to the senate: under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable brian schatz a senator from the state of hawaii, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i have a few matters -- the presiding officer: we are in a quorum call. mr. reid: i'm going to consent to terminate it. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: mr. president, following leader remarks, the senate will be in morning business until 11:00 this morning. the time until that will be equally divided and controlled between the majority leader and the republican leader. at 11:00 the senate will proceed to executive session to consider the chen nomination to be united states circuit judge for the federal circuit. also at 11:00 there will be a filing deadline for

then the senate bill gives that pathway to citizenship. a special pathway for people that are not lawfully here, people who have gone through the process legally for generations. so we have lots of problems with the senate bill and we are doing a very differently in the house. the speaker has made it clear that he will no take up the senate bill in the house tonight. steven apparently this comes up because one of your aides said that he you would be willing to the conference with the senate with the presumption that they would be representing the gang of eight legislation and not conference. and senator schumer said he is delighted to be in conference with t house. we're currently he thinks he can take advantage of a less talented and gifted legislation himself. >> i am not going to comment on the senator's impression of the house. but the speaker has made it clear that i think the overwhelming majority agree that we are not going to g into conference with the senate unless a bill can support this by all. i don't see anything like the house

thirty years in the united states senate. he is also the co-author in areas of education and financial services and foreign policy and election reform. he played a decisive role in writing the health care reform bill and he was co-author of the dodd-frank wall street act, which is what we are talking about today. he is a senior fellow in government studies at the brookings brookings institute and he is director of government studies between 1987 and 1999, before that he was executive director of the american political science association. he is the perfect commentator today because his most recent book is called it is even worse than it looks, how the american constitutional system collided with extremists. and i cannot wait for him to bring that to bear on us. he and or more recently named among the 100 top global thinkers of 2012. he earned his ba from the university of florida and his phd at the university of michigan. i am utterly biased as a moderator. tom mann is something like a special level of politics. fortunately ha

the support of senator grassley and harkin. it was one that had the support of representative grayley. we were able to get support across the aisle for a bill. you know what the bill does? it strengthens our safety net for our farmers. it reduces the debt by $24 billion over the last farm bill. why would republicans in the house be against this? that's what it does. it makes sure we have the conservation programs in place. i'm glad to be on the senate side of the conference committee to get the farm bill done. but literally, i keep asking our staff every day, have the republicans in the house called to set up that conference committee, no, they haven't. called today? no, they haven't? you know why that bill isn't going anywhere? because it's in the cutting room floor in the house because tea partiers decided to shred it to pieces because they want to eliminate nutrition programs that for decades have kept millions of kids and seniors and working people from hunger. this is from the fargo forum, okay? this is not a bastion of lib

shaheen: it will pass the senate. it represents almost three years of meetings, negotiations, broad stakeholder outreach and the effort to craft the most effective piece of legislation with the greatest chance of passing not only this senate but the house as well. and also that it can be signed into law. this bill, as you've explained so well, is a bipartisan effort that's designed to woost boost the use of energy efficiency technologies. it will create private-sector jobs, save businesses and consumers money, reduce pollution and it will make our country more energy independent. this legislation will have a swift and measurable benefit to our economy and our environment. as senator portman said, a study by experts at the council for an energy efficient economy found last year's version would have saved consumers $4 billion and this may be a little hard to read on the chart but you can see it reduces energy costs and in doing so saves consumers $4 billion a year. it creates -- it would create about 80,000 jobs if it we

the committee reported the measure with six republican senators joining all the democratic senators. it's hard to find a matter that is more basic and there is more agreement and we need to have safe highways and safe bridges. we have 70,000 bridges that don't need -- meet the standards of the code, not 7000, 70,000. and as senator murray has said and i have heard senator collins they those bridges are not democratic bridges. they are not republican bridges. they are our bridges. so what is happening out on the floor as we speak is terribly terribly -- important. gop fiscal splits a route. rogers group's leadership. rogers horse is the chairman of the appropriations committee. the house has made a choice, sequestration and he said it's unrealistic and its ill-conceived. they must be brought to an end. that is what he said. finally we have someone speaking out within the republican caucus and the house about how dysfunctional they are. we have had a few breakthroughs here in the senate in the last few weeks for which i am very grateful. there are a number of senators who have broken aw

