thismportance of conference being held in washington dc has never been more important. over the course of our history, the one thing we know is that balancing that difference between risk management and access for american opportunity has always been a difficult balancing act. we have gotten it wrong over the years. tipping too far in one way or the other. i will say today we are in such a moment. in correcting for the loose lending standards of the past access we have stifled to credit that is so important to drive the american economy. it is not any individual action. it is policymakers making hundreds of decisions that make sense in isolation, but in the our choking off access to credit in the marketplace. one year ago, we call for policymakers to step back to reassess the balance and make sure there was a vision of how this society should look going for. we asked them to coordinate so we would know the pathway of collective instruments inside the beltway of washington dc, so we could understand where the light at the end of the tunnel would be. industryithout our ex

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but you're right that washington is not driving that. washington is the recipient of those, those wave withs of sentiment -- waves of sentiment that are becoming more and more significant just as the local governments are and just as people generally are. but it's contributory to the mood of the country and the question of what kind of a country we're going to be. it's the definitional issues of america that generate those kinds of, the kinds of conflicts and deadlocks that we have today. the greatest definitional issues was the issue of the 1850s regarding slavery, and it was not solvable through normal democratic processes that have been so brilliantly established by our fathers. >> we have, i think, a last question right here. from this gentleman. he's been waiting patiently. if you could identify yourself. >> request yes, of course. >> i think it's on. >> my name is -- [inaudible] and i'm from slovenia. i came to town months ago and, of course, aye been listening -- i've been listening very carefully, very attentively to the panel u.

when you look at the cases, "the new york times," "washington post." [inaudible] "the wall street journal," fox news. they're part of the main stream media. don't listen to how they brand themselves. they are mainstream in large. -- journalism that this is not and so -- the track record of the large organizations. i would like to think. i know, i have friends in the military and the intelligence community laugh when i say it. who put you in charge of determining what the public should know but, you know, when presented with sensitive material, particularly national security nature, the mainstream news organizations have almost always undertaken a thoughtful examination of how to publish -- what to publish. when agonized with. and even when provided with the entire wicky leeks, we -- wicky leaks. we used it as a basis for journalism then going out -- "washington post" through bart in the receipt of material -- which they're used to engage journalism and portions of it are being pickup truck there. you are only somebody with the expertise can thandle way

the clerk: washington d.c., october 10, 2013. to the senate: under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable brian schatz, a senator from the state of hawaii, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i moved to proceed to calendar number 211, it the debt limit bill. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: motion to proceed to calendar number 211 s. 1569, a bill to ensure the complete and timely payment of the obligations of the united states government until december 31, 2014. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: following leader remarks the time until 1:00 this afternoon will be equally divided and controlled between the two leaders or their designees. at 1:00 p.m. the senate will recess subject to call of the chair to allow for a special caucus meeting with the president. i am told, mr

this has official washington absolutely terrified. [applause] but this new paradigm has been beta tested. unlike the obama care web site this was been tested in 1980 with the reagan revolution, and we pulled this country back from the brink. and if you look at this past year, we have seen, over and over again the power of grassroots. i participated in standing side- by-side with rand paul it is at a filibuster against drones. when that started, most of his colleagues did not understand and they thought that this was curious and did not make any sense. police started to see people all over the country going on line, speaking out and saying, defend our liberty and our constitutional rights. as a result of your leadership, and the grass roots rising up, the next day, president obama was forced to do what he had refused to do for three consecutive weeks. to admit in writing that the constitution limits his authority to target u.s. citizens. we saw the new paradigm the second time, on the battle over gun. following the tragic shooting in n

in all three of those, the prevailing wisdom in washington took everything -- every washington strategist and dump them in the ocean, you would call it a good start. [applause] the washington strategist said keep your head down, don't rock the boat, the economy is not going great for president obama so keep your head down and we will win. shock of all shocks, we got our butts cleaned. there was one election that was different in 2010. it was a positive, optimistic campaign. it was a grassroots campaign saying we stand for growth and freedom. stand on ambiguously -- unambiguously against obamacare. won a titleublicans wave victory, taking control of the house, taking up seats in the senate. what did all the strategists say in 2014? of's go back to the model 2006, 2008, 2012. down and weur head will win races, that is not how you win races. by the way it is driven i the nian-- by the old nixon adage. complete poppycock. [applause] that is based on the oh so clever idea that if your , that you wante to be to the right so you could capture every marginal voter. do that,em is if you you destro

