well, walden is standing behind what he said, in a statement provided to us this morning, "chairman walden supports the budget passed by house republicans that preserves and protects medicare and social security while also balancing the budget in ten years. he disagrees with president obama's political plan that hurts current seniors, just so he can pay for more wasteful spending." we hear this clarification, by the way, not sitting well, with members of the gop leadership. but this entire episode raises too larger points. one, it shows why reforming any of these programs is so difficult, because the political parties are ready to pounce on any type of change that's unpopular and trust me, folks, changing anything to sz enior citizens is unpopular. note that walden is probably reading plenty of these polls that indicate how unpopular this is. and trust me, i've seen the numbers he's seen. it's unpopular. so he's seeing an opportunity to take advantage and save the republican majority. two, walden's comments hurt the gop in its effort to be taken seriously about this grand bargain budget pr

to see who denounces greg walden and who doesn't. >> sure.he longer game, at least i hope the white house's longer game on this is to put this budget out, to say, here's my last best offer, and look at what's already happened within this republicans. it's one of those things where democrats can kind of step back. yes, bernie sanders and others have already started up chained cpi and what they don't like, but you've got, within the republican caucus, i have to look at the television to make sure i was hearing right who it was that was, you know, saying that yesterday. >> but, pete, actually, this does now, it's why i'm, we were watching why republicans wouldn't own entitlement reform. they always kept saying, they wanted the president, no, no, no, you put out a plan first, you put out a plan. because it's not popular. >> well, i feel like i always get the fun topics when i'm on the show, so thank you, congressman. but, look, yes, they always do say that, but, it was house republicans that put something out first. the paul ryan -- >> and that w

greg walden, man, we will talk about that in a second.e kind of got it from both sides. >> started with you and heard it j john boehner and about everybody else in his party. >> he did not have a good day. >>> the gun control debate is officially on the senate floor. 16 republicans, that's a pretty big number. 16 republicans joined 50 democrats and two independents in voting to allow the debate to begin. proposals will include background checks on gun sales and strength mental health and safety school programs. some families of the newtown tragedy have mixed feelings about the vote. >> i was very pleased with how many yeses we did have and happy to get this passed but i was completely shocked there were so many who were still against this and who still believe that we don't need to be heard, that newtown doesn't deserve a vote and that nothing needs to be done. we had a good start. this is one thing we needed done and -- >> the vote was enough to overcome votes of a filibuster and not everybody is on vote. here is one who voted this bill

let me defend greg walden here for a second. his job is to elect republicans. fact of the matter is this cpi proposal, even though i think it's pretty modest, doesn't poll very well. the senior citizens don't want any changes to social security. >> sure. encouraged by the lobbying groups and .1 of 1%. >> polls very poorly. if democrats -- the problem here is democrats are going to run against republicans this election on this very proposal put forward by president obama. >> okay. michael feldman, are democrats smart to show a little leg here? the president saying, okay, i'm willing to give a little. is that smart politics? >> it's absolutely smart politics. they're not running this process based on the last poll they saw. they're saying, how do we get a comprehensive deal? that's going to include entitlement reform which the president has been talking about for a long time, plus investments, plus revenues. all of that comes together to create a meaningful deal which by the way strengthens the middle class -- >> michael, i appreciate that. what's going to happen

walden found cuts to programs very delicious indeed. saying the last thing the republicans should attack the democrats for is for making the most minor reforms to our entitlement programs, he ought to think about clarifying his remarks on chained cpi and clarify soon. which begs the question, if republicans can't agree on stuff they're supposed to like, does broccoli even stand a chance? does broccoli stand a chance, richard? >> broccoli always stands a chance. but it clearly liking broccoli makes you left wing so -- look, to extend the menu thing a little bit further -- >> dessert and the cake. >> when gene spurling says this is not an ala carte menu, the problem is that you don't get to decide how the customers will pick the menu. >> he's saying it's a prefix, not an ala carte. >> the problem is it's out there. however, whoever cooked it, whatever saurs it's in, it's out there. they have made a concession and it was entirely predictable that republicans would actually say thank you very much and now let's go onto the next course. the

