many of the f.a.a.'s engineers, scientists, research analysts, computer specialists, program managers and analysts, communities planners are furloughed because of this "take government hostage approach" by the republican party. i've been here a while. i am a person with many opinions, and i have no problem with battling out with my esteemed colleagues who's right, who's wrong, who's hurt, who's not hurt. but i know there is no question that people are getting hurt, jobs are being lost. $130 million in investments in california airport construction will be delayed. the associated general contractors of america, they are already hurting. businesses hurting. 70,000 construction workers and workers in related fields have already been affected by the shutdown. the f.a.a. has issued stop-work orders at 241 airports across the country. i have -- i have in oakland, california, 60 construction workers building an air traffic control tower, they're told to stay home. they won't get paid till an agreement is reache

let's pass a clean extension of the f.a.a. let's get these people back to work, and let's go about the business of rebuilding a modern air traffic control system like we should have in the united states. thank you very much, mr. president. i yield the floor and note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. nelson: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from florida. mr. nelson: madam president, i ask consent that the quorum call be lifted. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. nelson: madam president, i ask consent to speak as if in morning business. madam president, i rise today to recognize the important contributions of a special floridian for his unrelenting determination to protect one of our nation's most unique natural resources. that's the florida everglades. he is a prestigious attorney. he's a commanding litigator. this individual, tom rumberger, has dedicated much of his personal and professional life to advancing the restoration and

we should not shut down the f.a.a. because of a rider put on the extension of the f.a.a. legislation that has not been negotiated. in fact, mr. president, the house has not even appointed conferees. the chairman of the house committee has not called a meeting of the chairman of the senate, plus the two ranking members. there has been no full negotiation with the principles, and yet the house put this extraneous amendment on the bill and the f.a.a. is shut down. and 70,000 people's lives are at risk. we got a letter from boeing because they are trying to get their new boeing 747-a certification. but the workers are not there to do it. so in addition to the work stoppages and the f.a.a. has now issue add total of 219 stop-work orders across the country, in addition to those, we also are seeing that the certification of a great new airplane is also on hold, so that we may start disrupting the capability for the airlines that have purchased these planes to be able to start flying the airplanes and upgrading their services. , oh, mr. president, this just does not -- oh, mr. pre

within the f.a.a. the n.m.d. provision which everybody keeps talking about first was not an extension so we can understand exactly why it was not in the extension it's in the f.a.a. reauthorization bill which is you're exactly right it's going to make it very hard to get that bill out with that provision it has no business being in the f.a.a. reauthorization bill zero thought that at the end the day the extension should have been clean should have been passed but we applaud a lot i mean secretary la hood did an outstanding job of keeping the focus on the men and women who need to get back to work maybe i misunderstand in this that i my understanding was there was one piece of legislation that came out of the house that contained the the anti-union language we've been discussing and reauthorize the f.a.a. and continued the spending that's that went to the senate no we're not going to do that and my understanding is that today harry reid said ok we will do that just until next month so i have it raw. from what i un

the current lapse at f.a.a. taxes and expenditure authority from the airport and airway trust fund is a detrimental situation brought about -- brought on by the senate majority's refusal to engage in substantive negotiations on a long-term f.a.a. reauthorization bill, which, by the way, did pass the house. additionally, it isn't clear to me that the legislation just offered would avoid a retroactive tax increase on travelers. i didn't set out to cause f.a.a. taxes to expire but reinstating them to a retroactive basis is more than i'm willing to subject taxpayers to. and as i've already said, i share house transportation and infrastructure committee chairman mica's frustration and the frustration of republican leadership in both the house and the senate that favors to organized labor have overshadowed the prospects for long-term f.a.a. reauthorization. last year, the national mediation board changed the rules under which employees of airlines and railroads are able to unionize. for decades, the standard has been t

thirty million dollars a day instead of going into the into the f.a.a. is going right into the pockets of the airlines they didn't drop their prices they are there they're taking the money and run it. seventy thousand and ninety five thousand construction workers as the congressman pointed out just a moment ago. we're losing two hundred million dollars which is what we have to say about this the white house. members of congress could easily have put seventy four thousand construction workers and if we employees back to work but instead they went on vacation i'm asking congress to come back and do for the american people what the been talking about put seventy five thousand people back to work in good paying jobs that's what congress should do. take a little detour from their own vacation come back to washington and paris a clean bill so isn't this another hostage taking scenario yet the democrats in the senate should pass the already passed a bill by the house what is the one that says that if you don't vote in a union election that's considered a no why

