united states army. that m-16a2 rifle was furnished by the congress of the united states. the ammunition for that rifle was furnished by the congress of the united states. the body armor on that soldier was funnished by the congress of the united states. and the vehicle in which he rides that security vehicle, was furnished by the congress of the united states. as this young soldier, this young corporal goes down the road, look at that soldier and answer the question, did you vote to support me as a >>> the committee will come to order. we welcome our guests, witnesses this morning, as well as my colleagues. the title of this morning's hearing is "the future of the mortgage market and the housing enterprises." this is a subject matter which there has been a tremendous amount of committee interest and others over time, and we have had -- rich, i counted up last night, just this year alone 70 hearings. >> i believe it. >> i could not believe the numbers just on the various subject matters. most of it has been focused on reg reform issues and almost everything -- >> i don't kn

>> but there's a distinction between a member of the united states congress going to the floor of these and comparing america's health care system to another member -- >> sir, let's stick to politicians then. in march 2of 2004, representatie tom cole, a fellow republican, said the re-election of president bush is like supporting adolf hitler. that was offensive and representative cole should have apologized in 2004, right? >> representative cole's comments did not come on the floor of the united house of representatives, where there is a level of decorum that must be met. we can't have the hypocrisy. if a republican had made the comments that congressman grayson made, i could just hear my colleagues, whether it's congressman shultz coming unglued. i think these statements were over the top and outrageous. congressman grayson should heed the advice of when you're in a hole, quit digging. >> senator phil gramm in september 2002, the democrat attack plans are right out of nazi germany. i'm asking if you agree any time there's a attack of comparing the holocaust and nazis diminishes what

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. >> gregg: he's the fourth most senior member of the united states congress and he's the chairman ofck writing panel, the house -- tax writing panel, house ways & means committee and charlie rangel is also facing his own big tax problems and the harlem democrat under investigation for failing to report more than $1 million in outside income and this week, house democrats may be forced to abandon their support for mr. rangel. or state their support. as republicans push for a resolution to have him removed, as chair of the house ways & means committee. congressman john carter, a republican from texas wants to introduce the resolution and joins us now, thanks for being with us. before i ask you some questions, let me state that on thursday, i invited mr. rangel to appear on our air and he got back to us the next day and declined to do so, and my invitation to him now is a standing one, we'll keep track of it. and the reason is pretty important, congressman rangel writes our tax laws and the question is, is he a tax breaker and here's the accusations, we'll put them on the screen, and pe

united states department of labor. the department of labor and statistics is an independent statistical agency that collects and processes, analyzes and disseminates essential data on the american public. the united states congress and other federal agencies, state and local governments, business and labor. dr. hall, served as chief economist for the white house council of economic advisors under president bush. he was chief economist for the united states department of commerce. dr. hall has spent 10 years at the u.s. international trade commission. he received his b.a. degree from the university of virginia. and his m.s. and ph.d. degrees in economics from purdue university. it's good to be with you again, dr. hall. we will hear from you now. >> thank you. let them start by saying on behalf of all of us at the bureau of labor and statistics, i join with the members of the committee in offering our condolences to congresswoman maloney and her family. they have our deepest sympathy and our thoughts and prayers are with them. mr. chairman, and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to discuss the employment and nonemployment data we released this morning. job losses continued in september and the

, someone who i have really seen exercise incredible leadership since his election to the united states congress and apparently the token man here tonight. so it's really wonderful that you have joined us. steve driehaus is a former peace corps volunteer which that kind of volunteerism is admirable. father of three young children which i know that he is the most proud of. and it's my privilege to yield him three minutes on behalf of breast cancer awareness month. mr. driehaus: i want to acknowledge the tremendous work that you have done on this issue. i hail from the great state of ohio. and we have looked into the breast cancer statistics in the state of ohio. and we learn that more than 8,000 new diagnoses occur every year for men and women in the state of ohio with breast cancer and nearly 2,000 breast cancer fatalities still occur every year in the state of ohio. and while this recent decline in recent years in part due to the emphasis on early detection and treatment, we all know that it is still way too high. in southwest ohio, we have made progress. we have the breast cancer alliance of g

the united states congress has been working on it for the better part of a year. last week, the final congressional committee involved in shaping legislation completed their proposal and will soon vote on it. at this point we've heard all of the arguments on both sides of the aisle. we have listened to every charge and every countercharge from the crazy claims about death panels to misleading warnings about a government takeover of our health care system. but when you cut through all of the noise and all of the distractions that are out there, i think what is most telling is that some of people who are most supportive of reform are the very medical professionals who know the health care system best, the doctors and nurses of america. now, these men aep and women here would not be supporting health insurance reform if they really believed it would lead to government bureaucrats making decisions that are best left to doctors. they wouldn't be here today if they believed the reform in any way would damage the very critical and sacred doctor/patient relationship. inst

