americans back to work. so i find it unbelievable, madam speaker, that in the face of a 9.2% unemployment and when millions of americans are struggling simply to stay in their homes, the majority would declare war on the very agency that would prevent a similar financial crisis from ever happening again. by decreasing accountability, muddling decisionmaking, and starving it for funds, the republican majority is seeking to turn the consumer financial protection bureau into a grid lock agency that cannot possibly fulfill their mandate as a financial industry watchdog, leaving the american people once again vulnerable to predatory lending that precipitated the financial collapse in the first place. madam speaker, the 112th congress has been in session for over six months and we still have not had one comprehensive jobs bill, nor have we voted on one single bill that would help struggling homeowners stay in their homes. we have fortunately been forced to vote to protect tax cuts for multimillionaires and billion

of the asian-american communities here in san francisco in the 1950's. moving along to 1977 and the fall of the international hotel. our friends, we have come a long way. [applause] i have to tell you the most amazing moment of the year of 2011 was the first meeting of the board of supervisors this year on january 8, leading to the vote that we first cast for the first asian-american mayor in the city and county of san francisco. this was a vote that came about because you, the people of san francisco, elected four asian- american to the board of supervisors. and not just three chinese representatives, but the first korean-american representative, and i am so honored to represent the four of them, to welcome you here to this celebration. we have decided to implement a new yearly award, with each of our district supervisors recognizing a 11 awardees representing the best, brightest, most impact low in our community we will be honoring as part -- most impactful in our community we will be honoring as part of apa heritage month. in district 1 -- in district

[applause] and new american media. [applause] apparently, tonight is hyphen's night. so congratulations to hyphen. [applause] a quick word about the organization. it was founded in 2003. it's a volunteer run nonprofit news and culture organization that illuminates asian america through hard-hitting investigative features on the cultural and political trends shaping the fastest growing ethnic population in the country. it engages people through our print magazine, website and events to fulfill the commission to tell the untold stories of asian americans with accuracy, nuance and complexity. to showcase emerging artists, creators and leaders of our community and to build a socially and politically aware community through media, dialogue, and cultural events. it's been honored by chinese for affirmative action, with the flames of justice award in 2008, nominated by the utney reader for -- for utney independent press award, best new title in 2007 and in 2010 for best social and cultural coverage. so again we say congratulations to you. [applause] >> thank you all so much.

countries now we are one of the very worst this is the essence of the american dream so. it's taking a stance not terrorists that we have to worry about some taxes that are going to kill off this country or any of these other things it's inequality it's not illegal immigration it's not our debt it's not any of those things it's inequality in our society and so we need to be having practices and policies put in place that will directly attack affect that could provide a social safety to the bottom and roll back the reagan tax cuts at the top and it will stabilize our society. so today public schools in the state coffers got screwed in minnesota so the millionaires and billionaires there were protected from a tax hike meanwhile eric cantor walked out of negotiations with vice president joe biden when joe suggested billionaires who own private jets should happen appreciate them over seven years just like airlines instead of just five no tax increases for billionaire private jet owners but how can republicans continue to justify their crusade to ensure that income inequality

part of it, i could be off here, but native americans are american americans too. america in general, i think, is a humorous country often. that's what people say is the reputation of americans and other countries that we're funny. why wouldn't native americans be funny too? some are just hysterical. this one woman i interviewed, oh, she's so follow-upny. every time i tell a joke, she's already heard it. she asked, have you lived on the reservation your whole life? she says, well, not yet. [laughter] it's a take off of other jokes, but in general i found that native people laugh at each other, certainly at non-native people, and at some of the assumptions, and zimbs they just -- sometimes they just get outraged at the rudeness of non-native people towards them and make that into a joke. i interviewed an osage woman, a lawyer, who is very sophisticated working in washington dc with her own law firm there, goes home, oklahoma to the reservation, but she said sometimes people come up to her and say you don't look like a real indian, and her mother's non-native, and sh

americans are more and more educated, and half of the american men in the work force were high-school dropouts one to do unskilled work in the 1960's. now, less than 5% are. we also do not educate enough engineers. so we need people and people come for that. you see how it is market-driven, because they'd done in turn, that inflow from mexico has been cut in half. we do not need as many workers in kitchens and hotels and construction. it is very market-sensitive. and this is where public opinion is so complicated, but the public does not understand that. the american public thinks that it did pay more, my cousin would do it. the problem is that the american public does not get the economic drivers. and the american public likes the european -- even when they understand that, their cultural fears compete. it is very hard to have our rational conversation about immigration. people would be all for the policies. it takes a long time to get to that rational conversation because of the polarized choices. >> that is precisely the attitude we find when we polled most americans. i never said

