As lawmakers and civilized human beings to use a Little Common courtesy and common sense to find areas of agreement and set those aside, get those behind us, and then move onto those where itre we have is more difficult to find agreement and the house of representatives, the constitutional conservative majority in the house, has attempted to do so many times here over the last several weeks. When it comes to funding the government, the house of representatives have sought to do so and has done our job. Week of june, the house of representatives passed legislation to fully fund the department of defense. In the first week of june, the house of representatives passed ourslation to fully Fund Department of Veterans Affairs and military construction requirements of our men and women in uniform around the world. We also made sure in the first month of the summer that the house of representatives passed legislation to fully fund the department of Homeland Security and sent that to the senate
Republicans without qualifiers, we kind of looked the other way when this group was doing its own thing. I think the Government Shutdown was the straw that broke the camels back. Senate. They the money againsting me. That opened the floodgates. Then all the other one started piling on and asking the same questions. Last few weeks there has from theiful silence more a survey part of the party. Everyone is involved. Seeink you are going to more of a concerted effort financially, structurally, in the media, and it is a way of not just eating defined by one very vocal group not just being defined by one vocal group. They go out in the cold and rain. Lot to get me to protest these days. I think this has been good. On your first question about obamacare, the best thing to happen to obamacare was the Government Shutdown. Who waser asking a guy about two and a half weeks in when we finally started talking about the website and all the problems remember there were glitches. When can we start ca
The Justice Department has suggested that southwest and jetblue, when they locate near major hubs, they drive down prices, and it may be a language problem. They want someone to offer competition. Whether lowcost carrier is the best phrase, we do not know. Delta says let us compete, and we can drive down prices. Host this is from jan talk about how they overbook and cancel at the flight drop of a hat. Guest plans are 80 full on average. Airlines routinely sell more tickets than there are seats on the airplane because they know people will not show up. They are trying to keep him as full as they can, arguing that makes the system most efficient, and keeps, essentially, prices as efficient, or as low as possible. In terms of cancellation, it is frustrating because the planes are full and it is difficult to find your next flight if the flight is canceled. The department of transportation keeps track of those statistics. The airlines have been doing better in the last year or two in not ca
And raise the money it needed to get itself through the downturn. You can say it was locked but there will but sometimes you make your own lock in Corporate America and it was a combination of factors that cause gm to tumble. For a much for stopping by. Have a nice thanksgiving. Happyh you a very thanksgiving as well and we are back tomorrow at 7 p. M. 7 a. M. Eastern time. There is live coverage at the National Press club. They are looking at Holiday Spending and this event is just getting underway live here on c span. In fact, in every year we have conducted this survey, actual Holiday Spending has increased. These two years were 2008 and 2009 during the recession. Interpreting the results is how the proportion says it will increase or decrease spending that changed over time. Except for 2008, at the depth of the recession, the most frequent response in any year is that spending will stay about the same as the previous year. Typically about half of respondents said they plan no chang
And the destructive impact that can have, the way they would close down roads, the difficulty they would create for people. And obviously the loss of livestock that comes with that. Weve seen over the years blizzards that have taken their toll on one of our states most important industries. But the storm damage that i saw yesterday when i toured western south dakota really was epic. You cant look at the mountains and branches that were piled high waiting fordice posal or the for disposal or scenes of pastures scattered with dead livestock. This snowstorm started out, madam president , as heavy rain. And i know the distinguished chair had much of this in her state of north dakota as well. But that soaked the livestock. Then it turned into a raging blizzard with heavy snow and sustaining winds of 60 to 70 miles an hour. These winds drove livestock for miles, some more than 12 miles from their pastures. The fortunate ones lasted through the storms miles from their origination but still al