clerk: joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5 united states code of the rules submitted by the office of family assistance of the administration for children and families of the department of health and human services relating to labor and expenditure authority under section 1115 of the social security act 42 united states code 1315 with respect to the temporary assistance for needy families program. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to clause 1-c of rule 19, further consideration of house joint resolution 118 is postponed. pursuant to clause c of rule 119 further consideration of house joint resolution 118 will now resume. the clerk will report the title. the clerk: union calendar number 481 -- 489, house joint resolution 118, providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, united states code, of the rule submitted by the office of family assistance of the administration for children and families of the department of health and human services relating to waiver and expenditure authority under section 1115 of the sos act 42 u.s.

clerk: house calendar number 159, h.r. 6080, to make improvements in the enactment of title 41, united states code, into a positive law title and to improve the code. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from texas, mr. smith, and the gentlewoman from california, ms. lofgren, each will coal 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas. mr. smith: i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materials on h.r. 6080, currently under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. smith: and, mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. smith: mr. speaker, the rules of the house entrust the judiciary committee with the responsibilities of revision and codification of the statutes of the united states. this power does not give our committee substantive legislative jurisdiction over all areas of law. it merely confers the authority to organization duly enacted laws into an efficient codification syste

exclude from consideration as income under the united states housing act of 1937 payments of pension made under section 1521 of title 38, united states code, to veterans who are in need of regular aid and attendance and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentlewoman from illinois, mrs. biggert, and the gentlewoman from new york, mrs. maloney, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from illinois. mrs. biggert: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and add extraneous material on this bill. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mrs. biggert: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. mrs. biggert: mr. speaker, i rise today as a co-sponsor of h.r. 6361, the vulnerable veterans housing reform act of 2012. and i strongly urge my colleagues to support its passage. put simply, this legislation will ensure that we don't punish low-income, disabled veterans who are seeking or receiving housing assistance simply

eventually, she caught the eye of the president of the united states code, -- who asked her to be the first member to serve in a congressional seat and chaired the democratic national committee. my good friend and the person who has been leading us up until this point, debbie wasserman schulz from the 20th district in florida. [applause] >> thank you, thank you. thank you so much. thank you so much. good morning. thank you so much, chairman cleaver. can i ask you to give a round of applause to my friend and our leader, emanuel cleaver. such an amazing spokesperson for civil rights and civil liberties. i'm proud to be her to join my colleagues in the congressional black caucus for the legislative congress. as a member of congress representing communities within south florida and ensuring the fundamental rights we have, the right to vote. as the person charged by president obama to lead the democratic national committee to get obama and joe biden across the finish line, i'm interested in other -- any efforts to suppress or deny voting rights. we need it a forum on voting rights but we p

the clerk: an amount to amend section 313-11 of title 49, united states code, to permit states to issue commercial driver's licenses to members of the armed forces whose duty station is located in the state. 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 california seek recognition? >> -- mr. lewis: i ask to take from the speaker's table s. 3626 and ask for its immediate consideration in the house. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: -- the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of s. 3625. the clerk: senate 3625, an act to change the effective date for the internet publication of certain information to prevent harm to the national security or endangering the military officers and civilian employees to whom the publication requirement applies and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: is there objection to consideration of the bill? the chair hear

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i would just point out, as the senator knows, that the budget act -- the united states code defines what a budget is. it says some of the things, it has to be a part of the budget and the process for how one is produced, has to be in the committee by april 1. sets out the date, april 1. then you have to have a floor vote by april 15. and when it comes to the floor, the rule says you have unlimited amendments, 50 hours of debate, and debate ends. you can't filibuster it. 50 hours, about one week. it can be done. six, seven days at most. mr. wicker: it's the one thing that can't be filibustered. mr. sessions: absolutely. a party with a majority, 53 senators, ought to be able to pass a budget. we passed a budget with 50 senators. 51. 50, i think one time. so -- this is -- and a budget allows to you control everything but social security. you can't touch social security. but you can deal with medicare, medicaid, food stamps, pensions, most any -- as well as a discretionary accounts. and so, that was all avoided. senator wicker, you've been around here and in the house for a number of years,