>> guest: well, we gave congressman walden the award specifically for his work on the spectrum auction legislation. and he was a big supporter of the legislation and of public television's enter in the legislation -- interest in the legislation. for example, the senate bill provided for a billion dollars in transition costs, mostly related to repacking once this auction is completed. and we had concluded that that wasn't nearly enough money to pay for all the transition costs that were going to be borne by both commercial and public television stations. and so congressman walden was able to add another $750 million to that transition cost budget which was a huge benefit to the public television station community as well as the commercial community. and so we thought he was well deserving of this award. he worked in a highly bipartisan way with ranking member anna eshoo of california and with other colleagues in the house. this was a real model for how good important legislation can be enacted in congress, and he took a very enlightened leadership role there. and we were happy to be abl

i don't know that much about walden's district but it's not deeply right wing.t is probably a factor why he said what he said. and as i said, you know, i wouldn't have put it past the republicans to run saying that obama wants to cut your social security. they did the same thing in 2010 even though they were for deeper medicare cuts, they said obama was was custodying medicare to pay for obama-care. obama is lucky to have them for opponents. >> michael: i think the gambling here is going to work out. there is one thing that both parties seem to agree on, that's immigration reform. the nbc immigration poll asked which party would do a better job on immigration. 6% said the democrats would be only 19% said the republicans. but some said neither party. >> this is going to be a long tough battle. there are going to be amendments in the senate, and amendments can really weigh down a bilker and can kill a bill, actually. too many amendments in the senate. then i think it's also a tough fight in the house of representatives. i find the agreement the announcement today

i mean, i've got to touch them, but i don't like to. >> but making szabos earns walden $3 a day, ande appreciates that. >> it comes in handy because i'm indigent. i don't have people to come visit me and put money in my books. you work like a slave, but i mean you can't complain. yeah, it keeps your mind from wandering or getting pressed out because i've got a little girl at home. you know what i'm saying? keeps me from thinking of her too much. pressed out means depressed. some of that louisville slang. >> walden is not alone in feeling depressed about leaving a child on the outside. laron moore's recent self-abusive behavior resulted in his being removed from his cell and placed in a restraint chair. now in a calmer state of mind, he explains why he was upset. >> my son. i know -- i know some way he's missing me as much as i'm missing him. but i try not to think about him. >> moore, now on new medication, has been taken off suicide watch. the jail's goal is to return him to general population. >> hi. >> how are you doing? >> i'm doing pretty good. how are you? >> that decision will

>> john: while on the right national republican congressional committee chairman congressman greg walden of oregon said wednesday his budget really lace out a kind of a shock attack on seniors. but so far, speaker of the house john boehner was concerned this attack wasn't nearly big enough. >> i made it clear that i disagree with what chairman walden said. this is the least we must do to begin to solve the problems in social security. >> john: which is in no way threatened by medicare. for more on today's vote, i'm pleased to be joined by representative mike thompson democrat of california and chair of the congressional gun violence prevention task force. congressman, good evening. what a pleasure to have you with us. >> john, it is good to be with you. >> john: thank you. as chair of the gun prevention task force, what do you think of the senate's bill? can this have a real impact on gun violence in america? >> i think it can. it is doing something that we've all wanted to do for a long time and that's expand background checks to cover those who aren't already covered. it is estimated t

and john boehner didn't like that one bit. >> i made it clear that i disagree with what chairman waldene and i have had a conversation about it. >> the man who used to lead the budget thinking in the house of representatives first said this. >> so change cpi. the president put this proposal in there, in his budget. first time he has done something like that. and so we interpret this as more or less an olive branch, meaning a good thing. >> and then he said this. >> we've never proposed it before. we've never proposed this. this is not our idea. >> that's how good a thing it is. grover norquist had this to say about the president's budget today. >> if the president actually wanted to pass anything in his budget, he would have lined up the democrat votes in the senate first. it's just for show. he didn't actually write a budget he plans to work with. >> howard fineman, this is a very interesting point that grover nor quest just brought up. rachel raised this last night. is he serious about this budget? is this some kind of political pot-stirring and not really attempting to legislate? >>

walden is a hypocrite. rick: well don't hold back, lanny.ell us how you really feel. >> you don't to know what i really think. rick: we'll reach out to the congressman's office. lanny, thanks for coming on. >> thank you, rick, thank you. jenna: a news conference is underway in florida. what the two young boys allegedly kidnapped by their own parents taken to cuba. a news conference as the grandparents are speaking out. the boys are back home with those grandparents as the parents themselves face a judge for the very first time today. we'll tell you about those charges. >>> plus north korea is warning today it has, quote, powerful striking means as we learn new evidence of a north korean missile launch could be imminent. our panel takes it on straight ahead jenna: breaking news out of texas. we've been following this bus accident, that happened just outside of dallas. dallas where we find our own casey stiegel who is reporting live on the story. casey. >> reporter: a really horrific accident when you look at the pictures coming from kdfw, the