the fundamental problem in washington is washington is not listening to america. this fight on obamacare, we went to make the case to the american people, and in a matter of a few weeks, over 2 million american sign that petition on dontfundit.com. [applause] it is because of you that the house of representatives has been standing strong, because the house has been listening to the people. [applause] it is because of you that for the past two months the country has engaged in a national debate about the enormous harms obamacare is causing, all the millions of americans who are losing their jobs, being pushed into part-time work, losing their health insurance. it is because of you that the american people are energized. and we see the obama administration defending positions that are utterly and completely unreasonable. repeatedly, the house has acted to compromise them to fund vital priorities, and repeatedly obama and the press have refused to negotiate. i will note this afternoon, the democrats are feeling the heat. [applause] this afternoon president obama has

but you're right that washington is not driving that. washington is the recipient of those ways of sentiments that are becoming more and more significant, just as the local governments are and just as people generally are. but it's contributory to the mood of the country and the question of what kind of country going to be. it's the definitional issues of america that generate those, the kind of conflicts and deadlocks that we have today. the greatest definitional issues with the issue of the 1850s regarding slavery. and it was not solvable through normal democratic processes that have been so brilliantly established by our fathers spent we have a think a last question right here. >> yes, of course. >> i think it's on. >> i'm from slovenia. i can get down months ago, and, of course, i've been listening very carefully, very attentively to the panelists, especially talking about foreign policy repercussions. at this time i don't have any question, but allow me to make a brief comment, just a sense of to get of course -- [inaudible] i do no

the "washington post" and the receipt of material. i can, they are just pasted up willy-nilly out there. they are being used to caging journalists on and portions of it are being put out there. >> your reporting based on that but only with some of the expertise can handle it that way, too. >> justin overclassification. i can't let the event go without noting i guess it is the guardian posted last week or the week before, had stories that did the nsa crack the system. among the five that were revealed, i think of the guardian report, the nsa deck, all classified, top secret. two of those flights were actually material because the nsa stole from the frontier foundation. their own descriptions in the frame of an nsa powerpoint and top secret on that. so again, there are legitimate questions. people talk about classification. >> among the thousands of pages of documents that chelsea manning gave to wikileaks for thousands of newspaper stories were then classified or sent to washington. [inaudible] >> okay. why don't we go here and then he

we have finance ministers from around the world gather in washington this week. yesterday, i met with the finance ministers from africa and latin america. it is challenging when they look at you and they ask what is going on in washington. it makes them nervous about their economies and we need them to have growing demand because that is good for our economy. on this question of world reserve currency, it's no secret that there are discussions around the world where others would like there to be a basket of currencies that might be used as an alternative to the dollar. i have to ask the question -- when our role in the world is important to our economic stability and to the world, why would this kind of a manufactured crisis be seen as something that is necessary to pursue when it undermines that? the questions you are asking are quite significant. >> limit just ask, there are those who suggest that is not a real issue because the rest of the world has no place to go. >> i'm not going to speculate on whether someone else will emerge as an alternative. we are in a

i am confident that if both parties do in washington what the people do every day in the state of washington, put progress ahead of politics, we can break the destructive pattern and make that progress. >> thank you. senator wicker. -- thank you, mr. chairman. let me agree with senator baldwin, we need to have solutions and show the american people we are problem solvers. wereor johnson's chart's painful but make the point that has been made over and over today, and that is that we have a debt crisis in still headed in the wrong direction. the deficit is down but down on a temporary basis. it will soon rise again to $1 trillion per year. we are in a week recovery and have not turned the corner and should not approach the budget as if we can turn the corner -- we have turned the corner. no one liked sequestration. i do not like sequestration, but i can live with it. indeed, under sequestration discretionary spending begins to rise after fiscal year 2000 13. year 2000 14. without replacing it with better savings, we must keep sequestration. senator warner, i will support revenues. and as chair

it's part of the reason people don't trust washington to do what's right. we should use this budget conference to change the perception and hold meetings in public. the president and the senate democratic leadership have insisted upon a balanced approach to replace the sequester cuts. this so-called balanced approach would increase tax increases with pending cuts, and the problem is simple. the fiscal problems facing the federal government are not balanced, and the problem is not that we tax too little, but it's that we spend too much. the offer of the so-called balance plan is wrong headed, and the problems we face are caused by one-sided problem, and that is too much spending. the congressional budget office projects that by 2038 federal spending will be 26% of gdp compared to the 40-year average, 20.a. spending on health care entitlements and social security double over the next 25 years. as a result, deficits continue to grow and the resulting debt will grow faster than gdp, a path which is unsustain closing tax. cbo's projection include revenues higher