entered the senate, which is rare for senators. both serious and deliberate about the causes he believed in and was willing to push as hard as he could on certain causes. but he's also very careful because it was always in the back of his mind that he was running for president. he eventually did. and the people who go into the senate serious about running for president ultimately play within fairly careful boundaries, ryan. that's what i expect to see him do. >> i think he'll be very tactical about it. and i think that you'll see him behave differently than senators in the way that he uses social media. but he'll do it in a very tactful kind of way that doesn't offend his -- you know, the rest of his colleagues. he's a very smart actor, very smart, and i think that will continue. and i think you're more likely to see him probably anger folks on the left by working with republicans on issues like pharmaceutical issues or -- and sticking with the white house rather than annoying the white house and sticking with, say, the elizabeth w

at legalzoom.com we put the law on your side. lou: senatorohn mccain is making a lot of friends in the republican party. in this interview was a lot of rambling. there he slammed my colleagues at fox news. calling their coverage of the immigration legislation ebate so let's take a look at it the senate. you are part of president obama's new best friends forever. just today. >> don'tget me wrong, you have earned the applause. >> to joke it would be a tough choice is the candidates were senator rand paul and former secretary of state halaby clinton. would you like to switch parties now or wait a wild. back in march we might remind you that senator ted cruz was a wacko bird. it is almost as if you own the term. for pete sake, the most notable work in the sene is you could y y are mccain feingold. mccain lieberman. who knows? that we know will be a democrat. just send 2010. a behaviorresearch center poll earlier this year found tte approval rating in arizona tt you are not providing the president of the democratic party. the approval rating is 2%

lee's welcome the former senator. -- please welcome the former senator. [applause] our third panelist was director for howard dean's presidential campaign in 2004 and 2006. she managed a successful campaign out of montana. in 2008, she managed al franken's campaign and the recount. [laughter] 2010, named president of the group hosting this event. please welcome stephanie. [applause] our final guest is a former prosecutor and the first woman to give birth while being an active member of the missouri legislature. [laughter] in 2006 she became the first woman elected to the u.s. senate. in 2012, she won reelection in one of the most-watched races in the country. this past june, she said it is important to start early. please welcome the senior senator from the state of missouri claire mccaskill. [applause] senator mccaskill, let's begin with you. why is it important to start early? >> well, i think we have to realize that in a day of citizens united where there is huge money that can be written behind closed doors and flood airwaves with distorted information

, of course, democrats run the senate, that they are considering bringing back the senate before the scheduled return date, which is september 9. nothing has been decided yet. the house side, which of course is run by republicans, i was just in touch with a member of the republican leadership who said that the plan is still to wait until september 9. now, this is all very, very fast-moving, so all of that can change. but it's entirely possible that both could come back. if the senate comes back, it would be hard to see the house just kind of staying home next week and not returning to follow suit. that's in terms of the schedule. the thing that i would add in terms of the critical question, which is, would this pass, that is why we n-- we now have a bet sense of why the administration has become hyper-aggressive in getting information to members of congress. right about now, there should be a conference call starting with senate republicans. a little bit later there will be a conference call with senate democrats, and then tomorrow, on a sunday, labor day weekend, they are going to h

there are a handful of republicans from the senate that the president continues to meet with senators who he's had to dinner -- dinner and that's a smaller group and he likes them and they seem to like him but based on the last few meetings, there's no evidence that they're really making any progress and i think as we head into september you'd have to say the prospects are pretty dim. >> one thing is different. we used to have our crisis for the budget before they left for vacation? remember that? the last couple of years we'd have a crisis movement. -- moment everybody has delayed that until the fall. there are going to be two face-offs, one over funding the government and the other over lifting the debt limit and it's all been squooshed into the fall where these decisions have to be made. the secretary of defense chuck agel came out and said these sequestration cuts tonight. -- continue. basically chuck hagel said lives will be at risk because of the lack of funding. we're going to have to either shrink the force considerably or keep the force and have them have old technology. >> s