lindsay graham is not one of those people, not one of the fighters of the united states congress. he can speak for the republican party, that's fine. he doesn't speak for conservatives. >> i say good for libbed see graham, i've known him for a number of years, a man of principle, as is terry, i've known him for a number of years. the debate gets polluted by falsehoods like beck saying lindsay hatsz my guts, he doesn't hate his guts. but that's how beck makes money, he's a showman, it's unfortunate the national debate gets polluted by show business, and distortions like death panels that don't exist. but these become issues, and it gets people scared. and it's just unfortunate. this was -- what has happened. and i hope that at least the conservative movement can try to police its own house. >> let's take a look at rush limbaugh earlier this year talking about what his view is -- the way he looks at the presidency of barack obama. and it's on his radio show. >> well, i'm thinking of replying to the guy, okay, i'll send you a response, but i don't need 400 words. i need 4. i hope he

united states army. that m-16a2 rifle was furnished by the congress of the united states. for that rifle was furnished by the congress of the united states. the body armor on that soldier was funnished by the congress of the united states. and the vehicle in which he rides that security vehicle, was furnished by the congress of the united states. as this young soldier, this young corporal goes down the road, look at that soldier and answer the question, did you vote to support me as a >> up next, weekly briefings from nancy pelosi and john paintboehner. in remarks after receiving the human rights award. president obama speech at the dinner. live coverage tonight at 7:50 p.m. eastern on c-span. sunday on "newsmakers" the debate about health care legislation and prospects for a public option. >> five committees have reported on health care. for heavy public corruption. one does not. you would think the weight would become of having a public corruption in the bill. that is where it is. -- public option in the bill. that is where it is. close to 53 democrats in the some -- in

to conclude, i believe that state legislators are willing to work as partners with members of congress, the united states senate, and the department of transportation and the many stakeholders in this room. this will recognize their common goal of reducing crashes and patel is on our nation's highways. i believe that is critical to our long-term success. i appreciated your time. [applause] >> our next speaker is representative stephen farley. he is a state representative from the arizona state legislator for district 28 in tucson and serves as a policy leader for the house democrats pretty as ranking member of the transportation committee. is a member of the ways and means committee. importantly, he is the founder of the southern arizona transit advocates and was one of the first legislators in the country to introduce legislation in january, 2007, to ban driving while texting. to show that legislators and transit advocates can have multi dimensional lives, it is important to point out that stephen farley is a national recognized artist. is recognized for his large- scale tile murals and multiface

it does not sound like something anybody would be for here in the united states, but we are seeing whether congressould take steps to prohibit it. jon: it is considered animal cruelty. had this had any impact on animal law? >> the humane society of the united states is a big party in this case, and they say that the law has had an effect. the government argues the same thing, that so-called "crush" videos, where small animals are killed, they have seen a drop in that. says one legislator, "i am worried about ted bundy and other serial killers who as young people killed animals." he will continue to fight for it, as the government did today in court. jane: the head of the uae's central bank says that that gulf nation has no plans to start pricing oil in dollar. they denied that arab oil nations were holding secret him meetings with consumers to dump the dollar. is there anything to these reports? >> here is the report. it is a screaming banner headline, "the demise of the dollar." the report is that arab oil countries have been meeting with top consuming countries like china and japan, looking at st

that congress is giving up its authority here by continuing to say we're going to give you whatever money you want, you're the president. they're forgetting that the constitution of the united states puts the power in the hands of congress under article i, section viii, the war power. we have the power to cut off funds. frankly, i don't think that's a good play for any president to be. >> congressman, appreciate your time tonight. >> thank you. >>> for more on this issue, let me bring in pat buchanan, former republican presidential candidate and msnbc analyst. pat, your first appearance here. welcome to the people's republic of damn good television. >> i remember you from the dakota days, ed. >> pat, what's the correct move here? if the president decides not to put troops in, where does that leave us in your opinion? >> well, i think you have to listen to general mccrystal's analysis. he says given the current balance of forces, we can't win this war, and we're risking mission failure. we're risking a defeat. we're risking a taliban victory. when your general tells you that, you can't say i don't care what he says. obama is faced with two choices, wind the war down or listen to ge

