016, to allow more time to negotiate a longer term solution that would not only help california but other states in the west as well. now, this bill is not perfect, but it's a short-term bridge based on productive negotiations between those who want sensible solutions to the california water crisis. this bill, while very limited in scope, helps protect the jobs and economic livelihood of farm families and workers in communities that are in dire need of water. the people of the san joaquin valley cannot wait any longer for congress to act. as the title of this bill suggests, it is truly an emergency for many and time is running out. those communities facing massive unemployment deserve nothing less. now, mr. speaker, i commend my colleagues for the last two congresses for working together to get this solution -- get us an answer to this solution. this is the latest iteration of that and i want to commend them. with that i reserve the balance of my time.

the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 2719, an act to require the transportation security administration to implement best practices and improve transparency with regard to technology acquisition programs and for other purposes. senate amendment. the speaker pro tempore: the question is will the house suspend the rules and concur in the senate amendment. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 425. the nays are zero. 2/3 having responded in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the senate amendment is agreed to and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. the unfinished business is the vote on

exactly what the bill would do. several years later he granted e same status to 200,000 salvadorans. thanks to president obama's immigration accountability executive actions in the same vain, millions of hardworking, law-abiding families will be able to celebrate the holidays with a renewed hope in the future. in response to this presidential action of common sense and compassion, republicans are asking today on this floor a radical bill of appalling callousness and cruelty. with this bill republicans are demanding that we deport hundreds of thousands of young dreamers who know no country but the united states. with this bill, republicans would tear apart millions of thousands throw upon thousands of american children into foster care with this bill republicans would deport the family members of our heroes in uniform serving oversales. deny release and respite to victims of human trafficking and domestic violence, reject the values that are the at the heart of our heritage and our history. this legalization -- excuse

bill, h.r. 5759. i appreciate theentleman from florida for drafting this bill. he and i are consistent in our philosophy, our constitutional understanding and our approach. i would say, though, that the bill moved a little bit from the time that it was first presented. it had the word amnesty in the tle and it said preventing executive amnesty, now it says preventing executive overreach. it tones it down for me. it says in the bill it ought to be applied on a case-by-case basis and not to whole categories of persons. mr. speaker, prosecutorial discretion can only be applied on a case-by-case basis. it cannot exempt them from the application of the law. so i want to make sure this congressional record is clear that this bill doesn't endorse the idea that we're suggesting prosecutorial discretion as anything other than what it actually is and that's on a case-by-case basis. i'd say also, no provision shall be interpreter applied to offer the executive branch to exempt categories of persons unlawful of presence. i agree

the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: union calendar number 456, a bill to amend the interm revenue code to provide for the tax treatment of able accounts established under state programs r the care of family members and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on passage of the bill. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: on this bill passes.s, the is laid on consider the table. the chair will remind all persons in the gallery they are guests here of the house and my manifestation of approval or disapproval is in violation of the house rules. the chairman lays before the house a communication. the clerk: the honorable, speaker, ho

one is the sectors that operate on this bill. there's the pharmaceutical sector, the medical device sector, the insurance sector, they will all pay new excise tax. the second is the new tax on the wealthiest americans, an increase in the medicare payroll tax for families above $250,000. >> he mentioned the pharmaceutical industry, health insurance -- you mentioned the health insurance industry, the pharmaceutical industry, does this help them become better citizens? >> i think it does. the trade off with the political feasibility argument is that we had to bring private insurers along. i know that upsets a lot of people. the bill tries to keep them as good citizens in two important ways. the first is the so-called health insurance exchanges. right now, if you want to buy health insurance in the so-called non-employer market, it is hard to shop effectively. it is confusing, prices are high. this sets up an exchange for all non-employer in jurors will come to one place that will be competitive -- insurers will come to one place that

who get special treatment in provisions of the bill. once again here in the holiday season, it is all about the stuffing the silk stockings. and these people want to gamble with our money. when these big banks win, they get to keep all of the money, but when they lose, they look to the taxpayer to bail them out. >> i rise in support of the bill. notwithstanding my vigorous objection to the two provisions. i rise because i frankly think that pursuing c.r.s, continuing resolutions, on a continuing basis is harmful to our economy, harmful to the growth in jobs, harmful to our national security, and i regret, i regret that the homeland security bill has not been included for a year as well. we undermined national security by that limitation. but never theless, in a world of alternatives, i have concluded ha that it is better for us to pass this cromnibus than it is to defeat it. so i urge the members to vote for the cromnibus tonight. >> and nobody knew if it was going to pass tonight or if it would. and so it did by a squeak. and the democr