senator mccain, it is the worst vote i have cast in many years. senator mccain talking to a liberal magazine, openly regretting his vote, i think for good reason. because today we got a report on the american economy, and the good news is that the economy is growing, it's just not growing very fast. part of why this bar is so short is the budget cuts john mccain supported then and regrets now. without those cuts, the american economy would look more like this, with more jobs and more money to go around. senator john mccain's expression of remorse for that is real news. but it is not even the biggest news right now about john mccain. throughout the obama presidency, john mccain has dogged the white house, blocking the president's domestic agenda, at one point rejecting immigration reform, though he himself had been a champion of the idea. senator mccain reserved a special level of disdain for the president's foreign policy. >> we need to take gadhafi out. we could have ended this conflict a lot earlier if we used the full weight of the u.s. power, i

as the day went on, one senator after another came to the floor of the senate will stop a number had ner, and their staffs would say, get back here. you would see colleagues of mine coming to the floor of the senate saying, the tweedy thing is happening. i need to be here. for 13 hours, the american people spoke up, and spoke loudly. because of the involvement of the grassroots, the next day, president obama was forced to do what he had refused to do for three consecutive weeks, which was admit in writing that the constitution limits his authority to target u.s. citizens. [applause] that was a bit. of the grassroots. that could not have been done from washington. that could only have been done from the american people. the next fight we got involved in was the battle over guns. ,e all remember the horrific heart tragedy in newtown, connecticut. unfortunately, following that tragedy, president obama did not come out and say, let us go after violent criminals. let us do everything we can to stop violent crime. we ought to come down on them like a ton of bricks. [applause] but unfortunat

the debt limit increase. are you concerned about senator john mccain? i am always concerned about dealmaking for the sake of dealmaking. if one party says here is what i stand for and another says here is what i stand for and in the process you have to say how do we get something done? that is different from saying it is really cool to get some people in the room and let's try to negotiate something. sometimes you look at what senator mccain has done. he has had great accomplishments. he has had a heroic path for the country. other times there is an gangs for theut sake of gangs. ,> this is a little broad hypothetical. for those people who are watching, if someone out there and the audience happens to be a conservative who has substantial financial means to give money to some group in washington and they have not done so before, why would they get it to you incident the club for growth or americans for tax reform or some other organization? why is yours the one they should beginning their money too. >> there are a lot of good groups out there. they're a

in mike's case he didn't come from the house but you have a dynamic in the senate where a lot of the republican senators now are people who came from the house and one office there in first the gingrich revolution and the subsequent more conservative waves of the house and they are bringing the waves of the house to the senate. not that the senate couldn't use a little shaking up, but it's very hard now for the -- it's always been hard for the white house to work with the republican-controlled house but it's getting equally hard to work with the senate. >> i think one other thing that seems newer now is that not only is their -- there polization between republicans and democrats but there are fissures in the republicans that we are seeing. if : there's 2014, 2016 and you think that there are actual politicians as opposed to political reporters are beginning to lay the groundwork? watch what happened between new jersey governor chris christie congressman ted cruz. here is what ensued. >> the people who want to criticize me and call names, they're the same people who are unwilling to cu

the senate, you know, the same bill in the senate, which would be funded at a much higher level in thee $10 billion difference between the two. transportation and housing and urban development bill and it was a surprise, though. it actually made its way out of the committee on the senate on a bipartisan basis. republicans who voted for it in the committee and the expectation was that we are going to break the filibuster and get more than 60 votes and get closure on this and bring it to the floor and have a dozen republicans voting for it and a signal the house can't get its act together and bipartisan majority in the senate and this is how gridlock was going to be broken and then they took the vote on closure. they did not get 60. susan collins helped draft the bill and she voted for it and she said it was leadership. mitch mcconnell and senate leadership that made a very aggressive push, what was going on there? >> i think mitch mcconnell in many ways not eyeing what he should do in the senate but what is going on in kentucky. in terms of getting deals done. he had, i think, earlier,

it wouldn't pass the senate. and you would try to come up with some sort of compromise in conference that might delay implementation of the individual mandate. plenty of bills gone to conference that have not worked out in the end. there is no compromise so the law is enacted as it is. do you think that's going to happen in this case? >> you know, i don't know. i think there is always a great desire not to shut the government down. and you use that desire to try to get a compromise. and i think ultimately you could in conference committee either make the lawless bad or delay the individual mandate or delay the whole thing. even the president is very concerned about this law because is he delaying the individual-00 employer mandate because he is concerned maybe about what it will happen in the elections when it is seen that insurance premiums go up and actually, there are more problems than there are benefits. >> you have said, that you would not vote for a continuing resolution in the senate if it includes funding