the clerk: h.r. 5375, a bill to amend title 38 united states code, to extend certain authorities of the secretary of veterans affairs and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from florida, mr. miller and the gentleman from maine, mr. michaud, each will control 20 minutes. the speaker pro tempore: -- mr. miller: i yield myself such time as i i might consume. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. miller: this bill would authorize major medical facility projects and extend certain expiring authorities. it encompasses v.a.'s fiscal year for 2013 for major medical facility projects and tracks with resources we have provided to the department for health care matters in in that the appropriation bills passed by the house with bipartisan support. it would aid in the delivery of health care to services and to service members, veterans and their families in communities across this country. it authorizes two major medical facility projects, the construction of a mental health building at the v.a. medical center in seattle, washington, in an amo

the clerk: h.r. 4631, a bill to amend title 5 united states code to institute spending limits and transparencys for federal conference and travel expenditures, and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from illinois, mr. walsh, and the gentleman from missouri, mr. clay, each will control 20 minutes. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from illinois. mr. walsh: thank you, madam speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the bill under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentleman is recognized. mr. walsh: madam speaker, the government spending accountability act, or g.s.a. act will end the days of unnecessary boondoggles and lavish trips for federal bureaucrats. i think we are all aware of g.s.a.'s resent escapades in las vegas where -- recent escapades in las vegas where they made $7 -- $75,000 to build bicycles. i think we can all agree that all of this spending is outrage

united states. that explains the story of this week. islamic-enforced speech codes.o one, not muslims, not americans are allowed to say anything islamists see as insulting to their religion. they intend to force us to kiss our freedom of speech and religion goodbye, and that is why we are being forewarned today. [applause] unbelievable, last december, they succeeded with president obama and secretary of state hillary clinton's help. they pushed through the united nations the passage of u.n. resolution 1618, which called upon all countries to enact laws that prohibited derogatory maintenance of islam, which prohibit our freedom of speech. they urged our white house to do a complete purge of any federal training material from references to the ideology of its lime to ensure that all trainers in our u.s. mint -- ideology of islam to be sure that our trainers in our u.s. military be retrains so that they would be brainwashed in political correctness toward islam and enforce islamic speech codes here in the united states. all done with the help of our president and secret

a time of financial crisis, the senate's democratic majority has failed to comply with the united states code that requires us to bring up a budget and bring it to the floor of the united states senate. politico observed on may 15 the democratic leaders have defiantly refused to lay out their own vision for how to deal with the federal debt and spending. i believe that is a colossal failure of leadership, a failure of fundamental responsibility and puts them in a position of, in my opinion, of being unable to ask to be returned to leadership in this senate. mr. cornyn: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from texas. mr. cornyn: as the distinguished ranking member of the budget committee pointed out, it has been more than three years since the democratically controlled senate has passed a budget. that should be a national scandal. during the same time, we considered the president's proposed budgets which have been voted down unanimously, that is republicans and democrats both realize that the president's proposed budgets are unserious attempts to solve some of our most serious ch

to raise the supreme court for permission, but there's tiny little slivers of cases in the united states codebut there's a right to go and they have different ways of dodgy men. the voting rights act case almost has to take a case that suggested very serious concerns about constitutionality and has a lot of interest in this issue. the second point is going to make us what to expect from the pivotal justices. obviously justice kennedy sits at the center of the court and one might wonder about the disconnect on the confidence and i think rightly so he will have real suspicion about every space program at the university of texas and in the community may be an ally in the affirmative action is a very conservative worldview and the possibility he would have same-sex marriage is a very liberal worldview. how is it we have those in the head of one to go person. justice kennedy has a vision of the law and constitution very much about individuals. he wants to be part of the people, not as groups. his concern at the root of affirmative action is you are treating people as black, hispanic anonymous indi