the whole story fairly it's a no go for commercial use of drones at this point but when you asked the f.a.a. about news corp drone in particular what do they tell you. they were surprised by the use of the drone news corp when i first they kind of. asked whether a hobbyist have flown the drone and given the footage to the daily and i said no this is a drone that the daily owens and after i told them about they said that they're actually going to be launching an investigation to see whether their use was legal or not how do we have any idea how the daily actually got their hands on this drone i mean is it that easy to go out and buy one at this point you can buy drones it's not a legal to buy a drone the only question of legality is in how you use it so you can't get the kind of drone that the daily has on amazon so you can get a smaller three hundred dollar one that you can you can fly for i phone or you can buy drones right now the only and these are supposed to be using drones are governments law enforcement you know public actors at this point it's really hard for a private entity to use

the agencies are really interested in drones and are waiting for the f.a.a. to loosen up the airspace so that they can be used this way and the f.a.a. is planning on allowing greater use of drones they're just trying to figure out how how to do this in a way that it's not being used and you know privacy invasive ways or to follow celebrities around i'm just curious are they really worried about how it might be used in privacy invasive ways because at the same time aren't they ready to change some of their regulations so that law enforcement agencies all across the u.s. can also now get their hands on drones i feel like that would bring up quite a few constitutional issues well there are to be a few state law enforcement agencies are using drones texas has already used drones in a few raids florida colorado and a few other states have actually sort of certificates of authorization to use drones but in order to actually use them for a particular purpose they have to get these emergency certificates of authorization and those are a little bit difficult but at thi

the house passed the bill to extend the funding for the f.a.a. look, like everything else we need to effect reform and reduce the spending. we are spending too much money, money we don't have so that was in the house bill and the senate refused to go along. >>neil: you were against measures that would make it easier for f.a.a. workers to unionize and that was a bone of contention and a reason why the senate said we can't take up this measure that objects to that. >>guest: that disagreement is under the underlying bill and this was the extension, that is not part of this discussion. the issue about organization for labor has to do with being fair to both sides. if you are going to be fair to both sides you ought to give both the employees and the employer equal opportunity to make the case but that is separate from this. this issue has to do with subsidies that the federal government is paying for what is called essential air service to smaller communities around the country. you have instances where the federal government actually is actually sub

the f.a.a. and c.f. are putting on this dramatic kabuki theater debt limit ceiling debate charade for us the house adjourned for their summer recess and the senate left yesterday not to return until september meanwhile we're left with the mess they left behind in the evil mechanisms of government still grinding away at the soul of america in the case of the f.a.a. four thousand employees have been furloughed and two hundred construction projects have been stopped don't worry too much air traffic controllers are still in place but this is a consequence of giving the government a monopoly on essential service sometimes the rug was pulled out from underneath the bennett people for the worst of reasons and in this case it's because a house bill passed by representative john mica a republican chairman of the committee that oversees the f.a.a. contains sixteen point five million dollars in cuts in air service subsidies to thirteen rural communities and is being held up by senator rockefeller democrat chairman o

the unions on the road literally at the end of july republicans turned a routine funding bill for the f.a.a. into a trojan horse for their war on unions inserting restrictive language into the bill that makes it harder for federal air and real workers to unionize republicans do the senate wouldn't pass a bill that was last blatantly anti-union and president obama even threaten to veto it. but the republicans in the house didn't care it passed that anyway welcome to john boehner eric cantor's world and now they're flying home on their campaign donors private jets before a compromise funding bill with out anti-union language can be negotiated with the senate so now four thousand f.a.a. workers are furloughed without pay over two and a half billion dollars worth of airport construction projects are on a whole leaving somewhere between sixty and one hundred thousand mostly unionised construction workers out of a job so much for asking where the jobs are. not only that the federal government is losing out on two hundred million dollars a week in uncollected taxes on airline tickets as a result o

the f.a.a. has furloughed nearly 4,000 federal employees and shut down construction grants for work on control towers and other airport facilities. the agency has also lost more than $250 million in uncollected ticket taxes. meanwhile, congress remains deadlocked. house republicans, already passed a bill that cut $16.5 million in subsidies for small airports. under the so-called essential air service program. members of the house went home last night with the senate set to follow. and today, senate majority leader harry reid signaled the democrats might have to give way. >> the essential air service is a program that i believe in. sometimes you have to be reasonable. i think as we learned with this big deal we've just done, sometimes you have to step back and find out what's best for the country. >> woodruff: democrats had controlled the republicans' real goal is overturning a new rule by the government's national mediation board. it lets airline workers unionize by a majority of those voting. fo

