to be a deputy in the white house. certainly in a white house press office because the hours are insane and the work load is pretty crazy. >> roughly what time would you come in in the morning? did you come in for senior staff around -- >> well before. so i would wake up at 4:00 and dana especially -- when dana was the principal deputy, then when she was press secretary, she and i were on e-mail with each other at 4:30 4:45 in the morning every day. i would haveçó four a and b sections of newspapers read before i would get to the white house at 5:30 in the morning. i'd pull up to the starbucks on pennsylvania avenue and they would have two coffees waiting for me. a quad espresso and a grande dark. i would be in the white house by 5:00. the national security meeting was at 6:30. press office meeting at 7:15. senior staff ató[ 7:30. xhung communications meeting at 8:00. and then in the ear k days we were getting ready for the gaggle at that point. we ended up getting rid of the gaggle. >> gaggle was a more informal gr

finally, this is the evidence that if it goes to the white house, the white house pays it. to its credit, what the white house maintains a realtime analysis of -- and you can pull this right off their website, even though i just apparently destroyed it -- is month by month you can read the rules that have been received by the white house, the stage they're at, and the action that the white house has taken on. and what these data tell you is that everything that goes to the agency gets serious scrutiny and almost everything that goes through it gets changed at some level. there is some change that the white house is taking credit for. now, the data that i'm prying to work on, i'm actually -- despite the fact that nobody seems to buy it, i'm going to write a fifth edition to the book. too bad i got to it so late because the christmas season as passed. i missed a marketing opportunity there. what i'm trying to do is i'm trying to get the information out of the general services administration which for some reason has been given responsibility to count rules and regulations acr

we're going to be at the white house today but we'd love to just get more information. because that's just such an important topic for all of news our communities. secretary castro at hud you made a commitment to an initiative community development and local vision. could you talk a little bit about these efforts and what you think this partnership looks like for local leaders going forward? >> yeah, so, you know, one of the things that i've been talking about lately is that if you think about this 21st century, we're really living in a century of cities across the world places like china and india, those nations are urbanizing at a faster rate than ever. here in the united states cities are hot again people are moving back to cities. and particularly the younger generation, millennials. and so it -- the challenge out there for cities also competing in a 21st century global economy where capital is more mobile than ever and brain power is more mobile, is to make your city as livable as possible. that's really the underpinning of our place based initiatives, like choice

the white house spokesman saying the white house erred in not end sending a higher level official for the march, coming under criticism for that. also according to the associated press, the twitter and youtube accounts of the military command centcom has been hacked. taken over by hackers claiming to be islamic mill tans that report from the associated press. we will be back again as we mentioned at about 2:00 eastern here on c-span3. also want to let you know today at 2:00 the house comes back in, the senate as well. later this afternoon in the senate, they will take some procedural votes on the keystone pipeline. that passed in the house last friday. they approved the measure, which would grant construction program for building the remainder of the keystone pipeline. shortly after that vote friday we talked to a capitol hill reporter about what's ahead. >> lauren gardener covers energy issues for cq roll call and joins us on capitol hill. you tweeted about nebraska position landowner and keystone xl case, time for the president to put an end to this damn thing. how does that change

my wife was working in the white house. i remember her having to pull off her shoes and walk barefoot across memorial bridge because she couldn't get to a car. i remember the putrid stink in the air of the smoldering pentagon. i will say in the immediate aftermath of september 11th, nations across the world came and stood with america. nation of france stood with america. it was sad and unfortunate that we have not seen that same leadership from this administration now. and i would note that that lack of seriousness of purpose, that lack of resolve is profoundly dangerous. it's dangerous because it encourages radical islamic terrorists to redouble their efforts and it is dangerous because nations like iran see that weakness. the single gravest threat to our national security is the threat of iran acquiring nuclear weapon capability. and this administration seems bound and determined to go down the road of a foolhardy deal. indeed, the deputy national security advisor of this administration described that an iran nuclear dea

house becomes a republican white house, will they have this obsession with federal government works against us? another comment i'd like to make is about schools. and i think that it is necessary because we have so many children who are undereducated. we have so many -- we have teachers that are coming out of college that don't even take education courses. we have teachers who -- and i've been a substitute teacher and i've seen what i've had to work with as far as what the absent teacher leaves behind. i think one of the things that we have to do to improve education in this country is to hold a teacher's feet to the fire and make sure they're doing their job. >> well, let me respond to that. one, i hope i never refer to the federal government as the enemy. because they're not the enemy. they're our partner. we should be working together to solve the problems. and address the needs of the american public. we have state responsibilities within our borders, and we have a general responsibility through the federal government. it's not a matter of us versus them. it's really a matter of