i irish american. i didn't know what a pure american was. none of my friends were pure americans. a lot of my friends were lebanese and from syria. i had yewish and irish american friends. all of our identities were mixed. my sense of being american was being in a mix of things. >> margaret could you also reflect in a prior conversation you talked about your father had a sense of where he came from and it was a little more difficult for your mom to articulate that? >> sure. mother's side is irish american my father come from a different heritage. he is a genealogy. he traced his family all the way back to the times when they moved from spain to a region of france. that's where his family came from as peasants in 1850. and for generations, his family members had been going back to this place to visit their distant cousins. they knew exactly where it was. i was thinking that was a year after my irish american family came here. why don't my irish american family know this information. i want to try to find out what it is. i didn't know at that time what i was undertaking. i heard it

that is why we aren't talking about working americans. middle-class americans. protecting medicare and social security. and it keeps going up and up. that is why we are standing in the gap. do not walk out of any other meetings. stand as adults and fix this problem. if anyone does not understand why we do not need to move on short-term, watch the clock, up in march because we are in this debate again. most americans do not know about the debt ceiling, but they know about the loss of jobs and they know about their families, protecting jobs and the most vulnerable americans. >> thank you, sheila. the bottom line is this -- we should be creating american jobs. meetings that are taking place should be focused on job creation. with that, time has run out. i will take a few questions. yes? >> [inaudible] is the only motivation political for the next election cycle? >> hardly political at all. as i said in my opening comments, when i go home the lady that says to me that she is in the dark abyss of uncertainty, it has little to do with politics and everything to do wit

american confidence. come on, mr. president, lead. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the members are reminded to address their remarks to the chair. the gentleman from new york is recognized, mr. rangel, for five minutes. mr. rangel: thank you, mr. speaker. i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. rangel: a previous speaker referred to our distinguished speaker pro tempore with that historic name and was suggesting that we look for something to guide us that would be over the podium. what i see is in god we trust. not the congress. not the house. not democrats, and certainly not republicans. but in god we trust. recently i took this to be a very serious thing and i was saying that in the process of increasing the debt ceiling and cutting back spending, that a lot of people were vulnerable and i called upon our spiritual leaders not to forget them. and indeed whether we are talking about social security or medicare or medicaid, that all o

again and again they talked about this is going to make me a better american or feel i'm a better american. >> charlie: you're talking about the people at the time of jefferson. >> in the 1900's. they're not going to bring home 80 crates full of stuff but they're going to bring home themselves as a better sculpture, better physician, better politician. >> charlie: i've asked you about this before. when the famous story that jefferson and adams died on the same day. >> yes. >> charlie: who was it that reached out to whom. someone told me or you told me that it wasn't either -- i first heard it was adams' wife abigail who was responsible. then i heard no, that she actually -- >> no, it was benjamin rush from philadelphia, the physician who signed the declaration of independence. >> charlie: felt like what. >> he felt those two shld have a reconciation before ty die. and adams agreed right away and wrote to jefferson. >> charlie: adams wrote to jefferson and abigail had nothing to do wi it. >> nothingo do witness. abigail is more angry at jefferson. >> charlie: that's what someone told me. th

but there's one thing that americans don't do -- in fact, there's two things americans don't do well. one is history. the american attitude is, you know, joe? he's history. [laughter] or as henry ford said once, you know, all history's bunk, you know? that's the attitude. it's for kids who go to college and study. one young man introduced himself as a history major, and i said when i was teaching for this cup the problem was finding enough kids who wanted a history major. not understanding history. and the second part more thans don't do well -- americans don't do well is patience. and we in our part of the world, history is most important. so there's a historic context both to our relationship and to our relationship with our neighbors. and because of that we find ourselves in a position where we have never been fully able to or at least some parts of our government have never been able to fully trust their counterparts in the u.s. government and vice versa. and now we have a situation where we have a war that we need to fight and win for our people's sake which is the war against te

it's an insult to the american people. i would say to my friends on the other side of the aisle, now is the time to act like grownups. this is the time to put our country before your political party. this is the time to put our country before the tea party. this is the time to do what's right. today you are bringing up the latest version of the reid plan. under not only a closed rule but under the most restrictive process we have in the house. usually reserved for noncontroversial bills. this is a $2.5 trillion bill ing brought up under the same process that you bring up bills naming post offices. 20 minutes of debate, no amendments allowed, we're not even allowed to offer a motion to recommit to where you need a 2/3 supermajority. under this process your own bill would have failed. that's right. if your bill were brought up under this procedure, your bill would ha lost last night. mr. speaker, the only bill we should consider on the house floor is one that has been agreed to by the house and senate leaders and the preside