a political dispute has cut funding for the f.a.a., and nancy cordes reports that hundreds of construction projects have been grounded. >> come back, congress. >> reporter: transportation second ray lahood resorted to begging today as the partial shutdown of the f.a.a. moved into its 12th day. >> i'm calling them back. come back to washington. leave your vacations. just for a couple of hours. >> reporter: the stalemate over funding the f.a.a. has idled more than 200 airport construction projects putting at least 70,000 contract workers out of a job. >> this is a lose-lose-lose situation that can be easily solved if congress gets back into town and does its job. >> reporter: an additional 4,000 f.a.a. employees have also been furloughed, including boston engineer mike macdonald. >> there's a mortgage payment due. there are student loans that are due. there's a car payment that is due. there are grocery to be bought. >> reporter: the main sticking point is it workers' rights. house republicans want to make it harder for airline employees to unionize, democrats don't. republicans are also try

furious democrats protested leaving the f.a.a. ization in limbo with 4,000 furloughed and construction projects halted at airports across the country. one democratic congressman blames the tea party. >> it is ideological warfare that's going on here. my way and the highway and the debt limit extension so it's now it's my way and the runway. >> transportation secretary ray lahood says one of the consequences is of holding up of the f.a.a. reauthorization $1.2 billion in federal taxes on airline tickets are no longer being collected. a big loss compared to the small savings of killing the eas airport subsidy, shep? >> shepard: what's the thinking on the part of those holding this up? is it about how many people use these smaller airports? >> there are not a lot of people who use those small airports. according to the committee the eas subsidy $1,000 per ticket at some of these airports. even higher at others. >> this is the 21st extension again i think american people are tired of wasteful. they are subsidizing passenger tickets up t

the bottom line is 4,000 f.a.a. ers did not have jobs and 70,000 contract workers were out of jobs and we were not collecting the taxes from the airline which could have cost the country $1.3 billion. those workers now and construction workers on the side of them are going back to work and a deal has been reached so the problem is now solved. we could lend the verdict in the warren jeffs case at any moment. he is the self-proclaimed prophet accused of taking young girls as "spiritual" wives and raping them. he said he speaks to god and says he is a prophet. >> if people do not buy back not last minute maybe there is reason to worry but we have 20 minutes left in the trading session and we will keep you updated on "studio b" on a breaking news day. i'm here in the downtown area where the crowd is growing. [ female announcer ] watching calories at breakfast never tasted this sweet... i'll go get my bowl. [ female announcer ] ...or this huge. new fiber one 80 calories. yes, you can actually love breakfast. it's like har

but the f.a.a. s been running on skeleton crew for two weeks and 4,000 employees out of a job and out of a paycheck and secretary lahood says airport construction projects across the country worth $11 billion sitting by so that is 70,000 construction workers and the f.a.a. is losing more than $30 million a day in aviation taxes. there is a union twist to all of this and it is all political. mike emanuel, there is so much polarization in washington now that all they seem to be able to do, really, like with any degree effectiveness is name post offices. report very well, president obama today expressed concern for the f.a.a. employees and thousands of construction workers being suspended. they are losing pay and the construction projects are not being built so the president appealed to congress to get this done by the end of the week. >> don't put the life of thousands of people at risk, don't put projects at risk. and don't let $1 billion at a time when we're scrambling for every dollar we can to get

you may think the battle at the f.a.a. is about those taxes. after all, they have expired and have to be renewed. but in fact, the fight in congress is over organized labor. tonight, darren gersh explains why that is. >> reporter: for 75 years, unions trying to organize airline workers have had to win support from a majority of all the employees who would be joining that union. workers who don't turn out to vote were effectively counted as no votes. but regulators appointed by president obama recently changed those rules. now airline workers trying to organize non-union companies like delta airlines will be able to form a union if they win a majority of the votes cast in a union certification election. william gould ran the national labor relations board under president bill clinton and says the change means airline workers will be treated like every other worker trying to form a union. >> all require a majority of those actually voting. >> reporter: that's one side of the argument. on the other side, house republicans see the voting rules as an

