and we say in congress, and when they come home, we leave no veterans behind. no veterans behind. [applause] for us in congress, every day is veterans day. because every day we understand the moral obligation we have to our veterans for making as the home of the brave -- and the land of the free and the home of the bridge. and we're very, very proud of your patriotism, your courage, sacrifices that you're willing to make for our country. and now we have important work to do. we have more important to work to do to end homelessness, and we're on that track. thank goodness for the local initiatives, bobbi, secretary shinseki, president obama -- it is everybody's priority. we want to have the health services that our veterans need be available to them and that they know about what is available. that is why that support is very important. are you a veteran? a reserve in the military? however you want to say it, that they will respond to, is a very important. but president obama as american jobs that makes specific reference to jobs for our veterans. as michael will tell you, in our meeting, jobs, jobs,

so it makes it very hard for those of us in congress to really be able to make the kind of proposals that are appropriate to fix this program. one of think simply would be in my opinion to reduce the spending back to the level of the house. showing a modest increase this year after surging the spending level for the snap program over the last decade. and all of us have got to grasp something. i don't think the american people are happy hearing excuses. i don't think they're happy hearing us say well, we would like to have done something abouod

there is going to be accountability when the president has a major bill, i think each one of us in congress should be willing to vote on us yes or no, and let voters hold us accountable. we can take a different point of view, but let's move on and say what we think and vote. mr. cantor is doubled down on the notion that if government is dysfunctional, which is not acting and it's not divided government but dysfunctional government, the disgust of what americans feel, it comes down on his electoral process. >> and some are questioning his approach. let's here what congressman frank wolf had to say on the tax plunge signed by so many republicans. >> have we really reached a point where one person's demand for ideological purity is paralyzing congress to the point where a discussion of tax reform is breaking a no tax pledge? >> are you beginning to see cracks in mr. cantor's army here, and how can you appeal to people like mr. wolf? >> thank you, mr. wolf. this is not rocket science. democrats have to be willing to make cuts, and the republicans have to be willing to come up with revenues. the

those who are in congress already have the virtues of incumbency, think they understand how to raise money, don't want to change the system. and that's what's hurting usn congress. then across the state at the supreme court, of course, is this notion that money is speech, and unlimited money means unlimited speech. i don't think that's true. i think it's going to corrupt our process. but those are the two forces against change. >> well, if you wouldn't mind on our behalf, if you can let the supreme court know and those who resist it, warn them that the surf's up. >> it is. >> we're now working our way toward 150,000. just over the past 40 minutes of this program, news of the get money out foundation, led by none other than our own jimmy williams, we all continue our get money out special program, honoring the first 100,000 on the petition. and in moments it will become crystal clear why we've been playing the goo goo doll's greatest hits in this particular show, and it's not just because their songs are so darned catchy. [ groans ] [ marge ] psst. constipated? phillips' caplets use magnesium, an ingredient that works more naturally with your colon tha

the american people joined those of us in congress in both parties. let's bring them home now, not 2015. and madam speaker, as i always close on the floor and i will close today, i ask god to please bless our men and women in uniform, ask god to please bless the men and women in uniform. i ask god in his loving arms who have given a child dying for freedom in iraq and afghanistan. i ask god to please bless the house and senate that we will do what is right in the eyes of god. and i will ask god to give wisdom, strength and courage to president obama that he will do what is right in the eyes of god for god's people. and i close by asking three times. god, please, god, please, god, please continue to bless america. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the chair recognizes the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. mcgovern, for five minutes. mr. mcgovern: madam speaker, on sunday newspapers across the country reported that the total number of u.s. military deaths in afghanistan since 2001 is 1,780. this tally may be slightly

shouting shame on wall street they could hear is inside we were told they were just below us in their congress can hear us making our points and that was just one of many examples you also did a march they would have to justice for janitors janitors who work in buildings where the square thirty dollars per square foot they don't get that much in a day so we see the injustice in the economic system that we're trying to highlight it to the forefront as have been we've seen protests before you know and i. war protester in the bush area the bush era how the how was this first house area because cindy sheehan was out by as ranch. one there fred are are is a different it is different i mean this is an encampment we're here for the long haul and we were very pleased this week there's a major development for us was that the park service offered us to stay for four months i said you know if you want to stay here will give you a permit provided we even asked for it we get such a good media coverage such a good support in the public here people are so feeling economically insecure they want something tha

