Shutdown. Your we are interested on thoughts on how to shut them has played out so far and what youre hearing about the debt limit talks that are going. Here is how you can reject and give us your comments. If you want to reached out reject was by phone reach out to us by phone. Media, our twitter page, the way you reach us there is cspanwj. As always you can send this e mail act journal cspan. Org. The boston globe has an interesting take on the current status of the shutdown. The larger headline is when you go to the center it yields with menas susan collins. Deals with menas susan collins. To give us the latest on the debt limit talks, joining us on the phone is susan davis. She is the chief congressional reporter for usa today. Susan davis, thank you for joining us this morning. Why dont you bring us upto date on the latest as far as on the house side we have had this proposal from john boehner looking at some concessions, some offerings as far as the debt limit and the shutdown wh
Cars, and if we know that there is a cop sitting at the top of a certain hill, thats going to affect our driving. Its the same thing with food inspection. If you know that there is an inspector sitting somewhere, whether its in your plant or whether its somebody who could just knock at your door, youre probably going to operate at a little bit higher level of safety than you would otherwise. Im glad to hear that where your brother works has those programs in place, but they may be there, in fact, because they know that theres a cop on the beat somewhere that may be checking them. I thought i read 13 different agencies that deal with food inspections. Thats correct. There are a number of different agencies at the federal level, and that doesnt even count the fact that we rely heavily on state inspection of certain food facilities. Where meat and poultry is inspected every single day, other food plants are inspected periodically. But they can be inspected by a federal inspector, inspecte
Things with give and take, things that you want, things that the republicans want, attached to a clean c. R. Do you have a policy side card, not just a process side card, thats new. No, i understand the question, and its a smart one. But let me be clear. Our position has always been that, at the very least, congress ought not to allow the government to shut down. The republicans should not shut down the government and the house of representatives should do what the senate did, which is pass a clean c. R. , funding the government at levels set in the Previous Fiscal Year by largely republicans. So it has also been our position that we envision a bigger, broader, and more sub stan active budget compromise that achieved some of the goals the president has been talking about for a long time, and those goals include continued deficit reduction. They include, you know, dealing with the problem with the sequester, and they include key investments in areas of our economy and our middle class t
Opposition to this plan. Lets understand well the gentleman yield another minute . Two minutes . The gentlelady is recognized for two more minutes. What therecognize majority is suggesting. What does it mean in terms of our children . Households of these that receives benefits have children under the age of 18. Are fourchildren that years old and under. Damage thatthe hunger does to children is irreparable. If they go to school hungry, they cannot learn. If they cannot learn, they cannot succeed. I only ask my colleagues to read the data. Read the report in the lansing journal in the last week or so that tells you what the Scientific Data is, that shows what the impact of hunger is on childrens brains. And their ability to learn. Learning period for children is from zero to three. Why would we do harm to children in this nation by cutting off food that the u. S. Has a great anddance and overabundance yet we want to cut 40 billion from the Food Stamp Program . It is reckless and extreme
To note that. Finally let me say on our i didnt touch on our other nutrition programs among the 15, we know unfortunately theyre needed more than ever now than. They didnt exist during the last depression. These programs are really important. They are important that they are responsive as well. Responsive not only in terms of individual need but whats going on in the American Economy. And i mention that very importantly as it pertains to the s. N. A. P. Program. S. N. A. P. Had a Significant Growth during this recession, extended recession. Both because the number of people who qualify, who were citizens or legal u. S. Residents under certain incomes grew by millions but also states took action, 40 something states in particular, made special efforts to really simplify access for eligible consumers in their respective states. It went up because of what was going on in the American Economy. Had it been block granted as some proposed more recently it would have been basically unable to r