Everybody. Our guest is representative ed royce. This is his first visit. We are grateful to him for coming this point. He is a native californian and a graduate of California State University school of business administration. His interest in politics is longstanding. He headed you for reagan in the 1976 challenge to the then president gerald ford. [indiscernible] after her brief career in the private sector, in 1982 our guest was elected to the ,alifornia state senate athoring a law that made it felony to stalk someone. He has been a member of the House Foreign Affairs committee since coming to congress and was named the chair in the member 2012. Now onto the ever popular process portion of our program. We are on the record here. Logging or tweeting and no filing of any kind while the breakfast is underway to give us time to listen to what our guest says. No embargo when the session ends. Several pictures of the session to all reporters here as soon as the breakfast ends. If you woul
This is his first visit. We are grateful to him for coming this point. He is a native californian and a graduate of California State University school of business administration. His interest in politics is longstanding. He headed you for reagan in the 1976 challenge to the then president gerald ford. [indiscernible] after her brief career in the private sector, in 1982 our guest was elected to the ,alifornia state senate athoring a law that made it felony to stalk someone. He has been a member of the House Foreign Affairs committee since coming to congress and was named the chair in the member 2012. Now onto the ever popular process portion of our program. We are on the record here. Logging or tweeting and no filing of any kind while the breakfast is underway to give us time to listen to what our guest says. No embargo when the session ends. Several pictures of the session to all reporters here as soon as the breakfast ends. If you would like to ask a question, do the traditional thin
Mr. Mccarthy do i not anticipate that coming up i do not anticipate that coming up next week. We will certainly notify the members if that will be considered on the house. Million hoyer again, i mr. Hoyer i did understand its not coming up next week. The reason i mention time, we have so few days, legislative days left, we are going to need to plan to address some of these issues that i think are going to be very important to our Economic Growth. I know the gentlemans very concerned about that. We are very concerned about it. On our side. His members are very concerned about that. We believe that that Exportimport Bank is a an Economic Growth, Economic Confidence building measure. We would hope we could address that. There are also, as the gentleman knows, 41 House Republicans who signed the letter urging that be passed and indicating their support of it, which we believe every democrat on this side will vote for that. Thats almost 200 people. With the 41. Clearly makes a majority of t
The nation awaits the president s address that is now two hours away for obama to lay on how he plans to proceed on syria fox news has confirmed moments ago that the president will call for a delay in the congressional vote to authorize military strikes against syria. Also, one of the nations largest unions paving the way for the non dues paying members. The aflcio doing well Richard Trumka calls a crisis of membership that is really a crisis of declining membership adopting a resolution that allows anyone, anyone to join the ranks and not pay dues raising concerns among current members that the group abandoned the primary mission of worker representation to become nothing more than a political piece for the left. And elections taking place tonight that to give us a sense of what direction the nation is moving or what mood new york city and colorado are in. In new york elections could spell the end for a Anthony Wiener or in the spitzer or find out they are in a forgiving mood. A whiff
The new unemployment numbers here indicate more than six and a half Million People, more people, applied for jobless benefits last week. Thats almost 17 Million People over the last three weeks. About one in ten americans has lost her job in the past three weeks. The president s request for a 250 billion to supplement his Paycheck Protection Program hit a snag in the senate today over demands from the democrats that minority owned businesses be protected and also, pushing for a bigger package proposed by the democrats. They ended up blocking the Small Business loan expansion of 250 billion today. Stocks shot up today though, the Federal Reserve prepared to provide more than 2 trillion in new loans to businesses, governments and households. Correspondent Kristin Fisher starts us off tonight with more on the president s Economic Strategy from the north lot of the white house. Good evening. Good evening. For the very first time tonight in order to be in the room for tonights briefing you