we think that the white house and congress can learn from states. when they go to implement and change policy, they ought to ask for input. we will try to professor the opportunity for them to hear from us. you with the the healthcare reform attempt or the affordable care act i think would have been better if the congress and the president had engaged with the governors first and said, how do you think this is going to work in your state, what do you see some of the challenges as well as the opportunities. i think we would have had a better law if the governors had been asked in advance of passing the affordable care act, their input. >> yeah. >> hi. earlier you mentioned issues regarding the national guard. in many ways, that mirrors recent issues with the air national guard structure in fiscal '13. can you talk about how things have changed with your interaction with that service the structure the air force has played into that and how it has created the next budget proposal? >> sure. i think if i'm speaking for all governors, which i am, it requi

house each year to determine what rules are gring to pass through the white house for review. that's what we have today. there is still a sizable number. the office they pass through is something called the office of information and regulatory affairs. oira. remember that. you are now part of a very select group of americans that know the place exists. all right? but it is arguably one of the most important offices in the federal government. so the president decides obviously his staff decides which rules at epa are the most important, which ones in osha which one at the trade rep, which one at the pension benefit guarantee corporation. and by implication, what he's right to change thosefy fyif i don't lik[@zxt i'm going to show you some data in a minute that indicate that is not anóñ empty threat. every place that imposes -- everything that imposes a requirement on an agency when rule making occurs is an opportunity for you tod influence that an interest you're representing. that's how you have to see it. and this is a big one. if you're fortunate enough tomml÷ have one of

bush's white house. his most recent book is a very interesting one called "show me the evidence" about president obama's fight for rigor and results in social policy. and last but certainly not east is alice rivlin who if i met her resume we'd be at 11:30. she's director of the engelberg center at brookings. she's the founding director of cbo, former director of omb for bill clinton, vice chair of the federal reserve and relevant to these conversations is a fixture on every single commission that we create to do something about the deficit. but fortunately, alice we don't judge you by the results you get. just by the quality of the work. >> oh, you should judge by the results right now. >> right, okay. cyclically adjusted. what we're going to do here is we're going to start -- i'm going to talk with each of the people up here for awhile and then we'll have time for questions, and because we wantc to do both defense and domestic we're going to 85alternate a little bit. i'm going to start with bob hale, an

controls the white house we may very well already in the quick sand. >> great. we have a lot of eager students waiting to ask questions. we'll have you state your name and school and then ask your question and we'll try to get quick answers so we can get through as many as possible. let's start on the left. >> john graves, harvard university extension school. i really want to jump on the constant campaigning issue but i'll go a different way here. you mentioned the budget is not sustainable. you also mentioned that the entitlement program being the top of the list, as we move forward, that we cannot pull from that and we should look elsewhere at major impacts we can make. i'm a realist. i get that we probably need to audit defense spending. some of the major dents we could probably make are there. but do you foresee that on an ongoing basis entitlements will always be here and we have to prioritize down the list to make sure that entitlements are always there? will that change in 2033 when the fund are exhausted? how do we move forward and will the entitlement a

. >> it may have slipped their minds at the white house as well. are there any american-owned pipelines going through the country of canada? >> i suspect there are. >> isn't there something called the alaskan pipeline where we move oil all the way from alaska to the lower 48 which helps keep the price low for our friends? so it is okay for america to run a pipeline the entire length of canada, with their consent and their support, but it's wrong for canada to be able to run a pipeline through america? >> i think we understate the importance of this pipeline project and these deliberations to our relationship with our friends in canada. >> oh, i have flo doubtno doubt about it. because i've had multiple conversations with people in canada and the hypocrisy that they see of us running oil through their -- which they have no objection to and cooperate in. then refusing them the same opportunity, that is disturb want to call about the united states projecting a bad image and conducting a double standard in the world, this is one of them. i look at the

and the president today, the white house has issued a new statement of administration policy. but it's not new. and the end of it says and this isn't just advisers saying it. if the president were presented with hr-30, he would veto it. the administration policy sets out why. so let me talk about the substance, though i think it's also important to remember the words that have been put forth these last 24 hours about trying to find common ground. this goes in the opposite direction. this doesn't save american workers. it hurts american workers. the administration starts off by saying, the administration strongly opposes house passage of hr-30 the save american workers act you because it would increase the deficit, reduce the number of americans with employer-based health insurance coverage and create incentives for employers to shift their employees to part-time work causing the problem it intends to solve. and that's because five or six times as many people are working 40 hours than 30. so if you move the requirement from 30 to 40 essentially, what you are doing is creating a