greg walden called it a shocking atake on the seniors and the change in cpi confused fellow republicansn capt apt hill who don't know what he's talking about . grist for depem dems who are opposed on what the president has as a minor tweak. >> is it possible paul ryan weighing in that there is a glimmer of hope and lindsay graham saying it is a potential for a grand bargain. is it possible, we talked so many times at this table, about the grand bargain. is it possible that it opens the door to a grand bargain as he opens the door to the republicans tonight. >> remember the scene from dumb and dumber. >> you are saying a one in a mill cron chance. >> it works. that is a perfect line . that is the situation we are looking at here. i was in a session with paul ryan and he 45 minutes and he's hopeful that maybe there would be common ground on tax reform and maybe they would find something with the president moving forward. but pretty much everybody in washington understands it is unlikely it is a grand bargain and paul ryan said he didn't think there would be a grand bargain and the fact th

my name is walden and i would like to submit a letter to the record. director of sf city. in the interest of the time i will only read a boars of the full letter. sf for technology and innovation was established to harness innovative powers for students facing problems in san francisco. our 200 members represent over 30,000 employees in san francisco. in a short period of time we have at that period into the talents that have addressed issues in our city. job creation, transportation, education and public safety. sf city is committed to helping san francisco pursue career in our city's striving sector. improved critique los -- curriculum and local schools and career opportunities with n the sector. letting the skill sets speak for themselves. we now hope to work with city and community leaders into these efforts into a cohesive pipeline to participate in our thriving sector. >> thank you very much. what's your affiliations? >> i work with sf city. i'm a project manager. >> next speaker is letty brown. you have two minutes. >> hello, i'm an intern at bay cat. i was born and

. >> talking about the great walden comment. a member of the house leaders p leadership.ans in charge of the house head of the rcc and he attacked the president from the left. he was harsher than i think sanders was. what was the exactly quote sosa? he was an affront. essentially say the entire change of the cpi which a whole bunch of other republicans support including john boehner and including a whole bunch of senate republicans. he seemed to telegraph that they were going to run against the president. >> let me just say now. anybody, any republican, any democrat that runs against responsible rational solutions to take care of our long-term debt is selling out our children, is stealing from the next generation. it's generational theft and for republicans to do this is beyond shameless. they did it in 2010. >> right. >> and to tell the president -- we have been busting his chops for months, put it out there. be responsible. the president has finally -- he just tips his toe in the water and greg walden comes swinging. this is shameless. i know greg. i like greg. but i'm

what's interesting here is that walden is probably talking more about the means testing in medicare,70,000 per year litmus test as to whether or not you would need to have increased cost for your medicare benefits. >> right. >> more than he's talking about necessarily the chain cpi. really, chain cpi. we need to remember the history of social security here and really dismiss this kind of political maneuvering on the right. >> you've just done that, sir. jared, how does a republican congressman who voted for the paul ryan budget seriously attack the president's budget for what it does to seniors? how does he do that? >> right. it's real jujitsu and you have to remember -- >> come on, jared, you have to be less polite. that's not jujitsu. >> it's disingenuous. >> it's other words i won't say right now. >> okay. >> during the campaign, mitt romney and representative ryan attacked the president's medicare cuts and paul ryan, of course, pockets those very same cuts in his budget and, of course, you've got republicans calling for precisely the kind of entitlement concessions that the presi