it is time for the american people to stand up. you are out there in madison, wisconsin, 150,000 people came out in september 2009 called the tea party movement, and the whole world was shocked. 150,000 people came to d.c. you were out there with 150,000 americans in madison, wisconsin alone. there is a movement growing, and this is the most important thing i think folks in d.c. don't understand. they're so busy chasing their own tail in the games being played, look at the american people, though. the biggest protest in the history of montana happened two weeks ago about these cuts. major protests happening in ohio about these cuts. 20,000 people marched down the street protesting. >> they have enough signatures in ohio to go after senate bill 5. >> exactly. >> which is a big deal. >> here's the big story. washington, d.c., surprise, surprise, doesn't get it. the american people aren't stupid. we're not broke or the poorest country in the world. we're the richest country in the world. it's not that the pie is getting smaller. it's

we are americans. today let's put the american people first. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentlelady from illinois, ms. schakowsky, for five minutes. ms. schakowsky: i thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today to discuss the catastrophic famine that continues to unfold in the horn of africa. eastern africa is currently in the grips of the worst drought in 60 years. affecting 11 million people in somalia, ethiopia, and kenya. according to the u.n., somalia now faces the highest malnutrition rates in the world and some three million somalis are in desperate need of immediate emergency aid. the u.n. estimates that tens of thousands of somalis have died of drought related causes in the past few months, and acute malnutrition rates in the country southern region now exceed 30%. thousands more are fleeing areas controlled by the al qaeda affiliated group, al shabab, which even in the face of such large-scale human suffering refuses to allow major humanitarian groups to deliver aid. some 50,000 somalis have returned to the capital desp

spending binge in american history. here's what we got for that massive spending binge. a new health care bill most never asked for. stimulus bill producing material for late night comedians than producing jobs. national debt so out of hand it sparked a crisis without precedent in my lifetime or yours. the united states cannot default on its debt obligations. jobs and savings of too many americans are at stake. we told the president in january, the american people will not accept an increase in the debt limit without significant spending cuts and reforms. over the last six months we've done our best to convince the president to partner with us to do something dramatic to change the fiscal trajectory of our country. something that will boost confidence if our economy. help businesses get back on track. last week the house passed such a plan. with bipartisan support. it is called the cut, cap and balance act. it cuts and caps government spending. and paves the way for a balanced budget amendment to the constitution, which

american jobs, american made. i encourage the passage of this bill. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from california. mr. waxman: madam chair, members of this house, climate change is real. we are experiencing its effects. according to "the washington post" almost 2,000 high temperature records have been broken in towns and cities across america since the start of the month. another 4,300 records have been set for high overnight temperatures. i don't think that we should short circuit consideration of a pipeline that increases our consumption of tar sands crude up to 40% higher carbon pollution. that is not in our national interest. even the national farmers union is urging opposition to this legislation. they say that n.f.u. continues to have serious concern regarding the keystone x.l. pipeline as currently proposed. and we believe all necessary time should be given for public review and analysis of the options for the proposed project. congress should not fix a hard deadline for this process to be completed. i urge a no vot

i think are american companies should hire american workers. because of the shrinking middle class and the fact that middle class wages are decreasing over the last thirty years so many people here they don't. do to me and i do think that is the wrong thing to do is. and it's not just manufacturing work american i.t. companies and innovation jobs are also moving here in droves as well as huge savings on wages many companies say india's fast growing economy and young workforce make it a desirable place to find staff there are amazingly talented people here in that part of the workforce and you know it's a matter of helping. other markets understand you know there are very talented people here who can do a lot of great work and it's not just about outsourcing and it's growth that these american companies don't anticipate will end anytime soon within the markets we have a good all from the last forty years on most reports and that's last i think has put additional if you would like to double the business four to five use a confidence not often fou

that is uniquely american. that is uniquely american and shows the degree of sensitivity, compassion, ability to make things happen. and a budget, a plan we put together here is merely a listing of our priorities. what do we deem most essential? and when you can reach 46 million people and provide guaranteed health care, that ought to be a high priority, not taking the savings of ending medicare to pay for millionaire and billionaire tax cuts, oil industry handouts, let's get real here. let's get compassionate and understanding of what we're ending as a sound bit of history. ms. jackson lee: if the gentleman would yield. i thank you for your passion and what you're saying makes me think of what we're doing to even the younger generation because you have made a point of what has lasted over half a century, over 50 years and it is a framework that can be in place for those who are young. and if we take it apart, we will not have this structure that is helpful. there is no reason to argue against modernizing, look