the bill tries to strike a balance between the two. what it does not take on is things like food systems and other kinds of production problems in the food systems. other issues of sugary soda available in our schools and nutrition, these are larger, systemic issues that we need to deal with in additional legislation. the bill does not get into them. >> my question is, why does health care spending -- why is health care spending in the united states to war three times that of other countries -- two or three times that of other countries with no better results? [applause] >> that is a great question. our health care spending is about twice the developed country average. part of that is because we are richer and bigger, but even if you control those factors, our health care spending is on an order of one-third higher than it needs to be. we do not exactly know why. it is partly prices. we pay a lot more for things like prescription drugs. we pay a lot more for our cat scans and mri is. we pay our doctors more. not our primary care doctor

the senator opposes this bill, to remember the continuing resolution, omnibus spending bill passed nextyear will contain many more. chairwoman mikulski has done a road job of getting us to this point. i. i hope we can build on this progress next year. from, the appropriations committee chairman, return to the american debate. people know there is a big difference between rhetoric and reality. the american people and the real consequence of shutting down the government. the chairwoman, everything anyone of us would like no, but it's a heck a heck of a lot better than shutting down the government. i will support it. ideal the floor. lex mr. pres., i am back on the floor to talk about a dangerous provision that was slipped into a must pass spending bill at the last minute solely to benefit wall street. the title the title of the rule, prohibition against federal government bailout. on wednesday i came to the floor to talk to democrats asking them to strip this provision out of the omnibus bill. on thursday i came to the floor to talk to republicans. republicans say they don't like bailouts

thought to kill the bill overall, although that's a risk, but to try to take out that piece. the hard part, frances is if you take that one piece it's been negotiated by democrats over months. a lot of these things were only learned when the 1600 pages went public a couple nights ago. it has invited intense criticism from the liberal side of the party. some democrats at the bargaining party say they got other things in exchange for that. more money for consumer protection. and on the issue of campaign finance which is hotly contested republicans arguing that congress is decides no longer to pay for the national conventions. so you have to raise money privately and allowing donors to give more. it's some of that give and take. the real question is is it something that lawmakers can live with knowing that at midnight tonight the deadline hits for a government shutdown. now, they've got ways to protect against that but as we have seen before in the final hours of a big important piece of legislation it does get very prickly, there are concerns. hard to know what will happen now,

the pike. not havenal bill did that. the national bill also raised a lot of revenue and actually i protocolgood for the or balance. can you tell us what actually tax,happen, who gets the who pays for it? >> president obama laid out, actually his number one principle on this bill, that this should not increase the a criticalat was component to. make this bill work we had to spend about a trillion dollars. over the next decade. so we had spending or raise revenue. so what the bill does is several things. excessiveuts reimbursement to private held insurers. bill passed under the bush administration we were insurersivate health 1.17 for every dollar they recipients,e care we ended that. byraised another 300 million reducing reimbursement to treat medthat patients. one is new taxes on the sector that benefit most from this bill. creating 32 million new customers for the pharmaceutical sector, the medical device the insurance sector, they're all going to pay new excise taxes to offset the raising on these customers. the second

crenshaw, who is a sponsor of the bill. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida is recognized for five minutes. mr. crenshaw: i thank the gentleman for yielding the time and let me first just say thank you to chairman camp, chairman of the -- thank you to chairman camp, chairman of the ways and means committee for his hard work, bringing this bill out of the ways and means committee with a unanimous vote. thank him and his staff that have worked long and hard to bring this bill to the floor today. on a personal note, let me just say, as chairman camp believes the congress -- leaves the congress this year that i want to express my thanks and gratitude for his friendship over the years, for his leadership, not only for the people of michigan but for the people of america. you will be missed. we talk about the able act, i think that this is a great example of what can be accomplished when people work together. people say, we don't always work together, but here's a case where people have come together, democrats and