. >> i made it clear that i disagree with what chairman walden said. he and i have had a conversation about it. this is the least we must do to begin to solve the problems in social security. >> white house press secretary jay carney pointed out the call for chain cpi came specifically from republican leaders as a necessary way to lower spending. >>> one estimate found chaining cpi would save $121 billion over ten years. but the proposal has also drawn blowbacks from the president's own party leadership. >> i, myself, believe that whatever we talk about in terms of prolonging life of social security should be considered in its own place. whatever we're doing, it's about extending the life and the strength of social security. it's not about balancing the budget. and so that's some of the concerns that some of our members have. why is this in this bill? >>> the growing shift in attitudes toward the legal ite of gay marriage according to the new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll. 53% of americans believe same-sex couples should be allowed to marry. up t

steve jobs is exactly that that era that you talked about the lead one hundred century you read on walden pond and. i mean it's been forty years since i read it but. i remember thinking at the time throw had to be the world's most eloquent interviewer and arguably emerson and i suppose walt whitman although he thought he did like to you know travel around insurers. are were those the the kind of speakers of their time who exemplified introversion as a cultural value or character as a cultural value yet you know they were some of them i think arguably lincoln might have been that kind of person he was actually praised i think it was emerson as as a man who did not offend by superiority and he had a very modest. presentation which was prized at the time but also you know even if you go across the pond to the romantic poets of great britain you also saw those caves. celebration of the solitary thinker the solitary figure he felt things deeply these things were prized at that time and we lost sight of that more recently. though he was there too you know when you talk about wealth through must

walden moved eight points clear of the drop zone after coming back to win three one at second bottom or do it in my mansion put the home side ahead five minutes before the break but three late goals within seven minutes gave the visitors a vital week to him with down minutes to go i say so by golf leveled from the panel to support them alex on that belies out of swiftly put them i had an hour to psyche so for repped up a stunning three one win. and third more time criticizing at the one seven points kwil the relation trapdoor off to winning two one at home to rock bottom i won in the original goran added for the host self to eleven minutes and been a while and one made it to nil on this struggle for half time thomas breeze can grab the l.r. as good as gold for the visitors but it was too little too late as the whole say this second straight week to a long standing by the party. now let's take a look at the rest of the week's news far on the guy. on monday three people were killed including an eight year old boy and moving one hundred injured after two blasts rocked the homestretch of

it was actually that that era that you talked about the late one nine hundred century you read on walden pond and. i mean it's been forty years since i read it but. i remember thinking at the time throw i had to be the world's most eloquent interviewer and arguably emerson and i suppose walt whitman although he thought he did like to you know travel around the jurors. were those the kind of speakers of their time who exemplified introversion as a cultural value or character as a cultural value yeah you know they were some of them i think arguably lincoln might have been that kind of person he was actually praised i think it was emerson as as a man who did not offend by superiority and he had a very modest. presentation which was prized at the time but also you know even if you go across the pond to the romantic poets of great britain you also saw this kind of celebration of the. terry thinker the solitary figure he felt things deeply these things were prized at that time and we lost sight of that more recently. though he was there too you know when you talk about well through must be the

from the chairman of the national republican congressional committee to this proposal this is greg walden and he's attacking the president's chained c.p.i. proposal take a look. congressman what do you think of the president's remarks well i thought it's very intriguing in that it has a budget really lays out kind of a shocking attack on seniors if you will when we haven't seen all the detail yet simple look at it but i'll tell you when when you're going after seniors the way he's already done on obamacare taken seven hundred billion out of medicare to put into obamacare and now coming back at seniors again i think you're crossing that line very quickly here so this is coming from the party that tried to privatized social security you know just about ten years ago and where if they would have succeeded seniors would have had their entire retirement savings wiped out of the crash is the party that's been open about raising the retirement age so look i'm all about republicans going out against this i'm against this it republicans lie. up against it could be defeated here but this is one of

joining us now is great walden from oregon who chairs the national republican congressional committeeis great to have you with us. are you ready for your mind to be blown? >> i am afraid it will be my wallet that will be blown. real be filled with the same gimmicks. i don't have a lot of faith than the budget that is 65 days late. he had time to do brackets for march magness and play golf with tiger woods and go back out to sanford's is go now we have a budget it is hard to take seriously at this point*. lou: you are not saying he is and working do you say he prefers that to working? >> i am letting a the fact speak for itself the dead to it -- deadline was february february 4th if you showed up tomorrow do you think they make question mark you have been? you have to go back to 92 years to find a president has been this party. you would be in detention. lou: you are trying to get me fired or put in detention >> but you shine -- show up for work every day. >> millions of americans do. but 23 other million americans don't either because he is in working on creating jobs but i don't unde