mccain wants to talk about that, he's earned that right in the u.s. senate to bring bills like that up. >> host: gautham nagesh. >> you alluded to how quickly the video and communications landscape generally is changing, perhaps the technology industry as a whole. is that part of the explanation for why we've seen some reluctance from congress to take on some of these larger technology-focused pieces of legislation, things like a rewrite of the 1996 telecommunications act? we hear people say these laws are very outdated, but at the same time there's a very real risk of legislating and then seeing the market shift under your feet. >> guest: sure. no, that's exactly right. and if you think about something like a la carte, i mean, i don't know if there would be a need for a la carte in five years, i don't know, but it's possible that if congress gets in and tries to legislate too much and too specifically in these areas, then all of a sudden, you know, we stifle innovation, and we prevent the investment that we need to keep that cutting edge and the u.s. econom

in the senate. you have seen the most conservative on the republican side and the most liberal on the democratic side to be the most reluctant to use military force. it's just the way the makeup of the senate is. there are more people in the middle, for lack of a better way to say it, that are more likely to vote for it. if the senate does come back early, majority leader harry reid who determines the schedule of the senate, is considering, then perhaps if they go first, the hope inside the white house, inside the camps to enforce this, would be to get this momentum going in the house where the vote would be tougher to get. >> so you're saying definitely the house is not going to come back into session until september 9, but the senate majority leader could bring back the senate as early as next week? is that what i'm hearing? >> correct. the house, we now know formally from the house speaker, will come back september 9 as scheduled, so a week from monday. but a democratic source tells me in the sena

as this effort moves from the senate to the house that's the argument it needs to be made. we're dealing with a few moderate members the message is it grows the economy. in your networks across the country like the voice bunny you're the best messengers and democratic and republican members say we haven't heard enough you from the business community. we can help you impact public policy so if you get a chance to fill it out leave it under your chair and we'll collect it. >> thanks for the leadership of business forward. i hope all of us fill out those cards week, engaged or enraged. >> thank you carl and all. i'll uses the rules of order to keep this short and fast and also to say it's critically important here in san francisco is is we're being heard in washington and what we're seeing in the house is going to be a lot longer than we anticipated. it's to stay involved and engaged. we've got a campaign which is keep us here dot.org. we'll be keeping that going. but it's critically important at this junction we stay involved >> i've got a long line of folks who want to ident

but the senate has the ability to amend it. the senate democrats have the vote to amend it to send it back to say, okay, we now approve spending for obama care, we took back your exact provisions and we're sending it back to you. >> apparently sensing that he was getting nowhere with the procedural argument, karl rove summarized the politics this way. >> and who gets blamed? does anybody think that the republicans are going to escape being blamed for our troops not being paid, our prison guards not getting paid? our border patrol not being paid? let's not kid ourselves, we'll be blamed. >> joining me now, msnbc's krystal ball and ari melber. what do you think is on the other side of the play here, the republican leadership will get passed among this? >> it is going to have to be something like that. because the rand pauls of the world, the mike lees of the world, the ted cruzs of the world, they are too invested in their future of placating the tea party to totally back down on this. so they're going to have to do something. it

it's going to the senate next. they really think that they can get the votes to pass it to the president? dissent could attach a obamacare back and send it back to the house. the house will reject it. then we shut down the government. the end of the day i'd -- let me finish my point. i will give you a chance to respond. i don't think it is smart for anyone to shut down the government. adam think that is a good thing. at of thing not paying american troops are defaulting on obligations or costing thousands of people their jobs is a good outcome. and i don't think it will work. and no one has ever shown a point in american history when it did work. so i would say somebody like tom coburn who was there in 95 and is saying this tactic will work is someone i would listen to and the value. let me give you the mike in a chance to respond. >> i said continue funding everything in the government. except for obamacare. >> right. first of all -- >> you keep saying you don't want to defund the government. we're not saying in th