arab-americans are not the other. our community is not to be feared. our community is to be relied on. it is a rich community in culture and talent and heritage. we are the defendants of people who build great cities like casa blogging, baghdad, cairo, jerusalem, damascus -- casa blanca. we are the people of the world who have given the world great profits and religions. -- great prophets and religions. thank you. [applause] >> every year that i have been in city hall, i have tried to take an intern from the community and try to teach them the ways of politics to make sure we have leadership that keeps coming, so eventually, we have candidates for office. like when a friend on the school board. is she here? -- like winifred on the school board. a couple of years back, i was wise enough to bring on an intern that has made all the difference for our community, especially with arab heritage month. he worked so hard for last year's event and has made this year a success. we were really concerned about timing, and we were not sure he would get to it, and sh

what is the purpose of "define american." that sounds aggressive, you're not american. you're going, define american. >> no, no, actually it's the exact opposite. it's the one that tells us, undocumented or not, i grew up here. i've been here since i was 12. i'm an american. i don't have the right kinds of papers. millions of people have been contributing, paying taxes to this country and who deserve to be part of this country. >> you're not an american citizen, but would you like to become a citizen of our nation? >> what would that entail? >> stephen: obviously i'd have to swear you in. >> okay. >> stephen: raise your right hand. now raise your left hand. now go turn yourself into the authorities. [applause] thank you so much. thank you. define american founder jose vargas. we'll be right back.

i would argue the american people finally woke up. you keep talking about this tea party movement, lawrence, i think that movement is a lot bigger than your profession -- or actually, either party understands. >> i'm going to put congressman joe walsh as a maybe for voting for the reagan debt ceiling increases. congressman joe walsh, thank you very much for joining me tonight. >> thank you, lawrence. >> coming up, senior white house advisor david plouffe joins me from the white house. somewhere in america, there's a doctor who can peer into the future. there's a nurse who can access in an instant every patient's past. and because the whole hospital's working together, there's a family who can breathe easy, right now. somewhere in america, we've already answered some of the nation's toughest healthcare questions. and the over 60,000 people of siemens are ready to do it again. siemens. answers. ♪ going to the bank without going to the bank... that's a step forward. with chase quickdeposit on your smartphone, you just snap a picture, h

and the american people understand it. we all know what the american people want. they want cuts to spending now. they want to control spending in the future, and they want accountability, and they sure don't believe they're getting it out of washington. mr. president, i received an e-mail this week from a gentleman from my hometown of caspar and looked at this whole thing, and he said, you know, the fact that the debt ceiling needs to be raised is where the problem lies. this is a systematic problem, he says, that will either be fixed or it will be eventually -- it will eventually destroy this nation. he said, "i urge you to stand strong and oppose any spending that exceeds revenue, using the debt ceiling, he says, we, your constituents, understand this could be a painful path, could lead to economic problems. my forefathers put their lives at risk to prevent this kind of idiocy that the federal government has become." he's talking about a debt of $14 trillion. he says, "every one of my family members and neighbors is prepared to weather the storm now to prevent f

that would be terrible for american family and for the american government. what we're really asking, i think, is for speaker boehner not to follow this extreme group, but to lead a little bit. this group, the 80 to 100 house republicans, many of them newly elected who are at the extremes, shouldn't be able to say to the entire country, it is our way or no way themselves don't represent the thinking in most of the country. >> we are face arg financial doomsday here. the american public are watching you guys all squabbling around and saying just get this done. nearly 10% of us are out of work anyway will. >> if one side is willing to reach out and compromise all the time and the other side says no, it is awfully hard to get it done. and to do what they want, which is a short term renewal of the debt ceiling, raising of the debt ceiling, we'll be back where we started in a couple months and standard & poors is likely to down grade us. much more likely than under our plan. so we're asking senate republicans, many have shown a degree of compromise. 16 or 17 of th

i think the american companies should hire american workers. because of the shrinking middle class and the fact that middle class wages are decreasing over the last thirty years so many people here they don't. do to me and i do think that is the wrong thing to do is. the thing. and it's not just manufacturing work american i.t. companies and innovation jobs are also moving here in droves as well as huge savings on wages many companies say india's fast growing economy and young workforce make it a desirable place to find staff there are amazingly talented people here in that part of the workforce and you know it's a matter of helping other other markets understand you know there are very talented people here who can do a lot of great work and it's not just about outsourcing and it's growth that these american companies don't anticipate will end anytime soon within the markets we have a good old boy from the last forty years almost lost on the u.s. british merely be would like to double the business. confidence not often found among their colleag

