Plan and calling for more more Border Security and more money for veterans but doesnt do a lot about the ballooning deficit. What happened to republicans cutting on spending . Where is that . Well ask Republican Congressman francis rooney. We have Connell Mcshane on the latest on the 1 1 2 trillion dollar infrastructure plan. Reporter the idea is to provide incentives to state and local governments to pick up the rest of the spending, one trillion dollars plus, a new bridges and tunnels, airports and all these Infrastructure Projects. That is why the president invited a number of state, local governors and officials at white house. In that meeting held earlier today he pretty much put it straight to them. Listen. Lets see how badly you want it. [laughter]. If you want it badly, youre going to get it f you dont want it, that is okay with me too. But we have to rebuild our infrastructure. Reporter talking about incentives there, how badly do you want it . We have reaction from democrats.
Pro tempore on this day. Signed, paul d. Ryan, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2017, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. All time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. Gutierrez, for five minutes. Mr. Speaker, this past saturday i was a guest at Lincoln United Methodist Church in chicago where we had an emergency meeting to discuss how we would defend daca, the deferred action for childhood arrivals initiative, started five years ago. Daca has allowed nearly 800,000 dreamers, immigrants who were brought to the u. S. As children and grew up h
Turned them in and this was a suit was brought by Bernie Sanders campaigned very and the reason that they did this is because it is state is going to be close, it is going to be very close. She is joining us from columbus, oh thank you for joining us. Thank you. Here on cspan2, the the communicators with the sec in its regulation of the internet followed by a roundtable discussion of the house energy and Commerce Committee with medical experts about confession research. Later canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau talks about canadian politics and takes questions from students at American University in washington dc. Cspan, created by americas Cable Company 35 years ago and brought bought you as a Public Service by your local cable or satellite provider. It has been about one year since the sec voted to regulate the internet of a public utility. Coming up next is the Net Neutrality saga, a discussion and vote on privacy rules for the internet. Jim halpert is a privacy and cybersecurity
So i try to incorporate all holidays. In the meantime, we have a developing story about deadly weather across central u. S. Tornadoes, blizzards, heavy rain killing more than 20 people in three states. More bad weather coming. Western oklahoma bracing for a foot of snow. Blizzard warnings remain in texas and missouri. A little bit of travel trouble across the country. About 1500 Flights Canceled nationwide yesterday. Another 6,000 planes are delayed. Youre going to be getting a live report from the Weather Channel in just a bit. Meantime, the Global Markets are open today. We are seeing some negative activity in the futures market because of some of the activity that we have seen in asia and in europe. In europe the u. K. And irish markets are closed for bank holiday observing boxing day. Australia and new zealand closed for the same reason. In germany we are down fractionally. Down 1 4 of 1 . Same for spain and groogs which we are still throwing in there for good measure down by 3 4 o
Prime minister, tony blair. As they await a new heir to the throne, the british consider changing the rules about who can become king or queen. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. We begin with president obamas latest ideas for getting past the standoff with House Republicans. He now says there isnt enough time left to do a comprehensive deal, including tax reform, fixing medicare. So he wants congress to raise tax rates for the wealthy right now and putting off the hard work to next year. They have 28 days left to make a deal before the country hits whats called the fiscal cliff. Thats a combination of across the board tax increases for everyone, coupled with cuts in spending like defense, education, health care, and housing assistance. Lets go live to our chief White House Correspondent Jessica Yellin with the very latest. Jessica . Reporter president obama has now personally turned down Speaker Boehners opening offer to avert the fiscal cliff. He did it in a tv interview.