funding bill for the keep one hundred thousand f.a.a. construction workers from getting a paycheck. now today it looks like harry reid has negotiated with the hostage takers for a short term fix but these republican hostage takers have basically just dragged the hostage in from the front of the house into the back room for a month or so and this is just the beginning on the horizon are a number of other potential hostages scenarios for example circle september thirtieth on your calendar as a few weeks after congress returns from its occasion the federal gas tax expires is eighteen cent tax is critical to funding forty two billion dollars worth of highway construction projects all around the country that hundreds of thousands of construction workers depend upon to support their families he's already in government employees these are people who work for companies that do their work for government but the republican tax master grover norquist as already mounted his opposition to the extension of the gas tax telling politico this week americans for tax reform has always supported the ide

well, that's where we are with the f.a.a. problem. he goes on to say as i've said it's not complicated, yet many people in news media apparently can't bring themselves to acknowledge this simple reality. news reports portray the parties as equally intransigent. pundits fantasize about some kind of centrist uprising as if the problem is too much partisan on both sides. some of us long complained about the cult of balance, insisting on portraying both parties as equally wrong. never mind the facts. i joked if one party declared the earth was flat the headline would read views differ on shape of planet. would that cult still rule in a situation as stark ags the one we face where one party is engaged in blackmail? he went on to say other things and here's some of the other things. the answer turns out is yes, and this is no laughing matter. the cult of balance has played an important role in bringing us to the edge of disaster for when reporting on political disputes always implies that both sides are to blame there is no penalty for extre

so congress went on break without authorizing the f.a.a. re halting projects and hundreds of workers are out of a job. funding ran out and it has resulted in stop work orders at hundreds of projects including the new air traffic control tower. >> more and more some of our elected officials are falling out of touch with reality. put people before politics and get america back to work now. >> they lost $200 million in taxes on ticket sales since the f.a.a.'s operating authority expired. >>> a homeless man who climbed over the white house fence tonight is in police custody. the 41-year-old intruder was cornered by dogs and arrested by heavily-armed secret service agents. his backpack was checked to make sure he was not carrying explosives. president obama was believed to be in the white house at the time. the intruder was under a court order to stay away from the white house. >>> nasa is working on a new kind of transportation in mountain view. they are building gliding pods that could take you where you live and drop you off at work. the story

the u.s. ask that it concentrate on restarting f.a.a. start collection systems and processes going forward rather than collecting ticket taxes retroactively. trace? >>trace: thank you, mike, from the nation's capitol. thank you. a weather alert, heavy rain in north carolina causing officials to issue flash flood warning. this is brand new video from charlotte with reports of one water rescue after the rain washed out streets. witnesses say they watched cars float away and we are hearing of damage to buildings in that area. and now, over to rick. she us what is going on there. rick: i have heard reports of evacuations. it looks like typical summer storms but they it is. this is the last six hours. for the better part of four hours they sat over the charlotte area and dumped 2" an hour of rain causing flooding. and other pictures showing exactly what we are dealing with, you can seat water running quickly, and this is a flash flooding situation so the water rises quickly and people had the water rise on their cars, and memorial had to be re

but this extension only funds the f.a.a. through september 16th. so they stopped this by hitting pause. so will we see this again in september? >> well, that's quite possible. republicans don't want to keep doing these extensions. the deal passed today is the 21st extension and republicans are saying they don't want a 22nd. there are labor provisions in the larger bill which democrats do not like. today's speaker john boehner said, quote, moving forward, it's time for senate democrats to get serious about resolving the remaining f.a.a. issues, complete work on a long-term bill that can be signed into law and help this troubled economy, so expect more yelling about this very topic when congress returns. harris? >> harris: washington the original reality tv program. thank you. >> thank you. >> harris: the u.s. postal service could default after losing more than $3 billion last quarter. he blames recession and decline and use of first class mail because of the internet. he says the agency may not be able to pay the more than $5 billion it owes to empl

>>guest: he says one of the unintended consequences of holding up the f.a.a. rmation is $1.2 billion in federal taxes on purchase of airline tickets are not being collected. >>shepard: how many people use the airports? >>reporter: not many. according to the house committee on transportation and infrastructure the eas subsidy amounts to $1,000 a ticket at some airports:. >> we can no longer afford to spend hows on individual seats on subsidies for people that live 110 miles from an airport or 140 miles from an airport. >>reporter: that helps to explain why this is such a contentious issue. many of the rural airports are used by members of congress and they flies back home to their home states, some of then in rural states. i should add quickly, men reid speaking at the ohio clock said they could still reach an agreement on this and expects it probably to get done by the end of this day so maybe this is hope. >>shepard: that would be good. thank you, doug. security screeners at boston's international airport may have some questions for you. the trapping security