" and spent 44 years in "the washington post" newsroom. my apologies. joel simon is next. he is the executive director of the committee, which is the organization that published this exceptional report. since his appointment as executive director in 2006, he has led the organization with expansion, including launching a global campaign and establishing a program and spearheading efforts in digital space. finally to his left is an individual that is very well-known to this audience with a long-standing work for "the washington post" who is currently a senior correspondent at "the washington post" and also the author of imperial life in the emerald city, a best-selling book which became the basis for the movie the green zone, a terrific piece of work in film and on paper and he has been part of a journalist at the international reporting project at the johns hopkins school in washington. today i would like to start off by asking him if he would give an overview of what we are discussing. >> i will do that. i want to say quickly about the que

or you can certainly call in washington, d.c., at our headquarters. what i would recommend is that you contact your member of congress. we really appreciate your membership and support with the national park conservation association. contact your member of congress, encourage your friends to do the same. let them know that national parks deserve to be funded. 90% of americans in a recent poll said they believe it's a federal, primary federal responsibility to fund the national parks. to make sure that our monuments, our national resources and cultural resources are taken care of. we expect those as americans because these are our treasures. i would encourage all of you out there that are listening, please contact your members of congress. make sure that they fund our federal government, our national parks for the long term. host: that caller said she's -- part of your association. who belongs to the aseeshation? where do you get your money from? guest: we have over 800,000 members and supporters around the country. so we are nonprofit, nongovernmental

host: "the washington post" picks up on ted cruz in its editorial. here is what they write -- guest: well, you know, that is the way the political system works. when i started the club for growth, the idea was to create more competitive binaries, and try to get a change in the bloodstream in congress, and, by the way, i think 90% of americans would agree that we need to totally change the composition of congress -- democrat and republican. his guys did not serve the american people. they are serving special interests. one thing i have been passionate for in the last 20 years, and what has happened in the last couple weeks is a monument to this -- term limits. they should serve six years in the senate and begun. let a more diverse -- be gone. let a more diverse group in. host: is the tea party a help or a hindrance to speaker boehner? guest: right now, i would say a huge hindrance. i think the leadership of the tea party has made some tactical mistakes and they have given the tea party a black eye. you meet the people, and they come from all walks of

after that, washington state congresswoman discusses growing up in washington. her current family life, and her role within the house g.o.p. leadership. you can see both of those interviews beginning at 8:00 eastern on c-span2. >> i saw firsthand the tragedies that children face when they are not cared by loving parents. it was in the sheriff's department i first witnessed the horrors of child sex trafficking. it convinced me we needed do more to protect our youth at risk of abuse. >> like me and many other we, accustomed to being isolated much like the victim of domestic violence by adapting to multiple moves from home to home. this allow us to easyily adapt to when traffickers move us multiple times from hotel to hotel, city to city, or state to state. they go without punishment due to the lark -- lack of attention when young people go missing. no one looks for us. i want to make it clear. >> when they hear the term child section trafficking most americans think happens in over countries or foreign children are brought here to be sold in large cities. in fact,

you're right, that washington is not driving that. washington is the recipient of those, those waves of sentiment becoming more and more significant just as the local governments are and just as people generally are, but it's contributory to the mood of the country and the question of what kind of a country we're going to be. it's the definitional issues of america that generate those kinds of -- conflicts and deadlocks we have today. the greatest definition issues was the issue of the 1850s regarding slavery, and it was not solvable through normal democratic processes that have. so brilliantly established by our fathers. we have, i think, a last question right here. from this gentleman. waiting patiently. if you could identify yourself. >> yes, of course. >> i think it's on. >> yeah. my name is -- [inaudible] slough vain ya. came to town months ago, and, of course, listening intentively to the panelists and talking about foreign policy reprecushions. at this time, i don't have any question, but allow me to make a brief comment, just

