December 16. Harry reid has said the senate will attempt to remove any cuts to the health law friday cr. The house will have a brief form forma session. Republicans are also tying a oneyear increase to the debt limit expected to be reached by october and november with a one year delay of the healthcare law. This life at 2 00 p. M. Eastern. The Senate Homeland Security Committee will hold a hearing on Human Trafficking within the u. S. Life cover because at 2 30 p. M. Eastern. For more detail on the weekend had come up we spoke this morning with a congressional reporter. Host here is a headline, the clock is ticking with obama care. This week onplace capitol hill to discuss more about it. In the National Journal congressional correspondent. Thank you for giving up with us this morning. Talk about the potential timeline. Showing our readers a story from last week. Inside the plan to avoid a Government Shutdown. What is the timeframe . Guest with the filing as early as today, a motion to
You can also find us online. End us a tweet to [video clip http twitter. Com cspanwj. Also email us at journal c span. Org. Heres a headline from the new york time. S. Wall street journal the hill has a recent story this is from last week. The House Speaker prepare we would like to hear what you think. To give us some context, let us listen to what House Minority Leader Senate Minority Leader Mitch Mcconnell said yesterday on nbcs meet the press. We have to use leverage and congress to get the president to deal with our excessive spending. What the strategy should be is we should be doing something about the problem. There are additional problems that flow from that. After the debt ceiling was resolved in summer 2011, amercos are grading was americas federating list downgradined. I understand your views about spending. How do you for so spending cuts . The president said we will not negotiate over increasing the debt ceiling. You say despite what the Business Community thinks, you may
But that has always been part of the bargaining. You get these urban lawmakers to vote for the farm bill in part because of all the benefits that come to their poorer constituents. This really would be no way to get a farm bill done at all if you did not have these lawmakers from more populated more densely Populated Areas on board because of the food stamps. As we close out here, it is worth observing what senator stabenow said. Farm policy is not arcane. Thank you for being here this week to ask questions of the incoming chairman of the Senate Agriculture committee. Thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] tamara, it changes to the u. S. Tax code as the passage of the bill. And a look at what is in the fiscal cliff litigation. J hancocks talks about the casses and fees americans face in 2013 as part of the Affordable Care act. I tend to think there is a flareup of low hanging fruit that is appealing to
Secretary and secretary of state. We heard treasury geithner will leave his position by the end of this month. The debate has renewed on sunday morning and around the country on gun violence. We want to ask you just what are the solutions . It is an issue the president says will be a top priority in the year ahead. Our gone lines are open with the numbers on the screen. You can send us an email at journal at cspan. Org. Or facebook. Com cspan or cspanwj. Another shooting that took place in aurora, colorado, a town hit by the mass shooting at a movie theatre. This from a barricaded gunman and three people found dead in aurora after police exchanged gunfire with the gunman that took place yesterday. A woman earlier in the day escaped uninjured from the home saying she saw three lifeless bodies inside and said the man was firing shots at the residents before 3 00 in the morni morning. During a subsequent standoff the gunman behaved irrationally, ignored commands to exit the premises. Tear
I rise to engage to join in a colloquy. I appreciate his willingness to are come debate when there Natural Disasters and i appreciate your efforts. In colorado, we are experiencing a major flood that has impacted his team counties, crossing over approximately 2000 square miles. Certain areas have received over 20 inches of rain. Damagedomes have been or destroyed in the destroyed count is above 2000 homes. Many areas are still in crisis trade federal Emergency Management agency will be unable to provide an accurate Damage Assessment or at least early days. Additionally, the Colorado Department of transportation estimates cost could exceed the 100 million cap that would exceed the cap on funds in a Disaster Relief act. The tragedy and devastation caused by this severe flood the federal government. Will the gentleman yield . I yield to the gentleman. I want to thank the gentleman from colorado for all of his efforts to help colorado through all of this turmoil. Im awareisaster area of th