will you guys accept the house version and reopen the f.a.a.? >> yes. i have said that we have 80,000 jobs at least on the line. in nevada, as an example, we have a new airport tower there, where they started the construction about two weeks ago, all those people have been laid off. that's a huge project. i don't know -- did you it's nearly a $1 million -- nearly a $100 million project. they have problem with the control power in palm springs and as i understood, they've shut down the construction on that and they only have one there. so that's difficult. the essential air service is a program that i believe in, but i also believe that $3,500 per passenger is a little extreme. do i my best to protect the state but sometimes you have to be reasonable and i think we learned with this big deal we've just done, sometimes you have to step back and find out what's best for the country and not be bound by some of your own personal issues. and i'm willing to give that up. i hope the other senators will do the same. >> [inaudible]. >> we're going to have, we're w

the lack of the extension means that the f.a.a. does not have the authority to collect the fees and taxes of the aviation system needs to fund ongoing construction and improvement projects at our airport. this is approximately $200 million a week. mr. president, these fees and taxes have nothing to do with the current debt issues we have been debating over the past few weeks. these fees and taxes go into a trust fund that is self-funded and separate from the budget that has been in the news. the trust fund pays for construction projects like a new terminal at the duluth airport in minnesota. this new terminal is critical to the duluth area. the terminal will allow more flights in and out of the airport, which is vital as more and more businesses are moving to duluth. unfortunately, the airport at this time is waiting for a $5.2 million grant that it has already been awarded from the f.a.a. for each day that the airport waits to receive its grant money, the risk gets higher that the airport will be forced to delay the terminal projec

an editor's note before we go, our guest on the f.a.a. ry last night misidentified a congressman. he's ohio republican steven latourette in his 9th term and a member of the appropriations committee. we regret the error. and to hari sreenivasan for what's on the "newshour" online. hari? >> sreenivasan: paul solman examines today's job numbers through the lens of his solman scale on unemployment. find that on making sense. and two takes on the political fallout from the debt limit deal-- one from judy woodruff and one from gwen ifill. those are on the rundown blog. plus on art beat, jeff talks about the pulitzer prize-winning play, "clybourne park," with the artistic director of washington, d.c.'s wooly mammoth theater all that and more is on our web site: newshour.pbs.org. jeff? >> brown: and that's the "newshour" for tonight. on monday, we'll have the latest economic news and an update on the news-corp hacking scandal in britain. i'm jeffrey brown. >> lehrer: and i'm jim lehrer. "washington week" can be seen later this evening on most pbs

and the president is calling for congress to end the partial shutdown of the f.a.a. f the week. that is even though lawmakers are already on summer vacation. the president calling the shutdown a lose, lose situation. thousands of workers off the job. construction projects stopped and taxpayers losing millions and millions of dollars a day because there is nobody on line to to collect the airline taxes. >> i'm urging the house and the senate to take care of this. this is an example of a self-inflicted wound that is unnecessary and my expectation, and i think the american people's expectation is that this gets resolved before the end of this week. >> the feds say air traffic controllers and plane inspectors are still working and that it is safe to fly. the president warns this standoff could end up costing all of us a billion dollars. mike emanuel on the top story at the bottom of the hour tonight. president obama said today we may never get that tax mope back, mike. >> that's right. he says it's cost 360 million so far. if the congress does not act before recess is ove

the run way. that is what is taking place with this f.a.a. bill. the federal aviation administration has been bottled up now, this is the 10th day. we have lost about $300 million in revenue. and i'm pleased that the senate seems to be willing to put a tourniquet on some of this. but the legislation that seems to be agreed to, which is the house version, leaves out a big chunk that is small, rural airports. and the jobs, the contracting jobs, that are being held in abayance, that has already been the site of the problem. there is little that's anymore important to job creation in rural communities than these small airports. and for my republican friends, to continue to wreak havoc, havoc among the lives of those men and women, those working men and women, who are dependent upon these contracts in order to put food on the table and in order to -- for the ceiling -- to put a ceiling over their heads and prepare for a future for their children, this is unconscionable and i would hope that we would hurry and get to the point of really setting aside poli