and what is, what's explained the behavior in washington? and looking a just a few headlines from that period give you a sense of just what kind of a crisis it was from near times, warning global risk leaders -- warning of global risk, leaders urge u.s. to solve its debt limit crisis. these were leaders in the world bank and the imf who suggested that a massive destruction of the world over was in prospect. from the financial times, a piece by david lee, a professor of economics from china, beijing should cut back its lending to washington. from the "los angeles times," china calls for dollar to be replaced as global reserve currency. from the "washington post," the u.s. debt crisis spurs chinese calls for the americanized world. so obviously we were in a zone of ominous danger of, and yet it raises the question how can washington politicians be so stupid? i think the problem with the question, and much of the analysis that sort of surrounded that was that it assumes there is no fundamental connection between the political imaginations in wa

we have a right to know the money that washington takes is well spent. second, americans deserve an efficient and effective government that works on their behalf. and our duty on the government oversight committee is to protect these rights and our solemn responsibility is to hold government accountable to taxpayers because taxpayers have a right to know that the money government takes from them as well spent. our responsibilities worked tirelessly in partnership with citizens and watchdog groups to deliver the facts to the american people and bring a genuine reform to the federal bureaucracy. this is our mission statement and during the government shutdown, more than ever we take that seriously. >> it is a steward of the most treasured public spaces and the caretaker of our national heritage. as such, it has always been called upon to act in the best interest of the american people. and to never allow itself to be subjected to political influence or to work in any way other than on behalf of the american people and these treasured assets. yet it appears

we have finance ministers from around the world gathering in washington this week. yesterday i met with finance ministers from africa and from latin america. and it's challenging when they look at you and they ask what's going on in washington? it makes them nervous about the economy, and we need them to growing demand because that's good for our economy. and this question of world reserve currency, it's no secret that there are discussions around the world where others would like to to be a basket of currencies that my be used as an alternative to the dollar. i have to ask a question. where our role in the world, both in terms of security and economic well being, and to the stability in the world, why would this kind of a manufactured crisis be seen as something that is necessary to pursue when it undermines that? i think the questions you're asking are quite significant. >> let me ask you. there are those who suggest, oh, that's not a real issue because the rest of the world has no place to go. >> i'm not going to speculate on whether someone else will emerge as a

you're right that washington is not crazy not. but it was racist sentiments that are becoming more and more significant, just as people generally are. but it's contributory to the mood of the country and the question of what kind of country. it's the definition issues of america that generate the kinds of complex deadlocks we have today. the greatest definitional issues with the issue of 1850s regarding slavery. it was not solvable through normal democratic processes that have been so brilliantly established. >> why have i think a last question right here. from this jump in and he's patiently. if you could identify yourself. >> yes, of course. [inaudible] >> i came months ago. of course i've been listening attentively to the panelists and foreign policy. at this time, i don't have any questions, but allow me to make a brief comment, just a sentence or two. of course i do not like to criticize, but as a friend of your county, i would like to say on many, many occasions, were told american system of the government is an example, if

it is hard to argue with the idea that washington is broken. this year the bipartisan policy center and usa today have been looking at the addition -- looking at the issues of partisanship and division division. the bipartisan policy center and usaid today sponsored a nationwide survey about some potential changes in the way elections are run. it was conducted by a republican pollster and democratic pollster. here's what we were told. should we change the way legislative districts are drawn? the fact that a declining number of districts are competitive has few of the partisan the putt -- makes compromise more difficult. most americans are open to changing the way districts are typically drawn now, which is why statement stitchers -- which is by state legislatures and governors. 30% like the idea of a bipartisan commission. 22% say the state courts should draw the lines. should we change the way primaries are run the? -- are run? putting independence in primaries may boost the candidates. two thirds of americans think independents should be able

and they fear you. .hey fear the american people the fundamental problem in washington is washington is not listening to america. we wentht on obamacare to make the case to the american a matter of a few weeks, over 2 million american sign that petition on don tfundit.com. [applause] you that the of house of representatives has been standing strong, because the house has been listening to the people. [applause] it is because of you that for months the country has engaged in a national debate about the enormous harms obamacare is causing, all the millions of americans who are losing their jobs being pushed into part-time work, losing their health insurance. it is because of you that the american people are energized. and we see the obama administration defending positions that are utterly and completely unreasonable. repeatedly, the house has acted to compromise them to fund vital priorities, and repeatedly obama and the press have refused to negotiate. i will note this afternoon, the democrats are feeling the heat. [applause] afternoon president obama has invited the senate republica