. >> the american people -- >> the american people didn't write it. in every poll, republicans are running 21% in approval because of this stand-fast position you've asserted and prescribed for them, by the way. be honest. you did noticed the problem, high taxes, and gave your prescription. no new taxes and got 41 guys to go along with it. by the way, what do you do with the ones that don't go along with it? let them go, give them a kiss? no. you go after them and go after them. >> we highlight -- >> how about people who say this is bad policy? lugar and grassley, real conservatives who don't believe in your approach. what do you do to them? >> they've staked out an opposition to any tax increase. >> not with you. >> not taken the pledge. she haven't signed the pledge. lugar says he hasn't because he wants to go to a retail sales tax and i hope some day we'll be able to explain you can move to a retail sales tax. it doesn't violate the pledge. >> we're in a really, a, looks to me, like a real conflict between you and me on this, because i think we nee

want to talk about if you look at how american population, it takes americans if we started jamestown about two and half centuries to get a little more than halfway across the continent. by the civil war for all practical purposes there just be on the missouri river. it will take a generation to move the rest of the way. so what you have for indian peoples in the west, there's no time to adjust. everything happens virtually overnight. the railroads in a space of a few years managed to end the treaties system to bankrupt the treaty system which is corrupt enough to begin with but by the court in such a way that congress advocates the treaty system in 1871. the railroads also have a problem. the transcontinental get the subsidies for two reasons. the first reason is they have to secure california for the union. the problem with that is civil wars over over and 1865, and they haven't started building the railroads in 1865. so you don't really, can choose the civil war as an excuse. what you substitute is the railroads on the way to subjugate intense. it's perfectly true. the railroads to

and he spoke with majority leader reid about that view so many americans have right now. >> the american people seem to be saying to ladies and gentlemen like you, you can't keep doing this. something has to change. this place seems so irretrievably broken. >> we're going through a very difficult time. i understand why people are upset. we have to work through it. we need to come together. legislations aren't a compromise. my program that i've suggested that i think goes a long way towards the problems this country faces by reducing the debt by almost $3 trillion. it sets up an idea where we can before that's over do some of the grand bargain that we need. but we need to get beyond this. we can't have our credit rating crash. it would, in effect, be a tax increase for everybody out there. >> for somebody who opposes tax increases, do you agree with that, that, ultimately, if we see a credit rating slip, the prospects of default, it leads to something akin to tax increases? >> well, i don't think -- we don't know what the rating agencies are going to do, but i know this, the republican ap

it's the american family plan. every american family cuts their budget, caps their budget, balances their budget with their own finances, so should washington. that is not unfair. to argue against this is to argue against common sense. this is to say as bad parents do, do as i say, not as i do. that is bad parenting and that's also bad legislation. unfortunately, over the past three months, our efforts to get serious about this crisis has been meant with scare tactics. enough, enough of the political parlor tricks coming out of this city. it is time for us to do the job that the american people sent us here to do, practice, walking-around common sense. that's what my grandfather taught me, it is good in small business and good enough for washington d.c. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from maryland. mr. van hollen: mr. speaker, american families don't have the luxury of saying if we don't get things 100% our way, we won't pay our family bil

so african-americans were deeply resisted in large numbers. christian scientist and other faith healers in the period pose obvious religious objectors to the practice. and many of the anti-vaccination societies were led by doctors, but doctors who practiced forms of alternative medicine, now called alternative medicine, such as homeopathic and osteopathic and chiropractic, that had been marginalized with the rise of public health departments in the late 19th century. they get compulsory vaccinations and other part of the conspiracy that they called, that the state called state medicine. the camden tragedy galvanized the anti-vaccination group and triggered a national debate on vaccine safety. medical societies started to talk seriously about the need for a system of government regulation vaccine. some even called for turning vaccine production into a government monopoly, but this idea was ruled out as too socialistic. back then when they use the word socialism they had something, they have something in mind that really sounded like socialism,