of this debate the people of the united states will begin to focus on what's happening in the congress and hold usble, makes sure we're managing your own effectively. and if we do that, we might surprise ourselves. indeed, we would surprise ourselves. how much that could be accomplished in a decade of sustained, smart effort to eliminate wiewf wiewf -- waste, fraud and abuse to reduce spending that could be contained. the defense budget has to tighten its budget. the defense department, no doubt about it. but you can't balance the budget all on the defense department. their budget makes up less than half of the deficit this year. our deficit this year will be about $1.3 trillion. the defense budget is about $529 billion. so it's less than -- way less than half of it. so we've got to do across the board in programs that aren't being run well, that are surging out of control like food stamps, which are the largest -- one of the largest expenditures in the entire federal budget, they need to be brought under control. we may not have enough money for the highway bill. it's about $40 billion. we're now

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sure you will agree that the context does not create national security to be a was created in 1988 by congress in used in that regard. saffo fight did expand the categories in which they were being used and clarify procedures that they were to use and just to lay out all the facts this provision has been abused. it's been horribly abused. there was an inspector general report of the fbi that said there was an issue bonds without probable predicates, without the proper supervision and everybody said there is no question. nevertheless, congress has reauthorize did with some safeguards making clear there is judicial review implicit before and i guess the recognition is that there is always a potential of abuse for some law and the constitution is there and violated and doesn't mean the violation makes it -- >> guest: i have to disagree. it seems to me what happened here not letting congress off the hook i completely agree but congress is supporting the executive branch and their ability to have this enormous power but a couple things happened with the national security letter first of all after 9/11 afte

course look at the world the problem in the us is the revolving door between washington and wall street so washington was basically ruled by wall street the congress in the us doesn't rule look at the approval rating of congress and the american population you know they are eighty seven percent popular because they are not represented the interests of the american people they're representing the interests of the corporations who put them there in the first place and look at europe. basically works for norse in europe for the club med council as i was i just came back from italy it doesn't work for the club med countries because they cannot even export themselves out of debt that's the case of greece for instance and you see each allianz greeks spaniards and frenchmen nowadays we feel we should go back to our old carys is at least we have control of our monetary policy and it's not even a friend ford you know so these are big crowds but look at the places where goal we place this and where this revolving door between politics and economics at least it's you know the outcome is better standard of living for most of the population and i'll go once ag

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about three or four weeks ago and a number of us in the congress about 18 members met with the actingim to move this process along. the president just announced this before a joint session of congress that he was going to do something to allow homeowners who were under water and current in their mortgages to be able to get the lower interest rates we are seeing now. we have a situation here where we -- the program is already helping about 900,000 people, but according to the experts, it should help about another 2013. that's a small step, but at least it's a major step in the right direction. >> you know, sir, that you're political opponents don't like this kind of intervention, and mitt romney actually had this to say recently about the problem. let's listen to what he said. >> don't try and stop the foreclosure process. let it run its course and hit the bottom, allow investors to buy homes, put renters in them, fix the homes up. >> i guess with everything mr. romney says, it sounds perfectly plausible. do you agree? >> i think mr. romney is out of touch with america. every six month

>> well, people should see some of us in the congress, we're on their side. we're their friend. we're supporting them. and they need to realize that as we are not enemies. >> you get a sense last night or this weekend when you were there that they felt like you were a friend or the enemy as a member of congress? >> oh, no. the great majority of the people supported my being there. they were happy to see me. when i walked up they started cheering. so, no. they know my history, they know my record. >> all right, congressman lewis, we appreciate you hopping on the line with us talking to us about these protests. always good to talk to you. i know i'll talk to you again soon, sir. thanks so much. >> good to talk to you. >>> 11 minutes past the hour now. that incident i was talking about there with charlie rangel. this is how it played out. let's let you hear how it played out when he tried to go to a rally and show his support to the protesters up in new york. >> go home! go out of here! go home! boo! boo! boo! boo! >> now after this incident, representative rangel said he wasn't su

us. and i believe strongly in congress' oversight role. e that the congress would consider working with us to help us build that sustainable framework, and the perfect example of that was the military commission act of 2009. we had the oh sick act. where the supreme court decision followed. there's a fair amount of controversy and debate in the run up to the '06 law, and when i came into office we started thinking about ways to reform the system, and right at about the same time my colleagues on the hill and the house and senate armed services committee were thinking along the same lines, and we worked together on a bipartisan basis. there is still some bipartisanship that occurs on the hill i find. there's a fair amount of it around the armed services committee. and so i generally work with democrats and republicans, in both committees. and that was an effort to help sustain and solidify our legal authority for reform military commissions in a way that we all believe was more sustainable, more credible, took out some of the more controvers

