Let us pray. Dear chaplain conroy let us pray. Dear lord, we give you thanks for giving us another day. At the beginning of a new workweek, we use this moment to be reminded of your presence and to tap the resources needed by the members of this peoples house to do their work as well as it can be done. May they be led by your spirit in the decisions they make. May they possess your power as they steady themselves amid the pressures of persistent problems. May their faith in you deliver from them wear them down. All this week and through the week may they do their best to find solutions to pressing issues facing our nation. Please, hasten the day when justice and love shall dwell in the hearts of all peoples and rule the affairs of the nations of earth. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory. Amen. The speaker pro tempore the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rul
To deal with entitlement reform which democrats are trying to reform . How do we deal with this major threat to our country. The debt is going to have to be dealt with. The question is how. We can deal with it in a more orderly and constructive way or we can wait until we have a debt crisis. The cause of our longterm debt the way our Entitlement Programs are structured. My mother is on medicare. Our Social Security and medicare is still going to be the best thing in the world but it will be different than our parents. Those were designed at a time when there were as many as 16 workers for every retiree. Now there are only as three. We need leadership that pushes us in that direction. This president has never invested any Political Capital in reforming those. When paul ryan his proposal to save medicare, the president was responsive, not with a plan of his own, his response was to raise a bunch of money to attack republicans. This issue is going to be. With one way or another area the l
Working hard every single day. I believe that and i thank you for your service. I just believe that we need to do more. That you need more assistance. You need more, you need a larger team and we have to streamline the rules that are made. We got to put on our common sense think inging hats if you will. I believe youre working very hard and the people working for you are working very hard. Thank you. We appreciate your support. Thank you all once again for being here. We touched on several issues that are really important. I appreciate the work that you do. Subcommittee may be submitting additional questions for the record. I appreciate your response and if theres no further questions the paj isnel is excused. Thank you very much. I ask that you have five legislative days to revise and extend remarks. No objections . So ordered. Id like to thank all our witnesses and the audience members for joining us this morning and this afternoon. The hearing is now adjourned. If you missed any of
Be again again. And thirdly, im going to also support my Agriculture Community because i like to eat. I want to make sure myo re farmers are taken care of. I appreciate you all being here. And closing up i ask unanimous consent that members have five days to extendo or remarks and include material. Without objection, so ordered. With that, this hearing is adjourned. Were going live now to capitol hill where vice admiral peter is testifying this morning at a science and Transportation Committee confirmation hearing on his nomination to be Homeland Security assistant secretary and the Transportation Security Administration administrator. The hearing is scheduled to start at 10 15, being delayed due to votes in the senate. Well join the hearing as soon as it gets underway. Until then, an event with the ceo of United Airlines who joined forces to speak out against government owned airline in qatar. They alleged that the Airline Carriers are receiving unfair subsidies from their respective
Making it a practical alternative sooner than you think. That and much more on cbs this morning saturday, october 5th, 2013. Captioning funded by cbs and welcome to the weekend. We also have some great guests for you this morning, including the godfather of southern cooking, frank stit who shows us why his name is synonymous with the food we love. And in the morning cuff cafe two sisters who sing like angels lillian and madelyn in their debut. A new cbs news poll shows 73 of americans Want Congress to get government running again. So how do things stand this morning . Jeff pegues has the latest from capitol hill. Jeff, good morning. Reporter good morning, anthony. House, Senate Leaders have not budged from their positions and theres no sign theres going to be any sort of significant progress today. With the senate unable to function democrats and republicans lashed out at each other. This isnt some damn game. Is American People dont want their government shut down and neither do i. I c