we will be talking with congressman greg walden and he is the head of the national republican committeeing the republican campaign efforts. for some reason he has time to do his job as well. unlike some other soaps. i'm not mentioning names on it. and faith jenkins will be with us as well. a lot of things are happening and some surprising developments there. >> it is good. gerri: thank you. coming up next, it was on this business day back in 1967. america's new jet, the boeing 737 to cover its first flight. by 1987, it was known as the best selling commercial debt in history. think about this, with with two departing and landing somewhere every five seconds. boeing didn't stop there. today the company announced it is expanding in south carolina. the company is investing $1 billion and plans to create 2000 jobs over the next eight years. but it was the boeing 737 that started it all today, april 9, 46 years ago. still to come, my "two cents more" on banks branching out. and you don't have to be a multi-millionaire to have an impressive collection. we will have that next. gerri: art colle

the loser would be congressman greg walden that criticized the budget for having the chain cpi in it.t led several to say, hey, wait a second, that is something that republicans back. you shouldn't be putting down obama to put cuts on entitlements. >> the winners, the speaker of the florida house that refused significant political pressure to go along with governor scott's expansion of medicaid in florida and came up with an innovative and creative state fund program as an. loser is establishment media is so far behind on the scott story, they look foolish. they will be playing catch-up. i would say sub winners, kirsten powers and molly hemmingway that pushed the mainstream cover this story. >> bret: i think the winner may be the weather forecast. cbs and masters, it looks pretty good this weekend. >> stay tuned, it was safe to sit down and relax. describe thet time you met. you brought the flex in... as soon as i met fiona and i was describing the problem we were having with our rear brakes, she immediately triaged the situation, knew exactly what was wrong with it, the car was diagn

. >> i made it clear that i disagree with what chairman walden said. this is the least we must do to begin to solve the problems of social security. cenk: all right let me go to my panel here. lee, i thought that before the i elections, everybody talked about how they're the ones that are going to protect social security and medicare. what's fascinating is after the elections, most of them seem to agree, no, no, no, we were just kidding or lying let's slash social security and medicare. cenk: president obama was explicit in protecting medicare and social security, making it a campaign theme in 2008 and 2012, so there's huge hypocrisy there. i want to push back on the claims by a lot of progressives that speaker boehner is going to enforce ideological unit here. republicans are going to say that democrats are going after seniors, going to hurt grandma kill grandpa, and it's going to be a boon for republicans and depress the progressive base. cenk: so, beth, is that an interesting strategy by president obama to jump out ahead of the republicans and say n

to folks like congressman walden who has been famously hypocritally attacking it even though it is what republicans said they want. my question to you being in the capitol, are you seeing any benefit to the white house for putting these republican benefit cuts in their open budget? >> it is creating a consternation on the democratic side where we oppose the chained cpi. here's the thing people have to remember. it is up to the house and the senate to pass a budget. we have a law requiring the president to submit a budget but it is really the constitutional responsibility of us to do that. we passed a budget. the ryan budget in the house. i opposed it but it is passed. the real question now is will we use what is called regular order. have a conference committee and try to resolve the differences. this fight about the president's view, it is a bit of a side show and it deflects us from taking on the independent responsibility we have to come together and negotiate out the differences. >> congressman, one other issue we want to take up with you. immigration reform. there are thousands ral

. >> watching what happened with greg walden, the white house -- it couldn't have gone any better forere they were, this is exactly what republicans thought was going to happen the minute they desperately wanted the president to put chained cpi on the paper. go own it. because they thought one of the side benefits will be the left and he'll have this divisive fight. it gave the president a walk away from the talks card. >> i have to leave it there. >> and he doesn't want to walk away from the talks. >> i don't think he does. now he has the claim. >> i have to get a break in here. thank you all very much. we're going to take a quick break. when we come back, my voice is going to get remarkably better as you will hear my special conversation i taped on friday about the legacy of baseball legend jackie robinson and what his story of struggle means today. joining me the woman who stood by his side through all of it, his wife of 26 years, rachel robinson, as well as documentary filmmaker ken burns. we'll also hear from harrison ford who stars in the new robinson film "42" playing the man w