but there are tiny slivers of cases in the united states code that allow them to go to the supreme court could but the voting rights cases they almost have to take. they suggested very serious concerns about the constitutionality of section 5. they have a lot of interest in this issue. the second point is what to expect about the pivotal justices. obviously, justice kennedy, an ideological question, sits at the center of the court. on the other hand, stewart's confidence that he would have real suspicion about a race- based program at the university of texas. and it is felt in the gay rights community that he may be an ally after the rumor case. affirmative action is a very conservative world you. how is it that we have those in the head of one single person? the reason is that justice kennedy has a vision of the law and the constitution that is very much about individuals. he wants people to be thought of as people and not groups. the root of affirmative action is that you are treating them as black or hispanic and not as individuals. on the other hand, in the day marriage -- in the sam

house joint resolution 118 providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, united states code of course the rule submitted by the office of family assistance of the administration for children and families of the department of health and human services relating to waiver and expenditure authority under section 1115 of the social security act 42 u.s.c. 1315 with respect to the temporary assistance for needy families program. all points of order against consideration of the joint resolution are twhavepled joint resolution shall be considered as read. all points of order against provisions in the joint resolution are waived. the previous question shall be considered as ordered on the joint resolution to final passage without intervening motion except, one, one hour of debate equally divided a among and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the committee on ways and means and the chair and ranking minority member of the committee on education and the work force, and two, one motion to recommit. section 2. at any time after the adoption of this resolution, the spea

a bill to amend title 18, united states code, to establish a criminal offense relating to fraudulent claims about military service. 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 three. 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. for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i request unanimous consent to remove my name as co-sponsor from house resolution 177. the speaker pro tempore

we went through many zip codes, making sure there's state law for apprentice unite lie station, which includeed preapprentice programs. today we have 4 community based organizations. san juaquin, cypress mandella, alameda county, citybuiod, sf county, apoi, san mateo county, proge==ject build. we would like to thank you for your outstanding after fort, and city staff that worked in labor apresent itions on both of the training classes. >> t*fs a pleasure for me to do that, there were some great folk that is came out. i think you know one. success stories happening on one of the (inaudible). i knew from the very fist day that young man came into that program that he would make someone a perfect employee, and he d. it's been profound for me to work with the member members of jtop. i've maerd of you, i've heard your names many times. though, i'm not try to rush you away, i can't recall the entire lines of the poem by langston hughes. in reference to retirement, life is short, aoeltd desert first. [giggles]. mass [applause] >> good evening commissioners : art shanks, hhere with donna mile

pays three percent the bottom twenty percent pays twelve point two percent we have two tax codes in the united states anybody who's working by the but the sweat of their brow by their mind or their muscles pays a thirty six percent top income tax rate anybody who makes money by moving money around like mitt romney a base basically tax rate for banks pays a maximum fifteen percent rate which is why he's only being thirteen percent isn't this fundamentally immoral francesca well first of all going back to the mitt romney comment you know mitt romney paid way more than his fair share in taxes he paid nearly twenty percent in taxes and that's a way far above and beyond the claim he's on he's claiming thirteen percent that's an average over the last twenty years i believe those are twenty last year it was thirteen percent he said that he had never paid below thirteen percent in taxes and that over the twenty years he actually paid fourteen point one percent in taxes now the last year it was that he had paid the twenty percent in tacloban the house with her but how that's without the deduction for his chur

main line is based on the code now the united states has wanted to raise. money since all diplomats and their families come down this year as well as handing american citizenship and these who want to this is just a minute in tracy very dynamic situation here. tempers are back. here at the situation it will be down in the coming days. leading our coverage of the anti american unrest she reports clashes erupting in afghanistan and pakistan as people demonstrate their anger with the u.s. it's all on the twenty feet at. the school. and ahmed clichy from the pack nationalists for much particularly here or not he says the protests aren't all aimed at the video but are the results of long pent up anger. these demonstrations really are not really directed at the film itself they are a result of an accumulation over the past few months and years the film right now has acted as the sparkle that really exploded as a result of for the failure of the u.s. government to contain what many many muslims are seeing right now as an organized campaign in inside the united sta