and the u.s. senate. filibuster is a filibuster in texas. it's a test of physical and mental endurance. the person conducting the filibuster, i am touching the podium right now. i could not have touched my desk. no water, no bathroom breaks, no food, and you must talk continuously, and talk on topic, at least relatively so. that had been the tradition in the texas senate and has been very respected. because it is such a test of physical and mental endurance. the filibuster that i conducted, senator ellis and others would agree, they have been their lot longer than i was, it was subjected to extraordinary scrutiny that had never occurred before. in fact, the day before i started the filibuster the senator who was quite well-known for filibustering built in the senate came in to give me advice. he said it is not that bad, you can lean on your desk, you can have a few hard candies in your pocket. people on occasion have been known to get ice chips on the senate floor, it will be fine. you can read anything you want. you are not going to get chal

one of the things is to get the senate to do it and that is part of the proposal.uld hope that we would get it done in 2014. i guess by 2015 but this is a very important thing. do you let people do big national programs work you build more locally and regionalize? there are lots of discussions. the company's ability to hold x amano spectrum so we have all those questions and i think most of that will be resolved by the fcc. certainly i think this is so important that the a candidate will have a hearing on it. >> host: dostum? >> guest: i wanted to touch on an issue that you've raced in the past and that is the issue of accessibility. we have talked about rural medicatiomedicatio ns and rural areas being left behind but there is also a risk of people who will be left behind. can you speak to the state of that legislation which i believe is still pending? >> guest: we passed legislation to her three years ago 21st century communications access act. i can't remember the exact name name but we passed it in president obama signed into law. basically what happened was st

would take for a woman's voice to be heard in the texas senate? former congressman martin frost. city councilman joe burns who represents a city council. my old city council district in fort worth. justice of the peace. at the head table we have amazing people with us today. you have been introduced a little bit to them. bobby patent is a local business leader. he truly defines what it means to be at texas success story. adrienne at the garcia and my very dear friend and said that colleague. [applause] these leaders, amazing leaders are a part of a growing movement to build a state that starred their voices are drowned out too often. who hope that shouting will distract from real solutions. they are doing serious damage the lives and opportunities of the texans the claim to represent. they brag about low unemployment, while at the tame -- same time dramatically underfunding texas education. they travel to states as far away as california and new york, trying to lure business to texas, while at the same time ignoring the needs of high your education

mccain and the u.s. senateould arrive at a decent deal. because they're looking at a prospect of more people coming into the country to take jobs while you have 20% unemployment in the construction industry. and what they did was they swallowed, and they reached what i think is common sense compromise with the u.s. chamber of commerce on how to deal with the future flow of workers. and i won't call them lower skilled because i did the work, i know how much skill is involved. it takes a whole lot of energy and talent to be able to stay out there for 8-10 hours a day in the sun doing the work with those tools out there. and they compromised, and they reached a deal for the good of the country. so i think what we're finding is if you deal with all four aspects of immigration reform, you will have a system that works, and you won't have to worry about doing this, as we say in spanish -- [speaking spanish] >> by the way, he went from an honest line of work into politics. [laughter] e-verify. e-verify so important. p

the senate. in the house -- >> let me say it very clearly for you. that legislation is a farce. it is the game that i said should be avoided. >> and now the house is going to take a look at it. i think goodlatte is looking moving forward on a whole series of issues. we can and should have a serious pro-growth immigration policy that's good for the country, good for the american people and historically, the reason why we're the future and china isn't d japan isn't and europe isn't -- >> hold it. we want china to have a future. we want russia to have a future. we want india to have a future. we want evybody to prosper. >> we have a brighter future than they do because we do immigration well. it's been our history for 200 years. we can do better than we have done recently. >> i think bob goodlatte will appreciate your support for an intelligent, rational national interest approach. thank you so much for -- >> lou, i think we're agreeing here. >> excellent. i love it. and please, no more of that gang

the retirees. stop now. and senatornding up for the good women of kentucky when you vote against the fairness act. stop now. and you are failing to realize the importance of labor that has put millions into poverty. stop now. we have two different views. as we all know, he has used public service as a carnival game of whack-a-mole. i do not scare easily and neither does the rest of kentucky. after 30 years of failed leadership, it is time we have the united states senator that unites all kentuckians, democrats, republicans, and independents. i will reach across the aisle and i will not forget who i represent and that is you. every work so that kentucky woman gets equal pay for equal work. that is what the kentucky women deserve, nothing less. that is what a kentucky senator should be fighting for. i will work to keep our jobs here and not overseas. that is what a kentucky senator should be fighting for. i believe in balancing our budget the right way. protecting social security area -- social security. totalks about --