they'll miss the stories and humanors he used to get his message across. we in congress will miss his straightforward approach and sound counsel. the nation will miss his devotion to duty, ceaseless drive for improvement and unwavering support for the men and women serving in our armed services. mr. speaker, i want to recognize general mcnabb for serving the air force with honor and distinction for 35 years. i also wish to recognize his wife, linda, and wish her the very best in the future as well. the air force will lose not one but two exceptional people upon general mcnabb's retirement. general mcnabb and linda, we wish you well in your future endeavors and those who follow in your footsteps will have unprecedented support for our great nation. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to clause 12-a of rule 1, the chair declares the house in recess until noon today.we wr phone calls as we finish this discussion. we spoke this morning on journal how the debate will proceed with the free trade agreements. is a congre

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patriot act did not create national security dash industry in 1988 by congress and used in that regarde come your, did expand the categories in which they were being used. and clarify the procedures that they were to use. and just again to lay out all the facts. this provision has been used. horribly abused. there was an inspector general report of the fbi in 2007 that said, the issues of national security letters without will probable predicate, without the proper supervision. there's no question it has been abused. nevertheless, congress has reauthorized it with some state courts making clear judicial review what was implicit before. and i guess the recognition is that there's always potential for abuse of some law, and you know, the constitution is there. the constitution is violated it doesn't mean it makes it -- >> guest: i have to disagree with it. it seems to me what happened here, i'm not letting congress on the. i completely agree with you that congress is supporting the executive branch and the ability of this enormous power. a couple things happen with the national security

that nearly resulted in the whole debate being ended, and what i think it is very little understood debate but it's what got us when this sort of a sesto em ho we have today in congress where all of the states have two representatives in the senate in other words and equal vote in the senate and representation some the basis of the population in other words what more representatives for more people in the house of representatives and so i think that 20 date will has faded in people's memory if it ever was there and it's not well understood, and i wanted to highlight the fact that this debate was preceded and then succeeded by the dates that also split states on the basis of their size. of course the question of size is an interesting one because is it science in terms of territory or in terms of population and that's what was being debated and discussed and figured out what the constitutional convention and the decades after a. >> the first constitutional convention? >> yes, our only federal constitutional convention in philadelphia, yes. >> as the was debated with the issues involved? >> it's important to understand before the american revolution the and the colonia

commissioner antonini can talk to his republican friends in congress about giving us more funding for subways, but without federal funds i do not see it happening. we have dedicated bus lines in some places. in others, we do not have dedicated bus lanes. the bus gets into the bus stop zone, and nobody wants to let it back onto the road. one car with one person thinks they are more important than a bus with 50 people, which is mind blowing, but whatever. around the transit effective this project, i wanted to hear with where that is installed and how the goals here fit together with the transit effectiveness projects -- >> currently, we are about to go through and launch the project. we're getting a dedicated team for that. we are really excited about it. we will be doing a lot of background work on it as well, working the planning department -- working with the planning department and environmental planning. we are basically ready to go. we will have a series of public outrage and to analysis by line. it will be an exciting opportunity for us to look at the low hanging fruit we can do

. >> this is a miss for democrats in congress, who don't want the term obamacare used in campaign mailersthink the term is too provocative. here you have democrats running from president obama's signature achievement, something tells me if the health care law were popular they'd want to give the president credit. >> paul: they'd put it at the top of all. >> and another bailout package for greece and i think the eu inventing the art of pulling teeth slowly. >> paul: and the banks, too. >> in rescue the banks, the markets initially, but the details they have haven't addressed the real problem, they have too much debt and not able to grow. >> remember, if you have your own hit or miss, send it to us at j

just in the primary, but the general elects if they become the nominee and see the republican in congress and usehem to win the senate and house seats, too, given the complaints you're going to see, we talked about this, you're going to have a big public movement to make it happen. >> paul: wall street protests continues among the demands, student loan forgiveness, are we looking at the welcome idaho, where they grow america's favorite potoes. everyone knows idaho potatoes taste great. but did you know they'reood for you too? they're high in vitamins and potassium. and idaho potatoes are now certified to carry the heart checkmark from the american heart assoction for foods low in saturated fat and cholesterol. so they're good for my family, and for yours. heart smart idaho potatoes. always look for the grown in idaho seal. [ cellphone rings ] cut! [ monica ] i have a sml part in a big movie. i thought we'd be on location for 3 days, it's been 3 weeks. so, i used my citi simplicity card to pick up a few things. and i don't have to worry about a late fee. which is good... no! bigger! bigger! [ moni