the walk. their speeches ring very hollow. to 4,000 f.a.a. employees who are furloughed, their speeches about jobs ring very hollow to 70,000 construction workers who are not working right in the middle of the construction season on construction projects all over america. i was at one of those construction sites a few days ago at laguardia airport. and i met with these unemployed construction workers. they're ready to go to work. they're ready to complete the work, taking down the tower at laguardia. and there are construction workers all over america that are ready to go to work. this is their season. this is the time when they make their money. for their families. so they can pay their house payments, they can buy food, they can make their car payments and for members of congress to give speeches about jobs and then go on their vacations while construction workers have vacated their jobs rings very hollow. members of congress could easily have put 74,000 construction workers and f.a.a. employees back to work. but instead they went on vacatio

congress has not authorized the f.a.a. authority. that resulted in a partial shutdown at the agency and stopped funding for dozens of airport employees across the country. those set to work on the control tower are in a holding pattern. >> we are asking congress to do what it needs to do. just like in oakland, the all cut budget doesn't work. it needs to move ahead, the initiatives that help airports and are good investments in america. good investment in the future. the 4,000 faa employees have been furloughed including 90 in the bay area. >> right now, members of a presidential task force are meeting in palo alto to get new ideas on how to create jobs. the president's council on jobs and competitiveness will be asking for ideas from the silicon valley businesses. they want to know how the public and private sectors can team up to create jobs. the heads of aol, netflix and the chieve operating officer of facebook are expected to be on hand. now we want to know how the economic downturn has forced you, affected you to change the way y

it's in the senate f.a.a. bill and 87 senators voted for it so for people to stand up and wave their arms and talk about the fact that this is a poison pill is not accurate. senator rockefeller, when the proposal was made that we pass the house bill, which is pending, and has been pending since july 20, and the senate has always had the power to not only have averted the shutdown at all but could have opened it any day it chose to, has declined to do that. now, i'm not going to ascribe motive or anything else to the senator. i don't think $73 a passenger is a lot of money in the scheme of things. but he also has had the ability to drop his objection to the house version and pass the house version and these people would all be back to work. the construction would go on. and america's infrastructure could be improved. now, the last thing that i want to mention. i've mentioned congressman frank lobiando a number of times and he is my partner in all of these endeavors. he isn't here today because he's in new jersey

both the f.a.a. and the ntsb will investigate. >>> there are plans for another bart protest, and bart is advising its riders to be prepared for problems during the evening commute. demonstrators hit downtown san francisco bart stations during the evening rush hour snarling the commute. they are upset they cutoff service to prevent a protest on august 11th. san francisco police say if there is a rally tomorrow, they will move in sooner and make arrests to try to minimize the impact on commuters. >>> a shooting in mendocino county and why riders on the tourist train were some of the witnesses. also coming up, evacuations is the -- as the fire burning near yosemite continues to grow. and a california school superintendent takes a $250,000 a year pay cut. all of the -- all to help fight the budget battle. >> i'm leigh glaser and we have the fog near the coast and clear sky and mild temperatures. we are going to get into a slight cool trend as we hit the middle of the workweek. a look at the seven-day fore

hoyer will talk to us about make it in america, and when he talked about the f.a.a. bill which we'll talk more about now. everybody has been intensely involved in this discussion on debt. the american people's top priority is the creation of jobs. we have crossed the grid from that important discussion, interesting that it was something that the republicans did not have the votes to pass, we remind members that they took the step to pull us from the brink of default even though they did not, were not happy about the legislation but what was good about it was it's over and now it's time to talk about jobs and a person who has been a leader in beating a drum for make it in america, our distinguished whip, mr. hoyer. >> thank you, madam leader. let me suggest at the outset that talking about jobs is talking about the debt. the only way we're going to successfully deal with debt is to create jobs and economic growth in america. we know that. but eight months on the job, no jobs bill for the american people. that is the negligent record of the republican majority. democrat

. >> brown: still to come on the newshour: an end to the f.a.a. shutdown; the growing famine in somalia; a trail of cyber attacks leading to china; an american couple and their indian surrogate; and a new plan to help young minority men. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> reporter: defense secretary leon panetta warned today the nation's security will be at risk if more spending cuts are made to the budget. the debt ceiling deal passed by congress earlier this week requires $350 billion in military spending cuts over the next ten years, and it leaves room for another $500 billion in cuts if a special bipartisan congressional committee can't come up with another solution in time. in his first news conference as defense secretary, panetta said that was a "doomsday mechanism." >> if it happened and god willing that would not be the case, but if it did happen, it would result in a further round of very dangerous cuts across-the-board. defense cuts, that i believe, would do real damage to our security, our troops and their