ron wyden on the floor of the senate tuesday. we will be going to more of him in discussion with our two guests, spencer ackerman with the guardian as well as we have been speaking with james bamford who is cover the national security agency for the last three decades and again the breaking news is where the news we had out of russia is that the person who started the ball rolling on all of these hearings right now, edward snowden who has been holed up at the moscow airport, has left the airport and granted temporary asylum in russia for a year. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we will be back in a moment. ♪ [music break] >> this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the breaking news is that edward snowden, the nsa whistleblower and leaker who has been holed up at the russian airport in moscow , has been granted temporary asylum in russia and has left the airport. we are talking about all that has been unleashed since he reveal

, dave young a candidate for the u.s. senate here has said that if it weren't mexico on our southern border but instead scan day they've yeah that many republicans would feel the same way, that this is an issue of sovereignty and rule of law, and that the race of the people or the color of the skin of the people in the country on our southern border is irrelevant. do you think republicans would be animated in the way they are if norway and denmark were on our southern border instead? >> well, that is, that's a very speculative question. let me just say this. we're a nation of immigrants, we always have been and we always will be. immigrants bring something important to this country. beyond their hard work and determination for a better life. and i hope that we can have a positive relationship with all of our neighbors, canada, mexico, wherever. and i hope that, i don't know the gentleman you referred to here, i hope it doesn't reflect on his own community and family in terms of how they came to this country and what they brought

it passed the senate. the plaintiff at the time was to have that bill go to a house-senate conference, commerce of the house bill which adopted a different approach. and there are certainly accounts suggesting that at least when it came to exchanges that the house approach was more likely to emerge from that conference. scott brown's election meant there were no wonder the votes in the senate to pass the conference bill. and so in effect the new york times ran a story about health care benefits for congressional staff. members of congress this week pointed out that there are many provisions in the law that are the results of congress being stuck with the senate bill as the basis for health care reform and the exchange provisions are one of them. the choice was made to take as senate bill that had many provisions that many people, or inadequate as the only alternative. and that was the choice because there were not the votes to do anything else. so the senate bill may have provisions that some may think don'

and battle in the bluegrass state. senator mitch mcconnell meets his challengers on the left and the right but saves most of his fodder for president obama. good morning from washington. it's august 5th, 2013. this is the "daily rundown." i'm chuck todd. loaf the no traffic in d.c. but it doesn't mean we're not very busy. first reads of the morning. global terror threat. officials warning they've intercepted a high volume of chatter that indicates a major attack may be in the works, likely in the hands of aqap, known as al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, officially the affiliate based in yemen. too vague to pinpoint where it might happen. everyone with inside knowledge about this threat says it's the most serious in years, perhaps the most serious since 9/11. >> we've received information high-level people from al qaeda in the arabian peninsula are talking about a major attack. >> there's been an awful lot of chatter out there. chatter means conversation among terrorists about the planning that's going on. very reminiscent of

your full committee recently approved tom wheeler to the sec. senator cruz,, has talked about putting a hold on that nomination. any word on that right now? >> we are working on that. the may 1 say, thank you for having me on. people in arkansas to watch c- span lot, i want to thank c-span for what they do. back to the tom wheeler nomination, basically there is sentiment within the senate that we ought to repair this with the republican nominee. have acans would like to republican to go alongside the process. the problem is the we have not thecially released republican name that they want nominated. hopefully we will get this done quickly and senator rockefeller has said this publicly that he wanted to expedite that. my view is that you do not have to pare them. it ink that if we can do such a way that it does not , it will beme protracted and i would go ahead to try to get tom wheeler on. >> one of the concerns expressed was about restricting political speech. >> i do not really share the concern. job, sec.hard people do not always appreciated. it is o

