he worked in our office in city hall and worked with bill lynch, known to many as a rumpled genius. it brought him along as he has done so many others. bill is dead now and has his reward. but he has left quite a legacy. >> you endorse him now that he is one of the two finalists? >> absolutely. i called them on election night and congratulated him, offering to do whatever i could the help. -- to help. he not only worked for us, but his wife did, too. she worked in our speech office. the office of the reporters, the news office. she was terrific. very pleased that they are together. i suppose the whole world knows about dante and his afro. tavis: you are the first african-american mayor, but he is married to annette -- an african-american woman and his son has a huge afro. the president gave his afro a shout out. most multicultural ever,ltiracial new york there has only been one african- american mayor? the same is true in l.a., but we are talking about new york. there clearly have been people equal to the task. the aforementioned bill thompson is one of them. there are others who di

he worked in our office in city hall and worked with bill lynch, known to many as a rumpled genius. it brought him along as he has done so many others. bill is dead now and has his reward. but he has left quite a legacy. >> you endorse him now that he is one of the two finalists? >> absolutely. i called them on election night and congratulated him, offering to do whatever i could the help. -- to help. he not only worked for us, but his wife did, too. she worked in our speech office. the office of the reporters, the news office. she was terrific. very pleased that they are together. i suppose the whole world knows about dante and his afro. tavis: you are the first african-american mayor, but he is married to annette -- an african-american woman and his son has a huge afro. the president gave his afro a shout out. most multicultural

he worked in our office in city hall and worked with bill lynch, known to many as a rumpled genius. it brought him along as he has done so many others. bill is dead now and has his reward. but he has left quite a legacy. >> you endorse him now that he is one of the two finalists? >> absolutely. i called them on election night and congratulated him, offering to do whatever i could the help. -- to help. he not only worked for us, but his wife did, too. she worked in our speech office. the office of the reporters, the news office. she was terrific. very pleased that they are together. i suppose the whole world knows about dante and his afro. tavis: you are the first african-american mayor, but he is married to annette -- an african-american woman and his son has a huge afro. the president gave his afro a shout out. most multicultural and

he was at merrill lynch and called me up and said, i'm bill mcelroy, i want my research out there early. call me every morning at 6:45. i would get the merrill information at 7:00. then he left and went to morgan and i thought, my information is gone. then i got morgan and -- >> and now everybody takes it for granted. >> it was great. >> the important thing is on the floor you had to face opposition from you, that didn't want you or anybody down here on the floor. it was a fraternity. >> one or two people gave me a hard time. but for the most part, i have to give a shout out to everybody down here, there's such camaraderie. the guys opened their arms, a specialist in ge, george, i'll never forget, taught me so much, took me under his wing. when i got married i was talking to a specialist, my back was toward everyone else, i'm just -- just talking about the markets. unbeknownst to me they put a ball and dhans on my ankle. >> one of the pranks they used to play to everybody. >> then i knew. they accepted me. it was good. >> you're referring to george mulnar, the old ge specialist. >> yes.

bill: we have dennis michael lynch with us now. a filmmaker. he went to the mall to see what was going on. can you give me a play-by-play? >> well, if you want to start with the illegal immigrant rally, i felt like i was back down in texas along the border. i mean, they were welcome to come on in. it was like this. >> are you saying that they are illegal? but they weren't citizens? >> they were not citizens. i didn't get to ask all 10,000 of them, but the majority people that i spoke to, are you undocumented, they didn't understand what i was saying. so there's your answer i guess. but if you go over to the veterans memorial, what i see? american citizens standing outside the memorial, taking pictures and they can't get in. one that says don't come in, another one that says stop, don't come in. it's a punch in the face of the american citizen. >> which memorial is that? >> what you are seeing is that sign sitting at the world war ii memorial. >> what if we would've wanted to see jefferson and lincoln? >> it's the same thing. looks like lockdown

lynch: i thank the gentlelady for yielding. i want to associate myself with her earlier remarks on this bill as well as the remarks of mr. peterson of minnesota. i rise in strong sop sigs to h.r. 99 , the misleadingly named swaps regulatory improvement act. if you need to know one thing about this bill, it's that a vote for this bill is a vote to provide taxpayer funding and backing for the kind of reckless derivative trading that brought our economy to the brink of catastrophic collapse. the bill before us today would repeal the provision in the dodd-frank reform law that requires too big to fail banks to push their risky derivative dealing out of banks that receive taxpayer support and into separately capitalized subsidiaries. this bill is not a regulatory improvement, it's a giveaway to wall street. it is an abrogation of they have -- of the duty of this body to protect consumers from wall street speculators. i want to point out a couple of things that have been misleading. dodd-frank allows banks to keep derivatives they us

, talking about murders, talking about burning crosses, that the kkk has still does to people -- bill: i respect your opinion, need a name. who has done it? give me a name? who has done it? >> of tea partiers? bill: yeah. >> honestly things that rand paul has said. thing ron paul said, association -- bill: give me an example what rand paul has said that makes him the equivalent of grayson putting out the klan in a campaign ad? >> i said those are not equivalent. i said over and over again, those are not equivalent. that is my entire point. bill: you will leave it at that? >> they're not equivalent. bill: all right of the okay. so we'll look for this example and try to find it, all right? because the two, they don't seem like they add up here and we're waiting for the condemnation. >> they're not the same. bill: it is not coming out anywhere. >> i just condemned it. i just condemned it. >> people of central florida need to get their act together with grayson, that's for sure. bill: to both, i appreciate the debate. mike slater, ebony davis. martha: all right, well the fda is proposing

moment in the 1995, when my senator in louisiana, mary landrieu, a louisiana democrat, introduces a bill that is an apology on the part of the senate, an apology to the american people and to african-americans in particular for having never passed anti-lynching legislation, right? so that southern veto that we were talking about was often used by southern democrats to keep the anti-lynching legislation from occurring. and in 2005, just two months before katrina, a louisiana democrat introduces this apology that the senate then takes up. i felt such hope at that moment, alan, and of course, right after that, two months after that katrina happens, the sort of race story of katrina emerges. and yet just a few years after that, the election of president obama. i have to say, i got a little racially giddy about potentially where we were going. and then the past seven years have been difficult and culminating in this shutdown, which now feels like this thing from the 1930s. >> right. but i think that the shutdown, one of the reasons that the shutdown blows up the conservative narrative in a lo

and also i want to thank chairman miller for his hard work on this bill. mr. speaker, i rise in support of h.r. 2189. this legislation takes important steps to address the deplorable disability claims become log at the veterans affairs administration. it does so by establishing a special task force to evaluate the extent of the backlog and termine solutions to eliminate the backlog. we all agree, veterans deserve better. it is this same spirit i introduced h.r. 2185, the veterans day moment of silence act. this bill brings together all americans to observe two minutes of silence each veterans tai, it's a time when we all, regardless of ideology, can stop and reflect on the brave service of generations of u.s. veterans. i want to thank chairman miller and ranking member michaud for including the text of my bill into the text of h.r. 189, particularly i want to thank daniel and michael benson and their father, dr. peter benson. as a family they've worked to bring the moment of silence to fruition. i'm honored to present this proposal today on their behalf in thi