Latest legislative action, and new polling on how americans are viewing their elected officials and we are opening our phone lines to you. We want to hear your thoughts on the shutdown. Give us a call, republicans can call in at a very good saturday morning to you, a rare saturday session taking place today. As that is happening, the headlines in many of the major here is the front page of the pittsburgh postgazette the Arizona Republic front page of the New York Times and finally the story from the Washington Post lots of stories with those types of headlines leading the paper today. Rollcallsed now by steve bennett. Good morning to you. Thank you for joining us this morning. Take us through the latest on the shutdown and what is happening today on capitol hill for legislative action. Another groundhog day where the houses moving house issures the measures and another thing theyre working on is back pay by those who were furloughed. They will eventually get paid once Congress Agrees o
Ones of the food and Drug Administration while negotiations continue. Washington, aurnal talked with border reporter to find out what was going on. Lets begin with what we heard. What do you have to say . I do not expect a clean one to be brought to the house floor. Will with the there are. Senate republicans are not going to provide the votes that would be necessary to get it through the senate. Given all the speculation over the last week that this was something he would do, it is possible he felt that he needed to make it clear that he will do something on the debt and the deficit. Lets show our viewers what he had to say when he was on abc this week. I told the president that there is no way that theyre going to pass. The president is risking default by not having a conversation with us. We are not going down that path. Time to deal with americas problems. How can you do nothing about the underlying problem . This year the federal government had more revenue than any year in the hi
I am amazed that after this conference passed unanimously, the senate has unanimously, and the president signed instructions that our military and civilian contractors should be held harmless in this entire shutdown that after a week we are still waiting for them to implement the law that was put to place a week ago. They are allowing us to have more and more pain specifically in the military. All of us agreed together that they would be held harmless entirely. It is very frustrating that we even have to pass something for them to practice their religious faith. It is essential part of their life. For the administration to pull back and say there are places where you will not have worship on a weekend is absolutely unacceptable. The glad we passed that in house today. Hopefully the senate will take that out. This is something we have to d we have to do. Make sure we are continuing to looking at the intent. The republican position has continued to be no special treatment under the law.
Avenue. It is the position he will take until the republicans do the right thing, right . Why not just open the government at funding levels that they were very content with and that demands ofesents the the president. That is our position. What about the decision of the Security Council will that anyway affect the push by the administration to raise americas profile in asia . The cancellation is another consequence of the house force aansdecisions to shutdown of the government, and it is completely avoidable of a completely avoidable shutdown. To advance u. S. Leadership and interests in the largest in theg region world, the president is committed to the pivot of u. S. Policy toward a jeff asia, towards this important region of the world come and he looks forward to work with allies and partners in asiapacific region and returning to the region at a later date. Secretary kerry will lead delegations to indonesia and brunei in place of the president. Your opening comments today, that th
The clerk the speakers room, washington, d. C. , october 2, 2013. I hereby appoint the honorable Glen Thompson to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john the a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2013, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip imited to five minutes each, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. Mcclintock, for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Speaker. Yesterday, the president charged that the Government Shutdown is the result of a, quote, ideological crusade to deny Affordable Health care for millions of americans. Id begged the president to read his cor