Democrats, 202 5853880. Independents and others, 202 5853882. ,end us a tweet at cspanwj post your comments on facebook, or email us. We will get to your phone calls in a minute. Yesterday we learned that three house lawmakers are going to retire. S headline. Itico shaking the 2014 midterm election. Timess headline, three house retirements complicate outlooks for the midterm. Representatives frank wolf from ,irginia, tom latham from iowa jim matheson of utah. They surprise colleagues and voters with their decisions, which came as congress was wrapping up one of its least productive and most contentious years in recent memory. The retirements are not enough to signal a shift in the dynamics for the race and control of the house in 2014, still decidedly republican. It raised hopes among democrats navigating what has turned out to be an unpredictable path into the midterm election. We want your thoughts with this news of the twoyear budget deal passing in the senate. Final passage could h
Thank you. Nelson. In my 20 years of daily and weekly engagement with brie bsh brazil, which, by the way, in this room i know is a flash in the pan. Than our moderator. So i dont know if the rules permit this, but given weve heard tom shannon side of the u. S. Side of this. Could i ask our moderator. What will it take from the brazilian side for us to put this disclosure issue behind us . I think its a recognition in brazil of the importance of the relationship. You can see it coming from the Business Community that feels that brazil has, in a sense, somewhat isolated itself in the trade arena, for instance. This is daily [inaudible] part of the national conversation. You had the recent speech in againer have addressing this directly significantly is very close to the president. Hes very close to who is likely to run for the governor of the [inaudible] hes now the minister of Development Industry of commerce in brazil. So you have this and the signal from society that society is more a
Continues. Host we want to welcome back to the table thomas mann, who is the coauthor of its even worse than it looks, along with his coauthor, Norman Ornstein, resident scholar at American Enterprise institute. Thomas mann is with the brookings institution. We are halfway through the hundred and 13th congress, and they have not passed a lot of legislation, but it looks like they will have a twoyear budget deal on the table. Thomas mann, what do you think . Guest we should give thanks that in almost the final act of this congress, they followed our advice first, do no more harm. It has been a quite destructive year in congress. At the end, they agreed to disagree on the big differences to not the parties threaten another showdown, and to reach an agreement that replaces the good part of the sequester over the next two years and pays for it over time. It makes more economic sense, and it certainly made a lot of clinical sense, which stand political sense, which stands in great contrast
Pacific storms. Many people worried about mudslides. Water comes over, it looks like niagra falls. Dropping temperatures from the midwest to the east, 20 to 30 degrees below normal. Adding to the coldweather problems, ice jams. You look at it and its mass destruction. Cant stop the ice. Jan brewer wont say if shell veto a controversial bill that allows arizona businesses to deny service to gays and lesbians. Theres a lot of things we can bring into the state, and this just doesnt help at all in any of those. General motors links more deaths to a faulty ignition switch, and it nearly doubled the number of cars its recalling. Federal Safety Advocates insist gm knew about the defect for years and did not issue a recall. Talk about a backyard bonanza for a Northern California couple. They found a cache of gold coins worth millions of dollars. Its the biggest stash of coins found since oprah had her couch cleaned. Mo more security deals, no more troops hamid karzai heard that directly from
Host wolman david wolman, joining david wolman, joining us from portland, oregon, thank you, sir. Guest my pleasure. Live coverage of the house begins now. For morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip , but in o five minutes no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. Schiff, for five minutes. Mr. Speaker, for much of the past decade, Irans Nuclear Weapons Program has been a Top National Security concern for the United States, and iran armed with Nuclear Weapons capable of threatening israel and other regional states would touch off a Nuclear Arms Race in the worlds most volatile region. For this reason i have pressed for everincreasing sanctions to isolate iran from the Global Economy and have supported a policy that leaves all options on the table, including military for