what we should learn is washington politics should not hurt workers or businesses or economy. a does not mean either side should abandon its beliefs but find common ground for the most pressing problems and with congressional leaders now working together to build the budget this is the moment to do that. as we move forward we should make a pro-growth agenda of the focus and we could advance this by taking bipartisan action for sequestration to fix the broken system and fix the farm bill to kraft a budget agreement while maintaining fiscal discipline to have welcomed thoughts from democrats and republicans pretty bipartisan agreement should be doing two things at once to rebalancing with the medium and long-term deficit and making steps now to make us more competitive as we pursue a path it is crucial we close the polls and do some of the resources to make targeted investment in a few key areas like manufacturing restructure and as we do that we will replace the cuts of sequestration with common-sense measures they were designed to compel them to come together to create sensibl

in washington state, we were ready to go, and we have got 92,000 people who have now enrolled. there is a difference between enrolling and having your plan approved, because you have to make your first payment. when you talk about enrollment, you may be talking about something different. you are not comparing apples and oranges. but there are states in which it is working. people can sign up by mail, in person. he have a mobile sign up van going around the state, stopping in small towns and giving people a chance to talk to somebody. people are already in the program. not just finished the application. there have been some glitches even in our state. but we got around them. our country does have a serious problem with access to quality health insurance. it is not being caused by websites. all the computer programmers in the world are not going to be able to help the 180,000 hoosiers that fall into the affordable coverage gap because indiana is not expanding its medicaid. of course, that is nothing compared to georgia's 400,000 people who are not going to get anything, or florid

instead, washington is shifting of ourden onto the backs children. america has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. americans deserve better." day, our lew, on that gross debt was $8.3 trillion. it is now more than twice that, $16.7 trillion. that represents 107% of the size of our economy. as the congressional budget office has made clear, this poses a large economic and fiscal risk. 2006 debate,ame then senator biden said "why vote against the debt limit increase, you cannot change the fact that we have incurred this debt already and will no doubt incur more. it is a statement that i refuse to be associated with, the policies have brought us to this point." what a difference in attitude there has been. obama and vice president biden preside over an administration that tells us that raising the debt limit, in secretary little, "allows us to pay our bills." lew you have stated that only congress has the ability to increase if the president does not agree. despite your public statements to the contrary, it is not true that raising the debt limi

and secondly, let's get together the president, democrats and republicans here in washington, d.c. to talk about not only raising the debt limit but what we're going to do to address the underlying debt. mr. president, i yield the floor. mr. president, i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: quorum call: a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from north carolina. mrs. hagan: i request permission to sreufrbt -- to vitiate the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. hagan: i request permission to speak for up to ten minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. hagan: mr. president, i rise today to address the negative impact that this government shutdown is having on my home state of north carolina. it is a shame that some in congress are playing political games with the most basic function of keeping our government open. i didn't get elected to shut down the government, and with each minute that goes by, more and more north carolinians are feeling the impact

thank you, sir, for sending a great sunday washington. to washington. [applause] ted cruz and i have been inticized for our actions the attempt to defund obamacare. we make no apologies. we stand with the people. [applause] you all are here today because you are thinking about it. party, my party, the republican party is at its best when we think. unfortunately, some people succumb to the notion that we cannot inc. deeply in the middle of big battles -- think deeply in the middle of the data. this is exactly what we should be doing. we should do it today and every day. when we stop and come back home to being the party of big ideas, good things happen. the bigger our ideas, the more we succeed. ronald reagan, a conservative revolution. george w. bush compassion. all showed in their time that it is the ideas and the principles rather than the personalities or interest groups that unified the republican it toand propelled electoral success and governing success. lately it seems you have not had nearly enough of either. some say it is because we need bette

i'm jim mcdermott, a house member from washington's seventh , mostly seattle. i knew tom foley for more than 40 years and throughout that time, he was a wonderful friend and a sage mentor. in 1971 when i was a freshman state legislator, he took me out to dinner in seattle and suggested i would run for congress. i was pleased for his regard of my career, but i knew better since i was a freshman legislator so i rejected it and ran for governor. i got creamed. [laughter] tom never said a word. i return to the legislature determined to learn as much as i could about the realities of governing effectively and the challenges of legislating well. when i finally ran for congress, he was majority leader of the house. as i arrived for his first term in 1989, tom was about to become speaker. about tow that he was become the last speaker of the whole house. the speaker was the speaker for the whole house and he lived that to his very core. will note tom's devotion to the house of representatives and his knowledge of the history of this organization. you learn in enormous a