guantanamo bay detainees into the united states, its territories, and possessions, and restricts detainee transfers until after the president has submitted a plan to congress. the conference report revises the military commission act to make them fair and effective and ensure that convictions stick. let me briefly address two difficult aspects of the conference report. first, i'm disappointed, so very disappointed we were not able to retain the houses' provision implementing the president's proposal on concurrent receipt for disabled military retirees. the armed services committee fought hard with the assistance of our leadership and many other committees to pay for that proposal. the senate's budget rules, however, would not support a solution and i urge the president to work with us in a way to pay for this which will meet the budgetary rules of both the house and the senate. finally, regarding the hate crimes prevention act, i have said several times and i would have preferred it to have been enacted as a stand alone bill -- stand-alone bill, not on this defense bill. but it's important to note that the conferees included important sentencing guidelines

congress, not just for governor. there are 513,000 elected offices in the united states from school board to city council to county commission, and we need commitment that is it that -- that if an incumbent is not doing the job we need to crreplace them. [applause] the reason is simple. real power comes from the ballot box. it's the people who want a socialist country begin to realize that we're willing to take them on on every level -- if they are in a swing district you may want to run as a republican -- this is a non- partisan commitment to citizen involvement to make sure that every single office as someone who is dedicated to america's future and there are enough people in this room that if you took your e-mail list and went out around the country you would be shocked on how many people you could recruit. when people tell you how busy they are, they're telling you how they do not value the country. the time has come. [applause] we need an absolute citizens' movement to achieve this. except per second thing we have to do is learn how to campaign effectively. we have to be as good or better as our competitors on the left

united states says, at every rally on health care. you should get the same deal that members of congress gets.ow, members of congress get access to more than a dozen good quality, affordable choices, where insurance companies can't discriminate against them. under this legislation, more than 200 million americans would get no choice at all. if they're insurance company was abusing them, they'd be stuck and wouldn't get choice. >> senator wyden, seems simple. what you're saying makes sense. of course, it's not simple. where is the hangup? >> the hangup is essentially some of the people who control the money. i call them the status quo caucus. they're in big business, they're the insurance companies. certainly some in labor. they don't want to give up control. you've got them running these programs. they're on top of all of the money. if workers have more choices, the way i want, the way the president says they ought to have at all of these rally, that's threatening to them. so we're going to have to beat the special interests. i think we can do it, because i think once the american people find

united states of america. throughout the afternoon, a number of conservative talk show hosts as well as some members of congress have been giving a big i told you so to the white house, saying the president was rejected on the international stage answered should not have put the prestige of the u.s. president soint line the way he did. president obama was the first us president to actually lobby in person for an olympic committee bid but again, the president saying just here in the rose garden, while he is disappointed, he sends his congratulations to brazil, again the lines we heard from white house officials earlier today, their message, their theme is that they believe it is always worthwhile for the president to promote and boost the united states. and certainly, have the chicago games got the olympics there is meant it would have meant an economic injection of as much as $20 billion billion and perhaps as many as 300,000 jobs created. again, a tough day at the white house you can the president coming out much earlier than scheduled, literally got back earlier and decided not to waste any time essentially g

that was a formal address to congress by the president of the united states. >> was that worse? >> yeah, you have republican congressman in the last 30, 60 days. i can think of six who have goup down to the floor and said the democrat's message to senior citizens is die. so the one-minute speeches are always different. they're always a lot more inflammatory. when you have a head of state, a president who comes in and talks to congress, a little more is expected. maybe it should be more like britain. maybe they should be jeering. >> that seems to be like -- it seems healthy arguing in england. but there's something going on right now -- i mean, that's a little scarier. i want to read something that thomas friedman said yesterday. criticism from the far right has begun tipping over into delegitimation and creating the same kind of climate here that existed in israel on the eve of the rabin assassination. and nancy pelosi, who's practically in tears about the meanness from the right wing and how she's worried it's going to create violence in the country, et cetera. there's a blog o

the trust and confidence on the part of the american people on the congress in the united states is atll-time low and deservedly so. by my preliminary count, there are almost 070 unrequested -- 700 unrequested earmarks in this bill. over 400 of which are not authorized in the fiscal year 2010 defense national authorization act. that represents more tha than $1.3 billion in funding for unrequested, unauthorized member interest items. it's unacceptable. it's the constitutional duty of congress to provide the department of defense the resources it needs while providing the oversight our constituents demand. we have a fiduciary obligation to the american taxpayer. every time we tuck pork in an appropriation measure, we shun that responsibility. one of the great untold stories of earmarking is that the money diverted to special interest projects would have otherwise have been used to address the stated needs of our military services. the money does not come from anywhere but the taxpayers' wallets an purses. -- and purses. but the service chiefs, who are in the best position to advise congr