. >> the other thing we have talked -- the white house and congress -- in the process with the funding we have, to reduce the red tape that when we're doing major projects, many times the sequence of requirements in terms of getting your -- satisfying the epa and various federal agencies could be done in parallel instead of being done sequentially, which could reduce the amount of time and preparation for the large projects. the white house and department of transportation have done that in communities with some of their efforts to expand port capacity in anticipation of the expanded panama canal is a good example. >> good morning. when you guys are meeting with the president today, you have a long list of stuff that you would like the federal government to look at. but probably a very short time. what are your top priorities when meeting with the president today? >> i think probably the highest priority of everything we are talking about is to build that relationship between state governments and the federal government. in terms of healthcare, if we've gone out and we now have a numbe

house and the white house, the nfc admits to this has decided to do three things to normalize relations. cuba can now have -- the castro regime can have an ambassador in the united states. they have now essentially been absolved of over half a century of aggression towards the united states and towards its own people and towards the aggression they fostered throughout africa and latin america. president obama has gone even as far as calling raul castro president. calling him president castro. this is someone never elected. someone who the only reason why he's in power is because he's the younger brother of fidel castro. another individual who has never been elected. so president obama's now also expanding the ability for americans to travel as tourism. before, there was, it's extremely difficult for an american to travel to travel to cuba. me as a cuban american, it was difficult for me, before, you can only go once every three years. now that's just been completely obliterated for cuban americans and for americans it's going to be extremely easy for them to travel, as well. what people

conference of mayors staff today to make sure you are not left out of our white house visit. yes, you need a gold star to get in. let me thank the sponsors for this year's winter meeting. i'd like to thank -- let me get through all of our sponsors and then we'll give them all one round of applause at the end. i want to thank wells fargo, our 2015 winter meeting title sponsor, american beverage association, americans for the arts engine research foundation google hdr jpmorganchase & company, lindbergher, blair and sampson llp, motorola solutions target corporations, uber technologies the walton family foundation. let's give all of our sponsors a round of applause. i'm also pleased that we have over 50 new mayors registered for this winter meeting. let's give our rookie mayors a round of applause. to help introduce and whm him to the organization we're going to show all of their names behind me. and and we've missed or left out a mayor i want to apologize in advance.

blair house is a guest house used by dignitaries using the white house. and david cameron met with president obama about the war on terror. got a picture for you tweeted out by mark knoller this was before the meeting of the two world leader the white house. this news conference continuingeing right now. you can see it on c-span. that will also air tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span if you missed any of it today. >>> president bahama heads to capitol hill often tuesday. we'll have live coverage of the speech but our coverage begins at 8 eastern as we hear perfect ray qshuck. republicans have tapped jone yes ernst to give the address. she's first woman to represent iowa in congress. >>> here are some of our featured programs for this weekend on the c-span networks. saturday night at 10:00, on afterwards, brett stevens argues our enemies and competitors are taking advantage of the situation abroad created by the u.s. as it focuses on doemestic concerns. and steve raise real on his latest novel. and at 8:00, george mason university joran turneri] on the early

of course the white house agreed because diplomacy carried the day. but groves got in the middle of v it. groves went berserk, as you can expect, went to george marshall. groves was one person as a one-star general that could walk into george marshall's office screaming and throwing stuff and not get court-martialed for it. he went into the office screaming bloody murder. convinced marshall of the stupid idea. then convinced stimson this is a really stupid idea. groves got in the middle, slowed it down and eventually conceded as a compromise to give them one kilogram of enriched uranium. 2.2 pounds which you can't do a whole lot with. this is like 10% refined uranium, too. you couldn't even make a nuclearaucóz reactor out of this. you need about 80%, 90% refinement of uranium to make a bomb. so, yes, he was very much -- forget the spying. they were very much looking to please the soviets because they were allies, but there was no transfer of uranium that made a difference at this point. yeah, right back there with the glasses. and then directly next