, washington. this is just over half an hour. republican, from washington state, you're part of republican leadership in the highest ranking women. do you have a voice with speaker boehner and leader cantor and others in the gop leadership? >> yes. yes. i think it is important voice that i bring to that leadership table and daily i'm sitting down with the speaker, with majority leader eric cantor, kevin mccarthy as we are strategizing on what is happening on any given day as well is what we face a few months down the road. -- i am the second woman to hold this position for the republicans. deborah pryce was chair earlier. haveproud of the fact we four women that are around the leadership table for the republicans. it is a little different perspective, different priorities at times that being a woman brings to the table. heard andelieve i am that my input is valued as i present it around the table. >> why politics and why did you decide to first run for the state house in washington and later congre

isn't it true, that in states like washington, they are going to have new unexpected costs associated with a dramatic influx into medicaid? >> congresswoman, the medicaid expansion provision of the affordable care act is -- >> are states going to face new costs? >> federal government pays 100% of the cost of newly insured for the first three years -- >> these are existing -- people already eligible and we know that two out of three doctors don't accept new medicaid patients and we know current provider rates are going to drop at the end of 2014. isn't it true existing medicaid enroll lees will further compete for scarce resources in these states? >> if the citizens of washington who are signing up are eligible for medicaid, they certainly will be enroll in medicaid now -- >> i'm concerned that the most vulnerable in this country are going to lack access to the care they think they are going to receive. >> i think that's absolutely true. in states choosing not to expand medicaid, it's particularly dire -- >> it's existing medicaid. >> finally, i wanted to inform the secretary, you told

. >> host: with everything going on in congress, in washington, is immigration reform dead? >> guest: i don't think immigration reform is dead. i work on this every single day. i think we have viable ways forward. the question is, the republicans permit a vote? -- will the republicans permit a vote? if we get a top to bottom reform measure on the floor for a vote, it would pass. so the real question is, what will the republican leadership do? will they allow the congress to vote or not? i hope they do, but i can't make them. >> host: representative zoe lofgren, democrat of california, joins us on "the communicators." >> guest: thank you. >> c-span, created by america's cable companies in 1979, brought to you as a public service by your television provider. >> every weekend since 1998 c-span2 are's booktv has shown over 40,000 hours of programming with top nonfiction authors including di di meyers. >> i thought, wow, you know, that's the answer. if there were more women in politics, more women across public life, more women in power around the world, things would change. so i

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and we should be dealing this way in washington. i have heard republican suggest, this is reasonable. imagine if a democratic congress had threatened to crush the had refused to consider background checks and immigration reform. republicans would not consider that appropriate car. so let's lift these threats from americans. this is not a new position. i asked speaker boehner and other leaders in last week. for i my chief of staff have had serious conversations on the budget with republicans more than 20 times since march. we have been talking all kinds of business. what we haven't been able to get our serious positions from the republicans that would allow us to actually resolve some core differences. have decided to run out of clock until there is a government should out for the possibility of default, thinking that it would give them more leverage good that is not -- more leverage. it is not my characterization. they have said it themselves. that was their strategy from the start. that is not the way our government is supposed to

but washington doesn't want that, madam president. it wants to impose these new rules on the rest of america. it doesn't want to live by them itself. it's sort of like when you walk into a restaurant and hear that the chef never, ever eats at that restaurant. never, ever has a meal out of that kitchen. makes you wonder. well, the same thing is true here on a number of fronts, including obamacare. so the first point is a pure principle, madam president. washington should be -- should live under the same rules as it imposes on america across the board, including under obamacare. and so washington, congress, all congressional staff, the president, the vice president, their political appointees should have to go to the same fallback option under obamacare as is there for all america, the so-called exchanges and it should do that with no special rules or special deal or special core subsidy or special exemption. it should do that the same way ordinary americans do who in many cases -- 8 million plus -- are forced out of good health care co

do you miss washington? >> yes, i love it there, but i'm completely happy at home, and, of course, secret servicemen didn't bother me as much as they did you and dad. >> no, i remember you lost them. >> yes, i did, early in the game. >> uh-huh. somebody saw it. ann wanted me to ask you, how much influence was mother when you were in the white house. >> she was a wonderful influence and wonderful help. a president is in a bad way if he didn't have a first lady who doesn't know her job. she's the greatest thing a president can have, and mine was. >> good. >> mother, let me switch from washington to kansas city. how's the baseball team going? >> well, we are doing pretty well. we'll have a great team once post season. >> sounds good. you're the fourth in the family, anything good on tv lately? >> well, a few good things, yes, but i have not been able to find any wrestling matches. >> no good wrestling matches? >> no, not at all. >> mom, do you want to talk about politics specifically or in general? >> no, not i

