I believe that senator schumer has concluded that he could taunt the leadership in the house of representatives, and that includes our speaker of the house, into brigham necessary at this legislation to the floor of the house because if it does, and if it should pass, the senate would conform with any amnesty legislation because they are controlled by democrats. And i have long known and long been restrained by people in my own party, mr. Speaker, from laying out the argument as to why almost every democrat i know wants open borders and amnesty and a neverending supply of illegal aliens in the United States of america. Its a pretty easy formula to figure out, especially if you sit here for 10 or a dozen years engaged in hearings and debate on a weekly basis, you begin to hear the threat of their conversation and you begin to understand the real truth behind their motives. And it works out to be this. Of course there are a large number of Illegal Immigrants in the United States. We have
Facilities. The secretary will meet with the appropriations committee. The house passed a bill looking at the ba secretary, giving him more flexibility at ba facilities. V. A. Facilities. We want to get your reaction in the first 45 minutes. To the actions that took place yesterday and what should be done overall about it. Heres your chance to call and give your thoughts. 202 5853880 four democrats. 202 5853881 for republicans. Ndependents, 202 5853882 a special line for veterans to give their thoughts. 202 5853883 you can post on our facebook page. 50 posts so far. Can email us, too. Joining us on the phone to give us the latest concerning the announcements yesterday and what happens Going Forward is leo shane with the military times. Hes a congressional reporter for that publication. Thanks for joining us. Caller thanks for having me back. Host what has been the reaction on capitol hill to the actions late yesterday . D movement heid not folks on capitol hill. They have been critical
Wayperson standing in the of making progress. That would be the speaker of the house. I know in his heart his intentions are good. We just hope that we will see before the one year is out from the senate bill some son of life, some sign of intention, some bill that can come to the floor. Scheduledis and even on a bill that could possibly take us to conference. It is clear that their intention is to do nothing and that is totally unacceptable. We have a bill, 200 cosponsors, hr 15, including three republicans. Many more republicans told us they would go for the bill. Give us a vote, mr. Speaker. The votes are there. Give us a vote. In another display of industry and dash of indifference to the needs of the people, republicans are proposing to take food out of the mouths of our chosen once again. The agriculture budget would overrule doctors so that schoolchildren will eat fewer fruits and vegetables and admit moms and babies get more potatoes. Potatoes are not a bad thing. It is a stabl
Interested in protecting the state department than protecting the state department is. More interested in protecting the fbi than the fbi is. Director petraeus wanted more information about warnings in there. That does not make sense to me, can you explain the motivation . If you look at what i took out, the vast majority is information related to warnings. Said earlier, i thought it inappropriate for the cia to say publicly that we warned of an attack coming. We also had him there that we had sent a warning cable to see no relevance of sending a warning cable to cairo to what happened in benghazi. As a way forthis cia to pound its chest and say look, we warned. Therefore allaying all the blame on the state department. I did not think that appropriate. I thought there would be plenty of time to have a conversation whot what was warned and responded and how. I did not think that discussion should start publicly, that was the judgment i made at a time. One other sentence, the wide availa
The senate gavels in at 2 00 eastern for general speeches. At 5 30, senators will vote to move forward on district judge nominations for virginia, massachusetts and nevada. You can watch the house life on cspan live on cspan, the senate on cspan2. Deputy National Security adviser tony blinken talked about the u. S. And European Response to isolate russia after its intervention in ukraine. He talked about the effectiveness of the sanctions and why the annexation of crimea will eventually prove to be what he calls a strategic loser for russia in the long term. He spoke at a conference on europe hosted by the brookings institution. Its about 45 minutes. Ladies and gentlemen, i hope youve had a chance to enjoy some lunch. It is, of course, a brookings sandwich lunch, so, you know, theres limits to the enjoyment, but nonetheless, we hope youve had a good lunch. Were extremely pleased to have tony blinken here to finish off and wrap up our annual conference for us today. Tony, unfortunately,