he is asked often by african- american reporters if he has an african-american agenda, and his answer is, at this time, my overall agenda is the best thing to help african-americans. it is sort of a sense that he is not trying to develop an agenda specifically for african- americans, and i think, politically, that is probably smart. >> when you look at presidents, it is often said that arthur like kitchen cabinets -- they are like kitchen cabinets. did any african-americans have influence? >> more recently, we have that african-americans in key positions like colin powell. before that, one example is a person named william slade. abraham lincoln trusted his judgment, and felt that he was in contact with everyday america. he actually got -- bounced each lines off of william slade, and took him with him when he spoke, including at gettysburg. he wanted to see what his valet thought about it. that is remarkable. the person he trusted with the gettysburg address, it was is african-american the valet. >> this was a free man? >> at this point, absolutely, yes. he had been a slave. >> there

americans are watching. it's time for us to lead and demonstrate the american exceptionalism. thank you. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: thank you, mr. speaker. at this time i yield two minutes to the gentleman from new york, a member of the committee on budget, mr. tong -- tonko. mr. tonko: thank you, mr. speaker, and i thank the gentleman from massachusetts for yielding. we're here today at long last to vote on the republican default plan. after 200 days without a jobs agenda, after 200 days of saying that those hardest hit by the recession should bear the burden of unbalanced cuts, after 200 days of rhetoric and walking away by republican -- away, my republican colleagues have brought their default plan to the floor for a public debate and a vote. so what do they offer up? courageous leadership, a grand bargain? sad sadly, no. when you walk out of -- sadly, no. when you walk out of negotiations and spend more time talking to the press than to the president i'm not sure we expected more. we have before us the same tired

that american dream. mr. president, i thank you for are the opportunity of addressing the senate, and i would note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. chambliss: mr. president, i would ask that the quorum call be suspended. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. chambliss: mr. president, i rise today to talk about the bill that's before the senate today, but as a part of that we are now in the midst of a true fiscal crisis in this country, and i want to address something that has been debated over the last several days, discussed over the last several days, criticized over the last several days, and been the object of a lot of misinformation by colleagues on my side of the aisle particularly about the proposal that has been submitted by the so-called gang of six, of which i happen to be a member and someone who for the last seven months has participated in discussions with two of my colleagues on our side of the aisle as well as three on th

it's the american family plan. every american family cuts their budget, caps their budget, balances their budget with their own finances, so should washington. that is not unfair. to argue against this is to argue against common sense. this is to say as bad parents do, do as i say, not as i do. that is bad parenting and that's also bad legislation. unfortunately, over the past three months, our efforts to get serious about this crisis has been meant with scare tactics. enough, enough of the political parlor tricks coming out of this city. it is time for us to do the job that the american people sent us here to do, practice, walking-around common sense. that's what my grandfather taught me, it is good in small business and good enough for washington d.c. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from maryland. mr. van hollen: mr. speaker, american families don't have the luxury of saying if we don't get things 100% our way, we won't pay our family bil

companies should hire american workers . because of the shrinking middle class and the fact that middle class wages are decreasing over the last thirty years so many people here they don't. do to me and i do think that is the wrong thing to do is. and it's not just manufacturing work american i t. companies and innovation jobs are also moving here in droves as well as huge savings on wages many companies say india's fast growing economy and young workforce make it a desirable place to find staff there are amazingly talented people here in the part of the workforce and you know it's a matter of helping other other markets understand you know there are very talented people here who can do a lot of great work and it's not just about outsourcing and it's growth that these american companies don't anticipate will end anytime soon within the markets we have a good old from the last forty years as almost every person that's laws are being asked put additional if you would like to double business. use a confidence not often found am

american soldiers present there and he american presence on his administration and then by a kurdistan regional government there is there is corruption throughout our of iraq on a much greater scale than the kurdistan region i think what you've heard me unfortunately is old fashioned arab nationalist propaganda and what is vital to understand is that iraq has just gone through an absolutely terrific intra arab civil war that was not primarily caused by the american occupation it was cause i don't think this is just journalism in a very sad. time for many thanks to my guest today in new york in washington and london and thanks to our viewers for watching us here are to see you next time and remember crosstalk.

concerning the child adoption process just recently several american families have been blaming all groups for children adopted in russia south moscow wants to help i like to examine the living conditions tribe adopted children what other problems does the russian children on the front face here's the presidential commission for the children's rights by the left after. a number of scandals where american parents badly treated the children played up with russia last moscow and washington to come up with a solution to talk about design by russia with new york helping americans are not true to russia international recognized convention but inside russia it's a different story children's rights are also in. the country doesn't have a single juvenile court to deal with such things. welcome to the show thank you very much for coming in first of all about this new agreement that the russians and the u.s. are planning to sign what will be the new. rules of adoption will there be new rules because there are a few changes and a few rules in this new agreement because this is the first agreeme