holding the bill still. instead of retreating to party corners, and pointing fingers, we compromised, right on that center aisle, right there, next to senator collins. and we wandered up and down, add also money, took money off, took some billion dollars off. we removed a couple of programs that were absolutely necessary to satisfy kay bailey or lamar alexander, and we lad ourselves a $44 billion bill over five years on which we agreed. we didn't have to have a vote. senator hutchinson, and senator alexander, tenaciously worked to clear the holds. it was, madam president, absolutely beautiful. it was just beautiful. a $44 billion program to reinvigorate our nation, cerebrally and productively. we catapulted to success. reaching moments like those requires persistence, demandses collaboration, it demand trust and compromise. and it is so worth it. i'm driven by the process of creating policy. i love doing that. it's grinding. it's intense, can be frustrating and sometimes heartbreaking. often heartbreaking bu

how much is deficit spending in the bill? >> we abide by the budget caps on the budget act of two years ago. >> what is the deficit? how much of the spending is deficit spending? >> did the gentleman yield? >> i'll be happy to further -- >> this committee, with the congressional support, has spendingiscretionary over the last four years, since 2010. we continue that. the problem is that the deficit is coming from the entitlement programs we appropriate a third of federal spending. >> i believe -- i believe in the conventional calculations, they don't include the entitlement programs in that. they are reports on the operating deficit. those are the numbers i have seen the deficit would be larger than any of us lead the american people to believe if we have unfunded liabilities. i think we are talking about an operating deficit. >> my point is, in answer to your question, we have reduced discretionary spending every year. i think this seer is .$1 billion higher than the previous year. the other years, we reduced spending every y

the wrong acts. billideo apparently, the mayor has gone to the memorial site in brooklyn. where this occurred at 3:00 in the afternoon on saturday, the assassination of these two officers while sitting on patrol inside of their cars. this is part now, stop me folks in the control room, if there is audio we want to listen to? no audio but he made a made a visit there earlier today. this is part of the recovery process for this man and this politician in new york now. can he do it? >> i think, it is right that he is doing it. he will never win back the respect of the police. it is too late for officers liu and roehm moss. the -- ramos. the climate that took their lives tragically. showing respect, visiting families. what he has to do is unequivocally apologize to the police department in the city because he did not stand up for them. in fact he demonized them when they were doing such a tremendous job making this city safe. bill: i don't think you expect to hear that apology based on your answer, or do you?

to fund the government, one-day bill. when you're talking about here's an opportunity to get all of the funding basically taken care of through next september, that in washington is a big deal. >> what the democrats on the elizabeth warren and the nancy pelosi side want to do is draw a very bright line. this -- we're not going to go there. we're into the going to weaken rums on big banks. it's a core democratic value we fought for for a while. >> talk about the leaders. nancy pelosi, here's the thing, this wall street provision -- we'll talk more about it later -- but this is something there was a substantial amount of democratic support for doing, for undoing this provision before this week. >> right. >> elizabeth warren makes her speech and suddenly there's a movement and one of the people who lomoves is nancy pelosi. >> she never supported the provision but -- >> she -- there was a change in her posture, clear change. how do you think she played this? i'm hearing from some people she publicly didn't want her party to be

>> the reason we are here with an omnibus bill, the house passed seven of the 12 bills. through the house. 84 hours of debate and amendment, seven bills that went completely through the house, 300-something amendments were considered and dealt with. we sent those individual bills, then, to the senate. and they're supposed to take them up like we did, individual. but they didn't. not only all yearlong they didn't take up a single one of the appropriations bills that we sent over there. consequently, we have no choice then at the end of the year to come together and try to put together a funding for the entire government because the senate simply didn't act. so that's why we're here. i have preached and still am preaching to do individual bills, house, senate, conference them separately, do it the right way. and that's the aim that i have that i've been trying to do this for four years now. i think, perhaps, things are going to change now with a change in the senate where we can take up the separate bills as it ought to be done. thank you. >> i appreciate what the chairman