a patriot act didn't create a national security it was created in 1988 by congress and used in that regard. 505, you're right did expand the categories in which they were being used and clarified the procedures that they were to use and again just to the of all the facts in this provision has been abused. it's been horribly abused. there was an inspector general report of the fbi that said there was an issuance of national security letters without the probable predicates without proper supervision and for but said there is no question it has been abused. nonetheless, congress has reauthorize it with some safeguards making sure there is judicial review and it was implicit before and i guess the recognition is that there's always potential for abuse of some wall and the constitution is there and violated doesn't mean the violation makes the law -- >> guest: i have to disagree with that. it seems to me again what happened not letting congress off the hook the are supporting the exit to the french and their ability to have this enormous power but a couple of things happened with the national s

just in the primary, but the general elects if they become the nominee and see the republican in congress and use them to win the senate and house seats, too, given the complaints you're going to see, we talked about this, you're going to have a big public movement to make it happen. >> paul: wall street protests continues among the demands, student loan forgiveness, are we looking at the next big taxpayer bailout? . >> the search for baby lisa, judge jeanine is live at the crime scene with insight analysis from investoigators. ♪ ♪ ♪ when your chain of supply ♪ goes fr here to shanghai, that's logistics. ♪ ♪ chips from here, boards from there ♪ ♪ track it all through the air, that's logistics. ♪ ♪ clearing customs like that ♪ hurry up no time flat that's logistics. ♪ ♪ all new technology ups brings to me, ♪ ♪ that's logistics. ♪ my son and i never missed opening day. but with copd making it hard to breathe, i thought ose days might be over. so my doctor prescribed symbicort. it helps significantly ove my lung function, starting within 5 minutes. symbicort doesn't replace a rescue inhaler for sudd

for one little second here you have a war the president of the united states got us involved in without ever asking congress unconstitutionally you got a nato coalition the way into the country based on a u.n. resolution that only allowed for the enforcement of a no fly zone and protecting civilians and yet what resulted was obviously an attempt to get gadhafi and no civilians were to be protected by the drone the fire to hell fire missile at the convoy in sirte yesterday if anything their lives were put in more danger but while nato and the u.s. claim that they didn't know it could off he was part of that convoy they were trying to kill him it always stood by the statement that if he happens to die in one of these airstrikes so be it so we see a total lack of honesty there as usual and all that raises the larger question of course that's what are already ever allowed trying to take a foreign leader out i mean is there somebody signing off on that decision or is this just some kind of an unspoken agreement are we going to do this all over the world a serious assad next is yemen sali these are viable questio

it's the kind of things i think most of you in this country want us to do in congress every day. this measure and the four important points to note that we all concur in and what america wants us to do is provide us a path to energy independence. it revitalizes our nation's transportation, water infrastructure and our investments in our infrastructure -- other investments in our infrastructure that equal jobs, jobs and jobs. it reduces the deficit with no new taxes and it is a bipartisan effort. one that is supported on both sides of the aisle. several years ago i joined with my colleagues from both sides to develop this sensible energy policy, that acknowledges our challenges for our nation's energy both in the short-term, the near term, the medium and the long-term, over the next 20 years. similar to what we have done in previous congresses, this bipartisan energy working group, which includes my colleagues, congressman -- representative tim murphy who just spoke, congress member tim walsh, and -- walz, and congressman bill shuster, and myself, and other members who you will hea

what we use today, the single district method where a state is carved up into districts and these are geographic districts and people in those states elect to one representative to go to congress and there was some controversy in using that method because some people argued that these kinds of representatives would be more loyal to the constituents that elected them rather than to the entire state but this whole issue was debated almost every 10 years until 1850 because every 10 years after congress got the results of the census, congress would have to reapportion and the size of congress was growing. now the size of congress is fixed in the early 20th century. it was decided that congress would -- the size of the congress would be fixed at 475 representatives but at that time the number of representatives was increasing. and after each census, congress would have to decide how to apportion the representatives and how to figure out the ratio of representatives. after the first -- in the first congressional election, the ratio to people representatives with you 1 to 40,000. and now it's 1 to 670,000. so obviously things have changed a lot so the basis of this representative --

