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so i hope that secretary vilsack and i can say the obama administration uses the authority to produce a strong, enforceable rule regarding the number of people who can be eligible for farm subsidies from taxpayers. in other words, people that are actually farming. i'm certainly going to offer them my thoughts on this issue, and maybe i should explain why i said even the obama administration beyond secretary vilsack because in this president's budget more than once and in the bush budget more than once presidents, including this president, has suggested these reforms, to save money. this year i said about $400 million. with actually according to c.b.o., $387 million. the go go release -- the government accountability office released a report in october, 2013 that clearly outlines the problems with the actively engaged loophole. one farming partnership that they highlighted was composed of 22 llc's with 20 different owners and 16 managers who got their eligibility through the actively engaged loophole. so you understand why the bill that passed the senate and the house said one manager.

but if congress fails, agriculture secretary tom vilsack warns that older subsidies may be implimented that could double the price of milk at your local store. the number of homes falling into foreclosure... dropped to the lowest level in 6 years.. the housing market continues to emerge from the depths of the financial collapse.realty trac reports while foreclosures are steadily declining around the u.s...florida, new york and california's housing market recoveries continue to struggle.. detroit...denied. a bankruptcy judge has shot down a request by the city to sever a financial contract with two big banks. detroit entered into the interest rate swaps with ubs and bank of america in 2005 to help keep interest rates steady on pension funds. the contract costs the city around 50 million dollars per year.to exit would have cost 165 million, which the judge deemed "too expensive." now that amazon workers have voted against joining a union...the company is responding. in an email to time.com a spokewoman for the company says our employees have made it clear that they prefer a direct connec

i got to know kathleen sebelius and janet napolitano and tom vilsack through the dlc. and al and his team created this unbelievable community. and so here we are, you know, decades later, so many of us recognizing that what al said, that politics is supposed tonight -- tonight -- to be about ideas. and so much of the focus is about personality rather than the ideas. and we all have continuing work to do to put the focus where it ought to be, which is on the ideas. you know, at the beginning of al's book, chapter one begins by him saying that he threw away party on election night of 1980, ask nobody showed up -- and nobody showed up. he went to work. for the next 25 or 30 years. and here we are tonight to celebrate the book that chronicles the rise of of the nw democrat movement, the movement that brought our party back a. and, al, tonight you threw a party, and a whole lot of people showed up. let's hear it for al from. [cheers and applause] >> wow. thank you very much, jack, and thanks to bruce. i always like to have bruce sort of warm up the crowd, because he gets yo

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you see the agriculture secretary tom vilsack, secretary of labor, secretary of health and human services kathleen sebelius. she's had a rough 2013 with the rollout of obamacare. there is the secretary of the department of education, r.e. duncan came with the president from chicago where he was in charge of chicago schools. jean spurling who will be leaving the white house soon, director of the economic council. shawn donovan, with housing and urban development. there's kathleen sebelius. >> during last year of the bush administration as you might remember, jake, kathleen sibeliusious was governor of kansas. she delivered the democratic response, the democratic response to the republican president's address, the state-of-the-union address. she's under different circumstances right now. it will be interesting, john king and gloria borger, to hear how much the president actually talks about the affordable care act as we see lindsey graham and ted cruz standing by talking amongst themselves. >> you see two critics of it right there, lindsey graham and ted cruz. ted cruz one of the freshmen r

secretary vilsack, chair of the committee that i'm the ranking member on, there's 4 -- pointed out there's 400 counties in the united states that are by census the poorest counties in the united states, that are really, really poor, they're in the third world and they're in the united states. our committee, agriculture outreach and food program sdz and economic development, water and rural electricity and all those things are the solutions and in the communication systems, broadband and so on, we've got to address this an we don't have enough must be to do that. i praise the chair's ability to get back on order but while i'm going to support this bill, let's hope next year we get back in order and bring the fiscal affairs of the united states in good, sound position, not just cut, squeeze, and trim. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. mrs. lowey: how much time do i have remaining. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman has two and a half inutes remaining. mrs. lowey: i'd like to thank again the distinguished chairman rogers and all of the appropriations committee and i

. >> there's kathleen sebelius, of course, in blue and tom vilsack in the forefront, the agriculture secretary. he's been in there two terms. >> unusual choice that he stayed on for two terms. he was once of the designated survivors. now they go with the energy guys every time. >> there's peter king who may run for president on the still alive moderate wing of the republican party. he may be the last survive over there. >> steve schmidt, let me bring you into the conversation, in terms of what you're expecting, domestic versus foreign policy matters. do you expect the president to address that? and what you expect him to do differently tonight than previous state of the union addresses? >> he comes into the state of the union, sixth year of the presidency and in a lot of political trouble. his numbers are the only president whose numbers have been lower at this point in their presidency are harry truman and george w. bush. the country is pessimistic. they report the state of the union as being divided, being troubled. heading into the election year with the senate at stake, president

secretary vilsack, chair of the committee that i'm the ranking member on, there's 4 -- pointed out there's 400 counties in the united states that are by census the poorest counties in the united states, that are really, really poor, they're in the third world and they're in the united states. our committee, agriculture outreach and food program sdz and economic development, water and rural electricity and all those things are the solutions and in the communication systems, broadband and so on, we've got to address this an we don't have enough must be to do that. i praise the chair's ability to get back on order but while i'm going to support this bill, let's hope next year we get back in order and bring the fiscal affairs of the united states in good, sound position, not just cut, squeeze, and trim. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. mrs. lowey: how much time do i have remaining. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman has two and a half inutes remaining. mrs. lowey: i'd like to thank again the distinguished chairman rogers and all of the appropriations committee and i