permission to grant a review in your case that there are tiny little slivers of cases in the united states code that there is a right to go in the supreme court with different ways of dodging them but the voting rights act they almost have to take and in the northwest austin case they suggested serious concerns about the constitutionality of section 5. they took the cases. the second point is what to expect from the pivotal justices. justices kennedy on ideological questions and one might wonder about the confidence on real suspicion about a rate base program. and he might be an ally after the roker case. and the conservative world view and to endorse constitutional right that same-sex marriages of -- a liberal world view. one single person and the reason is justice kennedy has a vision of the law in the constitutional, to his concern, treating people as black or hispanic. they are homosexual. you are not thinking of them as individuals. on the other hand striking down definition of marriage is a huge deal. it is a puzzle but no one knows the answer what he will do in these cases. the second th

united states. we talked to microsoft. here's what they told us. they say, microsoft has a complex business and we must comply with the complicated tax code of the united states, resulting in an exceedingly complex tax structure. second company in the crosshairs here today is going to be hewlett-packa hewlett-packard. the senate committee saying since at least 2008, hp has used billions of dollars of intercompany offshore loans to effectively repatriate untaxed foreign profits back to the united states to run u.s. operations. that's contrary to the intent of u.s. tax policy. we talked to hewlett-packard. here's what they told us. they say, hp has complied fully with all applicable provisions of the u.s. internal revenue code and auditor ernst and young has audited. we'll learn more about what this is up committee found in about a half-hour. >>> the committee on banking, housing and urban affairs, subcommittee on securities, insurance and investment is holding a hearing on high-frequency trading and they are talking about the possibility of enacting rules to slow things down a bit. i'm joined by jeff kilburg of kilburg capital who has a rather unique ta

united states constitution. this is not. it is the tax code. >> when this simple equal rights for all the other is extremely complex, a capitalism, the root of all evil. individual say groups paid for loopholes and sell those. abolished irs comment income-tax. john: but you want some government. >> replace with the national consumption tax. i embrace the fairfax look at their tax did zero or gingrey boots the economy i think they would issue pink slips to half of the lobbyist. john: legalize marijuana control it and legalize it. 3-1/2 of a law-enforcement, the courts what the 2.3 million people there on nonviolent crimes out of jail. marriage equality is on par with civil-rights of the sixties and constitutionally guaranteed. [applause] john: now a one dither candidates to question new people recognize those two gentlemen virgil goode won the nomination of the constitution party and stuart alexander from the socialist party. >> i have heard enough 551. >> if you look at cuts in medicare and social security what type of slashing are you talking

you you you were under the same same laws and then that code was expanded into a number of the areas of the empire including even in the united states where i'm your problem but in one of our states. louisiana operates under the civil good big big. he wrote the civil code he actually betrayed the idealism of the true lucia which actually made him what he became this isn't that what do you did that were you when you were a kid well i'm not so sure that i completely agree he believed in the equality which was one of the three aspects of the slogan a lot of the cinema solution for turning to some extent but as you know liberty also although and states of war you have some restrictions of liberty he certainly did have censorship as many.

when you take an oath of honor and courage and commitment, you need to stand behind the code of the united states marine corps. and to see him justifying his actions as far as the drug use and the drug dealing, it did bother me. it did bother me. >> in our final interview with carney who served seven months in iraq and was awarded a good conduct medal, he once again spoke more like a marine than a convicted drug dealer and murder suspect. >> since i've been in jail i've been reduced to living out of a paper bag, i've recognized my potential. this has enabled me to recognize my potential. and i believe that sometimes in order to come up strong, you have to be put down as far as you can go. you have to be pushed to the absolute limit that you can be pushed, and to see if that's going to destroy you, or if you're going to rise above that and become better because of it. and that's the true test of a man. >> serving time for drug dealing and facing a murder charge, may not be what you would expect for a battle-tested marine with a seemingly bright future, but inside the orange county jail, carney was