ideas, the senate is happy to consider them. and get that bill on the floor, put it up for a vote. i'm absolutely certain the votes for the senate bill, which strengthens border security, demands responsibility from undocumented workers to pay a fine, pay a penalty, get to the back of the line, reforms our legal immigration system, holds employers accountable, i'm absolutely confident if that bill was on the floor of the house, it would pass. so, the challenge right now is not that there aren't a majority of house members, just like a majority of senate members, who aren't prepared to support this bill, the problem is internal republican caucus politics and that's what the american people don't want us to be worrying about. don't worry about your washington politics. solve problems. and this is one where you've actually got some pretty broad consensus. i don't know anny where you have labor, chamber of commerce, evangelical-student groups, you name it, supportive of a bill. let's get it done. all right. thank you very much-everyb

the senate has passed zero, right? the fact is the house of representatives has been the only one focused on trying to get a handle on our fiscal problem. >> let me bring up an appropriations bill, because this week you had to pull the transportation and housing bill because you couldn't get enough republicans to vote for it, to support it. afterwards, the house appropriations chairman, harold rogers said this, put it on the screen. "i believe that the house has made its choice. sequestration and its cuts must be brought to an end." question, are you willing, when you get this from the chairman of the house appropriations, a conservative house republican, are you willing to compromise on the $109 billion in automatic sequestration cuts starting in october? >> here's the problem. what we need to have happen is leadership on the part of this president in the white house to come to the table finally and say we're going to fix the underlying problem that's driving our deficit. we know, that is the entitlement programs, and

-span and check the hearing yesterday in the senate i was there this was a total cover up the government was not it has no ability to go in and oversee what's going out booz allen it's a private organization they have no capability of overseeing the n.s.a. everything is is redact. did they said they sent out some some papers yesterday that fully gave an explanation of what was going on in the n.s.a. ninety percent of it was redacted there were a couple of statements in there that they said this proves that we're not tapping into your e-mails your text messages your bones we're not chasing you and i'm going to tell steve something that i believe i believe that today this government is only in the grabbing stages of this information overload they're just taking the information tomorrow they're going to use it against every single one of us they're going to take a text message from over here they're going to take the location of our cell phone from over there they're going to take an e-mail they're going to take a phone call that was made through it know their person to another person that

not the senate proposal. i went to the congress of the united states, 54 democrats voted for obama care and they denied the $11 million for the first ten years any access to the subsidies, without subsidies, there's no health care for low-wage workers in this country. they say to them, you want to get legalized? no health care. and pay all of your taxes but don't expect ever to get any means tested program should you need it. be unemployed for more than 60 days, you're out of a program. if you sponsored your wife and your children, they're out of the program too. if that wasn't enough, they said, oh, wait a minute, we found $175 billion. that is what the cbo said, if you legalize them, we gain. you, everybody legally in the united states put $175 billion in your pocket because we allowed them to legalize their status. they get no benefits for the ten years. no right to health care. they said, oh, in tip years, don't even think about trying to bring your brother or sister in the united states. with ear basicall

would take for a woman's voice to be heard in the texas senate? former congressman martin frost. city councilman joe burns who represents a city council. my old city council district in fort worth. justice of the peace. at the head table we have amazing people with us today. you have been introduced a little bit to them. bobby patent is a local business leader. he truly defines what it means ao be at texas success story. troop-nearing entrepreneur. true pionerring entrepreneur. adrienne garcia and my very dear friend and said that colleague. texas women know that ellis has our back. [applause] these leaders, amazing leaders are a part of a growing movement to build a state that is more star. talk about howto it can be even greater. the majority of texans are ready to start that conversation. too oftenes are drowned out by the shouts of people in power who provoke division. who hope that shouting will distract from real solutions. they are doing serious damage to the lives and opportunities of the texans the claim to represent. they brag about low u

the republicans should have the u.s. senate. ey should have gained it in 2010 and doubled up on it in 2012 but because they have this fight and vote on shutting down the government could end up again nominating people like sharron angle sharron angle and why they nominated her in nevada. looks like 2014, republicans should have a great shot at senate. may not happen. >> okay, let's talk about that. let's look at landscape for 2014 after a special election in new jersey, which the democrats are expected to win in october, there will likely be, we will assume that, 55 senators voting with democrats. 45 republicans. which mean the gop will need a net pick up, net pick up of six seats to take back the senate. but republicans have one advantage. they are defending only 15 seats in 2014 while democrats are defending 20 seats they now hold. chip, i know it is a little silly but we like to play these games. looking at it from the vaptage point of summer 2013, how good are republican prospects for november of 2014? >> i'm going third time