house. i can run down the list. there were a total of 11 separate bills that passed. 864, this passed the house 411 to 12. second bill was 54-71. it passed by the vote. the next bill came and passed the house vote by 417-4. the next bill was by brian higgins rs that passed the house, 422-0. another one 420-2. out of committee. passed the committee 56-0. i can continue to run down they passed almost unanimously in each case. but as the chairman said before the bills then went over to the senate the senate is where all good bills go to die even if they pass overwhelmingly in support here in the house. we're beginning the new year saying let's take these bills that passed overwhelmingly. and let's have the senate maybe take them up again, see what they do with them, hopefully pass them on to the white house. >> that was exactly what i would have said in preparations for this hearing, we did understand it was a bipartisan agreement not just to do these bills, but repeatedly on the floor. if i co

at the white house. where she was president obama's principal adviser on europe and led the inter-agency process on development and implementation of the president's policy toward european affairs. we'll have an address from ms. ms. ms. mogherini on the transatlantic bond in an age of complexity and she and karen will then lead a conversation with her and with the audience. so, ladies and gentlemen please welcome the eu high representative for foreign affairs, federica mogherini. >> thank you very much for the memories, for the warm welcome and also for the joint inhave i station. it's a pleasure to be back here in brookings. i actually was in -- i think in another room next door less than a year ago. and it's a pleasure to meet again, friends of brookings but also of gmf. what made my experience of fellow in 2007 was one of the best and most important experiences of my life. and i would say that shows that fellowship works, to some extent, at least. but coming here, i realize that the first time i trave

by the time your grand baby is of age, a woman will also be in the white house. not just the house of rep representatives. >>> my friends, since i am i believe, the last speaker, i am standing between you and the portrait. so i will be brief. but i will say it is an honor to be here with all of you. and the reason i was arriving late. john conyers he sends you his congratulations and best regards. for some of us, that's a lot of history. in the room. the vice president has spoken so eloquently about john conyers' association with rosa park. the only person martin luther king ever endorsed for public office. what more do you need to know? what more do you need to know? that the vice presidents and john conyers are here together with their shared values, the values that relate to hate crimes, gun safety all the things that had been a struggle of security and zifrlcivil rights and the rest, they have championed. >>> so i just have to tell you this one story. you tell me if it's appropriate or not. i just can't resist. [ laughter ] >> so ron dellums, we're going back

president obama announced her nomination at the white house in november. here's a look. >> have a seat, everybody. good morning. as president, i rely on my cabinet every day to make sure that we are not just getting the job done, but we're making progress for the american people. and in a country that is built on the rule of law, there are few offices more important than that of attorney general. the attorney general is the people's lawyer. as our nation's chief law enforcement officer the person in this position is responsible for enforcing our federal laws. including protecting our civil rights. working with the remarkable men and women of the justice department, the attorney general oversees the vast portfolio of cases, including counterterrorism, and voting rights public corruption, and white collar crime judicial recommendations, and policy reviews. all of which impact on the lives of every american and shape the life of our nation. as i said back in september when he decided to step down, i am enormously grateful to eric holder for his outstanding se

it and all of the efforts, you have to have white house leadership to pull these folks together. and an agency can't lead it the secretary of energy can't lead the whole government. you have to have white house leadership on climate and neither one of them should be silent. >> i will just ask a question of our panelist and look forward to questions and comments from the audience. the question is, in low pressuring to the recommendations that david gave to us are there any others that you would add to or any comments that you would add on to david's list in the contest of the following question. we're talking about low oil prices. some people feel they will be here for a longer period of time. if that is the case, does that shed any different kind of light on the kind of strategic opportunities or the proposals they have sent forward? shall i ask for comments from -- >> i was going to comment on the assumption of low oil prices for a long period of time -- >> but it's a question not an assumption. >> no nothing -- nothing cures low prices like low prices. i expect that there is a