if we're are going to restore this senate, what the senator from washington has asked for is very basic. open the government. this morning, the chaplain of the senate started by acknowledging the five families who were notified after they lost a military member, a son, husband, brother in afghanistan over the weekend. the chaplain noted that in their bereavement, they were being denied the basic benefits. the chaplain of the senate set up this morning, enough is enough. this notion that closing down our government and keeping it closed is somehow acceptable political conduct is outrageous. we just left a press conference where the senator mikulski of maryland, spoke about the impact on the local economy of the loss of these jobs. i could tell stories of illinois come of 50,000 federal workers. we were in the midst of a terrible accident last week right before october 1, a train ran into one of our metro trains coming back from the airport. 30 people were sent to the hospital. the national transportation safety board went out to investigate the accident. they had to leave at midnight on

the later comments from pat be speaking here in washington. live coverage starts at noon eastern here on c-span. mark santorum of the new york times reports that gauges the -- governor chris christie would drop the legal sexllenge to allow same- marriage. this effectively removes the last hurdle for making it legal in new jersey. 14 states allow gay couples to marry. >> this was eleanor roosevelt's typewriter. i have here are the original drafts. the first one is column. it sets the tone to follow. the're talking about comings and goings as they're getting back the regular schedule after the holiday season. this is from election day. at midnight a larger crowd than usual came in with wonderful plaque kurds. the president went out to greet them. this is a position for them to come to hyde park and await the election results. the would march down and president will come out. >> eleanor roosevelt tonight live at 9:00 eastern on c-span and c-span three. >> coming up, president obama will talk about some of the challenges people are facing with hea

seven or eight hour trip from washington d.c. to spokane, there's no direct flight so i have to fly some place and get to spokane but it is quiet time, time for me to do some reading, catch up on notes that i want to write or just have time to myself so i enjoy that time. so i get home, it varies in the course of the year but i would take two or three times a month and we have a least once a month district work period where we can go home for an entire week and i maximize those days, get the district, have a large district and ten counties, a lot to get around the district. we are making it work. at the beginning, brian would travel back and forth with me and even after cole was born we tried having them in spokane and die was going back and forth every weekend, which was a long trip to make every week and i found i was tired and still have limited time with the family. i find that it is working better to have the family based here in washington d.c. where i can go home some evenings and be with them and we have our time together

well, according to "the washington post," the limited testing that the administration did before the launch found that the site would crash if just a few hundred people used it. that was -- i mean it's just fascinating. the democrats' whole law was based on the idea that washington, government, is capable of running america's health care system competently. what we have seen is gross incompetence. it turns out that washington can't even set up a web site competently, and it looks like they knew it. computer programmers warned about the rush to get the web site done by october 1. instead of hitting the pause button, which they should have done, hitting the pause button until it could get things working, the white house just pushed on. that's what we learned from some of the contractors who built the web site. this is a web site that cost taxpayers over $400 million so far and the bills are still coming in. these contractors testified last week in the house that full test of the site should have started months in advance. but testing didn't happen until the last two weeks of september.

but never in my mind have icing washington so angry, so gridlocked, so broken. and it doesn't have to be that way. i know the public might find it hard to believe, but there are some very reasonable people here in congress. there are many who want to do what is right. there are many who want to work together to conduct the business of our nation. i would say to them, to all my colleagues, now is the time. now is the time for congress to stop the fighting old battles. now is a design for congress to come together and do what is right for our nation. and now is the time for congress to come together and reopen the government and the full america's financial obligations. i begin my remarks with a quote from president lincoln and thought it appropriate to conclude with another one. lincoln once said, and i quote him, i am a firm believer in the people. if given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. and that is why we're here today. we need to give the american people the truth, the real facts. only then, when everyone understands the real