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you you you were under the same same laws and then that code was expanded into a number of the areas of the empire including even in the united states where i'm your problem but in one of our states. louisiana operates under the civil good food he wrote the civil code he actually betrayed the idealism of the lucia which actually made him what he became this isn't that what do you did that were you when you were a kid well i'm not so sure that i completely agree he believed in quality which was one of the three aspects of the slogan a lot of this revolution are turning to some extent but and you know liberty also although in states of war you have some restrictions of liberty he certainly did have censorship as many societies during times of crisis or war have russia's had that and times america has had that at times i mean it's the republicans in the empire but he was one of my books i call him a republican emperor because yes he was an emperor and he but he and he took power based on his skills and by the way he took power based on the desires of the french people of france. people and they probably cite overwhelmingly ratified him

united states dropped to 18th place. steve knows what will put america back on top. >> and simple tax code.e have to reform the regulation and cost the economy 1.7cent trillion and bigger than any other economy in the world except for the top five or six. it is harassing farmers. and fda is blocking critical drugs. and on and on it goes. you have those kind of burdens and people can't produce products and services. and i mockus on national gas. the epa is putting their foot on that in terms of fraking. the number one in hong kong. it is owned by the public's republic of china. my favorite is singapore. companies that control 60 percent of the gdp . they have ownership by the singapore government. in a segment we are going to get to. it is awful that our government owned gm. and when singapore owns these business. the great thing about america we had a free political system and economy . now we are squeezed. >> rick has problems with one particular study. it is validated. it is in the spectrum and from libitarians and liberals. they are saying the same thing and steve is right. all business

states. this is "the war room" on >> jennifer: now to my point which is about my obsession i am obsessed, obsessed with cracking the code to getting more manufacturing jobs in the united states of america. i've been looking at the made in label of everything around this desk. my beautiful tigers cup made in china. my shirt my jacket, my shoes made in china. this computer, made in china. these pens, made in japan. this etch-a-sketch from ohio art made in china. my phone made in taiwan. my glasses made in denmark. it makes me so sad and frustrated that these products all around me support jobs overseas. i've been losing sleep over this but what about us? what about us as in the u.s.? well looking around, i did experience one moment of joy. this expo dry erase marker is proudly stamped made in the u.s.a. they're made by sanford corporation in oak brook illinois. it is owned by newell rubbermaid a multinational company on the fortune 500 list, about 20,000 employees around the world but these dry erase markers were made in the u.s.a. it made me want to order more but we only have one white board. when president obama told the democratic convention that we can create a mil

and i against the cumbersome anti-growth policies of the tax code of the united states. no doubt about it. any payment, in an attempt to get at this debt says reform the tax code simultaneously. i say to the medicare at the same time. i say do it all at the same time, and eventually find a method that can solve the problem of how do we do it. and i will tell you today, let me find exact part that want to read to you, because i'm letting this out because i have so much respecrespect for you and for ts assembly that it want us to talk about it today. you heard what i was thinking. the opposite of what we're talking about in sequester in these details, congress has to vote on each item. obviously, they have devoted each item. now, there's no way to avoid. but we are going to be talking about developing a process that we're going to call and accelerated regular order. we just stand up and yell regular order when we want senators to behave. we say regular order, everybody understands. >> never worked. i know what it means. [laughter] >> they just moved to the back of the room

so i want to simplify our tax code. >> romney is walking right into the president of the united states's wheelhouse when it comes to the discussion of tax fairness. the president has been hammering this message of tax fairness for the past year. fair share. he did it again last night on "60 minutes." >> you can't ask me to make student loans higher for kids who need it or ask seniors to pay more for medicare or throw people off of health care and not ask somebody like me to do anything? not ask us to do a single dime's worth of sacrifice? >> the obama campaign rubbed salt in the wound by releasing this ad today linking romney's tax returns to his 47% comments. >> mitt romney attacked 47% of americans who pay no income tax including veterans, elderly, the disabled. >> my job is not to worry about those people. >> doesn't the president have to worry about everyone? mitt romney paid 14.1% in taxes last year. he keeps millions in bermuda and the cayman islands. he won't release his tax returns before 2010. maybe romney should come clean on his taxes. >> what's going to happen? the american p