. >> it is appropriate particularly for the know folks to look at the congress and the white house. i'll talk about the reading in the new yorker about the bully pulpit first because i think that addresses a number of issues and presidential studies that seem to be at odds with how presidential politics works in practice. and the main debate in presidential politics today presidential studies today is what is presidential power? what is presidential power. richard new staten island, a famous political scientist, published a book, senator kennedy read it with a model as to how he would govern in office and after the bay of pigs he said we hit eisenhower but not kennedy. but new stat said in this book the presidential power is the power to persuade. and he goes on to say that the power to persuade is the power to bargain. how do persuade? well newstat talks about professional representation with members of congress the circle group, the lobbyists, that make up the policy-making sphere in washington, including elects officials but not only elected officials and that is why many speaker

the president had a joint meeting with republican and democrat leadership last week at the white house, and this was one of the five priorities that he laid out and one where at least around that table there was some desire -- >> speaker boehner's identified it as one of the four areas that he sees for bipartisan cooperation. >> we also have the patriot act expiring in june which gives us an opportunity -- which will force congress to act upon some of the data collection and other provisions in the patriot act -- >> do you see these issues merging together on june 1st and sort of forcing action on the part of congress? >> do i think that the -- certainly some aspects of cybersecurity will be a part of the patriot act. i'm someone who -- i voted for the patriot act, but also believed it was very important that there was the expiration of the patriot act and the provision that's would ensure that we as members of congress could analyze a few years down the road. not just what we intended but is this working effectively? and now where we find ourselves i think it was very important that t

i believe backing up our white house is essential for a nominee and i'll do whatever i can to make that happen. so to all of my supporters, friends and family, who worked tirelessly and loyally to support my campaigns in the past ann and i will thankful. we are overwhelmed and humbled by your loyalty to us, by generosity and spirit. god bless you all and god bless our great country. bye-bye. >> here are some of the featured programs for this weekend on the cspan networks. on book tv saturday night at 10:00 on afterwards, white house correspondents april ryan on her more than 25 years in journalism journalism. and on sunday, our three hour conversation with walter issacson. and on american history tv on cspan3 on saturday at 6:00 p.m. eastern on the civil war, boston college hist or professor on how the cowboy became symbolic of a newly unified america and on sunday at 6:00, we'll tour the house that was the headquarters of the american red cross and learn about the wife of the founder, clara barton. found our complete schedule at cspan.org. call us at 202-626-3400. e-mail us at comments

as i mentioned, the white house could act pushing the sec rule making to increase corporate political spending disclosure. as the commissioner mentioned, the fcc can act, these organizations agree that disclosure is needed. these organizations also agree that we need financing to improve the congressional and presidential systems. and they also agree that we need to overturn the effects of cases like citizens united and mchutchen. reclaim our constitution. so today, our final panel is going to focus in on one of these solutions talking about public financing. which, again, we all agree on. and the members of all three panels are still here and can take questions on any of the stlugss mentioned in the unity statement. start off our panel and go to dan smith from u.s. purg and finish with matt lesser of connecticut to speak about his experiences with public financing in that state. >> hi, everyone i'm the research director at public campaign. the word means being a town. and it comes from the tradition of neighbors helping a family relocate by literally lifting their house and moving it

i don't think the white house, this was their preferred mode of option. i think it's a question the american people will be asking any candidate and any party what are you doing to fully integrate now my cousins my neighbors, my coworkers? this is no longer something in which people don't know who these folks are. i think increasingly people recognize who they are. the importance, you know when you meet a dreamer who has been a straight a student, only known the united states, gets a scholarship to go to a wonderful university and can't afford it because there's no financial aid, where do we expect that individual to go and why wouldn't our company benefit? >> i guess i'm wondering about the challenge of the supporters of the policy, the cities the advocacy groups, the neighborhood groups. if there are millions of people signed up, is this more likely to endure than if there are hundreds? >> absolutely. once people are in there it becomes an advocacy group. most of the citizens here are legal and not citizens and people who don't have any documentation in

i don't think as the white house this was the preferred mode of action. and i think it's a bigger question american people will be asking any candidate any apparent. what are you doing to fully integrate my cousins and neighbors and i think people increasingly recognize who they are. and the importance is when you have been a straight a student, only known the united states gets a scholarship to go to a wonderful university and conditioned afford it because there is no financial aid. where are they expected -- >> i want to challenge. a supporters of the policies. the city, the advocation groups the neighborhood groups, if there are millions of people signed up is this more likely to endure than there arehundreds. >> absolutely. that becomes an advocacy group. most of these families are blended. here legally and not citizens and folks who don't have any documentation. i think you have the huge constituency. and once people get in the system they should be able to i think with full trust and faith be able to see the end of that as well. >> let's bring in th