they do that they lead most americans to the conclusion that money buys results in congress which is why only nine percent of us have confidence in them and you know we should put that in context there are plainly more people who believed in the british crown at the time of the revolution then who believe in this congress today so yes there's a question when is the country when is the government actually bankrupt and when to just have to admit that it's lost the faith of the people well do you think though that it's just a perception that the people have that you know that money buys congress or it isn't that the plain old truth. it is a great question to ask but i think that it's pretty overwhelming that the money is distorting and bending what congress does it's not buying congress and the old quid pro quo bribery way nobody is alleging and i don't believe that this congress is corrupt in the sense that rob blagojevich or randy duke cunningham were corrupt but it is buying or bending congress in the sense that as these members dance to figure out what flushes the most money into the system that dance just doe

in the the whole debate being ended. end i think it is of very little understood debate, but it is what the us the sort of odd system that we have today in congress where all the states have two representatives in the senate, in other words, an equal vote in the senate, and then representation on the basis of population. in other words, more representatives for states with more people in the lower house is, the house of representatives. and so i think that debate has faded in people's memories, if it ever was there, and i think it is not well understood, and i wanted to highlight the fact that this debate was preceded by debates that also split states on the basis of their size. of course the question of size is an interesting one because size in terms of territory or size in terms of population? that is really what was being debated and discussed and figured out at the constitutional convention and in the decades afterwards. >> host: the first constitutional convention speech to yes. actually, raleigh federal constitutional convention in 1787 in philadelphia. >> host: as i was being debated, over the issues involved and who were on each side? >>

in the house of representatives make better decisions. i think when americans are informed, they help us make better decisions. a lot of americans don't fully appreciate this, i think, sometimes, but congress really does reflect more fully than they think the will of the american people. and i think, again, transparency helps us here represent the american people in even a more full way. today we introduce this bill. i thank senator bennet from colorado for joining me in this effort. i thank representative cooper and ryan for their leadership in the house. and, madam president, it's my hope that either through unanimous consent or early action soon that this bill will become law. i think as long as americans understand where things stand, americans help us here in congress make good and sound decisions. that's why i'm introducing this bill today with the help of senator bennet from colorado. with that, i yield the floor. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mr. alexander: i want to congratulate senator corker for his usual good judgment and insight in helping us work on a difficult problem. no member of this body has done more in the last year to t

many of us here in congress received a letter from those institutions in 2009.ple independent lines of evidence, and contrary assertions are inconsistent with an objective assessment of the vast body of pier reviewed science. let me repeat that last quote. contrary assertions are inconsistent with an objective assessment of the vast body of pier-reviewed science. this letter was signed by the heads of the following organizations -- the american association for the advancement of science, the american chemical society, the american geophysical union, the american institute of biological sciences, the american meteorological society, the american society of agronomy, the american society of plant by ol gists, the american statistical association, the association of ecosystem research centers, the botanical society of america, the crop science society of america, the ecological society of america, the natural science collections alliance, the organization of biological field stations, the society for industrial and applied mathematics, the society of systemic biolo

he pointed out that the republicans in congress blocked him at every turn. >> republicans in congress fought us tooth-and-nail to keep the status quo and keep the tax dollars flowing to the big banks instead of middle class families. one of them said changing it would be an outrage. the real outrage was letting banks keep these subsidies while students were working three jobs just to try to get by. that was the outrage. >> governor, i only borrowed $2,800 to go to college. it was 3%. i could slow walk the repayments, the peace corps, graduate school, finally get around to it. today the kids are getting killed with market rates and 40,000, $100,000 loans. i can see they didn't -- they don't like the congress stepping on his fingers on that one. >> sure. there's a big difference between a populist message and class warfare. the republicans don't want to categorize everything as class warfare. why did we need middlemen for student loans that jacked up the price? the president eliminated the middlemen and as a result kids will have to repay a lot less and this proposal today is another step in the

in our camp, fighting hard for us. the majority are not concerned about it. we need to get the majority of people in congressrned about this issue. tavis: these 12 members of congress who have t o figure out the deficit reduction, whahow scared are you of what may happen to children and babies? >> i am concerned. there is an idea that we just nutrition nutriciosion programs. food stamps provide $350 a month. a 1% cut cuts $75 out of the monthly budget. how does a family of four with $25,000 get by on $275 a month in food? they don't. this is why we see this at a rate we've never seen, in the 25 years we've done what we've done. really concerned. sounds easy. just take 1%. tavis: how does feeding america define food and security? >> families don't know wheere re the next meal will come from. there are definitions leading to people being hungry. >tavis: you suggested earlier, i didn't want to stop your flow. you say we are a country of plenty. does that evidence hold up? do we have enough food and can we feed the people who are hungry. >> there is enough food to feed the majority of the world. do we have the p