everyone was wearing the green ribbons and the president calling for a vote. there is some common ground on background checks. but we have seen a lot of bills. will we see votes and will we see movement, congressman? we should. this reminds me a little bit of the farm bill in the last congress. we passed a farm bill in committee, passed in the senate but never had a vote on the floor. with gun issues, they are tough politically, but if we work together, we can put something on the floor. what the american people are entitled to expect from congress is that we vote yes or no on important issues that affect them. then we can be held accountable. that call by the president is that we have a e vote on important issues not just on guns, but on other issues as well. bottom line here is the congressional leaders ought to start working with each other. we have our own job to do. the president proposes, congress disposes.
make chuck hagel defense secretary. in a party line vote, the senate arm armed services committee voted 14-11 to send hagel s nomination to the full senate. his nomination hearing highlighted his past statements on iran and israel, but with a democratic majority in the senate, he should be confirmed. marco rubio needed a quick drink during the rebuttal of the state of the union grasping for a bottle of water off camera. twitter absolutely lit up. rubio had fun with it. he tweeted this picture, #gopresponse. at one point sarah palin wrote, obama there s much progress to report. oh really? let s see what the facts show, #sotugottobekiddingme. and kmeeti icompeting, the
[ female announcer ] people who choose more whole grain tend to weigh less than those who don t. multigrain cheerios vegetables may lower your risk for als. researchers recently studied different ways to prevent als and showed people who eat more carety noids had a reduced risk for the disease. we are back live in rome where it wasn t just the states taking note during the president s big speech last night, the world was watching. the independent rights barack obama tackles economy and tries to put human face on the u.s.
government. uk s headline, barack obama offers unapologetic case of power of government. and the times of london picked up on this piece. a new plan for the eu. the big international news is that the president announced 34,000 troops in afghanistan will come home in a year. tonight i can announce that over the next year, another 34,000 american troops will come home from afghanistan. this drawdown will continue and by the end of next year or war in afghanistan will be over. [ applause ] i want to bring in richard engel. welcome to both of you. nice to be here. again, second in a row. let s talk about foreign affairs that had been telegraphed by the white house. he talked about afghanistan, a very brief mention of the middle east. what kind of reaction are you hearing across this part of the
children and theirs. and so we remain committed to work with this president as the speaker said, on the issues facing this country to try and manage down this debt and deficit. we remain committed to working with this president on issues affecting people at home and the challenges they face. and we mean business, mr. president. we do want to work with you. we re willing to say, let s set differen differences aside and come together to produce results for the people here. let me go back here. as we were talking about the list of proposals the president laid out, we heard tough words from john boehner and also something very similar from what we heard from the democrats, which was about wanting to work for the middle class. he said we want to make life work for americans. but do you hear anything from either side that suggests to you that there are significant