we're going to need real leadership from the white house not just liberal talking points. if tax reform is ever going to be successful we've got to have that leadership. so with my seven principles in mind, the question becomes, how do we get to reform. i'm sure all of you are aware of the recent steps we've taken on reform in the finance committee. last week we appointed leaders to five tax reform working groups and taxed them with studying various areas of the code to find solutions and offer proposal for reform. this process, i believe, puts us on a pat path where bipartisan tax e reform will be achievable. the five working groups are one, individual income two, business income tax, three, savings and investment four international tax, and five community development and infrastructure. my hope is that the committee members in these five bipartisan working groups will use this opportunity to uncover real tax reform solutions and give us real ideas that will aid us in true tax reform. and i believe that's just what they'll do. they're all committed to this process and i b

bush white house. his book is called show me the evidence. it's about president obama's fight for rigger and results in social policy. and then alice rivlin is director of the healthcare reform here at brookings. she's the founding director of cbo, former director of omb for bill clinton, vice chair of the federal reserve and relevant to these conversation is a fixture on every commission that we create to do something about the deficit but fortunately, alice, we don't judge you by the results that you get, just the quality of the work. >> you should judge by the results right now. >> what we're going to do here is we're going to start -- i'm going to talk with each of the people up here for a while and we'll have time for questions. because we want to do both defense and domestic we're going to alter a bit but i'm going to start with bob. i wonder if you could just for those of us who don't live and breathe the defense budget which is not the people in the american society of comptrollers but the other 99% of us. what's been happening to the

my sense is we don't really have in the white house a service to the president when he makes his decisions, a deliberate effort at creating what might be called a national security plan for the four years or whatever that administration is in office. other agencies do that. i think that creates perhaps some of the uncertainties to what we're doing. >> one more thought on this. it seems to me when we talk about in business when we talk about those issues we're concerned about being important issues as opposed to on the day to day business that's urgent in front of us. we tend to focus on the urgent as opposed to critical or important would you care to comment, we face on a military basis day to day. items in front of us regularly, those urgent issues, have they clouded our ability to keep in front of us those important issues that we are losing >> i don't know how to answer that. >> i think the answer is, the answer probably yes. on such a thing as our national military strategy. we've tried different things some work better than others. but it is also a political exercise as well as a stra

on c-span2's book tv saturday night at 10:00, on after words, white house correspondent for american urban radio april ryan, on her more than 25 years in journalism, and her coverage of three presidential administration's. and sunday at noon on in-depth our three-hour conversation with walter isaacson, whose biographies include ben franklin, albert einstein and the international best-seller on steve jobs. >>> and on american history tv on c-span3 saturday at 6:00 p.m. eastern, on the civil war, boston college history professor heather cox richardson on how the cowboy during reconstruction became symbol ig of a newly unified america. and sunday evening at 6:00 on american artifacts we'll tour the house that was the headquarter was the american red cross. and learn about the life of its founder, claire are barton. find our complete television schedule at c-span.org and let us know what you think about the programs you're watching. call us at 202-626-3400. e-mail us at comments@c-span.org. or send us a tweet @c-span #comments. join the c-span conversation. like us on feinacebook, follow

in the age of bush this was obviously true in a top-down sense, from the white house, not just the president himself, but figures like condoleezza rice and steven hadley. all through the bush administration, religion was maybe not dominant but certainly very prevalent. this was true even in a place like the pentagon in which there weren't a lot of demonstrably religious officials presiding people like don rumsfeld who are not the most spiritual men but a lot of pentagon briefings began realistically during the bush presidency with powerpoint slides that would start with scripture or a biblical verse or some sort of -- usuallilyy christian but overtly religious invocation. this was also true in a bottom up sense epitomized in bush politics which pushed for bush optimism. bush's foreign policy through and through maybe wasn't guided or driven by religion -- i'm not saying the united states had a certain foreign policy in pursuit of particular religious goals, but religion in a very obvious way suffused the bush administration's foreign policy. this bottom-up influence didn't start with bush he