going on inis washington tom a right now. -- what is going on in washington right now. they're waiting a possible deal to open up the government. the white house is meeting with senate republicans and getting their take on this possibility. we learned that senate republicans will not be going to the microphones after that meeting. we have set up our cameras outside of the white house to capture their thoughts after meeting with the president. if they come to the microphones, we will try to bring that to you live. we are taking your phone calls on c-span as we wait and watch to see how this unfolds in washington. jake sherman tweets out this -- paul ryan making the rounds on the house floor. as we told you earlier, two newspapers are featuring paul ryan on their front pages this morning. they're talking about his role in brokering some sort of agreement to talk with the president yesterday. leadersther republican were at the white house yesterday proposing this short- term debt fix deal. the paper featuring paul ryan today. ofay marks the only debate the 2012 campaign se

the mayor of washington, d.c., a democrat. there'll issa, head of the oversight committee, retweeting vince gray's tweet. judith is in riverside, illinois, on the other's line. thanks for waiting. span fort to commend c- giving factual reporting during this crisis. about thelivid republicans doing what they are doing and closing down government. the very decisive people, the s, they are pitting north against south, governmental agency versus governmental agency. against pitting white color. and i want to mention, i see no people of color on the republican side. i think what they are doing is absolutely horrible. repeal want to obamacare, there are other ways to do it, but not doing it the way they are doing it. they can repeal it. they can amend it. thest find the tea baggers most divisive people in congress, and i hope they are all voted out of office. >> let us go to our democrats line. good evening. >> thank you for taking my call. >> go ahead. >> i am getting sick and tired of getting sick and tired of all this mess. i am

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but when does the hand of the washington get forced on that issue? >> bruce just mentioned the disability goes bankrupt in 2015, 2016. you have to use draconian methods. right now you have to do a lot of stuff to make this work better. not talking about getting rid of programs. we're talking about changes along the margin that make a huge difference. and nobody is talking about going in and changing everything that somebody is going to retire next thursday. we have got to find a way to do it going forward. if we fail to do it, get down to eight, nine, ten years, i can't see anything but really, really difficult times for all of us. and by the way, remember where the numbers come from. they come from the government of the united states. and the only problem with them, if you talk to the medicare overseers and others, they'll tell you that some of the government numbers are a little squishy and probably a little worse than what we're looking at. >> what do you think the -- the likelihood of getting it fixed in the next four or five years is? in other w

this is washington, after all. so, everything tends to be viewed through a political prism, and everybody has been looking at the politics of this, and i know there's some folks in this town who want to think, if obama is for it, then i'm against it. but i'd remind everybody that my republican predecessor was also for it when he proposed reforms like this almost a decade ago. and i joined with 23 senate republicans back then to support that reform. i'd remind you that this reform, won more than a dozen votes from the republican senate in june. i'm not running for office again. i just believe this is the right thing to do. [applause] >> i just believe it's the right thing to do. [applause] i also believe that good policy is good politics in this instance, and if folks are really that consumed with the politics of fixing our broken immigration system, they should take a closer look at the polls, because the american people support this. not something they reject. they support it. everybody wins here if we work togeth

the answers are not going to come from washington. washington is broken. but the answers will come from the american people. mr. president, i am today encouraged. i am encouraged by the millions of americans who want to get back to the free market and get back to the constitution and stop this train wreck of a law that is the biggest job killer in this country, and is hurting people all across the country. mr. president, it is sad that today the united states senate is telling people all across this country, who are struggling, who are trying to provide for their kids and who are getting notifications in the mail, "your health care has been dropped." maybe you have an elderly parent and that health care policy is providing for your family. maybe you have children, facing debilitating diseases and yet you are getting enough attention in the mail, "your health insurance has been dropped because of obama care." it is sad, that the senate says we will do nothing to answer your plight. we created your plight, but we will do nothing. it is sad that when you have

. >> taking you live to the national press club in washington, d.c. for discussion on the second amendment and with paul helmke, former president of the brady campaign to prevent gun violence. he will deliver remarks here. he is addressing the political debate surrounding and legislation. he is currently professor at indiana university's school of public and environmental affairs, crazy served as mayor of fort wayne, indiana. this is live coverage here on c-span2. >> before we proceed with his introduction would like to thank mr. richard heller who is responsible for our getting him you. they don't see eye to eye. mr. heller -- [applause] it was his lawsuit that overthrew the d.c. gun control law which was a landmark decision. anyhow, thank you and by way of him, we have mr. helmke here today. paul is a former mayor of fort wayne, indiana. he's the former president of the brady foundation, and is now a professor at the university of indiana. he attended the university of indiana and yale law school. where he was a classmate of two people called the bi