decor rum in the united states house of representatives for the time being, anyway, is something like screaming at the president in the middle of an address to joint session of congress. to make the break in decor rum to a floor speech? to say it's going to impose the death of americans. that's not a breach of decor rum. that's an average tuesday in the house of representatives. you don't have to agree with congressman grayson or the exact words he used last night or with the signs he used to illustrate his point. in order to agree that what he said on the house floor was no departure from what his colleagues on the republican side of the aisle have been doing and saying all year long. that sound extreme? you not believe me? listen. >> last week, democrats released a health care bill which essentially said toe american seniors, "drop dead". >> going to save money by rationing care, getting in long line. people die when they're in line. >> one in five people have to die because they went to socialized medicine. >> this program of government option is being touted as being the panacea, the savior of allowing people to have quality health care at an affordable price is

united states, but they're china plays through and through. and in the people's republic, things are good. here is the bottom line, if we don't want to see more horrible days like today, congress should take a page from the little red book rather than from the simon and garfunkel song book and start learning from communist china on its 60th birthday. happy birthday, chi-coms. make job creation priority number one like hey did there. as our lighting man, shawn would say, dim sum, lose some. come on! all right, so stick with the china place like wynn, proctor, vail, bhp, because if we can't beat them, we might as well join them. adam in new york, adam? >> caller: hey, jim. how are you doing? boo-yah. >> boo-yah. >> caller: jim, i got a question about my johnson & johnson stock. >> sure, man, fire away! >> caller: okay, listen, i inherited this stock about a year ago. i know we're coming out of a good quarter here. best in about ten years. >> yep. >> caller: i don't know now it's the time to sell this stock or if i should -- >> j&j has a huge business overseas. the dollar keeps going down. may i also just once again -- a lot of people here who believe in this network and this cou

congress enacted legislation that made it impossible to exclude illegal aliens. and, in fact, put it in a real world context, you have the president of the united states, the highestaw enforcement officer, graduate of harvard, editor of the law review who is suggesting that he doesn't know the consequences of the public option. and the public option carries with it all the baggage that the government takes with it as well as the case law. the judge is absolutely right. bill: this passes, the government mandated part of it has to extend to everybody in the united states whether they're here illegally or not? no doubt about it. >> absolutely. you cannot avoid constitutional precedent. and you can't avoid it in the way that there is a suggestion that that the president is going to make an exception. they are not. bill: was obama grandstanding here? >> i don't necessarily have an issue about the grand grandstanding wharks would rather say this is a political comment rather than a legal commentary. he was playing politics. bill: in shaky ground here constitutionally? >> i have no doubt he is on shaky ground constitutionally. bill: no. do you think he knew he was. do yo

united states because you don't have to run for office again until 2012. we're running right now. i think he has to yield to the democrats and some of the republicans in congress, many of whom are very unhappy with the direction that the president has been taking. >> and jack, is it the trap of every president that military commanders always want more forces? i mean, i'm hearing that on the radio, i'm seeing it in the editorials that it's just the school of thought of a general to think that he can win a war, yet, when you look at afghanistan, nobody's ever won there before and yesterday general petraeus said we're not going to make the same mistakes the soviets made when they were in afghanistan. isn't adding 40,000 more troops doing exactly what the soviets did? >> it might. it depends what kinds of troops they are and if they're special forces and special operations forces focused on specific areas to get rid of the al qaeda and ca taliban. it's going to take a long period of time. a lot of money and a lot of patience from americans. if all we're going to do is send lots of troops over there, you can bet they're not going to be successful. i think this is t

as aim sure the gentleman does that this congress must be devoting attention to this important issue as it relates to the national security of the united states and our interests in that arena as well as abroad. and i'd like to ask the gentleman, mr. speaker, whether he in his leadership will call on general mcchrystal to testify before congress as soon as possible. i note as the gentleman well knows that chairman skelton has been reported to have made such a request of his leadership. i yield. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman for yielding. as the gentleman probably knows, i have also indicated i thought general mcchrystal should come to the congress and testify not only before the committees but perhaps brief a bipartisan session. i don't mean an address, but bipartisan briefing. either in the armed services committee or on the floor here or in the auditorium. i think that's appropriate. as the gentleman knows, the president has been involved in very extensive consultation with the cabinet members that deal with the national security issues. including chairman of the joint chiefs, admiral mcmullen, including general jones, the national secur