so many americans? >> well, first of all, there is the growth of the social media. i myself, i have judge alex ferrer and i have tweets all the time about my opinions on this case. on top of that, you've got the shock factor. it's like an o. j. simpson trial. nobody wanted to believe that o. j. simpson could just brutally murder his wife and the man she was with. so it just drove people in. here you have a mother who is accused murdering her own daughter. nobody wants to believe that from the beginning. then you add the component that she goes out partying, gets a tattoo during the weeks after her daughter dies. >> that doesn't mean she killed her child, though. >> you have allegations of sex abuse. they're all pieces of the puzzle. >> right. and i agree with you on that. but i think if i were sitting on the jury and i'm going to put someone away for life or maybe death, i would need to see like a fingerprint. i would need to know she put the tape on the child's mouth. 'cause the mother is apparently ly

they believed it was good for african-americans and americans in general. that was the divide between the naacp and tuskegee institute and that goes back to the founding of the naacp. were w. e. b. du bois argues against the pragmatic vision of tuskegee's founder booker t. washington, much more idealistic where washington is more pragmatic. it is a debate they had been having for 30 some years by this point but the program was created, african-americans did begin flying in tuskegee under the army's in 1940. they created the site the national park service now has as a primary flight training facility that would be managed by tuskegee institute. civilian instructors teaching african-americans to fly on a large scale for the first time using federal dollars. the fact that they forced the federal government into this to they side is giving african-american greater opportunities lead to greater changes down the road so in that sense the pragmatic side was right. once cadets graduated, they advanced to tuskegee airfield where they were taught to fly the army way.

it's a limited edition and that is the american people. and the american people are really fun, oh, one more thing. and this, of course, is aragon's sword anduril, flame given to me about viggo mortensen. now this has nothing to do with the metaphor. i just want to remind everyone that i have this. (laughter) okay? (cheers and applause) >> stephen: all right. and of course, of course i would be-- the point is i get comparing the debt crisis to the lord of the rings. they both have elaborate plots, more characters than you can keep track of, and talking about both of them repels girls. (laughter) nation, stay sauron, stay. nation, 29 days ago colbert superpac began its mission of making a better tomorrow tomorrow. and that mission is as important now now as it was then then. we have received donations from over 10,000 nameless heroes whose names are right down here. but i want to salute two new members of the colbert youth corps who sent me this letter. they scribble dear stephen cole better the first time we saw you you were the assistance

he said that an american, an irish american, was golfing with his wife on a weekend. and he hit the ball into the rough. went looking for it. all of a sudden, a leprechaun jumped up. we're back to the leprechaun theme. he said, top of the morning to you, lad. he says, you're a leprechaun. he says, yes, i am, and you have 3 wishes. three wishes? he says, yes. you have 3 wishes. i want to be a par golfer.. he says, no problem. from now on, par and under. he says, i want a porsche. he says, when you go home tonight, there will be a porsche in your garage. and he says, i want a million dollars. he says, done. when you go to the bank on monday, there will be a million dollars in your account. thank you very much, i have to find my ball. so he goes looking -- hold on a minute, lad. please hold on. i see you are golfing with your wife. do you mind if i go into the shrubbery with her for an hour or so? he says, let me ask her. it's a million dollars. so he goes up and asks the wife and she says, what? you don't mind if i go in the bushes with the leprechaun? he says, no, no,

i think are american companies should hire american workers. because of the shrinking middle class and the fact that middle class wages are decreasing over the last thirty years so many people here they don't. do to me. and i do think that is the wrong thing to do is to go over things and it's not just manufacturing work american i t. companies and innovation jobs they're also moving here in drone. as well as huge savings on wages many companies say india's fast growing economy and young workforce make it a desirable place to find staff there are amazingly talented people here in that part of the workforce and you know it's a matter of helping other other markets understand that you know there are very talented people here who can do a lot of great work and it's not just about outsourcing and it's growth that these american companies don't anticipate will add ins and in time soon within the markets we have a good old boy from the last forty. years in this class i think yes goodish and we would like to double the business. confidence not often f

the american people don't want us to raise taxes. >> american people do not want us to raise taxes, makes for a nice, tidy, talking point in this fight. it does not, however, appear to be a true talking point. most recent poll to poll on this question said when asked if they would support a federal surtax, an extra tax on those earning over $1 million a year, 81% of americans said they'd support that. 81% of americans do not agree that ice is cold or the word "the" has a "t" in it, but 81% agreed raise taxes on millionaires. when asked if they can support phasing out bush tax cuts for those raising a quarter of a million a year, 68% of americans said yes. the american public is actually quite overwhelmingly cool with some taxes being raised on the wealthiest in the country. republicans have also been adamant taxes on u.s. corporations should not be allowed to go up at all, american people would not support that, they'd say. but when you ask americans, the majority think corporations are not paying their fair share, 56% of americans say corporations are paying less than their fair share, 2