twitter feed and they sent out a tweet that the white house had been hit and the stock market lost $100 million in the matter of a minute. the fifth is market manipulation and that is an our yeah that i specialized. there are cyber, and sharia complaint finance which is trouble some because people are giving money to a sharia scholar and they have no idea how they are in vesting that money or what they are doing that money because it is a big black box. this is not me saying this. this is complaints about the international sharia community. there is $1.6 trillion in sharia financed today. if they were to use that money to attack our markets which i believe some of that took place in 2008 and was patriotrt of the explanation for the stock market crash we had. so we need a response outlined in the record. we realize talz the global economic war. we mobilized resources and created -- which includes repatriating task earnings from american corpses and simplifying the tax code and all of those things that would enhance the economic and develop ongoing offense capabilities. and among those we

so that it doesn't matter to us whether it's a democratic or a republican controlled white house, they're headed in the direction we suggest we need to be headed in, in this report, and then back to congress. i was a member of the armed services committee when i became a member of congress. it would have been more natural for me to be on financial services because throughout my professional career i -- that's what i'd done, basically. and it's what i knew most of. i had been in the military. i'd grown up in a military family. but i'd been away from that for a long time. why was i on the armed services? well the main economic driver in my district was warner robbins air base. great facility. great work. supported the country. but they're also critically important to the economy of that area. so i'm -- i'm a representative. i'm going to represent the folks that put me in there. why did they put me in there? the main reason was not to have some esoteric arguments about morality or et cetera, et cetera. they wanted that base protected. and grown. and so you think about how the armed services

and we understand this market better and we issued a white paper last year as you no doubt will recall that surveyed how the manufactured housing industry and how the market has evolved over the last decade or two. there are parts of this country where manufactured housing looms very large as a portion of housing stock particularly rural areas and some of the more difficult terrain i think of appalachian segments of southeastern ohio but there are many around the country. and making sure that people are treated fairly in terms of being able to buy and finance manufactured housing is an important part of this spectrum and something we'll continue to pay attention to. the white paper represented a serious effort to lay groundwork for people thinking about policy measures, whether it is us or the congress or others and so it will continue to be a focus of in tension for us because of the fact it is a meaningful alternative for us especially because it is on the lower san diego of the buying spectrum. >> we have time for one more question. >> i'm taylor with the new england council. thank

advancements in the push for diversity on the federal bench and the white house cabinet. made the parent plus loans readily available to those who need them and when the supreme court rolled back the protections of the voting rights act, the cbc safe guarded the right to vote for all citizens. >> we want to be sure that the immigration bill which they are saying is comprehensive is comprehensive and it includes people from the caribbean and from africa which had heretofore been done by diversity visas. we want to people we represent, those who come from under served countries, poor countries are included in the bill. >> the cbc is steadfast in its vision and given the seniority of the members it is poised to transform this vision into legislative reality in the upcoming 114th congress. >> one of the highest honorers of my lifetime to be elected unanimously as chairman for the 114th congress's black caucus. i take it seriously. it is the role of the congressional black caucus legislatively. fight every day to try to protect those in our communities. not just african-americ

myself having work in the white house on the administration proposal for dodd frank, including the cfpb i can say that the new agency has done all we hoped for and then some perhaps that is because the agency is being led by a five-time jeopardy champion. when they asked rich how he would use his jeopardy winnings, he said among other things he would pay off his student loans and other obligations. he has firsthand experiences with the consumer finance issues that his agency addresses. i'm pleased to welcome director cordray today for the announcement of a new cfpb initiative concerning perhaps the most important consumer finance issue home mortgages. as you will hear, the work they're doing is an exam. of how government can do more to help the middle class and all americans. i give you director richard cordray. [ applause ] >>> thank you, mr. ambassador. as norm said, he's a friend and i've also had deep ad mere ration for his public service, not only his innovative diplomatic efforts on behalf of our country but his previous work with ethics, ethics foundational work for this administ

i think a majority of the republicans know it is difficult to win the white house if they don't do better with the voters. immigration is not the most important issue for latinos but it is an important issue. it is a gateway issue. it is difficult to get their support, even if they agree with you. so to become competitive you have to access immigration. >> i'm not sure that something couldn't happen in '16. i know it is hard in a presidential year. we all know the logic of the way the presidential year plays out but it depends on who the nominee is and who is leading and what the nominee wants to accomplish and get this off the table. >> let's talk about that. but i want to ask you about the impact -- you said in the end whether through congress or the courts, the opponents are in all likelihood not going to be able to stop this and this is going to happen at some point before the 2016 election? >> well executive action as it is right now would start -- >> in may. >> -- as the administrative order says it would start in may of this year. >> and if people are signing up and this does go in