that's in the defense bill. king apache leap and all that land away from the indians so it can become a giant copper mine instead. just what we need. there's, actually, sort of a lot of public outcry over that as people start to learn that secret. there's a petition at the white house website with 60,000 signatures on it urging this stripping out of the defense bill before it moves forward. so that's one little example of congress trying to hide controversial stuff deep in unrelated legislation. this happens every year and both parties do it. but this year, with everybody's attention even more consumed by the torture report ha was released yesterday, i mean, just as all the other must pass legislation has to pass, all this is off the hook, not just in the defense bill. there's the big budget bill that congress has to pass by tomorrow night in order to avoid yet another government shutdown. this is the reception area at the office of senate majority leader harry reid in washington today. these folks were not invit

itself and worked on negotiating the bill. they are members of the democrat coalition, which is a more moderate group with steny hoyer. you had a lot of the more progressive numbers that voted against it. not only because of the dodd-frank weakening, but the political party money spending that went in. so there is a lot of issues going on here as to what the future will look like i think for the next two years in congress. >> what is very interesting, president obama i don't believe he was so active on the telephone. he sort of sat back and let leader nancy pelosi take over, obviously a different position, but they moved the senate over the the republican side. we now see a president who seems a little more engaged but the engagement we see is almost a declaration of war when he is fighting with the leader of the democratic party in the house. >> well, i don't know if it is a declaration of war. interesting to see him finally getting engaged with the house and maybe recognizing this is what would have been helpful for a lot of

the house passed the bill. it now goes to the senate. so what the senate has to do is defeat the bill, rewrite the bill and send it back to the house. i think what is working for us is if more that people learn in terms of what's in the bill, they are absolutely disz gusted. we're getting calls from vermont. many, many of them. and people are sick and tired of seeing the people on wall street whose greed and illegal behavior drove this country into this horrendous resegsz impacts eing millions of people. and now they're back in power and they are writing the legislation. literally citi group is writing the legislation that house republicans are putting into the bill. people do not want to see that. >> be rrksz nie sanders of vermont. thank you for helping us understand. i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> we've got lots more to come tonight. stay with us. percent or more on car insurance. everybody knows that. well, did you know genies can be really literal? no. what is your wish? no...ok...a million bucks! oh no... geico. fifteen minutes

we have to have the bill. this is the last bill that we can pass. i'd like at this time to recognize senator ayotte, the very courageous senator who's been a major part of the provisions of this bill, go so far to say one of the most active, maybe "the" most active member of the senate armed services committee. ms. ayotte: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from new hampshire. ms. ayotte: i thank you, mr. president. and i want to thank the senior senator from oklahoma, senator inhofe, for his leadership along with senator levin of working hand in hand to get the defense authorization done this year. and this is so important. i know all of us would like to have had a process where we could have an open amendment process here, but i know that the -- the chairman, senator levin, and senator inhofe as well, they worked very hard and we had this ready to go a long time ago. and i thank you for your work on this. i thank you for your commitment. and i thank you for the way that you and senator levin have run this committee in a respectful, b

>> i'll reintroduce the bill after the first of the year. 's a bipartisan bill, every republican is onboard with it, that's 54-- we've had on the order of nine democratsin t that are still in senate. we had more ratsdemocrats, actu, but as you say, mary landrieu e and some, of 6course, are gone now. so we're over the 60. . . . issue, the issue as you say will be a presidential veto.we my expectation is i'll bring the bill back, we'll move it across the floor of the house will pass it, no problem. and we'll see what the president does. if he vetoes it, then we may ayv have to combine it with some other legislationegis either a broader energy measure, anothero energy measure, and i've already made overture to the white house them t about it what they're interested in doing or not interested in doing. but we could tie it to other ucn energy legislation or an bring appropriations measure in order to make sure we have the 67 and bring it back, you know, again. >> what are you willing to give? pás in >> look, i'm making the argument on the merits.

the bill is simple. it's very specific that it does keep in place all protections of the endangered species act, the biological opinions and others that have been put in place to protect the environment but this gives a little bit more flexibility to those agencies to allow some pumping to help these poor communities. we've got people in food lines today. we've got people who are trying to feed their families. trying to earn an honest day's wage and this is hurting those people. the people my friends across the aisle always claim to want to help the most. this is a simple, very small piece of legislation. the majority was introduced by a democrat in the senate. with just a few provisions that were changed. this isn't a surprise. legislation that we passed out of the house, a lot more complicated, a lot more comprehensive and covers shoot, and it creates a long-term solution. but this is a short-term solution that helps provide some security. and the bill helps all of californians, especially those south o