to ensure that there will be american troops patrolling the disputed territories they'll be working hard to ensure that their recent successful detente with the government of turkey continues and they continue to attract inward investment if the kurds were to take the risk of going for independence that might damage all of the successful inward investment they've made it would also mean that they'd have to devote almost the entirety of their resources to military needs and they are they don't want to do that they've come a long way in the last decade they don't want to lose the gains of that last decade sam if i can go to you we heard the word leverage and i think that's probably the most important word when we look at it we drove american troops i mean how much can the kurds get from baghdad ok i mean we meet everyone's watching each other across the the the question so-called border where the kurds the kurdish lands been relatively quiet kids and considering the violence since two thousand and three what can they get from baghdad and how resistance is bad baghdad going to be and w

american soldiers present there any american presence and they're not exactly thrilled by it because it's about a regional government there is there is corruption throughout our of iraq on a much greater scale than the kurdistan region i think what you've heard very sami unfortunately is old fashioned arab nationalists propaganda and what is vital to understand is that iraq has just gone through an absolutely terrific intra arab civil war that was not primarily caused by the american occupation it was cause i don't think this is just journalism in a very serious guys you know waste of time are many thanks to my guest today in new york in washington and london and thanks to our viewers for watching us here are to see you next time and remember crosstalk.

american soldiers present there any american presence and if that is that israel shouldn't go because it's about a regional government there is there is corruption throughout our of iraq on a much greater scale than the kurdistan region i think what you've heard recently unfortunately is old fashioned arab nationalist propaganda and what is vital to understand is that iraq has just gone through an absolutely terrific in fact arab civil war that was not primarily caused by the american occupation it was called what i've been doing this is just gentlemen this has been a very sad discussion this waste of time and many thanks to my guest today in new york in washington and london and thanks to our viewers for watching us here r.t. see you next time and remember. it. if.

and that's 50 years in space by the american people. >> what about the american spirit? say nothing of research, say nothing of explore nation, both of which i think are hard wired into our character. what about what this did to rally our people? >> i think back before the early space flights, which i was fortunate enough to be on one of them. and i think some of those early space flights are what brought the american psyche back into battery again maybe and said hey, we can do this thing. we had some successes. and we were moving and yes, we'll outdo them and we did. it was a restoration of the american psyche i think back in those days and i think we played a role in it. >> our thanks to nbc's jay barbree and to john glenn who later this month will turn 90 years old. he and his wife annie just celebrated their 68th wedding anniversary. just getting started. that ee that's our broadcast for this wednesday night. thank you for being with us. i'm brian williams. hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. good night.

we are here to represent the american people. that is what the consumer financial protection bureau has been designed to do. i urge my colleagues, put main street before wall street. stand up for ordinary, hardworking, middle class families, oppose this rule and the underlying legislation. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. the gentleman from texas. mr. session: thank you, madam speaker. at this time i'd like to yield four minutes to the gentleman from san antonio, texas, a freshman member of this body, congressman francisco canseco. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for four minutes. mr. canseco: thank you, madam speaker. thank you, mr. chairman. i'd like to thank mr. duffy, chairman baucus, and chairman capito, for their leadership on this important matter. madam speaker, i strong -- i rise in strong support of the rule and the underlying bill with which important measures of accountability to an agency that currently operates independent of any real oversight. the

. >> only 20 to 25% of americans want a deal that is only spending cuts. >> almost 70% of americans want a solution that includes both spending cuts and revenue increases. >> an overwhelming 55% of americans want nothing to do with the tax hike and the debt deal. >> the vast majority of americans want tax hikes to be part of the debt ceiling deal. >> 11% of americans say that increasing government spending will be good for the economy. >> americans by almost a 2 to 1 margin want their member of congress to vote against raising the debt ceiling. >> there's now more americans who say raise it. we understand the implications to the economy. >> just 24% of americans support lifting the debt limit. >> 52% are in favor of voting against raising the debt kreel >> about 3% of americans admit to watching porn at work. ( applause ) >> jon: now that you've sufficiently baffled you with nonsense we return to our so, what are we going to do with this? i don't know. the usual? [ blower whirring ] sometimes it pays to switch things up. my - what, my hair? no. car insurance. i switched to progressive an