i want to take this time to thank -- i was a vendor in the district of columbia right by the white house. that's how i sent all my children through college. you did a fantastic job. you stood up for the bad cops that were taking brides. 2011 them were convicted and i watched, and i thank you for that. there's a lot of good cops out there, too, like sergeant scott of montgomery county. he did a fantastic job. but officers like christopher jordan who murdered my son should be held accountable. there's a whole lot of women out there, black, african-american children that are being slaughtered by the people that are supposed to protect them. please help us look into this. my son did not deserve to die on the street like a dog in the hands of somebody that was supposed to help him. yes, i'm mad about that. he was a law abiding citizen. it was captured on a video. thirteen eyewitnesss video somebody tell me somebody mistakenly deleted that video. how do you justify that. that was a murder not a justifiable homicide. help us to keep our street safe for our children. they are not supposed to be

>> the white house and the department of homeland security, secretary jay johnson express support for the bill. it is funding for the homeland security department that runs through the rest of the fiscal year. it funds immigration and it is a diverse allegation that has to many different operations. they're find with the different spending levels they set for the various agencies. it's really those immigration amendments they're taking issues with. if those get attached to the under lying bill, everything will get vetoed. >> thank you for your time. we will be following you on twitter and you're whiting at politico.com. thanks a lot. >> thank you for having me. >> tonight, cspan's state of the state takes you to indiana with governor mike pence. his remarks are scheduled to begin just after 7:00 eastern. we'll have it live here on cspan 3.from ver >> we're back with representativive peter welch.l for let's talk about house action this week. on the floorpubl isdo the spending bill for the homeland security t or a defense department.ga what do you make of what they're trying to do here,

house. you still would not be able to come to closure given the mismatch here between revenues and those five programs. and as i look forward going forward here over the next ten years, decade 85% of the growth in spending will just be in three areas. it will be in -- already identified it social security the health care programs medicare and medicaid and interest on the public debt. that's where the growth in spending goes. those are -- to me, they're what we call entitlements. you heard the term. i personally -- i guess you're the millennials, right? you're the millennials, you consider yourself to be the entitlement generation. i have to tell you i'm a post war baby boomer i'm the entitlement generation. i'm the one that gets the social security. i'm the one that gets the medicare/medicaid. and you don't get it as it is currently projected. i'm going to guess here, i'm a little off on this, i'm sure i'm going to say about the average -- let's say early 20s most of you in the room here, ri

and the white house announced plans to designate 1.5 million acres of the coastal plains in alaska as wilderness which would block oil exploration. alaska senator was criticized for her response to the plan. speaking in new delhi mr. pedesta said i was hoping a more balanced reaction would be forthcoming from the people who commented on this. you can read more at the hill.com. >>> good morning, the committee hearing will come to order. and to start with, i would like to obviously welcome our new members. senator tom cotton, senator joni ernst, thom tillis, mike sullivan, mike rounds and senator martin heinrich. for the benefit of our new members and all this commit kbli has a long fashion of which we're proud. i've had the opportunity of working with senator reed for many years, despite his lack of quality education he has done an outstanding job here as a ranking member of the committee and for those who are political trivia experts my staff tells me it is the first time that we've had chairman ranking members from the two service -- oldest service academies and so i welcome the oppo

not surprisingly, when the white house got into trouble about the time of the iran contra scandal, they brought howard baker in as chief of staff for president ronald reagan. for exactly those reasons. he also had a great sense of real estate. traditionally the democrats had a nice big office next to the senate chamber and the republicans had a much smaller office down the hall. senator baker said i will not change with the democratic leader, but i would like to add to my suite. and so he took over quite a bit of territory rooms immediately around it. so the republican leader now has a very large coherent section of rooms on the west front of the capitol, thanks to howard baker. the main room is now known as the howard baker room. >> bob dole? >> senator bob dole came up from the house of representatives as a fighting partisan. he had been chairman of his party. he was the kind of person who could really debate ferociously. and in the senate this really fighting partisan turned into a wise pragmatist. a man who realized that things didn't have often because -- in the senate because they