representative greg walden of oregon is joining us. congressman, what did you think of the president's remarks? >> well, i thought it very intriguing in that the budget really lays out kind of a shocking attack on seniors, if you will. we haven't seen all the detail yet, we'll look at it, but i'll tell you when you're going after seniors the way he's already done on obama care, taken $700 billion out of medicare to put into obama care and now coming back at seniors again, i think you're crossing that line very quickly here in terms of denying access to seniors for health care in districts like mine certainly and around the country. i think he's going to have a lot of pushback from some of the major senior organizations on this and republicans, as well. and this is a budget that doesn't balance. at the end of the day, you can have all the flowery rhetoric, but i'm a numbers guy and this doesn't add up. it does not balance. we've passed the ryan budget. it does balance in ten years, it will put us on a path to grow the economy and jobs a

greg walden breaks with party on the changed cpi. this is from politico. the top house republican campaign official broke with other leaders wednesday in criticizing president barack obama over his chained sepiolite proposal. during an interview on cnn, national republican congressional committee chair greg walden, republican of oregon, said obama was trying to balance this budget on the backs of seniors with the plan, which could change the way social security cost-of-living adjustments are calculated. >> guest: i am convinced, i think, most lawmakers in washington know we can save social security once and for all this afternoon. everyone knows that we have to both overtime raise the eligibility age to 70 over the next three decades and make sure that the benefits are calculated on a true cost of living rather than wages. we do those two things, we essentially save that program. the bigger challenges on medicare, and that's why the republican budget focuses more on the medicare side of things because of some of the biggest drivers long-term. so you suppor

greg walden brakes with party on chained cpi. during an interview on cnn, walden said obama was trying to balance his budget on the backs of seniors with the plan, which would change the way social security cost-of-living adjustments are calculated. most lawmakers in washington know we can save social security once and for all this afternoon. everyone knows we have to a take over time, raise the eligibility the benefitssure are calculated on a true cost of living rather than wages. we do those two things and we saying that program. the bigger challenge his on medicare. that is why republicans focus more on the medicare side of things. that is one of the biggest drivers long term. host: do you support chained cpi? think there is a better way to focus on workers than chained cpi. localon cigarettes or energy workers. security andal medicare for its own sake. host: the other issue is immigration. what are your thoughts? issue is long overdue. all i know is what i read. we have not seen the proposal to move forward. we need to close

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for the national republican congressional committee is greg walden, a republican from oregon. the national republican senatorial committee, is jerry moran, a republican senator from kansas. democratel bennet, a of colorado for the national democratic senatorial committee. we're taking your calls. daniel is up first from michigan on our democrat line. good morning. caller: i just want to make a comment. you posed the question, why would you want to be a congressman? why would you not want to be a congressman? it is more profitable than organized crime. you can wait around for -- serve your term in congress and then end up getting cozy with lobbyists. and end up as the ceo of sun company you get a contract for and then you are amultimillionaire. host: how hard a sell is it? how deep are the recruiting lists? is it a matter of getting anybody to position or the right person? guest: that's the key question. what the people would love to be a member of congress. question for the political committees and outside interest groups that want people to run for congress is finding the rig

congressman walden and by an senator berkeley tried to secure a drought relief during the devastating drought from 2010 and we're now concerned with the get the same thing. oregonians want an assurance that the water will be cut off to the project this summer. can you give us that assurance this morning? >> at this point* i'm making give you my theory high expectation the water will not be shut off this year. it certainly will be shut off in totality. to aspects of what we're doing in the climate basin based on the resources provided and the mitigation program that we set up with the folks locally we have mitigation measures in place , and other water supplies that access to in the climate basin that is in the neighborhood of 40 or 50,000-acre feet. in addition with a core operation what reclamation has 10 is redone the operations plan in a biological investment with asian routes by service and seeking a new biological consolidated opinion from those two agencies to improve those operations for this year which i it is a pate reels of a 5% water supply. that coupled with the mitigation

walden: i rise to express my deepest sympathy to the vims of the terrorism in boston. scripture tells us, blessed are those who mourn for they will be comforteded. our prayers go to those who lost loved ones and to the injured so they may be comforted. our thanks go to the first responders and good samaritans who assisted victims yesterday. that's what americans do, help their fellow men and women in time of need. that's a common bond that unites us. boston is the workplace of the american revolution, the cradle of revolution that spirit of free tom lives on in us and brings us closer together in our depreef. as meshes we will care for the victims and their families. we will ensure that justice is done for those behind the cowardly attacks and we will emerge as a nation stronger than ever before. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from hawaii rise? without objection the gentlewoman is recognized for ne minute. >> thank you, mr. speaker. we have overlooked a critical aspect of immigration reform, family reunificatio